Topic
Respiratory Problems

Cough
Dry Spasmodic Cough
Hepar sulfur
30 CH- hoarse, dry, barking cough with difficult expectoration
- sensation of a splinter in the larynx
- worse from cold which triggers it
- better from warmth and humidity
5 pellets every 2 or 3 hours. Space out as improvement occurs.
Drosera
7 CH- dry spasmodic cough with rapid, short fits recurring in bouts and preventing the patient from breathing
- sensation of a feather tickling the larynx
- rib and abdominal pain relieved by pressure
- worse at night, when talking, drinking, laughing, breathing…
5 pellets every 2 or 3 hours. Space out as improvement occurs.
Rumex crispus
7 CH- fits of dry coughing, laryngitis, tracheitis
- constant irritation with a tickling sensation in the suprasternal notch
- worse from inhaling cold air
5 pellets every 2 or 3 hours. Space out as improvement occurs.
Corallium rubrum
5 CH- violent, explosive, spasmodic cough that the patient cannot control, ending with the expulsion of mucus
- purple-red facial color
- stringy mucus in the nasal cavity sticking in the larynx
- worse from cold air and at night when lying down
5 pellets every 2 or 3 hours. Space out as improvement occurs.
More Easily
Drosera Composé N°751
5 pellets 3 to 4 times a day
Sirop de Drosera Composé N°60
1 teaspoon 3 times a day
Laryngitis
Spongia tosta
5 CH- hoarse, dry, nighttime cough with wheezing and difficulty breathing (like a saw)
- sensation of dryness and burning in the throat
- worse around midnight when lying down with the head low
- better from hot drinks
5 pellets every 2 or 3 hours. Space out as improvement occurs.
Coccus cacti
5 CH- fits of coughing from a tickling sensation in the larynx with stringy, whitish expectoration
- worse on waking and late in the evening
- better from a sip of cold water
- "candle-like" nasal discharge
5 pellets every 2 or 3 hours. Space out as improvement occurs.
Sambucus nigra
5 CH- stridulous laryngitis with choking cough
- hoarse, dry, croupy cough with thick mucus
- dryness and complete nasal obstruction
- sensation of burning and suffocation accompanied by anxiety, sweating and cyanosis
- worse around midnight and better sitting up
5 pellets every 2 or 3 hours. Space out as improvement occurs.
More Easily
Drosera Composé N°751
5 pellets 3 to 4 times a day
Sirop de Drosera Composé N°60
1 teaspoon 3 times a day
Loose Cough
Pulsatilla
9 CH- dry cough at night and loose during the day
- worse in a confined space
- better in fresh air
5 pellets every 2 or 3 hours. Space out as improvement occurs.
Ipeca
5 CH- spasmodic, suffocating cough accompanied by nausea and vomiting
- abundant mucus in the bronchi
- very profuse expectoration with varying degrees of hemoptysis
5 pellets every 2 or 3 hours. Space out as improvement occurs.
Antimonium tartaricum
4 CH- loose, phlegmy cough appearing at the end of the episode, with difficult expectoration
- labored, noisy, wheezing breathing
- paleness, sweating, faintness
- worse from heat and lying down
- better sitting up
5 pellets every 2 or 3 hours. Space out as improvement occurs.
Kalium bichromicum
7 CH- loose cough with thick, phlegmy expectoration
- in the context of bronchitis, rhinitis, sinusitis
- worse on lying down and getting up
- sensation of congestion
5 pellets every 2 or 3 hours. Space out as improvement occurs.
More Easily
Sirop expectorant à l'ipeca N°3020
- loose, phlegmy cough, coughing fits ending in vomiting
1 teaspoon 3 times a day
Sirop antiglaireux STDL N°266
- loose, phlegmy cough
1 teaspoon 3 times a day
Kreosotum Complexe N°2365
- acute lung infections, facilitates expectoration and drainage in superinfected bronchitis
20 drops 3 times a day
