SEPIA


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


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TEMPERAMENT-

Sad, gloomy, foreboding, and depressed; or, Very restless, nervous, excitable; feels as if he would scream unless he held on to something; very sensitive to noise.

CORYZA.

CHRONIC, DRY COUGH-

Loss of smell; or sense of fetid smell.

Chronic, dry coryza; nostrils sore, swollen, and scabby; green plugs from nares.

Chronic coryza; blows large, yellow-green lumps of mucus from nose; offensive discharge.

FLUENT CORYZA-

Fluent catarrhal cold, with pressive pain at root of nose.

Discharge of yellow water from nose, with sharp pains in forehead.

SPECIAL-

Coryza of the frontal sinuses, acute or chronic.

Catarrhs from retrocession of eruptions.

COUGH.

DRY COUGH-

Not waking from sleep (Chamomilla); but after waking, becomes continuous and severe.

Especially evening in bed, until midnight; frequently with nausea and bitter vomiting.

Continuous cough until he raises a little phlegm; coming in evening.

Short, dry cough, with stitches in liver; seems to come from stomach, and is very fatiguing.

With coryza, and sneezing; beginning before rising, and lasting until 9 A.M.

SCANTY COUGH-

Difficult, scanty cough; cannot get sputa up; must swallow it; dryness and soreness in larynx.

Sudden, severe, spasmodic cough at night; cannot get breath; chest constricted; child cries.

From tickling in chest from larynx to stomach; expectoration of tenacious mucus only in morning; none during rest of the day; mucus is salty, white, gray, yellow, or greenish.

SPUTA-

None, cough dry, throat dry; or Very scanty, of a little bit of phlegm; with relief.

Profuse, purulent, and very offensive.

Profuse mucus of many colors; milky white, salty, tenacious.

WORSE-

In cold, stormy weather; cold north, or east, winds.

At night; lying with head low.

Morning, till 9 A. M.

Walking fast; or, going upstairs.

Damp chill of rooms or cellars.

Sour food; after eating, constriction worse.

From standing; short walk fatigues much.

From warm room.

BETTER-

By pressure of hand over chest.

From raising least sputum; or, from free raising of phlegm.

During the day.

Sitting upright; suffocation better.

Head high.

By walking about; sometimes.

SENSATIONS-

Soreness in larynx down to pit of stomach; or tickling same way.

Soreness in middle of chest.

Oppression and weight of chest; emptiness of chest.

Stitches in chest, especially the left; after emotions.

SPECIAL-

Reflex and sympathetic coughs, especially in uterine complaints.

COUGHs from portal obstruction, or venous congestion.

Aversion to occupation; to family.

Easily offended; vehement.

Asthma; short, easy inspiration; long, slow, wheezing expiration; no thirst.

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"