Spongia Tosta
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General EN
Spongia Tosta.
Common Sponge, roasted. N. O. Coelenterata. Tincture (20 grains in 400 drops of alcohol).
Clinical EN
Aneurism. Angina pectoris. Asthma. Catalepsy. Chin, affections of. Clumsiness. Constipation. Cough. Croup. Diplopia. Exophthalmos. Fainting. Goître; exophthalmic. Heart, hypertrophy of. Hernia. Jaw-joint, pain in. Laryngismus. Laryngitis. Myopia. Rheumatic fever. Rheumatism. Testicles, inflammation of. Tuberculosis. Varicosis. Whooping-cough. Worms.
Characteristics EN
According to Hahnemann, Toasted Sponge was first mentioned as a specific for goître by Arnald von Villanova in the thirteenth century; but it was generally given mixed with other substances, and had fallen into disuse when Hahnemann proved it. The virtues of Spongia have been attributed to the Iodine contained in it, and partially liberated by the presence of roasting. But Spongia contains many other elements besides Iodine, and it has a distinctive action of its own. It is antipodal to Iod. in this respect, that it is best Suited to blue-eyed, fair-haired patients, whereas Iod. acts best on brunettes.
Spo. is suited to scrofulous affections, and is often indicated with women of lax fibre, and children. One of the keynotes of Spo. is Dryness of mucous membrane—of tongue, pharynx, larynx, trachea. Cough is caused by dryness. The cough itself is dry, intensely hacking, crowing, "dry as a bone," or sounding like a saw being driven through a pine board.
Dry asthma. In laryngismus, croup, and asthma the patient rouses up generally after midnight with fear of suffocation and death. The sputa cannot be raised, must be swallowed, swallowing >. In laryngismus there is contraction of larynx as if suddenly grasped.
With the dyspnoea there is terrible sinking; he seems to be sinking down in a pit. The larynx is sensitive, but has not the hyperaesthesia of Lach. Like Lach. Spo. has < after sleep.
Rouses up in sleep as if in a great fright. Cough is excited by talking; by dry, cold winds; > by eating or drinking; by swallowing; especially > by warm food. Sweets <.
Spo meets some cases of true tuberculosis; of larynx; of apices, with commencing solidification; tubercles spreading downwards. Congestion of chest coming on when the patient is moving about with sudden weakness as if he would fall. Rawness in the chest is another note of Spo. The action of Spo. on the respiratory organs is closely connected with its action on the glandular system, the lymphatics, the thyroid, and testes are indurated.
The blood, heart, and veins are also involved, and with the protruding eyes a perfect picture of exophthalmic goître is produced. Hypertrophy of the heart is frequently met by Spo., and it is especially indicated when the right heart is affected and when asthmatic symptoms are associated with it. Spo. meets some cases of croupous deposit on the valves of the heart as it does croup of the larynx. The Spo. patient in phthisical and other conditions is subject to frequent flashes of heat.
The chill commences usually across the back. He shakes near a warm stove. The heat which follows extends over the whole body except the thighs, which remain numb and chilly. In the heart affections the patient is aroused from sleep as if smothering; sits up in bed with an anxious look, flushed face, and hard, rapid breathing.
Kent (M. A., xxv. 17) gives this indication: "Rheumatic fever after having been over-heated, with arising heart complications." Nash gives this keynote of Spo. in valvular diseases: "Awakes out of sleep from a sense of suffocation, with violent, loud cough, great alarm, agitation, anxiety, and difficult respiration." He says it is better than Lach. here; and relieves the "dry, chronic, sympathetic cough of organic heart disease" more frequently and more permanently than Naja. Spo meets also thickening of joints after rheumatic fever.
In orchitis, with heaviness and screw-like squeezing pain in cord and testicle, Spo is the chief remedy, though others are generally needed before that stage is reached. Timidity, fear, and terror are leading mental symptoms. Any excitement and thinking of symptoms <. Peculiar Sensations are: As if head would fall to one side.
As if tipsy. As if all her blood were mounting to head. As if skull would burst. As if hair were standing on end.
Eyes as if twisted around. As if a battery of guns were discharged in ears. Stitches as if passing through tympanum. Nodule in concha as if it would gather and break.
Jaw as if dislocated. As if eruption were to appear near chin. Left side of chin as if ulcerated. As if something had got jammed between teeth in chewing.
