Coccus-cact [Coc-c]
Chronic bronchitis, COMPLICATED WITH GRAVEL; acid diathesis; brick dust sediment in the urine, adhering to the vessel; cough, with expectoration of a large quantity of viscid, albuminous mucus; cough, with constant tickling in the bronchi, about their bifurcation, caused by a feeling as if a plug of mucus were moving in the chest in spite of the profuse expectoration; difficult breathing; dyspnoea and oppression of the lower part of the chest; cough worse when waking in the morning, clear, dry and barking, followed by slight expectoration of thick, viscid mucus, or so violent as to cause vomiting, with the characteristic sputa; sharp stitching pains under clavicles.
Conium [Con]
Chronic cough, from enlargement of the bronchial glands, with irritation of the tracheal and laryngeal lining; spasmodically tearing cough, (>) in the evening and at night from horizontal position; aggravated by talking an laughing. An unbearable titillation in the pit of throat, with lisping voice, causing some paroxysms of coughing, with headache and pains all over the chest; scrofulosis.
Copaiva [Cop]
Chronic bronchorrhoea (dilated bronchi) with profuse expectoration of greenish, foetid mucus; soreness of larynx down to chest; severe, harassing cough with profuse expectoration of thick, heavy masses of yellow of greenish and putrid-tasting mucus, sometimes bloody and in such quantities as to cause choking and vomiting; oppression of chest with labored breathing, as if respiratory passage were filled with mucus; can only breathe easily when bolstered up in bed; restless nights; night- sweats, emaciation.
Dracontium Catarrh of tracheal and bronchial tubes, with rapid formation first of watery, burning discharge, and later quick development of pus or muco-pus; yellowish, purulent sputa, with great burning and rawness.
Drosera [Dros]
Bronchitis of old age, in connection with emphysema or bronchiectasis; nocturnal paroxysms; (<) from lying down; the cough seems to come from the abdomen; shaking all the muscles of the chest and body, with much exhaustion after the attack; expectoration of yellow mucus or pus; paroxysms of cough, from one to two hours apart; (<) at night, especially in spring and fall; perspires immediately on waking from sleep.
Grindelia-robusta [Grin]
Chronic bronchitis and bronchorrhoea, with tough-white, mucous expectoration, difficult to detach; accumulation of mucus in the bronchioles; patients feels that expectoration brings relief; cough from reflex causes; cough maintained by habit.
Gummi amm BRONCHORRHOEA. Respiration short, quick, with anguish, especially at night; oppression and obstruction in the chest from the accumulation of mucus; stitches in the left side of the chest when taking a deep inspiration; tickling in throat without cough; frontal headache, dimness of sight; in rheumatic or gouty subjects.
Hepar-sulph [Hep]
Mostly indicated when the cough enters the stage of resolution; a rattling, chocking, moist cough, depending on an organic or catarrhal basis; (<) towards morning and after eating, fatiguing, bellow cough as soon as he uncovers any part of his body. Bronchiectasis, with dirty-yellow, foul sputa.
Hydrastis [Hydr]
Bronchitis of old people, with great debility, loss of appetite, cachectic state, weakness; chronic cough, accompanied by febrile paroxysms evenings and night, and excessive prostration; sputa thick, yellowish, very tenacious, stringy and profuse; dry, hard cough with much laryngeal irritation, or loose but hard cough with much nasopharyngeal catarrh, and marked prostration.
Hyoscyamus [Hyos]
Night cough dry, (<) in recumbent position, less when sitting up, or from eating and drinking, loose in daytime, with greenish or pale, bloody expectoration.
Inula [Inul]
Cough, with abundant thick expectoration, with weakness of digestive tract, general languor, debility; chronic skin affections; engorged glands; much leucorrhoea; dry cough at night, (<) lying down, with difficult breathing.
Iodum [Iod]
Scrofulosis; dyspnoea at night, compelling him to sit up, dry morning cough, later transparent, grayish sputa; (<) after every old.
Kali-bichrom [Kali-bi]
Bronchitis oscillating between acute and torpid inveterate bronchitis, with a certain degree of irritation, vascular congestion and moderate muco-purulent secretion, frequently accompanied by periosteal or rheumatic pains. Cough resonant, whistling; loud rattling in chest; difficult expectoration of yellow, bluish or slate-colored, tough mucus, adherent, filamentous, sometimes foetid; burning sensation in trachea and bronchi; tickling in the throat, which causes cough, hoarseness and aphony; (<) in winter or during chilly summers, he must sit up in bed to breathe, (>) by bending forward and bringing up the stringy mucus.
