Asthma – Respiration – Chapter 26 – REPERTORY OF HERING’S GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By Calvin B. Knerr, M.D.

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Children, in :-

Acon.,
Ant-t., Ars., Bell., Camph.,
Cham., Chin.,
Coff., Cupr., Hep., Ign., IP.,
Lach.,
Lyc., Mosch., Nux-m., Nux-v., Op., Phos., Puls., SAMB.,
Stram.,
Sulph.

Constitutional
conditions :-

Nat-s.

Chronic :-

Ars-s-f.,
Colch.,
Manc., Verat.

Especially when it
returns or increases during the cold season and only abates on
return of warm weather

(aged
persons and lymphatic youths) :-
Phel.

Attacks for
years :-

Nat-s.

Coition,
on attempting, or caused by :-

Ambr.

Cold :-

(See catarrhal.)

Causes, cannot lie
down :-

SPONG.

Causes, in
midsummer :-

Ars.

Congestive

(See Chest.) :-
Cact.

Back, worse lying on,
or on falling asleep :-

Phos.

Head, blood rushes to,
and chest :-

SPONG.

Hyperæmia of lungs and
brain :-

ACON.

Constitution :-

(See Old
people.)

Debilitated, anæmic
subjects, terrible dyspnœa, heart sympathizing :-

¤ Eucal.

Blondes, irritable,
lively :-

Phos.

Emphysematous
subjects :-

Ip.

Hysterical individuals
and children :-

MOSCH.

Light-haired
persons :-

Aur.

Scrofulous :-

Asaf.

Young people, in, from
a general bronchial catarrh, afterwards with every change to damp
weather :-

Nat-s.

Young people, in, who
have not their growth, with rheumatic symptoms about chest and
sleeplessness :-

Kali-i.

Cough :-

Causes drawing through
left pectoral region into back :-

Crot-t.

Dry :-

Kali-c.

During :-

Arn.,
Dig., Kreos.,
Puls.

Habitual :-

Kali-c.

Spasmodic cough :-

Sil.

Diarrhœa, alternates
with nightly :-

Kali-c.

Discharges, from
suppressed chronic :-

Sulph.

Drinking :-

(See Breathing,
Drinking ; also Drinking,
Breathing, Chapter 15 :
Eating and Drinking.)

Worse from ice water,
or wine :-

Meph.

Drunkards, of :-

Ars.,
Meph.

Dropsy

(See Chest,
Heart.) :-
Lact.

Depending upon
hydrothorax or hydropericardium, with dropsy of lower extremities,
extending to knees :-

Colch.

Drugs :-

(See Sulphur.)

Violent, from proving
of caladium :-

Zing.

From vapors of arsenic
or copper :-

Hep.,
Ip., Merc.

Dry

(siccum) :-
Ambr.

Lying on right side
brings on oppression :-

Squil.

Must rise and
walk :-

Arg-n.

Dust :-

Inhaling, as if :-

ARS.

Sensation of, in throat
and lungs

(scrofula) :-
Calc.

Dust, from inhaling

(stone
cutters) :- Ars.,
Bell., Calc.,
Chin., Hep.,
Ip.,
Nux-v., Phos., SIL.,
Sulph.

Dust, from coal

(miners) :-
Nat-ar.

Heaves in horses from
dusty hay :-

Ictod.

Eating :-

(See Breathing,
Eating ; also Eating,
Breathing, Chapter 15 :
Eating and Drinking.)

After :-

Sars.

After a hearty
meal :-

Asaf.

After moderate use of
food :-

Kali-p.

After, worse :-

LACH.

Better after :-

Graph.,
Iod.

Brought on by
satisfying meal :-

Asaf.

Emphysematous

(See Lungs
Emphysema, Chapter 28 :
Inner Chest and Lungs.) :-
Ars., Camph.

Epigastrium :-

Bloating :-

Lac-d.

Pressure :-

Kali-c.

Weakness and
oppression :-

Lob.

Eructations

(See Abdomen.) :-
Caps.

Eruption :-

Arms, hands and,
covered with bluish-red places like ecchymoses :-

Kali-c.

Eczema, suppressed,
after vaccination :-

Ammc.

Erysipelas, from
retrocession of :-

Ptel.

Itch, from
suppressed :-

Ars.,
Ferr., Sulph.

Leprosy, alternates
with attacks of :-

Sulph.

