Adel Spongia Tosta 2X (20m)

• Especially adapted to diseases of children and women; light hair, lax fibre, fair complexion

• Swelling and induration of glands; goitre

• Awakens in fright and feels as if suffocating; as if head to breathe thru a sponge.

• Every mental excitement worse or increases the cough. Worse after sleep or sleeps into aggravation

• Sore throat, worse after eating sweet things.

• Thyroid gland swollen even with chin: with suffocative paroxysyms at night. Goitre.

• Great dryness of mucous membranes of air passages - throat, larynx, trachea, bronchi - "dry as a horn.".

• Cough: dry, barking, croupy; rasping, ringing, wheezing, whistling; everything is perfectly dry, no mucous rale. Cough: dry, sibilant, like a saw driven through a pine board; worse sweets, cold drinks, smoking, lying with head low, dry cold winds, reading, singing, talking, swallowing; better eating or drinking warm things.

• Croup: anxious, wheezing, worse during inspiration,  before midnight

• Palpitation: violent with pain and gasping respiration; awakened suddenly after midnight with suffocation and great anxiety; valvular insufficiency; before and during menses.

• Angina pectoris; contracting pain, heat, faintness, suffocation, anxiety and sweat; worse after midnight.

• Spermatic cord swollen, painful; testicles swollen, bruised, squeezed; after suppressed gonorrhoea or maltreated orchitis.

• Bronchial catarrh, with wheezing, asthmatic cough, worse cold air, with profuse expectoration and suffocation; worse, lying with head low and in hot room.

• Rapid and violent palpitation, with dyspnea; cannot lie down; also feels best resting in horizontal position. 

• Hypertrophy of heart, especially right, with asthmatic symptoms.

MODALITIES:

• Worse: ascending, wind, before midnight.
• Better: descending, lying with head low.