SPONGIA TOSTA 30

Action of Medicine:

• For the tubercular diathesis. Especially adapted to diseases of children and women; light hair, lax fibre, fair complexion. Swelling and induration of glands. Goitre with suffocative spells.
• Awakens in a fright and feels as if suffocating; as if he had to breathe through a sponge.
• Great dryness of mucous membranes of air passages - throat, larynx, trachea, bronchi - "dry as a horn."
• Cough: dry, sibilant, like a saw driven through a pine board; aggaravted by  sweets, cold drinks, smoking, lying with head low, dry cold winds; agggravated while reading, singing, talking, swallowing; better by eating or drinking warm things.
• Croup: anxious, wheezing, aggravated during inspiration.
• Palpitation: violent with pain and grasping respiration; awakened suddenly after midnight with suffocation and great anxiety; valvular insufficiency; before or during menses.
• Swelling of spermatic cord and testicles, with pain and tenderness. Orchitis.
• Every mental excitement aggravates or increases the cough. Worse after sleep or sleeps into aggravation.

Reference: Boericke’s New Manual of homeopathic Materia Medica with Repertory, Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica with Bowel Nosodes by H.C. Allen.