Bronchitis Acute


Homeopathy treatment for Bronchitis Acute from the Homeopathic Therapeutics by Lilienthal. Homeopathic remedies for the treatment of Bronchitis Acute…


Aconite [Acon]

Short, dry., titillating cough, resulting from an exposure to dry, cold air, increased by every respiration; painful sensitiveness of the affected parts, aggravated by breathing, coughing and talking; dry cough morning and evening; sleep constantly disturbed by the cough; cough dry and tickling at night. Incipient stages of catarrhal and inflammatory conditions, with fever, great restlessness, hot skin, anxiety; from exposure, whereby the perspiration is suddenly suppressed. Affection of larynx and bronchi (>) when lying on back.

Allium-cepa [All-c]

Cough with coryza, acrid discharge from the nose, bland lachrymation. Smarting and redness of the eyes; cough (<) in the evening and at night; amelioration in the fresh air; left side of the head more affected than the right one; sneezing as often as he takes a long inspiration; cough worse in the evening, with sensation as if it would tear the larynx. Disease goes from left to right.

Antimonium-tart [Ant-t]

Especially useful for children, aged persons, lymphatic constitutions and catarrhal dispositions; violent tickling in windpipe, causing cough, (<) after midnight, so that he has to sit up on account of oppression and dyspnoea; coughing spell begins with suffocative feeling, a crowing, gasping for air, finally relieved by copious mucous expectoration; cough after angry spells in children; large collection of mucus in bronchial tubes, inhibiting the child from cough, and this causes drowsiness; cough with vomiting of food after eating; flapping, winglike motion of the alae nasi at every act of respiration. All pulmonary symptoms associated with asthenia and prostration.

Antimonium-crud [Ant-c]

Especially if caused by bathing. The cough seems to start from the abdomen; gastric derangement.

Apis-mell [Apis]

Laborious and panting breathing, no thirst; scanty urine; insomnia: abdominal breathing with sensation AS IF EVERY BREATH WERE HIS LAST ONE; (<) in warm room.

Aralia-rac [Aral]

Dry wheezing respiration with sense of impending suffocation; the catarrhal process extending to the bronchial mucous membrane and constant desire to clear the chest; raw, burning, sore feeling behind the whole length of the sternum and in each lung.

Arsenicum [Ars]

Dry, violent cough, with burning in the chest, worse at night, preventing sleep; he cannot lie down from fear of suffocation; THE COUGH IS FOLLOWED BY INCREASED DIFFICULTY IN BREATHING, great exhaustion, with sinking of the vital forces; burning and dryness in the throat and larynx; cough excited by smoky sensation, or as of vapors of sulphur in larynx, and constant titillation in larynx.

Arsenicum-iod [Ars-i]

Catarrhal affections of the respiratory organs, with profuse, irritating watery discharge; pain in head as if from taking cold; hawking up thick mucus and clotted blood mixed; abdomen hard and distended with flatus; diarrhoea diurnal with urging; itching of skin.

Badiaga [Bad]

Spasmodic cough, with sneezing and lachrymation; during paroxysms crying and pressing hands upon head; sometimes strangling face turning dark, and thick, yellow, viscid mucus flying out of mouth and nostrils. Cough loose A.M., tight, P.M.

Belladonna [Bell]

Dry, barking, spasmodic cough in paroxysms; with titillation in trachea and bronchi; (<) at night and then continuous every quarter of an hour or oftener in three or four fits at a time; crying when coughing; sensation of constriction in throat with difficulty of swallowing; stitches in chest, congestion to head, hot skin, inclined to be moist; drowsy; sleepy, but cannot sleep; cough causes acute pain in left hypochondrium, shooting upward; (<) lying on either side or walking much; attacks of cough ending with sneezing.

Bryonia [Bry]

Concussive cough, dry, from the sternal region all over the chest, as if it would burst, with scanty, yellow or blood- streaked thin mucus, frequently with vomiturition and vomiting, especially after eating; difficulty of breathing, pleuritic stitches, producing pain in the head and chest, worse at night in bed, compelling one to spring up and assume an erect posture at once; rheumatic muscular pains; (<) from motion, from sudden changes of atmosphere, either too warm or too cold, from eating and drinking; after measles.

Cactus-grand [Cact]

Especially for children; catarrh with mucous rales; great anguish, suffocation and palpitation of heart; oppression of chest, as from a great weight, difficult breathing, uneasiness, as if an iron band prevented normal motion of chest; spasmodic cough, with thick yellow sputa, like boiled starch; bronchial catarrh from overaction of the heart.

