Husten/Croup

 

Hustenarten:.

- trockener Husten akuter Infekt: Acon. Bell. Bry.

geht von Nase-Rachen zu Bronchien: Phos. Stict. Cor-r. Rumx.

- Krampf- + Reiz-Kitzelhusten: Bell. Dros. Ip. Rumx. Hyos (< gleich nach Hinlegen) 

- feuchter Husten:

Auswurf leicht: Puls.

Auswurf schwierig: Ip. Ant-t. Stict.

Auswurf zäh: Hydr. Kali-bi.

- Husten nachts: Consider the use of opium and its derivatives for the suppression of coughs. If this is continued for any length of time…we find the patient has become subject to a condition far more serious, for he has developed a chronic state of night cough; each time it is suppressed it is driven still deeper, and the patient soon develops fever, night sweats, and a general hectic condition. The danger of this suppression is very great, as can easily be noticed, especially in pneumonias, where the least suppression is often fatal.

 

Acon.: from exposure to a dry cold wind takes a cold today and, comes down with croup to night in the first sleep. Before midnight has a dry spasmodic cough; hoarse cough;

Spongia has taken a cold yesterday or the day before. < Every mental excitement or increase of cough. First roughness and dryness of the mucous membranes, sneezing.

Acon. + Spong. have croup before midnight with dry, hoarse, barking cough, sawing respiration and dry air passages. They are so similar that when Aconite only partially controls the condition and it returns the next night, or lasts on beyond midnight,

Ambra.: cough followed by eructation of wind from the stomach. Ambra grisea is one of the best. Another is Sulphur and a third is Veratrum album.

Am-c.: [H.R. Arndt] cough of elderly people, rattling, loose, yet difficult to raise anything; after much effort raises mucus, at times slightly tinged with specks of blood. Night cough < 3 or 4 h. from tickling in the throat, as though there were dust in it.

Am-m.: dry in the morning and loose in the afternoon +/o. evening. Keynotes: coldness between the shoulder blades/sciatica > when lying down

Spong.: follows naturally/because it was probably the remedy in the beginning. < each succeeding night, hoarse barking and crowing before midnight, though it also has a croup after midnight. Deep-acting/sometimes come on suddenly. Paroxysmal anxiety in croup, heart and throat disease. Dry, with no rattling/< warm room/heat. Dry, Croupy, Seal’s cough, saw thru wood. > warm drinks

Hep. < at night/in the morning. And when Acon. has apparently controlled, but the croup returns the next morning, Hep. comes in. Or if croup comes on again the next evening with rattling Hep. will also

be suitable. If the child wants to be covered or says that it is chilly. [W. A. Dewey] When the cough begins to loosen and becomes rattling, fatiguing and choking, with moist rales, “Coughing into a choke”

is a valuable indication for this remedy. It corresponds more closely to sub-acute cases.

Calc-s. Child says the room is too warm and kicks the covers off.

Iod. Wants to be “cool”

Ars./Nux-v./Lyc. > from warm drinks

Cor-r. close cousin to the sponge. May be thought of as a sponge that’s sharpened itself with calcium, but nevertheless experiences an inner fragility and lack of strength relative to its environment.

= Spong-ähnlich in croup and spasmodic cough (and sometimes even nose-bleeds during the cough) + outward pressure. Face red.

Verb.: Bed wetting/teasing cough at bedtime. lies down at night and starts to cough, a dry, teasing cough that is hard to stop, mullein has proved helpful.

 

Lach.: < after sleep, as if the child were dying; commencing paralysis of the lungs.

Stict.: tuberculous subjects attacked by the grip/incessant, wearing, racking cough of this class of patients.

Cocc.:

• Paroxysms, cold drinks

• Copious thick ropey mucus with retching

suits almost any paroxysmal cough when the attacks are violent, but not very close together, and are attended by much redness of the face and a general sense of feeling too hot. If irritation of the kidneys, with scanty, thick heavy urine, passed pretty often also attends, it is doubly indicated and the results will be brilliant

Rumx.:

• Sensitive any cold air, inhalation, undressing, chg rhythm breath, Dry tickling

• Little, no expectorant

• Anti-Tartar

• Death rattle

Dros.:

• Violent, Painful

• Paroxysm, cannot catch breath

• Makes nosebleed, vomit

Bad.:

