Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

voice and hoarseness, especially in public speakers and singers. Hoarseness and loss of voice; greatdryness in the larynx and all of the air passages. Hard, dry, rasping cough that shakes the whole bodyfrom irritation in the larynx. The irritation travels down the air passages, affecting the trachea, alongwith difficult respiration; asthmatic breathing; clutching in the larynx; suffocation; dyspnoea; spasmsand constrictions of the chest. Violent, stridulous inspiration in the evening on falling asleep; fear ofsuffocation; labored breathing. Paralysis of the lungs; fulness in the chest after eating, much irritationin the larynx; difficult breathing; scraping of mucus from the larynx after eating.In the chest, Phosphorus produces (oppression; anxiety, weakness and constriction going alongwith its chest complaints.Heaviness as if a great weight were lying upon the chest. With the cough, bronchitis,pneumonia and cardiac symptoms there is always more or less constriction of the chest as if bound, oras if bandaged, or as if tied tight with a string. Tightness felt over the sternum, and with all complaintsgreat weakness of the chest; pressure as of a weight over the middle of the sternum; feeling of a rush ofblood to the chest with or without violent pulsations. Sensation of heat in the chest mounting to thehead; flushes of heat in the chest extending upward. Stitching pain in the chest; spasmodic pains in thechest; violent stitching pains in the left side of the chest better by lying on the right side.These are pains likely to occur in pleurisy or in pleurisy with pneumonia. Complaints of chest,worse in cold air. Rawness in the trachea extending into the lungs; burning in the chest; acute pain inthe lower part of the lungs; violent pain in the chest with coughing. The patient is compelled to hold thechest with the hand. Inflammation of the lungs with anxiety, oppression, and expectoration of brightred blood. The Phosphorus patient suffers from copious hemorrhages from the lungs in phthisicalconditions, in inflammation, inflammation of the bronchial tubes with intense fever and violent shakingcough; the body trembles with the cough; tearing pains in the sternum with the cough; suffocation andconstriction of the chest. Pain in the larynx. The expectoration may be blood streaked or rust-colored asit is in pneumonia. It may be purulent. In the later stages it becomes thick, yellow, sweetish.Phosphorus is a useful remedy in old bronchial catarrhs, in complaints that date from pneumonia orfrom bronchitis. Every cold settles in the chest. The lungs seem to be weak. Again, in hepatizationduring pneumonia with hard, dry, hacking cough; in hepatization of the lung during pneumoniaPhosphorus and are the most frequently indicated medicines. Phosphorus isoften the remedy to follow when has been suited to the restlessness, prostration,and anxiety that comes to a place where because of hepatization it is capable of accomplishing no moretoward the cure of a case. If, then, the patient has thirst for ice-cold water, constriction of the chest, dry,hacking cough, paralytic weakness of the lungs, and expectoration of blood or frothy mucusPhosphorus is the best remedy. In pneumonia, there may be burning in the chest, burning in the head,hot cheeks, and fever; gesticulation and delirium; violent thirst for ice-cold water; fan-like motion ofthe nose; difficult breathing; catchy inspiration; lying on the back with the head thrown far back; short,dry cough. The carotids pulsate. Rawness in the chest; bruised feeling in the chest; pains are cutting.burning or sharp and tearing in the lungs when coughing. Suffocation, or inspiration almost impossible,especially at the beginning of hepatization when the face becomes livid and the features pointed withcold sweat and, quick, hard pulse. Frothy expectoration in low forms of pneumonia known as typhoidpneumonia. Threatened paralysis of the lungs. Again, Phosphorus is a useful remedy when tuberculosisis about to make its appearance, in persons who are narrow-chested, slender, and of feeble vitality. Allcolds settle in the chest. After each cold, much rattling, hard cough that shakes the whole body, inpersons who are feeble, pale, sickly, and disposed to hemorrhages. Cough comes on in cold air.Emaciation; emaciation of the chest and neck. Along with these conditions comes hectic feverin the last stages of phthisis; intense fever, red face, and night sweats; fever coming on in the afternoonand lasting until after midnight. A powder of Phosphorus very high will reduce this fever and make thepatient comfortable until death. In all incurable cases after the fever has been reduced, Phosphorusshould not be given, as it will intensify the fever and do just what it was given to avoid. It is notuncommon for a crisis to follow the administration of Phosphorus. Prolonged sweat and diarrhea, theseshould never be interfered with as they will soon stop of their own accord and the patient will be left ina state of quietude. Phosphorus is a dangerous medicine to give very high in some cases of phthisis, inthe last stages of phthisis. In this case they should have received Phosphorus when they were yetcurable. In these cases Phosphorus 30th may sometimes be used with safety and it will act as a test indoubtful cases to see whether reaction can be brought about. In such cases where reaction can bebrought about the administration later of a still higher potency may be found useful, but in thebeginning with Phosphorus in phthisical cases far advanced it is better not to go higher than the 30th or200th. Phosphorus very low will act as a poison in really Phosphorus cases and the only safety some