SPONGIA TOSTA
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- tubercular diathesis
- diseases of children and women; light hair, lax fibre, fair complexion
- swelling and induration of glands; goitre
- awakens in fright and feels as if suffocating; as if had to breathe through a sponge
- every mental excitement or increases the cough
- worse after sleep or sleeps into
- 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; before midnight
- palpitation: violent with pain and gasping respiration; awakened suddenly after midnight with suffocation and great anxiety; valvular insufficiency; before and 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