Spongia tosta
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
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Keynotes
FLABBY. Weak and heavy. Feels stuffed up. Orgasms. Hard swellings; glands (ductless). .................... Terrified, anxious look. Eyes seem to protrude. Sorethroat, < sweets. Painfully swelled spermatic cord and testes; stitches in; squeezing in. Hard testes. Noisy, whistling inspiration on falling to sleep. SUFFOCATION; as from a plug, leaf or valve in larynx; waking him; with violent, painful palpitation and blue lips; with heavy sweat. Anxious, gasping breathing. HOLLOW BARKING, CROWING, SAWING OR TIGHT CROUPY COUGH; wakes child; then burning in chest; < cold drinks or excitement; > eating. Voice gives out. Croup; sudden. HOARSENESS. Larynx pains, < touch, singing, talking or swallowing; he grasps it. Diphtheria. Neck; as if a cord about. Choking on falling to sleep. Goitre. Fulness in chest. Apical phthisis. HEART; surgings mount up to neck, head and face; with closure of eyelids and tears. Palpitation. Goitre-heart. Valvular disease. Numb fingertips or lower half of body. Awakes in anxiety. Heat; in spells, with anxiety and cardiac pain, would rather die; and sudden weakness after walking in open air, he must lie down; with cold, moist thighs; < thinking of it. Follows: Cact.
Worse
DRY, COLD Wind. Roused from sleep. Exertion. Raising arms. Before 12 P.M.
Better
Lying with head low. Eating a little.
Region
HEART; valves. Larynx. Trachea. Glands.
Relationships
Related: Iod. Led.
What the other books say about Spongia tosta
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Spongia tosta in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Spongia tosta in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Spongia tosta in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Spongia tosta in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Spongia tosta — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/spongia-tosta. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.