STAPHISAGRIA


Respiratory symptoms of homeopathic remedy Staphisagria, 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; much sneezing and lachrymation; one nostril stopped; nasal voice.

DISCHARGES-

At first, thick mucus; afterward, thin water.

COUGH.

CROUPY, CHRONIC COUGH-

Spasmodic, hollow, difficult cough; sputa often swallowed on account of difficulty in raising it; dry by day, loose at night.

Croupy, chronic cough in winter, alternating with sciatica in summer; drove him out of bed; must sit up all night; could not breathe, lying down.

SPUTA-

Tough, yellow, purulent; mostly at night, or only by day.

Alternately dry and loose.

WORSE-

Lying down, croupy cough worse: must get out of bed; cannot breathe, lying.

From tobacco smoke.

From brushing teeth (Calcarea carb.).

After vexation, or indignation, or anger.

After eating meat.

From talking, rawness in larynx.

BETTER-

Sitting up.

RESPIRATION-

Dyspnea with sexual debility.

SENSATION-

As of something loose at pit of stomach, like loose flesh, that pulls with every cough.

Rawness in larynx from talking.

Soreness and rawness in chest while COUGHing.

Throat rough and dry; soreness when talking or swallowing.

Voice feeble; weakness of vocal cords after anger.

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"