Spongia Tosta spong.

HEART; valves. Larynx. Trachea. Glands.

DRY, COLD Wind. Roused from sleep. Exertion. Raising arms. Before 12 P.M.

Lying with head low. Eating a little.

FLABBY. Weak and heavy. Feels stuffed up. Orgasms. Hard swellings; glands (ductless).

Terrified, anxious look. Eyes seem to protrude. Sorethroat, < sweets. Painfully swelled spermatic cord and testes; stitches in; squeezing in. Hard testes. Noisy, whistling inspiration on falling to sleep. SUFFOCATION; as from a plug, leaf or valve in larynx; waking him; with violent, painful palpitation and blue lips; with heavy sweat. Anxious, gasping breathing. HOLLOW BARKING, CROWING, SAWING OR TIGHT CROUPY COUGH; wakes child; then burning in chest; < cold drinks or excitement; > eating. Voice gives out. Croup; sudden. HOARSENESS. Larynx pains, < touch, singing, talking or swallowing; he grasps it. Diphtheria. Neck; as if a cord about. Choking on falling to sleep. Goitre. Fulness in chest. Apical phthisis. HEART; surgings mount up to neck, head and face; with closure of eyelids and tears. Palpitation. Goitre-heart. Valvular disease. Numb fingertips or lower half of body. Awakes in anxiety. Heat; in spells, with anxiety and cardiac pain, would rather die; and sudden weakness after walking in open air, he must lie down; with cold, moist thighs; < thinking of it.

Follows: Cact. Related: Iod. Led.

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 paroxysyms 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.

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.

Affections in general of the larynx and trachea--particularly in all such affections as croup, asthma, etc., where everything is perfectly tight and dry, no loose rattling sound appearing in the breathing or cough. Burning sensation is felt in the throat after coughing; suffocative attacks of breathing (as in asthma), without any mucous rattle; respiration loud; very hollow voice, all without any rattling sound, or any looseness.

Uncomfortable feeling of the clothes, they being an oppression and annoyance to the wearer; growing pains; darting pains from within outward; itching, no better from scratching.

Troubles in general of any kind appearing in the sexual organs, especially right side; testicles and spermatic cord; anterior surface of the thigh. Phthisis pulmonalis, cough, breathing etc., being very tight and dry.

From turning the head; on ascending (going upstairs, up a hill, rising from a chair etc.); from tobacco; wind; from the west wind.

On descending.

Bryon., Conium, Hepar., Nux Vom., Phosphor., Pulsat.

Camphor.

Thyroid gland swollen and hard, with suffocative attacks at night. Swelling of the testicles, with pressive bruised pain; stitches from testicles into spermatic cord which is swollen and painful. Croup; dry, barking, hollow cough, with wheezing, whistling, sawing, anxious breathing; worse during inspiration and lying down.

Roasted Sponge

A remedy especially marked in the symptoms of the respiratory organs, cough, croup, etc. Heart affections and often indicated for the tubercular diathesis. Children with fair complexion, lax fiber; swollen glands. Exhaustion and heaviness of the body after slight exertion, with orgasm of blood to chest, face. Anxiety and difficult breathing.

Anxiety and fear. Every excitement increases the cough.

Rush of blood; bursting headache; worse, forehead.

Watering; gummy or mucus discharge.

Fluent coryza, alternating with stoppage. Dryness; chronic, dry, nasal catarrh.

Tongue dry and brown; full of vesicles.

Thyroid gland swollen. Stitches and dryness. Burning and stinging. Sore throat; worse after eating sweet things. Tickling causes cough. Clears throat constantly.

Excessive thirst, great hunger. Cannot bear tight clothing around trunk. Hiccough.

Swelling of spermatic cord and testicles, with pain and tenderness. Orchitis. Epididymitis. Heat in parts.

Before menses, pain in sacrum, hunger, palpitation. During menses, wakes with suffocative spells (Cupr; Iod; Lach). Amenorrhœa, with asthma (Puls).

Great dryness of all air-passages. Hoarseness; larynx dry, burns, constricted. Cough, dry, barking, croupy; larynx sensitive to touch. Croup; worse, during inspiration and before midnight. Respiration short, panting, difficult; feeling of a plug in larynx. Cough abates after eating or drinking, especially warm drinks. The dry, chronic sympathetic cough or organic heart disease is relieved by Spongia (Naja). Irrepressible cough from a spot deep in chest, as if raw and sore. Chest weak; can scarcely talk. Laryngeal phthisis. Goitre, with suffocative spells. Bronchial catarrh, with wheezing, asthmatic cough, worse cold air, with profuse expectoration and suffocation; worse, lying with head low and in hot room. Oppression and heat of chest, with sudden weakness.

Rapid and violent palpitation, with dyspnœa; cannot lie down; also feels best resting in horizontal position. Awakened suddenly after midnight with pain and suffocation; is flushed, hot, and frightened to death (Acon). Valvular insufficiency. Angina pectoris; faintness, and anxious sweat. Ebullition of blood, veins distended. Surging of heart into chest, as if it would force out upward. Hypertrophy of heart, especially right, with asthmatic symptoms.

Swelling and induration of glands; also exophthalmic; cervical glands swollen with tensive pain on turning head, painful on pressure; Goitre. Itching; measles

Awakes in a fright, and feels as if suffocating. Generally worse after sleep, or sleeps into and aggravation (Lach).

Attacks of heat with anxiety; heat and redness of face and perspiration.

Worse, ascending, wind, before midnight. Better, descending, lying with head low.

Compare: Acon; Hep; Brom; Lach; Merc prot; Iod (Goitre).

Second trituration, or tincture to third potency.

Croup cough; sounds like a saw driven through a board; < on awakening out of sleep.

Awakens out of sleep with a sense of suffocation, with violent loud cough, great alarm, agitation, anxiety and difficult respiration.

Cough < talking, reading, singing, swallowing, lying with head low.

This is not a remedy of very wide range, so far as yet known, but is of such marked utility within its range that we could not afford to lose it. Its action upon the respiratory organs is first to be considered. It first attacks the larynx, extends from there to the trachea, bronchial tubes and into the air cells of the lungs themselves. Next to Aconite it is the remedy, oftenest indicated in croup. The cough is dry and sibilant, or sounds like a saw driven through a pine board, each cough corresponding to a thrust of the saw. Croup often comes on after exposure to dry, cold winds. It generally comes on in the evening, with high fever, excitement and fearfulness. For this cause and these symptoms Aconite is the first remedy, and in the 30th or 200th cures a great majority of cases without the aid of any other remedy. But if after a few doses, or a reasonable time, it does not alleviate, and the case continues to grow worse, and the paroxysms of cough and suffocation come on oftener, and especially on awakening out of sleep, Spongia is generally the next remedy.

