Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Its cardiac diseases tend to develop slowly, with actual tissue changes, enlargement of the heart,it takes on a steady growth and the valves become changed, do not fit, hence, there are blowing andwhizzing sound, regurgitation with the mental symptoms. The two are similar in croup, but Spongia isdeeper, slower in onset, taking several days for its development. from exposure to a dry cold wind takes a cold today and, of course, comes downwith croup to-night in the first sleep. Before midnight has a dry spasmodic cough; hoarse cough;Spongia has taken a cold yesterday or the day before. First there is roughness and dryness of themucous membranes, sneezing. Both remedies have croup before midnight with dry, hoarse, barkingcough, sawing respiration and dry air passages. They are so similar that when only partiallycontrols the condition and it returns the next night, or lasts on beyond midnight, Spongia becomes itsnatural follower. Spongia comes in because it was probably the remedy in the beginning. Cases thatBrow worse each succeeding night, hoarse barking and crowing before midnight, though it also has acroup after midnight. It is a deep-acting remedy though its complaints sometimes come on suddenly. is worse at night and in the morning. And when has apparently controlled,but the croup returns the next morning, comes in. Or if it comes on again the next eveningwith rattling will also be suitable. Dry, with no rattling is Spongia. If the child wants to becovered or says that it is chilly, . If it says the room is too warm and kicks the covers off, itneeds .The Spongia patient is worse from a warm room, from heat.Wants to be cool like , but is better from warm drinks, like .The tendency to affect the gland is striking. As a matter of fact all the gland are affected; theygradually enlarge and become increasingly hard. Glands that have undergone inflammation and areincreased in size become hard, or they take on hypertrophy. Hypertrophy of the heart 1.Spongia has cured endocarditis, cardiac croup and many other inflammatory diseases of theheart resulting from rheumatism.Hypertrophy of the thyroid, goiter, when the heart is affected and the eyes protruding. Cervicalglands enlarged; inveterate cases of enlarged testes; orchitis from a suppressed gonorrhea, a cold orother causes; gradually increasing hardness.The whole respiratory apparatus is acted upon; cardiac dyspnoea and the most severe forms ofasthma. Dryness of the air passages with whistling and wheezing, seldom rattling, must sit up and bendforward; at times after great dyspnoea, white, tough mucus forms in the air passages, difficult toexpectorate; it comes up and often has to be swallowed .1 Dyspnoea worse lying down. The modality is common to its other complaints;violent, basilar headache forces him to sit up in bed and keep still. Holding the head in the uprightposition relieves the dull pressure in the occiput.There are many headaches. In the occiput, in the forehead, congestive headaches, but most ofthem are associated with goitre, cardiac affections and asthma; they are due, probably, to sluggishcirculation in the brain.Face distressed in croup; anxious; livid; pale and bloated; blue, pale with sunken eyes; red withanxious expression; alternating red and pale; cold sweat. These symptoms are the natural effects ofdifficult breathing and are, therefore, not essential in the selection of a remedy. As primary symptoms,they would probably indicate , but when due to cardiac difficulties, they are unimportant."Sore throat worse after eating sweet things. Thyroid gland swollen even with the chin; at night,suffocating spells, barking cough, with stinging in the throat and soreness in the abdomen".Enlargement of the tonsils. Difficult swallowing.Spongia is the remedy when dyspnoea and cough arc relieved by warm food; may be betterfrom warm drinks.Laryngeal troubles with great hoarseness, in individuals tending towards phthisis , withtubercular heredity, cachectic aspect, weak lungs, but no deposit of tubercle. But all at once hoarsenesssets in. There is a tendency for the larynx to become involved in phthisical patients that need Spongia.This patient takes an acute cold and it settles in the larynx with hoarseness.Look out for that patient, for there is a tendency for tubercles to deposit where there isinflammation, and the infiltration instead of being fibrinous may become tubercular. Tendency for thelarynx to be first involved in phthisical patients.In Spongia do not look for the exudative, but the infiltrative form of croup.Hoarseness with loss of voice, great dryness of the larynx from a cold; coryza, sneezing, thewhole chest rings, is as dry as a horn; voice hissing, croupy, nose dry. There is very little accumulation