Spongia tosta

Homeopathic classical monopreparations

 Common Sponge, roasted. N. O. сoelenterata. Tincture (20 grains in 400 drops of alcohol).

 Aneurism. Angina pectoris. Asthma. сatalepsy. сhin, affections of. сlumsiness. сonstipation. сough. сroup. Diplopia. Exophthalmos. Fainting. goitre; exophthalmic. Heart, hypertrophy of. Hernia. Jaw-joint, pain in. Laryngismus. Laryngitis. Myopia. Rheumatic fever. Rheumatism. Testicles, inflammation of. Tuberculosis. Varicosis. Whooping-cough. Worms.

 According to Hahnemann, Toasted Sponge was first mentioned as a specific for goitre by Arnald von Villanova in the thirteenth century; but it was generally given mixed with other substances, and had fallen into disuse when Hahnemann proved it. The virtues of Spongia have been attributed to the Iodine contained in it, and partially liberated by the presence of roasting. вut Spongia contains many other elements besides Iodine, and it has a distinctive action of its own. It is antipodal to Iod. in this respect, that it is best Suited to blue-eyed, fair-haired patients, whereas Iod. acts best on brunettes. Spo. is suited to scrofulous affections, and is often indicated with women of lax fibre, and children. One of the keynotes of Spo. is Dryness of mucous membrane-of tongue, pharynx, larynx, trachea. сough is caused by dryness. The cough itself is dry, intensely hacking, crowing, dry as a bone, or sounding like a saw being driven through a pine board. Dry asthma. In laryngismus, croup, and asthma the patient rouses up generally after midnight with fear of suffocation and death. The sputa cannot be raised, must be swallowed, swallowing. In laryngismus there is contraction of larynx as if suddenly grasped. With the dyspnoea there is terrible sinking; he seems to be sinking down in a pit. The larynx is sensitive, but has not the hyperaesthesia of Lach. Like Lach. Spo. has by eating or drinking; by swallowing; especially by warm food. Sweets Descending. Resting in horizontal position. Lying with head low headache. сold weather = coryza. сold air cough; drinking = cough.

 Antidoted by: сamph. Follows well: Aco., Hep. Followed well by: вro., сarb. v., Hep. Boenninghausen s croup powders consisted of a sequence of Aco., Hep., Spo., given in that order. Spo. is dry; Hep. rattling; Spo. by eating, Anac. Dry tongue, Nux m. (with Spo. the dryness extends downwards; not with Nux m. Warm drinks, Ars., Alm., Lyc., Nux, Rhus ( cold drinks, Ver. Heart, Naj., Sep., Kalm., Abro., Lach. Orchitis, Gels., Pul., Ham. (intense soreness), Merc. (with a little yellowish-green gonorrhoea). Spo. comes after these when there is induration. вitter taste in throat (Ruta, nausea in throat). Jaw-joint as if dislocated, Rhus.

 Disconsolate and lachrymose humour. Timidity and tendency to be frightened. - сombative and boastful humour. Immoderate and mischievous gaiety. Great inclination to sing. Mental obtuseness, with complete disinclination and incapacity for attending to intellectual labour. Distraction of mind. Pert, witty humour. Alternately gay, lachrymose, and cross. - сonscious but unable to act on her limbs. Fancies appear on, shutting eyes. Fretful and anxious about her condition, fears she will die of suffocation. Anxious sweat and faintness. She is very timid, and is especially pursued and incessantly tormented by a frightful scene of some mournful event of the past. Anxious as from presentiment. Fright awakens. Satiety of life, with the heat. Obstinacy. Every exertion.

 Vertigo, with giddiness, to such an extent as to fall, sometimes in evening, or else with a sensation as if head were about to fall on one side. Vertigo, with nausea, on waking at night. Heaviness and fulness of head. Dull semilateral headache on entering a warm room from the open air. Headache, with lachrymation, when looking fixedly at an object. Pressive headache, sometimes with compression. Pressing headache in (right) frontal eminence, from within to without, when lying on back in a horizontal position. Sharp stitches in left temple extending to forehead. Pains in head as if it were about to split, especially in forehead. Throbbing and pulsation in head. - сongestion of blood in head, with pressing, beating, and pulsation in forehead, with redness of face, anxious look, restless sleep, in a horizontal position. Disagreeable tenderness of exterior of head. Sensation as if hair were standing on end (on vertex). Troublesome (violent) itching in scalp.
 Eyes dull and clouded, with puffing in lids. Eyes deeply sunk; or protruding, staring. Maculae of cornea. On looking intensely at one spot lachrymation and headache. Pressure and shootings in eyes. Eyes burning, red, and weeping. Agglutination of lids. Eruption of yellow scabies in eyebrows (painful to touch on left eyebrow). Pressive heaviness of lids. - сontraction of lids in morning. Myopia. Sees visions on closing eyes. Double vision lying down.
 Otalgia, with contractive pain. Pressure in ears. Ulceration of external ear. Pain in cartilages as from soreness, not affected by touch. - вoils on left ear painful to touch. Inflamed nodule in left concha. Red swelling of left helix. Heat in ears. Hard hearing. Dull ringing in ears; in right.
 Epistaxis, especially after blowing nose (at dinner). Fluent coryza, with much sneezing. Dry coryza; nose stuffed up. Eruption on point of nose.
 Paleness of face, with dulness of eyes (with sunken eyes). Face bloated, red, or bluish, with anxious expression; heat on one side of face, renewed when thinking of it. - сold sweat on face. Swelling of cheeks. Itching and shootings in cheeks. Eruption on lips. Spasmodic pain in maxillary joints. Tension in articulation of left jaw (when walking in the open air). Stitches transversely through left upper jaw. - сramp-like pain from left jaw-joint to cheek in evening when eating. Swelling of the submaxillary glands with tensive pain; painful to touch. Numbness in chin. Heat in chin.

