Homoeopathic remedies for various types of cough

Homoeopathic remedies for various types of cough

Homoeopathic remedies for various types of cough

Aconite

The cough is hard, dry
and barking.
There is little or no expectoration.

Aralia racemosa.
Spasmodic cough at night, coming on after the first sleep.
Relief after expectoration of tough mucus.

Bromine.
Cough with much rattling on breathing.
It seems as if the next cough would bring up a great quantity of mucus, but when the cough comes it is deep and hard.

Bryonia
It is caused by epigastric or supra-sternal irritation.
The cough is dry, and the patient presses his hand against the sides to relieve the pain.
It is a painful cough and hurts distant parts of the body, as for instance the head.
It is worse in a warm room, and there is a slight yellowish or blood-streaked expectoration.

Phosphorus
There is a dry, tickling cough, which is worse from going from a warm room into the cold, or in changes from warm to cold caused by irritation in the larynx and beneath the sternum.
There is a great deal of rawness in the larynx, and is worse from talking.

Belladonna
Cough from tickling in the larynx as from dust.
Dry, hacking cough coming on in violent attacks with an expectoration of blood-tinged mucus. Much pain in chest.

Rumex crisp.
It is a teasing, persistent cough, aggravated by cold air.
The patient has to put his head under the bed-clothes and breathe warm air to relieve the cough. It is caused by tickling in the supra-sternal fossa, and is worse at night from lying down.
Night cough in phthisis.

cough worse at night on lying down -Silicea, Phosphorus and Lycopodium.

Drosera
It is a spasmodic cough which comes on in the evening, and every effort to raise the phlegm ends in vomiting.
In whooping cough the cough is so frequent that the patient cannot catch his breath.
Must hold sides with hands.

Must hold sides with hands while coughing
Eupatorium perf. and Natrum sulph.

Causticum
There is a tickling cough which is relieved by a drink of cold water.
There is often associated with the cough involuntary spurting of urine.
There is a great deal of rawness in the throat and hoarseness and loss of voice.

Ignatia
It is a nervous, dry spasmodic cough in quick, successive shocks, at if a feather were in the throat ; the more the patient coughs the more he wants to, and it is only stopped by an effort of the will ; the cough occurs in the evening on lying down.

Kalium bichromicum
It is a hard, barking cough which seems to start from the epigastrium, and the expectoration is of a yellow, stringy character and difficult to raise.
Calcarea carbonica.
Cough excited by tickling as of a feather in the throat and with the cough a piercing pain in chest ; cough dry at first, afterwards with profuse salty expectoration.
Corallium rubrum
It has been styled the “minute gun” cough, the paroxysms coming on very close together.
It is a short, dry, ringing cough.
It takes the child’s breath away, so that when the paroxysms have ceased he feels exhausted.
Hepar sulphur
It is a hoarse, croupy cough, having withal a ” loose edge,” the phlegm being loose and choking ; worse from exposure to cold air and from drinking cold water.
Opium
It has a dry, tickling cough, which is especially worse at night and is relieved by a drink of water.

Conium.
Dry, spasmodic, hacking ; worse at night upon lying down, and is fatiguing in old people ; mucus cannot be expectorated, must be swallowed ; the cough is caused by an irritation in the larynx as of a dry spot.

Sticta
Hard, dry, barking, almost croupy cough ; worse at night with little or no expectoration.
An irritable cough, caused by dryness high up in the pharynx ; not aggravated by lying down, but worse at night.

Squilla.
Violent cough with a great deal of mucus in the chest and expectoration ; during the cough there is involuntary spurting of urine ; the patient coughs a long time before a little mucus is raised, which gives relief ; sharp, sticking pains in side, which are worse during the cough.

Hyoscyamus
Cough which is aggravated lying down at night and relieved by sitting up ; aggravated from eating, drinking and talking ; cough from an elongated uvula.
Conium
It has a cough at night aggravated by lying down ; but it is caused by a dry spot sensation in the larynx, and the patient has to sit up.
Cuprum
It is relieved by a drink of cold water ; cold water also relieves the vomiting ; whooping cough, the attacks coming on in quick succession, relieved by a drink of water, accompanied perhaps by spasms, threatening suffocation.

Laurocerasus
Dry, teasing cough at night with expectoration tinged with blood ; lack of reaction in chest troubles.

Magnesia phosphorica
True spasmodic cough, coming on in paroxysms, without expectoration.

Nitricum acidum
Dry, tickling cough, worse at night, and often starting from a particular spot in the larynx.

Sepia
Cough seeming to come from the stomach or abdomens a cough with salty expectoration, attended by stitches in the epigastrium.
Whooping cough with vomiting of bile and soreness of chest during cough ; relieved by pressure.

What drug has a cough that is worse when strangers are present -Ambra grisea.
It is purely a nervous cough.

Kalium sulphuricum
Cough with great rattling of mucus on the chest, worse in a warm room, relieved in the cool, open air.

Spongia.
Hard, ringing, metallic cough, worse from deep breathing, with a sensation of weakness. Better from warm drinks.

Antimonium tartaricum
The cough sounds loose, but no phlegm is raised ; it seems as if every cough would raise the phlegm, but it does not.
There is whistling and rattling extending into the trachea.

Verbuscum
Hard, harsh and barking cough, with hoarseness ; a tracheal and laryngeal cough.