Miliary,
suppressed :-

Ip.

Psoriasis, alternates
with :-

Sulph.

Rash, when, on forearm
disappeared :-

Calad.

Rash, after suppression
of acute :-

ACON.

Rash, after suppression
of, in children :-

PULS.

Suppressed eruptions,
after, in general :-

Ars.,
Carb-v., Ip.,
Puls., SULPH.,
Verat.

Tetters, after
disappearance of, in face :-

Dulc.

Urticaria, from
suppressed :-

Apis,
PULS.

Evening,
in

(See Night.) :-
Sulph.

After lying down and at
night :-

Cist.

Chronic, passing off at
daybreak :-

Syph.

Eating, after, from
flatus, with increase of dyspnœa when expectoration stops,
decreasing when it recommences :-

Zinc.

Especially after a
meal :-

PULS.

Exertion :-

(See Motion.)

Aggravates :-

Ars.,
Camph.

Ascending, worse,
walking :-

Caps.

Causes :-

Asaf.

Evening and night,
worse from, or walking, returns every 2 or 3 hours,
especially :-

Kali-c.

Fatigued, when, as from
anguish :-

Ars.

Motion, going up
stairs, causes

(chronic
asthma) :- Arg-n.

Riding, worse,
horseback :-

Meph.

Talking, particularly
when :-

Dros.

Talking, worse
after :-

LACH.

Turning over, when, in
bed :-

Sulph.

Walking, worse when,
painful :-

Dig.

Working, sudden attack
while, every attempt to work brought on paroxysm, better when
keeping quiet :-

Nux-v.

Worse from, with
disordered stomach, especially weakness in epigastrium :-

Lob.

Veta :-

Coca.

Expectoration :-

Profuse, frothy or
watery mucus :-

Nat-m.

Profuse,
purulent :-

Sil.

Tough mucus :-

Rumx.

Face :-

Aching, after
disappearance of tetters :-

Dulc.

Covering, worse, mouth
or nose :-

LACH.

Looks as if
dying :-

Chin.

Red :-

Caps.

Sallow, sunken eyes,
emaciated :-

Kali-p.

Fever :-

Febrile attacks :-

Stram.

Hectic :-

¤ Calc-s.

Death seemed imminent

(typhoid) :-
Lach.

Flatus :-

(See
Abdomen.)

Goitre,
in consequence of goitre

(See
Neck, Goitre, Chapter
31 : Neck
and Back.) :-
SPONG.

Gout, alternates
with :-

Sulph.

Hay
fever

(See Periodic ;
also Coryza, Hay
fever, Chapter 7 :
Nose.) :- Ail.,
All-c., Ars.,
Ars-i., Arum-t.,
Asc-s., Camph.,
Carb-v., Cycl.,
Dulc., Eucal.,
Euphor.,
Gels., Grin.,
Hydr-ac., Ip.,
Kali-bi., Lach., Lob., Mosch., Naja, Nat-m., Nux-v., Op.,
Sabad., Sang.,
Sin-a.,
Sin-n., Stict.

Annual :-

Stict.

August, coming on about
last of :-

Sil.

August, coming on about
20th of, for 11 years :-

Psor.

July 28, comes on,
stays till 1st hard frost :-

Sin-a.,
Sin-n.

Nervous
irritability :-

Kali-p.

Night, worse at, dry
stage :-

Stict.

Night, worse at, lying
down :-

Sin-a.,
Sin-n.

Prostration,
causing :-

Nat-s.

Rose cold, subsequent
to :-

Sang.

Watery discharge, with
from eyes and nose :-

Nat-m.

Weather, more frequent
in damp, worse lying down and moving, better sitting up in bed with
shoulders drawn forward and by perfect quiet :-

Sin-a.,
Sin-n.

Head, must throw head
back :-

Bell.,
Cham., SPONG.,
Verat.

Headache,
with

(See Headache,
Breathing, Chapter 3 :
Inner Head.) :-
Kali-c.

Heart :-

(See Dyspnœa
and Suffocation, Heart ;
also Inner Chest
Dropsy, Chapter 28 :
Inner Chest and Lungs ; also Heart
Breathing, Chapter 29 :
Heart, Pulse and Circulation.)

Cardiac :-

Grin.

Dyspnœa, terrible :-

Eucal.

Disease, with
cardiac :-

Crot-h.

