POLYGALA SENEGA
Said to be especially useful in fat persons of lax fiber. (Farring-ton.).
CORYZA.
FLUENT CORYZA –
Very fluent, watery coryza; preceded by violent sneezing and feeling of red pepper in nostrils.
COUGH.
DRY COUGH –
Difficult cough; oppression of chest; tickling in larynx; much rattling in chest in night.
Shaking irritating cough, in old people. Short, hacking cough, which scrapes and tears throat. Constant inclination to clear the throat; from tough, scanty, very difficult mucus.
Chronic dry cough of the aged; shaking and irritating.
Cough ending in sneezing.
LOOSE COUGH –
Chronic, profuse, loose cough, in old people; with much rattling of mucus in chest.
Chronic, loose, rattling cough, with but little expectoration; old people.
Loose cough; abundant, clear, stringy mucus. Alternate loose cough and diarrhoea in old people.
Loose, rattling cough of old people; with profuse secretion of mucus (sub-acute or chronic).
SPUTA –
Tough, clear sputa, like white of egg.
Scanty, very difficult, tough mucus.
Abundant, clear, stringy mucus.
Abundant, albuminous, clear mucus.
WORSE –
In open air; voice; in repose, soreness in chest.
From cold, or over-use voice lost; from walking.
In morning while dressing, and before breakfast; cough.
Dry cough, loss of voice, worse.
Walking in open air, dry cough worse.
By coughing, sneezing, or pressure, soreness in chest worse.
BETTER-
At rest.
In warm room.
After eating.
In open air, headache better.
CHEST AND RESPIRATION-
Soreness in chest; sensitive to touch, and when coughing; with dry cough, dry throat, and hoarseness (first stage); afterward, much mucus in bronchi; worse by coughing, sneezing, or pressure; worse in open air and in repose; headache better in open air.
Violent aching in chest at night when waking; loose or difficult chronic cough.
Stitches in chest when coughing or breathing; chronic cough.
Walls of chest sore to touch, or sneezing; remnants of old colds.
Soreness of chest deep in, felt on any severe exterior motion; great soreness and pressure in chest walls.
Chest feels constricted and sore; as if lungs pressed against spine; feels like stretching and expanding it; it feels too narrow; the effort to expand leaves the chest sore.
Shooting in chest, worse during rest, and when inspiring.
Burning, sore pain under sternum; especially during deep breathing and motion.
VOICE-
Lost; even whispering is painful, and causes dry cough; worse in open air.
Lost from cold, or over-use.
SENSATIONS-
Heart-beats shake the whole body; worse walking.
Great soreness in chest walls.
Chest feels too narrow and contracted.
Shooting pains in chest during rest and on inspiring.
Author of "A homoeopathic materia medica on a new and original plan ... A sample fascicle containing the arsenic group."
"Therapeutics of the respiratory system, cough and coryza, acute and chronic : repertory with index, materia medica with index"