From Cold Damp weather: exposure to cold damp when perspiring ( Dulc)Violent coryza: redness and oedema of throat.
Nose stopped up with every cold.
Worse cold: better warmth.
Thick yellow offensive mucus.
Fear and restlessness at night.
Hoarseness, rawness, roughness: worse first beginning to sing or to talk: wears off after singing a few notes or talking a little while.
Thirst for cold drinks especially at night: but cold drinks bring on chilliness and cough.
Worse uncovering.
Bones ache; sneezing and coughing; worse evening and night; tickling behind upper part of sternum.
Ipecacuanha. [Ip]
Simple common colds: settle in nose: blowing of blood from nose with excessive sneezing.Bronchitis of infancy: to break it up. (Later stages Ant.tart.)
Colds begin in nose, spread very rapidly to chest.
Stopping of nose.
Violent chill: frame shakes and teeth chatter.
No thirst: overwhelming nausea.
Nausea is a guide to Ipecac. in most sicknesses.
Carbo veg [Carb-v]
Worse warm moist weather.Worse evening.
Aphonia every evening ( Phos)
Dry tickling cough.
Rawness larynx and pharynx.
Natrum carb [Nat-c]
Fluent catarrh, provoked by the least draught.With periodical aggravation every other day.
Entirely relieved by sweating. (Reverse of Merc).
Phosphorus [Phos]
Frequent alternations of fluent and stopped coryza ( Nux. Puls)Sore throat: head dull: Feverish.
Secretions dries to crusts which adhere tightly.
Hoarseness and bronchial catarrh.
Discharge from one nostril and stoppage of the other.
Sneezing causes pain in throat or head.
Blowing blood from nose.
Nose red, shiny, painful.
Chest tight.
Cough hard, tight, dry, racks the patient: worse open air.
Phosphorus colds generally begin in chest of larynx.
Kali bich [Kali-bi]
Catarrh with thick yellow or greenish, ropy stringy mucous discharges, or tough and jelly-like.Discharge offensive.
Adherent mucus, which can be drawn out into long strings
Plugs in nostrils.
Dryness nose with pressive pain at root of nose.
Sulphur [Sulph]
Subject to coryza: constant sneezing stoppage of noseFluent, like water trickling from nose.
Nasal discharges acrid and burning.
Cannot take a bath, cannot became overheated.
Cannot get into a cold place, cannot over exerted without getting this cold in the nose.
The typical Sulphur patient likes fat:gets hungry about 11 a.m.: feels the heat.
Calcarea [Calc]
Lingering catarrhs; thick yellow discharge.Great crusts from nose.
Breaths parts of night through nose, then it clogs up, and has to breathe through mouth.
Chilly: perspires much.
So sensitive to cold he finds it difficulty to dress to protect himself.
Tuberculinum. [Tub]
Persons with a family history of T.B.Always catching cold.
Always tired.
Worse in warm room.
