Bromium
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
Bromine
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Keynotes
Bromium
Bromine. The Element.
It acts best, but not exclusively, on persons with light-blue eyes, flaxen hair, light eyebrows, fair, delicate skin; blonde, red-checked, scrofulous girls.
Sensation of cobweb on the face (Bar., Bor., Graph.).
Fan-like motion of alge nasi (Ant. t, Lyc.).
Sailors suffer with asthma “on shore.’’
Stony, hard, scrofulous or tuberculous swelling of glands, especially on lower jaw and throat (thyroid, submaxillary, parotid, testes).
Diphtheria: where the membrane forms in pharynx;
beginning in bronchi, trachea or larynx, and extending upwards ; chest pains running upwards.
Membranous and diphtheritic croup; much rattling of mucus during cough, but no choking (as in Hepar) ; sounds loose, but no expectoration (Ant. t).
Croupy symptoms with hoarseness during whooping-cough; gasping for breath.
Dyspnoea : cannot inspire deep enough ; as if breathing through a sponge or the air passages were full of smoke or vapor of sulphur; rattling, sawing; voice inaudible; danger of suffocation from mucus in larynx (in bronchi. Ant. t. ).
Hypertrophy of heart from gymnastics in growing boys (from calisthenics in young girls, Caust.).
Physometra; loud emission of flatus from the vagina (Lyc.) ; membranous dysmenorrhoea (Lac c.).
Cold sensation in larynx on inspiration (Rhus, Sulph.) ;> after shaving (< after shaving, Carbo an.).
tions, Chlor., Hep., Iod., Spong.
Hard goitre cured after Iod. failed.
Brom. has cured in croup after failure of Iod., Phos., Hep., Spong. ; especially in relapses after Iod.
“The chief distinction between Brom. and Iod. is, the former cures the blue-eyed and the latter the blackeyed patients.” — Hering.
What the other books say about Bromium
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Bromium in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Bromium in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Bromium in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Bromium in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Bromium — Keynotes, pp. 64–65. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/bromium. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.