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Spongia Tosta Roasted Sponge. Spongia |
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For the tubercular diathesis. Especially adapted to diseases of children and women; light hair, lax fibre, fair complexion ( Brom. ). Swelling and induration of glands; goitre ( Brom. ). Awakens in fright and feels as if suffocating; as if head to breathe thru a sponge. Every mental excitement < or increases the cough. Worse after sleep or sleeps into < ( Lach. ). Sore throat, < after eating sweet things. Thyroid gland swollen even with chin: with suffocative paroxysms at night. Goitre. Great dryness of mucous membranes of air passages - throat, larynx, trachea, bronchi - "dry as a horn." Cough: dry, barking, croupy; rasping, ringing, wheezing, whistling; everything is perfectly dry, no mucous rale. Cough: dry, sibilant, like a saw driven through a pine board; < sweets, cold drinks, smoking, lying with head low, dry cold winds; < reading, singing, talking, swallowing; > eating or drinking warm things. Croup: anxious, wheezing, < during inspiration (< during expiration, Acon. ); < before midnight (< before morning, Hep. ). Palpitation: violent with pain and gasping respiration; awakened suddenly after midnight with suffocation and great anxiety; valvular insufficiency; before and during menses. Angina pectoris; contracting pain, heat, faintness, suffocation, anxiety and sweat; < after midnight. Spermatic cord swollen, painful; testicles swollen, bruised, squeezed; after suppressed gonorrhoea or maltreated orchitis. Relations. - Spongia follows well: after, Acon. , Hep. , in cough and croup when dryness prevails; after Spong. , Hep. , when mucus commences to rattle. Compare: Arn. , Caust. , Iod. , Lach. , Nux m. , sputa loosened but must be swallowed again. |
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