SPONGIA TOSTA


Respiratory symptoms of homeopathic remedy Spongia Tosta, 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; hoarse, croupy cough; after cold winds; chilly; in measles.

Nose stopped, dry. (Chronic catarrh.)

Fluent coryza grows thick; nose stopped; membranous croup.

Stinging, burning, and rawness in throat.

DISCHARGES-

Acute, fluent or thickened.

Chronic, dry.

COUGH.

CROUPY COUGH-

Hoarse, barking, croupy cough, and tendency to laryngeal spasm; from burning and tickling in the larynx; worse from hawking, or clearing the throat.

Dry, harsh cough, like a saw driven through a pine board; high fever.

Whistling, resonant cough; great distress.

Hollow, barking dry cough, following coryza; skin hot; sleepy, yawning; pulse hard and rapid; weeping humor; worse in P.M. (Croup.)

Short, dry, irritating cough, with pains in larynx and chest.

Dry, catarrhal cough in adults; no fever.

Chronic bronchitis; with dry, spasmodic cough.

Very hoarse, dry, barking, hollow cough; wakens with sudden suffocation after first sleep; child seems in great distress.

Dry, hollow, barking, rough (Spongia); when phlegm begins to rattle, or to loosen (Hepar is better).

SPUTA-

None, cough very dry; or, Scanty, salty, thick mucus.

Slightly sourish, thick, tenacious, yellow, difficult, scanty mucus.

Yellow, difficult, scanty mucus.

Profuse; cannot lie down; resolution in pneumonia.

WORSE-

In evening, after first sleep; at night, before midnight; cannot lie down.

From lying with the head low.

From too warm room.

In wet weather; from cold drinks; smoking.

(Before morning, Hepar sul.)

Talking; reading aloud; singing; unpleasant emotions.

From inhaling; after every exertion; respiration and cough.

Croups worse before midnight (worse toward morning, Hepar).

BETTER-

From eating.

From warm drink; burning in chest also relieved by eating and drinking.

By sitting up.

In frosty weather.

Lying on back, throat feels better, but cough is worse.

Bending forward; cough and retching.

CHEST AND RESPIRATION-

Asthma from taking cold; cannot lie down.

Breathing tight, both inspiring and expiring.

Dyspnea, from heart disease; great weakness of chest.

Constriction of chest; spasmodic tightness of chest.

Wheezing, anxious breathing; worse during inspiration.

SENSATIONS-

Great sensitiveness of larynx to touch, talking, singing or swallowing; with soreness, burning, and tickling.

Heat in chest, as of something hot inside chest; better from eating and drinking; burning soreness, rawness, and heaviness of chest.

Burning and tickling in larynx and trachea.

Great dryness of larynx; tenderness, soreness, and constriction of larynx.

Great lassitude.

Hallucinations as soon as eyes are closed, disappearing on opening them.

Of raw spot in chest from.

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"