Bromium brom.

In evening when alone, felt as if he would see something if he should around; as if some one were back of him.
Expects to see something jump around the floor.
Desire for mental labor, preceded by aversion to his own profession.
Crying and lamentations, with hoarse voice.
Great depression of spirits.
Low-spirited and out of humor.

Vertigo: if he puts his foot on a bridge; from sight of running water; in damp weather; with nausea and nosebleed; with tendency to fall backwards.
Sensation deep in brain, as if vertigo would come on, or as if he would lose his consciousness.

Headache; heavy pressure in forehead in heat of the sun, passes off when in the shade.
Left-sided headache.
Headache after drinking milk.

Pains in the bones of the head, fore and back part; towards evening in damp weather.
Crawling beneath the skin of the occiput.
Scalp tender; covered with an eruption, with dirty looking and offensive-smelling discharge.

Sensitiveness to bright light.
Dilation of the pupils.
Lachrymation of right eye, with swelling of lachrymal gland.
Stitches through left eye.
Throbbing stitches in left upper lid, extending to brow, forehead and left temple; worse on touching it and from motion; bitter during rest.

Ringing in right ear.
Roaring in ears.
Stitches in the ears.
Discharge from the ears.
Throbbing and burning in ears, may be succeeded by burning through whole body.
Hard swelling of left parotid gland, feeling warm to touch.
Suppuration of left parotid, edges of the opening smooth; discharge watery and excoriating; swelling remaining hard and unyielding. θ After scarlatina.

Coryza with sneezing.
Severe coryza, right nostril stopped up and sore through-out; later the left.
Corrosive soreness on margins of nostrils and under the nose, with stoppage or with scurfs.
Nosebleed, with relief of chest and eye symptoms.

Face: pale, or red, or alternately so; bluish tinge turning purplish, with the cough in croup.
Greyish, earthy complexion.
Heat in cheeks, first in right, later in left.
Sensation as of spider-web on face.

Boring pain going to the right, or on right side of lower jaw.
Shooting pain on vermillion border of upper lip; afterwards yellow spots, which open and discharge a yellow fluid.
Painless swelling of left submaxillary gland.

Decayed teeth, sensitive to cold water.
Gums pain in the morning.

Taste: sweetish; salty; bitter; sour; acrid.
Water tastes salty, in the morning, fasting.
Dry sensation on the tongue.
Burning on the under surface of the tongue.
Stinging in the tip of the tongue.

Burning sensation in the mouth, œsophagus and stomach.
Mouth dry and parched.
Aphthæ, with affection of the eyes.

Elongation of the uvula.
Scraping in the throat.
Swelling of mucous membrane of fauces and pharynx.
Tonsils swollen, inflamed; constant pain in the throat, swallowing difficult, fluids worse then solids. θ After measles.
Right side of fauces dark red and dry, swallowing painful.

Desires for acids, which aggravate the symptoms and cause diarrhœa.
Aversion to the customary tobacco smoking; it causes nausea and vertigo.
Aversion to drinking cold water.

After eating oysters, diarrhœa; after acids, diarrhœa.
Gastric symptoms better from black coffee.
Nausea and pains in stomach, better after eating. See 25.
After breakfast: 25. After every meal: 20. Drinking milk: 3.

Hiccough and nausea.
Eructations: empty; tasteless; tasting like foul eggs; with vomiting of mucus.
Nausea and retching better after eating.

Pressure in stomach, like from a stone.
Pain in the stomach increased by pressure.

Stitches in the hypochondria; also from right to left.

Tympanitic distention of the abdomen and passage of much wind.
Griping and colicky pains.

Blind, painful hemorrhoids internally during and after stool; worse from cold or warm water; better from wetting with saliva.
Stools: painless, odorless, like scrapings from intestines; bright yellow, preceded by cutting and rumbling in abdomen; light yellow, slimy mucus; black fecal.
Diarrhœa: after every meal; at night.
Stool: hard, tough, brown and glistening; breaks to pieces like sheep dung.

Continued desire to urinate, with tickling sensation in tip of urethra.
Dribbling of urine, with burning, after urinating.
Urine: scanty and dark; turbid, and deposits a whitish sediment adhering to the vessel; leaves a red coating on vessel; contains large flakes of white mucus.

Increased sexual desire.
Nightly emission.
Hard, painless swelling of left testicle, painful when driving.
Coldness of left testicle.

