I Love Lobelia! I wish it would be in every home’s first aid kit.
It is an indigenous North American annual plant…..
… in the same family as the beautiful flower garden border, but the medicinal species is Lobelia inflata. It is sometimes called Indian Tobacco because the American Indians smoked it for various benefits. One of the most studied active ingredients is a plant alkaloid called lobeline.
Lobelia is among the most beneficial herbs for the respiratory system.
Lobelia Inflata is a third degree medicinal herb. It has so many positive actions that Dr. John Christopher has a whole chapter in his “School of Natural Healing” textbook dedicated to lobelia. Some of the following properties make it one of the essential herbs to have on at hand in every home:
Deobstruant: Lobelia has the ability to remove obstructions, and is a very effective expectorant. This makes it effective in loosening and helping with expectoration of mucous, especially in the respiratory tract and stomach. It is a very good respiratory stimulant and broncho-dilator.
Lymphatic: It helps to cleanse and stimulate movement of lymph fluid, thus aiding this important part of our immune system, a critical part of our body’s natural waste disposal.
Nervine: Lobelia is one of nature’s strongest relaxant nervine herbs. Because of its ability to relax the sympathetic nervous system, it has been used effectively for nervous excitement, hysteria, relaxing tight colon (spastic constipation, IBS), hiatal hernia, diaphramatic tension and pain.
Antispasmodic: stops spasms so is useful for muscle spasms, cramps, convulsions, seizures, irregular heart beat, bronchial spasms such as in asthma, coughs, COPD.
Analgesic, Anodyne: effective for painful conditions such as teething, earache, muscle and joint inflammation, kidney or gall bladder stones, stiff neck, injuries. Helps eliminate pain and toxins of poisonous bites and stings. Apply externally, as well as taking internally.
Stop smoking: Medical Claim approved by Health Canada:
Lobelia can help quit smoking, by helping to reduce the body’s craving for nicotine and easing withdrawal symptoms”. One of Lobelia’s active constituents is lobeline, which has a similar chemical composition to nicotine. This makes Lobelia very effective for those wishing to stop smoking, as lobeline helps fill the nicotine receptor sites which create cravings, without any addictive effect or weight gain. Lobelia can help reduce cravings and decrease nicotine withdrawal-induced depression.
Take a few drops (up to .5ml) under tongue, hold 30 seconds. Repeat, as needed, up to 20 times per day.
Doing a cleanse, such as the Detox Basics (30 day) , can help make the shift to a positive lifestyle.
References: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24682499/
DOSAGE AND APPLICATION FOR LOBELIA
This is the Lobelia inflata we have used professionally for 35 years with all ages, from young children with whooping cough, to 85 year seniors with COPD. It is also available in capsule form in US.
Internally – In liquid extract form a few drops of Lobelia can be squirted or dropped under the tongue. A calibrated dropper can be used adult dosage is .5ml. (1/10 tsp.) taken in repeated dosages for desired effect or up to one teaspoon at once for a deeply relaxing effect. For children or alcohol contraindication, pour some boiling water over Lobelia alcohol extract and let sit one – two minutes until alcohol evaporates.
Much has been written of Lobelia as toxic – the main result of an excess is emesis, as Lobelia is also prized as an emetic. Once a person has vomited, and the offending substance removed, whether it be poison, mucous, etc. a person will feel the better for it.
Externally: rub a couple of drops on the affected area. For teething, one drop can be rubbed on the gums. For ears: aches, congested, tinnitus: 2 drops in ear; lie down opposite side.
“Lobelia is the most powerful diffusive stimulant known in herbal medicine. After taking a dose it instantly permeates the whole system, removing obstructions wherever found and restoring a healthy action wherever needed. When taken inwardly, it acts like intelligence. Give lobelia and it will find the disease and assist nature to overcome it.” Dr. John Christopher
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Hi Lorene,
I just had to send you this quick note. If you remember our last conversation, March 30, D. had just seen his chiropractor the previous Saturday. She had found a lymph node on the left side of his neck that was bigger. You instructed me to rub a little Lobelia into it and talk to it thanking it for doing such a good job removing waste from his system. Like Jesus said to talk to the mountain in Mark 11:23. Well this morning he saw her again and it felt perfectly normal!
