CASES

BROMIUM

Common Name: Bromium (The Element)

Mental:

Sad, indifferent, low spirited.

Sits alone in room without doing anything, looks constantly in one direction without

saying anything.

Delusion that strange persons are looking over their shoulder or that they would see

someone on turning.

Physical:

Effects respiratory tract esp; Larynx and trachea.

Dyspoea, cannot inspire deep enough, as if breathing through a sponge.

Much rattling of mucus during cough, but no choking, dust aggravates.

Hoarseness or tickling cough from being over-heated.

Asthma in sailors which is agg. on leaving the sea.

Primarily a LEFT sided remedy. Symptoms go from left to right.

Patient is weak and easily overheated, then sweats and becomes sensitive to drafts.

Acrid burning coryza.

Swelling and induration of glands with stoney hardness, esp. on lower jaw and

throat. Agg. by heat. Complaints come in the summer.

Left sided tonsillitis or pharyngitis.

Stoppage of right nostril. Tickling, smarting as from cobwebs.

Hardening or even tumors of the left testicle or ovaries.

KEY NOTES:

Heaviness in occiput of head from heat of sun

Pain in sides of head after milk

Mucus in larynx from being overheated

Suffocative cough on swallowing

Shaking on inspiring

CASES