I live in a croupy climate and district, and after experimenting for thirty years, first with the low, then with the higher preparations, affirm that the 200th potency of this remedy does better work in croup than the lower preparations. I often give either of these remedies (Aconite or Spongia), according to indications, as often as once in fifteen minutes in watery solutions until amelioration, and then lengthen the intervals between doses according to amelioration. After the Croup becomes loose, but still retaining some of its croupy sound, Hepar sulphuris comes in, especially if inclined to get worse after midnight or in the morning hours. If the case inclines to relapse, or gets a little more croupy every evening, Phosphorus will often finish the cure. In the laryngitis or bronchitis of adults, Spongia is as useful as it is in the case of croup in children. There is a great hoarseness, some soreness and burnings and the cough is worse on talking, reading, singing or swallowing. I often find it particularly useful after Belladonna has improved the sore throat which often precedes the laryngeal or bronchial trouble, and which is generally brought on by colds so often contracted here in our northern climate.

In Chronic affections of the respiratory organs, which may finally lead to consumption, Spongia vies with Phosphorus, Sanguinaria and Sulphur. There is soreness, burning, rawness and heaviness in the chest, while the cough is worse in the evening, from cold air, talking, singing or moving, and better from eating and drinking warm things. I will not attempt to give all the symptoms for its use in respiratory diseases, but proceed at once to its remarkable action upon the heart. I have never done better work with any remedy in valvular disease than with Spongia. "Awakes out of sleep from a sense of suffocation, with violent, loud cough, great alarm, agitation, anxiety and difficult respiration " is a key-note and is frequently met in valvular affections. No remedy, not even Lachesis, can do better here. Not only are these paroxysms relieved or stopped, but valvular murmurs of years' standing have disappeared under the action of Spongia. Cannot lie with head low is characteristic, also sleep into the paroxysm (Lachesis).

The dry, chronic, sympathetic cough of organic heart disease is oftener and more permanently relieved by this remedy than by Naja. Spongia is also a good remedy for goître, with sense of suffocation after sleep.

Attacks of anxiety, with pain in the region of the heart. Excessive mirth with irresistible desire to sing.

Vertigo ; at night when waking, with nausea. Congestion of blood to the head, with pressing, beating, and pulsation in the forehead, with redness of the face, anxious look, restless sleep, relieved in a horizontal position. Pressing headache in the (right) frontal eminence, from within to without, worse when sitting, when entering a warm room, after walking in the open air, when looking intensely at any thing ; better when lying on the back in a horizontal position. Violent itching on the scalp. Sensation as if the hair were standing on an end (on the vertex).

Pressing and stinging in the eyes. On looking intensely on one spot lachrymation and he ache. Redness of the eyes with lachrymation and burning. Pressing heaviness of the eyelids. Double vision.

Suppuration of the external ear. Hardness of bearing.

Bleeding of the nose, especially when blowing it (at dinner). Eruptions on the tip of the nose.

Pale face with sunken eyes. Redness of the face with anxious expression of the countenance ; heat on one side of the face, renewed when thinking of it. Swelling of the cheeks. Itching and stinging, on the cheeks. Eruptions on the lips. Tension in the articulation of the (left) jaw (when walking in the open air). Swelling of the submaxillary glands with tension.

Mouth and tongue full of vesicles, with burning and stinging pains, on that account cannot eat any solid food. Weak voice. Salivation. Burning and stinging in the throat. Tongue brown, dry. The teeth feel dull and loose when masticating. Itching and stinging in the teeth.

Bitter taste, only in the throat. Ravenous hunger ; unquenchable thirst. Nausea with acidity in the mouth. Vomiting after drinking milk. The pressure of tight clothes around the stomach is unbearable. Stitches in the region of the stomach from the least pressure. Swelling and inflammation of the (left) inguinal gland. Rumbling in the abdomen, especially in the evening and in the morning. Sensation as if the stomach were relaxed and not closed.

Stool hard, insufficient. During stool tenesmus. Itching, biting, and soreness at the anus, discharge of ascarides.

Incontinence of urine. Frequent urging to urinate, with small discharges. Urine frothy ; sediment thick, grayish white or yellow.

Men. Hard swelling of the testicles and spermatic cord, with pressure. Women. Menstruation too early and too profuse. Before the menstruation, pain in the back ; later, palpitation of the heart.

Difficult respiration as from a plug in the larynx. Dyspnœa relieved by bending the body forward. Wheezing, anxious breathing (inhalation), with violent laboring of the abdominal muscles. Constrictive spasmodic pain through the chest and larynx. Burning in the chest ; soreness in the chest. Congestions in the chest from the least movement or excertion, with dyspnœa, nausea, and faintish weakness. Stinging and pressing pain in the præcordial region. Sensitiveness of the larynx to the touch and when turning the neck. Dry, hollow barking cough day and night. Dry cough from burning-tickling in the larynx. Cough day and night with burning in the chest, relieved by eating and drinking. Hoarseness with cough and coryza. Weak voice, giving out when singing or talking. Pressure in the larynx when singing. Inflammation of the larynx, trachea, and bronchus. Croup. Bronchitis. Hooping-cough, deep, hollow, barking, caused by the sensation of a plug in the larynx, with expectoration only in the morning of small quantities of tough, yellow, hardened mucus, compelling one to swallow it again. Aggravation of the cough in the evening till midnight ; from cold air ; from turning the head ; from exercise ; from lying low with the head ; from talking and singing. Palpitation of the heart (before menstruation), with suffocation, violent gasping respiration, pain in the heart. Rheumatic affections of the valves of the heart (fibrous deposit upon the valves). Violent palpitation of the heart, beats rapid (each beat was accompanied by a loud blowing, as of a bellows), awakens him after midnight, with a sense of suffocation, loud cough, great alarm, agitation, anxiety, and difficult respiration.

Painful stiffness of the muscles of the neck and throat. Large goitre, with stinging, pressing and tingling pain.

Heaviness and trembling of the forearm and hands. Swelling of the hands and stiffness of the fingers. Redness and swelling of the joints of the fingers, with tension on bending them. Numbness of the tips of the fingers. Large vesicles on the forearm. Lower. Stiffness of the legs. The thighs are spasmodically drawn forward or backward.

Stiffness in the extremities. Sensation of numbness in the lower part of the body. The whole body feels heavy.

Sleeplessness, and when going to sleep delirium. Awakens towards morning from a jerk upwards from the larynx, as if she would suffocate, must sit up, and raises sour, salty mucus.

