Minutus

From Boericke:
This is a remedy for asthmatic conditions, with cough aggravated on
lying down. Drenching sweat during sleep. Extreme
sensitiveness to draughts. Diarrhoea, prolapse of rectum.
Aching in rectum extending upwards; worse lying on side
lain upon.

Respiratory.-Dry cough coming on after first sleep, about
middle of night. Asthma on lying down at night with spasmodic
cough; worse after first sleep, with tickling in throat.
Constriction of chest; feels as if a foreign body were in throat.
Obstruction worse in spring. Hay-fever; frequent sneezing.
Rawness and burning behind sternum.

The least current of air causes sneezing, with copious watery,
excoriating nasal discharge, of salty acrid taste.

Female.-Menses suppressed; leucorrhoea foul-smelling,
acrid, with pressing-down air. Lochia suppressed, with tympanites.

Modalities.-Worse about 11 p.m.(cough).

Relationship.-Compare : Pecten-Scallop (humid asthma.
Quick, labored breathing. Constriction of chest, especially
right side. Asthma preceded by coryza and burning in throat
and chest. Attacks ends with copious expectoration of tough,
frothy mucus. Worse at night.) Ars. iod.; Naphthaline; Cepa; Rosa;
Sabad.; Sinapis.

Dose.-Tincture, to third potency.