Cactus-grand [Cact]
Asthma with great constriction of chest and relieved as soon as patient can expectorate; oppression of chest as from a great weight; periodical attacks of suffocation, with fainting, cold sweat on face and loss of pulse; anxiety returning in evening; sanguineous congestion in chest, preventing free speech, (<) when lying down in bed; periodical stitches in heart.
Caladium [Calad]
Pressure in pit of stomach impedes respiration and causes cough; frequent eructations of very little wind, as if the stomach were full of dry food; smoking causes nausea and inclination to vomit; oppression of chest with burning in stomach. Suits stout persons of flabby fibre who are subject to CATARRHAL ASTHMA with production of mucus which is not readily raised, but expectoration relieves. (Cadmium sulph.)
Calcarea-carb [Calc]
Frequent need to breathe deeply; shortness of breath on going upstairs or up the slightest ascent; morning asthma, sensation of dust in throat and lungs; leucophlegmasia.
Calcarea-phos [Calc-p]
Child gets a suffocative attack when lifted up from the cradle; involuntary sighing; breathing more frequent, short and difficult.
Cannabis-ind [Cann-i]
Great effort to take a deep inspiration; oppression of chest with deep, labored breathing, (<) ascending, feels as if he would suffocate, must be fanned; hard, dry cough with scraping under sternum; pressing pain in heart with dyspnoea the whole night; stitches in heart with great mental depression,(>) by deep breathing, (<) lying on left side; palpitations rouse him form sleep; (<) in open air.
Cannabis-sat [Cann-s]
HUMID ASTHMA, wheezing and mucous rales, after fit subsides easy rattling cough expectorating copious sputa of thick, yellow mucus; during fit dyspnoea and extreme agitation, must sit up most of the time; oppression of breathing from tensive, pressing pains in the middle of sternum, which is sore to the touch, he is obliged to breathe deeply.
Capsicum [Caps]
CATARRHAL ASTHMA with red face and well-marked sibilant rales; (>) when coughing up the mucus; very offensive breath during the cough; (>) by deep respiration, (<) from moving about, ascending on walking. Catarrhal asthma, with red face and well-marked sibilant rales; offensive breath during cough, and expectoration relieves asthma.
Carbo-veg [Carb-v]
(Lycopodium) ASTHMA FROM ABDOMINAL IRRITATION, WITH MARKED FLATULENCE, ASTHMA OF OLD OR DEBILITATED PEOPLE, during the fit they look as if they would die so oppressed are they for breath; suffocative asthma, with blue and cold skin and great anguish about the heart; great dyspnoea. with anxiety, but no restlessness, exerts the whole body and limbs to breathe fully, (>) by eructations, constant walking, (<) by sitting or lying down; desires to be fanned, must have more air; cough in violent spells, with profuse watery expectoration. Asthma of debilitated old people with great dyspnoea, (>) by belching of wind.
Carduus-mar [Card-m]
NERVOUS ASTHMA OF MINERS; CACHEXIA OF TUNNEL LABORERS; frequent urging to deep breathing, followed by painful sensations in abdomen; great debility; loss of appetite; empty eructations; restless, dreamy sleep; fulness of hypochondria which are painful to pressure.
Chamomilla [Cham]
NERVOUS BRONCHIAL ASTHMA. Dry, tickling cough, suffocative dyspnoea, as if the windpipe were tied together with a string and as if the chest were not wide enough; constricted feeling in the suprasternal fossa, with constant irritation to cough. Asthmatic fit seemingly produced by accumulation of wind,(>) bending head back, in cold air and from warm food; palpitations and fainting. Asthma from anger.
Chelidonium [Chel]
Nightly attacks of asthma with sense of constriction of chest and diaphragmatic region; spasms of respiratory muscles of thorax; spasmodic cough without expectoration or with forcible ejections of small lumps of mucus.
China [Chin]
LOOKS AS IF DYING DURING ASTHMA. nightly suffocative fits; inspiration slow and difficult, expiration quick, blowing, short; oppression of chest as from fulness of stomach, or from continued talking; inability to breathe with the head low; spasmodic cough and nightly suffocative fits, as if from too much mucus in the throat, with difficulty expectoration of a clear, thick mucus; pressure in chest as if from rush of blood, with violent palpitation of heart, easy perspiration; sudden prostration.
Cistus-can [Cist]
Periodical attacks of asthma on lying down, with loud wheezing; feeling as if the windpipe had not space enough; in the evening, soon after lying down, a sensation as if ants were running through the body, then anxious, difficult breathing is obliged to rise and open window, fresh air relieves him; immediately on lying down against sensation returns.
