GRAPHITES


Respiratory symptoms of homeopathic remedy Graphites, described by Van Denburg in his book, Therapeutics of Respiratory system, cough & coryza, published in 1916….


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CORYZA.

DRY CORYZA-

Smell abnormally acute; lost, with dry coryza.

Sneezing in the morning; nose dry.

Alternately fluent and dry coryza.

FLUENT CORYZA-

Periodical attacks of fluent coryza of short duration, with continually stopped nose and breathing through the mouth.

DISCHARGES-

None; or, alternately fluent and dry.

Painfully dry: chronic, offensive, slimy or purulent mucus; nose sore when blowing it.

Sore, cracked nostrils.

Yellowish, thick, fetid mucus.

WORSE-

In cold air; and in open air.

SENSATIONS-

Smell abnormally acute, with fluent CORYZA.

Nose painfully dry; smell lost.

Soreness of nose when blowing it.

Nose continually stopped.

Chronic hoarseness.

Voice impaired; cracked in singing.

COUGH.

DRY COUGH-

Hoarse, dry suffocative cough at night, which is relieved by eating.

Spasmodic, suffocative breathing, wakens him out of sleep.

Must jump out of bed and hold himself firmly.

Straining, strangling cough; passes wind when coughing.

Cough at night, better from eating.

Tickling cough, from soreness and roughness in larynx.

LOOSE COUGH-

Loose cough, from tickling low down in the chest, with loose sputa; provoked by deep inspiration.

SPUTA-

Wanting (first stage), cough dry.

Loose, tickling sputa.

Salty, day and night.

WORSE-

At night; relieved by eating.

From deep inspiration, loose cough.

When falling asleep, dry cough.

After falling asleep, dry cough wakens him in a spasm of dyspnoea and coughing.

BETTER-

From eating anything whatever.

SENSATIONS-

Strangling cough.

Deep inspiration provokes loose cough.

Constriction of chest, especially when falling asleep; chest feels too narrow.

Suffocative paroxysms, that waken him out of sleep; must jump out of bed and hold himself firmly.

Lower chest feels raw and sore, like raw flesh.

Pain in middle of chest with cough; scraping rawness and soreness.

SPECIAL-

Tendency to humid eczema.

Painless swollen glands on neck.

Women inclined to obesity, and habitual constipation.

M.W. Van Denburg
M. W. (Marvin W.) VAN DENBURG, A.M., M.D.
Author of "A homoeopathic materia medica on a new and original plan ... A sample fascicle containing the arsenic group."
"Therapeutics of the respiratory system, cough and coryza, acute and chronic : repertory with index, materia medica with index"