Most marked effects are seen in the respiratory symptoms, especially in
larynx and trachea. It seems to affect especially scrofulous children with enlarged glands. Blond type. Enlarged parotid and goitre. Tendency to spasmodic
attacks. Left-sided mumps. Sense of suffocation;
excoriating discharges, profuse sweats and great weakness. Complaints from being
over-heated. Tendency to infiltrate glands, become hard, but seldom
suppurate.
Mind.–
Delusion that strange persons are looking over
patient’s shoulder and that she would see some one on turning. Quarrelsome.
Head.–
Megrim of left side; worse stooping, especially after
drinking milk. Headache; worse heat of sun and by rapid motion. Sharp pain through eyes.
Dizzy when crossing stream of water.
Nose.–
Coryza, with corrosive soreness of nose. Stoppage of
right nostril. Pressure at root of nose. Tickling, smarting, as
from cobwebs. Fan-like motion of alć (Lyc).
Bleeding from nose relieving the chest.
Throat.–
Throat feels raw, evening, with hoarseness. Tonsils
pain on swallowing, deep red, with network of dilated blood vessels. Tickling in trachea
during inspiration. Hoarseness coming on from being overheated.
Stomach and Abdomen.–
Sharp burning from tongue to stomach.
Pressure as of stone. Gastralgia; better eating. Tympanitic distention of abdomen. Painful
hćmorrhoids, with black stool.
Respiratory.–
Whooping cough (Use persistently for about ten
days). Dry cough, with hoarseness and burning pain behind sternum. Spasmodic cough, with rattling of mucus in the
larynx; suffocative. Hoarseness. Croup after febrile
symptoms have subsided. Difficult and painful breathing. Violent cramping of chest. Chest
pains run upward. Cold sensation when inspiring. Every
inspiration provokes cough. Laryngeal diphtheria,
membrane begins in larynx and spreads upward. Spasmodic constriction. Asthma; difficulty in
getting air into lung (Chlorum,
in expelling). Better at sea, of seafaring men when they come on land. Hypertrophy of heart
from gymnastics (Rhus). Fibrinous bronchitis, great
dyspnśa. Bronchial tubes feel filled with smoke.
Male.–
Swelling of testicles. Indurated, with pains worse
slight jar.
Female.–
Swelling of ovaries. Menses too early; too profuse,
with membranous shreds. Low spirited before menses. Tumor in breasts, with stitching pains;
worse left. Stitch pains from breast to axillć. Sharp shooting pain in left breast, worse,
pressure.
Sleep.–
Full of dreams and anguish; jerking and starting
during sleep, full of fantasy and illusions; difficult to go to sleep at night, cannot sleep
enough in morning; trembling and weak on awaking.
Skin.–
Acne, pimples and pustules. Boils on arms and face. Glands stony, hard, especially on lower jaw and throat. Hard
goitre (Spong). Gangrene.
Modalities.–
Worse, from
evening, until midnight, and when sitting in warm room; warm damp weather when at rest and
lying left side. Better, from any motion; exercise, at
sea.
Relationship.–
Antidotes: Ammon carb;
Camph. Salt inhibits the action of Brom.Compare: Conium; Spongia; Iod; Aster; Arg nit.
Avoid milk when taking Brom. Hydrobromic acid (Throat
dry and puckering; constriction in pharynx and chest; waves of heat over face and neck;
pulsating tinnitus with great nervous irritability (Houghton); vertigo, palpitation; arms
heavy; seemed as if parts did not belong to him. Seems to have a specific effect on the
inferior cervical ganglion, increasing the tonic action of the sympathetic, thus promoting
vaso-constriction. Relieves headache, tinnitus and vertigo, especially in vaso-motor stomach
disturbance. Dose, 20 minims).
Dose.–
First to third attenuation. Must be prepared fresh, as
it is liable to rapid deterioration.
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