As if gums and teeth were swollen, the latter being lifted. Outside of throat as if something were being pressed out. As of a plug in throat. As if he had drunk a great deal of luke-warm water, relaxation of stomach, and oesophagus.
Pit of stomach as if growing together. Stomach as if standing open. Of obstruction in abdomen (and in trachea). As if something alive moving in abdomen.
As if something alive beneath skin of abdomen. As if diarrhoea would ensue. As of a plug in larynx. As if a stopper or valve were in larynx.
As of a nail pressing in larynx. As if larynx and trachea were removed. As if she would suffocate. As if child could not get breath.
As if breathing through a sponge. As if chest would burst. Chest as if sore and bloody. As of a large accumulation and weight at chest.
As if a broad body armed with points were pressing upward. As if a weight were dragging down on chest. As if she had something hot inside chest. As if blood would burst out of chest.
As if cervical glands were swelling. As if skin of neck were compressed between fingers. As if air were passing up and down thyroid and cervical glands. Thyroid gland as if hardened.
As if everything were shaking and moving about in goître. As if goître were alive. As if a pointed instrument were thrust into scapulae. As if bones of forearm were being pressed together.
As if parts in and between wrists were weakened by decay. As if a muscle were too short in upper end of thigh. As if knees would give way. As if weight hanging on lower end of tibia As of pins in heels.
As if she were going to faint. As if everything were in flames. As if sweat would break out. There is excitement of the nerves; tendency to start; twitching of muscles, with fever.
Stiff without ability to move. "Conscious but unable to act on her limbs" (as in a cataleptic state). Clumsiness of body. Faint when losing her breath.
Feeling of numbness of lower half of body. < When thinking of her symptoms. Complaints extend downwards; from within out; from right to left. There are cramp-like pains.
Bitter taste in throat. Aversion to tobacco. Desire for dainties (but sweets <). The symptoms are < by touch and pressure.
Scratching does not > biting itching. < Motion; walking; stooping; rising; raising arms (becomes faint); talking; singing. Bending forward > dyspnoea; < symptoms of circulation.
> Descending. > Resting in horizontal position. Lying with head low <. Lying right side <.
< At night. Before midnight: croup <; dry sound of breathing and cough sleepless until midnight. After midnight: wakes with palpitation with suffocation. < Warm room.
> Warm food or drink. Frosty weather > cough. Dry, cold weather > headache. Cold weather = coryza.
Cold air < cough. < Sudden changes of atmosphere. < At full moon. < Periodically; every night.
Eating and drinking > cough; drinking = cough. < Sweets. < After sleep.
Relations EN
Antidoted by: Camph. Follows well: Aco., Hep. Followed well by: Bro., Carb. v., Hep. [Boenninghausen's croup powders consisted of a sequence of Aco., Hep., Spo., given in that order. Spo. is dry;
Hep. rattling; Spo. < before midnight; Hep.
< after.] Compare: In general affections, Chlo., Bro., Iod. (Iod. dark, Spo. fair subjects), Thyroidin, Badiaga. Laryngitis, Samb. (with Samb. the spasms occur frequently);
Lach. (sensitive to touch; Lach. from hyperaesthesia; Spo. from inflammation of cartilages).
Cough > by eating, Anac. Dry tongue, Nux m. (with Spo. the dryness extends downwards; not with Nux m.). > Warm drinks, Ars., Alm., Lyc., Nux, Rhus (> cold drinks, Ver.).
Heart, Naj., Sep., Kalm., Abro., Lach. Orchitis, Gels., Pul., Ham. (intense soreness), Merc. (with a little yellowish-green gonorrhoea)
Spo. comes after these when there is induration. Bitter taste in throat (Ruta, nausea in throat). Jaw-joint as if dislocated, Rhus. < Thinking of symptoms, Ox. ac., Pip. m.
Tubercular diathesis, Bac., Tub. Voice fails, Alm., Dro.
Mind EN
Disconsolate and lachrymose humour
Timidity and tendency to be frightened
Combative and boastful humour
Immoderate and mischievous gaiety
Great inclination to sing
Mental obtuseness, with complete disinclination and incapacity for attending to intellectual labour
Distraction of mind
Pert, witty humour
Alternately gay, lachrymose, and cross
Conscious but unable to act on her limbs
Fancies appear on, shutting eyes
Fretful and anxious about her condition, fears she will die of suffocation
Anxious sweat and faintness
She is very timid, and is esp. pursued and incessantly tormented by a frightful scene of some mournful event of the past
Anxious as from presentiment
Fright awakens
Satiety of life, with the heat
Obstinacy
Every exertion < the cough.
