Badiaga bad.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

General

Cough; excited by sweets, candy, etc. (Med. Spo. Zin.). EXPECTORATION; flies from mouth (Kali-c.).

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Fresh-water Sponge

General

Soreness of muscles and integuments; worse motion and friction of clothes, with sensitiveness to cold. Glands swollen. General paresis. Basedow's disease. Lues, bubo, roseola.

Head

Sensation of enlargement and fullness. Pain in forehead and temple, extending to eyeballs, worse in afternoon. Blueness under eyes. Dandruff; scalp sore, dry, tetter-like. Dull, dizzy feeling in head. Coryza, sneezing, watery discharge, with asthmatic breathing and suffocative cough. Influenza. Slight sounds are greatly accentuated.

Eyes

Twitching of left upper lid; eyeballs tender; aching in eyeballs. Intermittent sore pain in eyeball, coming on at 3 pm.

Respiratory

Cough; worse in afternoon, better in warm room. The mucus flies out of mouth and nostrils. Whooping-cough, with thick yellow expectoration; flies out. Hay-fever, with asthmatic breathing. Pleuritic stitches in chest, neck, and back.

Stomach

Mouth hot. Much thirst. Lancinating pain in pit of stomach extending to vertebra and scapula.

Female

Metrorrhagia; worse at night, with feeling of enlargement of head (Arg). Cancer of breast (Asterias; Con; Carbo an; Plumb iod).

Heart

Indescribable bad feeling about the heart with soreness and pain, flying stitches all over.

Skin

Sore to touch. Freckles. Rhagades.

Back

Stitches in nape, scapulæ. Pain in small of back, hips and lower limbs. Very stiff neck. Muscles and skin sore, as if beaten.

Modalities

Worse by cold. Better, by heat.

Relationship

Compare: Merc similar but opposite modalities. Spongia; Kali hyd; Phytol; Conium.

Complementary: Sulph; Merc; Iod.

Dose

First to sixth attenuation.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

E. B. Nash · Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Nash d. 1917; public domain)

Leaders

Spasmodic cough, which ejects viscid mucus, which flies out of the mouth.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Spongilla fluviatilis. Fresh-water sponge. Trituration of the dried sponge gathered in autumn.

Clinical

Breast, cancer of. Bruises. Bubo. Catarrh. Chilblains. Coryza. Eyes, pains in. Glands, affections of. Hay-fever. Hæmorrhoids. Heart, affections of. Indurations. Ophthalmia. Palpitation. Rheumatism. Scrofula. Syphilis. Tibia, pain in. Whooping-cough.

Characteristics

Badiaga is the Russian name for the river sponge, which is a popular Russian remedy. Among the peculiar symptoms and indications are: Headache with aching in backs of eyeballs, 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.; < motion. Severe headache in vertex > night, returning severely after breakfast. Headache with inflamed eyes. Pains in eyeballs extending to head. (J. A. Biegler cured a case with the following symptoms: A lady had for months off and on a severe pain in r. eyeball, which extended to forehead over this eye, then to temple; always < in afternoon.) Scalp sore; dry; itching; scurf; tetters. Soreness is one of the key-notes of the remedy; general soreness of integuments and muscles; as if beaten; very sensitive. Profuse coryza, coming from nostril with a gush. L. cheek and malar bone sore to touch. Lancinating pains in stomach; liver; below scapulæ; urethra; chest. Buboes. Chancres suppressed by cautery. Infantile syphilis. Carcinoma of breast. There is a cough which causes sneezing, profuse coryza. Occasional severe fit of coughing ejecting viscid mucus flying out of mouth; caused by tickling in larynx as if a particle of sugar was dissolving in throat; > in warm room. Tremulous vibrative palpitation < lying r. side. Palpitation after pleasurable emotions. Soreness of anterior muscles of legs; toes bend while walking as if extensors were paralysed. It has lessened a hard cellular swelling of both legs. Sharp stinging back of r. heel, < least pressure. Chronic rheumatism, < by cold, especially in cold air. < Stormy weather. > In warm room; < afternoon. < Pressure and touch: there is general soreness, even to touch of clothes. Sore as if beaten. Headache > at night, after sleep.

Relations

Compare: Spongia; Seneg. (cough caused by sneezing, opposite of Bad.); Grind. rob. (respiration ceases on falling asleep); Spo. (cough with much sneezing); Kali c. (phlegm flies from mouth); Calc. s. (indurations); Carb. an. (indurations, buboes); Cist. can. (scrofula); Clemat., Hep., Iod., Kali iod., Lach., Merc., Merc. iod., Nit. ac., Sil., Sul. Followed well by Lach. Complementary to Sul., Iod., Merc.

