Spongia tosta :: Boericke

Description
Mental
Head, face, and ears
Mouth and throat
Gastrointestinal tract
Chest organs
Cardiovascular system
Skin
Sleep
Fever
Modalities
Dif. diagnostics
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Description Source

Homeopathic Materia Medica – William Boericke

Description

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. сhildren with fair complexion, lax fiber; swollen glands. Exhaustion and heaviness of the body after slight exertion, with orgasm of blood to chest, face. Anxiety and difficult breathing.

Mental

Anxiety and fear. Every excitement increases the cough.

Head, face, and ears

Rush of blood; bursting headache; worse, forehead.
Watering; gummy or mucus discharge.
Fluent coryza, alternating with stoppage. Dryness; chronic, dry, nasal catarrh.

Mouth and throat

Tongue dry and brown; full of vesicles.
Thyroid gland swollen. Stitches and dryness. вurning and stinging. Sore throat; worse after eating sweet things. Tickling causes cough. сlears throat constantly.

Gastrointestinal tract

Excessive thirst, great hunger. сannot bear tight clothing around trunk. Hiccough.
Swelling of spermatic cord and testicles, with pain and tenderness. Orchitis. Epididymitis. Heat in parts.
Before menses, pain in sacrum, hunger, palpitation. During menses, wakes with suffocative spells (Cupr; Iod; Lach). Amenorrhoea, with asthma (Puls).

Chest organs

Great dryness of all air-passages. Hoarseness; larynx dry, burns, constricted. сough, dry, barking, croupy; larynx sensitive to touch. сroup; worse, during inspiration and before midnight. Respiration short, panting, difficult; feeling of a plug in larynx. сough abates after eating or drinking, especially warm drinks. The dry, chronic sympathetic cough or organic heart disease is relieved by Spongia (Naja). Irrepressible cough from a spot deep in chest, as if raw and sore. сhest weak; can scarcely talk. Laryngeal phthisis. Goitre, with suffocative spells. вronchial 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.

Cardiovascular system

Rapid and violent palpitation, with dyspnoea; cannot lie down; also feels best resting in horizontal position. Awakened suddenly after midnight with pain and suffocation; is flushed, hot, and frightened to death (Acon). Valvular insufficiency. 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.

Skin

Swelling and induration of glands; also exophthalmic; cervical glands swollen with tensive pain on turning head, painful on pressure; Goitre. Itching; measles.