Tabacum
Remedy of deathly nausea with icy coldness and cold sweat. Seasickness. Mortal pallor, icy cold, bathed in cold sweat, with violent nausea worse from least motion. Opening eyes or rising makes everything worse.
Source
Prepared from the fresh leaves of Nicotiana tabacum (Solanaceae).
Available Potencies
Get Personalized Safety Info
Sign in and complete your health profile to see safety warnings personalized to your age, sex, medications, conditions, and allergies for this remedy.
Keynote Symptoms
Deathly nausea with icy coldness and cold sweat — the classic seasickness picture. Deadly pallor. Sinking at pit of stomach. Worse from least motion, opening eyes, riding, smell of tobacco smoke. Better from fresh cold air, uncovering abdomen, vomiting. Cold sweat especially on forehead. Intermittent pulse.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Wretched, miserable. Wishes to die from intensity of nausea. Despondent. Confused. Forgetful. Indifferent.
General Symptoms
Deathly nausea, icy coldness, cold sweat, pallor — the four cardinal symptoms. Worse from motion (especially boats, cars), opening eyes, smell of tobacco, heat. Better from cold fresh air, uncovering, vomiting, cold applications to abdomen.
Physical Symptoms
Head
Vertigo on opening eyes. Sick headache with deathly nausea. Constricting band feeling. Worse from motion.
Face
Deathly pale, cold, covered with cold sweat. Sunken features. Greenish pallor.
Stomach
Violent nausea with cold sweat and pallor. Sinking, gone feeling at pit of stomach. Sea-sickness. Vomiting violent. Retching. Incessant nausea.
Abdomen
Uncovering abdomen relieves nausea (characteristic). Sunken. Cold.
Chest
Angina pectoris. Pulse intermittent, irregular, trembling. Palpitation when lying on left side. Oppression.
Extremities
Icy cold extremities. Trembling. Cold sweat on hands.
Skin
Cold, clammy. Itching. Cold sweat.
Fever / Chill / Perspiration
Icy coldness. Cold sweat. Intermittent pulse.
Modalities
Better From
Fresh cold air, uncovering abdomen, vomiting, cold applications, weeping
Worse From
Least motion, opening eyes, riding (boats, cars), heat, smell of tobacco, evening, lying on left side
Constitutional Type
Not strongly constitutional. Used primarily for acute motion sickness, sea-sickness, and nausea syndromes. Those sensitive to tobacco.
Clinical Indications
Sea-sickness, motion sickness, morning sickness, angina pectoris with nausea, Meniere's disease, cardiac irregularity, collapse with nausea
Comparative Materia Medica
Cocculus also has motion sickness but with more vertigo and empty feeling; Tabacum has more pallor and cold sweat. Petroleum has nausea in cars but with vertigo at back of head. Veratrum album has cold sweat on forehead but with more violent vomiting and purging.
Safety Information
Arsenic, Camphora, Coffea, Ignatia, Ipecacuanha, Nux vomica, Staphysagria, vinegar.
Nicotine is highly toxic — causes nausea, vomiting, seizures, respiratory paralysis, death. Lethal dose estimated at 40-60mg. Use only potentised forms.
Find the Right Remedy
Not sure if Tabacum is the best match? Our Remedy Finder can help you compare remedies based on your specific symptoms, modalities, and constitutional type.