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