Bromium brom.

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

Region

LARYNX. RESPIRATION. Heart. Circulation. Glands: Parotid. Thyroid. Ovaries. Mammæ.

Worse

WARM: DAMPNESS. Overheating. Room. Chilled while hot. Sea bathing. Dust. Drafts. Until midnight.

Better

Nosebleed (vertigo, head, chest). At sea. Motion.

General

Scrophulous blondes. Constrictions, glandular induration or membranous formations. Weak and easily overheated, then sweaty and sensitive to drafts.

Particulars

Head congested, fears a stroke. Acrid, burning coryza. Nosebleed. Face seems drawn to a point at nose. Flatus from vagina. Inhaled air seems smoky, cold or raw. Lungs feel coated with down. Wants to take a deep breath, but it excites cough. Suffocative fits; he starts up choked with croupy or wheezing cough, or with palpitation. Asthma. Spasm of glottis. Asthma of sailors going ashore. Deep hoarseness, < if heated. Diphtheritic croup. Colds start in larynx; go upward (Merc. Sep.) and downward. Thick, white expectoration. Even a small goitre oppresses. Nervous palpitation. Cardiac hypertrophy. Slow, glandular enlargement. Boring in bones.

Related

Related: Lach. Samb.

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

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Keynote

It acts best, but not exclusively, on persons with light blue eyes, flaxen hair, light eyebrows, fair, delicate skin; blonde, red-cheeked, scrofulous girls. Sensation of cobweb on the face (Bar., Bor., Graph.). Fan-like motion of the alae nasi (Ant. t., Lyc.). Sailors suffer with asthma "on shore.". Stony, hard, scrofulous or tuberculous swelling of glands, especially on lower jaw and throat (thyroid, submaxillary, parotid, testes). Diphtheria: where the membrane forms in pharynx; beginning in bronchi, trachea or larynx, and extending upwards; chest pains running upwards. Membranous and diphtheritic croup; much rattling of mucus during cough, but no choking (as in Hepar.); sounds loose, but no expectoration (Ant. t.). Croupy symptoms with hoarseness during whooping cough; gasping for breath. Dyspnoea: cannot inspire deep enough; as if breathing through a sponge or the air passages were full of smoke or vapor of sulphur; rattling, sawing; voice inaudible; danger of suffocation from mucous in larynx (in bronchi, Ant. t.). Hypertrophy of heart from gymnastics in growing boys (from calisthenics in young girls, Caust.). Physometra; loud emission of flatus from the vagina (Lyc.); membranous dysmenorrhoea (Lac. c.). Cold sensation in larynx on inspiration (Rhus, Sulph.); > after shaving (< after shaving, Carbo an.).

Relations

Compare: in croup and croupy affections, Chlor., Hep., Iod., Spong. Hard goitre cured after Iod. failed. Brom. has cured in croup after failure of Iod., Phos., Hep., Spong.; especially in relapses after Iod. "The chief distinction between Brom. and Iod. is the former cures the blue-eyed and the latter the black-eyed patients." - Hering.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

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General

This remedy affects particularly the internal head, left side. Important in diphtheria and croup, especially in children having thin, white, delicate skins, and very light hair and eyebrows.

Mental

Cheerful mood; desire for mental labor.

Diphtheria

When the Diphtheria begins in the larynx and runs up.

Croup

When with all the croupy sound, there is a good deal of loose rattling in the larynx with the breathing and coughing, but no choking in the cough, as there is in Hepar.

Generalities

Affects chiefly eyes, chest and heart. In females, escape of flatus from the vagina.

Worse

In the first part of the night.

Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica

J. W. Hutchison · Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica · rewritten from Hering's and other materia medicas

Red line symptom

Fluent coryza, with sneezing; long continued and obstinate; corrosive soreness under the nose and on margins of nostrils. Blind, intensely painful hemorrhoids, with black stool. Loud emissions of flatus from the vagina. Cold sensations in larynx, with cold feeling when inspiring. Cough, with sudden paroxysms of suffocation, on swallowing; respiration very short, obliged to catch for breath. Difficulty of breathing, cannot inspire deep enough; sensation as if the air passages were full of smoke.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Bromine (BROMUM)

General

Most marked effects are seen in the respiratory symptoms, especially in larynx and trachea. It seems to affect especially scrofulous children with enlarged glands. Blond type. Enlarged parotid and goitre. Tendency to spasmodic attacks. Left-sided mumps. Sense of suffocation; excoriating discharges, profuse sweats and great weakness. Complaints from being over-heated. Tendency to infiltrate glands, become hard, but seldom suppurate.

Mind

Delusion that strange persons are looking over patient's shoulder and that she would see some one on turning. Quarrelsome.

Head

Megrim of left side; worse stooping, especially after drinking milk. Headache; worse heat of sun and by rapid motion. Sharp pain through eyes. Dizzy when crossing stream of water.

Nose

Coryza, with corrosive soreness of nose. Stoppage of right nostril. Pressure at root of nose. Tickling, smarting, as from cobwebs. Fan-like motion of alæ (Lyc). Bleeding from nose relieving the chest.

Throat

Throat feels raw, evening, with hoarseness. Tonsils pain on swallowing, deep red, with network of dilated blood vessels. Tickling in trachea during inspiration. Hoarseness coming on from being overheated.

Stomach and Abdomen

Sharp burning from tongue to stomach. Pressure as of stone. Gastralgia; better eating. Tympanitic distention of abdomen. Painful hæmorrhoids, with black stool.

Respiratory

Whooping cough (Use persistently for about ten days). Dry cough, with hoarseness and burning pain behind sternum. Spasmodic cough, with rattling of mucus in the larynx; suffocative. Hoarseness. Croup after febrile symptoms have subsided. Difficult and painful breathing. Violent cramping of chest. Chest pains run upward. Cold sensation when inspiring. Every inspiration provokes cough. Laryngeal diphtheria, membrane begins in larynx and spreads upward. Spasmodic constriction. Asthma; difficulty in getting air into lung (Chlorum, in expelling). Better at sea, of seafaring men when they come on land. Hypertrophy of heart from gymnastics (Rhus). Fibrinous bronchitis, great dyspnœa. Bronchial tubes feel filled with smoke.

Male

Swelling of testicles. Indurated, with pains worse slight jar.

Female

Swelling of ovaries. Menses too early; too profuse, with membranous shreds. Low spirited before menses. Tumor in breasts, with stitching pains; worse left. Stitch pains from breast to axillæ. Sharp shooting pain in left breast, worse, pressure.

Sleep

Full of dreams and anguish; jerking and starting during sleep, full of fantasy and illusions; difficult to go to sleep at night, cannot sleep enough in morning; trembling and weak on awaking.

Skin

Acne, pimples and pustules. Boils on arms and face. Glands stony, hard, especially on lower jaw and throat. Hard goitre (Spong). Gangrene.

Modalities

Worse, from evening, until midnight, and when sitting in warm room; warm damp weather when at rest and lying left side. Better, from any motion; exercise, at sea.

Relationship

Antidotes: Ammon carb; Camph. Salt inhibits the action of Brom.

Compare: Conium; Spongia; Iod; Aster; Arg nit. Avoid milk when taking Brom. Hydrobromic acid (Throat dry and puckering; constriction in pharynx and chest; waves of heat over face and neck; pulsating tinnitus with great nervous irritability (Houghton); vertigo, palpitation; arms heavy; seemed as if parts did not belong to him. Seems to have a specific effect on the inferior cervical ganglion, increasing the tonic action of the sympathetic, thus promoting vaso-constriction. Relieves headache, tinnitus and vertigo, especially in vaso-motor stomach disturbance. Dose, 20 minims).

Dose

First to third attenuation. Must be prepared fresh, as it is liable to rapid deterioration.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

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Leaders

An element proven and arranged by Hering and an important remedy in laryngeal affections. Also in scrofulous and tubercular affections of the glands. It is well known to act best on persons with light blue eyes, flaxen hair, light eye-brows, fair, delicate skins, red cheeked scrofulous girls. It will be remembered how almost exactly opposite, so far as temperament is concerned, is Iodine, which is also one of our chief anti-scrofulous remedies. In glandular affections, three remedies that are not as often thought of as they perhaps should be, are Carbo animalis, Conium and Bromine; in all three the glands are stony hard with a cancerous tendency. In Bromine the pains are not characteristic, but with Conium and Carbo animalis they are lancinating, cutting or burning, more like cancer pains.