Mind

After pleasurable emotions, palpitation. ─ Mind generally clear, active in spite of headache.

Head

Headache from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m., with slight aching pains in the posterior portion of both eyeballs, and in the temples. ─ During the day more or less headache, with pain in the eyeballs (worse l.); more from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. ─ Frontal headache during the forenoon, worse in the temples, and extending into the posterior portion of the l. eyeball; < by moving the eye. ─ Pain in the temples and eyeballs; from eyeballs to temples. ─ A very severe headache on top of the head; remains the same in all positions; better at night after sleeping, and better in the morning; returning violently after breakfast; lasting several days. ─ Headache with inflamed eyes. ─ Headache < on moving eyes. ─ Excess of dandruff, or dry, tetter-like appearance of the scalp, with slight itching; hair dry. ─ Scalp sore to touch, with tetter-like eruption on forehead.

Eyes

Bluish-purple margin of the eyelids, and blue under the eyes. ─ Scrofulous inflammation of the eyes, with hardening of the Meibomian glands. ─ Severe pain from eyeballs ( < l.) into temple; < turning eyes. ─ Intermittent neuralgia of r. eyeball, extending to temple, < afternoon. ─ Headache extending into the eyeballs. ─ L. eyeball quite sore, even upon closing it tightly. ─ Twitching of l. eyelid.

Ears

Slight shocks heard in the ear, as of very distant artillery; afternoons.

Nose

Profuse coryza, mostly from the l. nostril; comes with a gush; worse in afternoon and evening; with sneezing. ─ Coryza and cough. ─ Itching of l. ala nasi.

Face

On forehead, tetter-like eruption. ─ Pale, ashy, or leaden colour of face. ─ Stiffness in the maxillary joints. ─ L. cheek and malar bone sore to touch.

Mouth

Mouth and breath hot and feverish, with thirst for large quantities of water at a time. ─ Mouth and tongue feel scalded.

Throat

Hawks up, in morning, masses of gluey bloody mucus from throat, which is inflamed and sore, < swallowing, solids. ─ Tonsils red, inflamed, < swallowing solids.

Stomach

Pressure in epigastrium, nausea, and rumbling. ─ Lancinating in pit of stomach 8 a.m.; extends to vertebræ, r. scapula, at times to r. side, resulting there in pleuritic pain.

Abdomen

Lancinating pain with a bounding movement in region of liver. ─ Indurated inguinal glands. ─ Syphilitic buboes.

Stool and Anus

Catarrh of the bowels. ─ Constipation. ─ Hæmorrhoids.

Urinary Organs

Severe, sharp, lancinating pain in or near orifice of urethra. ─ Urine high-coloured; and reddish.

Male Sexual Organs

Chancres, after cautery, elevated discoloured cicatrices, rhagades. ─ Syphilis of infants, whole convolutes of hard glandular swellings, buboes.

Female Sexual Organs

Carcinoma mammæ. ─ Metrorrhagia < night, with feeling of enlargement of head.

Respiratory Organs

Breath hot and feverish. ─ Occasional severe paroxysms of spasmodic cough, ejecting viscid mucus from the bronchial tubes, which at times comes flying forcibly out of the mouth, < afternoon and evening, caused by tickling in the larynx, as if sugar was dissolving, > in warm room. ─ Cough = sneezing; profuse coryza. ─ Pain in upper part of r. chest. ─ Pleuritic pain, < on motion or on full inspiration; with soreness. ─ Severe, sharp, lancinating pain in r. supra-clavicular region. ─ Stitches in sides, esp. r. ─ While lying on r. side in bed, and at moment of becoming unconscious by sleep, severe oppressive suffocative attacks from suspended respiration, causing a quick effort to prevent suffocation by changing position. ─ Typhoid pneumonia.

Heart

Severe vibrating, tremulous palpitation of the heart, even while sitting or lying, quiet, upon any sudden elating or other emotion of mind. ─ Lying on r. side, heart is heard and felt to pulsate from chest up to neck.

Neck and Back

Very stiff neck. ─ Soreness and lameness, with stitches in nape of neck, < by bending the head back and forth. ─ Scrofulous swelling of the glands of the l. side of the face, throat, and neck; nearly as large as a hen's egg; some hard, some suppurating. ─ Severe lancinating pains and stitches in the posterior r. side, below the scapula, much < by throwing the shoulders back and chest forward, or any contortions of the body; pain extorting at times a mean or shriek.