Disease, particularly
if dependent upon heart :-

Dig.

Degeneration, from
fatty :-

ARN.

Oppression :-

Lob.

Organic disease :-

Spong.

Pressure, with, in
region of :-

Vario.

Heat :-

Face, in :-

SPONG.

Worse in a warm room,
where he becomes deathly pale and can do nothing but sit
quiet :-

Am-c.

Hæmorrhoids :-

Agar.,
Arg-n., SULPH.

Hiccough, preceded
by :-

Cupr.

Humid

(pituitous) :-
Ant-t., ARS.,
Arum-t., Asc-t.,
Bar-c.,
Bell., Bry.,
Calc., Camph.,
Cann-s.,
Chin., Coch., Con.,
CUPR.,
Dig., DULC.,
Ferr., Graph., Grin.,
Hep., Ip.,
Kali-br., Kali-m., Kali-s., Lach., Lob., Merc.,
Nat-s., Nux-v.,
Phos., PULS.,
Sang., Seneg.,
Sep., Sil.,
Sin-a.,
Sin-n., Stann., Sulph., Zinc., Zing.

Catarrhal
bronchitis :-

Grin.

Bronchitis, relieves
bronchial cough and aids in expelling thick sputa :-

Eucal.

With profuse
sputa :-

¤ Jab.

Hypochondria, sensation
as if something were growing fast in region of left lower
ribs :-

Thuj.

Hysteric

(See Nervous,
Spasmodic.) :-
Acon.,
Apis, Asaf., Aur., Bell., Caul., Caust., Cham., Cocc., Coff., Con.,
Cupr., Ign., Ip., Lach.,
MOSCH.,
NUX-M., Phos.,
PULS.,
Stann.,
Stram., Sulph.

Caused by every little
excitement :-

Ars.

Injuries,
caused by lesion of spinal cord, by a fall

(See
Dust.) :-
Hyper.

Irritability,
increased, of respiration organs, as after inflammation,
etc. :-

Phos.

Kidneys, complicated
with affection of, and turbid urine :-

Coc-c.

Laryngeal,
spasm of larynx

(See
Glottis Spasm, Chapter
25 : Voice
and Larynx, Trachea and Bronchia.) :-
Sil.

Liver, hyperæmia of

(See
Liver Congestion,
Dropsy, Enlarged,
Chapter 18 :
Hypochondria.) :-
Verat.

Lungs :-

(See Chest ;
also Dyspnœa, Lungs.)

Consumption, in, worse
2 A.M. :-

Rumx.

Pulmonic irritation
from effused serum :-

Lob.

Lying
down :-

(See
Sitting ; also Dyspnœa
and Suffocation,
Lying down.)

Aggravates :-

Ars.,
Ars-i.,
Asaf., Bapt., Brom., Cact., Carb-v., Cist., Kali-bi., Kali-c., Kali-n.,
Lach., Naja, Samb.,
Sars., Sil.,
Spong., Syph.

Back, in,
aggravates :-

Hyper.

Left, on, side
worse :-

Cann-i.

Horizontal position,
better in :-

Bry.,
Dig.,
Nux-v., Psor.

Has to get out of bed
and sit by table :-

Carb-v.

Lie down, could
not :-

Stann.

Lying, worse, with head
low :-

Chin.,
Colch., Eup-per., Hep., Nit-ac., Puls.

Measles, chronic,
after, worse walking and ascending :-

Brom.

Menses :-

After :-

SPONG.

Deranged :-

Bell.,
Caul.,
Cocc., Cupr.,
Merc.,
Nux-v., Phos., PULS.,
Sep., Sulph.

During :-

Kali-c.

Suppressed :-

PULS.

Mental
condition :-

(See
Dyspnœa and Suffocation,
Mental Condition.)

After fit of anger :-

CHAM.

Anxious :-

Ant-t.,
Ars., SPONG.

Emotions, after :-

ACON.,
Cham., Coff.,
Cupr., Gels.,
Ign., Nux-v.,
Puls., Verat.

Fears she will die of
suffocation :-

Ars.,
Phos., SPONG.

Millari :-

(See
Glottis Spasm, Chapter
25 : Voice
and Larynx, Trachea and Bronchia.)

Moon, worse at
full :-

SPONG.

Morning,
in :-

(See
Dyspnœa, Morning.)

