Spongia Tosta 出现在 Similia 的 13 部经典著作中的 12 部。每部书的写作目的各不相同 — 以下是每部书对该药物的补充内容，以及其条目的开头。
- Allen HC — 将此疗剂与最相近疗剂区分开的关键症状。
“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 — 原始药物试验记录 — 症状按验药者报告原样呈现，未经编辑。
“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 — 快速临床解读 — 关键症状、加重与缓解因素，以及实际处方所针对的病症。
“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) — 此疗剂归属于哪些全身总类目 — 分析性的框架。
“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) — 以简短的分析画像呈现全身症状与加重缓解因素，而不是症状列表。
“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 — 最广泛的条目 — 来源、药物试验、临床用途、关系与解毒剂一处尽览。
“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 /…”
- Hering — 分级症状，每一项都按验药者与临床实践确认的频率加权。
“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…”
- Kent — 精神与全身图像 — 在疗剂所能治愈的内容之前，先看患者是谁。
“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) — 严格的哈内曼式解读 — 不含临床解释的症状图像。
“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) — 关键症状，其中最受信任的标为红线症状。
“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 — 比较 — 将此疗剂与最常被混淆的疗剂并列对照。
“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…”
