Pertussis
Ambra [Ambr]
Foetor of mouth; pressure in stomach and hypochondria, itching in chest; sour smelling urine; COUCH WORSE WHEN MANY PERSONS ARE PRESENT: hollow, spasmodic barking cough, worse from talking or reading aloud, with frequent eructations and hoarseness.
Aconite [Acon]
Clear ringing or whistling whooping-cough, excited by burning sticking in larynx and trachea; generally without expectoration; rarely during day expectoration of mucus, wit coagulated blood.
Anacardium [Anac]
Fits of vexation cause paroxysms of cough; dyspnoea accompanies and succeeds the coughing spell; the coughing shakes the patient thoroughly; paroxysms every there or four hours, excited by ticking in throat; at night, without expectoration during day, with expectoration; during day, with expectoration of sweetish, flat-tasting mucus, or yellow, purulent, and acrid; cough (<) every time they speak and AFTER EATING (not while eating); vomiting of food with relief; much sneezing; after cough yawning and sleepiness; almost only adapted to ill natured children.
Ambra [Ambr]
Severe paroxysms of hollow sounding cough, worse morning, evening and during night; oppression and rapidity of respiration and expectoration of large quantities of a salt or sour taste; ABUNDANT ERUCTATIONS WITH THE COUGH; emaciation (<) from talking.
Ammonium-brom [Am-br]
Cough and inclination to cough come suddenly; cough dry, spasmodic and very severe, at times an interval of only a few moments; an ALMOST CONTINUOUS COUGH for hours, especially lying down at night; sensation of tickling irritation, with heat and burning.
Angustura [Ang]
Violent cough excited by an irritation low in trachea, mornings, and during day, expectoration of much yellow mucus; hoarseness from accumulation of tenacious mucus in larynx; intermitting spasmodic respiration, much dyspnoea.
Antimonium-crud [Ant-c]
Whooping-cough from deep in abdomen, with coughs, which become gradually weaker and weaker as if from increasing closure of fauces; in the evening without expectoration, in the morning with expectoration of tenacious bloody mucus;vomiting of drinks only; involuntary micturition;weakness or loss of voice; concussion of whole body; (<) from becoming overheated in a warm room, in the sun or from radiation of a fire, from washing and bathing, desire for fruit and sour things.
Antimonium-tart [Ant-t]
Whooping-cough provoked when the child gets angry, or after eating, which culminates in vomiting of mucus and food.
Arnica [Arn]
Paroxysms of whooping-cough excited by a creeping and soreness in trachea, bronchi or larynx, generally dry, often with expectoration of frothy blood mixed with coagula, or of a bandy- tasting slime, which patient has to swallow; cough (<) at night, child cries as if it dreaded the attack, coughs till the blood gushes from nose and mouth; crying before and after he paroxysm; child places his hands upon chest to support it during the coughing fit; left cheek swollen swollen and red, with heat in head and coldness of body, child feels sore all over, as if bruised cough off and on during day, but more frequent and severe in evening, till mid-night; (<) when child becomes angry, from motion, in warmth and after drinking; intercostal neuralgia.
Arsenicum [Ars]
Clear ringing, crowing, or whistling cough, excited by burning tickling in trachea and throat-pit as if from vapors of sulphur; at night without, in daytime with expectoration of scanty frothy mucus, or in lumps, sometimes mixed with florid blood, returning periodically with increasing violence; before paroxysms, face pale and cold, vomiting of food and drink, starting up in sleep as if from suffocation; during paroxysm face puffed and blue, burning in throat, nausea, retching, sensation of bruised soreness in abdomen; restlessness, m anxiety and despair; paroxysm ends with sweat.
Asafoetida [Asaf]
Hoarse, ringing, short cough, with asthmatic feeling in trachea and sensation of spasmodic constriction in chest, with accumulation of stringy mucus in trachea; pressure and burning under sternum, with frequent disposition to cough; compression of chest, as by a heavy weight, preventing expansion of lungs; slow, small, contracted pulse (Crot. tigl., Phosphorus).
Badiaga [Bad]
Occasional severe fits of spasmodic cough, ejecting viscid yellowish mucus from bronchi, often flying forcibly out of mouth, terminating in sneezing and fluent coryza; worse afternoon and evening, with headache, aching pains in posterior parts of eyeballs, slight shocks in eats; pale. ashy face; sharp lancinating pains in chest, especially below the scapulae; soreness of flesh and integuments of whole body.
