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larynx. It has constriction of the larynx, just like a clutching, a spasm. "Tickling in the larynx, withirritation to cough. Scraping and rawness in the larynx.Sensation of coldness in the larynx". That is a very peculiar symptom with Bromium. Inlaryngitis, where the patient says the feeling is as if it was covered with down. I have heard themdescribe it as if it was covered with velvet, but it feels so cold. The air breathed feels cold, just like itwas the air blown off from snow or ice. Sensation of coldness in the larynx."Constant sore pain in the larynx". This means that the larynx is painful to touch. Phos., Bell.,and Rumex have soreness in the larynx, sore to touch; but the Bromium soreness is commonly belowthe larynx and in the throat pit as well. "Sensation as if the air tubes were full of smoke". Some patientswill describe that as sulfur fumes, or as of smoke from tar. After the first few hours mucus begins toaccumulate in the larynx and trachea, and a constant expectoration keeps up, of a whitish thick mucus,and he coughs and scrapes the larynx constantly, and there is no peace.This is often present in laryngitis without any membranous formation. Bromium is not given asoften as it is indicated in voicelessness, in irritation of the larynx, in rawness of the larynx, because it isuncommon for persons to have laryngitis and hoarseness in the larynx from being overheated. Many ofthose cases would be cured promptly by Bromium. But where it is thought of by the routine prescriberis where there is croup or diphtheria. That was never taught by Hahnemann. "Much rattling of mucus inthe larynx. Inspiration very difficult. Larynx drawn down". This would take place in croup, after theformation of the membrane. "Cough hoarse, crowing, suffocative; breathing sawing, whistling. Spasmsof the larynx; suffocative cough. Membranous formation in larynx and trachea. Croupous inflammationformed by exuberant growth of fungi". "Asthma of sailors as soon as they go ashore"; relieved again assoon as they are at sea. Difficult breathing with rattling throughout the chest. Bronchitis andpneumonia. Bromium is often the remedy when whooping cough is prevailing in the spring, towardsthe hot weather, and membranes form in the larynx. The cough gets immediately worse from dust.Handling old books from the shelf aggravates. Sneezing, hoarseness, irritation in the respiratorytract from picking up and handling dusty things. "Cough, with Sudden paroxysms of suffocation onswallowing". Bromium is full of catarrhal conditions, especially of the breathing apparatus. It hashepatization of the lungs; infiltration is one of its most natural features.BRYONIA ALBA [bry] [Kent’s]Every medicine has a sphere of action, a peculiar nature whereby it differs from all othermedicines, and hence it becomes suitable to complaints of one class and not suitable to those ofanother. It is like the nature of human beings, as they differ from each other, and also like the nature ofdiseases, which differ from each other in character. We study a remedy also in regard to its velocity andcontinuance, its remittence or intermittence. The symptoms of some remedies come on suddenly, withgreat violence, with great rapidity, stay but a short time in their paroxysm, and go off as if nothing hadhappened. Others come on slowly, are deep acting and continuous, like the continued fevers. We noticethe complaints of Ignatia, how flitting and intermittent and unexpected everything is; we notice inAconite how complaints come on with violence, and in Belladonna with what suddenness they comeon. When we come to the study of Bryonia we find it is a most persistent remedy; its complaintsdevelop slowly, i.e., slowly for acute conditions. Its complaints are continuous, remittent, and onlyoccasionally intermittent. They increase into violence, but the violence is not the first flash as inAconite or Belladonna, and hence it conforms to a type of disease with continued fever; to rheumatismsthat come with gradually increasing severity, gradually increasing and involving one joint after another,until all the white fibrous tissues are in a state of inflammation, pain and distress. It has inflammatoryconditions anywhere about the body, but particularly of the fibrous tissues, serous membranes,ligaments of joints and aponeuroses. It also affects the coating of nerves with its congestions, and thesegradually increase in severity.From the beginning there are present the characteristic features, and it may be seen that thispatient is coming down with a Bryonia sickness. The patient has several days of preparation. He doesnot feel very well, is languid and tired, does not want to be spoken to, does not want to move, and thisgradually increases; pains begin to flit over the body, they move around here and there over the fibersin one place and another, and every time he moves the pains increase, until they and in a steady andcontinuous pain. The parts become hot and inflamed, and at last he is down with rheumatism. Thecomplaints come on after taking cold, not the first few hours, as in Aconite or Bell., but the day after anexposure he begins to feel uneasy and he sneezes and the nose discharges, there is rawness in the chest,and in a day or so he has a chill and comes down with some inflammatory trouble, pneumonia orpleurisy. Its inflammatory complaints include inflammation of the membranes of the brain, sometimesextending into the cord; the pleural membranes, the peritoneum and the heart covering, these are the