It acts best, but not exclusively, on persons with light blue eyes,
flaxen hair, light eyebrows, fair, delicate skin; blonde, red-cheeked,
scrofulous girls.
Sensation of cobweb on the face ( Bar. , Bor. , Graph. ).
Fan-like motion of the alae nasi ( Ant. t. , Lyc. ).
Sailors suffer with asthma "on shore."
Stony, hard, scrofulous or tuberculous swelling of glands, especially
on lower jaw and throat (thyroid, submaxillary, parotid, testes).
Diphtheria: where the membrane forms in pharynx; beginning in bronchi,
trachea or larynx, and extending upwards; chest pains running upwards.
Membranous and diphtheritic croup; much rattling of mucus during
cough, but no choking (as in Hepar. ); sounds loose, but no expectoration
( Ant. t. ).
Croupy symptoms with hoarseness during whooping cough; gasping
for breath.
Dyspnoea: cannot inspire deep enough; as if breathing through a
sponge or the air passages were full of smoke or vapor of sulphur;
rattling, sawing; voice inaudible; danger of suffocation from mucous
in larynx (in bronchi, Ant. t. ).
Hypertrophy of heart from gymnastics in growing boys (from calisthenics
in young girls, Caust. ).
Physometra; loud emission of flatus from the vagina ( Lyc. ); membranous
dysmenorrhoea ( Lac. c. ).
Cold sensation in larynx on inspiration ( Rhus , Sulph. ); >
after shaving (< after shaving, Carbo an. ).
Relations. - Compare: in croup and croupy affections, [Chlor.],
Hep. , Iod. , Spong.
Hard goitre cured after Iod. failed.
Brom. has cured in croup after failure of Iod. , Phos. , Hep. ,
Spong. ; especially in relapses after Iod.
"The chief distinction between Brom. and Iod. is the former
cures the blue-eyed and the latter the black-eyed patients."
- Hering.
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