Spongia tosta
Roasted sponge
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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- Anxiety and fear.
- Every excitement increases the cough.
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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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