BROMIUM

BROMIUM. [Bromium] Bromine. Hering. Elementary substance.

► In evening when alone, felt as if he would see something if he should around ; as if some one were back of him. ► Expects to see something jump around the floor. ► Desire for mental labor, preceded by aversion to his own profession. ► Crying and lamentations, with hoarse voice. ► Great depression of spirits. ► Low-spirited and out of humor.

► Vertigo : if he puts his foot on a bridge ; from sight of running water ; in damp weather ; with nausea and nosebleed ; with tendency to fall backwards. ► Sensation deep in brain, as if vertigo would come on, or as if he would lose his consciousness.

► Headache ; heavy pressure in forehead in heat of the sun, passes off when in the shade. ► Left-sided headache. ► Headache after drinking milk.

► Pains in the bones of the head, fore and back part ; towards evening in damp weather. ► Crawling beneath the skin of the occiput. ► Scalp tender ; covered with an eruption, with dirty looking and offensive-smelling discharge.

► Sensitiveness to bright light. ► Dilation of the pupils. ► Lachrymation of right eye, with swelling of lachrymal gland. ► Stitches through left eye. ► Throbbing stitches in left upper lid, extending to brow, forehead and left temple ; worse on touching it and from motion ; bitter during rest.

► Ringing in right ear. ► Roaring in ears. ► Stitches in the ears. ► Discharge from the ears. ► Throbbing and burning in ears, may be succeeded by burning through whole body. ► Hard swelling of left parotid gland, feeling warm to touch. ► Suppuration of left parotid, edges of the opening smooth ; discharge watery and excoriating ; swelling remaining hard and unyielding. θ After scarlatina.

► Coryza with sneezing. ► Severe coryza, right nostril stopped up and sore through-out ; later the left. ► Corrosive soreness on margins of nostrils and under the nose, with stoppage or with scurfs. ► Nosebleed, with relief of chest and eye symptoms.

► Face : pale, or red, or alternately so ; bluish tinge turning purplish, with the cough in croup. ► Greyish, earthy complexion. ► Heat in cheeks, first in right, later in left. ► Sensation as of spider-web on face.

► Boring pain going to the right, or on right side of lower jaw. ► Shooting pain on vermillion border of upper lip ; afterwards yellow spots, which open and discharge a yellow fluid. ► Painless swelling of left submaxillary gland.

► Decayed teeth, sensitive to cold water. ► Gums pain in the morning.

► Taste : sweetish ; salty ; bitter ; sour ; acrid. ► Water tastes salty, in the morning, fasting. ► Dry sensation on the tongue. ► Burning on the under surface of the tongue. ► Stinging in the tip of the tongue.

► Burning sensation in the mouth, oesophagus and stomach. ► Mouth dry and parched. ► Aphthae, with affection of the eyes.

► Elongation of the uvula. ► Scraping in the throat. ► Swelling of mucous membrane of fauces and pharynx. ► Tonsils swollen, inflamed ; constant pain in the throat, swallowing difficult, fluids worse then solids. θ After measles. ► Right side of fauces dark red and dry, swallowing painful.

► Desires for acids, which aggravate the symptoms and cause diarrhoea. ► Aversion to the customary tobacco smoking ; it causes nausea and vertigo. ► Aversion to drinking cold water.

► After eating oysters, diarrhoea ; after acids, diarrhoea. ► Gastric symptoms better from black coffee. ► Nausea and pains in stomach, better after eating. See 25. ► After breakfast : 25. After every meal : 20. Drinking milk : 3.

► Hiccough and nausea. ► Eructations : empty ; tasteless ; tasting like foul eggs ; with vomiting of mucus. ► Nausea and retching better after eating.

► Pressure in stomach, like from a stone. ► Pain in the stomach increased by pressure.

► Stitches in the hypochondria ; also from right to left.

► Tympanitic distention of the abdomen and passage of much wind. ► Griping and colicky pains.

► Blind, painful hemorrhoids internally during and after stool ; worse from cold or warm water ; better from wetting with saliva. ► Stools : painless, odorless, like scrapings from intestines ; bright yellow, preceded by cutting and rumbling in abdomen ; light yellow, slimy mucus ; black fecal. ► Diarrhoea : after every meal ; at night. ► Stool : hard, tough, brown and glistening ; breaks to pieces like sheep dung.

► Continued desire to urinate, with tickling sensation in tip of urethra. ► Dribbling of urine, with burning, after urinating. ► Urine : scanty and dark ; turbid, and deposits a whitish sediment adhering to the vessel ; leaves a red coating on vessel ; contains large flakes of white mucus.

► Increased sexual desire. ► Nightly emission. ► Hard, painless swelling of left testicle, painful when driving. ► Coldness of left testicle.

