Therapeutics of Respiratory System
Acute Totality:
• Ailments from / Causation
• Concomitants
• Modalities- aggravating and ameliorating
• Sensations
• Location
• Pace of illness
Respiratory System
Seat of Affection
Common Remedies
Characteristics Symptoms
Upper Respiratory
(Coryza, URTI)
Allium Cepa
-A/F- Cucumber, Salads,
-Profuse watery acrid coryza with
bland lacrymation
--Burning and smarting in noseexcoriation of nostrils
Euphrasia
Acrid Lacrymation with bland nasal
discharge
Pulsatilla
-A/F Fatty rich food
-Bland yellowish nasal discharge
-Nose block > Open Air
-Weepy tearful babies/Dullness /
Lethargy
-Thirstless
Nux Vomica
Snuffles of New Born
Nose blocked but discharge watery
Irritable child with Nausea
Thirstless
Seat of Affection
Common
Remedies
Characteristics Symptoms
Throat
(Tonsillitis, Quinsy
Pharyngitis)
Belladona
Sudden onset
Bright red congestion
Heat and burning
Throbbing pain
Dryness of with no thirst
Phosphorus
A/F Cold drinks
-Thirst increased for cold water
Weakness
-Painless hoarseness of voice
Hepar Sulph
Chilliness - Cold air intolerance
Throat pain >warm drinks
Yellow green discharge
Merc Sol
-Salivation with halitosis
-Thirst increased with moist tongue
Throat pain extends to ears
< night
Suppurated tonsils
Seat of Affection
Common
Remedies
Characteristics Symptoms
Larynx, Trachea,
Bronchus
(Laryngitis, tracheobronchitis)
Spongia
-Violent dry cough
-Cough < talking, lying
-Cough > by drinking water
-Wakes up with cough
Rumex
Dry teasing cough
< inhaling cold air, night
Tickling in throat pit causes cough
Drosera
-Violent tickling in larynx
-Long bouts of cough with spasmodic
retching
- Cough ends in vomiting
- < as soon as head touches the pillow
Coccus Cacti
-Paroxysms of Cough ending in
vomiting
-Face Red with cough
-Violent tickling
Therapeutics for Asthma
Arsenic Album
Kali carbonicum
Weakness out of proportion
Irritability – cries on coughing
Thirst increased for sips frequently
Thirstless
< Midnight after
< 2-3 am
< lying down
< Lying
> sitting bending forward
Dry freq coughs in short bouts
>sitting erect
Antimony Tart
Natrum Sulph
Dullness with drowsy eyes
<Rainy wet weather
Desire to be carried on shoulder
< 4-5 am
Thirstless
Profuse greenish yellow discharge
Rattling cough
Tongue thick white coated
Loose cough with chest pain
Expectoration Yellow
Worse lying on left side
Therapeutics for Pneumonia
Characteristics
Bryonia
Chelidonium
Phosphorus
Causation
Exposure to Heat,
cold drinks
Exposure to cold weather,
cold drinks
Concomitants
Irritability, Thirst for Desire for Hot
large quantity
drinks
Headache
Desire for cold drinks
Likes company and actual
physical contact. Talkative
Appetite- good
Modalities
<motion, night
>rest, lying on
painful side
<4 pm
>sitting up and
leaning forward
<lying on painful side
>rubbing
Sensation
Painful dry cough.
Cries on coughing
Chest pain
radiating to
scapula
Cough with painless
hoarseness of voice
Giddiness, weakness
Location
Rt lung
Rt Lung
Lt lobe
Pace
Slow progress of
symptom
Slow progress
Insidious onset ending in
severe or rapid disease
Common Causations for Diarrhoea in Pediatrics
Causations:
 Diarrhoea Vaccinations after: Ant Tart, Silica, Thuja
 Diarrhoea Fruits after: Aloe, Ars, China, Puls, Verat
 Diarrhoea sweets after: Arg nit, Croton tig, Gamb
 Diarrhoea Anger after: Cham, Coloc, Nux Vom
 Diarrhoea Fear From: Gels, Opium
Arsenic Album:
Veratrum Album:
-A/F: Fish, Fruits
-A/F: Fruits, suppressed exanthema
-Weakness3 out of proportion
-Copious evacuations3
-Thirst for sips freq
-Gnawing hunger in spite of vomiting
Vomiting <immediately drinking after
-Desire for ice cold water
Stools: profuse rice watery
-Vomiting with violent retching
-Profuse stool with straining
-Cramps in limbs with prostration
Aloe:
Podophyllum:
A/F: Fruits, hot weather
A/F Dentition, Hot weather, canned fruits
Painful diarrhoea with rumbling and
Loud rumbling in abdomen
sudden gushing with flatus
Profuse, putrid, painless diarrhoea
Anus weak oozes mucus
< Morning
Stool escape with Flatus
> lying on abdomen
Involuntary stools
Pulsatilla:
• A/F Icecream, Pastries
•Thirstlessness
•Sleepy dull child
•Frequent unformed stools
Rheum:
• A/F Dentition
•Cranky irritable colicky child
•Sour3 smelling diarrhoea and vomiting
Phosphoric Acid:
• Profuse non debilitating diarrhoea
•Desire for juicy things
Merc Sol:
•Rectal tenesmus with bladder tenesmus
•Never get done feeling – child not willing to get up from
the closet
•Mucoid slimy stool
•Thirst- Increased for large quantity of water
Merc Cor:
• Continuous urge for stool
• Never get done feeling
• Stool – passes blood with slimy mucus
Nux Vomica:
• A/F – Chicken
• Frequent urge for stool
• Stools> pains for some time but urge renews again
•Thirstless, irritable child