Tresorie – SOME REMEDIES OF DISEASES OF THE NOSE [Nasal Diseases]

      WITH INDICATIONS.

      Sulphur.

      Troublesome catarrhal affection of
nose.

      Smell before nose as of an old catarrh:
odours make him sick.

      Smells his catarrh, and thinks others
smell it.

      Smell of this, or of filthy things,
nauseates.

      Fluent coryza like water trickling from
nose: all nasal discharges acrid and burning.

      “Dirty-nosed children”, with
sore, running noses. (Comp. Aurum).

      Such Sulph. children are shock-headed:
hungry; kick off the clothes at night.

      Phosphorus.

      Inveterate nasal catarrh.

      Painful dryness of nose (Sticta, Kali
carb).

      Constant sneezing and running from nose
of bloody water.

      Nostrils filled with green mucus,
blood-streaked. Bad odour from nose.

      Has cured nasal polypi, especially
bleeding.

      Tip of nose red and shining.

      Characteristic Phos. is the slender,
delicate type; may crave salt, ices: thirst for large cold drinks.

      With fears: alone, dark, thunder.

      Hepar.

      Hyperaesthesia of, or loss of smell.

      Bones of nose painful to touch. Ozaena
scrofulosa.

      Coryza, with inflammatory swelling of
nose, painful, as from a boil: thin, badly-smelling slime, or yellowish
sticky matter drops from one nostril.

      Nasal discharge: thick and purulent,
sometimes tinged with blood.

      Offensive discharge; nose swollen and
red; scabs in nose; eyes inflamed, lids red, excoriated and burning, as if
raw.

      Violent pain in bony parts of nose:
worse in rain or approach of rain (Lemna).

      Scurfy formation of right half nose,
extending to lip, with deep, sore, sensitive fissure.

      Lemna minor.

      Has a very definite affinity for nose.

      Helps in nasal obstruction and catarrh,
with or without polypi.

      Polypi swell in wet weather.

      Foul smell from nose; foul taste on
waking.

      Worse damp weather and heavy rains.

      Post-nasal ulceration high up. Chronic
pharyngitis.

      Turbinates swollen: crusts.

      Atrophic rhinitis: crusts;
muco-purulent discharge. Even cases of ozaena.

      One of Dr. Coopers medicines: he gave
unit doses of the mother tincture; only repeated at need.

      Graphites.

      Smell acute: cannot bear flowers
(Lemn.).

      Dryness of nose: blows blood from nose.

      Stoppage, with tough, bad-smelling
mucus.

      Dry scabs, with sore, cracked,
ulcerated nostrils. Nose sore, surrounded by thick, moist scabs.

      Sepia.

      Blowing of large lumps of yellow-green
mucus, or crusts, with blood, from nose.

      Dry coryza; nostrils sore, swollen,
ulcerated and scabby: discharging large green plugs.

      Large, offensive-smelling plugs from
nose, often so large they had to be drawn back into mouth and
expectorated, causing vomiting. Ozaena.

      Characteristics: Yellow saddle across
bridge of nose. Great sensitiveness to odours; the smell of cooking
nauseates.

      Nitric acid.

      Ulceration: of nostrils, scurfy: of
inner nose: bloody matter blown from nose.

      Hard plugs, hard to detach, leave a
sore.

      Green casts every morning; with ulcers:
involve upper lip which is swollen and honeycombed with ulcers. Offensive
yellow mucus and pus: frequent epistaxis.

      Violent itching, burning, soreness,
bleeding, scabbiness: stitches.

      Stitches as from a splinter on touch:
stitches in root, especially on sneezing and coughing.

      Thuja.

      Blows out much thick green mucus mixed
with blood and pus; later, brown scabs form.

      Nose sore: red eruption on alae, often
moist.

      Painful scabs in nostrils.

      Chronic catarrh after measles,
scarlatina, variola.

      Especially after vaccinations and
vaccines.

      Phytolacca.

      Drawing sensation, root of nose.

      As if tickled in nostril by a feather.

      “The most distressing, lingering,
inveterate old catarrhs with destruction of bones of the nose.” Total
obstruction of nose.

      Syphilitic ozaena, with bloody, sanious
discharge and disease of bones.

      Noli me tangere and cancerous
affections of nose.

      Silica.

      Gnawing and ulcers high up in nose,
with great sensitiveness of place to contact.

      Ozaena with fetid, offensive discharge,
when disease is seated in sub-mucous connective tissue or in periosteum.

      Intolerable itching tip of nose.

      Caries of nasal bones from syphilis or
scrofulosis.

      “The most inveterate cases of
nasal catarrh.

      “Caries of bone in any part of
body,especially the small bones of ear, nose, and mastoid.”.

      “Accumulation of hard crusts in
nose, loss of taste and smell; epistaxis and thickening of mucous
membrane; most vicious catarrh with discharge of bone from nose.

      “Horrible fetid ozaena; old
syphilitic cases where the nasal bones are destroyed and the nose becomes
a flabby bag, is sunken in or ulcerated away, leaving an opening. Silica
may cure, and an artificial nose be made afterwards.” KENT.

      Silica is slow-long-deep-acting.

      Has a great reputation for extrusion of
foreign bodies, necrosed tissues, and healing of sinuses.