Head EN
Vertigo, with giddiness, to such an extent as to fall, sometimes in evening, or else with a sensation as if head were about to fall on one side
Vertigo, with nausea, on waking at night
Heaviness and fulness of head
Dull semilateral headache on entering a warm room from the open air
Headache, with lachrymation, when looking fixedly at an object
Pressive headache, sometimes with compression
Pressing headache in (r.) frontal eminence, from within to without, < when sitting, when entering a warm room, after walking in the open air, when looking intensely at anything;
> when lying on back in a horizontal position
Sharp stitches in l. temple extending to forehead
Pains in head as if it were about to split, esp. in forehead
Throbbing and pulsation in head
Congestion of blood in head, with pressing, beating, and pulsation in forehead, with redness of face, anxious look, restless sleep, > in a horizontal position
Disagreeable tenderness of exterior of head
Sensation as if hair were standing on end (on vertex)
Troublesome (violent) itching in scalp.
Eyes EN
Eyes dull and clouded, with puffing in lids
Eyes deeply sunk; or protruding, staring
Maculae of cornea
On looking intensely at one spot lachrymation and headache
Pressure and shootings in eyes
Eyes burning, red, and weeping
Agglutination of lids
Eruption of yellow scabies in eyebrows (painful to touch on l. eyebrow)
Pressive heaviness of lids
Contraction of lids in morning
Myopia
Sees visions on closing eyes
Double vision > lying down.
Ears EN
Otalgia, with contractive pain
Pressure in ears
Ulceration of external ear
Pain in cartilages as from soreness, not affected by touch
Boils on l. ear painful to touch
Inflamed nodule in l. concha
Red swelling of l. helix
Heat in ears
Hard hearing
Dull ringing in ears; in r.
Nose EN
Epistaxis, esp. after blowing nose (at dinner)
Fluent coryza, with much sneezing
Dry coryza; nose stuffed up
Eruption on point of nose.
Face EN
Paleness of face, with dulness of eyes (with sunken eyes)
Face bloated, red, or bluish, with anxious expression; heat on one side of face, renewed when thinking of it
Cold sweat on face
Swelling of cheeks
Itching and shootings in cheeks
Eruption on lips
Spasmodic pain in maxillary joints
Tension in articulation of l. jaw (when walking in the open air)
Stitches transversely through l. upper jaw
Cramp-like pain from l. jaw-joint to cheek in evening when eating
Swelling of the submaxillary glands with tensive pain; painful to touch
Numbness in chin
Heat in chin.
Teeth EN
Sensation of bluntness and looseness in teeth while masticating
Itching and shootings in teeth
Heat in teeth
Swelling of gums, with pain during mastication.
Mouth EN
Mouth and tongue covered with vesicles, with burning and shooting pain (on that account cannot eat any solid food)
Salivation
Speech difficult
Tongue dry and brownish
Vesicles on edge of tongue.
Throat EN
Burning sensation and stinging in throat
Rawness, swelling, and scraping in throat
Penetrating tickling in throat, toward ear
Sore throat < after eating sweet things
Throat symptoms > lying down
Constantly recurring needle-like stitches above pit of throat, externally, in lower part of goître
Sticking internally in throat, esp. after eating
Thyroid gland swollen and hard, with suffocative attacks at night; stitching pains and pressure
Bitter taste in throat
In oesophagus: heat; relaxed sensation
Swelling in fauces projecting from r. to l
Swallowing difficult
On swallowing: stitches in neck pass off; violent straining pain; pain in goître; moving sensation in goître.—(Goître painful, pain synchronous with cardiac pain
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T.
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Appetite EN
Diminished taste
Bitter taste, sometimes only in throat
Sweetish taste in mouth
Moderate appetite and speedy satiety
Increased appetite
Excessive, insatiable hunger
Desire for dainties
Thirst, sometimes insatiable
Thirstlessness; rarely thirst with chill
Violent thirst after smoking
Tobacco smoke is disagreeable
After a meal, fulness and pains in abdomen, as from difficult digestion
Eating and drinking > cough
Drinking milk, ale, spirits, cold or hot tea, cold water = cough.