Awaking, when :-

Con.

Early :-

Calc.,
Verat.

Light, in, haired
persons, worse after mercury, in wet weather and in warm air :-

Aur.

Move, wants to,
continually :-

Coff.

Worse :-

Carb-v.

Worse, for 2
hours :-

Zing.

Motion :-

(See Exertion ;
also Dyspnœa and Suffocation,
Exertion.)

Arms, moving, and
stooping :-

Am-m.

Arms, worse on
moving :-

LACH.

Inclination to move
about :-

Arn.,
Verat.

Stairs, when going
up :-

Kali-p.

Slight, after every,
loses her breath and becomes faint :-

SPONG.

Walking, better, and
talking, or by constant reading or writing, worse sitting still,
most violent lying down, especially in evening :-

Ferr.

Worse after bodily
exertion :-

Am-c.,
Ars., Bov.,
Nat-m., Nit-ac., Sil.

Mucous :-

(See
Humid.)

Nausea

(See Dyspnœa
Nausea ; also Nausea
Asthma, Breathing,
Chapter 16 :
Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting.) :-
Ant-t., IP.,
Kali-c.

Nervous

(See Hysteric,
Spasmodic.) :-
Bell., Coca,
Cocc., Kali-br.,
Kreos.,
Lob., MAG-P.,
Mosch., Nux-m.,
Nux-v., Sil.,
Sumb., Syph.

Bronchial, paroxysmal,
coming on in wet weather :-

Con.

Chronic, for which no
organic basis could be detected, but which was caused by repelled
foot sweat :-

Ol-an.

Depression,
with :-

Kali-p.

Nerves, from primary
irritation of affected :-

Mag-p.

Neuralgic states, from
organic and mechanical causes, with orthopnœa and nocturnal
paroxysms :-

Eucal.

Night

(See Evening,
Sleep ; also Dyspnœa
and Suffocation Night.) :-
ARS.,
Arum-d., CHEL.,
Coff., Kali-c.,
Sulph.

Abdomen, stitches
in :-

Bry.

Awakes about
midnight :-

Arum-d.

Breath, can hardly
catch, very severe, bent forward :-

Chlol.

Breathing, with slow
difficult, which provokes cough :-

Coloc.

Daybreak, paroxysm
wakes at :-

Meph.

Expiration, with
whizzing and rattling during, which is long and attended with
retraction of epigastric region :-

Op.

Later each night,
attacks come :-

Calc-ar.

Lying down, paroxysms
on, also sometimes waking him in morning :-

Meph.

Night, about 2
A.M. :-

ARS.

Night, terrible
attacks, worse 3 A.M. :-

KALI-C.

Night, preceded by
symptoms of ordinary cold, sets in 4 to 5 A.M., increases and
decreases gradually :-

Stann.

Night, about 4 or 5
A.M., with cough and raising of glairy slime, and vomiting after
eating, always worse in damp, rainy weather :-

Nat-s.

Midnight, worse after,
must sit up, better walking slowly and talking, better uncovering
chest :-

Ferr.

Palpitation, followed
by, several attacks :-

Sulph.

Phthisis :-

Ars-i.

Sudden attack, patient
propped up in bed, afraid to move or speak :-

Dig.

Vapors, as from, of
sulphur :-

PULS.

Worse :-

Brom.

Worse, with red
face :-

Thuj.

Œsophagus, chronic
catarrh :-

Verat.

Old
people, in :-

Am-c.,
Ambr., Ant-c.,
ARS.,
Aur. (after
Ant-t.), Bar-c.,
Camph., Carb-v.,
Caust.,
Chin., Lach., Op., Sulph., Teucr.

And children

(asthma
siccum) :- Ambr.

With tickling
cough :-

Con.

Inveterate cases, worse
early in morning, better in cold air :-

Carb-v.

Periodic

(See Hay
fever, Nervous, Spasmodic.) :-
Alumn., Ant-t.,
Hydr-ac., Plb., Tab.

Catarrhal, every
morning from 10 to 1-

Ferr.

Chronic, once or twice
monthly :-

Carb-v.

Day, once a :-

Asaf.

Day, every

(prosopalgia) :-
Chel.

Days, every 8 :-

Sulph.

Day, in longer and
shorter intervals, and at different times of day :-

Thuj.

1st of may for several
years, better in open air :-

Nux-v.

