Spongia tosta

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.

Mind

Anxiety and fear. Every excitement increases the cough.

Head

Rush of blood; bursting headache; worse, forehead.

Eyes

Watering; gummy or mucus discharge.

Nose

Fluent coryza, alternating with stoppage. Dryness; chronic, dry, nasal catarrh.

Mouth

Tongue dry and brown; full of vesicles.

Throat

Thyroid gland swollen. 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. [Cupr.; Iod.; Lach.] Amenorrhœa, with asthma. [Puls.]

Respiratory

Great dryness of all air-passages. Hoarseness; larynx dry, burns, constricted. Cough, dry, barking, croupy; larynx senstive 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. The dry, chronic sympathetic cough or organic heart disease is relieved by Spongia. [Naja.] Irrepressible cough from a spot deep in chest, as if raw and sore. Chest weak; can scarcely talk. Laryngeal phthisis. Goitre, with suffocative spells. Bronchial catarrh, with wheezing, asthmatic cough, worse cold air, with profuse expectoration and suffocation; worse, lying with head low and in hot room. Oppression and heat of chest, with sudden weakness.

Heart p. 604

Rapid and violent palpitation, with dyspnœa; 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. [Acon.] 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 p. 604

Swelling and induration of glands; also exophthalmic; cervical glands swollen with tensive pain on turning head, painful on pressure; goitre. Itching; measles.

Sleep p. 604

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

Fever p. 604

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

Modalities p. 604

Worse, ascending, wind, before midnight. Better, descending, lying with head low.

Relationship p. 604

Compare: Acon.; Hep.; Brom.; Lach.; Merc. prot.; Iod. (Goitre.)