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tx
respiratory system
emphysema
homeopathy

remedy differential

Ammonium carbonicum: copious mucus in lungs, < physical effort, entering a warm room; cough continual but raises nothing, < 3 to 4 a.m., with rattling of large bubbles; feel faint from effort to breathe; drowsy and cyanotic
Antimonium tartaricum: excessive dyspnea, must be supported in sitting position in bed; difficulty in expiration; breathing rapid, short, heavy and anxious; rattling mucus below larynx, gasping for breath at beginning of coughing spell
Arsenicum album: highest degree of dyspnea, even to suffocation; great anxiety, restlessness; tightness of chest as bound in a hoop, burning in chest, face cyanotic and covered with cold perspiration
Belladonna: short, hurried, anxious breathing, heavy and stertorous; dizziness, headache, palpitations of heart; fullness of abdomen
Bromium: after pneumonia, asthma; cough dry whistling, tickling in larynx; gasping for breath; spasmodic closure of glottis, cannot inspire deep enough; pressure in stomach, must sit up in bed
Camphora: dyspnea < after exertion; cough from talking
Carbo vegetabilis.: often after ars.; neglected bronchitis with emphysema; great dyspnea and anxiety, no restlessness; cough in violent spells; watery, profuse expectoration; breathing short with cold hands/feet; blueness of skin; > from fanning
Chlorum: easy inhalation, exhalation impossible; face turgid, convulsive movement; expiration difficult
Digitalis: complication with heart disease; respiration slow; paroxysms early in morning, < cold weather and walking, > lying perfectly quiet in a horizontal position
Hepar sulphur: bronchial chronic catarrh, < from slightest exposure; cough < from midnight until morning; sleep with head thrown back
Ipecacuanha: dry spasmodic cough of old people; collection of mucus difficult to expectorate
Lachesis: constriction of chest in morning when sitting up quickly; breathing becomes slow, difficult, whistling, chest stuffed; cover around neck, even chest unbearable; stool smelling badly
Lobelia inflata: contraction of chest with deep inhalation; impossible deep inspiration; inclination to sigh or to get very deep breath; burning feeling in chest passing upward; dry tracheal and bronchial catarrh.
Natrum muriaticum: attacks of suffocation, breathing anxious, oppressed, short on walking fast, > in open air and when exercising arm


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