M1S3 Upper Respiratory Infections

Question 1

Gelsemium Sempervirens
(Gel.)
= Roots of Yellow Jessamine

Answer 1

Slow onset Droopy Cough/flu:
Anticipatory anxiety, apprehension, fever

ACUTE:
• Phobias: Stage fright, performance anxiety, Test and interviews anxiety
• Throbbing throats accompanied with Headaches (>after urination), double vision, feebleness, wilted limbs, fever, intense tired out eyelids; hard to swallow,
• Severe Influenza/coryza on left side w slow onset; summer colds
• Hoarseness, loss of voice, worse from anxiety or fright
• Diarrhea or urgent urination due to anxiety or fright
• Pain: muscle aches, Writer’s cramp, ear aches
• Chemotherapy support; Insomnia, sleep disorders

Triggers and Aggravations:
• Headache > profuse urination and sweating, shaking, PM, continue motion; sitting upright
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Question 2

Antimonium Tartaricum (Ant-t.)
= Antimony Potassium Tartrate

Answer 2

Rattling cough with heavy mucous,
hard to expectorate

ACUTE:
• Bronchitis with weak chest (infants or elderly)
• End-of-Life and Neo-nates (drowning in mucous)
• Rattling chest
• Vaccination effects (Sil, Thuja)
• Headaches with a band feeling
• Fainting
TRIGGERS AND AGGRAVATIONS:
• > After expectoration, sitting erect, motion, vomiting, eructation, lying on Right Side
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Question 3

Drosera Rotundifolia (Dros.)
= Sundew/Red Root

Answer 3

Spasmodic dry cough worsened at night and by heat

ACUTE:
• Barking cough, spasmodic cough, whooping cough
• Scar tissue, new or old (Sil., Graphites)
• Anxiety in solicitude
• Growing pains
• Intense depression

TRIGGERS AND AGGRAVATIONS:
• when stretch; open air, pressure; laughing, vomiting

Question 4

Spongia Tosta (Spong.)
= Sea Sponge

Answer 4

Violent Dry Croupy Cough; Dry Asthma

ACUTE:
• Croup Cough with lots of dryness and preceded by wheezing
• Thyroiditis
• Asthma with no rattling mucous; Asthma with thyroid problems
• ANXIETY: Difficult breathing after a fright or in waking up
• Heaviness and tiredness of the body following a minor physical exertion

TRIGGERS AND AGGRAVATIONS:
• Lying with the head low (descending manner); warm things, eating and drinking a little

Question 5

Rumex Crispus (Rumex)
= Yellow Dock

Answer 5

Violent Dry Cough worst with cold air

ACUTE:
• Dry cough with tickling, feather, dust, hay fever like
• Violent incisive dry cough
• Itching of skin, internal itch as well

TRIGGERS AND AGGRAVATIONS:
• Covering the mouth; wrapping up