Upper Limbs

Palms of hands hot and dry.

Lower Limbs

Several hard, small lumps along the shin-bone. ─ Hard cellular swelling of the legs. ─ Anterior muscles of r. leg sore, as if beaten. ─ At night violent lancinating pains in the limbs. ─ Hard swellings of both legs lessened. ─ Hurts of horses' hoofs. ─ Bad ulcers of horses' feet. ─ Toes bend while walking as if extensors paralysed. ─ Checked foot-sweat.

Generalities

General soreness of the muscles and integuments of the whole body; flesh sore to touch, even of the clothes; sore as if beaten.

Skin

Skin sore to touch. ─ Raised and discoloured scars. ─ Rhagades. ─ Brown and blue spots after concussions. ─ Externally applied causes checked eruptions to reappear. ─ Tetters on scalp and forehead; itching on scalp.

Sleep

Restless at night; must frequently change position, body feels so sore. ─ Awake 3-4 a.m. with frightful dreams and severe cramping pains in metatarsal bones of both feet. ─ > After sleep (head).

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

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Spongilla fluviatilis. Fresh Water Sponge.
Hahnemann, after having received this popular drug from Russia, used it and made some observations with it, but they have been withheld from our School by the widow. In 1834 it was triturated by Dr. C. Hg., after 1835 some mention made in our
journals ; in 1865, well proved by Dr. Lyman Bedford, and finally published by C. Hg., in the Hahnemannian Monthly, vol. ii, page 121, 1866.

Mind

After pleasurable emotions, palpitation of heart.
Mind generally clear, active in spite of headache.
Mistakes the days.

Sensorium

Dull, dizzy feeling.

Inner head

Headache from 2 P. M. until 7 P. M., with slight aching in posterior portion of both eyeballs and in temples ; < on moving eyes. θ Whooping cough.
Frontal headache ; < in temples, extends to back of left eyeball ; < moving eyes.
Severe headache on top of head ; < at night after sleeping and in morning ; returning violently after breakfast.
Headache with inflamed eyes.

Outer head

Excess of dandruff ; scalp sore to touch ; tetter-like eruption on forehead, and dizzy feeling during forenoon.
Itching on scalp, with much dandruff like tetter ; dryness of hair.

Sight and eyes

Headache with aching in posterior parts of eyeballs, < on turning eyes. θ Pertussis.
Eyeballs tender ; felt even when closing lids firmly. θ Pertussis.
First right eye, afterwards left inflamed, during afternoon.
Scrofulous ophthalmia ; hardening of meibomian glands. θ Headache.
Severe intermittent pain in posterior portion of right eyeball ; afternoon next day, left.
Margins of lids bluish-purple ; blue under eyes. θ Pertussis.
Twitching of left eyelid.

Hearing and ears

Slight shocks in ears as of distant artillery ; afternoon and evening. θ Pertussis.

Smell and nose

Sneezing, fluent coryza, stoppage at times.
Sneezing with coryza, fluent, or thick and yellow ; < left nostril. θ Pertussis.
Coryza and cough.
Itching of left wing of nose.

Upper face

Redness of face. θ Catarrh.
Face pale, ashy or leaden. θ Pertussis.
Left cheek and malar bone sore to touch.
Maxillary joint stiff.

Teeth and gums

Drawing in a decayed back tooth.

Taste, speech, tongue

Bad taste in mouth, evening.

Inner mouth

Mouth and breath hot, feverish, with thirst for large quantities of water at a time. θ Pertussis.
Mouth and tongue feel scalded.

Palate and throat

Hawks up masses of gluey, bloody mucus from throat, which is inflamed and sore ; < swallowing solids.
Tonsils red, inflamed ; < swallowing solids.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Appetite good ; thirst lessened ; tongue as if scalded.
Appetite diminished ; costive ; urine high-colored.
Thirst for large quantities of water.

Eating and drinking

After breakfast : headache.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Pressure in pit of stomach, nausea and rumbling. θ Forerunner of cholera Asiatica.
Severe lancinating in pit of stomach, 8 A. M. ; extends to vertebræ, right scapula, and at times to right side, resulting there in a pleuritic pain.

Hypochondria

Lancinating pain with a bounding movement in region of liver.

Abdomen and loins

Indurated inguinal glands.
Syphilitic bubo.

