SPONGIA


SPONGIA signs and symptoms from the Characteristic Materia Medica by William Burt of the homeopathic medicine SPONGIA …


SPHERE OF ACTION

Through the great vegetative system, it especially affects the larynx, trachea, thyroid gland, ovaries and testicles.

GRAND CHARACTERISTICS

Cough dry and sibilant, sounding like a saw driven through a pine board, each cough corresponding to a thrust of the saw.– Chronic hoarseness and cough; the voice frequently giving out when talking or singing.

Great dryness of the larynx, with hoarse, hollow, wheezing cough.

Goitre in persons who live in villages; probably no remedy is of more value in goitre, unless it is Iodine.

Head.–Awakens often in a fright, and feels as if she was suffocating.-.

Is inconsolable and wishes to die at once.-.

Keeps the head high up in bed.-.

Thinking of it renews the one-sided heat of face.-.

Every day several attacks of heat, with anxiousness, pain in the region of the heart and weeping.-.

Attacks of severe oppression and pain in the region of the heart: all the symptoms aggravated by lying with the head low; inability to lie down at night.–Dr. J.B. BELL.

Generative Organs of Men.–Smooth swelling, inflammation and induration of the testicles.–HEMPEL.

Women.–Menses too early and too profuse; preceded by colic, soreness in the sacrum, and craving in the stomach.

Violent drawing in the upper and lower extremities during the menses.

Induration, and enlargement of the ovaries.

William Burt
William H. Burt, MD
(1836-1897)
Characteristic materia medica Published 1873
Physiological materia medica, containing all that is known of the physiological action of our remedies; together with their characteristic indications and pharmacology. Published 1881