In diphtheria, where it has done some wonderful work, the membrane first forms in the bronchi, trachea or larynx, running upward, just the opposite of Lycopodium, which often forms first in the nose and runs downward.

In membranous croup, there is great rattling of mucus like Hepar, but no expectoration. There seems to be great danger of suffocation from accumulation of mucus in larynx (in bronchi, Ant. tart.).

Sensation of cobweb in face. (Bar., Graph. and Borax).

Fan-like motion of alæ nasi (Ant. t. Lycop.).

Hypertrophy of heart from gymnastics (Caust.).

Membranous dysmenorrhœa (Lac can.).

Text Book of Materia Medica

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Mind and Disposition

Cheerful mind ; desire for mental labor. Low-spirited, and out of humor. Crying and lamentation, with hoarse voice.

Head

Headache after drinking milk. Pain over the left eye. Scald-head.

Eyes

Lachrymation (right eye) with swelling of the tear-gland. Darting through the eyes, (left). Dilatation of the pupils. Flashes before the eyes. Protruded eyes.

Ears

Swelling and hardness of the (left) parotid gland.

Nose

Soreness in the nose, with scurfs. Bleeding of the nose, relieving the chest. Coryza, with sneezing ; the margins of the nose, and the parts under the noise, are corroded, with stoppage of the nose.

Face

Paleness of the face. Heat in the cheek ; first in the right, later in the left.

Mouth and Throat

Ptyalism ; much frothy mucus in the mouth. Inflammation of the throat, with net-like redness and corroded places. Burning from the mouth to the stomach. Stinging in the tip of the tongue. Heat in the mouth and œsophagus.

Appetite and Taste

Desire for acids ; and diarrhœa from taking them. Water tastes saltish.

Stomach and Abdomen

Vomiting of bloody mucus. Nausea and retching ; better after eating. Feeling of emptiness in the stomach ; better after eating. Feeling of heaviness in the stomach, (inflammation of the stomach). Enlargement and induration of the spleen.

Stool and Anus

Diarrhœa ; stools yellow, green, black.

Sexual Organs

Men. Swelling and induration of the (left) testicle, with sore pain, or sensation of coldness. Swelling of the scrotum, (with chronic gonorrhœa). Women. Loud emissions of flatulency from the vagina. During the menses, pain in the abdomen and in the small of the back.

Larynx and Throat

Hoarseness, aphonia ; worse in the evening. Soreness and roughness in the throat. Tickling in the trachea during an inspiration. Dry, spasmodic, wheezing cough, with rattling breathing. Cough rough, barking, from tickling in the throat. Violent oppression of the chest, as from the vapors of sulphur. Sensation of weakness in the chest. Tightness of the chest, (asthma). Stitches in the chest, (inflammation of the lungs, right side). Violent palpitation of the heart ; she cannot lie on the left side.

Neck and Back

Goitre. Two encysted tumors on both sides of the neck. The left side of the neck is stiff and painful.

Generalities

Excessive languor and debility, (worse after breakfast). Tremulousness all over.

Sleep

Irresistible drowsiness while reading.

Fever

Pulse much accelerated. Chill on alternate days, with cold feet. Internal burning heat. Perspiration from the least exertion.

Skin

Swelling and induration of the glands, (thyroid, testes, sub-maxillary, parotid). Boils.

Conditions

Aggravation in the evening till midnight ; in the warm room ; and when at rest. Amelioration from motion, riding on horseback. More suitable for persons with light hair and blue eyes.

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

Bromine. Br. (A. W. 79.9). Solution in distilled water.

Clinical

Apoplexy. Asthma. Breast, cancer of. Cancer. Cough. Croup . Diphtheria. Dysmenorrhœa. Emphysema. Feet, pain in . Fistula lachrymalis. Glands, enlargement of. Goître. Heart, disease of; hypertrophy of. Laryngismus. Migraine. Parotid gland, induration of. Respiration, affections of . Scrofula. Seaside, effects of. Testicles, induration of. Throat, sore . Tonsils, enlarged; inflamed. Trachea, irritation of . Tuberculosis. Tumour of breast. Ulcers. Uterus, air in. Vagina, air in . Vertigo.

Characteristics

Bromine forms a leading constituent in the mineral waters of Kreutzach and Woodhall. It is a predominantly left-side medicine. It affects particularly the internal head, left side. It is suited to blue-eyed, fair people (opp. Iod .), especially children with thin, white, delicate skins, and very light hair and eyebrows (patients with dark hair are not excluded); to scrofulous constitutions. The glands (thyroid, testes, maxillary, parotid) are swollen and indurated. There is much anxiety of mind; a fear of ghosts or visions when in the dark. Like the other Halogens, Bromine is a strong anti-scorbutic. It has > at the sea-side (opp. Nat. mur .); but < in sailors when coming ashore. Migraine chiefly left side, < from stooping, especially after drinking milk. It has a peculiar vertigo: sensation deep in brain as if vertigo would come on; tendency to fall backward; < at the sight of running water; or if he put his foot on a bridge; < in damp weather. Vertigo with nose-bleed. Soreness and crusts inside nose. Nose-bleed accompanies many affections, especially of chest. There is a peculiar headache with coryza. In the cases of diphtheria indicating it the disease begins in the larynx and runs up. In croup, with all the croupy sound, there is much loose rattling in larynx with the breathing and coughing, but no choking in the cough, as there is in Hepar (Guernsey). Tuberculosis, especially of right lung. Hypertrophy of the heart and palpitation. Pain in heart going up to axilla. A very peculiar symptom is: loud emissions of air from the vagina. Symptoms are < by cold air; cold water; cold diet; cold damp weather; heat of sun. The cough is < entering warm room. Headache < from drinking milk; from stooping. Complaints are better at sea-side; sailors coming ashore suffer from asthma, which is relieved when they go to sea again. Symptoms < evening till midnight; when at rest; > riding on horseback. After dinner feels he will have an attack of apoplexy. Exertion = oppression at heart.

Relations

Compare: Iod. (but Iod. has < morning; dark hair and eyes); Chlorum, Lach., Spong., Fluor. ac., Hep., Apis, Arg. n., Chi., Con., Coff., Cin., Cup., Lyc., Merc., Pho., Rhus (cardiac hypertrophy, also Spo.; Arn. ─ from over-exertion); Sep., Sul., Ant. t.; Pul. (blondes. Fear of ghosts or visions; also, Aco., Ars., Carb. v., Pho., Sul.). Antidoted by: Camph., Am. c., Mag. c., Op. Useful after: Iod., Pho., Spo. Compatible: Arg. n. (generally after Bro.); Kali c. (emphysema).

Mind

Cheerful, desire for mental labour. ─ Low-spirited and out of humour. ─ Crying and lamentation, with hoarse voice. ─ Anxiety; originating in body (heart, lungs), patients expect to see things jump around the floor. ─ In evening, when alone, feels as if he should see something if he should turn round; as if some one were behind him.

Head

Sensation deep in brain (after dinner) as if vertigo or fit of apoplexy would come on. ─ Vertigo with tendency to fall backward; < stepping on bridge; from running water; from rapid motion in front of him; with anxiety. ─ Peculiar headache and coryza: pressure in forehead which seems to be pushing brain down and out at root of nose. ─ Headache: deep in crown, with palpitation; over l. eye; < from stooping; from drinking milk. ─ Scalp tender; malignant scald-head.

Eyes

Lachrymation (r.) with swelling of tear-gland. ─ Darting through eye (l.). ─ Dilated pupils. ─ Flashes before eyes. ─ Protruded eyes.

Ears

Noise in ears. ─ Swelling and hardness of (l.) parotid gland; feeling warm to the touch. ─ Suppuration of l. parotid, edges of the opening smooth; discharge watery and excoriating; swelling remaining hard and unyielding; after scarlatina.

Nose

Soreness in (swollen) nose with scurfs; pain and bleeding on wiping. ─ Bleeding of nose relieving chest. ─ Severe coryza, r. nostril stopped up and sore throughout, later l. ─ Coryza, with sneezing; margins of nose and parts under nose corroded, with stoppage (occurring annually).

