Asthma of sailors as soon as they go ashore.
Asthma of fair and fat children, “like Pulsatilla but where Pulsatilla fails.”
Gasping, wheezing, rattling; spasmodic closure of glottis.
“Can’t breath deeply enough.”
Must sit up in bed. Constriction.
“Air passages full of smoke.”
Peculiar symptom: Coldness in larynx.
Worse from dust.
Among Hahnemann’s Chronic Remedies Of Constitutions ( His “Anti-Psorics, Anti-Syphilitics And Anti-Sycotics”) that may be needed for Asthma, are.
Sulphur [Sulph]
The more chronic cases with dyspnoea and oppression of chest.
Chest, rattling and heat: especially Ii a.m.
Sensation of a band, or load.
“Every cold ends in asthma” ( “Dulcamara but the deep acting remedy to follow may be Sulph.”).
Sulph. is warm; hungry; often craves fat; kicks off the bedclothes or puts feel out.
The “ragged philosopher” type.
Psorinum [Psor]
Asthma; anxious dyspnoea and palpitation.
Worse sitting up; better lying; the wider apart he can keep his arms, the better he breathes.
Worse in open air.
Thinks he will die; will fail in business.
“A chilly edition of Sulphur.”
From suppressed eruptions ( Arsenicum, Sulphur).
Pulsatilla [Puls]
After suppression of rash ( Arsenicum), of menses; in hysteria.
Worse evenings; after eating. As if throat and chest constricted; or as if fumes of sulphur had been inhaled. (Full of smoke, Bromium)
In the Pulsatilla type: mild, weepy, craves sympathy; intolerant of heat; craves air. Not hungry; not thirsty; not constipated.
Changeable symptoms, mental and physical.
Silica [Sil]
“Humid asthma. Coarse rattling. Chest seems filled with mucus; seems as if he would suffocate.
Asthma of old ‘sycotics’, or children of such.
Pale, waxy, anaemic, with prostration and thirst.” – Kent.
Asthma from suppressed gonorrhoea ( Thuja).
Worse cold; draught; thunderstorms.
From checked perspiration or foot-sweat.
Often fetid, or suppressed fetid foot-sweats.
Head sweats profusely at night.
Zincum [Zinc]
Can’t expectorate: if he can is relieved.
Kali bich [Kali-bi]
With ropy mucus; stringy, tough, lumpy.
Worse cold, damp.
Tuberculinum [Tub]
In persons with a T.B. history or family history.
“Takes cold every time he gets a breath of fresh air.” Yet craves fresh air.
Drosera [Dros]
Asthma with T.B. history-or family history; or after whooping cough.
Asthma, where the cough is violent, especially with spasmodic and constricting pains in abdomen, throat, chest, etc.
Worse at night.
Thuja [Thuj]
Short breath from mucus in trachea (Arsenicum). from fullness and constriction upper abdomen.
Sensation of adhesion of lungs.
Drops in sleep.
Worse from onions.
Cases that follow vaccination; or many vaccinations; or bad vaccination.
After gonorrhoea, or offensive green discharges.
Greenish expectoration ( Nat sul.) – in a.m.
Copious sweat; offensive; pungent; sweetish.
Peculiar symptom, sweat only on uncovered parts.
Worse cold damp ( Nat. sul.) 3 a.m. ( Kali carb.).
A left side remedy. “Often the chronic of Arsenicum”.
Medorrhinum [Med]
“Asthma: choking from weakness or spasm of epiglottis.
Larynx stopped so that no air can enter.
Only (>) by lying on face and protruding tongue.”
Better seaside ( Bromium).
Where asthma is connected, even remotely, with gonorrhoea ( Thuja).
Lueticum [Syph]
Worse at night; night a dreadful time.
“In syphilitic-looking kids.”
“Attacks only at night, after lying down, or during a thunderstorm.”
Aggravation from sunset to sunrise.
Queer sensation, “as if sternum were being drawn to dorsal vertebrae” (as if navel drawn to spine, Platina, Plumb.).
