SPONGIA TOSTA

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Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

  • Aneurism
  • Angina pectoris
  • Asthma
  • Catalepsy
  • Chin affections
  • Clumsiness
  • Constipation
  • Cough
  • Croup
  • Diplopia
  • Exophthalmos
  • Fainting
  • Gotre
  • Exophthalmic gotre
  • Heart hypertrophy
  • Hernia
  • Jaw-joint pain
  • Laryngismus
  • Laryngitis
  • Myopia
  • Rheumatic fever
  • Rheumatism
  • Testicles inflammation
  • Tuberculosis
  • Varicosis
  • Whooping-cough
  • Worms
  • Dryness of mucous membrane
  • Dry asthma
  • Fear of suffocation and death
  • Contraction of larynx
  • Terrible sinking feeling
  • Larynx sensitive
  • Wakes in fright
  • Congestion of chest
  • Sudden weakness
  • Rawness in the chest
  • Lymphatics indurated
  • Thyroid indurated
  • Testes indurated
  • Blood involved
  • Veins involved
  • Protruding eyes
  • Right heart affected
  • Croupous deposit on heart valves
  • Frequent flashes of heat
  • Chill across the back
  • Heat except for thighs
  • Awakens smothering
  • Anxious look
  • Flushed face
  • Hard rapid breathing
  • Rheumatic fever with heart complications
  • Sense of suffocation
  • Violent loud cough
  • Great alarm
  • Agitation
  • Anxiety
  • Difficult respiration
  • Thickening of joints after rheumatic fever
  • Heaviness in testicles
  • Screw-like squeezing pain in cord
  • Screw-like squeezing pain in testicle
  • Timidity
  • Fear
  • Terror
  • As if head would fall to one side
  • As if tipsy
  • As if all her blood were mounting to head
  • As if skull would burst
  • As if hair were standing on end
  • Eyes as if twisted around
  • As if a battery of guns were discharged in ears
  • Stitches as if passing through tympanum
  • Nodule in concha as if it would gather and break
  • Jaw as if dislocated
  • As if eruption were to appear near chin
  • Left side of chin as if ulcerated
  • As if something had got jammed between teeth in chewing
  • As if gums and teeth were swollen
  • As if the latter being lifted
  • Outside of throat as if something were being pressed out
  • As of a plug in throat
  • As if he had drunk a great deal of luke-warm water
  • Relaxation of stomach
  • Relaxation of esophagus
  • Pit of stomach as if growing together
  • Stomach as if standing open
  • Of obstruction in abdomen
  • Of obstruction in trachea
  • As if something alive moving in abdomen
  • As if something alive beneath skin of abdomen
  • As if diarrhea would ensue
  • As of a plug in larynx
  • As if a stopper or valve were in larynx
  • As of a nail pressing in larynx
  • As if larynx and trachea were removed
  • As if she would suffocate
  • As if child could not get breath
  • As if breathing through a sponge
  • As if chest would burst
  • Chest as if sore and bloody
  • As of a large accumulation and weight at chest
  • As if a broad body armed with points were pressing upward
  • As if a weight were dragging down on chest
  • As if she had something hot inside chest
  • As if blood would burst out of chest
  • As if cervical glands were swelling
  • As if skin of neck were compressed between fingers
  • As if air were passing up and down thyroid and cervical glands
  • Thyroid gland as if hardened
  • As if everything were shaking and moving about in goitre
  • As if goitre were alive
  • As if a pointed instrument were thrust into scapula
  • As if bones of forearm were being pressed together
  • As if parts in and between wrists were weakened by decay
  • As if a muscle were too short in upper end of thigh
  • As if knees would give way
  • As if weight hanging on lower end of tibia
  • As of pins in heels
  • As if she were going to faint
  • As if everything were in flames
  • As if sweat would break out
  • Excitement of the nerves
  • Tendency to start
  • Twitching of muscles
  • Fever
  • Stiff without ability to move
  • Conscious but unable to act on her limbs
  • Clumsiness of body
  • Faint when losing her breath
