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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

By regionHering
Mind ► Mental dulness. ► Difficult comprehension. ► Irresistible desire to sing, with excessive mirth. ► Disposition to weep. ► Paroxysms of anxiety. ► Fear of the future ; tired of life. ► Obstinacy. ► Aggravation from excitement.
Inner Head ► Stitches in temples, worse left. ► While lying, feels a strong pulsation, worse about the ear on which she is lying. ► Dull headache in right side of brain, on coming into warm room, from the open air. ► Headache in back part of head. ► Headache as if skull would burst, in vertex and forehead.
Eyes ► Double vision ; better lying down. ► Pressing and stinging in eyes. ► Coldness of eyes. ► Lachrymation and headache, when looking fixedly at one spot. ► Redness of eyes, with lachrymation and burning. ► Pressing heaviness of eyelids. ► Eyes protruding staring.
Stomach ► Ulcerative feeling in pit of stomach, must lie on back. ► Drawing, as if growing together, in pit of stomach, as far as throat, when it seems to press the windpipe so she can hardly breathe. ► Cannot tolerate tight clothing about stomach. ► Stitches in region of stomach. ► Stomach feels flaccid, and as if standing open.
Female Sexual Organs ► Menses too soon, too profuse ; preceded by colic, backache, soreness in sacrum and craving in stomach, palpitation ; during menses, drawing in all limbs ; awakes with suffocating spells.
Lungs ► Congestion in chest from least movement or exertion ; dyspnoea, nausea, faintish weakness. ► Burning, soreness, rawness, with heaviness, in chest. ► Tuberculosis beginning in apex of (left) lung. ► Constrictive spasmodic pain through chest and larynx. ► Stitches in both sides of chest.
Neck And Back ► Painful stiffness of muscles of neck and throat. ► Cold neck, evenings. ► Pressing pain in small of back.
Limbs In General ► Stiffness in limbs. ► Trembling in all the limbs.
Sleep ► Stupid slumber with the fever. ► Sleepy, gaping, no activity, afternoons. ► Lies asleep with head low. ► Sleepless, with violent ebullitions. ► Lies awake, eyes closed and sees animated images. ► Awakens in a fright ; suffocating ; starts out of sleep. ► After siesta, legs numb.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chill with shaking even near warm stove ; mostly across the back. ► Violent heat after chill, dry, burning all over except thigh, which remains numb and chilly. ► Flushes of heat returning when thinking thereof. ► Anxious heat, red face, weeping, inconsolable. ► Heat, sweat, itching of skin. ► Typhoid fever. ► Sweat : general in morning, cold on face, evenings.
Skin ► Sensitive to touch. ► Red, itching blotches on skin. ► Herpes.

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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