Dr. Reckeweg Spongia Tosta 2X (20ml)

It affects the HEART esp. valves; larynx; trachea and glands esp. ductless. It is suited to fair haired women and children, of LAX FIBRE, flabby and scrofulous constitutions. Exhaustion and heaviness of the body, with slight exertion; he must lie down; with orgasms of blood to chest, face etc. Feels stuffed up. Hard swelling; of glands, (ductless). Numbness lower half of the body. Dryness; of mucous membranes; of tongue; larynx; trachea, throat. Clothes feel uncomfortable. Anxiety, with pain in the region of heart or dyspnoea. Stiff, without ability to move. Faint, when losing her breath, on raising hands above head.

Aneurism. Angina pectoris. Asthma. Catalepsy. Chin, affections of. Clumsiness. Constipation. Cough. Croup. Diplopia. Exophthalmos. Fainting. Goître; exophthalmic. Heart, hypertrophy of. Hernia. Jaw-joint, pain in. Laryngismus. Laryngitis. Myopia. Rheumatic fever. Rheumatism. Testicles, inflammation of. Tuberculosis. Varicosis. Whooping-cough. Worms.

• 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.