SPONGIA TOSTA

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 .

Mind

Anxiety and fear. Every excitement increases the cough.

Head

Rush of blood; bursting headache; worse, forehead.

Eyes

Watering; gummy or mucus discharge.

Nose

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

Mouth

Tongue dry and brown; full of vesicles.

Throat

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

Stomach

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

Male

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

Female

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

Respiratory

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.

Heart

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.

Skin

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

Sleep

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

Fever

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

Modalities

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

Relationship

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

Dose

Second trituration, or tincture to third potency.