Spongia Tosta

Head

Pressure of blood to the head, with pain in the forehead, as from too much blood.

Bursting headache, throbbing and pulsating, < forehead.

Eyes

Protruding eyes.

Heaviness and drawing together of the lids.

Lachrymation and headache from exerting the eyes.

Nose

Fluent coryza, alternating with stoppage, dryness, hoarseness and dry, croupy cough.

Mouth

Painful blisters on the inside of the cheek and on the tongue.

Tongue dry and brown.

Throat

Sore throat, with sticking pressure.

Swelling of the thyroid gland, with suffocative attacks.

Stomach

Insatiable appetite and thirst.

Abdomen

Pains in the bowels and lumbar region, seeming to come from the small of the back.

Urinary Organs

Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty discharge.

Sexual Organs

Swelling of spermatic cord and testicles, with bruised, pinching or squeezing pain, extending into cords, with tenderness.

Menstruation early and profuse, preceded by palpitation.

Respiratory organs :

Hoarseness, with a feeling of dryness and scraping in the larynx ; with burning and constriction.

Cough dry, croupy, in violent paroxysms ; at times > eating or drinking, with burning in the chest.

In the larynx a feeling of constriction or burning dryness.

Respiration difficult, as from a feeling of a plug sticking in the larynx, like a constriction.

Chest weak, so that she could scarcely talk, with heat in the face ; short, panting respiration.

Clinical

Goitre ; with suffocative spells at night or even with hoarse cough and staring eyes.

Laryngitis, with harsh, croupy cough, suffocative spells, arousing from sleep ; larynx sensitive to the touch.

Hoarseness of singers and speakers.

Bronchial catarrh, with wheezing, asthmatic cough, aggravated by cold air, with profuse expectoration and suffocation, aggravated by lying with the head low and in a hot room, ameliorated by eating.

Pneumonia, with soreness, suffocative paroxysms of cough, aggravated by dry, cold air.

Heart and Pulse :

Palpitation, with dyspnoea.

Inability to lie down, waking on account of suffocation.

Neck and Back :

Painful stiffness of neck and nape, noticed especially on turning the head.

Fever

Coldness, not > warmth of the stove.

Heat of the whole body ; anxious and dry, with weeping and depression of spirits ; wants to die.