Stools and rectum

Catarrh of bowels.
Constipation.
Hemorrhoids.

Urinary organs

Sharp pain in right kidney ; afternoon.
Urine high-colored, reddish.
Severe, sharp, lancinating pain, in and near orifice of urethra.

Male sexual organs

Chancres suppressed by cautery or mercurial ointment, leaving elevated, discolored cicatrices ; general cachectic appearance and rhagades here and there.
Syphilitic bubo, left groin, hard, unequal like scirrhus ; violent burning stitches during night.
Buboes from different causes ; shooting pains, if suppuration has not begun, curable by tincture in three days ; if fluctuation is detected, 6 drops daily in water will cause absorption.
Syphilis of infants, whole convolutes of hard glandular swellings, buboes.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Carcinoma mamma.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Catarrhal affections of throat.

Respiration

With spasmodic cough, strangling, face turning dark. θ Catarrh.
While lying in bed on right side, just becoming unconscious by sleep, severe oppressive suffocative attacks from suspended respiration ; quick effort to prevent suffocation by changing position.
Breath hot and feverish.

Cough

Occasional severe paroxysms of spasmodic cough, ejecting viscid mucus from bronchial tubes which at times comes flying forcibly out of mouth ; more during afternoon and evening ; caused by tickling in larynx as if sugar was dissolving ; > in
a warm room.
Cough causes sneezing ; profuse coryza.
Whooping cough ; all symptoms < afternoon and evening.
Catarrhal inflammation of air passages, with fever, thirst, red face, sneezing, lachrymation and spasmodic cough ; during each paroxysm of coughing, crying, pressing hands to head, sometimes strangling, face turning dark and thick yellow mucus flying out of
mouth and nostrils ; cough loose A. M., tight P. M. and evening.

Inner chest and lungs

Pain in upper part of right chest.
Severe, sharp, lancinating pain in right supraclavicular region in or near subclavian artery.
Sharp, lancinating pains in chest, < from motion and deep inspiration, with soreness of chest ; < afternoon and evening. θ Pertussis.
Severe stitches in sides, especially right, from 7th to 8th rib ; < from least motion.
Lungs feel as if sinking down.
Pneumonia typhosa.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Tremulous, vibrating palpitation upon slightest emotion of mind. θ Pertussis. θ Heart
disease, etc.
Lying on right side, heart is heard and felt to pulsate from chest up to neck.
At midnight, while in bed, vibrating palpitation of heart for a few minutes ; after which, while lying on right side, sensation as if lower lobe of left lung was settling down 3 or 4 inches, or being collapsed ; > by changing position.

Neck and back

Neck very stiff, < flexing head.
Soreness, lameness with stitches in nape ; < bending head back and forward.
Severe lancinating and stitches below scapulæ, much < from throwing shoulders back and chest forward, or from any contortion of body.
Glandular swellings on left side of face, throat and neck, nearly as large as a hen's egg ; some hard, some suppurating.
Severe pain in or near head of right scapula.
Painful drawing near spine to left, downward from shoulder blade.
Pain in front of upper part of right shoulder, afterwards in left shoulder and arms.
Severe lancinating pains and stitches in posterior right side below scapula, much < from throwing shoulders back and chest forward, or any contortions of body ; pain extorting at times a moan or shriek.
Pain in small of back, hips and lower limbs.

Upper limbs

Pain in front of upper part of right shoulder, afterwards in left shoulder and arm.
In scapula pain from pit of stomach.
Palms hot and dry.

Lower limbs

Pain in hips.
Intermitting pain in muscles of lower posterior third part of leg, with a sore, clumsy, contracted, bruised feeling of anterior muscles of lower third, < flexing foot and going up-stairs, when toes tend to drop down ; must step higher with right foot ; > remaining quiet
at home.
Next day posterior parts not felt, but anterior of same leg worse ; muscles sore as if beaten, and a contracted feeling, numb while sitting or lying.
Chilblains.
Lessened hard cellular swelling of both legs.
Hurts of horses' hoofs ; bad ulcers on horses' feet.
Sharp stinging in posterior of right heel ; < from least pressure.
Checked foot sweat (externally).
Toes bend while walking as if extensors were paralyzed.

Rest. position. motion

Rest : pain in muscles of leg better.
Lying in bed : palpitation ; suffocation when lying on right side.
Throwing shoulders back and chest forward : pains below scapulæ worse.
Sitting : palpitation ; stitches in neck.
Sitting or lying : legs numb, soon feel sore, must change position.
Flexing head : stiff neck worse.
Changing position : suffocative attack > ; palpitation better.
Motion : eyes and head < ; pains in chest worse.
Walking : toes bend as if extensors were paralyzed.

