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Unfolding: By: Prof. Dr. Hardik Khamar M.D. (Hom.)

This document discusses several homeopathic remedies for respiratory conditions including: - Stannum metallicum which is used for debility from chronic bronchial/pulmonary conditions and tuberculosis. - Myrtus communis which contains the antiseptic myrtol and is used for chest pains, incipient phthisis, bronchitis, and cystitis. - Phellandrium aquaticum which is used for offensive expectoration, cough, phthisis, bronchitis, emphysema, and hectic fever.

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Unfolding: By: Prof. Dr. Hardik Khamar M.D. (Hom.)

This document discusses several homeopathic remedies for respiratory conditions including: - Stannum metallicum which is used for debility from chronic bronchial/pulmonary conditions and tuberculosis. - Myrtus communis which contains the antiseptic myrtol and is used for chest pains, incipient phthisis, bronchitis, and cystitis. - Phellandrium aquaticum which is used for offensive expectoration, cough, phthisis, bronchitis, emphysema, and hectic fever.

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Unfolding
Interesting Remedies
with Interesting Remedy Relationships

By: Prof. Dr. Hardik Khamar M.D. (Hom.)

Reference :
Homoeopathic Materia Medica by
William Boericke, M.D.

 
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STANNUM METALLICUM
Tin
(STANNUM)

Chief action is centered upon the nervous system and respiratory organs.
Debility is very marked when Stannum is the remedy, ​especially the debility
of chronic bronchial and pulmonary conditions​, characterized by profuse
muco-purulent discharges upon tuberculosis basis. Talking causes a very
weak feeling in the throat and chest. Pains that come and go gradually, call
unmistakably for Stannum. Paralytic weakness; spasms; paralysis.

Mind.--Sad, anxious. Discouraged. Dread of seeing people.

Head.--Aching in temples and forehead. Obstinate acute coryza and


influenza with cough. Pain worse motion; ​gradually​ increasing and
decreasing as if constricted by a band; forehead feels pressed inwards.
Jarring of walking resounds painfully in head.​ Drawing pains in malar bones
and orbits. ​Ulceration of ringhole in lobe of ear.

Throat.--Much ​adhesive​ mucus, difficult to detach; efforts to detach cause


nausea. Throat dry and stings.

Stomach.--Hunger. ​Smell of cooking causes vomiting​. Bitter taste. Pain better


pressure, but sore to touch. ​Sensation of emptiness in stomach.

Abdomen.--Cramp-like colic around navel, with a feeling of emptiness. ​Colic


relieved by hard pressure.

Female.--Bearing-down sensation. Prolapsus, with weak, sinking feeling in


stomach (​Sep​). Menses early and profuse. Pain in vagina, upward and back
to spine. Leucorrhea, with great debility.

Respiratory.--Hoarse; mucus expelled by forcible cough. Violent, dry cough


in evening until midnight. Cough excited by laughing, singing, talking; ​worse
lying on right side​. During day, with copious green, ​sweetish, expectoration​.
Chest feels sore. Chest feels weak; can hardly talk. ​Influenzal cough from
noon to midnight​ with scanty expectoration. Respiration short, oppressive;
stitches in left side when breathing and lying on same side. Phthisis mucosa.

 
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Hectic fever.

Sleep.--Sleeps with one leg drawn up, the other stretched out.

Extremities.​--Paralytic weakness​; drops things. Ankles swollen. Limbs


suddenly give out when attempting to sit down. Dizziness and weakness
when descending. Spasmodic twitching of muscles of forearm and hand.
Fingers jerk when holding pen. Neuritis. Typewriters' paralysis.

Fever.--Heat in evening; exhausting night-sweats, especially towards


morning. Hectic. Perspiration, principally on forehead and nape of neck;
debilitating; smelling musty, or offensive.

Modalities.--Worse, using voice (i.e, laughing, talking, singing), lying on right


side, warm drinks. Better, coughing or expectorating, hard pressure.

Relationship.​--Complementary: Puls.