Pulse rapid, full and hard. Chill with shaking, even near a warm stove, principally over the back. Violent heat, soon after the chill, with dry, burning heat all over the body with the exception of the thighs ; they remain numb and chilly. Attacks of flushes of heat. Anxious heat, with red face and weeping, inconsolable mood. Cool perspiration on the face in the evening. Morning sweat over the whole body.

Swelling and induration of the glands. Red, itching blotches on the skin. Herpes.

Aggravation; when ascending ; from smoking tobacco ; in the room. Amelioration; on descending. All the symptoms, with the exception of those of the respiratory organs, are relieved when at rest and while lying in a horizontal position.

Common Sponge, roasted. N. O. Cœlenterata. Tincture (20 grains in 400 drops of alcohol).

Aneurism. Angina pectoris. Asthma. Catalepsy. Chin, affections of. Clumsiness. Constipation. Cough. Croup . Diplopia. Exophthalmos. Fainting. Goître ; exophthalmic. Heart, hypertrophy of. Hernia. Jaw-joint, pain in. Laryngismus. Laryngitis . Myopia. Rheumatic fever. Rheumatism. Testicles, inflammation of . Tuberculosis. Varicosis. Whooping-cough. Worms.

According to Hahnemann, Toasted Sponge was first mentioned as a specific for goître by Arnald von Villanova in the thirteenth century; but it was generally given mixed with other substances, and had fallen into disuse when Hahnemann proved it. The virtues of Spongia have been attributed to the Iodine contained in it, and partially liberated by the presence of roasting. But Spongia contains many other elements besides Iodine , and it has a distinctive action of its own. It is antipodal to Iod . in this respect, that it is best Suited to blue-eyed, fair-haired patients, whereas Iod . acts best on brunettes. Spo . is suited to scrofulous affections, and is often indicated with women of lax fibre, and children. One of the keynotes of Spo . is Dryness of mucous membrane — of tongue, pharynx, larynx, trachea. Cough is caused by dryness. The cough itself is dry, intensely hacking, crowing, "dry as a bone," or sounding like a saw being driven through a pine board. Dry asthma. In laryngismus, croup, and asthma the patient rouses up generally after midnight with fear of suffocation and death. The sputa cannot be raised, must be swallowed, swallowing > . In laryngismus there is contraction of larynx as if suddenly grasped. With the dyspnœa there is terrible sinking; he seems to be sinking down in a pit. The larynx is sensitive, but has not the hyperæsthesia of Lach . Like Lach. Spo . has < after sleep. Rouses up in sleep as if in a great fright. Cough is excited by talking; by dry, cold winds; > by eating or drinking; by swallowing; especially > by warm food. Sweets < . Spo meets some cases of true tuberculosis; of larynx; of apices, with commencing solidification; tubercles spreading downwards. Congestion of chest coming on when the patient is moving about with sudden weakness as if he would fall. Rawness in the chest is another note of Spo . The action of Spo . on the respiratory organs is closely connected with its action on the glandular system, the lymphatics, the thyroid, and testes are indurated. The blood, heart, and veins are also involved, and with the protruding eyes a perfect picture of exophthalmic goître is produced. Hypertrophy of the heart is frequently met by Spo ., and it is especially indicated when the right heart is affected and when asthmatic symptoms are associated with it. Spo . meets some cases of croupous deposit on the valves of the heart as it does croup of the larynx. The Spo . patient in phthisical and other conditions is subject to frequent flashes of heat. The chill commences usually across the back. He shakes near a warm stove. The heat which follows extends over the whole body except the thighs, which remain numb and chilly. In the heart affections the patient is aroused from sleep as if smothering; sits up in bed with an anxious look, flushed face, and hard, rapid breathing. Kent ( M. A ., xxv. 17) gives this indication: "Rheumatic fever after having been over-heated, with arising heart complications." Nash gives this keynote of Spo . in valvular diseases: "Awakes out of sleep from a sense of suffocation, with violent, loud cough, great alarm, agitation, anxiety, and difficult respiration." He says it is better than Lach . here; and relieves the "dry, chronic, sympathetic cough of organic heart disease" more frequently and more permanently than Naja. Spo meets also thickening of joints after rheumatic fever. In orchitis, with heaviness and screw-like squeezing pain in cord and testicle, Spo is the chief remedy, though others are generally needed before that stage is reached. Timidity, fear, and terror are leading mental symptoms. Any excitement and thinking of symptoms < . Peculiar Sensations are: As if head would fall to one side. As if tipsy. As if all her blood were mounting to head. As if skull would burst. As if hair were standing on end. Eyes as if twisted around. As if a battery of guns were discharged in ears. Stitches as if passing through tympanum. Nodule in concha as if it would gather and break. Jaw as if dislocated. As if eruption were to appear near chin. Left side of chin as if ulcerated. As if something had got jammed between teeth in chewing. As if gums and teeth were swollen, the latter being lifted. Outside of throat as if something were being pressed out. As of a plug in throat. As if he had drunk a great deal of luke-warm water, relaxation of stomach, and œsophagus. Pit of stomach as if growing together. Stomach as if standing open. Of obstruction in abdomen (and in trachea). As if something alive moving in abdomen. As if something alive beneath skin of abdomen. As if diarrhœa would ensue. As of a plug in larynx. As if a stopper or valve were in larynx. As of a nail pressing in larynx. As if larynx and trachea were removed. As if she would suffocate. As if child could not get breath. As if breathing through a sponge. As if chest would burst. Chest as if sore and bloody. As of a large accumulation and weight at chest. As if a broad body armed with points were pressing upward. As if a weight were dragging down on chest. As if she had something hot inside chest. As if blood would burst out of chest. As if cervical glands were swelling. As if skin of neck were compressed between fingers. As if air were passing up and down thyroid and cervical glands. Thyroid gland as if hardened. As if everything were shaking and moving about in goître. As if goître were alive. As if a pointed instrument were thrust into scapulæ. As if bones of forearm were being pressed together. As if parts in and between wrists were weakened by decay. As if a muscle were too short in upper end of thigh. As if knees would give way. As if weight hanging on lower end of tibia As of pins in heels. As if she were going to faint. As if everything were in flames. As if sweat would break out. There is excitement of the nerves; tendency to start; twitching of muscles, with fever. Stiff without ability to move. "Conscious but unable to act on her limbs" (as in a cataleptic state). Clumsiness of body. Faint when losing her breath. Feeling of numbness of lower half of body. < When thinking of her symptoms. Complaints extend downwards; from within out; from right to left. There are cramp-like pains. Bitter taste in throat . Aversion to tobacco. Desire for dainties (but sweets < ). The symptoms are < by touch and pressure. Scratching does not > biting itching. < Motion; walking; stooping; rising; raising arms (becomes faint); talking; singing. Bending forward > dyspnœa; < symptoms of circulation. > Descending. > Resting in horizontal position. Lying with head low < . Lying right side < . < At night. Before midnight: croup < ; dry sound of breathing and cough sleepless until midnight. After midnight: wakes with palpitation with suffocation. < Warm room. > Warm food or drink. Frosty weather > cough. Dry, cold weather > headache. Cold weather = coryza. Cold air < cough. < Sudden changes of atmosphere. < At full moon. < Periodically; every night. Eating and drinking > cough; drinking = cough. < Sweets. < After sleep.

