Spongia Tosta

Spongia Tosta
The following are the indications of Spongia Tosta, as it relates to this part. Strongest indications are in bold, the next strongest are in italics, and the remaining indications are in a plain typeface.

MIND

Anxiety and fear

Every excitement increases the cough.

mind, emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition, weeping, crying, tearful mood (lamenting), during the heat;

mind, insecure, uncertain, scared, frightened easily, starting, startled, during sleep, starting from sleep;

HEAD

Rush of blood, bursting headache, worse, forehead.

head, pain, headache, walking, on walking up steps or hill;

EYES

Watering, gummy or mucus discharge.

FACE

face, heat, after movement;

face, perspiration;

face, perspiration, cold;

NOSE

Dryness, chronic, dry, nasal catarrh.

nose, dryness, inside;

Fluent coryza, alternating with stoppage

MOUTH

Tongue dry and brown, full of vesicles.

THROAT

Thyroid gland swollen

Stitches and dryness

Burning and stinging

Sore throat, worse after eating sweet things

Tickling causes cough

Clears throat constantly.

throat, choking, constricting;

throat, choking, constricting, larynx, sleep, during sleep;

throat, croup;

throat, croup, night, after midnight;

throat, croup, night, before midnight;

throat, dryness, larynx;

throat, sensation of something in throat, plug, larynx;

throat, irritation, larynx;

throat, pain, sweet things;

throat, pain, larynx, when singing;

throat, pain, larynx, on swallowing;

throat, pain, larynx, while talking;

throat, pain, larynx, on touch;

throat, pain, burning, during cough;

throat, pain, burning, trachea (wind pipe), with cough;

throat, pain, rawness, when coughing;

throat, pain, sore, after sweets;

throat, pain, sore, larynx;

throat, pain, sore, larynx, on swallowing;

throat, pain, sore, larynx, touch;

throat, roughness, larynx;

throat, sensitive, larynx, to touch;

throat, swelling;

throat, tickling in the air passages, larynx;

throat, voice, crowing (see rough under respiration);

throat, voice, hoarseness;

throat, voice, hollow;

throat, wasting, larynx;

throat, external throat, goitre;

CHEST

Heart, Rapid and violent palpitation, with dyspnoea, cannot lie down, also feels best resting in horizontal position

Angina pectoris, faintness, and anxious sweat

Ebullition of blood, veins distended

Surging of heart into chest, as if it would force out upward

Hypertrophy of heart, especially right, with asthmatic symptoms.

chest, congestion;

chest, heart;

chest, heart, angina pectoris;

chest, heart, hypertrophy of heart;

chest, heart, palpitations;

chest, heart, palpitations, night, midnight, wakes up;

chest, heart, palpitations, before period;

chest, inflammation, bronchial tubes (bronchitis);

chest, lungs, tuberculosis;

chest, murmurs;

chest, oppressed feeling, while lying down, with head low;

chest, oppressed feeling, heart, lying with head low;

chest, bubbling sensation in blood (see heat flushes), from slightest exertion;

chest, pain;

chest, pain, during a cough;

chest, pain, heart, when lying down;

chest, pain, heart, when lying down, could lie only on right side;

chest, pain, heart, when lying down, with head low;

chest, pain, burning, during coughing;

chest, pain, burning, with dry cough;

chest, pain, sore, bruised, from coughing;

chest, pain, stitching, sudden, sharp, heart;

chest, weakness, after exertion;

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

Respiration short, panting, Difficult, feeling of a plug in larynx

cough abates after eating or drinking, especially warm drinks

The dry, chronic sympathetic cough or organic heart disease is relieved by Spongia Tosta ( 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, 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.

respiration, asthma attack;

respiration, asthma attack, bending head backwards;

respiration, asthma attack, from catching cold;

respiration, asthma attack, spasmodic;

respiration, difficult (dyspnea);

respiration, difficult (dyspnea), after exertion, physical exertion;

respiration, difficult (dyspnea), during period;

respiration, difficult (dyspnea), on movement;

respiration, difficult (dyspnea), after sleep;

respiration, difficult (dyspnea), from talking, after talking;

respiration, loud;

respiration, rough, crowing (see croup);

respiration, rough, sawing;

COUGH

cough, day and night;

cough, barking;

cough, constant;

cough, croupy;

cough, drinking;

cough, dry cough;

cough, dry cough, daytime;

cough, dry cough, night;

cough, dry cough, after drinking;

cough, dry cough, from eating;

cough, eating;

cough, from emotions, excitement;

cough, hollow;

cough, sensations in throat and air passages (either from coughing, or causing coughing), from irritation in air passages, in larynx;

cough, rasping;

cough, intermittent;

cough, tickling, larynx;

EXPECTORATION

expectoration, membranous;

SKIN

Swelling and induration of glands, also exophthalmic, cervical glands swollen with tensive pain on turning head, painful on pressure, goitre

Itching, measles.

skin, itching;

skin, itching, unchanged by scratching;

skin, itching, stinging;

skin, sticking;

ABDOMEN

Stomach, Excessive thirst, Great hunger

Cannot bear tight clothing around trunk

Hiccough.

abdomen, inflammation, pancreas;

GENITALS ETC

urine, frothy;

Male, Swelling of spermatic cord and testicles, with pain and tenderness

genitals, male, inflammation, indurated (hard from inflammation), testes;

genitals, male, inflammation, testes;

genitals, male, pain, testes;

genitals, male, pain, testes, squeezing;

genitals, male, pain, pinching, testes;

genitals, male, pain, sore, testes;

genitals, male, swelling, testes;

genitals, male, tubercles (nodules, knob-like lumps), testes;

orchitis

Epididymitis

Heat in parts.

genitals, male, inflammation, indurated (hard from inflammation), sperm tube;

genitals, male, inflammation, spermatic cords;

genitals, male, inflammation, sperm tube;

genitals, male, swelling, spermatic cords;

genitals, male, tubercles (nodules, knob-like lumps), spermatic cord;

Female, Before menses, pain in sacrum, hunger, Palpitation

during menses, wakes with suffocative spells ( Cupr., Iod., Lach.) Amenorrhoea, with asthma ( Puls.)

EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

extremities, limbs, coldness, lower limbs, thigh;

extremities, limbs, pain, joints, gouty;

extremities, limbs, pain, sore, bruised;

extremities, limbs, rush of blood to., legs;

extremities, limbs, skin, itching, lower limbs;

FEVER AND CHILL

Attacks of heat with anxiety, heat and redness of face and perspiration.

fever;

GENERALITIES

Awakes in a fright, and feels as if suffocating

Generally worse after sleep, or sleeps into an worse ( Lach.)

sleep, dreams, anxious;

generalities, walking up stairs or hill;

generalities, blood vessels, excited, rapid blood flow;

generalities, physical exertion;

generalities, faintness, fainting, on moving;

generalities, inflammation, indurated (hard from inflammation), glands;

generalities, movement, after;

generalities, pain, burning externally, internally;

generalities, pain, gnawing, biting, externally;

generalities, pain, pinching, externally;

generalities, pain, pressing, internally;

generalities, pain, sore, bruised, externally;

generalities, pain, sudden, sharp, outward;

generalities, sensitive, intolerance of clothing;

generalities, after sleep;

generalities, swelling, of affected parts;

generalities, swelling, glands;

generalities, tobacco;

generalities, weakness (see lethargic, weariness), from slight exertion;

generalities, weakness (see lethargic, weariness), from movement;

generalities, from wind, cold wind;