SPONGIA TOSTA
Common Name: Roasted Sponge
Mental:
Irresistible desire to sing, followed by
sadness.
Anxiety about the future – loathing of life,
fear of death and suffocation.
Fears something dreadful will happen.
Despondent about loss of sexual power.
Awakens in a fright, in a suffocative feeling,
needs time to rationalize his surroundings.
Mental excitement increases the cough.
Physical:
DRYNESS OF MUCOUS MEMBRANES - of
air passages
"Dry as a Horn."
Glands are easily affected (Thyroid, Cervical
glands, Testes).
Heart and Respiratory affections alternating or
together.
Tubercular remedy (Lungs, Larynx).
TERRIFIED ANXIOUS EXPRESSION OF FACE.
Larynx troubles with great
hoarseness and dryness.
Spasmodic constriction (stridulus)
of Larynx (Gels, Ign).
COUGH - Dry, Barking, rasping,
ringing, wheezing, whistling,
"LIKE A SAW- DRIVEN THROUGH A PINE
BOARD."
During a coughing attack, can remain lying flat.
One of the main remedies for Croup Cough (Acon, Hep, Brom).
Heart Remedy : Violent
palpitation with dyspnoea.
Blood surging up to neck, head and face.
Exhaustion and Heaviness of the body.
Itching without eruption (Alum, Ars, Dol, Mez).
Modalities:
AGG: Dry, cold wind, roused from
sleep, Exertion, before midnight, Sweets (cough).
AMEL: Lying with head low,
eating or drinking warm things.