Face

Greyish, earthy complexion; old appearance. ─ Pale. ─ Heat in cheek, first r., later l. ─ Sensation of cobweb. ─ Strong, hard swelling of glands, esp. on lower jaw and throat.

Mouth

Ptyalism; much frothy mucus in mouth. ─ Burning from mouth to stomach. ─ Heat in mouth and œsophagus. ─ Stinging in tip of tongue.

Throat

With all the croupy sound there is a good deal of loose rattling in larynx with the breathing and coughing, but no choking in the cough as there is in Hepar . ─ Inflammation of throat with net-like redness and corroded places. ─ Scraping in throat. ─ Swelling of mucous membranes of fauces and pharynx. ─ The diphtheria begins in the larynx and runs up.

Appetite

Desire for acids, which < and cause diarrhœa. ─ Water tastes saltish.

Stomach

Vomiting bloody mucus. ─ Nausea, retching, and pains in stomach; > after eating. ─ Feeling of emptiness in stomach > after eating. ─ Heavy feeling in stomach. ─ Inflammation of stomach.

Abdomen

Tympanitic distension of abdomen, and passage of much wind. ─ Enlargement and induration of spleen.

Stool and Anus

Diarrhœa, stools yellow, green, black; < after every meal. ─ Hæmorrhoids, blind, painful, during and after stool < from application of cold or warm water; > wetting with saliva; (with black diarrhœic stools). ─ Intensely painful hæmorrhoids.

Male Sexual Organs

Swelling and induration of (l.) testis, with sore pain or sensation of coldness. ─ Swelling of scrotum (with chronic gonorrhœa).

Female Sexual Organs

Loud emission of flatulency from vagina. ─ During menses pain in abdomen and small of back. ─ Menses too early and too profuse; of bright red blood; flow passive, with much exhaustion; or membranous shreds may pass off. ─ Violent contractive spasm before or during menses, lasting hours, leaving the abdomen sore. ─ Membranous dysmenorrhœa. ─ Dull pain in ovary (l.). ─ Stitching pains from breast to axillæ, cannot bear pressure (scirrhus).

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness and aphonia < evening. ─ Soreness and roughness in throat. ─ Cold sensation in larynx, with cold feeling when inspiring, after breakfast; > after shaving. ─ Constriction in the larynx; tickling, causing cough. ─ Tickling in trachea during inspiration causing cough. ─ Stitch in posterior portion of larynx, with feeling of constriction when swallowing saliva. ─ Scraping and rawness in larynx, provoking cough, as if pit of throat were pressed against trachea. ─ Diphtheria. ─ When the diphtheria begins in the larynx and runs up. ─ Croup. ─ When with all the croupy sound there is a good deal loose rattling in the larynx with the breathing and coughing, but no choking in the cough. ─ Dry, spasmodic, wheezing cough, with rattling breathing. ─ Cough rough, barking, from tickling in throat. ─ Inspiration very difficult; cannot inspire deep enough. ─ Cough with sudden paroxysms of suffocation on swallowing; respiration very short; obliged to catch for breath. ─ Sensation as if the air passages were full of smoke. ─ Spasmodic closure of the glottis.

Chest

Stitches in r. side of chest. ─ R. lung most affected. ─ Stitch (inflammation of lungs r. side). ─ Sensation of weakness in chest. ─ Tightness (asthma); < at night; in sailors when they come ashore.

Heart

Violent palpitation < lying l. side; (hypertrophy).

Neck and Back

Neck stiff. ─ Glands of neck much swollen. ─ Goître. ─ Two encysted tumours on both sides of the neck. ─ Aching at inner border l. scapula up to neck, on moving l. arm, or sitting leaning to l. ─ Boring in spinous processes of different vertebræ.

Limbs

Stiffness in all limbs, 11 a.m., > in afternoon. ─ Pains in limbs alternating with chilliness and heat.

Upper Limbs

L. arm feels paralysed. ─ Eruptions on l. elbow. ─ Icy-cold forearms. ─ Hands cold and moist.

Lower Limbs

Paralytic sensation in one or other leg. ─ Pains in one or both tibiæ.

Generalities

Excessive languor and debility (worse after breakfast). ─ Great weakness and lassitude after all the symptoms passed off; in diphtheria. ─ Shivering with yawning and stretching; repeated every other day, as a chilliness and cold feet. ─ Tremulousness all over.

Skin

Pimples and pustules (acne). ─ Boils on the arms and face.

Sleep

Irresistible drowsiness while reading. ─ Continued yawning and drowsiness with the respiratory troubles.

Fever

Pulse much accelerated. ─ Chill every other day with shaking, yawning, and stretching; with cold feet. ─ Skin cool, covered with viscous sweat. ─ Sweat on palms. ─ Perspiration from the least exertion.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

Mind

Quick comprehension.
In evening, when alone, felt as if he would see something if he should turn around ; as if some one was back of him.
Expects to see something jump around floor.
Desire for mental labor, preceded by aversion to his awn profession.
Crying and lamentations, with hoarse voice.
Aversion to any kind of work, even reading ; takes no interest in household duties.
Cheerful mood, no desire for mental labor.
She does not feel as she generally does, but can't tell why.
Depression and melancholy.
Great depression of spirits. θ Scirrhus mamma.
Very much depressed and inconsolable. θ Cancer of mamma.
Low-spirited and out of humor.
Very low-spirited, with pain in left iliac region.
Sad, discouraged. θ Swelling to testicle.
She is not like herself ; despondent, sits alone in her room without doing anything ; looks constantly in one direction without saying anything.
Violent coughing spells, with anxiety. θ Croup.

Sensorium

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

Inner head

Pain over left eye.
Headache ; heaviness in forehead in heat of sun, passes off when in shade.
Pressure in left temple.
Left-sided headache.
Headache all week, hammering in temples and top of head.
Headache deep in crown of head, with palpitation.
Headache after drinking milk.

Outer head

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

Sight and eyes

Flashes of light.
Sensitiveness to bright light.
A grey point before right eye, moving up and down with movement of eye.
Dilatation of pupils.
Darting through left eye.
Throbbing stitches in left upper lid, extending to brow, forehead and left temple ; < by external pressure, motion and stooping ; > by rest ; pain unfits him for work.
Lachrymation of right eye, with swelling of lachrymal gland. θ Fistula lachrymalis.
Protruding eyes.

Hearing and ears

Noise in ears, like a distant rushing.
Ringing in right ear.
Stitches in ear.
Throbbing and burning in ears, may be succeeded by burning through whole body.
Discharge from ears.
Parotids, mostly left, affected. θ After scarlatina.
Swelling and hardness of left parotid gland, swelling feeling warm to touch. θ Sequel to scarlatina.
Suppuration of left parotid, edges of opening smooth ; discharge watery and excoriating ; swelling remaining hard and unyielding. θ After scarlatina. See
44 .

Smell and nose

Fanlike motion of nostrils.
Tickling smarting, as from cobwebs, especially on moving nose ; this sensation is in face particularly below nose.
Nosebleed, with relief of chest and eye symptoms.
Bleeding of nose, relieving chest.
Frequent violent sneezing.
Inhalation causes sneezing.
Fluent coryza, with frequent violent sneezing ; corrosive soreness under nose and on margins of nose.
Fluent coryza, with scabby nostrils.
Severe coryza, right nostril stopped up and sore throughout ; later left.
Yearly cold, with sore nostril and difficult breathing.
Fluent coryza, in which right nostril is more affected and more stopped.
Long-continued, obstinate coryza, with soreness beneath nose and on margin of nose ; also catarrh in fauces.
Headache extends to right nostril.
Whole nose sore, and wings of nose swollen ; a scurf forms in it, with pain and bleeding on wiping it.

Upper face

Cancerous ulcer between right eye and ear, of size of palm of a child's hand.
Sensation as of spider web on face.
Face : pale, or red, or alternating.
Face of a bluish tinge, turning purplish at each effort to cough. θ Croup.
Grey ; earthy color of face ; oldish appearance. θ Cancer of mamma.
Face ashy grey. θ Diphtheria.
Cheeks sunken. θ Diphtheria.
Heat in cheeks ; first in right, later in left.
Heat of face and head. θ Spasm of glottis.
Pale, collapsed face. θ Croup.

