Spongia tosta
spon-tosRoasted Sponge A remedy especially marked in the symptoms of the respiratory organs, cough, croup, etc. Heart affections and often indicated for the tubercular diathesis. Children with fair complexion, lax fiber; swollen glands. Exhaustion and heaviness of the body after slight exertion, with orgasm of blood to chest, face. Anxiety and difficult breathing.
Spongia tosta — Materia Medica
Spongia tosta — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
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.
Spongia tosta — mind · James Tyler Kent
The mental symptoms of Spongia show that it is a heart remedy. When a remedy produces the anxiety, fear, and dyspnoea found in Spongia, it will most likely turn out to be a cardiac remedy, unless these conditions are connected with irritation and inflammatory diseases of the brain. In this drug we find without any cerebral symptoms, marked anxiety, fear of death, and suffocation, associated with palpitation and uneasiness in the region of the heart. It is especially related to cases where there is pain and a sense of stuffiness and fullness in the cardiac region, in the chest, with dyspnoea, anxiety, fear of death, feat, of the future, fear that something dreadful is going to happen. Wakens at night in great fear and it is some time before he can rationalize his surroundings (Aesc., Lyc., Samb., Lach., Phos., and Carbo veg.). Spongia is closely related to Aconite, which also excites the heart, brings on anxiety, fear, and restlessness, fear of death, predicts the hour of death, but this is associated with a marked febrile excitement. Spongia has febrile excitement in a minimum degree. It is much deeper in its action than Aconite. Its cardiac diseases tend to develop slowly, with actual tissue changes, enlargement of the heart, it takes on a steady growth and the valves become changed, do not fit, hence, there are blowing and whizzing sounds, regurgitation with the mental symptoms. The two are similar in croup, but Spongia is deeper, slower in onset, taking several days for its development.
Spongia tosta — general · H.C. Allen
For the tubercular diathesis. Especially adapted to diseases of children and women; light hair, lax fibre, fair complexion (Brom.). Worse after sleep or sleeps into < (Lach.). Swelling and induration of glands; goitre (Brom.).
Spongia tosta — modalities worse · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
DRY, COLD Wind. Roused from sleep. Exertion. Raising arms. Before 12 P.M.
Spongia tosta — modalities better · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
Lying with head low. Eating a little.
Spongia tosta — head · James Tyler Kent
The modality is common to its other complaints; violent, basilar headache forces him to sit up in bed and keep still. Holding the head in the upright position relieves the dull pressure in the occiput. There are many headaches. In the occiput, in the forehead, congestive headaches, but most of them are associated with goitre, cardiac affections and asthma; they are due, probably, to sluggish circulation in the brain. Face distressed in croup; anxious; livid; pale and bloated; blue, pale with sunken eyes; red with anxious expression; alternating red and pale; cold sweat. These symptoms are the natural effects of difficult breathing and are, therefore, not essential in the selection of a remedy. As primary symptoms, they would probably indicate Ars., but when due to cardiac difficulties, they are unimportant. "Sore throat worse after eating sweet things. Thyroid gland swollen even with the chin; at night, suffocating spells, barking cough, with stinging in the throat and soreness in the abdomen."
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