Very drowsy, great shortness of breath, bronchial tubes over- loaded with mucus.
Somnolency: waning consciousness on closing eyes.
Weak, drowsy, lacking in reaction.
Respiration very unequal, now shorter, now longer, worse lying, lessened when carried about in an upright position. gasping for breath at the beginning of every coughing spell. Noisy, whistling, purring, bellowing, or sawing respiration; with great rattling of mucus as if the child would suffocate, always relieved by spitting or vomiting the mucus. Cough excited by eating.
In the difficulty of breathing, face may be pale, dark red, blue lips, hot and sweaty head, muscular twitching.
Cough: compels one to sit up: it seems loose and rattling, but no expectoration: with great pain in chest or larynx, cries fro help and grasps at larynx.
Sputa blood-streaked, rust coloured, adhering like glue.
OEdema of lungs. Impending paralysis of lungs. Emphysema.
Much palpitation: with uncomfortable warm, or hot feeling proceeding from heart.
In croup, often we find neck stretched out, and head bent back.
A chief characteristic of this remedy on the skin is to produce pustular eruption.
BLACK LETTER SYMPTOMS (Hering and Allen)
BAD HUMOUR.
The child wants to be carried (Chamomilla) cries if anyone touches it; will not let you feel the pulse.
Dim, swimming eyes.
Pallor., Pale sunken face.
Rheumatic toothache of intermitting type.
During dentition, catarrhal hyperaemia.
Tongue very red, dry in the middle.
Tongue red in streaks,
Tongue covered with chick, white, pasty coat,
Much mucus in throat with short breathing.
Disgust for food, frequent nausea and relief by vomiting.
Belching which relieves.
Nausea causes great anxiety.
Continuous anxious nausea, straining to vomit, with sweat on the forehead.
Nausea, vomiting and loss of appetite. Vomits with great effort.
Absence of thirst the whole day.
Vomiting, followed by great languor, drowsiness, loading, and desire for cooling things.
Great precordial anxiety with vomiting of mucus and bile.
Sharp cutting colic before stool.
Child at birth pale, breathless, gasping, though the cord still pulsates.
The mucus rattles in the chest.
Rattling originates in the upper bronchi and can be heard at a great distance.
Much rattling of mucus in trachea; cannot get it up.
Shortness of breath from suppressed expectoration, especially if drowsy.
Unequal breath, now shorter, then longer, much more frequent when lying. Better when child is carried upright.
Respiration with great rattling of mucus.
Suffocated and oppressed about 3 a.m., must sit up to get air;’ better after cough and expectation.
Cough compels the patient to sit up, is moist and rattling, but without expectoration.
When the child coughs there appears to be a large collection of mucus in the bronchial tubes, and it seems as if much would be expectorated, but nothing comes up.
Coughing and gaping consecutively, particularly children, with crying or dozing, and twitching of the face.
Profuse mucus with feeble Expulsive power (bronchitis in infants and old people)
Profuse mucus sputa, easily expectorated.
Cough grows less frequent, patient shows signs of :”carbonized blood”
Rattling of phlegm on chest, better when carried in an upright position, worse lying down; with oppression.
Inflammation of respiratory mucous membrane.
Sputa blood-streaked, rust coloured, adhering like glue to the vessel.
Atelectasis, with symptoms of asphyxia belonging to the remedy;l with oedema of unhepatized portions of the lungs; breathing laboured, or orthopnoea, mucous rales.
Oedema of lungs. Emphysema. Impending paralysis of lungs.
Grippe: acute pneumonia; broncho-pneumonia; pleuro pneumonia.
Pulse hard, full, strong sometimes trembling; very much accelerated with every motion.
Pulse rapid, weak, trembling
Great restlessness. Tosses with anxiety.
Prostration and collapse.
Violent pain in lumbo-sacral region, the slightest effort to move causes retching and cold clammy sweat.
Trembling of hands.
Great sleepiness; irresistible inclination to sleep, with nearly all affections.
Coma
Or, great sleeplessness.
Worse at night and sleepless.
Warmth aggravates; even getting warm in bed.
Skin covered with a running, sticky sweat.
The tissues it affects.
Collection of synovia in joints.
Mucous membranes: catarrhal inflammations; conjunctivitis; gastritis, enteritis; laryngitis, tracheitis, bronchitis, extending even into the air-cells, cystitis.
Pustular eruptions; on conjunctiva, face, mouth and fauces, oesophagus, stomach, jejunum, genitals
Variola: backache, headache, cough and crushing weight on chest before or at the beginning of the eruptive stage; diarrhoea, etc.
Also when the eruption fails.
Chest, anterior surface of upper arms, wrists, abdomen and inner side things covered with closely set, bright-red, small, conical, hard pustules, with an inflamed, letter-like base itching intolerably.
Pustular eruption leaves bluish-red marks on face, et.
Thick eruption like pocks, often pustular, as large as a pea.
NOTABLE OR PECULIAR SYMPTOMS, WHICH APPEAR IN ITALICS
Furious delirium.,
The child will not allow itself to be touched without whining and crying, Howls if looked at.
Flickering before eyes:-*A lady, very ill with bronchitis (as one remembers well from long ago), was given Ant-tart., several doses, low, which she proceeded to prove with curious, most distressing flashes of night, “What’s that? There, again!” They, in her weak and suffering state, absolutely terrified her. The drug was discontinued, and no more was heard of the flashes. sparks before eyes.
Convulsive twitchings in almost every muscle of face.
Swallowing almost impossible.
Great desire for apples.
Vomits till he becomes faint.
Nausea, then yawning and profuse lachrymation, followed by vomiting.
Abdomen seems to be stuffed full of stones, though he has eaten nothing and it does not feel hard.
Violent pressure in abdomen, as from stones, as if full; much worse sitting and stooping. (Coloc is (>) stooping and pressure.)
Seems as if he would suffocate, in bed. Cannot get air. obliged to sit up the whole night.
About 3 a.m. suffocated and impressed, had to sit up to get air; only after cough and expectoration she became better.]
Dyspnoea: had to be supported in a sitting position in bed.
Cold hands: icy-cold finger tips.
Feet go to sleep immediately after sitting shown each time.
Had scarcely fallen asleep when seized with electric shocks and jerks (which came from abdomen).
Cold sweat all over body.
Effects of vaccination, when Thuja fails, and Silica is not indicated.
If the use of Ant-tart. was continued after it and produced an eruption like small-pox, the pustules got large, full of pus, deepened in the centre and became confluent: with great pain; crusts were formed, leaving deep scars.
In prescribing Ant-tart., then, look, for drowsiness-nausea- irritability that hats to be touched or looked at: usually thirstlessness: and in “chests”, breathing, expectorating, lying down, almost impossible. One sees how invaluable it is for desperate conditions, and how with Carbo veg., it is one of the “last gasp” remedies.
