Lobelia: Some historical doses by Paul Bergner Medical Herbalism 10(1-2):25 Some historical doses of Lobelia and lobeline Form Dose Source Lobeline equivalent Powdered 36 grains (about 1.5 tsp) Alleged lethal dose (Letheby) 9 mg oral 4 tsp Alleged lethal dose (Tyng) 20 mg oral One-ounce Dose retained without emesis (Cook) 115 mg oral one-half ounce, repeated daily, 28 days For tuberculosis (Coffin) 58 mg/day oral 10-20 grains Standard allopathic dose ( USP) 5.2 mg oral 30 grains Safe dose for treatment of asthma (Wood) 7.6 mgoral Tincture 3 Tablspoons Dose used by Cutler to cureasthma (Thacher) 9.6 mgoral 3 Tablespoons/3 ounces/day for seven days Dose used by Tulley of Yale (Cook; Colby) 25.6 mg/day 1 Teaspoon- Dose for asthma treatment (Thacher, Bigelow) 3.2 mg oral 60 drops Safe pediatric dose (Thacher, 1817) 1 mg oral 2 ounces (estimate) Retained dose administered by enema (Jones) 17 mg oral Lobelia seed pediatric use, four ounces in seven hours Dose retained without emesis (Cook) 460 mg oral Lobeline suit. 2 mg/oral dose; 6mg/day Non-prescription smoking deterrent (PDR) 6 mg/ day oral Lobeline
Hcl 10-20 mg/i.m
dose Emergency
respiratory stimulant
(Gisvold) 20 mg i.m.
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