  • Feeling of numbness of lower half of body
  • Cramp-like pains
  • Bitter taste in throat
  • Aversion to tobacco
  • Desire for dainties
  • Complaints extend downwards
  • Complaints extend from within out
  • Complaints extend from right to left
  • Disconsolate humor
  • Lachrymose humor
  • Tendency to be frightened
  • Combative humor
  • Boastful humor
  • Immoderate gaiety
  • Mischievous gaiety
  • Great inclination to sing
  • Mental obtuseness
  • Disinclination to intellectual labor
  • Incapacity for intellectual labor
  • Distraction of mind
  • Pert humor
  • Witty humor
  • Alternately gay
  • Alternately lachrymose
  • Alternately cross
  • Fancies appear on shutting eyes
  • Fretful
  • Anxious about her condition
  • Fears she will die of suffocation
  • Anxious sweat
  • Faintness
  • Pursued by frightful scene
  • Tormented by frightful scene
  • Anxious as from presentiment
  • Fright awakens
  • Satiety of life
  • Obstinacy
  • Vertigo
  • Giddiness
  • Nausea
  • Heaviness of head
  • Fulness of head
  • Dull semilateral headache
  • Lachrymation
  • Pressive headache
  • Compression
  • Pressing headache
  • Sharp stitches in temple
  • Sharp stitches extending to forehead
  • Pains in head as if it were about to split
  • Throbbing in head
  • Pulsation in head
  • Congestion of blood in head
  • Redness of face
  • Anxious look
  • Restless sleep
  • Disagreeable tenderness of exterior of head
  • Sensation as if hair were standing on end on vertex
  • Troublesome itching in scalp
  • Violent itching in scalp
  • Eyes dull
  • Eyes clouded
  • Puffing in lids
  • Eyes deeply sunk
  • Eyes protruding
  • Eyes staring
  • Maculae of cornea
  • Pressure in eyes
  • Shootings in eyes
  • Eyes burning
  • Eyes red
  • Eyes weeping
  • Agglutination of lids
  • Eruption of yellow scabies in eyebrows
  • Eruption painful to touch on l eyebrow
  • Pressive heaviness of lids
  • Contraction of lids in morning
  • Sees visions on closing eyes
  • Double vision
  • Otalgia
  • Contractive pain in ears
  • Pressure in ears
  • Ulceration of external ear
  • Pain in cartilages as from soreness
  • Boils on l ear painful to touch
  • Inflamed nodule in l concha
  • Red swelling of l helix
  • Heat in ears
  • Hard hearing
  • Dull ringing in ears
  • Epistaxis
  • Fluent coryza
  • Sneezing
  • Dry coryza
  • Nose stuffed up
  • Eruption on point of nose
  • Paleness of face
  • Dullness of eyes
  • Face bloated
  • Face red
  • Face bluish
  • Anxious expression
  • Heat on one side of face
  • Cold sweat on face
  • Swelling of cheeks
  • Itching in cheeks
  • Shootings in cheeks
  • Eruption on lips
  • Spasmodic pain in maxillary joints
  • Tension in articulation of l jaw
  • Stitches transversely through l upper jaw
  • Cramp-like pain from l jaw-joint to cheek
  • Swelling of the submaxillary glands
  • Tensive pain
  • Numbness in chin
  • Heat in chin
  • Sensation of bluntness in teeth
  • Sensation of looseness in teeth
  • Itching in teeth
  • Shootings in teeth
  • Heat in teeth
  • Swelling of gums
  • Pain during mastication
  • Mouth covered with vesicles
  • Tongue covered with vesicles
  • Burning pain in mouth
  • Burning pain in tongue
  • Shooting pain in mouth
  • Shooting pain in tongue
  • Salivation
  • Speech difficult
  • Tongue dry
  • Tongue brownish
  • Vesicles on edge of tongue
  • Burning sensation in throat
  • Stinging in throat
  • Rawness in throat
  • Swelling in throat
  • Scraping in throat
  • Penetrating tickling in throat
  • Needle-like stitches above pit of throat
  • Sticking internally in throat
  • Thyroid gland swollen
  • Thyroid gland hard
  • Suffocative attacks at night
  • Stitching pains
  • Pressure in throat
  • Relaxed sensation in esophagus
  • Swelling in fauces
  • Swallowing difficult
  • Moving sensation in goitre
  • Diminished taste
  • Bitter taste
  • Sweetish taste in mouth
  • Moderate appetite
  • Speedy satiety
  • Increased appetite
  • Insatiable hunger
  • Desire for dainties