Baryta-carb [Bar-c]
Whooping-cough in old people and atrophic children, wit roughness in throat, and tickling sensation in pit of stomach; evening without, morning with difficult expectoration of yellowish, tenacious, starchy, often salty mucus; worse from getting feet wet, sleeping in cold room, lying on left side, or from thinking on it; swelling and suppuration of tonsils after slightest cold; loss of voice; chest obstructed by mucus; drowsiness and chilliness day and night.
Belladonna [Bell]
Spasmodic cough at night, in quarter-hours paroxysms, each fit consisting of but few coughs, wit rough, barking tone, excited by tickling in throat as from down, or as if larynx were constricted, with none or scanty expectoration of some florid coagulated blood; most violent just after midnight, worse by movement or touch, especially of throat, from talking, deep inspiration, awaking from sleep; weeping and pains in stomach before coughing; during it peevishness, congestion to head, which aches as if it would burst; photophobia, face livid and puffed; retching and vomiting, first of food, then of bile; involuntary micturition and defaecation. Suitable at beginning, or later from cerebral congestion.
Bromium [Brom]
Crampy, rough, barking, or whistling cough, excited by tickling in throat, as if from vapor of sulphur, without expectoration, worse from motion, deep inspiration, tobacco-smoke; oppression and melancholy; SENSATION OF COLDNESS IN THROAT; much frothy mucus in mouth; dyspnoea, gasping for breath; chilliness with shuddering.
Bryonia [Bry]
The child coughs almost immediately after eating and drinking, and vomits what it has eaten, then returns to the table, fishes its meal, but coughs and vomitings again; spasmodic cough excited by tickling in throat and epigastrium evening and night without, morning and daytime with expectoration of flat-testing mucus mixed with coagulated, and abdomen;soreness of ribs as if beaten;cough (<) on coming into a warm room.
Calcarea-carb [Calc]
Short spasmodic cough in brief but often-repeated paroxysms, excited by tickling as if from down in throat and trachea; evening and night without, morning and day with copious mucous or purulent, yellow or grayish, or sometimes bloody sputa, of sour taste and offensive odor; worse in damp, cold air, from getting wet, washing, bathing, from talking, after sleep; in teething children cough comes always after eating, and they vomit their food; diarrhoea.
Capsicum [Caps]
Frequent and short barking cough, especially towards evening; after lying down tingling and tickling in throat; pain in throat when coughing, as if an ulcer would burst; head feels like bursting when coughing; continued stitches in throat, exciting dry, convulsive cough, with earache when coughing.
Carbo-an [Carb-an]
Suffocating hoarse cough, excited by rawness and dryness in larynx and trachea; at night without, during day with gay, greenish, sometimes purulent expectation of an offensive, sour taste; sensation as if brain were loose, epistaxis; concussion of abdomen; asthmatic breathing; hoarseness morning, Aphonia at night, FEELING OF COLDNESS IN CHEST. (Bromium, in throat).
Carb-veg [Carb-v]
Short, hard, but infrequent coughing spells, excited by a with creeping irritation in larynx and throat, in the evening without, in the morning with yellow, greenish, purulent, or tenacious mucous sputa, worse by eating or drinking cold things, in damp cold air, by passing from a warm into a cold atmosphere; dependency and irritability; bleeding from eyes and nose; scorbutic condition of gums;hoarseness and aphonia; chill and coldness with trust, especially in cold damp, or cold frosty weather; cough with mucous sputa, painful pressure in chest, resulting in vomiting of mucus and followed by a stitching headache.
Castanea-vesca [Cast-v]
During day, slight pain in centre of right lung; great lassitude.
Causticum [Caust]
Uneasing short hollow cough, excited by tickling and much mucus in throat, in daytime without, at night with detaching of an acrid, fatty-tasting mucus, which apparently comes up easy enough, yet cannot be discharged, but must be swallowed; worse from getting warm after taking cold, from cold air or being in a current of air, waking out of sleep (a swallow of cold water allays the cough); basal catarrh, at night dry, fluent in daytime; restlessness sleepiness in daytime, sleepless at night; constant chilliness; copious sweat in open air. Improvement stops, and a dry hollow cough remains.
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.