Lower face

Shooting pain on vermilion border of upper lip ; afterwards yellow spots, which open and discharge a yellow fluid.
Boring pain going to right, or on right side of lower jaw.
Slight swelling of articulation of left jaw, with cracking in it when chewing ; swelling and hardness of left parotid, which is warm to touch ; rosy-red swelling of tonsils and difficult swallowing ; tension and pressure when swallowing and when
not ; pain in throat is especially < when swallowing fluids ; hawking up mucus.
Left submaxillary gland swollen to size of a small hen's egg, hard, not sore to pressure ; neighboring glands more or less similarly affected.
Stony, hard swelling of glands, especially on lower jaw and throat.

Teeth and gums

Decayed teeth sensitive to cold water.
Gums pain in morning.
Swelling and induration of gums.

Taste, speech, tongue

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

Inner mouth

Fetor oris. θ Diphtheria.
Sensation of dryness and burning in mouth. θ Nasal catarrh.
Mouth dry and parched. θ Eczema.
Salivation increases and exudation decreases. θ Diphtheria.
Ptyalism ; much frothy mucus in mouth.
Heat in mouth and œsophagus.
Burning sensation in mouth, œsophagus and stomach.
Aphthæ, with affection of eyes.

Palate and throat

Dryness in throat. θ Croup.
Scraping in throat, and a rough, deep voice, continued for an hour.
Burning from mouth to stomach.
Worse when swallowing drink ; less frequently when swallowing food or saliva.
Swallowing especially painful to right side of fauces, which is dark red and dry.
Elongation of uvula.
Swelling of mucous membrane of fauces and pharynx.
Small follicles in posterior fauces ; inflammation extending to larynx, causing a titillating cough.
Unpleasant puckered sensation in fauces, followed by burning and soreness.
Lump in throat.
Tonsils swollen, inflamed ; constant pain in throat, swallowing difficult, of fluids worse than solids. θ After measles.
Inflammation of fauces, with reticulated redness and denuded patches.
Diphtheria, commencing apparently in pharynx and extending upward.
Malignant forms of diphtheria.
Diphtheritis of larynx, or croup. [Obs. With apparent great sagacity one of our best authors says : "Bromine could not be a remedy in diphtheria and also in croup, as diphtheritis and croup are two diseases entirely different in their nature and
character ; a chief croup remedy cannot at the same time be a great diphtheritis remedy, because a drug has not only to cover the symptoms, but must likewise correspond to the character of the disease." He quotes Belladonna : "Do we give Bellad. for headache in the
full-blooded and robust and also in the bloodless and feeble ?" We answer, yes, we do frequently. Every fully proved drug has produced such "opposite" states and also cured them, if only the other symptoms, particularly the characteristics, correspond to the case. We have
nothing to do with the disease, only with the sick and the characteristics of each case. --C. Hg.]
After all other symptoms have passed off, great weakness and lassitude. θ Diphtheria.
In cases where membrane forms back almost over larynx, Bromium removed husky tone of voice in a few hours. θ Diphtheria.
Preference for left side of throat. θ Diphtheritis.
Stiffness of neck with diphtheritis.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Thirst seems to be wanting.
Desire for acids. θ Diarrhœa.
Desire for acids, which aggravate symptoms and cause diarrhœa.
Aversion to customary tobacco smoking ; it causes nausea and vertigo. θ Diarrhœa.
Aversion to drinking cold water.

Eating and drinking

After eating, nausea and pains in stomach better. θ Diarrhœa.
Contractive spasm of stomach passing off after eating. θ Diarrhœa.
Gastric symptoms better from black coffee. θ Diarrhœa.
Headache after drinking milk.
After a meal, diarrhœa.
Worse from cold diet.
After acids : diarrhœa ; cough worse.
After eating oysters, diarrhœa.
Worse from tobacco smoke, cough.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

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

Scrobiculum and stomach

Emptiness of stomach. θ Diarrhœa.
Feeling of emptiness in stomach ; better after eating, for which, however, he had no longing.
Feeling of heaviness in stomach. θ Inflammation of stomach.
Contractive cramp in stomach at 11.30 A. M., ceases after eating.
Pressure in stomach, like from a stone. θ Emphysema.
Pain in stomach increased by pressure.

Hypochondria

Pain in region of liver.
Stitches in hypochondria ; also from right to left.
Stitches shooting from liver towards navel.
Sensation as of a ball in left hypochondrium.
Enlargement and induration of spleen. θ After maltreated gonorrhœa.

Abdomen and loins

Griping and colicky pains.
Off and on a very strong pain and sore feeling in lower l. part of abdomen. θ Mental derangement.
Periodically much pain in left hypochondriac and iliac regions ; pain is violent, as if there were sore spots inside. θ Mental derangement.
Pains in abdomen and small of back ; passage of much flatus.
Tympanitic distension of abdomen, and passage of much wind.
Flatulence. θ Eczema.
Painless swelling of right inguinal glands.
Pain in left inguinal canal, especially on walking, pressure and coughing.
Eruption on perineum.

Stools and rectum

Croup of colon.
Black, fecal stools.
Yellow, green or blackish diarrhœa.
Stools : bright yellow, preceded by cutting and rumbling in abdomen ; light yellow, slimy mucus ; painless, odorless, like scrapings from intestines.
Diarrhœa after every meal ceases, but returns after oysters.
Diarrhœa : after every meal ; at night.
Constipation : stool hard, tough, brown and glistening ; breaks to pieces like sheep-dung.
Before stool : rumbling and cutting pain in abdomen.
During stool : much flatus ; painful hemorrhoids ; pressing in stomach and abdomen.
Blind, painful hemorrhoids during and after stool ; < from cold or warm water ; > from wetting with saliva.
Blind, intensely painful varices, with black, diarrheic stools.
Varices < from application of cold and warm water. θ Diarrhœa.

Urinary organs

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

Male sexual organs

Increased sexual desire.
Nightly emissions.
Coldness of left testicle.
Hard, painless swelling of left testicle, painful when driving.
Swelling of testicle, remaining after gonorrhœa three months ago, size of a hen's egg, oval round, somewhat hard, not very sensitive to pressure, smooth ; pains most when driving ; Brom. [2] in water, three times daily, helped in three weeks,
while working as a coachman.
Swelling and induration of left testicle, with sore pain, or sensation of coldness.
Swelling of scrotum. θ Chronic gonorrhœa.
Stitches in glans and sides of penis.

