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A Primer of Materia Medica

for practitioners of Homoeopathy

by Timothy Field Allen

Presented by Médi-T.

SAMBUCUS

Coryza, with stopping and suffocative breathing, nose either dry and obstructed or filled with tenacious mucus ; often with puffy, bluish face.

Frequent micturition, with scanty urine.

Acute nephritis, with dropsical symptoms, vomiting, dry heat of the skin.

This drug, in such cases, increases the amount of urine and relieves the dropsical symptoms.

Respiratory organs :

Hoarseness, with tenacious, glutinous mucus in larynx.

Oppression of the chest, with nausea and weakness.

Suffocative attacks, with stitches in the chest ; starts up suddenly, with suffocation ; cannot expire, especially after midnight, with blue hands and face, and heat without thirst.

Suffocative cough with screaming and rough, hollow cough, with blue face and great restlessness.

Laryngitis, with much tenacious mucus.

Spasmodic croup, with wheezing, aggravated after midnight.

Whooping cough, with suffocation, tough mucus ; paroxysms aggravated after midnight and lying with the head low.

Chronic inflammation of the lungs, with profuse, exhausting sweats, suffocative cough, etc.

Shivering, with cold hands and feet.

Burning heat of the face, with icy cold feet, without thirst.

Heat comes on after lying down, without thirst and with dread of uncovering.

Profuse sweat after midnight.

Debilitating night sweats.