About
Tabacum produces a picture of deathly nausea with icy coldness, cold sweat, and pallor. It is the remedy for severe motion sickness, and conditions with violent nausea that is not relieved by vomiting. The patient feels they will die and looks like death - pale, cold, covered with cold sweat.
Keynotes
DEATHLY NAUSEA with icy cold sweat is the keynote. Pallor - face pale, greenish, or ashen. Cold as death yet cannot bear cold applied. Sinking sensation in epigastrium. Vertigo worst opening eyes. Violently motion sick. Better from opening abdomen, fresh cool air.
Constitution
Anyone susceptible to motion sickness. Pale, cold individuals. Those with seasickness tendency. Pregnant women with severe morning sickness.
🤒Symptoms Profile
● General Symptoms
Violent nausea with cold sweat and pallor, motion sickness, sea sickness, morning sickness with prostration, angina with death-like pallor, icy cold extremities with nausea
● Mental Symptoms
Wretched, despondent, forgetful. Apprehensive with fear of death. Stupor with coldness. Restless with nausea. Wants abdomen uncovered despite coldness.
● Physical Symptoms
Deathly pale face, sometimes greenish. Cold sweat, especially on forehead. Terrible faint sinking in pit of stomach. Incessant nausea, worse least motion. Heart feels as though it has stopped. Pupils dilated. Hearing affected.
Uses
Motion sickness (the number one remedy), sea sickness, pregnancy nausea with prostration and pallor, Meniere's disease, angina pectoris with nausea and coldness, renal colic with violent nausea
Modalities
WORSE: Motion - opening eyes, riding in vehicles, slightest movement, heat, before breakfast. BETTER: Fresh cool air, uncovering abdomen, vomiting may relieve, cold drinks.
💊Dosage Information
Available Potencies
6C, 30C, 200C
Recommended Dosage
30C before travel and as needed for motion sickness. 200C for severe cases. 6C repeated frequently for nausea.
🔗Relationships & Affinities
🫀 Organ Affinity
Vagus nerve, stomach, heart, circulation
🤝 Complementary
Arsenicum (for cardiac symptoms), Cocculus (chronic motion sickness)
🛡️ Antidotes
Arsenicum, Ipecac, Nux Vomica, Camphor
⚠️Important Cautions
Actual tobacco users may need higher potencies. Not a substitute for addressing tobacco addiction.
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