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Conscious, but unable to act upon her limbs.
Insensibility (loss of feeling) with the chills.
Mental dulness ; difficult comprehension.
Irresistible desire to sing, excessive mirth, followed by sadness.
Paroxysms of anxiety or anguish. θ Cardiac troubles.
Fear of the future ; tired of life. θ Chronic orchitis.
Aggravation from excitement.
Fancies appear on shutting eyes. θ Typhus.
Taciturn and discontented mood, not disposed to talk.
Delirium : with the heat ; when falling asleep, with the chills.
Crazy feeling, head feels blown up.
Feels awkward about her work, which she cannot accomplish satisfactorily.
Alternating merry, peevish, vexed and scolding mood.
Dulness with gloominess over root of nose.
Inconsolability, would rather die on the spot ; with the heat.
Weeping and inconsolable mood.
Inclination to weep : with the dreams ; with whooping cough ; with heat ; with sweat.
Anxiety : in features ; looks around anxiously ; with the dreams ; and heat, suddenly ; nausea, pallor, after exercise out-doors ; restlessness ; with attacks in throat ; in croup ; with dyspnœa ; in typhus.
She is very fretful and anxious about her condition, fears she will die of suffocation.
Anxious sweat and faintness ; with angina pectoris.
She is very timid, and is especially pursued and incessantly tormented by a frightful scene of some mournful event of the past.
She is very timorous, and starts at every trifle, which affects her feet, so as to make them feel heavy.
Timidity of mind with the sweat.
Terror and fear : of approaching death ; that she will die of suffocation ; with heart disease ; with whooping cough ; with the heat ; with the sweat.
He is anxious, as if some misfortune would occur of which he has a presentiment.
Apprehension of a fatal termination of his disease.
Great alarm, agitation, anxiety, difficult respiration.
Fright awakens.
Nervous ; desponding about loss of sexual power.
Satiety of life, with the heat.
Ill-humored ; dislikes to talk and answer.
Out of temper and lazy ; would rather rest, and is not disposed to talk.
Peevish, vexed and scolding mood.
Sulky, obstinate and improper behavior.
Obstinacy, with whooping cough.
Every excitement increases the cough.
Thinking of it increases one-sided heat of face.

Vertigo : with danger of falling ; at night, when awaking, with nausea ; when sitting, as if head would fall to one side, with a feeling of heat in head ; as if one would fall backward ; as if tipsy ; after sleep, with the
heat ; with rush of blood to head.
Congestion of blood to head, with throbbing and pressure in forehead.
Heaviness and fulness in head, as if all blood were mounting to head, with vertigo.

Stitches in temples.
Sharp stitches externally in left temple, extending to forehead.
While lying feels a strong pulsation, < about ear on which she is lying.
Dull headache in right side of brain, on coming into warm room from open air.
Headache as if skull would burst, in vertex and forehead.
Pressing sensation : in right temple, from within outward ; downward drawing pain in right side of head and neck ; outward on right parietal bone, while lying.
Pressing headache in vertex.
Pressing headache in right frontal eminence, from within outward, < while sitting, on entering warm room after walking in open air, and from looking at anything sharply ; > when lying in horizontal position, especially when lying on back.
Forehead : blood accumulated, pressing out ; burning heat ; violent heat ; pain ; stitches from temples ; pressure.
Occiput : headache ; stitches ; pain ; heaviness before fever ; stitch on turning head ; burning.
Headache : when gazing steadily ; on rising, > after washing and taking breakfast ; from dry, cold weather ; after intoxication ; with the chill ; with heat of face.
Congestion of blood to head, with pressing, knocking and pulsating in forehead ; redness of face, with anxious mien ; > when lying in a horizontal position.
While lying, she feels a dull, tremulous roaring (wuwwern), like a strong pulsation, each time with a double stroke, in head, in region of ear upon which she lies in bed ; when turning on other ear she feels it in that side.
Bursting pain in head, with whooping cough.
Meningitis, scrofulous or tuberculous ; congestion of blood to head, with pressing, knocking and pulsating in forehead ; redness of face with anxious mien ; > when lying in horizontal position ; heat in head ; bending head backward,
with tension in neck ; eyes staring, lids wide open ; double sight ; face pale and cold, with heat, or alternately red and pale ; twitching of muscles with fever ; frequent waking with a start ; tossing about ; stupid slumber

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The mental symptoms of Spongia show that it is a heart remedy.

When a remedy produces the anxiety, fear, and dyspnoea found in Spongia, it will most likely turn out to be a cardiac remedy, unless these conditions are connected with irritation and inflammatory diseases of the brain.

In this drug we find without any cerebral symptoms, marked anxiety, fear of death, and suffocation, associated with palpitation and uneasiness in the region of the heart. It is especially related to cases where there is pain and a sense of stuffiness and fullness in the cardiac region, in the chest, with dyspnoea, anxiety, fear of death, feat, of the future, fear that something dreadful is going to happen.

Wakens at night in great fear and it is some time before he can rationalize his surroundings ( Aesc., Lyc., Samb., Lach., Phos., and Carbo veg.).

Spongia is closely related to Aconite, which also excites the heart, brings on anxiety, fear, and restlessness, fear of death, predicts the hour of death, but this is associated with a marked febrile excitement. Spongia has febrile excitement in a minimum degree.

It is much deeper in its action than Aconite. Its cardiac diseases tend to develop slowly, with actual tissue changes, enlargement of the heart, it takes on a steady growth and the valves become changed, do not fit, hence, there are blowing and whizzing sounds, regurgitation with the mental symptoms. The two are similar in croup, but Spongia is deeper, slower in onset, taking several days for its development.

Aconite from exposure to a dry cold wind takes a cold to-day and, of course, comes down with croup to night in the first sleep. Before midnight has a dry spasmodic cough; hoarse cough; Spongia has taken a cold yesterday or the day before.