Female sexual organs

Continual dull pain in region of left ovary ; mild fluor albus ; no thrill in coition ; childless after eight years marriage ; strong woman, æt. 30 ; conception in three months.
Considerable pain in back and ovarian region. θ Mental derangement.
Constant, dull, boring pain in ovary. θ Dropsy.
Hard swelling in ovarian region.
Swelling and hardness of left ovary.
Swelling of ovarian region before and during menses.
Uterus descends about 2 inches. θ Mental derangement.
Menses too early and too profuse ; bright red blood ; passive flow with much exhaustion ; membranous shreds may pass.
Headache on appearance of menses.
Fulness in head and chest, with difficult respiration a few days before catamenia.
Indescribable, queer ill feeling all over, which makes her low-spirited, a few days before catamenia.
Violent contractive spasm before or during menses, lasting hours ; leaving abdomen sore.
Before menses : stitches in abdomen ; backache ; feeling of weakness and want of appetite.
During menses : pain in abdomen and small of back ; abdominal cramps, with subsequent soreness in abdomen ; frontal pain, feeling as if eyes would drop out while stooping.
Suppression of menses. θ Scirrhus mamma.
Loud emission of flatus from vagina. θ Dysmenorrhœa.
Vagina painful, as if sore.
Much itching in vagina. θ Mental derangement.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Stitch pains from mamma to axillæ, cannot bear pressure. θ Scirrhus.
Hard, uneven tumor in right mamma, firmly adherent to its surroundings, with lancinating pains ; < from least pressure and at night.
Cancer mamma, open, with swelling of axillary glands ; stitches and burning in indurated parts ; in alternation with Conium.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Wailing and crying in a hoarse tone.
Hoarseness.
Chronic hoarseness.
After overheating, hoarse for six weeks ; morning, aphonic, until after long coughing, with a whistling sound, some phlegm comes up. θ Cold after
overheating.
Husky tone of voice. θ Diphtheria.
Voice : husky ; hoarse, cannot speak clearly, loss of voice ; weak and soft, with raw, scraped feeling in throat.
Hoarseness several days ; rough, dry cough ; pain in larynx ; in sleep difficult (snoring) breathing ; jumping up for want of breath while eating and drinking ; inhalation with a rushing sound. θ Croup.
Hoarseness ; larynx painful ; barking, dry cough ; a long drawn out, buzzing inhalation ; hot, moist skin. θ Croup.
Hoarseness ; aphonia ; snoring inhalation ; no cough ; relapse, with barking cough ; rattling ; suffocation ; cold sweat. θ Croup.
Voice hardly audible. θ Croup.
Hoarseness, aphonia ; worse in evening.
Spasm in glottis.
Stenosis of glottis.
Laryngitis ; tracheitis.
On swallowing saliva a stitch in posterior portion of larynx, with a feeling of contraction.
Tickling in larynx, with irritation to cough ; constrictive sensation deep in throat and dry cough.
Constriction in larynx.
Sticking constriction in larynx.
Sensation of smoothness and emptiness, at a small spot in larynx.
Scraping and rawness in larynx, provoking cough.
Scraping in larynx provoking dry cough in evening.
Cold sensation in larynx, with cold feeling when inspiring, after breakfast ; > after shaving.
Sensation of coldness in larynx.
Soreness in larynx and roughness in throat.
Constant sore pain in larynx. θ Cold after overheating.
Larynx painful to touch.
Beginning in larynx, coming upward, with hoarse and croupy cough ; low pulse. θ Diphtheria.
First bronchia, then larynx ; slow cases of croup ; large tubes have been coughed up. θ Croup.
Sensation as if air tubes were full of smoke. θ Catarrh.
Anxiety as from a foreign body in windpipe.
Contracted sensation internally, in trachea, or feeling as if pit of throat was pressed against trachea.
Rattling of mucus in larynx on coughing ; cough having a croupy sound. θ Diphtheria.
Rattling of mucus without choking. θ Emphysema.
Tickling in trachea on inspiring, which causes cough.
Bronchia much irritated. θ Croup.
When disease commences in larynx and comes up into fauces, and in some cases in which it runs down into larynx, and produces a croupy cough, with much rattling of mucus. θ Diphtheria.
No choking in cough as there is in Hepar. θ Croup.
Much rattling in larynx during breathing, still more when coughing ; danger of suffocation from too much phlegm in larynx (Tart. em. has rattling lower down in chest). θ Croup.
Inspiration very difficult, larynx drawn down ; thorax not moving ; respiration frequent ; rattling ; sawing ; voice not audible. θ Croup.
Cough hoarse, crowing, suffocative ; breathing sawing, whistling ; face red, hot ; large drops on forehead ; < bending over ; scrofulous girl, æt. 5. θ Croup.
Croup : spasms of larynx ; suffocative cough ; hoarse, whistling, croupy sound, with great effort ; rattling, wheezing ; gasping, impeded respiration ; heat of face ; formation of a false membrane in larynx to trachea ; much rattling in larynx when
coughing.
Membranous formation in larynx and trachea. θ Croup.
Membranous forming back almost over larynx. θ Diphtheria.
Croupous inflammation formed by exuberant growth of fungi. θ Diphtheria. See 13 .

Respiration

Sensation of constriction impedes respiration, with dry, tickling cough.
Oppression of chest, with palpitation.
Oppression of breath immediately after taking it, with deep inspiration, together with a sensation as if he did not get enough air into chest, on account of which he elevates thorax and inspires forcibly.
Breathing frequent, rattling, sawing. θ Croup.
Deep, forcible inspiration is necessary, from time to time.
Inspiration very difficult ; larynx is drawn down ; thorax immovable. θ Croup.
Worse from a deep inspiration : cough.
Difficult breathing ; must sit up in bed at night.
Difficulty of breathing ; cannot inspire deep enough.
Sensation as if air passages were full of smoke.
Gasping for breath, with wheezing and rattling in larynx, and spasmodic closure of glottis.
Gasping and snuffing for breath, with wheezing and rattling in larynx. θ Spasm of glottis.
Constriction in chest, with some difficulty of breathing ; no cough. θ Mental derangement.
An asthma in a girl, æt. 16, had remained for ten years after measles, so that she was never able to walk rapidly nor ascend steps without being very much exhausted, disappeared after five doses of five globules of the 30th, which she took for proving.
Tightness of chest. θ Asthma.
Asthma < at night.
Asthma of sailors, as soon as they "go ashore."
Respiration, with dry sound.
Attacks of suffocation as if from vapor of sulphur.
Great dyspnœa.

Cough

Rough, barking, croup-like cough, with suffocative feeling like sulphur smoke ; breathing painful ; gasping for air ; convulsions ; great weakness. θ Whooping
cough.
Whooping cough, with croupish hoarseness of cough.
Symptoms of croup during whooping cough.
Much fatiguing cough, with scanty, difficult loosened sputa of white, whitish-yellow or yellow phlegm ; later also several times pure, dark, coagulated blood. θ Cold
after overheating.
Barking cough ; tickling in throat.
Cough night and day, sounds loose, but no expectoration ; aggravation from exercise and on entering a warm room.
Dry, spasmodic, wheezing cough, with rattling breathing.
Difficult, whistling cough, with hoarseness. θ Croup.
Cough gets much < from dust or cold air. θ Cold after overheating.
Cough excited by : tickling in larynx ; scraping and rawness in larynx ; deep inspiration ; violent motion.
Cough, with sudden paroxysms of suffocation on swallowing ; respiration very short ; obliged to catch for breath.
Cough, with excruciating pain and anxiety ; purulent, sometimes bloody expectoration ; pulse 120 ; respiration 30 ; temperature 100. θ Phthisis.
Sputa not frequent.
During cough : feeling like sulphurous vapor in throat ; whistling inspiration ; sore pain in chest ; dulness and pressing headache ; watering and contraction of eyes.
Sweat after paroxysms of cough.
Catarrhal cough.

Inner chest and lungs

Sensation of constriction impedes respiration, with dry, tickling cough.
Stitches in upper part of chest.
Stitches in chest ; inflammation of lungs, right side. θ Croup. θ Diphtheria.
Affections begin with bronchi and ascend to larynx.
Sensation of weakness and exhaustion in chest.
Pressure in upper part of chest.
Sharp stitches in right side of chest, especially when walking rapidly.
Sticking pain in left side of chest towards arm.
Cutting pains running upward. θ Phthisis.
Right lung most affected.
Paralytic drawing pain through left chest, towards scapula and into left arm.
Hepatization of lower lobes. θ Pneumonia.
After much cough with loose, bluish, granular expectoration, attacks of dyspnœa for several days, breathing difficult, laborious, short ; cough becomes dry ; in region of stomach, pressure and tension ; breathing noisy ; skin bluish, especially on hands, asthma
forces her to sit up in night ; sensation of being beaten all over. θ Emphysema.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Anxious feeling about heart. θ Mental derangement.
Violent palpitation of heart ; she cannot lie on right side.
Unbearable, violent cutting, left side under last ribs, from below upward, as if it would kill her ; old woman. θ Ossification of valves.
Violent cardiac pain and palpitation, with headache deep in under crown of head ; lameness of left arm.
Violent palpitation of heart in evening, so that she cannot lie on left side.
Cutting pains running upward. θ Heart disease.
Pulse very soft. θ Diphtheria.
Accelerated pulse.
Pulse small, weak, not countable. θ Croup.

Outer chest

Tearing in left clavicle.
Pressure below left clavicle.
Pressure in sternum.

Neck and back

Forcing pain in temples and neck, obliged to press neck to obtain relief. θ Eczema.
Stiffness of neck ; in morning.
The left side of neck is stiff and painful.
A goitre, already increased to size of a hen's egg, with a girl, æt. 14, who had menstruated one year, blonde, lively temperament, delicate constitution, disappeared within 16 weeks ; 30th in water, twice a day.
An obstinate goitre, not changed by Iodium in substance, disappeared after Brom. 30th, in water, twice daily for three months.
Glands of neck much swollen. θ Eczema.
Two encysted tumors on both sides of neck.
Aching pain at inner border of left scapula up to neck, on moving left arm or sitting leaning to left.
Boring in spinous processes of different vertebræ.
Wandering, pressive pain in dorsal muscles below scapulæ.
Tearing in right lumbar and dorsal muscles ; < by moving these parts.
Sore pain in small of back, unchanged by motion.