Prickling, precedes,
all over, even to fingers and toes :-

Lob.

Restlessness :-

(See
Dyspnœa,
Restlessness.)

Sailors, of, as soon as
they go ashore :-

BROM.

Sexual
condition :-

(See
Coition.)

Sitting :-

(See Lying
down.)

Bent forward :-

Chlol.

Better sitting bent
forward :-

LACH.

Must sit :-

Cann-s.

Must sit up in
bed :-

Zing.

Must lean forward with
head on knees, worse in morning :-

KALI-C.

Stooping, in,
posture :-

Sulph.

Sleep :-

(See Evening,
Night ; also Breathing,
Dyspnœa, Suffocation
Sleep ; also Sleep
Breathing, Chapter 37 :
Sleep.)

Arouses :-

Kali-c.

Arouses suddenly from
deep :-

Sep.

Awakes with :-

Nat-s.

Awakens, better from
smoking and throwing head back :-

Hep.

Awaking, worse
on :-

LACH.

During :-

Meph.,
Sulph.

During, after midnight
or in afternoon sleep :-

Carb-v.

Restless :-

Kali-c.

Spasmodic

(See Nervous ;
also Glottis Spasm, Chapter
25 : Voice
and Larynx, Trachea and Bronchia.) :-
¤ Ammc.,
Ant-t.,
Bell., Cact., Camph.,
Cocc., Coff-t.,
Cupr.,
Ferr., Gels., Graph., Hydr-ac., Hyos., Ictod., IP.,
Lach., LOB.,
MAG-P., Mez.,
Mosch., Nux-v., Phos.,
Samb., Sars., Sep., Stram.,
Sulph., Sumb.,
Tab., VALER.,
Zinc.

Bronchial catarrh,
with :-

Ip.

Children, of :-

Kali-br.

Cough, dry nervous
spasmodic :-

Kali-br.

Dreams, anxious,
hysterical or hypochondriacal subjects :-

Nux-v.

Eruption, after
suppressed miliary :-

Ip.

Expectoration, better
by copious, from bronchial tubes :-

Hyper.

Earliest youth, from,
worse at beginning of fall, gradually better as spring sets in,
increasing in severity each year :-

Nux-v.

Fingers, tingling in
left, at end of attack, becomes tearing as it extends up arm :-

SEP.

Flatulent :-

Sal-ac.

Heart, with organic
disease of :-

SPONG.

Hysterical subjects,
in :-

Ip.

Lie, cannot, upon back,
for any length of time :-

Hyper.

Rise, must, and
walk :-

Arg-m.

Spinal cord, after
lesion of, by a fall years before :-

Hyper.

Weather, with changes
of, from clear to damp or before storms :-

Hyper.

Standing, has to stand
by open window, leaning forward :-

Cann-s.

Stomach, fulness,
better after belching :-

Nux-v.

Sudden,
attacks come and go suddenly

(See
Periodic.) :-
Cupr.

Sulphur :-

(See Drugs.)

As if he had inhaled
fumes :-

LYC.,
Puls.

From vapors of :-

Cham.,
Meph., Puls.

Summer, better :-

Carb-v.

Sweat :-

Cold, of upper part of
body :-

Verat.

Paroxysms, after,
profuse oily :-

THUJ.

Throat :-

(See Suffocation
Throat.)

Sensation as of a lump
in pit of, above sternum :-

Lob.

Stitches before :-

Bov.

Worse touching :-

LACH.

Thymicum :-

(See
Glottis, Spasm, Chapter
25 : Voice
and Larynx, Trachea and Bronchia.)

Tongue, preceded by
cutting :-

Bov.

Vaccination, attacks
after, paroxysms day or night, with whistling respiration, last 2
hours :-

Thuj.

Veta :-

Coca.

Weather,
damp, cold

(See
Dyspnœa Weather.) :-
Verat.

Clear, change from, to
damp, or before storms :-

Hyper.

Dry, worse, in :-

Cham.

Hot, in, damp, worse
after sleep :-

Bell.

Summer, in, chronic,
especially when warm and damp :-

Syph.

Wet, in :-

Con.

Worse in wet :-

Aur.,
Dulc.

Worse in autumn, wet,
or after depletion :-

Chin.

Wheezing :-

(See
Breathing,
Wheezing.)

Wind, particularly
worse by long continued walking against :-

Cupr.

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