First there is roughness and dryness of the mucous membranes, sneezing. Both remedies have croup before midnight with dry, hoarse, barking cough, sawing respiration and dry air passages.

They are so similar that when Aconite only partially controls the condition and it returns the next night, or lasts on beyond midnight, Spongia becomes its natural follower. Spongia comes in because it was probably the remedy in the beginning.

Cases that grow worse each succeeding night, hoarse barking and crowing before midnight, though it also has a croup after midnight. It is a deep-acting remedy though its complaints sometimes come on suddenly.

Hepar is worse at night and in the morning. And when Aconite has apparently controlled, but the croup returns the next morning, Hepar comes in. Or if it comes on again the next evening with rattling Hepar will also be suitable.

Dry, with no rattling is Spongia. If the child wants to be covered or says that it is chilly, Hepar. If it says the room is too warm and kicks the covers off, it needs Calc. sul.

The Spongia patient is worse from a warm room, from heat. Wants to be cool like Iodine, but is better from warm drinks, like Ars., Nux, Lyc.

The tendency to affect the glands is striking.

As a matter of fact, all the glands are affected; they gradually enlarge and become increasingly hard. Glands that have undergone inflammation and, are increased in size become hard, or they take on hypertrophy.

Hypertrophy of the heart ( Kalmia, Sepia, Naja). Spongia has cured endocarditis, cardiac croup and many other inflammatory diseases of the heart resulting from rheumatism. Hypertrophy of the thyroid, goitre, when the heart is affected and the eyes protruding.

Cervical glands enlarged; inveterate cases of enlarged testes; orchitis from a suppressed gonorrhea, a cold or other causes; gradually increasing hardness.

The whole respiratory apparatus is acted upon; cardiac dyspnoea and the most severe forms of asthma.

Dryness of the air passages with whistling and wheezing, seldom rattling, must sit up and bend forward; at times after great dyspnoea, white, tough mucus forms in the air passages, difficult to expectorate; it comes up and often has to be swallowed ( Arn., Caust., Lach., Kali c., Kali s., Nux mos., Sep., Staph.)

Dyspnoea worse lying down.

The modality is common to its other complaints; violent, basilar headache forces him to sit up in bed and keep still. Holding the head in the upright position relieves the dull pressure in the occiput.

There are many headaches. In the occiput, in the forehead, congestive headaches, but most of them are associated with goitre, cardiac affections and asthma; they are due, probably, to sluggish circulation in the brain.

Face distressed in croup; anxious; livid; pale and bloated; blue, pale with sunken eyes; red with anxious expression; alternating red and pale; cold sweat.

These symptoms are the natural effects of difficult breathing and are, therefore, not essential in the selection of a remedy. As primary symptoms, they would probably indicate Ars., but when due to cardiac difficulties, they are unimportant.

"Sore throat worse after eating sweet things.

Thyroid gland swollen even with the chin; at night, suffocating spells, barking cough, with stinging in the throat and soreness in the abdomen."

Enlargement of the tonsils. Difficult swallowing.

Spongia is the remedy when dyspnoea and cough are relieved by warm food; may be better from warm drinks.

Laryngeal troubles with great hoarseness, in individuals tending towards phthisis, with tubercular heredity, cachectic aspect, weak lungs, but no deposit of tubercle. But all at once hoarseness sets in.

There is a tendency for the larynx to become involved in phthisical patients that need Spongia. This patient takes an acute cold and it settles in the larynx with hoarseness. Look out for that patient, for there is a tendency for tubercles to deposit where there is inflammation, and the infiltration instead of being fibrinous may become tubercular. Tendency for the larynx to be first involved in phthisical patients.

In Spongia do not look for the exsudative, but the infiltrative form of croup. Hoarseness with loss of voice, great dryness of the larynx from a cold; coryza, sneezing, the whole chest rings, is as dry as a horn; voice hissing, croupy, nose dry.

There is very little accumulation of mucus, but at a late date ulceration begins and then there may be a copious expectoration of mucus. In proportion to the extent of rattling, this remedy is decreasingly indicated. Hepar has the coarse rattling with much mucus.

At times an adult takes cold and rawness of the larynx and trachea is the result. On going to bed she is taken with a spasmodic constriction of the larynx.

Laryngismus stridulous is commonly found in women. Ign., Gels., Lauroc. and Spongia. Ign . and Gels. will cure eight out of ten cases.

The larynx is sensitive to touch in croup, etc., like Phos.

Dry, spasmodic cough, troublesome cough; cold things taken into the stomach aggravate. ( Veratr. is better from cold water, but the cough is worse.) If the room becomes too warm, there is a dry, tickling, teasing, croupy spasmodic cough.

In cardiac and asthmatic troubles it resembles Lach., in the rousing up from sleep in suffocation; after the sleep the dyspnoea is worse.

The Phos. dyspnoea is often increased after sleeping, with suffocation. Lach. has it in a marked degree; in phthisis when the patient is about to die, there is sweat on going to sleep; dyspnoea on going to sleep and on waking. Lach. palliates and must be repeated.

Cardiac affections accompanied with thick, green or yellow expectoration like pus and dyspnoea on falling to sleep so that he must keep awake as long as he can, fear of sleep in advanced chest troubles. Grindelia robusta will palliate such a case and if the condition is only catarrhal and not tuberculous, it will cure.

Study especially the cardiac symptoms.

"The symptoms of circulation are worse; from mental lassitude, from coughing, from lying on the right side, before menses, after lying down, sitting bent forward, from smoking, from going up stairs.

Awakens in fright and feels as if suffocating.

Falling asleep early at night, suffocation awakens."

I have mentioned these symptoms, but read them for emphasis.

Ebullitions, distended veins; dropsy in cavities of the body. Especially suits young persons of tubercular parents, who remain weak, are pallid and do not thrive. Tubercular diathesis.

Itching but no eruption. Seems always ready for an eruption to appear. Has only simplest herpetic eruptions. Itching all over and no visible eruption.

In acute endocarditis, the principal remedies are Spongia, Abrot., Sepia, and Kalmia. Naja in valvular diseases.

Mental dulness.
Difficult comprehension.
Irresistible desire to sing, with excessive mirth.
Disposition to weep.
Paroxysms of anxiety.
Fear of the future; tired of life.
Obstinacy.
Aggravation from excitement.

Vertigo: with danger of falling; at night when awaking, with nausea.
Congestion of blood to head, with throbbing and pressure in forehead.

Stitches in temples, worse left.
While lying, feels a strong pulsation, worse about the ear on which she is lying.
Dull headache in right side of brain, on coming into warm room, from the open air.
Headache in back part of head.
Headache as if skull would burst, in vertex and forehead.