Upper limbs

Severe, rheumatic, dull, constrictive pain in right shoulder and thence into arm, while walking in open air.
Stitches in right shoulder, axilla or elbow.
Great restlessness and jactitation of arms.
Left arm feels paralyzed.
Weakness of arms.
Tearing in arms, especially in hands and fingers.
Icy cold forearms or only cold hands.
Eruption on right elbow. θ Eczema.
Icy cold forearms. θ Diarrhœa.
Hands cold and moist.
Cold hands. θ Diarrhœa.
Boils on arms.
(In sick :) Profuse, moist eruption in armpits and perineum. θ Eczema.
Drawing pain through left breast into left arm.

Lower limbs

Pain in left knee and hip.
Pressive bone pain in left leg.
Weakness of left leg.
Paralytic sensation in right leg.
Pain in both knee joints.
Pressive pain in right knee, like in bone.
Boring pains in one, or both tibiæ.
When stepping, violent pain in middle of ball of left foot, as if one had stepped on a hard body, with paralyzed sensation in knee joint, and somewhat in hip.
Pressure and pains in feet and toes.

Limbs in general

Great stiffness in all the limbs at 11 A. M., better in afternoon.
Pains in limbs, alternating with chilliness and heat.
Lameness in all joints, left side.

Rest. position. motion

Rest : throbbing in head better.
Can lie on neither side : palpitation.
Sitting up : asthma better.
Sitting leaning towards left : ache in scapula.
Bending over : breathing worse.
Stooping : throbbing in head worse.
Moving left arm : ache in left scapula.
Motion : throbbing in head < ; tearing in right lumbar and dorsal muscles worse.
Walking : pain in left inguinal region < ; stitches in chest < ; pain in shoulder.
Exercise : cough < ; sweat.
Stepping : pain in ball of left foot.

Nerves

Nervousness. θ Eczema.
Convulsions.
Great weakness.
Tremulousness all over ; great languor and debility, worse after breakfast.
Great weakness and lassitude after all the symptoms have passed off. θ Diphtheria.
Much prostration. θ Croup.
Fainting. θ Diphtheria.
Subject to hysterical attacks, with fits. θ Mental derangement.

Sleep

Yawning and sleepiness.
Continued yawning with respiratory troubles ; child yawns frequently and is drowsy. θ Croup.
Very much inclined to sleep.
Irresistible drowsiness while reading.
Dreams : vivid ; of ascending a height ; climbing a steep ; journeyings ; quarrels ; dying ; coffins and funerals.
Jumping up, out of sleep, with whistling breathing.
Starts from sleep with cough ; drink relieves it.
Awakes unrefreshed, seems impossible to rise.

Time

Morning : pain in gums ; water tastes salty ; sweat in bed ; stiffness of neck.
At 11 A. M. : great stiffness of all limbs.
At 11.30 A. M. : cramp in stomach.
Day : cough worse.
Afternoon : stiffness of limbs better.
Towards evening : pain in bones of head.
Evening : when alone, felt as if he would see something if he should turn around ; hoarseness < ; aphonia < ; scraping in larynx causes dry cough ; palpitation worse.
Night : agglutination of eyelids ; diarrhœa ; seminal emissions ; mammary tumor < ; must sit up in bed from difficult breathing ; asthma < ; cough ; asthma forces her to sit up.
Day and night : cough.
Symptoms < first part of night, are > after midnight.

Temperature and weather

Temperature and Weather
Heat of sun : heaviness in sinciput.
Open air : pain in right shoulder.
Cold air : cough worse.
Cold water : decayed teeth sensitive.
Cold diet : symptoms worse.
Cold or warm washing : blind piles worse.
Wetting with saliva : blind piles better.
Entering warm room : cough worse.
Damp weather : pain in bones of head.
Desire for open air.
On shore : sailors suffer with asthma.

Fever

Chill on alternate days, with cold feet.
Chill every other day, shaking, yawning and stretching.
Hands cold and moist.
Chilliness with shuddering.
Violent shivering with yawning and stretching ; head confused ; drawing in left tibia down to ankle, whereby foot becomes quite cold ; this is repeated every other day, as a chilliness with cold feet.
Skin cool, covered with viscous sweat. θ Croup.
Internal burning heat, like between skin and flesh.
Sweat on palms.
Sweat from least exertion or exercise.

Attacks, periodicity

Attacks, Periodicity
Periodical pains. θ Scirrhus of mamma.

Locality and direction

Right : grey point before eye ; lachrymation of eye ; ringing in ear ; nostril stopped up ; headache extends to nostril ; cancerous ulcer between eye and ear ; heat of cheek first ; boring pain going to or on side of lower jaw ;
swallowing painful side of fauces ; swelling of inguinal glands ; tumor in mamma ; inflammation of lung ; stitches in side of chest ; cannot lie on side ; tearing in lumbar and dorsal muscles ; pain in shoulder ; stitches in shoulder, axilla or
elbow ; eruption on elbow ; paralytic sensation of leg ; pain in knee.
Right to left : stitches in hypochondria.
Left : pain in iliac region ; pain over eye ; pressure in temple ; headache of side ; darting through eye ; stitches in upper eyelid ; swelling and suppuration of parotid ; nostril stopped up ; swelling articulation of jaw ; swelling of
submaxillary gland ; diphtheria < ; sensation of a ball in hypochondrium ; pain in lower part of abdomen ; pain in inguinal canal ; coldness of testicle ; swelling of testicle ; pain and hard swelling of ovary ; stitches in side of chest ; paralytic
drawing pain through chest towards scapula, and into arm ; cannot lie on side from palpitation ; lameness of arm ; tearing of clavicle ; side of neck stiff and painful ; arm feels paralyzed ; drawing pain through breast into arm ; pain in knee and
hip ; pain and weakness in leg ; pain in ball of foot ; lameness of all joints of side ; drawing in tibia.
Left to right : scirrhus of mamma.
Below upward : diphtheria extends from larynx.

Sensations

As from cobwebs on face ; as if vertigo would come on, or as if she would lose consciousness ; as if eyes would drop out when stooping ; as if pit of throat was pressed against trachea ; as of a ball in left hypochondrium ; as if air passages were full
of smoke ; as if he did not get air enough into chest.
Cutting : in chest ; in cardiac region.
Darting : through left eye.
Lancinating : in mammary tumor.
Stitches : in left upper lid, throbbing, to forehead and left temple ; in ear ; in hypochondria ; from liver towards navel ; in glans and side of penis ; in abdomen ; from mamma to axillæ ; in indurated parts ; in larynx ; in
chest ; in right shoulder, axilla and elbow ; in skin.
Shooting : in upper lip.
Sticking pain : in chest towards arm.
Prickling : in skin.
Stinging : in tip of tongue.
Boring : lower jaw ; in ovary ; in vertebræ ; in tibia.
Tearing : in left clavicle ; in right lumbar and dorsal muscles, in arms.
Drawing : through left breast into arm.
Paralytic drawing : through left chest to scapula and arm.
Forcing pain : in temples and neck.
Pressure : in forehead ; in left temple ; in stomach ; in upper chest ; below left clavicle ; in sternum ; in dorsal muscles ; in bones of left leg ; in feet and toes.
Burning : in ears ; through whole body ; under tongue ; in mouth, œsophagus and stomach ; in fauces ; in indurated parts.
Scraping : in throat ; in larynx.
Soreness : about nose ; in fauces ; in lower abdomen ; in testicles ; in larynx ; in small of back.
Rawness : in larynx.
Tickling-smarting : in face.
Puckered sensation : in fauces.
Contraction : in trachea.
Constriction : in larynx ; in chest ; in right shoulder.
Griping : in abdomen.
Cramp : of colon ; in abdomen ; during menses ; in stomach.
Rheumatic pain : in right shoulder and arm.
Dull pain : in left ovary.
Undefined pain : over left eye ; in bones of head ; in gums ; in region of liver ; in abdomen and small of back ; in l. inguinal canal ; in left knee and hip ; in knee joints ; in right knee ; in vagina.
Throbbing : in ears.
Fulness : in head and chest.
Emptiness : in stomach ; in larynx.
Heaviness : in occiput ; in stomach.
Smoothness : in larynx.
Stiffness : of neck ; in limbs.
Crawling : in occiput.
Tickling : in tip of urethra ; in larynx ; in trachea ; in skin.
Paralyzed feeling : in left arm ; in right leg.
Weakness : in chest.
Coldness : of left testicle ; in larynx.
Heat : in mouth and œsophagus ; in cheeks, face and head.
Itching : in vagina ; in skin.
Dryness : on tongue ; in mouth ; in throat.
Lameness : in all joints.

