Calcarea Phos [Calc-p]
Like Calcarea Carb., it also effects the middle lobes of the lungs and is esp. suited to patients with defective nutrition.
Carbo Animalis [Carb-an]
It generally affects the right lung, and probably forms a cavity there.
See the symptoms of this remedy in Bronchitis (P. 7.) As soon as the patient closes his eyes he feels as if he were smothering.
Causticum [Caust]
It is indicated when there is aphonia or failure of voice, (<) in morning [Carbo Veg. (<) in evening]. It is associated with great weakness of the laryngeal muscles, which seem to refuse their office. The patient cannot cough deep enough for relief; the patient succeeds in raising the sputum so far, when it slips back into the pharynx [Arnica, Drosera, Kali Carb., Sepia]; he is unable to expectorate. This cough is relieved by drinking cold water.
Coccus Cacti [Coc-c]
It may be useful in Catarrhal Phthisis. The apices of the lungs feel sore and there are sharp, stitching pains under the clavicles, and the patient coughs up ropy phlegm of clear albuminous mucus, hanging in great long strings from the mouth.
Codeine [Cod]
It is an useful drug in the treatment of Phthisis. It is indicated in that dry, teasing cough which annoys the patient day and night.
Conium [Con]
We find it useful in the consumptives when they find it impossible to expectorate the sputum; they must swallow it again. It is esp. useful for the tormenting night cough, from tickling as from a dry spot in the larynx, which is relieved as soon as they sit up in bed.
Drosera [Dros]
It is indicated in the spasmodic cough of Consumption, coming on in the evening and perhaps again after midnight. Every effort to raise a little phlegm, ends in retching and vomiting. Also useful in Asthma of the consumptives.
Elaps [Elaps]
It affects the right lung, more than the left, but both may be diseased. Pain, in the morning, in the right side of the chest, severe enough to prevent the patient getting up. Feeling of coldness in the chest after drinking. The cough is accompanied by intense pain in the chest, worse in right apex, as if it were torn out and the sputum consists of black-blood.
It also claims attention in cases of Haemoptysis, when the blood discharged is dark in color, esp. when the right lung is affected.
Ferrum Met [Ferr-m]
It is indicated in Phthisis Florida in young people, male or female, with an appearance of blooming health, who are subject to Tuberculosis and who are just in the incipient stage of the disease, like Phosphorus, but indicated more than the latter, when there is this apparent plethora, with great oppression of the chest from any little exertion. The nostrils dilate with efforts to breathe. Frequent epistaxis and Haemoptysis-the blood being bright-red and coagulated. Dry, teasing cough, (<) after drinking anything warm, usually associated with a sore, bruised feeling in the chest, and with a dull, aching pain in the occiput.
It is indicated also later in the case, when the expectoration is purulent and greenish, with a very bad odor and is mixed with blood-streaks.
Ferrum Phos [Ferr-p]
If a patient with Phthisis, becomes greatly prostrated and have blood-streaked expectoration, it, even in the 200th potency, will quickly quiet the pulmonary congestion.
Guaiacum [Guai]
Indicated in the last stages of Tuberculosis, when there are pleuritic pains referred to the left apex, and in addition, offensive muco-purulent sputum.
In these cases, you will find it to be a remedy that rarely fails.
Hepar Sulphuris [Hep]
It follows well Spongia when the same kind of cough (see Spongia) continues, but with rather more rattling, from the production of mucus, whether blood-streaked or not. These symptoms are (<) towards morning.
Hydrocyanic Acid [Hydr-ac]
It may be used for the dry, tickling cough of the consumptives.
Iodine [Iod]
It is indicated in young persons who grow too rapidly [Phos], who are subject to frequent congestion of the chest, who are rather emaciated, and also suffer from dry cough, which seems to be excited by tickling all over the chest.
The expectoration is tough and blood-streaked. There is a well-marked feeling of weakness in the chest, particularly on going upstairs. The patient has a good appetite and is relieved by eating. He cannot bear a warm room.
Illicium Anisatum [ ]
Purulent expectoration, with pain at the 3rd costal cartilage, right or left. In pain at right side, it has stood the test of experience, over and over again.
Ipecacuanha [Ip]
It is one of our best remedies in the Haemoptysis of incipient Phthisis. It is useful when there is profuse bright-red flow of blood, usually accompanied by nausea, and sometimes by very hard, labored breathing. Sometimes there is coldness of the surface of the skin, which is covered with cold sweat.
