Spongia Tosta

General

SPONGIA TOSTA. [Spongia] Common Sponge, roasted. Hahnemann. Spongida.

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.

Sensorium

► Vertigo : with danger of falling ; at night when awaking, with nausea. ► Congestion of blood to head, with throbbing and pressure in forehead.

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.

Outer Head

► Sensation as if hair were standing on end on vertex. ► Violent itching on scalp. ► Head bent backward ; neck stiff. ► Yellow, scabby eruption. θ Favus.

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.

Ears

► Hardness of hearing. ► Congestion of blood to ears ; burning. ► Suppuration of external ear.

Nose

► Bleeding of nose, especially when blowing it. ► Nose stuffed up. θ Whooping-cough. ► Fluent coryza ; hoarseness ; croupy cough ; after dry, cold winds. ► Nasal mucus viscous, grows thick. θ Membranous croup. ► Nose pinched, cold.

Face

► Pale, with sunken eyes ; red with anxious expression. ► Heat on one side of face, renewed when thinking of it. ► Swelling of cheeks. ► Itching and stinging on cheeks. ► Cold sweat on face. ► Cramp-like pain from left articulation of jaw to cheek ; evenings, while eating, or when walking in open air.

Lower Face

► Eruptions on the lips. ► Swelling of the submaxillary glands, with tension.

Teeth

► Feel dull and loose when masticating. ► Itching and stinging in the teeth.

Tongue, Etc

► Taste : bitter, only in the throat ; sweetish in the mouth. ► Difficulty of speech. ► Tongue brown, dry. ► Mouth and tongue full of vesicles, with burning and stinging pains.

Mouth

► Raw. ► Mouth burning, dry. θ Croup. ► Saliva diminished ; or, with whooping-cough, increased.

Throat

► Burning, and stinging in throat ; rawness and scratching. ► Penetrating tickling in throat, toward ear. ► Sore throat, worse after eating sweet things. ► Thyroid gland swollen even with the chin ; at night suffocating spells, barking, with stinging in throat and soreness in abdomen. ► Throat externally swollen ; suffocating attacks. ► Relief of throat symptoms, when lying on back.

Desires And Aversions

► Insatiable appetite and thirst.

Eating And Drinking

► While eating : 8. Sweet things : 13, 27. Cold drinks : 27. Warm food or drink : 27.

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.

Hypochondria

► Pressure in hypochondria.

Abdomen

► Rumbling in abdomen, worse evenings and mornings. ► Violent action of abdominal muscles during inspiration. ► Viscera drawn up against diaphragm. ► Swelling and inflammation of (left) inguinal gland.

Stool, Etc

► Costive ; stool hard, insufficient, with tenesmus. ► Itching, biting and soreness at anus ; discharge of ascarides.

Urine

► Frequent urging to urinate, with small discharges. ► Urine frothy ; sediment thick, greyish-white or yellow. ► Involuntary discharge of urine.

Male Sexual Organs

► Testicles swollen, hard ; screwing, squeezing, with stitches up into cord ; any motion of bed or clothing brings on a throbbing. θ Maltreated orchitis. θ After checked gonorrhoea. ► Heat in male genitals.

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.

Larynx

► Hoarseness, cough, coryza. ► Hoarse, voice cracked or faint, choking sensation ; whistling inspiration. ► Voice gives out when singing or talking. ► Feeling of a plug in larynx. ► Laryngismus stridulus. ► Larynx sensitive to touch, and when turning neck. ► Talking hurts the larynx. ► Inflammation of larynx, trachea and bronchi. ► Attacks of mucous rattling in windpipe ; strangling at times. ► Feeling of stoppage in windpipe. ► Starts from sleep suddenly, with contraction of larynx.