Tissues

Suppuration of left parotid gland, edges of opening smooth, ulcer unhealthy, discharge watery and excoriating ; swelling remaining hard and unyielding. θ After
scarlatina.
Tonsils swollen after measles.
Tuberculosis.
Scrofulous swelling of glands, several already in suppuration ; in water twice daily.
Enlargement of thyroid, in children with light hair, blue eyes and fair skin.
Swelling and induration of glands (thyroid testes, submaxillary, parotid).
Affections of glands, principally without suppuration.
Swelling and hardness, even ulceration, of left parotid gland.
Emaciation. θ Cancer of mamma.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : larynx painful.
Pressure : throbbing in head < ; pain in stomach < ; pain l. inguinal canal < ; mammary tumor < ; pain in neck better.
Scratching : lessens itching.
Shaving : cold sensation in larynx better.
Driving in carriage : left testicle painful.
Riding horseback gives general relief.

Skin

Tickling, itching, prickling and stitches in skin, at various places.
Pimples and pustules.
Boils on arms and in face.
Eruption on perineum.

Stage of life, constitution

Blue eyes ; light hair ; fair skin. θ Struma. θ Croup.
One case of cough with black hair and eyes, dark complexion, small and spare.
Acts better, though not exclusively, on persons with light hair and blue eyes.
Increased embonpoint.
Children with thin, white, delicate skins, and very light hair and eyebrows. θ Croup. θ Diphtheria.
Blonde, red-cheeked, scrofulous girls.
Scrofulous boy, æt. 10, given up ; 5th day of croup.
Woman, æt. 25, scrofulous, not married, menstruated regularly. θ Mental derangement.
Woman, æt. 27, married four years and no children ; dark complexion and very lively temperament. θ Mental derangement.
Woman, æt. 35, losing too much blood every month ; had no children.

Relations

Antidoted by : Camphor , Amm. carb ., Magn. carb., Opium .
Compare : Apis, Arg. nitr., Arsen., Bellad., Borax (sterility) ; Caustic ., Chlorum , Cinchon., Conium, Coffea, Cina, Cuprum, Fluor. ac .,
Hepar, Iodum , Laches., Lycop., Mercur., Phosphor., Rhus tox., Sepia , Spongia , Sulphur, Tart. em .
The celebrated springs of KREUZNACH owe their anti-scrofulous action to Bromium , as well as the Iodum contained therein.
Bromium has been useful in croup after failure of Iodum, Phosphor., Spongia , especially in relapses, after Iodum .
Cured goitre after failure of Iodium .
In all diseases the choice between Bromium and Iodum may be decided by the former curing in the blue-eyed, the latter in the black-eyed.
Compatibles : Arg. nitr . (generally after Bromium, not before it) ; Kali carb . (emphysema).

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Séror HTML text (Kent d. 1916; public domain)

Lecture

Bromium is one of the routine medicines.

It is one of the medicines that the neophyte will make use of for every case of diphtheria and croup, and laryngitis he comes across; and when it does not work he will "try something else."

All who prescribe on the name use Bromium as one of their routine medicines; but Bromium is so seldom indicated that most homoeopaths give it up as a perfectly useless medicine.

The reason is that they do not take the symptoms of the case and prescribe in accordance with the individualizing method.

They do not prescribe for the patient, but for the disease. You may see very few cases of diphtheria calling for Bromium; but when you see a Bromium case you want to know Bromium.

There is one underlying feature of the Bromium conditions, they are found especially in those individuals that are made sick from being heated.

It there is a diphtheria epidemic and the mother bundles up her baby until she overheats it, and keeps it in a hot room, and it happens to be a child that is sensitive to being wrapped up, and one whose complaints are worse from being wrapped up, look out.

You are going to have a Bromium diphtheria. It is indicated also in complaints that come on in the night after a very hot day in the summer.

Now, this is as near as you can come to being routine in croup and diphtheria. If the mother has the baby out in a dreadfully cold, dry day, and along towards midnight it wakens with spasmodic croup, you know that it is more likely to call for Aconite than any other medicine.

But if the mother has had the baby out in a hot day in the summer, and that baby has been overheated, with too much clothing, and it is a plethoric child, and towards midnight you are called up, and the child has a red face, and your examinations reveal a membrane in the throat, we will see as we study the remedy that this may be a Bromium case.

"Hoarseness coming on from getting overheated."

Loss of voice coming on from getting overheated. A turmoil in the whole economy; with headaches, coming on from getting overheated. That runs through Bromium. So it is in the hot weather, and being confined to a hot room, and after going from the cold into the heat.

But after the complaint comes on, no matter where it is, he is so sensitive to cold that a draft of cool air freezes him; but he cannot be overheated without suffering.

Glands

Bromium has running through it a tendency to infiltrate the glands. The glands become bard, but seldom suppurate. They generally remain hard. The glands of the neck, the parotid, the sublingual, the submaxillary, are enormously enlarged and very hard.

The processes of inflammation are slow; they are not that rapid, violent kind like we find in Bell. and Merc.

"Parts that inflame infiltrate, becoming hard."

Inflammation with hardness is the idea. It has been very useful in ulcers with this infiltration; very useful in enlarged glands with great hardness, without any tendency to suppurate.

Glands take on tuberculosis, and tissues take on tuberculosis. Glands that inflame for a while begin to take on a lower form of degeneration, a lower form of tissue making.

It is very similar to these enlarged, hard, scrofulous glands that we find in the neck; enlargement of the parotid and submaxillary. It has cured enlargement and great hardness of the thyroid gland.

Again, we have emaciation, and when we see the tendency to infiltration it is not strange that it has been a curative medicine in cancer and tuberculosis. There is weakness in this remedy. The legs become weak. Growing prostration, with tremulous limbs.

Twitching; tremulous weakness; fainting. In the catarrhal affections there is a formation, more or less, of membrane.

Membranous exudate is a natural course of events. A natural feature of the mucous membrane is infiltration, so that the mucous membrane appears to exude little grayish-white vegetations, and beneath them is induration.

That is true in ulcers, it is true in mucous membrane. And ulcer will form upon the mucous membrane and eat in, and build beneath it a hardened stratum of tissue.

It has febrile conditions along with these catarrhal states. Great nervous excitement.

"Icy coldness of the limbs. "

"Heat of the head."

"Dyspnoea, with great sweating."

Croupy manifestations. Running through most of the complaints there is palpitation.

Mind

Palpitation with nausea, palpitation with headache, palpitation with various kinds of nervous excitement. So weak is be gradually becoming that he has an "aversion to every kind of work; to reading.

Takes no interest in household duties."

Becomes indifferent. Very tired.

"Great depression of spirits, Low spirited. Sad and discouraged."

Anxiety with most complaints. Headaches from becoming overheated.

"Noise in the ears.

Throbbing and burning in the ears."

And then the complaints of the glands that are so closely associated with the ears. With ear troubles, enlargement of the glands; the parotid becomes enlarged and bard.

Ear

Ear affections following scarlet fever, with discharges from the ears. Pains and aches; inflammation; abscess of the ear.

Suppuration of the parotid gland occasionally, but it is an exception.

"Swelling and hardness of the left parotid gland."

The ovaries, testes, etc., are all affected by Bromium.

Nose

Bleeding of the nose. Ulcerations in the nose. Catarrhal affections of the nose. Much sneezing.

Acute coryza, violent, with much burning in the nose, and a sensation of coldness, as if the mucous membrane of the nose were cold from inhaling cold air.

It is useful for June cold, with the first hot weather in June, or if the first hot weather comes in July. Violent coryza once a year, during the hot season. Fluent coryza, with headaches.

"The nose is sore and the wings of the nose swell.

Scurf forms on it, with pain and bleeding on wiping it."

Rawness round about the nostrils.

Face

A Bromium patient is one that is likely to have flushed face, especially those due to acute Bromium conditions.

"Flushed face."

