Respiratory Organs.

Sang.

Expectoration smells exceedingly offensive even to the patient himself.

Sulph.

Weakness in the chest when talking and in the evening when lying down.

Staph.

Cough only in the day time, or only after dinner, particularly after eating meat.

Ipec.

Looses breath with the cough, turns pale or blue in the face and stiffens.

Caust.

Cough is > by a swallow of cold water.

Zinc.

Cough after eating sweet things.

Spong.

Chronic hoarseness and cough, the voice frequently giving out when taling or singing.

Kali nit.

Distressing dyspnoea, thirst but drinks only in sips, for want of breath, must be fanned.

Ferr.

Vomiting of ingesta after every cough.

Conium.

Hacking, almost continual cough, < at night when lying.

Ign.

Frequent sighing or desire to take a deep breath.

Spong.

Cough lessened by eating or drinking, especially warm things.

Zinc.

Spasmodic cough, with such as have large varices.

Cepa.

Severe laryngeal cough which compels the patient to grasp the larynx.

Lach.

Cough during sleep, patient seems to sleep into the cough, or worse also after a nap.

Merc.

Stitching pain through the right lower lung to back when coughing, sweats without relief.

Arnica.

Sensation as of a bruise or soreness of the chest when coughing; expectoration blood streaked.

Cina.

Very frequent returns of a dry, short, hacking cough, followed by swallowing, as if something were rising into the throat (worms).

Digital.

Cough after eating, with vomiting of food.

Lauroc.

Cough, with copious expectoration of mucus, interspersed here and there with bright red points of blood.

Sang.

Continual and severe cough, with or without expectoration; always attended with circumscribed redness of cheeks.

[Chlorine.]

Crowing inspirations, expiration almost impossible.

Gels.

Inspiration long, with crowing sound; expiration sudden and forcible.

Actea rac.

Cough excited by every attempt to speak, so that one is obliged to desist.

Mang.

Spasmodic cough, > on lying down.

Badiaga.

Cough, with expectoration of thick viscid mucus flying out of the mouth.

Laur.

Short titillating cough from cardiac affection.

Squilla.

Cough excited by drinking cold water, with involuntary urination.

Psor.

Dyspnoea > in a recumbent posture, and < when sitting, or when arms are brought near the body.

Naja.

Cardiac cough with sweat in the palms.

Myrtus.

Sharp pain through the upper part of left lung from front to shoulder-blade.

Senega.

Feeling as though the thorax were too narrow, with constant inclination to widen it.

Spong.

Cough dry and sibilant, sounds like a saw driven through a pine board (croup).

Ferr.

Spitting blood, with flying pains in chest, > slowly walking about.

Cina.

Short hacking or gagging cough (worms).

Zinc.

Cough during catamenia.

Spong.

Awakens from sleep in a fright and feels as if suffocating, with dry cough.

Nux mosch.

Sudden hoarseness from walking against the wind.

Senega.

Soreness of the chest walls on moving arms, particularly left.

Naja.

Cardiac dyspnoea with choking sensation.

Ant. crud.

Cough in the heat of the sun, also from coming from cold into warm air.

Apis.

Frequent involuntary deep breathing; long and sighing respirations.

Phos.

Cough in the evening, when reading, laughing, or loud talking, or from lying on left side.

Phos.

Cannot talk on account of pain in the larynx.

Sang.

Cough compels the erect position and ceases on passing flatus up or down.

Caust.

Cough with a sensation as if one could not cough deep enough to raise the mucous.

Rumex.

Cough provoked by change of air, cool or warm, or change in the rhythm of respiration.

Rhus tox.

Putting a hand from under the bed cover brings on cough.

[Astacus.]

Cough did not molest him while walking, but returned as soon as he sat down.

Bryonia.

Intense sticking, or sticking pains in chest; cannot bear to move or draw a deep breath.

Cal. ost.

Shortness or breath on going up the slightest ascent.

Sulph.

She feels suffocated; wants doors and windows open.

Ant. crud.

Looking into the fire increases the cough.

Arum tri.

Chronic hoarseness from speaking or singing (clergyman’s sore throat); compare Argent. met.

Ipec.

