Spongja Tosta
Blood
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bursting headache; worse, forehead.
Compare
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Aeon.; Hep.; lod.; Brom.: Lack.; Merc, prot. (Goitre.)
Dose
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Second trituration, or tincture to third potency.
Eyes
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Watering; gummy or mucus discharge.
Face
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An.viety and difficult breathing.
Female
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Before menses, pain in sacrum, hunger, palpitation. During menses, wakes with suffocative spells. [Cupr.; lod.; Lack.] Amenorrhcca, with asthma. [Puls.]
Fever
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Attacks of heat with anxiety; heat and redness of face and perspiration.
Heart
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Rapid and violent palpitation, with dyspnoea ; cannot lie down. Aimkened suddenly after midnight zinth pain and suffocation; is flushed, hot, and frightened to death. [Aeon.] Valvular insufficiency. Angina pectoris ; faintness, and anxious sweat Ebullition of blood, veins distended. Surging of heart into chest, as if it zvould force out upzvard. Hypertrophy of heart, especially right, with asthmatic symptoms
Larynx
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Cough abates after eating or drinking, especially warm drinks. The dry, chronic sympathetic cough of 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, 696 SPONGIA TOSTA — SQUILLA MARITIMA 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.
Male
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Swelling of spermatic cord and testicles, with pain and tenderness. Orchitis. Epididymitis. Heat in parts.
Mind
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Anxiety and fear. Every excitement increases the cough.
Modalities
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Worse, ascending, wind, before midnight. Better, descending, lying with head low.
Mouth
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Tongue dry and brown; full of vesicles.
Nose
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Fluent coryza, alternating with stoppage. Dryness; chronic, dry, nasal catarrh.
Respiratory
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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. Resspiration short, panting, difficult; feeling of a plug in
Skin
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Szvclling and induration of glands; also exophthalmic; cervical glands swollen with tensive pain on turning head, painful on pressure; goitre. Itching; measles.
Sleep
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Awakes in a fright, and feels as if suffocating. Generally worse after sleep, or sleeps into an aggravation. [Lach.\
Stomach
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Excessive thirst, great hunger. Cannot bear tight clothing around trunk. Hiccough.
Throat
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Thyroid gland swollen. Stitches and dryness. Burning and stinging. Sore
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worse after eating sweet things. Tickling causes cough. Clears throat constantly.
References
This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:
- James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
- Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain
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