Dull, constant pain in left ovary.
Hard swelling in ovarian region.
Menses: too early and too profuse; bright red blood; passive flow with much exhaustion; membranous shreds may pass off.
Suppression of menses. θ Scirrhus mammæ.
Headache on appearance of menses.
Violent contractive spasm before or during menses, lasting hours; leaving the abdomen sore.
Loud emission of flatus from vagina.
Vagina painful, as if sore.

Hard, uneven tumor in right mamma, firmly adherent to its surroundings, with lancinating pains, worse at night.

Cold sensation in larynx, with cold feeling when inspiring, after breakfast; better after shaving.
Larynx painful to touch; construction in larynx.
Scraping and rawness in larynx, provoking cough.
Contracted sensation internally, in the trachea, or feeling as if the pit of throat were pressed against the trachea.
Sensation of smoothness and emptiness, at a small spot in the larynx.
Voice: husky; hoarse, cannot speak clearly, loss of voice; weak and soft, with raw, scraped feeling in throat.

Gasping for breath, with wheezing and rattling in larynx, and spasmodic closure of glottis.
Deep, forcible inspiration, is necessary, from time to time.
Difficulty of breathing; cannot inspire deep enough.
Sensation as if the air passages were full of smoke.
Asthma of sailors, as soon as they "go ashore".
Difficult breathing, must sit up in bed at night.
Emphysema, rattling of mucus without choking.

Excited by: tickling in larynx; scraping and rawness in larynx; deep inspiration.
Cough, with sudden paroxysms of suffocation, on swallowing; respiration very short; obliged to catch for breath.
Whooping-cough, with croupish hoarseness of the cough.
Cough night and day, sounds loose, but no expectoration; aggravation from exercise and on entering a warm room.
Sensation of constriction impedes respiration, with dry, tickling cough.
Much rattling in larynx when coughing.

Affections begin in bronchi and ascend to larynx.
Sensation of weakness and exhaustion in the chest.
Pressure in upper part of chest.
Sharp stitches in right side of chest, especially when walking rapidly.
Cutting pains running upwards. θ Phthisis.
Right lung most affected.
Paralytic drawing pain through left chest, toward scapula and into left arm.
Hepatization of lower lobes in pneumonia.

Pulse much accelerated.
Violent palpitation of the heart in the evening, so that she cannot lie on the left side.
Cutting pains running upwards. θ Heart disease.

Pressure below left clavicle.
Tearing in left clavicle.
Stitching pain from mamma to the axilla, cannot bear pressure.

Stiffness of neck.
Tearing in right lumbar and dorsal muscles, increased by moving these parts.
Sore pain in small of back, unchanged by motion.

Great restlessness and jactitation of arms.
Left arm feels paralyzed.
Weakness of the arms.
Tearing in the arms, especially in hands and fingers.
Icy-cold forearms or only cold hands.

Pressive bone pain in left leg.
Boring pains in one or both tibiæ.

Rest: 5. Motion: 5, 31. Walking: 28. Riding on horseback gives general relief. Exercise: 27, 40. Exertion: 40. Driving: 22. Must sit up: 26. Cannot lie on left side: 29.

Tremulousness all over; great languor and debility.

Continued yawning with the respiratory troubles; child yawns frequently, and is drowsy.
Awakes unrefreshed; it seems impossible to rise.
Dreams: vivid; of ascending a height; of climbing a steep; of journeyings; of quarrels; of dying; of coffins and funerals.
Jumping up, out of sleep, with whistling breathing.
Starts from sleep with cough, drink relieves it.

Morning: 10, 11. Evening: 1, 4, 29. Night: 20, 22, 24, 27. Every other night: 40. Day and night: 27.

Heat of sun: 3. Entering warm room: 27. Damp weather: 2, 4. Warm water: 20. Cold water: 10, 14, 20. Wetting with saliva: 20. "On shore": 26.

Chill every other day, with shaking, yawning and stretching, and with cold feet.
Hands cold and moist.
Internal burning heat, like between the skin and flesh.
Sweat on the palms.
Sweat from the least exertion or exercise.

Periodical pains.

Right: 5, 6, 7, 9, 13, 24, 28, 31. Left: 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33. Right to left: 7, 8, 18. Left to right: 9. Below upwards: 28, 29, 30.

Swelling and induration of the glands.
Enlargement of thyroid, in persons with light hair, blue eyes and fair skin.

Touch: 5, 25. Pressure: 17, 30. Shaving: 25.

Tickling, itching, pricking and stitches in the skin, at various places.
Pimples and pustules.
Boils on the arms and in the face.

Acts better, though not exclusively in person with light hair and blue eyes.
Increased embonpoint.

Bromium follows Spongia well, in croup.
Antidote: Amm. carb.