Cocculus [Cocc]
HYSTERIC ASTHMA with rush of blood to chest and difficult breathing as if the throat were constricted; racking cough, (<) at night, spasmodic constriction of chest, especially of one side only; sensation of languor and emptiness in chest; anguish and palpitations.
Coffea [Coff]
Attack towards morning; patient wants to be continually moving frequent and copious urination; constriction of chest; dry, hacking cough, fears death during paroxysm.
Colchicum [Colch]
Oppression of chest, dyspnoea, tensive feeling in chest, high up or low down; with anxiety, (>) by bending forward; extreme anxiety of face; cheeks, lips and eyelids purple; anxious feeling in praecordia; flatulency and meteorism; rheumatic gout.
Conium [Con]
ASTHMA SENILE; scrofulosis with enlarged and indurated glands; dry, nightly, tickling cough; evening dyspnoea, (<) in wet weather, in the morning when awaking; want of breath from slight exercise; copious mucous expectoration with the cough.
Copaiva [Cop]
Oppression of chest with labored breathing, while working in a stooping position, as when digging; pressure on sternum; slow respiration.
Cuprum [Cupr]
SPASMODIC ASTHMA, constriction in throat, face gets blue and convulsions threaten; ASTHMA FROM MENTAL EMOTIONS, after vexations; violent asthmatic attacks come on suddenly, last from one to three hours and cease as suddenly; breathing whistling, rattling, panting, quick as if stooped in the throat, (<) night before or during menses; when coughing, leaning backward, and by walking against the wind. Very suitable to hysteric persons, especially after fright.
Digitalis [Dig]
CARDIAC ASTHMA; sudden suppression of respiration and sensation as if walls of chest were being constricted; great anxiety and restlessness; no heat; respiratory murmur feeble; quiet horizontal position brings relief, (<) when walking.
Dulcamara [Dulc]
HUMID ASTHMA or for acute asthma from a cold, with dyspnoea, loose, rattling cough, copious sputa, (<) during wet weather;
asthma, with faceache, after disappearance of tetters in face; chest oppressed with mucus. Patient is comfortable enough in daytime, but great oppression at night, with dry, tearing, suffocative cough.
Eucalyptus [Eucal]
Humid asthma in bronchitis sufferers, it relieves the cough and aids in expelling the thick sputa.
Ferrum [Ferr]
Asthma (<) after midnight, must sit up, (>) walking slowly about and talking, and by uncovering the chest (after itch_); suffocative fits in the evening in bed, with warmth of neck and trunk, but cold limbs. Difficult inspiration as from heaviness in chest scarcely moves in breathing, nostrils dilated during expirations; persons who flush easily and get epistaxis, dyspnoea, palpitation; fits of spasmodic cough with expectoration of blood or of tenacious, transparent mucus; talking, reading and writing
improve constriction of chest.
Gelsemium [Gels]
Sudden sensation of suffocation as in hysteria, respiration hardly perceptible in the beginning of attack; sighing respiration; heavy and labored breathing with rapid or slow pulse;long crowing inspiration, sudden and forcible expiration; spasm of glottis; nervous chill, though skin is warm, wants to be held that she may not shake so heart’s action slow, feeble, depressed, hands and feet cold; continued sneezing and bland, watery discharge from nose as in hay fever.
Glonoinum [Glon]
Sudden attacks; constriction of chest with anguish and much sighing; oppression of chest alternating with headache; heavy, labored, stertorous breathing from feeling of weight, must breathe deeply, as chest feels as if laced; sighing.
Graphites [Graph]
Suffocative paroxysms at night, awakens him out of sleep, usually after midnight, has quickly to jump out of bed, holds firmly on to something for support and QUICKLY EATS WHATEVER IS ON HAND, which gives relief; very hoarse cough.
Grindelia-rob [Grin]
MUCOUS ASTHMA depending on an abnormal accumulation of mucus in smaller bronchi, tenacious and hard to detach; patient feels and knows that expectoration brings relief. NERVOUS ASTHMA, inhalation easy, expiration difficult; fear of going to sleep on account of loss of breath, which awakens him. CARDIAC ASTHMA, heart feels too weak to take care of the blood sent to it; cough from reflex cause or maintained by habit in chronic bronchorrhoea.
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal was the author of many great books including “Homeopathic Therapeutics”. For many years, with the support of Dr. Constantine Hering, he was the editor of the North American Journal of Homeopathy. Dr. Lilienthal passed away on February 2nd 1891 in San Francisco.