      Silica is chilly; lacks
“grit”; keenly sensitive; sweats profusely; feet (offensive);
head, at night.

      Sticta.

      Constant need to blow nose: but no
discharge because of dryness (Phos. Lemna, Kali bich.).

      Nose is stuffed up; secretions drying
up so rapidly that it cannot be discharged.

      Obstruction of nose: interferes with
breathing and changes voice.

      Wants to put finger in nose to clear
out gluish secretion.

      Kali bichromicum.

      Fetid smell from nose.

      Nose painfully dry; air passes with
great ease through it.

      Feels swollen inside, stiff, velvety.

      Nose feels too heavy. As if a heavy
weight were hanging from it. Burning, throbbing inside root of nose.

      From nose, throat, trachea, bronchi,
bladder, the discharge is thick, yellow, ropy, and sticky, like glue;
draws out in strings and ropes; tough, jelly-like, and when it settles
down it forms hard masses.

      The nose is stopped up: watery
discharge at first with much sneezing, then a thick, yellow discharge.
Blows out bloody, mattery crusts. Crusts, tinged with blood. KENT.

      Plugs: “clinkers”. Discharge
of tough, green masses, or hard plugs.

      Round ulcer, or scabs on septum. Small,
perforating ulcer on septum.

      Plugs if left, easily detached. If
pulled away leave soreness at root of nose.

      Acrid, or thick yellow, or yellow-green
ropy discharge from nose. Violent pain occiput to forehead if discharge
ceases.

      Entire cartilaginous septum destroyed
and mucous membrane in a state of purulent inflammation; disease mistaken
for syphilis.

      Septum narium completely ulcerated away
(Hipp.).

      Malignant ulceration of nose.

      Ulceration frontal sinuses with violent
headache at root nose and in sinuses if discharge stops.

      Nasal polypi; recent or long-standing.

      Hippozaeninum (Glanders).

      Diffuse redness of nose, spreads over
forehead and face. Erysipelatous.

      Gangrenous erysipelas externally, with
discharge of pus and viscid mucus.

      Nasal secretions of foul appearance.
Often one-sided, albuminous, tough, viscid, grey, greenish, even bloody
and offensive; acrid corroding.

      Little yellow pustules on nose.

      Deep ulcers, edges elevated viscous
secretion. In groups running together. No scurfs.

      Chronic ozaena. Malignant ozaena.

      Pustules and ulcers in nose, end in
erosion and perforation of septum. (Comp. K. bich.).

      Gangrene of swollen root of nose.

      Cartilages exposed and necrosed,
septum, vomer and palate bone disorganized.

      “Checks liability to nasal
catarrh”.

      Aurum.

      Excessively fetid discharge from nose.

      Scrofulous and syphilitic affection of
bones of nose and face.

      Caries of bones of nose and palate.

      Putrid smell when blowing nose.

      Sensitive smell: everything smells too
strong; or, Want of smell.

      Boring pain in bones of nose.

      Nasal catarrh with melancholy, even
suicidal.

      Ulcerated, agglutinated, painful
nostrils; cannot breathe through nose. Crusts in nose.

      Nose feels obstructed, as in dry
coryza, yet air passes through freely (Kali bich.).

      Ozaena; excessively fetid discharge;
severe frontal headache.

      Burning, itching, stitching, smarting,
soreness in nose, especially when touched.

      Brown-red spots on nose. Nostrils
chapped.

      Yellow, thick discharge from nose; or
dry, firm pieces are blown out, always of offensive odour.

      Nose red, swollen. Tip, red and
“knobby.”.

      Cancer of nose.

      Typical Aurum has the most extreme
depression, even to suicide.

      Mercurius.

      Nasal bones swollen. Greenish, fetid
pus from nose.

      Acrid matter flows from nose.

      Old syphilitics with nasal bones
affected.

      Thick, greenish, yellow, acrid,
stinking discharge.

      Merc. is offensive in secretions;
saliva, sweat, etc. The

      typical Merc. tongue is large, coated,
tooth-notched.

      Merc. pains are worse at night.

      Lueticum (Syphilinum).

      Ozaena; offensive yellow-green
discharges.

      Sores itch and scab.

      Itching in nostrils.

      Characteristics: worse from darkness to
day light.

      All symptoms worse at night.

      Dread of night; fears the terrible
suffering from exhaustion on waking.

      Stillingia.

      Catarrhal discharge from nose, watery,
then muco-purulent, with soreness of mucous membrane; then small abscesses
inside (right) nostril.

      Inflammation and necrosis of bones of
nose.

      Stillingia attacks periosteum and
produces pain in bones.

      Has arrested caries of nasal bone.

      “A popular remedy for syphilis in
the Southern States, U.S.A.” of which marvellous things are
recounted.

      “Extreme torture from bone pains
and periosteal affections, especially in tibia” (Asaf.). NASH.

      Asafoetida.

      Offensive discharge” stench from
nose.

      Tension and numbness, bones of nose.

      Sensation as if nose would burst.

      It feels stopped high up, cannot
breathe through it riding in carriage).

      Discharge of very offensive matter,
with caries. (Comp. Hippozaen).

      Suits stout persons, intolerably
hypersensitive (Hepar, etc.) and nervous.

      Characteristic: explosive or rancid
belchings. Puffed, venous, purple face.