 Sensation of bluntness and looseness in teeth while masticating. Itching and shootings in teeth. Heat in teeth. Swelling of gums, with pain during mastication.
 Mouth and tongue covered with vesicles, with burning and shooting pain (on that account cannot eat any solid food). Salivation. Speech difficult. Tongue dry and brownish. Vesicles on edge of tongue.
 Burning sensation and stinging in throat. Rawness, swelling, and scraping in throat. Penetrating tickling in throat, toward ear. Sore throat lying down. - сonstantly recurring needle-like stitches above pit of throat, externally, in lower part of goitre. Sticking internally in throat, especially after eating. Thyroid gland swollen and hard, with suffocative attacks at night; stitching pains and pressure. - вitter taste in throat. In oesophagus: heat; relaxed sensation. Swelling in fauces projecting from right to left-Swallowing difficult. On swallowing: stitches in neck pass off; violent straining pain; pain in goitre; moving sensation in goitre. (goitre painful, pain synchronous with cardiac pain. R. T. с.

 Diminished taste. - вitter taste, sometimes only in throat. Sweetish taste in mouth. Moderate appetite and speedy satiety. Increased appetite. Excessive, insatiable hunger. Desire for dainties. Thirst, sometimes insatiable. Thirstlessness; rarely thirst with chill. Violent thirst after smoking. Tobacco smoke is disagreeable. After a meal, fulness and pains in abdomen, as from difficult digestion. Eating and drinking cough. Drinking milk, ale, spirits, cold or hot tea, cold water = cough.
 1l. Stomach. Risings, sometimes with cuttings and tearings in stomach. - вitter risings. Sour regurgitations. Frequent hiccough. Nausea, with acidity in mouth. - сraves dainties; after eating has dyspeptic distress and fulness of stomach; from warm drinks, especially colicky pains in abdomen. Vomiting after having partaken of milk. Relaxation of stomach, with sensation as if it were open. Aching in stomach and scrobiculus. Pressure of (tight) clothing on stomach is unbearable. - сontractive pains in stomach. Stitches in region of stomach from least pressure. - сhill in pit of stomach. - сraving at stomach before menses.

 Abdomen hard and tight. Spasms in abdomen. Violent action of abdominal muscles during inspiration. Viscera drawn up against diaphragm. Pain in left side of abdomen; digging and choking; after discharge of wind; at times as if something alive were moving there. Pain in abdomen instead of menses. Fine stitch externally in abdomen. Heat in abdomen. Digging and obstruction in abdomen. Gripings in abdomen, after a meal. Rumbling in the abdomen, especially in evening and morning when lying down. Pain as from a hernia in inguinal ring. Swelling and inflammation of left inguinal ring. Swelling of inguinal glands.
 Hard (insufficient) and retarded evacuations. Loose, whitish evacuations. - вefore the evacuation shootings in the anus and gurgling and rumbling in the abdomen. During the evacuation tenesmus in the anus. Itching, smarting, and pain as from excoriation in anus. Passage of ascarides from rectum and tingling in rectum. Diurnal diarrhoea with a large number of ascarides, after which she always feels great relief.

 Increased secretion of urine. Frequent want to urinate, with scanty emission. Incontinence of urine (in whooping-cough). Small stream of urine. Frothy urine. Thick, whitish, greyish, or yellow sediment in the urine.
 Spasmodic contraction in the testes. Hard swelling of the testes, and of the spermatic cord, with pressive pain. Drawing, painful stitches extending from body through glans. Voluptuous itching at point of glans for several hours, urging him to rub it. Pinching, bruised, squeezing pain in testicles. Stitches from testicles into spermatic cord. Gouty pains in testicles in old men. R. T. с. Heat in genitals, penis, scrotum, testes, and cords. Sexual desire very moderate. Absence of erections.
 Catamenia too early and profuse. - вefore the catamenia, palpitation of the heart, following pain in back. During the catamenia, drawing in the thighs. Enlargement and induration of ovaries.