Thank you so much for all you do for us!
L and D
Thanks for sharing L and D. Your committment to using herbs and nutrition for healing are being rewarded. Keep up the positive changes and healing.
I am also posting some of your comments unders Success Stories as besides this improvement, you have certainly been experiencing some positive changes and healing in several other areas.
Hi Lorene! Thanks for all your knowledge! I have the Nature’s Sunshine Lobelia capsules (dried powder). Should I have any concerns about toxicity? One source says do no go over 400 mg a day, which would essentially mean 1 capsule a day max. Is this correct? Thanks for all you do.
Hi Nicole,
You are very welcome.
In the US, you can buy Nature’s Sunshine Lobelia in capsules – 375 mg/ per caps – plus in liquid as Lobelia Essence. In CA, only the liquid tincture is available.I have checked the US label and there is no warning. If there was a challenge, believe me, the FDA would be on them to have this on the bottle, but this may be why their capsule is less than 400 mg. So, I don’t know the source of this warning; could be Quack Watch, a source paid by big pharma – very common-, or Reader’s Digest, which is not a reliable herbal resource.
General recommended herbal dosages for Lobelia is small quantities, that can be repeated as needed. An excess at one time can cause emesis, or vomiting. This is sometimes the desired effect in the case of non-corrosive poisoning, such as food poisoning, croup, or severe respiratory mucous congestion. Other than using it as an emetic, small dosages, repeated as needed have always worked. For smoking cessation, or severe coughing, people have taken the liquid up to every 15 mins. For this we use the liquid and a calibrated dropper, so small dosages can be taken. These can be ordered from NSP for $1 and fit all 2oz/60 ml. liquid herb bottles.
Hope this helps. Thanks for contacting us, and all the best in health.
Hi Lorene,
Thank you for your response to my comment! I did take a full 375 mg capsule of Lobelia yesterday, and I didn’t feel any ill effects except for maybe an increase in heart rate (but that could also have been from lack of sleep from coughing or anxiety over being sick). Today, I’m going to try taking half a capsule twice a day.
Me and my partner have been able to dodge COVID for three years by just eating healthy, taking our herbs, exercising, etc. We travelled internationally recently and when we returned, we were sick. We took several COVID rapid antigen tests and we’re both positive. This is the first time I’ve been sick in over three years. I started: VS-C (2 capsules 3x daily, 100 capsule bottle), Lung Support TCM Concentrate (1 capsule 3x daily), and Lobelia (still figuring out the dose). My body aches, headache, and fever went away within 24 hours of starting this regime. Then I started my partner on the same regime (he likes me to be the “guinea pig” first). We both still have a nasty cough, and it keeps us up at night. Hopefully it will reside soon with the Lung Support and Lobelia. I do also have the Nature’s Sunshine Tei Fu oil and Silver Shield with Aqua Sol Technology, but I wasn’t sure if that would be doing too much. My normal daily regime also includes Vitamin D, Vitamin C, olive leaf extract, french grape seed extract, b complex, and iron.
Thanks again, Lorene. You are a wealth of information.
Kind regards,
Thanks for sharing your health success Nicole. Good program you are on – I suspect you have read these previous articles on viruses and lung health:
HRP-C and VS-C work for all viruses
Q&A : Lung Healer – LH-C for Flu Virus or Colds?
As the US Lobelia capsules are only 375 gm., it would be fine to take 1 whole capsule 2-3 times/day, IF needed to get the coughing under control. Lobelia also has anti-biotic properties. In over 40 years using this product, there has been one occasion where an excess was taken, and this with a child off 3 yrs. old – he vomited, and felt fine afterwards, so there is really little to be concerned about. Emptying his stomach helped him heal faster.
Note for Canadian herb fans: in Canada VS-C is HRP-C and Lung Support TCM is LH-C. Different names for different countries, same effective herbal formulations.
PS: FYI info, the PCR-R tests have been proven scientifically by thousands of reliable medical researchers to be inaccurate, misleading, and when re-tested, up to 80% false positives.
Most of the research has been by those NOT employed by the powers pushing COVID, but even the inventor of the PCR test says this test has been totally mis-represented. This is just one article: Nobel Prize Winner Kerry Mullins on the PCR Test He Invented