- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Roasted Sponge. (Spongia.) For the tubercular diathesis 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.”
- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Spongia officinalis, Linn. Animal kingdom. , Cœlenterata. Class , Spongia. Preparation , Tincture prepared by digesting 20 grains of powdered sponge, which has been roasted brown (in a manner similar to coffea tosta), with 400 drops of Alcohol. Authorities. ( 1 to 11 , from Hahnemann). [Two symptoms in Hahnemann's…”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“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…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“ANGINA PECTORIS ASCENDING, Agg. COUGH. COUGH, INCESSANT COUGH, painful DRINKING, Amel. DRY, clear or cold weather, Agg. FEARSOME, anxious, etc. GLANDS HEART, CIRCULATION AND PULSE LARYNX AND TRACHEA LYING, right, Agg. MALE ORGANS PLUG, nail, wedge, clavus, etc. PRESSURE, Agg., lying on painful or affected side, etc…”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“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…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“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 /…”
- Farrington — The differential diagnosis — remedy families narrowed through direct clinical comparison.
“Spongia: Acon., Bell., Hep., Iod., Brom.; Anacardium; Caust., Selen., Phos.; Badiaga. Spongia is not a chemical substance. It is derived from the animal kingdom, but, because its symptoms are closely allied to those of the halogens, it is convenient to study the drug here. Spongia contains iodine, also some bromine…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“Larynx and Trachea.--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…”
- Hahnemann (MMP) — The proving record — numbered observations closest to Hahnemann's primary materia medica.
“(Roasted sponge) (The bath sponge-the habitation of the animal of the Spongia officinalis, L.-is cut into pieces of moderate size and roasted in a tin-plate coffee- roaster, turned round over glowing charcoal until it becomes brown, and can without much labour be triturated to a powder. Of this 20 grains are added to…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Common Sponge roasted. Spongia. Introduced and proved by Hahnemann, assisted by F. Hahnemann, Gutmann, Hartmann, Haynel, Hornburg, Langhammer, Wagner, Wislicenus, Stapf and Lehmann, Hah. Materia Medica, vol. 2 ; Fincke, Am. Hom. Rev., vol. 1, p. 317 ; Bell, Am. Jour. of Hom. Mat. Med., vol. 2, 1869, p. 211 ; Berridge…”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“SPONGIA. Spongia offWutaHi, L. Turkey sponge. Class, Pori/'ere, cut into imall pieces and roasted for medicinal use,) (The "dry sponge i I. Provings. — i. Hahnemann, il/ar. yWird'. /"iir?, vol. vi of original, vol. ii of translation. Contains 156 symptoms from self, and 235 from 10 others. a. A woman, suffering from…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“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…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“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…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: roasted sponge. Sorethroat, worse after eating sweet things (A.). Stiffness in the extremities; arms and legs feel as if they were broken. Swelling and induration of the glands (Calc., Merc-I-F., Phyt.). Struma (Calc., Sil., Sulph.). Itching in the swollen glands. Sensation of numbness of the lower half…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Croupy 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…”