Sensation as if hair were standing on end on vertex.
Violent itching on scalp.
Head bent backward; neck stiff.
Yellow, scabby eruption. θ Favus.

Double vision; better lying down.
Pressing and stinging in eyes.
Coldness of eyes.
Lachrymation and headache, when looking fixedly at one spot.
Redness of eyes, with lachrymation and burning.
Pressing heaviness of eyelids.
Eyes protruding staring.

Hardness of hearing.
Congestion of blood to ears; burning.
Suppuration of external ear.

Bleeding of nose, especially when blowing it.
Nose stuffed up. θ Whooping-cough.
Fluent coryza; hoarseness; croupy cough; after dry, cold winds.
Nasal mucus viscous, grows thick. θ Membranous croup.
Nose pinched, cold.

Pale, with sunken eyes; red with anxious expression.
Heat on one side of face, renewed when thinking of it.
Swelling of cheeks.
Itching and stinging on cheeks.
Cold sweat on face.
Cramp-like pain from left articulation of jaw to cheek; evenings, while eating, or when walking in open air.

Eruptions on the lips.
Swelling of the submaxillary glands, with tension.

Feel dull and loose when masticating.
Itching and stinging in the teeth.

Taste: bitter, only in the throat; sweetish in the mouth.
Difficulty of speech.
Tongue brown, dry.
Mouth and tongue full of vesicles, with burning and stinging pains.

Raw.
Mouth burning, dry. θ Croup.
Saliva diminished; or, with whooping-cough, increased.

Burning, and stinging in throat; rawness and scratching.
Penetrating tickling in throat, toward ear.
Sore throat, worse after eating sweet things.
Thyroid gland swollen even with the chin; at night suffocating spells, barking, with stinging in throat and soreness in abdomen.
Throat externally swollen; suffocating attacks.
Relief of throat symptoms, when lying on back.

Insatiable appetite and thirst.

While eating: 8. Sweet things: 13, 27. Cold drinks: 27. Warm food or drink: 27.

Ulcerative feeling in pit of stomach, must lie on back.
Drawing, as if growing together, in pit of stomach, as far as throat, when it seems to press the windpipe so she can hardly breathe.
Cannot tolerate tight clothing about stomach.
Stitches in region of stomach.
Stomach feels flaccid, and as if standing open.

Pressure in hypochondria.

Rumbling in abdomen, worse evenings and mornings.
Violent action of abdominal muscles during inspiration.
Viscera drawn up against diaphragm.
Swelling and inflammation of (left) inguinal gland.

Costive; stool hard, insufficient, with tenesmus.
Itching, biting and soreness at anus; discharge of ascarides.

Frequent urging to urinate, with small discharges.
Urine frothy; sediment thick, greyish-white or yellow.
Involuntary discharge of urine.

Testicles swollen, hard; screwing, squeezing, with stitches up into cord; any motion of bed or clothing brings on a throbbing. θ Maltreated orchitis. θ After checked gonorrhœa.
Heat in male genitals.

Menses too soon, too profuse; preceded by colic, backache, soreness in sacrum and craving in stomach, palpitation; during menses, drawing in all limbs; awakes with suffocating spells.

Hoarseness, cough, coryza.
Hoarse, voice cracked or faint, choking sensation; whistling inspiration.
Voice gives out when singing or talking.
Feeling of a plug in larynx.
Laryngismus stridulus.
Larynx sensitive to touch, and when turning neck.
Talking hurts the larynx.
Inflammation of larynx, trachea and bronchi.
Attacks of mucous rattling in windpipe; strangling at times.
Feeling of stoppage in windpipe.
Starts from sleep suddenly, with contraction of larynx.

Wheezing, anxious, worse during inhalation, with violent laboring of abdominal muscles; whistling, sawing, between coughs. θ Whooping-cough. θ Croup.
Dyspnœa: severe, on lying down; exhaustion worse in chest after every exertion; sudden weakness, tottering while walking, blood seems to rush into chest as if it would burst; with frothy, white sputa and much retching; and hour after slight coughing brings up grey, lumpy mucus; relieved by bending body forward.
Sensation as if he had to breathe through a dry sponge.
Asthma: from taking cold, cannot lie down; sibilant bronchi; after menses.
Awakens with suffocating sensation.

Dry, barking, hollow, croupy; wheezing, asthmatic; caused by burning, tickling in larynx, like a plug or valve; or, by feeling of accumulation of mucus and weight in chest.
Cough worse from: sweets; cold drinks; smoking tobacco; lying with head low, room too warm; dry, cold winds; every excitement.
Better from: eating or drinking; warm things.
Chronic cough, violent attacks, brought up small, hard tubercle.
Sputa scanty, tenacious, yellow, indurated, slightly sour tasting; loosened mornings, but must be swallowed again.
Profuse sputa of mucus, cannot lie down. θ Pneumonia in stage of resolution.

Congestion in chest from least movement or exertion; dyspnœa, nausea, faintish weakness.
Burning, soreness, rawness, with heaviness, in chest.
Tuberculosis beginning in apex of (left) lung.
Constrictive spasmodic pain through chest and larynx.
Stitches in both sides of chest.

Angina pectoris; contracting pain in chest, heat, suffocation, faintness and anxious sweat.
Aneurism of aorta; dry, paroxysmal cough, worse lying down.
Palpitation: violent, with pain, gasping respiration; suddenly awakened after midnight, with suffocation, great alarm, anxiety. θ Valvular insufficiency.
Attacks of oppression and cardiac pain; worse lying with head low.
Rheumatic endocarditis, loud blowing with each heart-beat.
Stinging, pressing pains, in precordial region.
Pulse frequent, hard, full or feeble.

Painful stiffness of muscles of neck and throat.
Cold neck, evenings.
Pressing pain in small of back.

Twitching of muscles of left shoulder.
Heaviness and trembling of forearm and hands.
Large vesicles on forearm.
Swelling of hands and stiffness of fingers.
Numbness of ends of fingers.
Redness and swelling of finger-joints, with tension on bending them.
Cramp-like pain in ball of right thumb, lasting all day; on motion of hand it spreads to thumb.

Thigh spasmodically drawn forward or backward.
Thighs numb, cold, with fever.
Feeling of lameness from right knee to right hip.
Stiffness of legs.
Heat in feet; veins distended.

Stiffness in limbs.
Trembling in all the limbs.

Motion: 28, 32. Walking: 3, 8, 26. Exertion: 26, 28. Turning neck: 25. Bent forward: 26. Bent backward: 4, 27. Sitting: 3. Must sit up: 25. Cannot lie down: 26, 27. Lying: 3, 5, 26, 29; on back: 3, 13, 17; on affected side: 3; with head low: 27, 29.