Calcarea-carb [Calc]

Teething children; loose cough, rattling of mucus; oppression of chest as if too full; cough dry at night, loose in day time, (<) by inspiration and eating playing piano profuse head sweat, especially during sleep.

Carbo-veg [Carb-v]

Evening hoarseness; burning under sternum; soreness of chest and heat of body when coughing,. itching from throat down to centre of chest when coughing; paroxysmal cough, (<) by going into cold air from a warm room; cold knees in warm bed; pyrosis with great flow of water during day.

Causticum [Caust]

Morning hoarseness; hollow, racking cough, (<) on getting warm in bed from evening to midnight, relieved by A SWALLOW OF COLD WATER; continual annoying cough, with involuntary discharge of drops of urine and pain over left hip; tightness of chest, must often take a deep breath, rattling in chest, expectoration cannot be raised, must be swallowed.

Chamomilla [Cham]

Dry cough, (<) at night, by anger and cold air, (>) from warmth and warm drinks; constant irritation to cough beneath the upper part of the sternum; expectoration only in day time; none at night; oppression of the chest as if it were not wide enough, or as if the throat were throttled, with constant desire to cough;

oversensitiveness of the nerves of women and children.

Chelidonium [Chel]

Capillary bronchitis; difficult respiration with short fits of coughing RATTLING OF MUCUS IN CHEST, and forcible ejections of small lumps of mucus; brighty-yellow thin stools; bronchitis of persons of blonde complexion, disposed to diarrhoea, failure of strength, sensation of throbbing in lungs; violent chills in evenings; sensation of dust in trachea and behind sternum; loose morning cough with copious expectoration.

Cina [Cina]

Great bronchial irritation of children; cough nearly constant, dry, short, spasmodic, with the feeling as if something would rise up in the throat, which he tries to swallow; short, hacking cough at night; mucous rales in the bronchi; moaning at night, with restlessness and cries. Bronchial catarrhs from slightest exposure to cold and damp.

Conium [Con]

Dry spot in larynx, with almost constant irritation to cough; powerful, spasmodic paroxysms of cough excited by itching and tickling in the chest and throat, worse at night and when lying down; unrefreshing sleep, broken by heavy dreams; internal heat with thirst; headache aggravated by the least noise; great lassitude.

Cubeba [Cub]

Harsh cough which seems to tear and rupture the bronchi; expectoration difficult and painful, or yellow-green, rusty, streaked with blood, (<) evening, by heat and in open air, respiration hurried and noisy, difficult, with crepitant rales; great fulness in chest, dyspnoea, sense of suffocation.

Dulcamara [Dulc]

Cough from damp, cold atmosphere or from getting wet; patients have to cough a long time to expel phlegm, especially infants and old people, as the cough seems to come from abdomen and convulses the muscles of chest and abdomen, patient tries to relieve the pain in chest and hypochondria by holding them tightly; perspires immediately on waking from sleep; bronchitis from offensive- smelling night-sweats.

Euphrasia [Euphr]

Catarrhal hoarseness; no cough at night, but severe in the morning and during daytime; (>) from eating, or drinking small quantities of beer or water, (<) from fresh air; red eyes, photophobia and lachrymation, difficult expectoration during day; after cessation of haemorrhoidal flow.

Ferrum-phos [Ferr-p]

CAPILLARY BRONCHITIS OF YOUNG CHILDREN; acute, short, spasmodic and very painful cough, with squirting of urine with each cough (during pregnancy); cough in paroxysms, (<) at night or during siesta in day time.

Hepar-sulph [Hep]

Cough tight or loose, (<) mornings; from uncovering any part of the body;. from wrapping up and keeping warm; soreness and weakness in chest; tenacious mucus in the chest, with anxious, short, wheezing breathing, must bend the head back and sit up (Spongia forward). Repelled eruptions.

Hyoscyamus [Hyos]

Dry, convulsive cough, especially at night, beginning as soon as he lies down and continuing till morning, preventing sleep; paroxysmal cough, severely shaking the chest, abdomen, the whole body, and causes a sense of excoriation in the abdominal muscles; dry, hacking or spasmodic cough, (<) lying, (>) sitting up; (<) at night, after eating, drinking, talking or singing. During the cough the face reddens and respiration may be arrested; vomiting of white mucus. After the cough, exhaustion. Elongation of the uvula. Nervous patients.

Samuel Lilienthal
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal (1815-1891) was from Germany, and became a pioneer homeopath in America. He received his Doctor of Medicine Degree from the University of Munich in 1838. After he moved to the United States, he was hired as Professor of Clinical Medicine at New York College for Women, and also as Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases at the New York Homeopathic College.
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.