SPONGIA TOSTA
Source indications
Boericke's Materia Medica
- Respiratory organs affected
- Cough
- Croup
- Heart affections
- Tubercular diathesis
- Fair complexion
- Lax fiber
- Swollen glands
- Exhaustion
- Heaviness of body after slight exertion
- Orgasm of blood to chest, face
- Anxiety
- Difficult breathing
- Fear
- Every excitement increases cough
- Rush of blood to head
- Bursting headache
- Headache worse in forehead
- Watering eyes
- Gummy or mucus discharge from eyes
- Fluent coryza, alternating with stoppage
- Dryness of nose
- Chronic, dry, nasal catarrh
- Tongue dry and brown
- Tongue full of vesicles
- Thyroid gland swollen
- Stitches in throat
- Dryness in throat
- Burning in throat
- Stinging in throat
- Sore throat
- Sore throat worse after eating sweet things
- Tickling causes cough
- Clears throat constantly
- Excessive thirst
- Great hunger
- Cannot bear tight clothing around trunk
- Hiccough
- Swelling of spermatic cord and testicles, with pain and tenderness
- Orchitis
- Epididymitis
- Heat in male parts
- Before menses, pain in sacrum
- Before menses, hunger
- Before menses, palpitation
- During menses, wakes with suffocative spells
- Amenorrha, with asthma
- Great dryness of all air-passages
- Hoarseness
- Larynx dry
- Larynx burns
- Larynx constricted
- Cough dry, barking, croupy
- Larynx sensitive to touch
- Croup worse during inspiration
- Croup worse before midnight
- Respiration short, panting, difficult
- Feeling of a plug in larynx
- Cough abates after eating or drinking, especially warm drinks
- Dry, chronic sympathetic cough
- Organic heart disease
- 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
- Bronchial catarrh worse lying with head low
- Bronchial catarrh worse in hot room
- Oppression and heat of chest
- Sudden weakness
- Rapid and violent palpitation, with dyspna
- Cannot lie down
- 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
- 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
- Swelling and induration of glands
- Exophthalmic
- Cervical glands swollen with tensive pain on turning head
- Cervical glands painful on pressure
- Goitre
- Itching
- Measles
- Awakes in a fright, and feels as if suffocating
- Generally worse after sleep
- Sleeps into and aggravation
- Attacks of heat with anxiety
- Heat and redness of face
- Perspiration