Kali-brom [Kali-br]
Chronic catarrh, with purulent sputa of a slate color; acne of the face; pruritus of the genital organs; dry, fatiguing cough at intervals of two or three hours, with difficult respiration, followed by vomiting of mucous and food, (<) at night and when lying down; tightness of the chest when breathing.
Kali-carb [Kali-c]
Dry cough, as if excited by a dry membrane in the trachea, which cannot be detached; slimy, salty, tenacious expectoration; cough evening and (<) after 3 A.M., from eating and drinking, with pain in lower part of chest; violent cough, but the dislodged mucus MUST BE SWALLOWED OR FLIES UNEXPECTEDLY FROM THE MOUTH AFTER LONG COUGHING; dry skin and dry stool; eyelids red and swollen, especially between brows and upper lids.
Kreosotum [Kreos]
Violent winter cough old people, with spasmodic cough at night and copious sputa of light-colored mucus (Nitr. ac.); pressure on sternum, especially when turning over in bed in the morning; teething cough of children; (>) on approach of warm weather.
Lobelia-infl [Lob]
Impossible of deep inspiration; extreme dyspnoea, (<) by slightest exertion or short exposure to cold; feeling of strong constriction in middle of chest, impeding respiratory movements.
Lycopodium [Lyc]
Distressing, fatiguing, tickling cough, (<) afternoon, and evening, and on going to sleep and in the morning; chronic bronchitis, with copious, muco-serous or muco-purulent sputa; congestion of liver, flatulency, constipation, cachectic complexion, red gravel, acid dyspepsia; dry cough, day and night, in feeble emaciated boys (florid scrofula); emphysema, dilatation of air-tubes and senile catarrh; respiration short before and during cough, ending with loud belching; salty expectoration; emaciation of upper part of body; great fear of solitude.
Myosotis [Myos]
Chronic bronchitis; obstinate old coughs, with profuse, muco- purulent expectoration, (<) mornings and after eating, with gagging and vomiting; pain in left lower lung, (<) while coughing and sensitive to percussion.
Naphthalene [Naphtin]
Spasmodic cough in old people, with rattling in upper bronchial tubes, with difficult or absent expectoration.
Natrum-carb [Nat-c]
Cough excited by coming into a warm room; short, with rattling in chest, rumbling, incarcerated flatus and salty, purulent, greenish sputa.
Natrum-mur [Nat-m]
Dry cough from tickling in the throat or pit of stomach, day and night; lungs feel raw and sore from continued coughing; headache from coughing, as if the head would burst; stitches in the chest when taking a long breath or coughing, with involuntary flow of urine, with tickling in throat when talking, with involuntary flow of urine, with tickling in throat when talking; cough excited by every empty deglutition; cough, with vomiting of food; physical and moral depression, weak voice, fluttering of heart, cutting pain in after urinating; sputa transparent, viscid; (<) at the seashore.
Nitric-acid [Nit-ac]
Chronic winter cough; awakens often all stopped up with mucus, must expectorate before he can breathe easily; short breath, panting during work (Kreosotum)
Nux-vomica [Nux-v]
Chronica bronchitis of old people; rough, dry and deep cough from dryness of larynx, with tension and pain in the larynx and bronchi; accumulation of tenacious mucus in the throat, which the patient is unable to detach; convulsive racking cough, caused by titillation in the throat, especially morning or at night in bed, after a meal, from exercise, thinking or reading; cough, with vomiting or with bleeding from the nose or mouth.
Phosphorus [Phos]
Subacute attacks of bronchitis in emaciated, cachectic, or young overgrown invalids; broncho-pulmonary catarrhs from dilatation or fatty degeneration of the heart. Cough abrupt, rough, sharp, dry; between each coughing spell a short interval; dry, tickling cough in the evening, with tightness across the chest and expectoration in the morning; pain in chest when coughing, relieved by external pressure; trembling of the whole body while coughing; cough gets worse when other people come into the room; tingling, soreness and rawness in the air-passages; dry cough, with expectoration of viscid or bloody mucus. Dilatation of the bronchi.
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.