Kali Carb [Kali-c]
It is indicated when the constitution favors it. The patient has a bloated alkaline look to the face, with puffiness of the upper eyelids. Stitching pains prominently located in the walls of the chest are most characteristic; they occur characteristically in the lower third of right lung, going through the chest to the back, which is their frequent site. Cough is difficult, the patient cannot get up sputum, he raises it partly, when it slips back into the pharynx; the expectoration is often bloody, and there are little globules of pus scattered through it. All the symptoms are aggravated from 3 to 5 A.M. There is also a very stubborn sensation, via., chilliness at noon.
It is also useful when Tuberculosis threatens at puberty [Calcarea Carb.]. The patient is slender and over-grown for his years and narrow-chested; he has a fine grain of tissue.
A note of warning: If tubercles have been deposited in the lungs, you should hesitate before giving it, unless the picture calling for it, is so strong that you cannot possibly make a mistake. Be certain that it is the remedy and do not give it too often or you will hasten the process you are anxious to avoid.
Pix Liquida [Pix]
It is an excellent remedy in Phthisis Pulmonalis, and is esp. indicated in the 3rd stage of the disease. Rales through the chest and expectoration or mucopurulent sputum, offensive in odor and taste and accompanied by pain at the 3rd left costal cartilage, where it joins with the rib [Anisum-the right]-a symptom which has stood the test of experience, over and over again. This pain may or may not apparently go through to the back.
Pulsatilla [Puls]
Indicated in the incipiency, esp. in women of the Pulsatilla temperament or in girls at the age of puberty when their menstrual flow has not established itself normally or has not appeared at all. There is soreness in the chest, worse under the clavicles, burning in the chest, esp. in the region of the heart and stitches in the sides of the chest. Along with these, there may be some cough with expectoration and spitting of blood. It has several times relieved these cases.
Rumex Crispus [Rumx]
It is indicated more in the early stages of Phthisis. Sharp stitching or stinging pains through the left lung; when the patient turns, the left side feels sore.
Sanguinaria Canadensis [Sang]
Indicated in the early stage of Phthisis Florida or the Galloping Consumption. The symptoms indicating it are: Hectic fever, which usually comes at about 2 or 4 o’clock in the afternoon; the cheeks have a bright, circumscribed flush. Cough, usually dry at first, seems to be excited by tickling in the larynx and upper portion of the chest. Great deal of burning and fulness, in the upper part of the chest, as if it were too full of blood. Sharp stitching pains, esp. about the right lung and in the region of the nipple; muscles of the chest feel sore. Great dyspnoea. Laryngeal catarrh.
By giving it early in the disease, you will save your patient, from what would end fatally in a few months.
Senega [Seneg]
It is esp. indicated in fat persons of lax fibre [Calcarea Carb.]. The symptoms indicating it are: Great soreness in the walls of the chest,(<) on moving the arms, esp. the left. Great accumulation of clear albuminous mucus, which is difficult of expectoration. Sensation of pressure on the chest, as though the lungs were pushed back to the spine.
Sepia [Sep]
It may be indicated when the middle lobes of the lungs are affected [Calcarea Carb., Calcarea phos.].
Silicea [Sil]
It is indicated in Catarrhal, as well as in true tuberculosis and is useful in the suppurative stage, when there are: Copious rattling of phlegm in the chest. The cough at first dry, becomes loose, with the expectoration more Purulent than Stannum and is offensive and increased by rapid motion. There are usually vomicae in the lungs.
It is of great service in the Phthisis Mucosa (Catarrhal Phthisis) of the old people and is frequently indicated. After great exertion the patient expectorates much pus which is horribly offensive.
Spongia [Spong]
It is of service in true Tuberculosis of the lungs and is esp. called for in the beginning of the stage of solidification of the lung-tissue, when there are: Dullness on percussion of the apices of one or both lungs. Great deal of congestion of chest, esp. when the patient is moving about, accompanied by sudden weakness, as if he would fall. Hard, ringing, metallic cough, excited by deep breathing or by talking, by any little excitement, or by dry cold winds, seldom by damp weather and is (>) by eating [Anacardium] or drinking. Chill, which usually commences across the back, is shaking even when near a warm stove and is followed by heat all over the body, except the thighs, which remain numb and chilly. Frequent flushes of heat, which return whenever the patient thinks about them. All the symptoms are often worse before midnight. In such cases, Spongia has cured, when given early.