Sleep

Restless at night ; must frequently change position, body feels so sore.
Awoke with frightful dreams and severe crampy pains in metatarsal bones of both feet ; 3 to 4 A. M.
After sleep, head better.

Time

From 3 to 4 A. M. : cramps in feet.
Morning : headache on vertex > ; cough loose.
At 8 A. M. : pain in pit of stomach.
Forenoon : dizziness.
From 2 P. M. to 7 P. M. : headache.
Afternoon : eyes inflamed ; shocks in ears as of distant artillery ; pain in kidney ; spasmodic cough < ; cough tight ; pains in chest worse.
Evening : shocks in ears ; bad taste in mouth ; spasmodic cough < ; cough tight ; pains in chest worse.
Night : headache on vertex > ; restlessness.
Midnight : palpitation of heart.

Temperature and weather

Warm room : whooping cough better.
Sensitive to cold, especially cold air.
Worse in stormy weather.
Chilblains.

Fever

Heat in forehead.
Fever and thirst. θ Catarrh.
Feverish, hot breath and mouth.
Hot stitches in bubo.
Palms dry, hot.
Foot sweat checked.

Locality and direction

Right : pain in eyeball ; pleuritic pain in side ; pain in kidney ; suffocation while lying on side ; pain in upper chest ; pain in supraclavicular region ; pain in head of scapula ; stinging of heel.
Left : headache extends to back of eyeball ; twitching of eyelid ; coryza left nostril < ; itching wing of nose ; cheek and malar bone sore ; bubo in groin ; glandular swellings on side of face and neck ; pain in shoulder and arm.
Right to left : eyes inflamed ; pain in shoulder ; pleuritic pains ; pain in knees.
Above downward : drawing in spine.
Posterior muscles of right leg one day, next day anterior.

Sensations

Tongue as if scalded ; lungs feel as if sinking down.
Sharp pain : in right kidney ; near orifice of urethra.
Lancinating : in pit of stomach ; in region of liver ; near orifice of urethra ; in right supraclavicular region ; in chest ; below scapulæ ; below right scapula.
Stitches : violent burning, in bubo ; in sides ; in nape ; below scapulæ ; below right scapula.
Pleuritic pain : in right side.
Shooting : in buboes.
Stinging : in right heel.
Soreness : of chest ; in nape ; of thigh muscles.
Aching : in posterior portion of eyeballs and in temples.
Scalded feeling : of mouth and tongue.
Drawing : in decayed molar ; near spine from left shoulder blade.
Pressure : in pit of stomach.
Bruised feeling : of thigh muscles.
Crampy pains : in feet.
Lameness : in nape.
Undefined pain : in upper right chest ; in front of upper right shoulder ; in left shoulder and arms ; in small of back ; in hips and lower limbs.
Tickling : in larynx.
Itching : of left wing of nose ; on scalp.

Tissues

Chronic rheumatism.
Catarrhal troubles.
Adenitis.
Scrofulosis.
Glands enlarged, indurated. θ Scrofula. θ Syphilitic buboes.
Induration of cellular tissues.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : scalp sore ; malar bones sore ; skin sore.
Least pressure : stinging in heel <.
Swallowing solids : sore throat < ; tonsils <.
Lesions, pains and suggillations after concussion or contusion.

Skin

Itching on scalp.
Skin sore to touch.
Elevated and discolored cicatrices.
Rhagades here and there.
Brown and blue spots in skin after concussions.
Causes checked eruptions to reappear (externally applied).

Stage of life, constitution

General cachectic appearance.
Scrofulous constitutions.
Fat children. θ Whooping cough.

Relations

Side relation : Spongia .
Cured a syphilitic bubo of left groin after Sulphur, Carb. an., Clemat., Silic., Iodium and Arsen . had failed.
Compare : Seneg . (cough caused by sneezing, opposite of 13 ) ; Spongia (cough, with much sneezing).
Similar to : Calc. sulph . (indurations) ; Carb. an . (indurations, buboes) ; Cist. can . (scrofula) ; Clemat., Hepar, Iodium, Kali hydr.,
Laches., Mercur., Merc. jod., Nitr. ac., Silic., Sulphur .
Complementary to : Sulphur, Iodium , and Mercur .
Laches . follows well.