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