Lobelia

Latin name: Lobelia inflata

Native to: Eastern North America, Southeastern Canada, South through the Eastern United States

Benefits: Lobelia, commonly known as Indian Tobacco, contains lobeline, an alkaloid that can reproduce the feeling of smoking tobacco. Lobelia inflata has been used as a medicinal plant for a long time. It has been used as an entheogenic, emetic, and skin or respiratory aid. 

Lobeline actually attaches to the same receptors in the body as nicotine does. Although lobelia is less potent than nicotine, lobelia can fool your body into thinking it has absorbed nicotine. 

Although it may be used medicinally, consuming lobelia causes adverse effects, which may include sweating, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, tremors, rapid heartbeat, mental confusion, convulsions, hypothermia, coma, or possibly death. The root is toxic and can be fatal if eaten so please be aware of which area of the plant you are consuming.