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Stomach
Risings, sometimes with cuttings and tearings in stomach
Bitter risings
Sour regurgitations
Frequent hiccough
Nausea, with acidity in mouth
Craves dainties; after eating has dyspeptic distress and fulness of stomach;
> from warm drinks, esp. colicky pains in abdomen
Vomiting after having partaken of milk
Relaxation of stomach, with sensation as if it were open
Aching in stomach and scrobiculus
Pressure of (tight) clothing on stomach is unbearable
Contractive pains in stomach
Stitches in region of stomach from least pressure
Chill in pit of stomach
Craving at stomach before menses.
Abdomen EN
Abdomen hard and tight
Spasms in abdomen
Violent action of abdominal muscles during inspiration
Viscera drawn up against diaphragm
Pain in l. side of abdomen; digging and choking;
> after discharge of wind; at times as if something alive were moving there
Pain in abdomen instead of menses
Fine stitch externally in abdomen
Heat in abdomen
Digging and obstruction in abdomen
Gripings in abdomen, after a meal
Rumbling in the abdomen, esp. in evening and morning when lying down
Pain as from a hernia in inguinal ring
Swelling and inflammation of l. inguinal ring
Swelling of inguinal glands.
Stool And Anus EN
Hard (insufficient) and retarded evacuations
Loose, whitish evacuations
Before the evacuation shootings in the anus and gurgling and rumbling in the abdomen
During the evacuation tenesmus in the anus
Itching, smarting, and pain as from excoriation in anus
Passage of ascarides from rectum and tingling in rectum
Diurnal diarrhoea with a large number of ascarides, after which she always feels great relief.
Urinary Organs EN
Increased secretion of urine
Frequent want to urinate, with scanty emission
Incontinence of urine (in whooping-cough)
Small stream of urine
Frothy urine
Thick, whitish, greyish, or yellow sediment in the urine.
Male Sexual Organs EN
Spasmodic contraction in the testes
Hard swelling of the testes, and of the spermatic cord, with pressive pain
Drawing, painful stitches extending from body through glans
Voluptuous itching at point of glans for several hours, urging him to rub it
Pinching, bruised, squeezing pain in testicles
Stitches from testicles into spermatic cord.—(Gouty pains in testicles in old men
R.
T.
C.)
Heat in genitals, penis, scrotum, testes, and cords
Sexual desire very moderate
Absence of erections.
Female Sexual Organs EN
Catamenia too early and profuse
Before the catamenia, palpitation of the heart, following pain in back
During the catamenia, drawing in the thighs
Enlargement and induration of ovaries.
Respiratory Organs EN
[Affections in general of larynx and trachea, particularly in all such affections as croup, asthma, &c., where everything is perfectly tight and dry, no loose rattling sound appearing in the breathing or cough
Burning sensation is felt in throat after coughing, suffocative attacks of breathing (as in asthma), without any mucous rattle; respiration loud; very hollow voice, all without any rattling sound, or any looseness
H.
N.
G.]
Hoarseness (voice cracked); sometimes with cough and coryza
Weak, husky voice, which fails in singing and conversation
Pain in larynx on touching it, and on turning head
Pressure in larynx when singing
Sensation of obstruction (as from a plug) in larynx, with impeded respiration
Dyspnoea > by bending the body forward
Roughness and dryness in throat
Burning pain in larynx and trachea
Cough, proceeding from bottom of chest with pain as from excoriation and burning sensation
Cough, with yellowish expectoration and hoarseness
Great dryness of larynx, < from hawking
Sensation in region of thyroid and cervical glands on breathing, as if forced in and out
Hollow, dry, barking or whistling cough, day and night, < towards evening, and sometimes with pain in larynx
Laryngeal cough, croupy-sounding, always goes away with a dose of Spo.
(woman, 65
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T.
C.)
Cough, with expectoration of viscid mucus
Expectoration: scanty, of saltish mucus; tenacious, yellow, indurated, sour; loosened mornings but must be swallowed again; smelling like milk; of yellow mucus in little lumps; of cutaneous masses
Dry cough, excited by a burning tickling in the larynx
Slow and deep respiration, as from weakness
Wheezing respiration
Wheezing, whistling, sawing, anxious breathing;
< during inspiration and when lying down (with violent labouring of abdominal muscles)
Mucous râle in trachea by fits.
