|
|||||
|
Note: Wherever it is found,
"<" denotes aggravation (worse by) and ">" denotes
amelioration (better by) |
|||||
| COMMON NAME |
: | Roasted
Sponge |
|||
| MODALITIES |
: | < Mental
excitement < After eating sweet < Smoking < Lying with head low < Dry cold winds < Reading < Singing < Talking < Swallowing < Before midnight < Ascending < Full moon < Thinking about complaint < Inspiration < After sleep < Roused from sleep < Before or during menses > Eating or drinking warm things > Descending |
|||
| MIND |
: | -Irresistible
desire to sing; with excessive mirth;
followed by sadness. -Fear of future; tired of life. -Anxiety fear of death with suffocation due to choking sensation. -Timidity fear and terror of approaching death; that she will cough. -Weeps with dreams, with whooping cough, with heat, with sweat. -Despondent about loss of sexual power. -Obstinate and improper behaviour. -Every excitement increases the cough. -Weeping and inconsolable mood. -Abusive. -Anxiety during flushes of heat. -Despair during the heat. -Fears of heart disease. -Ideas abundant on closing eyes. -Witty -Suicidal disposition, during perspiration. -Quarrelsomeness alternates with gaiety and laughter. -Somnabulism, STARTING FROM SLEEP. Starting from trifles. |
|||
| GUIDING INDICATIONS |
: | -Especially
adapted to diseases of children and
women with light hair, lax fibre, flabby, blue eyes, often with a
tubercular diathesis. -Dryness of mucous membrane of air passages, tongue, throat, larynx, trachea, bronchi. Dry as a horn. No Discharge. Rawness and soreness of chest throat, larynx, trachea, mucous membranes, due to dryness. -Inflammation and glandular enlargement, especially of thyroid, testis, ovary. Swelling becomes hard, indurated. -Exhaustion and heaviness of body after slight exertion and orgasm of blood to chest, face. He must lie down. -Sensation as if breathing through sponge. -Sensation as if plug in throat, lump in the throat accompanied by difficulty in breathing. -Sensation as if something alive or moving in the abdomen. -Sound as if saw is driven through pine board when coughing. -Throat-Clears throat constantly. -Throat symptoms > lying on back < after eating sweet things. -Goitre with suffocative spells, touching neck or pressure. -Swallows water in small quantity and with difficulty. -Respiratory system-Cough, hollow, barking, crowing, sawing or tight, ringing, whistling, wheezing. -Coughs like a saw driven through a pine board. -Everything is perfectly dry, no mucous rales. -Hoarseness, larynx dry, burns constricted painful. -Croup worse during inspiration. -Chest weak, can scarcely talk. -Tuberculosis of larynx. -Suffocation as from a plug, valve or leaf in larynx, and wakes with violent painful palpitation and blue lips with heavy sweat. -Anxious, gasping breathing. -Voice gives away when singing or talking. -Asthma, must throw head back. -Asthma especially after cold things and exposure to dust and wind. -As if air were passing into glands of neck, on breathing. -C.V.S.-Cough of cardiac origin. -Rapid and violent palpitation with dyspnoea cannot lie down, also feels best resting in horizontal position. -Valvular insufficiency. -Angina pectoris, faintness and anxious sweat. -Blood surging upto neck, head and face with asthmatic symptoms. -Hypertrophy of heart especially right, with asthmatic symptoms. -Rheumatic endocarditis, Aneurism of aorta. -Surging of heart into chest as if it would force out upward. -Male genitalia-Spermatic cord swollen, painful, testicles swollen, bruised. -Suppressed gonorrhoea or maltreated orchitis. -Female genitalia-Amenorrhoea with Asthma. |
|||
| KEYNOTES |
: | -Cough
and sore throat from sweets, better by
eating and drinking especially, warm things. -Cough dry, sibilant, like or saw driven through or pine board. |
|||
| NUCLEUS OF REMEDY |
: | -Affections
of the respiratory organs from sweets
and cold things, relieved by eating and drinking (especially warm). -Children with fair complexion, lax fibre, swollen glands. -Exhausation and heaviness of the body after slight exertion with orgasm of blood to chest and face. -Heart affections and cough of valvular heart disease. |
|||
| CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS |
: | -Dryness
of mucous membranes. Dry as a horn. -Cough < after eating sweets, before midnight > eating or drinking warm things. -Awakens, suddenly after midnight with pain and suffocation; is flushed, hot, frightened to death. |
|||
| CLINICAL |
: | -Spongia
relieves the cough and the concomittants
of an aneurysm of the descending aorta - Dr.Hughes. -Asthma depending upon Tuberculosis- Dr.Boehr. |
|||
| REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS |
: | -Remedies
that precede well-Acon, Hep-s (in croup). -Remedies that follow well-Brom, Bry, Carb-v, Con, Hep-s, Kali-b, Nux-v, Rhus, Puls. -Antidote-Camph. When dryness is replaced by ratting in chest Hep-s. |
|||