Verbascum thapsus
di E. A. Farrington — A Clinical Materia Medica
Verbascum is to be thought of as a remedy for catarrhs or colds when they are associated with neuralgia of the face which appears quite periodically, generally twice a day, the same hour in the morning and afternoon of each day. There is considerable coryza and lachrymation.
Verbascum has a peculiar cough, which is decidedly a cough of the larynx and trachea; a cough that could not occur other than from disease in a hard unyielding tube, as the larynx and trachea. The cough is hard, harsh and barking, and is associated with hoarseness, the voice itself being deep and hard, " a sort of basso profundo." It bears some resemblance to Drosera, Spongia and Sulphur.