► Dull, constant pain in left ovary. ► Hard swelling in ovarian region. ► Menses : too early and too profuse ; bright red blood ; passive flow with much exhaustion ; membranous shreds may pass off. ► Suppression of menses. θ Scirrhus mammae. ► Headache on appearance of menses. ► Violent contractive spasm before or during menses, lasting hours ; leaving the abdomen sore. ► Loud emission of flatus from vagina. ► Vagina painful, as if sore.

► Hard, uneven tumor in right mamma, firmly adherent to its surroundings, with lancinating pains, worse at night.

► Cold sensation in larynx, with cold feeling when inspiring, after breakfast ; better after shaving. ► Larynx painful to touch ; construction in larynx. ► Scraping and rawness in larynx, provoking cough. ► Contracted sensation internally, in the trachea, or feeling as if the pit of throat were pressed against the trachea. ► Sensation of smoothness and emptiness, at a small spot in the larynx. ► Voice : husky ; hoarse, cannot speak clearly, loss of voice ; weak and soft, with raw, scraped feeling in throat.

► Gasping for breath, with wheezing and rattling in larynx, and spasmodic closure of glottis. ► Deep, forcible inspiration, is necessary, from time to time. ► Difficulty of breathing ; cannot inspire deep enough. ► Sensation as if the air passages were full of smoke. ► Asthma of sailors, as soon as they "go ashore". ► Difficult breathing, must sit up in bed at night. ► Emphysema, rattling of mucus without choking.

► Excited by : tickling in larynx ; scraping and rawness in larynx ; deep inspiration. ► Cough, with sudden paroxysms of suffocation, on swallowing ; respiration very short ; obliged to catch for breath. ► Whooping-cough, with croupish hoarseness of the cough. ► Cough night and day, sounds loose, but no expectoration ; aggravation from exercise and on entering a warm room. ► Sensation of constriction impedes respiration, with dry, tickling cough. ► Much rattling in larynx when coughing.

► Affections begin in bronchi and ascend to larynx. ► Sensation of weakness and exhaustion in the chest. ► Pressure in upper part of chest. ► Sharp stitches in right side of chest, especially when walking rapidly. ► Cutting pains running upwards. θ Phthisis. ► Right lung most affected. ► Paralytic drawing pain through left chest, toward scapula and into left arm. ► Hepatization of lower lobes in pneumonia.

► Pulse much accelerated. ► Violent palpitation of the heart in the evening, so that she cannot lie on the left side. ► Cutting pains running upwards. θ Heart disease.

► Pressure below left clavicle. ► Tearing in left clavicle. ► Stitching pain from mamma to the axilla, cannot bear pressure.

► Stiffness of neck. ► Tearing in right lumbar and dorsal muscles, increased by moving these parts. ► Sore pain in small of back, unchanged by motion.

► Great restlessness and jactitation of arms. ► Left arm feels paralyzed. ► Weakness of the arms. ► Tearing in the arms, especially in hands and fingers. ► Icy-cold forearms or only cold hands.

► Pressive bone pain in left leg. ► Boring pains in one or both tibiae.

► Rest : 5. Motion : 5, 31. Walking : 28. Riding on horseback gives general relief. Exercise : 27, 40. Exertion : 40. Driving : 22. Must sit up : 26. Cannot lie on left side : 29.

► Tremulousness all over ; great languor and debility.

► Continued yawning with the respiratory troubles ; child yawns frequently, and is drowsy. ► Awakes unrefreshed ; it seems impossible to rise. ► Dreams : vivid ; of ascending a height ; of climbing a steep ; of journeyings ; of quarrels ; of dying ; of coffins and funerals. ► Jumping up, out of sleep, with whistling breathing. ► Starts from sleep with cough, drink relieves it.

► Morning : 10, 11. Evening : 1, 4, 29. Night : 20, 22, 24, 27. Every other night : 40. Day and night : 27.

► Heat of sun : 3. Entering warm room : 27. Damp weather : 2, 4. Warm water : 20. Cold water : 10, 14, 20. Wetting with saliva : 20. "On shore" : 26.

► Chill every other day, with shaking, yawning and stretching, and with cold feet. ► Hands cold and moist. ► Internal burning heat, like between the skin and flesh. ► Sweat on the palms. ► Sweat from the least exertion or exercise.

► Periodical pains.

► Right : 5, 6, 7, 9, 13, 24, 28, 31. Left : 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33. Right to left : 7, 8, 18. Left to right : 9. Below upwards : 28, 29, 30.

► Swelling and induration of the glands. ► Enlargement of thyroid, in persons with light hair, blue eyes and fair skin.

► Touch : 5, 25. Pressure : 17, 30. Shaving : 25.

► Tickling, itching, pricking and stitches in the skin, at various places. ► Pimples and pustules. ► Boils on the arms and in the face.

► Acts better, though not exclusively in person with light hair and blue eyes. ► Increased embonpoint.

► Bromium follows Spongia well, in croup. ► Antidote : Amm. carb.