Sticta pulmonaria

CATARRH.

CHRONIC NASAL CATARRH.

Sticta pulmonaria is not only useful in acute colds, where there is severe pain in the forehead and root of the nose before the discharge sets in, but in the chronic form it is just as good. The nose is stuffed up with the same pressure and fullness in the root of the nose and frontal sinuses, and the nasal secretion dries up and sticks, causing a constant desire to blow the nose, or forms into scabs difficult to dislodge. In some cases mucus drops from the posterior nares, and the throat looks raw and feels like dried leather. Sometimes the choice will lie between this remedy and

COUGH.

Sticta pulm.—Incessant, wearing racking cough in consumptives, dryness of nasal mucous membranes.