Spongia has traditionally been used for the relief of symptoms associated with croup and tickling in the throat where the person has a dry, barking cough like a seal. This remedy follows Aconite well for croup that is worse around midnight with marked anxiety.Spongia may address a dry cough that is intensely hacking and dry. The cough may sound like the barking of a seal, or a saw moving through a wooden board. Exhaustion and heaviness after exertion comes on so suddenly that the person feels they may fall and must lie down. There may be a sense of raw burning, fullness and weakness in the chest. Anxiety with difficulty breathing. One of the key notes of Spongia is awakening from sleep with a feeling of suffocation, a violent cough and great alarm, with difficult or fast hard breathing and a flushed anxious face. This remedy is often recommended to follow Aconite for the management of croup.
KeywordsSqueezing painDryness of mucous membranesDry, barking, sawing coughWakes feeling suffocated and panickyBurning, raw weakness in the chestExhausted and must lay downModalitiesBetter: Warm drinks and food, bending forward, warm steamy air, resting in horizontal positionWorse: For being aroused from sleep or after sleep, midnight, dry cold wind, cold drinks, touch or pressure, from exertion, full moon.
KeywordsSqueezing painDryness of mucous membranesDry, barking, sawing coughWakes feeling suffocated and panickyBurning, raw weakness in the chestExhausted and must lay downModalitiesBetter: Warm drinks and food, bending forward, warm steamy air, resting in horizontal positionWorse: For being aroused from sleep or after sleep, midnight, dry cold wind, cold drinks, touch or pressure, from exertion, full moon.
Always read the label. Homoeopathic principles should be applied when using this remedy.If symptoms persist consult your health care practitioner promptly.
Spongia has traditionally been used for the relief of symptoms associated with croup and tickling in the throat where the person has a dry, barking cough like a seal. This remedy follows Aconite well for croup that is worse around midnight with marked anxiety.Spongia may address a dry cough that is intensely hacking and dry. The cough may sound like the barking of a seal, or a saw moving through a wooden board. Exhaustion and heaviness after exertion comes on so suddenly that the person feels they may fall and must lie down. There may be a sense of raw burning, fullness and weakness in the chest. Anxiety with difficulty breathing. One of the key notes of Spongia is awakening from sleep with a feeling of suffocation, a violent cough and great alarm, with difficult or fast hard breathing and a flushed anxious face. This remedy is often recommended to follow Aconite for the management of croup.
KeywordsSqueezing painDryness of mucous membranesDry, barking, sawing coughWakes feeling suffocated and panickyBurning, raw weakness in the chestExhausted and must lay downModalitiesBetter: Warm drinks and food, bending forward, warm steamy air, resting in horizontal positionWorse: For being aroused from sleep or after sleep, midnight, dry cold wind, cold drinks, touch or pressure, from exertion, full moon.
KeywordsSqueezing painDryness of mucous membranesDry, barking, sawing coughWakes feeling suffocated and panickyBurning, raw weakness in the chestExhausted and must lay downModalitiesBetter: Warm drinks and food, bending forward, warm steamy air, resting in horizontal positionWorse: For being aroused from sleep or after sleep, midnight, dry cold wind, cold drinks, touch or pressure, from exertion, full moon.
Always read the label. Homoeopathic principles should be applied when using this remedy.If symptoms persist consult your health care practitioner promptly.