Phlegm rattling in the chest, sometimes vomited up; young children.

Eup. perf.

Cough with soreness, hold chest with his hands.

Apis.

Gaping after coughing.

Nux mosch.

Cough when becoming warm in bed.

Phos.

Cough, < coming from warm room into cold air.

Rhus tox.

A dry teasing cough, coming on first before the chill, and continuing through chill (Dunham).

Bryon.

Patient feels as though he must take a long breath, but cannot as the chest will not expand sufficiently, or there is pain in the attempt.

Calc. ost.

Chest painfully sensitive to touch, and sore pain in chest on inspiration; acts more on middle and upper portion of right lung.

Ars. alb.

Consoling words displease and excite cough.

Bryon.

Coming to warm room from cold air < cough.

Arum tri. , Arg. met.

Chronic hoarseness of professional singers and speakers (acute cases Rhus tox ; Ferr. phos. ).

Ignat.

Every time he stands still during a walk he coughs.

Ipec.

Suffocation threatens from constriction in throat and chest; much mucus.

Phos.

Trembling of the whole body when coughing.

Bryon.

Cough < after eating or drinking, with vomiting of ingesta.

Acon.

Blood spitting; blood comes up with an easy hemming, or some coughing, either after mental excitement, after drinking wine, or exposure to dry cold air.

Ant. tart.

Cough grows less frequent; patient shows signs of carbonized blood.

Kali sul.

Coarse rales, much mucus which cannot be coughed up.

Lach.

During the heat of orgasm of blood he is obliged to loosen the clothing about the neck; there is a sensation as though they hindered the circulation of blood; with a kind of suffocative feeling.

Apis.

Great suffocation; feels as though every breath would be his last.

Ant. tart.

Rattling or hollow cough, < at night, with suffocation; throat full of phlegm; sweat on forehead; vomiting of food.

Acon.

Croupy cough, awaking in first sleep, particularly with children, after dry, cold west wind.

Cham.

Tickling in the pit of the throat causes a scraping dry cough, < at night, even in sleep, especially with children taking cold in winter.

Therid.

Cough frequent, convulsive, head spasmodically jerked forward, knees jerked up to abdomen.

Phos.

Dry, tickling cough in the evening; tightness across the chest; expectoration in the morning.

Cocc. cact.

Cough, with expectoration of large quantities of viscid albuminous mucus.

Arnica.

Child cries before the paroxysm of cough as if afraid of the hurt.

Acon.

Lancinating pains through the chest, with dry heat, difficult breathing, after a violent chill in dry cold air.

Therid.

Stitch high up (apex) in left chest to back.

Therid.

Scrofulous when best remedies fail; also phthisis florida in the beginning (Baruch).

Ars. alb.

From climbing mountains, or other muscular exertions, want of breath, prostration, cannot sleep, and other ailments.

Caust.

Cough < when bending forward.

Kali iod.

Stitching pain through sternum to back or deep in chest, < when walking.

Kali carb.

Cough < from 3 to 4 a. m.

Borax.

Expectoration of mouldy taste and smell.

Caps.

The cough expels an offensive breath from the lungs.

Kali bich.

Expectoration of very tough mucus so viscid that it drew in strings down to feet.

Hyos.

Dry spasmodic cough at night, < on lying down, > by sitting up.

Ars. alb.

Breathing asthmatic, must incline the chest forward, must spring out of bed at night, especially about midnight.

Kali carb.

Pain through lower third of right chest to back.

Dros.

During the paroxysms the coughs follow each other so rapidly and violently that he is scarcely able to get his breath.

Cup. met.

Spasmodic cough violent; patient gets stiff, breathing ceases; spasmodic twitchings; after a while consciousness returns, he vomits and slowly recovers.

Kali iod.

Cough with copious expectoration of greenish matter, and tearing out pain in sternum, exhausting night sweats.

Dros.

Great hoarseness, voice has a deep bass sound.

Oxal. acid.

Sharp pains through the lower lobe of the left lung.

Caps.

with the cough pains in different parts of the body.

Baptis.

Awakes with great difficulty of breathing; lungs feel tight, compressed; must have fresh air.

Mangan.

Cough ceasing on lying down.