  • Thirst
  • Thirstlessness
  • Violent thirst after smoking
  • Tobacco smoke disagreeable
  • Fullness after a meal
  • Pains in abdomen after a meal
  • Risings
  • Cuttings in stomach
  • Tearings in stomach
  • Bitter risings
  • Sour regurgitations
  • Frequent hiccough
  • Nausea
  • Acidity in mouth
  • Craves dainties
  • Dyspeptic distress
  • Fullness of stomach
  • Vomiting after having partaken of milk
  • Relaxation of stomach
  • Aching in stomach
  • Aching in scrobiculus
  • Pressure of tight clothing on stomach is unbearable
  • Contractive pains in stomach
  • Stitches in region of stomach
  • Chill in pit of stomach
  • Craving at stomach before menses
  • Abdomen hard
  • Abdomen tight
  • Spasms in abdomen
  • Violent action of abdominal muscles
  • Viscera drawn up against diaphragm
  • Pain in l side of abdomen
  • Digging in abdomen
  • Choking in abdomen
  • Pain in abdomen instead of menses
  • Fine stitch externally in abdomen
  • Heat in abdomen
  • Gripings in abdomen
  • Rumbling in the abdomen
  • Pain as from a hernia in inguinal ring
  • Swelling and inflammation of l inguinal ring
  • Swelling of inguinal glands
  • Hard evacuations
  • Insufficient evacuations
  • Retarded evacuations
  • Loose evacuations
  • Whitish evacuations
  • Shootings in the anus
  • Tenesmus in the anus
  • Itching in anus
  • Smarting in anus
  • Pain as from excoriation in anus
  • Passage of ascarides from rectum
  • Tingling in rectum
  • Diurnal diarrhea with ascarides
  • Increased secretion of urine
  • Frequent want to urinate
  • Scanty emission of urine
  • Incontinence of urine
  • Small stream of urine
  • Frothy urine
  • Thick sediment in the urine
  • Whitish sediment in the urine
  • Greyish sediment in the urine
  • Yellow sediment in the urine
  • Spasmodic contraction in the testes
  • Hard swelling of the testes
  • Hard swelling of the spermatic cord
  • Pressive pain in the testes
  • Drawing stitches extending through glans
  • Voluptuous itching at point of glans
  • Pinching pain in testicles
  • Bruised pain in testicles
  • Squeezing pain in testicles
  • Stitches from testicles into spermatic cord
  • Heat in genitals
  • Heat in penis
  • Heat in scrotum
  • Heat in testes
  • Heat in cords
  • Sexual desire moderate
  • Absence of erections
  • Catamenia too early
  • Catamenia too profuse
  • Palpitation of the heart before the catamenia
  • Pain in back before the catamenia
  • Drawing in the thighs during the catamenia
  • Enlargement of ovaries
  • Induration of ovaries
  • Hoarseness
  • Voice cracked
  • Weak voice
  • Husky voice
  • Pain in larynx
  • Pressure in larynx
  • Sensation of obstruction in larynx
  • Impeded respiration
  • Roughness in throat
  • Dryness in throat
  • Burning pain in larynx
  • Burning pain in trachea
  • Cough proceeding from bottom of chest
  • Pain as from excoriation in chest
  • Burning sensation in chest
  • Cough with yellowish expectoration
  • Great dryness of larynx
  • Sensation in region of thyroid and cervical glands
  • Hollow cough
  • Dry cough
  • Barking cough
  • Whistling cough
  • Laryngeal cough
  • Croupy-sounding cough
  • Cough with expectoration of viscid mucus
  • Expectoration scanty
  • Expectoration of saltish mucus
  • Expectoration tenacious
  • Expectoration yellow
  • Expectoration indurated
  • Expectoration sour
  • Expectoration smelling like milk
  • Expectoration of yellow mucus in little lumps
  • Expectoration of cutaneous masses
  • Dry cough excited by tickling in larynx
  • Slow respiration
  • Deep respiration
  • Wheezing respiration
  • Whistling breathing
  • Sawing breathing
  • Anxious breathing
  • Mucous rale in trachea
  • Respiration quick
  • Respiration anxious
  • Respiration difficult
  • Fits of suffocation
  • Mucous rattling in chest
  • Short respiration
  • Panting respiration
  • Surging from heart into chest
  • Awakens from sleep with suffocative sensation
  • Fixed pain in bronchia
  • Lancinating pain in bronchia
