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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 useAllen

For the tubercular diathesis. Especially adapted to diseases of children and women; light hair, lax fibre, fair complexion (Brom.). Swelling and induration of glands; goitre (Brom.). Awakens in fright and feels as if suffocating; as if head to breathe thru a sponge. Every mental excitement < or increases the cough. Worse after sleep or sleeps into < (Lach.). Sore throat, < after eating sweet things. Thyroid gland swollen even with chin: with suffocative paroxysyms 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 (< during expiration, Acon.); < before midnight (< before morning, Hep.). 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.


▲ Worse Laughing and singing, talking, using the voice; lying on right side; drinking anything warm (from cold drinks, Spong.)
▼ Better Coughing or expectorating relieves hoarseness; hard pressure (Col.)

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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