Bromium
bromiBromine
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.
Bromium — Materia Medica
Bromium — mind · James Tyler Kent
Palpitation with nausea, palpitation with headache, palpitation with various kinds of nervous excitement. So weak is be gradually becoming that he has an "aversion to every kind of work; to reading. Takes no interest in household duties." Becomes indifferent. Very tired. "Great depression of spirits, Low spirited. Sad and discouraged." Anxiety with most complaints. Headaches from becoming overheated. "Noise in the ears. Throbbing and burning in the ears." And then the complaints of the glands that are so closely associated with the ears. With ear troubles, enlargement of the glands; the parotid becomes enlarged and bard.
Bromium — general · James Tyler Kent
Bromium is one of the routine medicines. It is one of the medicines that the neophyte will make use of for every case of diphtheria and croup, and laryngitis he comes across; and when it does not work he will "try something else." All who prescribe on the name use Bromium as one of their routine medicines; but Bromium is so seldom indicated that most homoeopaths give it up as a perfectly useless medicine. The reason is that they do not take the symptoms of the case and prescribe in accordance with the individualizing method. They do not prescribe for the patient, but for the disease. You may see very few cases of diphtheria calling for Bromium; but when you see a Bromium case you want to know Bromium. There is one underlying feature of the Bromium conditions, they are found especially in those individuals that are made sick from being heated. It there is a diphtheria epidemic and the mother bundles up her baby until she overheats it, and keeps it in a hot room, and it happens to be a child that is sensitive to being wrapped up, and one whose complaints are worse from being wrapped up, look out. You are going to have a Bromium diphtheria. It is indicated also in complaints that come on in the night after a very hot day in the summer. Now, this is as near as you can come to being routine in croup and diphtheria.
Bromium — black letter · Margaret Lucy Tyler
She does not feel as she generally does, hut can’t tell why. Parotids, mostly left, affected. Swelling and hardness of left parotid, warm to touch. Suppuration of left parotid : discharge watery and excoriating : swelling remains hard and unyielding. {Especially after scarlet fever.) Long-continued obstinate Coryza, with soreness beneath nose and on margin of the nose. Grey, earthy colour of Face. Stony hard swelling of Glands, especially on lower jaw and throat. Diphtheria or croup. Periodically much pain in left hypochondrium and iliac regions. Pain violent, as if a sore inside.
Bromium — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
They give Brom. for diphtheria, and when it does not work, they give Merc, cy., and when that does not work they give something else ‘ for diphtheria ', always for diphtheria. They do not take the symptoms of the case, and prescribe in accordance with the individualizing method. They do not prescribe for the patient, but for the disease. You may not see more than half a dozen cases of diphtheria in the next twenty years, but when you see a Bromium case, you want to know Bromium. . . . An underlying feature, of Brom. is especially for individuals that are made sick from being heated. Also complaints that come on after a very hot day in summer. Getting overheated. . . . But after the complaint comes on, no matter wheie it is, he is so dreadfully sensitive to cold that a draught of cool air freezes him to the bones ; but he cannot stand being over-heated. " Glands become hard, indurated ; but seldom suppurate. Remain hard. Inflammation with hardness is the idea. It has cured enlargement and great hardness of the thyroid. Goitre. Bromium with some is a routine goitre remedy, and when that does not work, they try eggshell treatment, and when that does not work they try something else, instead of taking the symptoms of the patient. " Emaciation—and tendency to infiltration : it is not strange that it has been a curative medicine in tuberculosis and cancer. Weakness : legs weak and prostrated ; growing prostration with trembling limbs. Membranous exudate. A natural feature of the mucous membrane is infiltration, so that mucous membrane appears to exudate little greyish-white exudations, and beneath them is induration. That is true in ulcers.
Bromium — head · William Boericke
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.
Bromium — face · James Tyler Kent
A Bromium patient is one that is likely to have flushed face, especially those due to acute Bromium conditions. "Flushed face." He becomes heated easily. But this is entirely the opposite of the chronic constitutional Bromium condition. That is true with a good many remedies, especially many of the antipsorics. The old sickly broken-down constitutions, those needing Bromium for chronically enlarged glands, for goitre, for cancerous affections, will have the "gray, earthy color of the face. Oldish appearance." It is a sickly face, an ash-colored face. "Face ashy gray." Then again we have children that are plethoric, with red face, easily overheated. Of course, when the acute condition is on and the breathing has been that of dyspnoea for several hours or many days, then the patient becomes cyanotic, gasping for breath, and choking, the face becomes ashy pale, as it is in diphtheria, in croup, and in laryngeal affections. "Stony, hard swelling of glands, especially of the lower jaw and throat."
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