Chest Medicines


Homeopathic remedies for Chest Medicines symptoms from Acute Conditions, Injuries, etc by Dr.M.Tyler….


ACONITE.

Sudden fever, after chill, stress or cold dry winds.

Throbbing pulses.

Tightness of chest. Difficult breathing.

Anxiety and distress. (Early stages.)

VERATRUM VIRIDE.

Sudden, violent congestion.

Bloated, livid face.

Slow, heavy breathing: must sit up.

Dry, red streak centre of tongue.

Rapidly swinging temp. with sweat.

Rapid full pulse with violent excitement of heart.

BELLADONNA. Face red. Eyes bright. Skin hot.

Early stages of inflammations.

Pains throbbing.

Cannot lie on painful side. (Rev. of Bryonia)

Cases where there is noisy delirium.

FERRUM PHOS. Half-way between Aconite and Phosphorus in congestions and inflammations.

Lacks the anxiety of Aconite, the burning of Belladonna, and the intense thirst of Phosphorus

BRYONIA.

Dry painful cough; hurts head, like a pressure.

Tightness in chest. (Phosphorus)

Stitching pains in chest, worse with movement and respiration.

Bryonia patient is irritable.

Thirsty for large quantities. Dry mouth.

Pains worse for movement; better for pressure. Lies on sore side, or back.

Pleurisy, pneumonia, pleuro-pneumonia with above symptoms.

KALI CARB.

The pains are cutting and stabbing, and independent of respiration and movement.

Right lower lung especially: (left, Nat. Sul.)

Worse 3 a.m.-Asthma, &c. (Nat. Sul., 4-5.)

Pericardium may be involved.

NATRUM SULPH. Asthma and pneumonia, left base.

Worst hour 4 to 5 a.m.

Copious, greenish, purulent sputum.

Depressed, hopeless, mustn’t be spoken to.

Turns his face away. Feels very ill.

IPECACUANHA

Early stages of bronchitis.

Coarse wheezing. (Antim tart.)

Spasmodic cough. (Asthma.)

Nausea. It even persists after vomiting.

ANTIMONIUM TART.

Rattling in chest (Ipecac.), usually later stages.

Cannot get sputum up; choked with it.

Lungs filling up.

Blueness-lips, finger-nails. Dusky.

Hates touch and interference.

Not thirsty as a rule.

Especially useful in children and old people.

PHOSPHORUS.

Tightness of chest.

Bright blood in sputum.

Or “prune-juice” sputum.

Consolidation, especially lower lobe of right lung.

Great thirst for cold drinks; iced.

Anxiety if alone. Nervous in the dark.

Cannot lie on left side.

Hoarseness.

Especially pneumonias of right base (Kali C.,).

But, with such symptoms, useful in every kind of chest complaint.

AMMONIUM CARB.

Typical winter bronchitis.

Chests of old people.

Fluids all acrid from nose, eyes anus, &c.

Face dusky and puffy.

Coldness, prostration, weakness of chest.

Wakes at 3 a.m. with coldness and dyspnoea.

MERCURIUS.

Excessive offensive sweat.

Salivation: Mouth and breath foul and offensive.

BAPTISIA

Influenzal pneumonias of bad type.

“Typhoid pneumonias.”

Dull red face.

Drowsy-comatose.

Typhoid conditions.

Mouth and tongue may be foul; putrid.

Gastro-intestinal tract may be affected also.

Repeat four-hourly till better. In pneumonia medicine should be continued, but less frequently, till temperature not only comes down but remains down for twenty-four hours.

Or a pneumonia may need-

SULPHUR.

In a typical Sulph. patient.

TUBERCULINUM.

Where there is a family history of consumption or any tuberculous disease.

LYCOPODIUM.

Where the patient is always worse at 4 p.m.

Forehead wrinkled and frowning.

Wings of the nose flapping.

Desire for hot drinks.

Give one dose, or two, 6 hours apart.

N.B.-With acute chests, pneumonias, and broncho pneumonias, treat afterwards to avoid further attacks.

SPASMODIC GROUP.

There is a celebrated group of homoeopathic remedies for Spasmodic Croup, sold for years as “Boenninghausen’s Croup Powders.” They are five in number.

ACONITE, HEPAR, SPONGIA, HEPAR, SPONGIA: in that order, and should so many be required.

Give at two to four-hourly intervals, according to the urgency of the case.

WHOOPING COUGH.

DROSERA.

“Drosera 30, a single dose, not repeated, will cure epidemic whooping cough in seven to nine days, on a non-medicinal diet.” HAHNEMANN. (Often verified.)

N.B.-No camphor, or camphorated oil: camphor absolutely antidotes Drosera

Violent, spasmodic cough, ends with retching.

Violent impulses to cough, so that he can hardly get his breath between.

Crawling in larynx provokes the spasms.

Pain in abdomen during cough: must hold it.

KALI CARB.

Violent cough, causes vomiting. (Drosera)

Worse at 3 a.m., and thereafter.

Swelling, like a little sac, above eyes.

CARBO VEG.

Attacks of violent spasmodic cough in paroxysms; with cold sweat and cold pinched face during attack.

“One of the greatest medicines in beginning of Whooping-cough.

Gagging, vomiting, and redness of face.

“Cough apt to occur after a full meal.

“Burning pain in chest after cough”.

Margaret Lucy Tyler
Margaret Lucy Tyler, 1875 – 1943, was an English homeopath who was a student of James Tyler Kent. She qualified in medicine in 1903 at the age of 44 and served on the staff of the London Homeopathic Hospital until her death forty years later. Margaret Tyler became one of the most influential homeopaths of all time. Margaret Tyler wrote - How Not to Practice Homeopathy, Homeopathic Drug Pictures, Repertorising with Sir John Weir, Pointers to some Hayfever remedies, Pointers to Common Remedies.