Stann.

Cough with profuse expectoration of greenish, sweetish, or salty mucus, and great sensation of weakness in chest.

Silicea.

Cough with yellow expectoration thick, yellow, lumpy, purulent, profuse and greenish.

Sepia.

Paroxysms of spasmodic cough, ending in gagging or vomiting.

Carbo veg.

Great suffocation; desires to be fanned; must have more air.

Stann.

Great sense of weakness in the chest, reading or talking produces great exhaustion.

Digital.

When going to sleep the breath fades away and seems to be gone, and the heart slows or stops, then awakens with a gasp to catch it.

Grind.

Bronchitis with heart trouble, loses his breath on falling asleep.

Hep.

Cough increased every time a breath of cold air strikes.

Lach.

Wants to be fanned, but slowly and at a distance.

Medorr.

State of collapse, wants to be fanned all the time, craves fresh air.

Ranunc.

Intercostal rheumatism, chest sore, bruised, < from touch, motion, or turning the body.

Sepia.

Middle right lung.

Arnica.

Whooping cough with ecchymosed eyes, child cries before coughing (dreads the hurt of coughing).

Ant. tart.

When the child coughs there appears to be a large collection of mucus in the bronchial tubes; it seems as if much would be expectorated, but nothing comes.

Caust.

Cough with pain in the hip, and involuntary passage of urine.

Phos.

Pain in chest with coughing, > by external pressure.

Acon.

Agony; has to sit straight up; can hardly breathe; pulse thread-like; vomiturition; sweats, with anxiety; abdomen swollen, particularly under the short ribs (after scarlet fever).

Lycop.

Cough with salty expectoration, < 4 to 8 p. m.

Ignat.

Cough does not decrease the irritation, the longer he coughs the more the irritation to cough increases.

Nat. sulph.

Pain in lower left chest on coughing. Springs up in bed and grasps the chest with hands, loose cough. ( Bryon. dry).

Eup. perf.

Cough decreased by getting on hands and knees.

Puls.

Cough with bitter expectoration.

Sang.

Cough with circumscribed redness of cheeks, and pain in the chest.

Ambra.

Spasmodic cough with frequent eructation of gas. Especially in old people.

Caust.

Inability to expectorate what is raised, must swallow it.

Ant. tart.

If children get angry the coughing spell comes on; also after eating.

Lach.

Suddenly something runs from the neck to the larynx, and interrupts breathing completely; it wakens at night (spasm of the glottis).

Ars. alb.

Sharp, fixed or darting pains in the apex, and through upper third of right lung.

Samb.

Attacks of suffocative cough in children coming on about midnight; with crying, dyspnoea; hands and face turn blue.

Ant. tart.

Coughing and gaping consecutively, particularly children, with crying or dozing and twitching in face.

Kali bich.

Cough with expectoration of very tough mucus, so viscid that it draws out in strings down to the feet.

Carbo veg.

Cough with expectoration in the morning, greenish, purulent, sometimes brownish.

Hepar sulph.

Cough after dry cold wind, with swelling below the larynx, and great sensitiveness to cold air or water; cough with hoarseness all the time, < before midnight or towards morning.

Ignat.

Gets sleepy after every coughing spell.

China.

Cough with a greenish expectoration during the day or in the evening; not at night nor in the morning.

Euphr.

Excessive lachrymation during cough; cough only in daytime (pertussis).

Ant. tart.

The head trembles, particularly when coughing, with an inward trembling, teeth chattering and drowsiness more in the evening and in the warmth.

Caust.

Roughness and hoarseness, even loss of voice, in mornings, with burning and soreness.

Zinc.

Troublesome cough; as soon as he brings up something he feels much relieved (suppressed expectoration).

Ant. crud.

The irritation ot cough is felt in the abdomen.

Spong.

Great dryness of the larynx, with hoarse, hollow, wheezing cough.

Nux vom.

Hard dry cough, with great soreness in the abdomen, or a bruised pain in the epigastrium.

Rumex.

Violent incessant dry cough, fatiguing, with little expectoration, < by pressure, talking and especially by inspiring cold air.

Caps.

 Pain in head as if it would burst; cries out and grasps the head when coughing.