Feeling of numbness of lower half of body.
Great debility and prostration.

Stupid slumber with the fever.
Sleepy, gaping, no activity, afternoons.
Lies asleep with head low.
Sleepless, with violent ebullitions.
Lies awake, eyes closed and sees animated images.
Awakens in a fright; suffocating; starts out of sleep.
After siesta, legs numb.

Morning: 25, 27, 40. Afternoon: 37. Evening: 8, 40. Morning and evening: 19. Night: 2. Before midnight: 27. After midnight: 29.

Warm room: 3, 27. Warm stove: 40. Open air: 3, 8. Dry cold winds: 7, 27.

Chill with shaking even near warm stove; mostly across the back.
Violent heat after chill, dry, burning all over except thigh, which remains numb and chilly.
Flushes of heat returning when thinking thereof.
Anxious heat, red face, weeping, inconsolable.
Heat, sweat, itching of skin.
Typhoid fever.
Sweat: general in morning, cold on face, evenings.

Right: 3, 32, 33. Left: 3, 8, 19, 28, 32. Both sides: 28. Below upward: 33. Within outward: 3.

The whole body feels heavy.

Ebullitions, distended veins.
Swelling and induration of glands.
Dropsy in cavities of body.

Touch: 25, 46. Pressure: 17. Scratching: 46. Worse from motion of bed.

Sensitive to touch.
Red, itching blotches on skin.
Herpes.

Light hair. Skin and muscles lax.
Often indicated with children and women.

Spongia follows well after: Acon., Hepar.
After Spongia are often indicated: Bromium, Hepar.

A tincture is made of Turkey-sponge, toasted brown.

It is interesting to observe that both the pathogenesis and our clinical experience emphasize the similarity of this substance to Carbo v., Iod. and Brom.; compare also Phos., Stannum, etc.

Bruised feeling on waking; B. feeling in upper part of body. ▶ Intolerance of tight clothing about body, agg. region of stomach.

▶ Weakness after slight motion, with orgasm of blood in chest, heat of face, body began to glow, vessels hard distended, and breath left her; W. of mind and body; with sleepiness; with sleepiness, dull look of eyes and swelling of eyelids; with headache, loss of appetite, sleepiness and fretfulness; with dullness of head, unfitting him for mental effort; agg. arms; sudden, after exertion, chest especially affected, she could scarcely talk (Carbo v. Stann., Sulph.), heat in face and nausea, after a few hours heaviness of head; sudden, after moderate motion in open air, with swaying about upon the chair, anxiety, nausea, pallor, short panting respiration, surging from heart into chest, as if it would force out upward, with involuntary closing of eyes, almost spasmodic, with forcing out of tears between the closed lashes, she was conscious but unable to make the will act upon the limbs.

▶ Heaviness when walking in open air, so that he must sit down on the ground. ▶ Numbness of lower half of body. ▶ Feels best when lying.

▶ Joy and irresistible desire to sing, then distraction of mind and disinclination to work. ▶ Alternately lively and lachrymose, and peevish, quarrelsome mood. ▶ Pert, witty. ▶ Fretful, scornful, obstinate; F., he talked unwillingly; F. and lazy, little inclined to talk. ▶ Taciturn and discontented. ▶ Dissatisfied with what she accomplishes, she cannot help herself at work, does not succeed. ▶ Anxious, as if he foresaw a misfortune to himself. ▶ Fearful and tormented by a frightful image of a past and event. ▶ Easily frightened, it seemed to shoot into her feet, and then heaviness of them.

Aching from staring at one point, with lachrymation. ▶ Feeling as if everything would press out at forehead. ▶ Dull and stupid; D. and staggering when walking. ▶ Heaviness; all day; on raising it from the table; agg. stooping, with fulness. ▶ Rush of blood; with external heat of forehead and perceptible pulsation in arteries of neck. ▶ Vertigo; with tendency to fall backward; when sitting, as if had would fall to one side, with heat in head.

Sticking transversely in left side; S. alternately in F. and occiput on motion, with heat extending from behind ear over occiput to nape; jerking, agg. walking; boring outward, in left side when walking in open air. ▶ Pain; in left side; externally above right eye; from above eyes to occiput and nape, till sleep; as if F. and occiput were pressed towards each other at noon; extending outward in right eminence. ▶ Pressure outward in left upper part when sitting. ▶ Sensation of accumulation of blood.

▶ Stitches externally in left extending to forehead. ▶ Tearing in left close to orbit, causing aching in left half of left eye. ▶ Pressure outward in right; sharp, externally. ▶ Throbbing in left.

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General orgasm of blood in the chest, with heat of the face and whole body; vessels become hard and distended, with dyspnœa and weakness.

Pressure of blood to the head, with pain in the forehead, as from too much blood.
Bursting headache, throbbing and pulsating, < forehead.

Protruding eyes.
Heaviness and drawing together of the lids.
Lachrymation and headache from exerting the eyes.

Fluent coryza, alternating with stoppage, dryness, hoarseness and dry, croupy cough.

Painful blisters on the inside of the cheek and on the tongue.
Tongue dry and brown.

Sore throat, with sticking pressure.
Swelling of the thyroid gland, with suffocative attacks.

Insatiable appetite and thirst.

Pains in the bowels and lumbar region, seeming to come from the small of the back.

Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty discharge.

Swelling of spermatic cord and testicles, with bruised, pinching or squeezing pain, extending into cords, with tenderness.
Menstruation early and profuse, preceded by palpitation.

Hoarseness, with a feeling of dryness and scraping in the larynx; with burning and constriction.
Cough dry, croupy, in violent paroxysms; at times > eating or drinking, with burning in the chest.
In the larynx a feeling of constriction or burning dryness.
Respiration difficult, as from a feeling of a plug sticking in the larynx, like a constriction.
Chest weak, so that she could scarcely talk, with heat in the face; short, panting respiration.

Clinical:
Goitre; with suffocative spells at night or even with hoarse cough and staring eyes.
Laryngitis, with harsh, croupy cough, suffocative spells, arousing from sleep; larynx sensitive to the touch.
Hoarseness of singers and speakers.
Bronchial catarrh, with wheezing, asthmatic cough, aggravated by cold air, with profuse expectoration and suffocation, aggravated by lying with the head low and in a hot room, ameliorated by eating.
Pneumonia, with soreness, suffocative paroxysms of cough, aggravated by dry, cold air.

Palpitation, with dyspnœa.
Inability to lie down, waking on account of suffocation.

