(Roasted Sponge)
A remedy especially marked in the symptoms of the
respiratory organs, cough, croup, etc. Heart affections and often indicated
for the tubercular diathesis. Children with fair complexion, lax fiber;
swollen glands. Exhaustion and heaviness of the body after slight
exertion, with orgasm of blood to chest, face. Anxiety and difficult
breathing. | ||
| Mind. Anxiety
and fear. Every excitement increases the cough. | ||
| Head. Rush of
blood; bursting headache; worse, forehead. | ||
| Eyes. Watering;
gummy or mucus discharge. | ||
| Nose. Fluent
coryza, alternating with stoppage. Dryness; chronic, dry, nasal
catarrh. | ||
| Mouth. Tongue
dry and brown; full of vesicles. | ||
| Throat. Thyroid
gland swollen. Stitches and dryness. Burning and stinging. Sore throat;
worse after eating sweet things. Tickling causes cough. Clears throat
constantly. | ||
| Stomach.
Excessive thirst, great hunger. Cannot bear tight clothing around
trunk. Hiccough. | ||
| Male.
Swelling of spermatic cord and testicles, with pain and tenderness.
Orchitis. Epididymitis. Heat in parts. | ||
| Female. Before
menses, pain in sacrum, hunger, palpitation. During menses, wakes
with suffocative spells. [Cupr.; Lach.] Amenorrhea, with asthma. [Puls.] | ||
| Respiratory.
Great dryness of all air passages. Hoarseness; larynx dry, burns,
constricted. Cough, dry, barking, croupy; larynx sensitive to
touch. Croup; worse, during inspiration and before midnight.
Respiration short, panting, difficult; feeling of a plug in larynx.
Cough abates after eating or drinking, especially warm drinks. The dry,
chronic sympathetic cough or organic heart disease is relieved by Spongia.
[Naja] Irrepressible cough from a spot deep in chest,
as if raw and sore. Chest weak; can scarcely talk. Laryngeal phthisis.
Goitre, with suffocative spells. Bronchial catarrh, with wheezing,
asthmatic cough, worse cold air, with profuse expectoration and
suffocation; worse, lying with head low and in hot room. Oppression and
heat of chest, with sudden weakness. | ||
| Heart. Rapid
and violent palpitation, with dyspnea; cannot lie down; also feels best
resting in horizontal position. Awakened suddenly after midnight with
pain and suffocation; is flushed, hot, and frightened to death. [Acon.] Valvular insufficiency. Angina pectoris;
faintness, and anxious sweat. Ebullition of blood, veins distended.
Surging of heart into chest, as if it would force out upward.
Hypertrophy of heart, especially right, with asthmatic
symptoms. | ||
| Skin.
Swelling and induration of glands; also exophthalmic; cervical
glands swollen with tensive pain on turning head, painful on pressure;
goitre. Itching; measles. | ||
| Sleep.
Awakes in a fright, and feels as if suffocating. Generally worse
after sleep, or sleeps into an aggravation. [Lach.] | ||
| Fever.
Attacks of heat with anxiety; heat and redness of face and
perspiration. | ||
| Modalities.
Worse, ascending, wind, before midnight. Better, descending,
lying with head low. | ||
| Relationship.
Compare: Acon.; Hep.; Lach. | ||
| Dose. Second
trituration, or tincture to third potency. |