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Spongia Tosta

30C / 200CSpongia
Roasted Sea Sponge · "The Barking Saw Cough Remedy"
spong.PolychrestAnimalCommonPsoric
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🎯 A remedy primarily indicated for respiratory conditions like croup and dry cough, as well as heart affections and glandular swellings.
📖 Boericke writes:
A remedy especially marked in the symptoms of the respiratory organs, cough, croup, etc. Heart affections and often indicated for the tubercular diathesis. Children with fair complexion, lax fiber; swollen glands.Exhaustion and heaviness of the body after slight exertion, with orgasm of blood to chest, face. Anxiety and difficult breathing.
👤 Constitution
•Children with a fair complexion and lax muscle tone, often presenting with swollen glands.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Exhaustion and heaviness of the body after slight exertion, with orgasm of blood to chest, face.
introduction
Anxiety and difficult breathing.
introduction
Swelling of spermatic cord and testicles, with pain and tenderness.
male
Orchitis.
male
Hoarseness; larynx dry, burns, constricted.
respiratory
Croup; worse, during inspiration and before midnight.
respiratory
Awakened suddenly after midnight with pain and suffocation; is flushed, hot, and frightened to death (Acon).
heart
Surging of heart into chest, as if it would force out upward.
heart
Swelling and induration of glands; also exophthalmic; cervical glands swollen with tensive pain on turning head, painful on pressure
skin
Awakes in a fright, and feels as if suffocating.
sleep
Attacks of heat with anxiety; heat and redness of face and perspiration.
fever
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Useful for anxiety states where emotional excitement triggers physical symptoms like coughing.
Anxiety and fear.
Every excitement increases the cough.
🔑 Modalities
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💊 Dosage & Potency
Second trituration
Decimal
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
tincture to third potency
Other
🕒As directed
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Bromium →Aconitum Napellus →Mercurius Solubilis →Hepar Sulphuris Calcareum →Lachesis Mutus →Iodium →Mercurius Protoiodatus →
📚 Sources & References

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