Animal
Spongia Tosta
Roasted Sponge
Repertory abbreviation: Spong.
A remedy especially marked in the symptoms of the respiratory organs, cough, croup, etc. Heart affections, and often indicated for the tubercular diathesis. Chil- dren with fair complexion, lax fiber; swollen glands. Exhaustion and heaviness of the body after slight exer- 695 tion, with orgasm of blood to chest. arc. An.ricty and difficult breathing.
Mind
Anxiety and fear. Every excitement in- creases the cough.
Head
Rush of blood; bursting headache; worse, forehead.
Eyes
Watering: gummy or mucus discharge.
Nose
Fluent coryza, alternating with stoppage. Dryness; chronic, dry, nasal catarrh.
Mouth
Tongue dry and brown; full of vesicles.
Throat
Thyroid gland swollen. Stitches and dry- ness. Burning and stinging. Sore throat; worse after eating sweet things. Tickling causes cough. Clears throat constantly.
Stomach
Excessive thirst, great hungrr. Cannot bear tight clothing around trunk. Hiccough.
Male
Swelling of spermatic cord and testicles, with pain and tenderness. Orchitis. Epididymitis. Heat in parts.
Female
Before menses, pain in sacrum, hunger, paipitation. During menses, wakes with 1 suffocative spells. [Cupr.; Iod.; Lach.] Amenorrhoea, with asth- ma. [Puls.]
Respiratory
Great dryness s of all air-passages. Hoarseness; larynx dry, burns, constricted. Cough, dry, barking, croupy; larynx sensitive to touch. Croup; worse, during inspiration and before midnight. Res- spiration short, panting, difficult; feeling of a plug in lurynx. Cough abates after eating or drinking, espe- cially warm drinks. The dry, chronic sympathetic cough of organic heart jisease 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, worse cold air, with profuse expectoration and suffoca- tion; worse, lying with head low and in hot room. Oppression and heat of chest, with sudden weakness.
Heart
Rapid and violent palpitation, with dyspnoea ; cannot lie down. Awuakened suddenly after midnight zerith pain and suffocation; is flushed, hot, and fright- ened to death. [Acon.] Valvular insufficiency. An- gina pectoris; faintness, and anxious sweat. Ebullition of blood, veins distended. Surging of lhrart into chest, as if it would force out upward. Hypertrophy of heart, especially right, with asthmatic symptoms
Skin
Szwclling and induration of glands; also ex- ophthalmic; cervical glands swollen with tensive pain on turning head, painful on pressure; goitre. Itching; measles.
Sleep
Awakes in a fright. and feels as if suffo- eating. Generally worse after sleep, or sleeps into an aggravation. [Lach.]
Fever
Attacks of heat with anxiciy; heat and red- ness of face and perspiration.
Modalities
W'orse, ascending, wind, before mid- night. Better, descending, lying with head low.
Relationships
Compare: Acon.; Hep.; Iod.; Brom.: Lach.; MIerc. pro. (Goitre.)
Dose
Second trituration, or tincture to third potency.