Compare: ​Stann iod. 3x (Valuable in chronic chest diseases characterized by


plastic tissue changes).​ Persistent inclination to cough, excited by tickling
dry spot in the throat, apparently at root of tongue. Dryness of throat.
Trachial and bronchial irritation of smokers. Pulmonary symptoms; cough,
loud, hollow, ending with expectoration (Phellandrium). State of purulent
infiltration. Advanced phthisis sometimes when Stann jod has not taken
effect, an additional dose of Iodine in milk caused the drug to have its usual
beneficial effect (Stonham). Compare: Caust; Calc; Sil; Tuberc; Bacil; Helon.
Myrtus chekan (chronic bronchitis, cough of phthisis, emphysema, with
gastric catarrhal complications and thick, yellow difficult sputum. Old
persons with weakened power of expectoration).

Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.

 
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MYRTUS COMMUNIS
Myrtle

The leaves contain Myrtol, an active ​antiseptic​. Chest pains, as found often in
consumptives, call for this remedy. Incipient phthisis. Nerve sedative and
stimulant to mucous membranes, bronchitis, cystitis and pyelitis.

Chest.--Stitching pain in left breast, running through to shoulder-blade (Illic;


Therid; ​Pix​). Dry, hollow cough, with tickling in chest. Worse in the morning.
Sensation of burning in left chest.

Relationship.--Compare: Myrtus Chekan (Chronic bronchitis with dense, yellowish


sputum, difficult to detach. Copious expectoration keeps patient distressed and
coughing).

Dose.--Third potency.

 
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PHELLANDRIUM AQUATICUM
Water Dropwort
(PHELLANDRIUM)

The respiratory symptoms are most important, and have been frequently verified
clinically. A very good remedy for the ​offensive expectoration​ and cough in
phthisis, bronchitis, and emphysema. Tuberculosis, affecting generally the middle
lobes. Everything tastes sweet. Hæmoptysis, hectic and colliquative diarrhœa.

Head.--Weight on vertex; aching and burning in temples and above eyes. Crushing
feeling in vertex. Vertigo, dizzy when lying down.

Eyes.--Ciliary neuralgia; worse any attempt to use eyes: burning in eyes.


Lachrymation. Cannot bear light. Headache; involving nerves going to eye.

Female.​--Pain in milk ducts;​ intolerable between nursing. Pain in nipples.

Chest.--Sticking pain through right breast near sternum, extending to back near
shoulders. Dyspnœa, and continuous cough, early in morning. Cough, with profuse
and fetid expectoration; compels him to sit up. Hoarseness.

Fever.--Hectic; profuse and debilitating perspiration; intermittent, with pain in


arms. Desire for acids.

Extremities.--Tired feeling when walking.

Relationship.--Compare: ​Con​; ​Phyt​; Sil; Ant iod; Myosotis arvensis.

Dose.--Tincture, to sixth potency. In phthisis not below the sixth.


● This is water Hemlock from Umbelliferae family.
● Indicated in Ductal carcinoma .

 
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MYOSOTIS SYMPHYTIFOLIA
Forget-me-not
(MYOSOTIS)

Chronic bronchitis and phthisis. Night-sweats.

Respiratory.--Cough with profuse muco-purulent expectoration, gagging and


vomiting during cough; worse while or after eating. Bronchorrhea. Pain in left lung
(lower); painful while coughing and sensitive to percussion.

Dose.--Tincture to second potency.

 
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Antimon iodat (​Uterine hyperplasia; humid asthma. Pneumonia and bronchitis;


loss of strength, and appetite, yellowish skin, sweaty, dull and drowsy). In
sub-acute and chronic colds in chest which have extended downwards from head
and have fastened themselves upon the bronchial tubes in the form of hard, croupy
cough with a decided wheeze and inability to raise the sputum, especially in the
aged and weak patients (Bacmeister). ​Stage of resolution of pneumonia slow and
delayed.

Antimonium Chloridum. Butter of Antimony (A remedy for cancer. Mucous


membranes destroyed. Abrasions. Skin cold and clammy. ​Great prostration of
strength.​ Dose-third trituration).

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