Spongia tosta

Volume IV — Main text

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 organic disease of heart, ate a piece of sponge just roasted. It had a sudden and alarming effect, producing terrible palpitation, and a suffocation which threatened to be fatal ; lips became livid, respiration violently gasping ; there was great pain in heart, terror, and fear of approaching death. After 10 to 15 m. these symptoms began gradually to subside, and the attack was followed by a very remarkable relief of her old cardiac symptoms, which lasted several weeks. (Dr. P. P. Wells, /fm. Horn. Rev,., iii, 30 1.)

1. Dr. Hering was 2 — 3 h. in a close room roasting Sp. After coming into open air, crazy feeling ; head feels as if inflated, and as if elastic ; feels strange all over, and sickish ; sees everything double, cannot distinguish objects, things seem to move up and down ; is obliged to lie down, when all the symptoms lessen. He lay from 3 p.m. till next m. without eating anything ; during n. had copious sweat, and felt the better for it. Headache on rising in m., getting better after washing and taking breakfast. [Mat. Med.^ vol. i.)