Ammonium-carb [Am-c]
Atony of bronchial tubes; copious accumulation of mucus in lungs, dilatation of bronchial tunes and oedema pulmonum; asthmatic oppression of breathing with stitches in chest, (<) on physical effort or magic oppression of breathing with stitches in chest, (<) on physical effort or when entering a warm room; cough continual, but raises nothing or only a when entering a warm room; cough continual, but raises nothing or only a little with difficulty, (<) 3 to 4 A.M., with rattling of large bubbles in chest, feels faint from the effort to breathe; drowsy and cyanotic from blood-poisoning by carbonic acid.
Antimonium-tart [Ant-t]
EXCESSIVE dyspnoea, must be supported in a sitting posture in bed; great rattling of mucus in bronchial tubes, particularly just below the larynx; gasping for breath at the beginning of every coughing spell; violent pains from chest to shoulder.
Arsenicum [Ars]
Highest degree of dyspnoea, even to suffocation, with great anxiety and restlessness; tightness of chest as if bound by a hoop; burning in chest; face cyanotic and covered with cold perspiration; bronchorrhoea with albuminoid expectoration.
Belladonna [Bell]
Short, hurried, anxious breathing, heavy and stertorous; disturbed circulation;dizziness, headache, palpitation of heart, fulness of abdomen.
Bromium [Brom]
After pneumonia, asthma, cough dry, whistling, tickling in larynx; gasping for breath with wheezing and rattling high up and spasmodic closure of glottis; he cannot inspite deep enough; pressure in stomach, must sit up in bed at night.
Camphora [Camph]
Dyspnoea (<) after any bodily exertion; cough from talking, inhaling air and a feeling of coldness which commences at the pit of stomach, spreading over chest and is exhaled as cold breath.
Carbo-veg [Carb-v]
Often after Ars: neglected chronic bronchitis with emphysema. Great dyspnoea and anxiety, but no restlessness;cough in violent spells; watery, profuse expectoration; breathing short, with cold hands and feet; cold breath; blueness of skin, (>) from hard fanning; threatened paralysis of lungs.
Chininum-ars [Chin-ar]
Regularly even forenoon at 9 A.M. attacks of suffocating spells in tuberculosis; limbs icy cold; cold, clammy sweat all over; greatest anxiety and unquenchable thirst; must sit up, bent forward if possible, at an open window.
Chlorum [Chlor]
EASY INHALATION; EXHALATION IMPOSSIBLE; breathing consists of a succession of crowing inspirations, each followed by an ineffectual effort at expiration, inflating chest to a painful extent face turgid and livid; convulsive movements; expiration difficult, prolonged, insufficient, as if air cells were hardly half empty.
Cuprum [Cupr]
Dyspnoea; short, superficial, quick respiration, (<) by coughing, laughing, bending upper part of body backward, walking quickly or inhaling acrid vapors.
Curare [Cur]
Dyspnoea from emphysema, when the PATIENT IS ON HIS LAST LEGS, caused by weakness of respiratory motor nerves; short, hacking cough,. dry, with soreness of chest, no expectoration or cough with white, gelatinous sputum; always (<) in damp weathe
Digitalis [Dig]
Complications with heart disease; respiration slow; asthmatic; paroxysms early in the morning, (<) in cold weather and when walking; (>) lying perfectly quiet in a horizontal position.
Euonymus [Euon]
Emphysema with oppression of chest and suffocating dyspnoea, producing deep melancholy, (<) when lying in bed. (Morbus Brightii).
Hepar [Hep]
Bronchial chronic catarrh, (<) from slightest exposure, cough (<) from midnight till morning sleeps with head thrown back.
Ipecacuanha [Ip]
Dry spasmodic cough of old people; collection of mucus difficult to expectorate and giving only temporary relief; nausea, dyspnoea; difficult expiration.
Kali-carb [Kali-c]
Dyspnoea (<) at night, strong beat of heart, loss of appetite, vomiting, dry skin; must lean forward with head on table, feels as if there were no air in chest, (<) from drinking, from motion, cannot walk fast.
Lachesis [Lach]
Constriction of the chest in the morning when sitting up quickly; the breathing becomes slow, difficult, whistling; chest stuffed; short cough, with scanty, difficult expectoration; all covering around the neck and even chest unbearable; stool smelling badly (after Arsenicum, or Carb.)
Lobelia-infl [Lob]
Contraction of chest, with deep inhalations; impossibility of deep inspiration; extreme dyspnoea; short inhalation and long, deep exhalation; inclination to sigh or to get a very deep breath; deep inspiration relieves the pressive pain in the epigastrium; burning feeling in the chest, passing upward; dry tracheal and bronchial catarrh.
Naphthalin [Naphtin]
Thorax fixed in inspiration, which lasts much longer than expiration; respirations ten or twelve per minute; attacks of dyspnoea with great oppression of chest, somewhat relieved by violent movements of the arms and upper body.
Natrum-mur [Nat-m]
Attacks of suffocation; breathing anxious, oppressed; short on walking fast; better in open air and when exercising arms.
Opium [Op]
Suffocative attacks during sleep, like nightmare; short inspiration. long slow expiration; epigastrium drawn in; fine rales; constant cough; sopor; face bluish; great anguish and dread of suffocation; looks as if dying; slightly better from cold air and bending forward; worse from smoking or wine.
Sarsaparilla [Sars]
Shortness of breath, he must loosen neck cloth and vest; cough with tickling and rattling in chest; stitches from back through to chest, with very motion; (<) after eating.
Senega [Seneg]
Sensation as if chest were too narrow, with desire to enlarge it by taking a deep breath, especially in open air and when stooping chest symptoms (<) during rest, though they do not affect breathing; oppression of chest, pains appear to be more superficial in the pleura.
Sepia [Sep]
Shortness of breath and oppression on bending the arms backward; nightly suffocating fits, wants door sand windows open; rattling in chest, (<) after expectoration.
Terebinthina [Ter]
Distention of the air-vesicles to the highest degree; apex of heart felt beating in pit of stomach; heart and; liver pushed out of place; loss of breath from least exertion, avoids even walking drowsiness, lungs seem to be unable to work, hence frightful dyspnoea.
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.