Painful stiffness of neck and nape, noticed especially on turning the head.

Coldness, not > warmth of the stove.
Heat of the whole body; anxious and dry, with weeping and depression of spirits; wants to die.

Spo. / (Sponging) / The Sport.

Spongia,-The genius thine,
Close of kin to Iodine.
Weakness- burning in the chest.
Croup and hoarseness, so attest.
Cough is thine, of croupal clink,
Cough relieved by food or drink.
Swollen testicles with pain,
Goitre, too, with thee obtain.
Oft with violent palpitation,
Nightly threatening suffocation.

The Sport,-Has a hoarse voice.

The Sport, Jo Arum, the fop, is in the actor's car, on the coast of Russia, with his brother, Phos, and the drover's red kid, Stani Knight.

This Sport,- Who is subject to Croup, - Is at the looping jetty, with Achsa Hepar, and her brother, Jo.

Hoarse Voice: Spo., Iod., Arum., Fer. p., Aco., Carb. v., Caust., Rhus., Brom., Phos., Dros., Sang., Kal. i., Stan. i., Arg. n. (From long speaking and singing, Arum., Arn., Pho., Rhus.)

Croup: Spo., Lach., Pho., Aco., Tart. e., Acet. a., Hep., Brom., Iod. (Membranous, Iod., Kal. b., Kal. i., Kaolin, Tart. e.)

Indicated in affections of larynx and trachea (as croup and asthma) with sense of great dryness, tightness, and difficulty of breathing; acts best in children of lax fibre and light complexion, with glandular enlargements. Also used in treatment of goitre, orchitis and cardiac affections; occasionally in the coughs of pneumonia and pulmonary phthisis.

Sensation as though a plug were in the larynx, impeding respiration.

Great dryness of the respiratory tract with sensitiveness of larynx to touch, and tickling which provokes cough.

Cough dry, barking, croupy.

Cough dry, sibilant, like a saw driven through a pine board, with anxiety; increased by excitement.

Cough awakens him out of a sound sleep, a little before midnight.

Burning sensation in the throat after coughing.

Bronchial catarrh, with loose, wheezing asthmatic cough, suffocative feeling and copious expectoration.

Expectoration yellow, tenacious, salty.

Hard swelling of the glands (thyroid).

Worse before midnight, in the wind, from going upstairs, from smoking; from lying with head low.

Better from warm drinks.

Attacks of anxiety. Great tendency to be easily frightened. Obstinacy. Excessive mirth. Great inclination to hum and sing. Disposition to weep.

Congestion with pressure in forehead. Distensive, pressive ache as though' is would burst. Outward pressure in (r.) Frontal eminence. Throbbing and pulsation in, especially in forehead. Bent or sunken backward, with painful stiffness of nape, anxious whistling breathing and a dry barking cough (croup). Sensation as if hair stood on end. Worse: Sitting: entering a warm room after walking in open air, looking intently. Better: Lying horizontally, especially on back/

Pressure and sticking in. Headache and tears in eyes., from continued staring at a single point. The lids feel heavy and draw what.

Suppuration of external. Difficult hearing.

Dry nasal catarrh

Pale, with sunken eyes. Red, with an anxious mien. Swollen cheeks. Eruption on lips. Swelling and tension of submaxillary glands.

Painful vesicles on inside of cheeks and on tongue. Salivation. Brown, dry tongue.

Taste: Bitter in throat, not in mouth.

Intolerance of tight clothing about. Stitches in, from least pressure thereon, Feeling of laxness and as if stood open.

Hypochondria: Pressure in.

Appetite: Insatiable hunger and thirst.

Vomiting: After milk.

Drawing pains in lumbo - abdominal region, starting from small of back. Swelling of inguinal glands. Grumbling and granting in.

Hard, scanty, with urging in anus.

Crawling, with discharge of ascarides.

Involuntary discharge. Frequent urging with a scanty discharge.

Swelling of testes and spermatic cords.

Menses too early and too profuse. Palpitation before.

Difficult, as from a stopper or valve in larynx, without rattling. Oppressed, bending upper part of body forward. Whistling, rattling, anxious inspiration with violent exertion of abdominal muscles. Wheezing (not rattling) inspiration. Loss of breath.

Deep, Dry, hollow, barking c., during day and night, excited by an irritation like a plug or valve high up in the larynx, in the morning only there is detached a scanty, tenacious yellow or hardened mucus, of a faintly sour taste, which can't be ejected but must be swallowed. With painful soreness and burning in chest.

Sensitiveness to touch. Roughness and burning dryness with sensation of constriction in larynx and trachea. Inflammation of mucus membrane of trachea. Membranous croup. Laryngeal and tracheal phthisis. Hoarseness. Husky, weak voice which fails when talking and singing.

The slightest exertion causes violent congestion to, with obstructed breathing, anxiety and qualmishness. Constriction, with violent oppression of breathing. Burning and soreness in.

Pressing pain in sacrum.

Neck: Painful stiffness of nape and neck, felt especially when turning head. Large goiter with pressure and crawling therein.

Large blisters on fore arm. Swelling and redness of single finger, joints which are tense when bent. Numbness of finger tips.

Stiff extremities. Bruised feeling in arms and legs. Heaviness of body. Sensation of numbness of lower half of body. Great mental and physical relaxation. Many complaints, except those of respiration, are ameliorated when resting in a horizontal position.

Glands swollen and indurated.

Dry, hot. Itching sticking, when becoming warm in bed. Herpes.

Reveries and phantasies on falling asleep.

Pulse: Very quick, full and hard. Strong ebullition of blood and swelling of blood vessels. Chill: With shaking, even by a warm stove, most on back, heat: Great, soon after the chill, with dry burning skin over whole body except thighs, which remain cold, numb and chilly. Attacks of overrunning, flying anxious heat, with red cheeks, weeping and inconsolable mood. Sweat: cool on face, in evening. Over whole body, in early morning hoarse.

Allied Remedies: Brom., Dros., HEP., Iod., Kali-bi., Lact., Phyt.

Complementary: Hep.

Stiffness in the extremities - arms and legs feel as if they were broken.

Sensation of numbness of the lower half of the body.

Many symptoms (with the exception of those of the respiratory organs) are relieved by rest.

Swelling and induration of the glands.

Swelling of the testicles.

Struma.

Itching in the swollen glands.

Bronchitis and inflammation of the larynx.

Watering of eyes; latterly gummy or mucous discharge, with obscured vision.

Clearing of throat constantly.

Catamenia too early and too profuse.

Palpitation of the heart before catamenia.

Constipation.

Of great value in hoarseness.