COUGH

Aconite N. Dry, croupy, hoarse, suffocating, loud and rough cough. Choking, hard, ringing and whistling; from dry winds or draughts of air.

Belladonna. When due to congestion in throat, dry, barking cough. Face turns red when coughing.

Bryonia. Dry cough when following an attack of acute cold; dryness of the mouth. Stitches in sides of chest.

Kali Bi. When there is sticky phlegm which can be drawn into a rope. The cough is loose.

Hyoscyamus. Dry cough worse when lying down, relieved by sitting up. Worse by drinking, eating and talking.

Cyclamen. Cough at night whilst asleep without waking, especially in children.

Kali Carb. Cough, dry, paroxysmal, loosens viscid mucus or pus which must be swallowed; worse between 2 to 4 A.M.

Pulsatilla. Loose cough when it is worse in a warm room and better in open air.

Phosphorus. Cough on going from warm to cold room; worse from laughing, talking, eating and drinking and from lying on left side.

Spongia. Cough dry, sibilant, sounding like a saw driven through a pine board; worse sweets, cold drinks, smoking, lying with head low; worse also when reading, singing, talking and swallowing; better eating or drinking warm things. Croup, wheezing during inspiration.

Petroleum. Cough worse at night and better during the day when diarrhoea sets in.

Sanguinaria Can. Dry and humid cough following inflammation; bronchial cough with tickling in the larynx and- upper chest. Wakes him up at night; does not cease till he sits up and passes flatus.

Capstans. Cough with pain in distant parts, fetid breath. Makes people impossible to sit in the room. Foul smell of air rushing out from the lungs. (Give 200 potency to be repeated every 12 to 15 hours.)

Mephites. Passing of urine and stool during each spell of coughing.

Anacardium. Belching after each fit of cough.

Natural Mur. With pain in forehead, involuntary micturition and stitches in the region of liver. Flow of tears with cough.

Allium Cepa. Cough caused by tickling in larynx. Constant inclination to hawk in order to relieve it.

Ammonia Carb. Cough after influenza when Bryonia and other remedies fail.

Causticum. Cannot cough deep enough to raise phlegm, or phlegm partly raised slips back into pharynx. Urine may spurt during cough.

Cocculus. Loud speaking or brushing the teeth causes cough and vomiting.

Drosera. Spasmodic cough during and after meals.

Cuprum Met. Cough brought on by inhaling cold air, but stopped by drinking cold water. Cough with gurgling sound in the throat as if water poured out of a bottle.

Silicea. Shocking cough; spitting of awful stuff with it which is lumpy and yellow or green and it sinks to the bottom of fluid and smells horribly.

Chelidonium. Cough caused by a sensation of dust in the air passages.

Actea. R. A dry tearing cough, worse at night and worse on every attempt to speak.

Acalypha Ind. Violent dry cough followed by bloody expectoration . Cough most violent at night.

Corallium Rub. Children lose their breath and become purple and black in their face; gasping for breath which may be followed by vomiting, icy coldness of air passages. Nervous and minute-gun cough.

Stannum Iod. 3X and Staphisagria 30. Cough of smokers.

Senega. When cough ends in sneezing.

Tarentula H. Cough relieved by smoking; dry cough on lying down at night and in morning after rising with tearing pain in chest.

Trifolium P. Cough followed by hiccough.

Naphthalinum. Choking cough; unable to get respiration, sometimes so violent as to cause perspiration.

Ant. Tart. When child gets angry. Coughs and yawns alternately.

Croton Tig. When due to suppression of eczema. It is also a remedy for cough alternating with vesicular eruptions, i.e. cough disappears as the eruptions come on and it reappears when the eruptions cease. Asthmatic cough coming on in the middle of the night arousing the patient from sound sleep.

Euphrasia. Cough sometimes dry but generally loose, worse during the day, not troublesome at night. Cough after disappearance of haemorrhoids.

Lactuca. Cough in paroxysms with feeling of suffocation.

Tuberculinum Bov. Cough in young girls with suppression of menstrual flow.

Squilia. Dry hard cough; urine escapes while coughing. Dyspnoea with cough.

Rumex. Urine passes when coughing. Dry, incessant fatiguing cough, worse by changing air or room; excited by touching or pressing the throat pit.

Manganum. Cough better by lying down and sensitiveness of the bones.

Antim Crud. Cough worse by looking into the fire.

Coccus Cacti. Cough with thick ropy gelatinous mucus. It starts at the end of the summer months and continues during the whole of winter, It comes on in cold weather, but it is actually relieved by cold drinks and cold air. It is aggravated in warm room and by warm drinks. Tickling in the throat.

Spasmodic cough, whooping cough; drunkard's cough.

Bromium. Cough in hot weather It gets worse from dust or from handling dusty things.

Baryta Carb. Cough excited by irritation in larynx and trachea; relieved by lying on the abdomen.

Arum Triph. Cough with raw feeling in chest, lungs feel sore. Burning in trachea and also in the larger branches of the bronchial tubes.

Ambra Grisea. Cough worse when many people arc present, also in nervous patients worse from music; followed by eructation’s of wind from, stomach. Other remedies are Acid Sulph., Arnica, Sanguinaria and Veratrum Alb.

Antim Tart. Cough resulting from small-pox.

Aralia Racemosa. Cough during night after first short sleep. Worse lying down during the fit of cough. It may come immediately on lying during night or more commonly after fore-mid-nightly sleep.

Bismuth. Cough worse when stomach is empty.

Ammonia Ars. Cough with bloody expectoration, mucus offensive, purulent, tasting sweetish, tough, yellow. Asthmatic cough at night, short irregular cough, suffocative.