BROMIUM
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- acts best, but not exclusively, on persons with light blue eyes, flaxen hair, light eyebrows, fair, delicate skin; blonde, red-cheeked, scrofulous girls
- sensation of cobweb on the face
- fan-like motion of the alae nasi
- sailors suffer with asthma "on shore"
- stony, hard, scrofulous or tuberculous swelling of glands, especially on lower jaw and throat
- diphtheria: where the membrane forms in pharynx
- beginning in bronchi, trachea or larynx, and extending upwards
- chest pains running upwards
- membranous and diphtheritic croup
- much rattling of mucus during cough, but no choking
- sounds loose, but no expectoration
- croupy symptoms with hoarseness during whooping cough; gasping for breath
- dyspnoea: cannot inspire deep enough
- as if breathing through a sponge or the air passages were full of smoke or vapor of sulphur
- rattling, sawing
- voice inaudible
- danger of suffocation from mucous in larynx
- hypertrophy of heart from gymnastics in growing boys
- physometra; loud emission of flatus from the vagina
- membranous dysmenorrhoea
- cold sensation in larynx on inspiration
- better after shaving
