SANGUINARIA


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


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CORYZA.

Loss of smell and taste.

FLUENT CORYZA –

Severe, fluent coryza; eyes watering and irritated; throat irritated; severe cough.

Fluent, acrid, scalding coryza; eyes water.

Alternately fluent and stopped; eyes painful to touch.

Coryza, with dull pain at the root of the nose; stinging in nose; sneezing; eyes water.

Dryness and heat in throat; better from inhaling cold air.

SPUTA –

Tough, glairy, difficult mucus.

WORSE –

From eating sweet things; burning; in throat worse.

BETTER –

From breathing cold air.

SENSATIONS –

Throat very dry, as if it would crack; drinking does not relieve.

Throat feels scalded; highly inflamed.

Throat burns, and looks very red.

Burning in pharynx and esophagus.

SPECIAL –

Chronic inflammation of nose, throat, larynx, and trachea; scanty mucus, mostly thick.

Acute inflammations of respiratory track; tough, glairy, difficult mucus.

COUGH.

DRY COUGH –

From tickling in stomach or throat; it wakens him from sleep; only ceases when gas has passed up and down.

Severe cough after whooping cough, from taking cold; spasmodic like whooping cough.

From tickling behind the sternum; severe, causing pain behind sternum; no sputa.

Severe, constant dry cough, with coryza; followed by diarrhoea, which relieves.

Severe, chronic, constant, dry night cough, all night; following cough.

Severe, harassing night cough, with occipital headache; bloody sputa.

Harassing cough, with marked inflammatory action.

Tickling, dry cough; throat very dry; it feels swollen in larynx.

Harsh, dry cough; expiration difficult; worse lying, or eating.

Whistling dry cough; worse sleeping in cold room.

Violent dry cough; rawness and burning in throat and behind sternum; fauces dark red, but not much swollen; thirst, but vomits as soon as he drinks or eats.

Metallic dry cough, as through a tube.

SPUTA –

None, cough dry; or, Tough, glairy difficult mucus.

Scanty; of very thick, difficult mucus.

Smells badly, even to patient.

Thick, rust-colored; second and third stages of pneumonia.

WORSE –

Lying down, with head low.

Eating; vomiting soon after eating or drinking.

At night, dry cough; wakens him; increasing until he sits up, and passes gas both up and down.

Sleeping in cold room.

Continuous at night, secondary to cold.

BETTER –

Lying on back.

CHEST AND RESPIRATION –

Extreme dyspnea; short, constrained, accelerated breathing; livid cheeks and hands; compressible pulse; typhoid pneumonia.

Asthmatic breathing, worse from odors.

Constriction increased from trying to breathe deeply; pain in chest; inclination to take deep breath.

More or less burning and stitching in muscles of chest; with cough.

Short, quickened breathing; speech ceases to be free.

Breathing, labored; short; constrained.

SENSATIONS –

Chronic dryness of the throat and larynx, with scanty, thick mucus.

Of swelling in larynx; expectoration of thick mucus; or same, with expectoration of thin mucus.

Quick, small pulse; hot hands and feet; flushed cheeks; with or without pain in chest.

Face and extremities inclined to be cool.

Rawness and burning in bronchi; very scanty sputa.

Great dryness of throat.

Moderate rawness and burning in threatened chest.

Breath and sputa smell badly, even to patient.

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"