PHYTOLACCA


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


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CORYZA.

FLUENT CORYZA-

Fluent coryza, with thin, watery discharge from one or both nostrils, until nose becomes stopped; discharge acrid.

Fauces look dry, dark-red, or purple.

With cough; eyes red; feeling of sand in lids; scalded, raw feeling, especially edges of lids; lachrymation hot.

DISCHARGES –

Acrid, watery; parts burn; or, Thicker and scanty, with burning and soreness.

WORSE –

Riding in cold air increases obstruction of nose.

At night.

BETTER –

Blowing nose.

SPECIAL –

Syphilitic cases.

Chronic pharyngitis, granular or follicular.

Diphtheritic sore throat.

Acute burning of stomach, as of hot ball.

COUGH.

DRY COUGH –

Hoarse, croupy, harsh cough, with sensation of tickling and burning in larynx and trachea; feeling as if a ball of fire had lodged in throat.

Dry, hacking cough, from dryness in throat; from tickling at one, spot on left side of larynx.

Incessant, dry cough, as from a small ulcerated spot at throat pit; must press on it to loosen phlegm.

Chronic, hard and dry cough.

Harsh, barking, dry cough; throat looks glazed and dry, dark- red; tonsils enlarged; dryness, burning, and smarting in fauces.

SPUTA –

None; throat very dry.

Very thick and difficult.

Scanty, thick, from a small sore spot in larynx.

Thick, tough, difficult.

Copious, thick, yellow.

Thick, starch-like, profuse from pharyngitis; exhausting.

WORSE –

At night as soon as he lies down.

Lying down.

Out of doors.

From damp, cold weather.

BETTER –

From raising thick sputa.

SENSATIONS –

Throat, dark-red, sore, burning; mucus, thick, scanty, white, or yellow.

Dryness of pharynx, with disposition to hawk and clear throat, without relief.

Of tickling, as from a stiff feather, in the nostril.

Burning and rawness; rough, sandy feeling in eyes.

Smarting and burning in throat; feels swollen.

Pain and suffocative feeling in throat and lungs; constriction of glottis.

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"