• Spasms, forceful

• Mucus flies from mouth

Pert. = Keuchhusten Nosode/?hergestellt aus Schleim eines Kranken?/= Haemophilus pertussis/= Bordet-Gengou bacillus/= Coqueluchinum/= Whooping Cough/= tosse canina (= dog’s bark, Italy)/= Wolfshusten (= howling of wolves)/= Eselshusten (= braying of donkeys)

Krupphusten

Acon.: plötzlicher heftiger Krankheitsbeginn nach trockener (windiger) Kälte; kurzer, harter trockener, schmerzhafter Husten; Frösteln, UNRUHE + Angst (Kind klammert an Eltern);

Spong.: trockener, hackender, bellender oder SÄGENDER, erstickender, rauer Husten; Hals berührungsempfindlich; heiser raue Stimme; wenig heller Auswurf; > (warmes) essen + trinken (> Bonbon-Lutschen)

Hep.: schwächender, erstickender, krampfhafter Larynx husten, der zu rasseln beginnt; expektoriert dicken Schleim;  << Kälte + Abdecken; Folgen von trockener kalter Luft (Acon); < nachts/Sprechen/Liegen; > feuchte Luft (Regen/Nebel/Inhalation)

Bell.: plötzliche Beginn; bellender Husten mit hochrotem Gesicht

Brom.: Krupp im Sommer;  Heiser beim Krupphusten; << einatmen, << schlucken; < Hitze + warme Räume (Bry./Ip.); > frische Luft

Andere: Ip. Calc-s. Coc-c. Jod. Kal-bi. Lach. Phos. Rumx. Samb.

Aus eigener Erfahrung (macht Schleim flüssiger):
Rizinusölpackung: Auf weiches, oft gewaschenes Baumwolltuch (so groß wie die zu bedeckende Hautstelle) träufeln/direkt auf Haut auflegen. Mit passendem Plastik bedecken und fixieren. Lange sitzen lassen (wenigstes übernacht). Für Husten/Bronchitis/Schmerz in Gelenken.

In croup without fever, think of Kali-bi. or Brom., the latter with cyanosis.

[Dr. D. Weber]

Ant-s.: Lem-m.: also should be considered in postnasal drip.

Bry.: < on entering a warm room from the cold

Cimic.: DRY short, cough, with irritation from a dry spot in the larynx and << talking.

Cast-v.: short, tight, 'ringing' cough;

Coc-c.: spasmodic cough, > in the cold air;

Cor-r.: continuous "minute gun" type cough during the daytime and whooping-type cough at night. Profuse postnasal drip, keynote for this remedy.

Cycl.: Cough at night while asleep without waking (child)

Dios.: > only when lying down.

Hyos.: Spasmodic coughs/frequent urination from bladder irritability.

Ign.: nervous cough of globus, a lump sensation in the throat.

Mang-met. or Mang-p.: > lying down. It also has the hoarseness, < cold and damp (Dulc.) and > lying down.

Meph.: severe, suffocative coughing spasms at night, with contraction of the glottis, <  expiration. Boericke: Cough "till blue in the face".

Napht.: hay fever remedy that is efficacious in long-continued paroxysms of cough, < at night, with tenacious mucus, and inability to catch the breath, < inspiration,

Stann-met.: Most coughs < lying on the left side. A patient who complained of a recurrent severe cough every fall, often progressing to pneumonia. His strongest modality < lying

on the right side. Stann-met. cured the case. Remember the sweet tasting sputum of Stann-met. which has helped me to find the right remedy in several cases.

Sang.: Coughs of gastric origin/> after eructations or passing flatus.

Seneg.: IRRitating, scraping sensation high up in the throat and fauces, often elderly people with chronic coughs, with difficult expectoration. Catarrh of the chest # diarrhea.

Stict.: Profuse postnasal drip

Verat.: cough coming from deep in the abdomen, > eructations or with concomitant diarrhea. < in/entering warm room

Verat-v.: rapidly progressing lung congestion, dyspnea, heaviness of the chest, livid and bloated fauces, and drop in blood pressure.

 

Most coughs < lying on the left side. I believe there is a physiologic explanation for this. I had a patient who complained of a recurrent severe cough every fall, often progressing to pneumonia. His strongest modality < lying on the right side. Stann-met. cured the case. Remember the sweet tasting sputum of Stann-met. which has helped me to find the right remedy in several cases.

 

Vergleich: Siehe: Tuberkulose Anhang 2 + Repertory

 

Phytologie: Rezepte. aus dem Papyrus Ebers

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