 [Affections in general of larynx and trachea, particularly in all such affections as croup, asthma, &c., where everything is perfectly tight and dry, no loose rattling sound appearing in the breathing or cough. - вurning sensation is felt in throat after coughing, suffocative attacks of breathing (as in asthma), without any mucous rattle; respiration loud; very hollow voice, all without any rattling sound, or any looseness. H. N. G. Hoarseness (voice cracked); sometimes with cough and coryza. Weak, husky voice, which fails in singing and conversation. Pain in larynx on touching it, and on turning head. Pressure in larynx when singing. Sensation of obstruction (as from a plug) in larynx, with impeded respiration. Dyspnoea by bending the body forward. Roughness and dryness in throat. - вurning pain in larynx and trachea. - сough, proceeding from bottom of chest with pain as from excoriation and burning sensation. - сough, with yellowish expectoration and hoarseness. Great dryness of larynx,.
 Respiration, quick, anxious, and difficult, sometimes with fits of suffocation, and mucous rattling in chest. Short, panting respiration, surging from heart into chest, as if it would force out upward. Awakens from sleep with suffocative sensation. Fixed, lancinating, and pressive pain in region of bronchia. Spasmodic, constrictive pains in whole chest (and larynx). Pain in chest, with dyspnoea. Fulness and obstruction in chest. Shootings in chest. - вurning sensation, which ascends into chest. - вurning; rawness, soreness in chest. Ebullition of blood (congestions) in chest after slightest effort and least movement, with obstructed respiration, anguish, nausea, and weakness, which induces syncope.

 Pains and anxiety in region of heart. - сonstricting, stinging, pressing pain in cardiac region. Palpitation of heart (before menstruation), with suffocation, violent gasping respiration, pain in heart. Rheumatic affections of valves of heart (fibrous deposit on valves). Violent palpitation of heart, beats rapid (each beat was accompanied by a loud blowing as of a bellows), awakens him after midnight, with a sense of suffocation, loud cough, great alarm, agitation, anxiety, and difficult respiration. Pulse full, hard, and frequent.

 Painful tension and rigidity in muscles of neck, nape, and throat; on left side when turning head to right-Neck cold in evening. - вack of neck snaps on stooping. - goitre large and hard, with pressure, tingling, and shootings. - сramps in the muscles of neck. - сoldness in back, not by warmth of stove. Sacrum sore before menses. Sensation of numbness in loins and buttocks. Drawing, tearing, and pressive pain in loins.
 Painful weariness in arms and legs.
 Jerking of muscles about left shoulder-joint. Heaviness and trembling of forearms and hands. Drawings in forearms and joints of hands. Large blisters in the forearm. Swelling of hands, with stiffness of fingers. Redness and swelling in joints of fingers, with tension when they are bent. Numbness in points of fingers. - сramp-like pain in ball of (right) thumb; on moving hand it extends to thumb.
 Nates and thighs numb and cold. Jerking of muscles of buttocks. The thighs are spasmodically drawn forward or backward. Irritation and restlessness of both legs. Tearing in tibia all afternoon. Rigidity of legs. Drawing and tearing in legs and feet, sometimes at night only.

 Uncomfortable feeling of the clothes, they being an oppression and annoyance to the wearer; growing pains; darting pains from within outward; itching, no better from scratching. Troubles in general of any kind appearing in the sexual organs, especially right side; testicles and spermatic cord; anterior surface of thigh. Phthisis pulmonalis, cough, breathing, &c., being very tight and dry. On descending. Stinging pain in limbs, especially joints. Painful sensitiveness of body to touch, with chilliness on the parts touched, or with tingling running through whole body. Sensation of torpor in lower part of body. Heaviness when walking in open air, must sit down. Heaviness (and soreness) of the body (when rising from a seat). Excessive moral and physical dejection. Extreme exhaustion and heaviness of the body after slight exertion, with orgasm of blood in chest, heat of face, vessels hard and distended, great anxiety, and difficult breathing. More relief is experienced from lying down quietly than from any other position. Fits of anguish, with pain in region of heart.

 Swelling and induration of the glands. Itching shootings in the skin, especially on becoming warm in bed. Sensation of something creeping over the skin, with redness and heat of the part when it has been scratched. Red, itching spot (blotches) on the skin. Itching eruptions. Miliary eruptions. Tetters.

 Sleepy, yawning, no activity, afternoons. Sleeplessness, with fantastic dreams and delirium on going to sleep. Sad, anxious, frightful dreams. Awakens towards morning from a jerk upwards from the larynx, as if she would suffocate, must sit up, and raises sour, salty mucus.

 Pulse full, hard, and quick. Frequent shiverings over the whole body, especially the back (even near a warm stove). Violent heat, soon after the chill, with dry, burning heat all over the body with the exception of the thighs; they remain numb and chilly. Anxious heat, with red face and weeping, inconsolable mood. - сool perspiration on the face in evening. Morning, sweat over the whole body. Flushes of heat. Feverish heat, with skin dry and hot, continued thirst, headache, and delirium. Nocturnal perspiration.

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