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respiratory system
pneumonia
homeopathy
remedy differential
Aconitum napellus: first stage in robust persons; chill followed by intense fever; hot dry skin, quick and hard pulse; accelerated, labored, incomplete respiration; restlessness; fear of death; hard, painful, cough; soreness, sputum thin, frothy, tinged with blood; percussion sounds still clear, crepitating rales audible
Antimonium tartaricum: with hepatic congestion, pleuropneumonia; must sit up to breathe; dyspnea with desire to cough, and though chest is full of mucus, inability to bring it up; great thirst, tendency to diarrhea; pneumonia of drunkards, with bilious complications; suitable to infants or cachectic people
Arsenicum album: extreme prostration, clammy perspiration, urgent thirst, drinking little but often; shortness of breath, on slight exertion, ichorous expectoration fetid or dingy green
Bryonia: pleuropneumonia, indicated after acon., when hepatization stage of exudation has set in; oppression with feeling of anxiety, heavy pressure just above sternum, bruised feeling and shooting pains in chest, < by every motion; pains more bearable when lying on affected side; abdominal breathing; thirst for large quantity of water
Carbo vegetabilis: spasmodic cough with deep, rough voice or else aphonia; burning in chest, profuse, yellow fetid expectoration, especially in aged patients; great deal of rattling in chest, < on turning over in bed, and on dropping off to sleep; tongue dry with little or no thirst; craves fresh air; foulness of all secretions; pneumonia complicated with failure of right heart
Chelidonium: infantile pneumonia, bronchitis with hepatic symptoms; face deep red, oppression of chest; fanlike expansion of alae nasi; one hot, one cold foot; lethargy during the day; severe chills; anxious mood; irregular palpitation of heart; bright-yellow stools; straining cough < morning, with expectoration deep from lungs; violent stitches in right lung going to lower edge of right shoulder-blade
Ferrum phosphoricum: first stage of infantile pneumonia, esp. caused by checked perspiration on hot summer's day; pneumonia of adults, as long as no exudation has taken place; very little thirst; profuse expectoration of almost pure blood, or frothy pink mucus
Hepar sulphur: mild suppurative stage, extending only over small part of lung; chronic pneumonia; profuse purulent expectoration; weakness of chest preventing talking; late stage of croupous pneumonia
Lycopodium: maltreated or neglected pneumonia, passing into a typhoid stage, right side mostly affected; night-sweat, extensive hepatization; diaphragmatic breathing and fanlike motion of nostrils; great dyspnea, expectoration of whole mouthful of light rust-colored mucus, not thick, more stringy; coldness of right foot, while other is warm or hot
Phosphorus: dryness of air passage; great weight on chest, or tightness; chest sore, bruised, hepatization of lower half of right lung, winglike motion of alae nasi; < from lying on left side, hepatization with mucus or bloody sputum; coughing increases difficulty of breathing, pleuropneumonia
Pulsatilla: bronchopneumonia in achlorotic and anemic women; loose cough lingers after the resolution of a severe inflammation; debility and inertia of mind and body; free yellowish-green sputum
Rhus toxicodendron: tearing cough and restlessness; rest aggravates pain and dyspnea; tongue dry, sooty, red at tip; loss of strength; dryness and heat of skin, dyspnea < from distention of pit of stomach; sputum bloody, brickdust, or green with putrid smell
Sulphur: slow solidification of the lungs; frequent weak, faint spells and flushes of heat; feels suffocated, wants doors and windows open; constant heat on top of head; short rapid breathing, a mere heaving of the chest; cough and expectoration nearly impossible, < about midnight; hepatization mostly heard on back; pneumonia of infants and old people
Veratrum album: Frothy serous sputum; blue face; dry, spasmodic cough; hurried and small pulse, cold skin and cold sweat with excessive debility; edema of lungs, suitable often for old people
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