Week 8 Cough Flashcards
Chapters to look in
Mind - anxiety Cough Chest-inflammation (lungs, bronchioles, etc) Chest-pain Expectoration Throat Nose Larynx
Aconite Napellus
Illness comes on very suddenly, anxiety during cough, or frightened. Death feels imminent. Cough from dry, cold wind, grasping larynx during cough. Loud barking cough.
Cough during dry fever.
*Acute Miasm
Antimonium Tartaricum
Consider in people that are very weak and drained. Face pale/cyanotic. Elderly people. They are so weak they can’t get the expectoration up. You hear a gurgling or rattling in the lungs.
Twitching of the face during cough, suffocative wheezing cough. Gasping, sleepiness.
*Keynote: Yawning after coughing
Argentum Metallicum
Raw or sore pain in throat or trachea during cough. Cough in daytime only. Cough from cutting pain in trachea. Cough after anger. Singing and laughing aggravate the cough.
*Made of silver
Badiaga
Weeping, sneezing, with cough and Coryza. Forcible/spasmodic cough.
What is triggering their cough? Tickling in larynx
*Keynote: Mucus flies from mouth when coughing
*Made from a fresh water sponge. Spongia is from salt water. Both known for the respiratory tract.
Bromium
Cold sensation in larynx during breathing.
Croup/get worse from becoming heated.
*Keynote: going from cold to warm air worsens
Scraping to clear larynx in evening, dry cough from scraping. Suffocative cough that swallowing aggravates.
Stony/hard glands.
Bryonia Alba
Weeping before cough, shrieking with cough. Must hold head or chest during cough - represents aversion to being disturbed. Very thirsty. Painful cough. Better constant pressure or being completely left alone.
Causticum
Hahnemann made this up.
When they cough, they urinate involuntarily. Wet weather ameliorates.
*Keynote: Sensation as if they could not cough deep enough to raise the mucus.
Hoarse/hissing cough. Exhaustion from coughing.
Cina Maritima
Anxiety from cough/fear of coughing. Feeling of injured/bruised. Lacrimation with cough/cyanotic face. Gagging and retching with cough.
Keynote: Choking cough in morning after rising, with gurgling in chest and in esophagus after cough
Stiffness in extremities before cough.
Coccus Cacti
*Red face with cough, retching and gagging during cough.
*The mucus is what is choking them, sticks to larynx, they get red faced and gag and can’t get the mucus up!
*Mucus is thick, viscous and ropey.
Worse at 11:30pm, worse open air. Cold drinks ameliorates.
*Insect that lives on cactus
Corallium rubrum
Epistaxis during cough, constriction in larynx with cough. Short/hacking cough. Patient falls back limp. Sensation of icy cold air in passages.
Drosera - Boards
Epistaxis during whooping cough. Spasmodic, violent cough and coughs follow each other rapidly.
Keynote: As soon as head touches pillow - cough
With retching and vomiting, must hold chest with cough. Suffocative cough.
*Carnivorous plant - sticky substance - suffocates insects
Hepar Sulphur
*Chilly patients that are worse when cold, uncovered, drafts, cold food and drinks.
Better with warmth.
Weeping before and during cough, *stitching pain in throat during cough.
Good for abscesses/skin
Ipecacuanha
Keynote: Arterial bleeding/gushing blood, cough, and nausea. With nausea - keynote - They’re nauseous and vomiting doesn’t ameliorate the nausea. Clear tongue - not coated.
HA as if from a blow, sneezing before cough. Cyanosis of face. Loathing of food. Suffocative cough with retching.
**NAUSEA!
Lobelia Inflata
Eructations during cough, cough from constriction in larynx. ***Eructations (burping) excite the cough
*Cough seems to come from the stomach, tickling in throat
Phosphorus - Boards
Tubercular Miasm
Fear of cough, burning pains, rawness, cough is worse in cold air. Involuntary urination with cough. Hoarseness of cough, worse in the morning after rising.
Cough is worse in cold air, open air, warm room to cold air.
Rumex Crispus
Sneezing after cough, eructations after cough.
Pain in Left eyebrow with cough. Worse with breathing in cold or open air, cover mouth the warm air and breathe that in. Worse undressing/uncovering.
Cough from pressing on throat-pit, tickling in air passages.
Worse with irregular breathing.
Sambucus Nigra
Restlessness with cough, copious urine during cough. Whistle respiration during cough. Asthmatic/barking cough.
*Cough from constriction in chest. Wakes from suffocative cough, gasping. Cough brings on perspiration.
Sanguinaria
Occipital headache during cough, Affinity for the GI tract. Red face during cough, empty eructations after cough. Diarrhea or flatus with cough.
Cough from crawling sensation in throat-pit, from dryness in larynx.
Dry cough, must sit up and discharge flatus up and down. Eructations and flatus ameliorates cough.
Spongia Tosta
Big cough remedy - for croup mainly.
Dry raspy cough.*** Like a handsaw through wood.
Burning in larynx/trachea.
Ascending stairs, brushing teeth, milk agg.
Drinking ameliorates cough
Squilla maritima or Scilla
Lacrimation or spurting or urination during cough. Sneezing. Rubbing eyes with hands or fists.
Cough dry in evening and WORSE in the morning. Sudden and violent in the morning.
Abdominal pain
Stannum
Tin
**Weakness or emptyness in chest and throat. The cough exhausts them.
Sore pain in stomach. Cough in evening until midnight is worse.