  • Pressive pain in bronchia
  • Spasmodic pains in chest
  • Constrictive pains in chest
  • Pain in chest with dyspnea
  • Fulness in chest
  • Obstruction in chest
  • Shootings in chest
  • Burning sensation in chest
  • Rawness in chest
  • Soreness in chest
  • Ebullition of blood in chest
  • Congestions in chest
  • Obstructed respiration
  • Anguish
  • Nausea
  • Weakness
  • Syncope
  • Pains in region of heart
  • Anxiety in region of heart
  • Constricting pain in cardiac region
  • Stinging pain in cardiac region
  • Pressing pain in cardiac region
  • Palpitation of heart
  • Suffocation
  • Violent gasping respiration
  • Pain in heart
  • Rheumatic affections of valves of heart
  • Fibrous deposit on valves
  • Violent palpitation of heart
  • Awakens him after midnight with a sense of suffocation
  • Loud cough
  • Great alarm
  • Agitation
  • Anxiety
  • Difficult respiration
  • Pulse full
  • Pulse hard
  • Pulse frequent
  • Painful tension in muscles of neck
  • Painful rigidity in muscles of neck
  • Neck cold in evening
  • Back of neck snaps on stooping
  • Goitre large
  • Goitre hard
  • Goitre with pressure
  • Goitre with tingling
  • Goitre with shootings
  • Cramps in the muscles of neck
  • Coldness in back
  • Sacrum sore before menses
  • Sensation of numbness in loins
  • Sensation of numbness in buttocks
  • Drawing pain in loins
  • Tearing pain in loins
  • Pressive pain in loins
  • Painful weariness in arms
  • Painful weariness in legs
  • Jerking of muscles about l shoulder-joint
  • Heaviness of forearms
  • Heaviness of hands
  • Trembling of forearms
  • Trembling of hands
  • Drawings in forearms
  • Drawings in joints of hands
  • Large blisters in the forearm
  • Swelling of hands
  • Stiffness of fingers
  • Redness in joints of fingers
  • Swelling in joints of fingers
  • Tension when they are bent
  • Numbness in points of fingers
  • Cramp-like pain in ball of (r) thumb
  • Nates numb
  • Nates cold
  • Thighs numb
  • Thighs cold
  • Jerking of muscles of buttocks
  • The thighs are spasmodically drawn forward
  • The thighs are spasmodically drawn backward
  • Irritation of both legs
  • Restlessness of both legs
  • Tearing in tibia
  • Rigidity of legs
  • Drawing in legs
  • Tearing in legs
  • Drawing in feet
  • Tearing in feet
  • Uncomfortable feeling of the clothes
  • They being an oppression
  • They being an annoyance
  • Growing pains
  • Darting pains
  • Itching no better from scratching
  • Troubles in general of any kind appearing in the sexual organs
  • Phthisis pulmonalis
  • Stinging pain in limbs
  • Painful sensitiveness of body to touch
  • Chilliness on the parts touched
  • Tingling running through whole body
  • Sensation of torpor in lower part of body
  • Heaviness when walking in open air
  • Heaviness of the body
  • Extreme exhaustion
  • Heaviness of the body after slight exertion
  • Orgasm of blood in chest
  • Heat of face
  • Vessels hard
  • Vessels distended
  • Great anxiety
  • Difficult breathing
  • Fits of anguish
  • Swelling of the glands
  • Induration of the glands
  • Itching shootings in the skin
  • Sensation of something creeping over the skin
  • Redness of the part when it has been scratched
  • Heat of the part when it has been scratched
  • Red spot on the skin
  • Blotches on the skin
  • Itching eruptions
  • Miliary eruptions
  • Tetters
  • Sleepy
  • Yawning
  • Sleeplessness
  • Fantastic dreams
  • Delirium on going to sleep
  • Sad dreams
  • Anxious dreams
  • Frightful dreams
  • Awakens towards morning from a jerk upwards from the larynx
  • Sour mucus
  • Salty mucus
  • Pulse quick
  • Frequent shiverings
  • Violent heat
  • Dry heat
  • Burning heat all over the body
  • Anxious heat
  • Weeping
  • Inconsolable mood
  • Cool perspiration on the face
  • Morning sweat over the whole body
  • Flushes of heat
  • Feverish heat
  • Skin dry
  • Skin hot
  • Continued thirst
  • Headache
  • Delirium
  • Nocturnal perspiration