Remedy

Spongia tosta

Roasted sponge

7 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • A remedy especially marked in the symptoms of the respiratory organs, cough, croup, etc.
  • Heart affections and often indicated for the tubercular diathesis.
  • Children 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.

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Mind & mood

  • Anxiety and fear.
  • Every excitement increases the cough.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

AscendingWindBefore midnight

Better

DescendingLying with head low

Symptoms by body part

Head

Rush of blood; bursting headache; worse, forehead.

Eyes

Watering; gummy or mucus discharge.

Nose

Fluent runny nose (cold), alternating with stoppage. Dryness; chronic, dry, nasal mucus discharge.

Mouth

Tongue dry and brown; full of vesicles.

Throat

Stitches and dryness. Burning and stinging. Sore throat; worse after eating sweet things. Tickling causes cough. Clears throat constantly.

Stomach

Excessive thirst, great hunger. 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, palpitation. During menses, wakes with suffocative spells.

Respiratory

Great dryness of all air-passages. Hoarseness; larynx dry, burns, constricted. Cough, dry, barking, croupy; larynx sensitive to touch. Croup; worse, during inspiration and before midnight. Respiration short, panting, difficult; feeling of a plug in larynx. Cough abates after eating or drinking, especially warm drinks. Irrepressible cough from a spot deep in chest, as if raw and sore. Chest weak; can scarcely talk.

Heart

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. 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

Itching; measles.

Sleep

Awakes in a fright, and feels as if suffocating. Generally worse after sleep, or sleeps into and aggravation.

Fever

Attacks of heat with anxiety; heat and redness of face and perspiration.

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