Chest EN
Respiration, quick, anxious, and difficult, sometimes with fits of suffocation, and mucous rattling in chest
Short, panting respiration, surging from heart into chest, as if it would force out upward
Awakens from sleep with suffocative sensation
Fixed, lancinating, and pressive pain in region of bronchia
Spasmodic, constrictive pains in whole chest (and larynx)
Pain in chest, with dyspnoea
Fulness and obstruction in chest
Shootings in chest
Burning sensation, which ascends into chest
Burning; rawness, soreness in chest
Ebullition of blood (congestions) in chest after slightest effort and least movement, with obstructed respiration, anguish, nausea, and weakness, which induces syncope.
Heart EN
Pains and anxiety in region of heart
Constricting, stinging, pressing pain in cardiac region
Palpitation of heart (before menstruation), with suffocation, violent gasping respiration, pain in heart
Rheumatic affections of valves of heart (fibrous deposit on valves)
Violent palpitation of heart, beats rapid (each beat was accompanied by a loud blowing as of a bellows), awakens him after midnight, with a sense of suffocation, loud cough, great alarm, agitation, anxiety, and difficult respiration
Pulse full, hard, and frequent.
Neck And Back EN
Painful tension and rigidity in muscles of neck, nape, and throat; on l. side when turning head to r
Neck cold in evening
Back of neck snaps on stooping
Goître large and hard, with pressure, tingling, and shootings
Cramps in the muscles of neck
Coldness in back, not > by warmth of stove
Sacrum sore before menses
Sensation of numbness in loins and buttocks
Drawing, tearing, and pressive pain in loins.
Limbs EN
Painful weariness in arms and legs.
Upper Limbs EN
Jerking of muscles about l. shoulder-joint
Heaviness and trembling of forearms and hands
Drawings in forearms and joints of hands
Large blisters in the forearm
Swelling of hands, with stiffness of fingers
Redness and swelling in joints of fingers, with tension when they are bent
Numbness in points of fingers
Cramp-like pain in ball of (r.) thumb; on moving hand it extends to thumb.
Lower Limbs EN
Nates and thighs numb and cold
Jerking of muscles of buttocks
The thighs are spasmodically drawn forward or backward
Irritation and restlessness of both legs
Tearing in tibia all afternoon
Rigidity of legs
Drawing and tearing in legs and feet, sometimes at night only.
Generalities EN
Uncomfortable feeling of the clothes, they being an oppression and annoyance to the wearer; growing pains; darting pains from within outward; itching, no better from scratching Troubles in general of any kind appearing in the sexual organs, esp. r. side; testicles and spermatic cord; anterior surface of thigh Phthisis pulmonalis, cough, breathing, &c., being very tight and dry.—< From turning head; on ascending (going up stairs, up a hill, rising from a chair, &c.); from tobacco; wind; from the west wind.—> On descending
Stinging pain in limbs, esp. joints Painful sensitiveness of body to touch, with chilliness on the parts touched, or with tingling running through whole body Sensation of torpor in lower part of body Heaviness when walking in open air, must sit down
Heaviness (and soreness) of the body (when rising from a seat) Excessive moral and physical dejection Extreme exhaustion and heaviness of the body after slight exertion, with orgasm of blood in chest, heat of face, vessels hard and distended, great anxiety, and difficult breathing More relief is experienced from lying down quietly than from any other position
Fits of anguish, with pain in region of heart.
Skin EN
Swelling and induration of the glands
Itching shootings in the skin, esp. on becoming warm in bed
Sensation of something creeping over the skin, with redness and heat of the part when it has been scratched
Red, itching spot (blotches) on the skin
Itching eruptions
Miliary eruptions
Tetters.
Sleep EN
Sleepy, yawning, no activity, afternoons
Sleeplessness, with fantastic dreams and delirium on going to sleep
Sad, anxious, frightful dreams
Awakens towards morning from a jerk upwards from the larynx, as if she would suffocate, must sit up, and raises sour, salty mucus.
Fever EN
Pulse full, hard, and quick
Frequent shiverings over the whole body, esp. the back (even near a warm stove)
Violent heat, soon after the chill, with dry, burning heat all over the body with the exception of the thighs; they remain numb and chilly
Anxious heat, with red face and weeping, inconsolable mood
Cool perspiration on the face in evening
Morning, sweat over the whole body
Flushes of heat
Feverish heat, with skin dry and hot, continued thirst, headache, and delirium
Nocturnal perspiration.