Breathing

► Wheezing, anxious, worse during inhalation, with violent laboring of abdominal muscles ; whistling, sawing, between coughs. θ Whooping-cough. θ Croup. ► Dyspnoea : severe, on lying down ; exhaustion worse in chest after every exertion ; sudden weakness, tottering while walking, blood seems to rush into chest as if it would burst ; with frothy, white sputa and much retching ; and hour after slight coughing brings up grey, lumpy mucus ; relieved by bending body forward. ► Sensation as if he had to breathe through a dry sponge. ► Asthma : from taking cold, cannot lie down ; sibilant bronchi ; after menses. ► Awakens with suffocating sensation.

Cough

► Dry, barking, hollow, croupy ; wheezing, asthmatic ; caused by burning, tickling in larynx, like a plug or valve ; or, by feeling of accumulation of mucus and weight in chest. ► Cough worse from : sweets ; cold drinks ; smoking tobacco ; lying with head low, room too warm ; dry, cold winds ; every excitement. ► Better from : eating or drinking ; warm things. ► Chronic cough, violent attacks, brought up small, hard tubercle. ► Sputa scanty, tenacious, yellow, indurated, slightly sour tasting ; loosened mornings, but must be swallowed again. ► Profuse sputa of mucus, cannot lie down. θ Pneumonia in stage of resolution.

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.

Heart And Pulse

► Angina pectoris ; contracting pain in chest, heat, suffocation, faintness and anxious sweat. ► Aneurism of aorta ; dry, paroxysmal cough, worse lying down. ► Palpitation : violent, with pain, gasping respiration ; suddenly awakened after midnight, with suffocation, great alarm, anxiety. θ Valvular insufficiency. ► Attacks of oppression and cardiac pain ; worse lying with head low. ► Rheumatic endocarditis, loud blowing with each heart-beat. ► Stinging, pressing pains, in precordial region. ► Pulse frequent, hard, full or feeble.

Neck And Back

► Painful stiffness of muscles of neck and throat. ► Cold neck, evenings. ► Pressing pain in small of back.

Upper Limbs

► Twitching of muscles of left shoulder. ► Heaviness and trembling of forearm and hands. ► Large vesicles on forearm. ► Swelling of hands and stiffness of fingers. ► Numbness of ends of fingers. ► Redness and swelling of finger-joints, with tension on bending them. ► Cramp-like pain in ball of right thumb, lasting all day ; on motion of hand it spreads to thumb.

Lower Limbs

► Thigh spasmodically drawn forward or backward. ► Thighs numb, cold, with fever. ► Feeling of lameness from right knee to right hip. ► Stiffness of legs. ► Heat in feet ; veins distended.

Limbs In General

► Stiffness in limbs. ► Trembling in all the limbs.

Position, Etc

► Motion : 28, 32. Walking : 3, 8, 26. Exertion : 26, 28. Turning neck : 25. Bent forward : 26. Bent backward : 4, 27. Sitting : 3. Must sit up : 25. Cannot lie down : 26, 27. Lying : 3, 5, 26, 29 ; on back : 3, 13, 17 ; on affected side : 3 ; with head low : 27, 29.

Nerves

► Feeling of numbness of lower half of body. ► Great debility and prostration.

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.

Time

► Morning : 25, 27, 40. Afternoon : 37. Evening : 8, 40. Morning and evening : 19. Night : 2. Before midnight : 27. After midnight : 29.

Temperature And Weather

► Warm room : 3, 27. Warm stove : 40. Open air : 3, 8. Dry cold winds : 7, 27.

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.

Sides

► Right : 3, 32, 33. Left : 3, 8, 19, 28, 32. Both sides : 28. Below upward : 33. Within outward : 3.

Sensations

► The whole body feels heavy.

Tissues

► Ebullitions, distended veins. ► Swelling and induration of glands. ► Dropsy in cavities of body.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Touch : 25, 46. Pressure : 17. Scratching : 46. Worse from motion of bed.

Skin

► Sensitive to touch. ► Red, itching blotches on skin. ► Herpes.

Stages And States

► Light hair. Skin and muscles lax. ► Often indicated with children and women.

Relationship

► Spongia follows well after : Acon., Hepar. ► After Spongia are often indicated : Bromium, Hepar.