He becomes heated easily. But this is entirely the opposite of the chronic constitutional Bromium condition.

That is true with a good many remedies, especially many of the antipsorics. The old sickly broken-down constitutions, those needing Bromium for chronically enlarged glands, for goitre, for cancerous affections, will have the "gray, earthy color of the face.

Oldish appearance."

It is a sickly face, an ash-colored face.

"Face ashy gray."

Then again we have children that are plethoric, with red face, easily overheated. Of course, when the acute condition is on and the breathing has been that of dyspnoea for several hours or many days, then the patient becomes cyanotic, gasping for breath, and choking, the face becomes ashy pale, as it is in diphtheria, in croup, and in laryngeal affections.

"Stony, hard swelling of glands, especially of the lower jaw and throat."

Throat

We find that repeated in many divisions of the subject. Many of the throat complaints that are laid down in Bromium begin in the larynx and creep up into the throat.

Some of them begin in the throat and go down into the larynx; but the two are so closely associated in Bromium that both are likely to be affected; so that diphtheria spreads from one to the other. Diphtheria begins in the throat and goes into the larynx.

Bromium fits the most malignant type of diphtheria. The membrane grows like a weed, shuts off breathing, closes up the larynx, So severe are the cases, that though be has been sick but two or three days and even when Bromium has mastered the case, the patient is left with great prostration. All those that belong to Bromium are of that type.

Great violence; great prostration. Extremely sick, and with deathly weakness. A great many of the cures that have been performed in the throat have been left sided diphtheria, yet it has cured both sides. You will very seldom see Bromium develop in cold dry weather; but in hot damp weather Bromium cases come on; affections in the spring, and in the fall and summer.

Stomach

The chronic cases that will need Bromium are such as have ulcers of the stomach. Suspicious ulcers in the stomach, and suspicious symptoms about the stomach.

Vomiting like coffee grounds, and vomiting with signs of ulceration. Aggravation after eating; either vomiting, or diarrhoea. Cannot take acids. Diarrhoea or cough worse after eating, or after acids.

"After eating oysters, diarrhoea, and a disordered stomach.

Worse from the slightest inhalation of tobacco smoke.

Vomiting of bloody mucus.

Eructations.

" Foul stomach. Pain in the stomach from warm things, from hot tea, hot drinks. "

It is a common feature when there is ulcer in the stomach or when the mucous membrane is about to ulcerate, that hot drinks are intolerable.

"Pains from taking hot foods."

Stools and rectum

In studying the stool and rectum symptoms we find exudation. Membranous formations pass in the stool. Diarrheic stool with membrane.

"Black, fecal stool." Diarrhoea; must go to stool after eating."

We have running through the remedy enlarged veins. These are found also in the rectum. Hemorrhoids protrude from the rectum, burning. Smarting day and night.

"Blind, intensely painful varices, with black, diarrheic stools.

Blind, painful hemorrhoids," and hemorrhoids that protrude.

"Haemorrhoids during and after stool."

During the stool the rectum is painful from hemorrhoidal tumors.

Genitals

Swelling and induration of the left testicle. Notice the left sidedness, the left side of the throat, and the left testicle. Then, again, dull pain in the region of the left ovary.

"Constant dull pain in the ovary; with swelling and hardness."

There is the same induration of the left ovary. It does seem strange that some medicines single out more particularly the left organs and the left side of the body. Like Lach. in many instances it picks out the left side of the body.

A great many remedies show a preference for one side of the body; the glands in this remedy are more affected upon the left side of the body than the right.

"Swelling of the ovarian region before and during menses."

Suppression of the menses. Loud emission of flatus from the vagina.

Larynx

In the larynx it has produced more symptoms than in any other part of the body. It produces a raw, sore feeling in the larynx from inhaled air.

"Rawness in the larynx.

Loss of voice.

Hoarseness from overheating."

From too much clothing on a warm day, or from keeping on an overcoat in a room that is heated; coming out into the air he cools off. He has laryngitis.

"Tickling in the larynx," keeping up a constant coughing.

Scraping and rawness in the larynx. Scraping mucus from the larynx, scraping and coughing. It is not a hawk, because that noise clears the throat.

Every medical should go through all the noises he hears others make, and try and observe as much as possible what feeling is accompanied with that noise, so that he can put himself in the other's place.

Each one is accompanied with its own sound, and the instant you hear it you realize the exact place he is drawing mucus from and just where the irritation is.

If you allow the patient to describe it he always calls it by the wrong name. The patient knows very little about this part except that it is the throat, and if he is drawing mucus from the throat, or scraping it from the larynx, he always calls it the throat.

But the physician must waive all that and observe as to sound. So let each one go alone by himself and make all these noises that he bears people make, and then realize for himself what part it is he is scraping.

It may seem ludicrous, but how else will you learn about it? It is just as important to figure out these sounds as it is to figure out what a child needs by its sounds and motions. It is impossible to get the symptoms and wants of a child except by interpreting its motions.

Every motion it makes indicates something. An astute observer, one who has been watching children for a number of years, will understand the child, and will hardly have to ask the mother a question. He will know at once where the child is sick by what it does.

The child is like the animal. You never have to ask a horse or dog where he feels pain, because he will always tell by his motions. So does the infant.

The hoarseness comes on after being overheated. Remember that.

"Rough, dry cough; pain in the larynx." jumping up for want of breath.

"Gasping and suffering for breath, with wheezing and rattling in larynx.

Sensation as if air passages were full of smoke."

Now we have all these rough sounds; rough breathing; croupy breathing; rasping breathing different ways of describing different forms of croup.

You cannot individualize a remedy by these because one child will croup in one pitch, and another will croup in another; but to get at the constitution of the child and the mother is the important point.

"Voice hardly audible."

"Spasm in the glottis."

In the croupy condition it is really a membranous formation upon the inflamed surface, very often extending downward through the trachea into the bronchial tubes, and producing a croupous pneumonia.

Bromium has that in its nature. But without any membranous formation at all Bromium constricts the larynx. It has constriction of the larynx; just like a clutching, a spasm.

"Tickling in the larynx, with irritation to cough.

Scraping and rawness in the larynx.

Sensation of coldness in the larynx."

That is a very peculiar symptom with Bromium. In laryngitis, where the patient says the feeling is as if it was covered with down.

I have heard them describe it as if it was covered with velvet, but it feels so cold.

The air breathed, feels cold, just like it was the air blown off from snow or ice.

Sensation of coldness in the larynx.

"Constant sore pain in the larynx."

This means that the larynx is painful to touch. Phos., Bell., and Rumex have soreness in the larynx, sore to touch; but the Bromium soreness is commonly below the larynx and in the throat pit as well.

"Sensation as if the air tubes were full of smoke."

Some patients, will describe that as sulphur fumes, or as of smoke from tar. After the first few hours mucus begins to accumulate in the larynx and trachea, and a constant expectoration keeps up, of a whitish thick mucus, and he coughs and scrapes the larynx constantly, and there is no peace.

This is often present in laryngitis without any membranous formation. Bromium is not given as often as it is indicated in voicelessness, in irritation of the larynx, in rawness of the larynx because it is uncommon for persons to have laryngitis and hoarseness in the larynx from being overheated.

Many of those cases would be cured promptly by Bromium. But where it is thought of by the routine prescriber is where there is croup or diphtheria.

That was never taught by Hahnemann.

"Much rattling of mucus in the larynx.

Inspiration very difficult.

Larynx drawn down."

This would take place in croup, after the formation of the membrane.

"Cough hoarse, crowing, suffocative; breathing sawing, whistling.

Spasms of the larynx; suffocative cough.

Membranous formation in larynx and trachea.

Croupous inflammation formed by exuberant growth of fungi."

"Asthma of sailors as soon as they go ashore;" relieved again as soon as they are at sea.

Difficult breathing with rattling throughout the chest. Bronchitis and pneumonia. Bromium is often the remedy when whooping cough is prevailing in the spring, towards the hot weather, and membranes form in the larynx.

The cough gets immediately worse from dust. Handling old books from the shelf aggravates. Sneezing, hoarseness, irritation in the respiratory tract from picking up and handling dusty things.

"Cough, with sudden paroxysms of suffocation on swallowing."

Bromium is full of catarrhal conditions, especially of the breathing apparatus. It has hepatization of the lungs; infiltration is one of its most natural features.