LACTUCA VIROSA

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COUGH.

DRY COUGH –

Incessant, dry, spasmodic cough, as if the chest would burst.

Dry cough, in short paroxysms, shaking chest and occiput.

Dry, hacking, spasmodic cough, as if the chest would fly to pieces.

Caused by a peculiar tickling in throat (fauces or larynx) causing a sense of suffocation in throat, and a very straining, violent cough.

Dry, suffocative, with coldness in the stomach.

WORSE –

In the morning; after sleep.

Lying down.

From tight clothing on chest.

BETTER –

Sitting up.

PULSE –

Slow, small, short.

SENSATIONS –

Oppression of chest wakens him; must sit up at once; jumps out of bed to get his breath.

Great anxiety before cough.

Anasarca and hydrothorax.

Feeling of suffocation in throat, caused by tickling, severe, dry cough.

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"