BRONCHITIS (Acute)

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Aconite N. ln the first stages when the fever is high and has been preceded by a chill with engorgement of lungs, due to checked perspiration and exposure to cold draughts. Watery blood streaked expectoration, but never thick and blood streaked. Unnecessary anxiety and great restlessness.

Bryonia. Dry cough hurting the head and distant parts of the body with fever and great thirst for large quantities of water at long intervals. Patient wants to lie down quietly and - docs not want to be disturbed.

Ipec. Cough with loud mucus rales, vomiting and sense of suffocation.

Antim. Tart. Has the same symptoms as Ipec, except that there is mote prostration and cold sweat. Rales throughout the chest; wheezing, loose cough but no phlegm. Laboured breathing.

Belladonna. Respiration short, rapid, oppressive, different cough, dry, spasmodic voice husky, hoarse, sometimes complete aphonic. Urine dark; scanty. Skin hot fcnd dry but moist on covered part.

Hyoscyamus. Dry incessant cough worse when lying down; greatly relieved by sitting up and bending forward.

Sticta Pulm. Nose stuffed up. Mucus in the nose and throat with inflammation of the bronchial tubes.

Headache with d all oppressive pains in the eye-balls and earache.

Rumex. Cough with tickling in the throat which is worse by cold air, change of temperature of air, talking and eating. As soon as the patient covers his head with bed clothes and breathes the same air over and over again, he will feel much better and there will be no cough; open the window, uncover the mouth and nose and the tickling and cough will become violent.

Hepar Sulph. When the cough begins to loosen with rattling, fatiguing and choking. Coughing into a chock is a valuable indication for this remedy.

Phosphorus. Suitable in sub-acute and lingering cases in delicate, tall, slender, overgrown or phthisis persons. Suffocative pains in chest with constriction of larynx, hoarseness, mucus rales, bloody and mucus sputum having a salty and sweetish taste. Cough worse after meals.

Kreosote. Bronchitis with fearful smelling breath and sputum, making it Impossible for anyone to go near the patient.

Mercurius. In inflammatory bronchial catarrh with roughness and soreness down to the middle of the chest; a dry raw concussive cough which is very exhausting, sputum watery₉saliva yellow and muco-purulent.

Sulphur. An intercurrent remedy when the patches remain un- absorbed. It is also indicated when the well selected remedies fail.

Tuberculinum. Another important remedy which should be given at the commencement of the treatment or when the above remedies fail to arrest or cure the disease.