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Spongia Tosta
Common Sponge, roasted · SPONG
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Origin Animal · Coelenterata (Cnidaria (phylum Coelenterata, historically including sponges)) · Simple
Habitat 20 grains in 400 drops of alcohol
ClarkePreparation Tincture (20 grains in 400 drops of alcohol).
Sources 17 entries across 15 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …

Dose Boericke
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Second trituration, or tincture to third potency

Reason for useT. F. Allen

Preparation , Tincture prepared by digesting 20 grains of powdered sponge, which has been roasted brown (in a manner similar to coffea tosta), with 400 drops of Alcohol. Authorities. ( 1 to 11 , from Hahnemann). [Two symptoms in Hahnemann's first edition, omitted from his second, are included in this work.] 1 , Hahnemann; 2 , F. Hahnemann; 3 , Gutmann; 4 , Hartmann; 5 , Haynel; 6 , Hornburg; 7 , Langhammer; 8 , Wagner; 9 , Wislicenus; 10 , Stapf; 11 , Lehmann; 12 , B. Fincke, M.D., Am. Hom. Rev., vol. i, 1859, p. 317, tasted some Spongia; 12 a , Mrs. Taube, aged about sixty, took 1 drop of 30th pot., prepared on the Hahnemannian scale; for many years a hard ball of pea-size; consisting of mucus mixed with blood, occasionally formed in the throat; this ball creates there an irritation, and is expelled by coughing; after use of fruit or cider usually feels a rawness and sensation like a wound in her throat, and loses her voice to a greater or less extent. In consequence of getting cold, she had many years ago a lump in left breast, cured homoeopathically long ago; 13 , James B. Bell, M.D., Am. Journ. of Hom. Mat. Mat., vol. ii, 1869, p. 211, a lady took 200th for a cough; 14 , E. W. Berridge, M.D., New Eng. Med. Gaz., vol. ix, 1874, p. 403, took 20 glob., cm. (Fincke), at 10 A.M., one symptom.


By regionT. F. Allen
Mind Irresistible desire to sing, with excessive joyfulness, lasting half an hour (after half an hour); followed by distraction of mind and disinclination for all work, lasting an hour , [3] . …
Stomach Appetite and Thirst. *Increased appetite , [1] . *Great hunger ; she could not satisfy herself, [1] . …

Books*
Antidoted by Aconitum Napellus 2, Camphora 2, Kali Bromatum
Complementary Pulsatilla Pratensis, Stannum
Follows well Aconitum Napellus, Hepar Sulphur, Bromium +7
Compare Iodium, Lachesis, Bromium +29

* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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