Spongia tosta

Roasted Sponge. Spongia.

Keynotes

For the tubercular diathesis. Especially adapted to diseases of children and women; light hair, lax fibre, fair complexion (Brom.). Swelling and induration of glands; goitre (Brom.). Awakens in a fright and feels as if suffocating; as if he had to breathe through a sponge. .Every mental excitement < or increases the cough. Worse after sleep or sleeps into < (Lach.). Sore throat, < after eating sweet things. Thyroid gland swollen even with chin; with suffocative paroxysms at night. Goitre.

Great dryness of mucous membranes of air passages — throat, larynx, trachea, bronchi — “dry as a horn.”

Cough : dry, barking, croupy ; rasping, ringing, wheezing, whistling; everything is perfectly dry, no mucous rale.

Cough : dry, sibilant, like a saw driven through a pine board; < sweets, cold drinks, smoking, lying with head low, dry cold winds; < reading, singing, talking, swallowing ; > eating or drinking warm things.

Croup: anxious, wheezing, < during inspiration (< during expiration, Acon.); < before midnight (< before morning, Hep.).

Palpitation : violent with pain and gasping respiration; awakened suddenly after midnight with suffocation and great anxiety; valvular insufficiency; before or during menses.

Angina pectoris; contracting pain, heat, faintness, suffocation, anxiety and sweat; < after midnight.

Spermatic cord swollen, painful; testicles swollen, bruised, squeezed; after suppressed gonorrhoea or maltreated orchitis.

Relationship p. 270

Spongia follows well: after. Acon., Hep., in cough and croup, when dryness prevails; after Spong., Hep., when mucus commences to rattle.

Compare: Arn., Caust., iod., Lach., Nux m., sputa loosened but must be swallowed again.