ASTHMA-MORE INFO
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 5:18 pm
More on asthma (long) since seems to be a topic paralleling Caroline's request. Some compiled clinical tips for reference and study.
Best to All,
Andy
Dr. Margery Blackie
Blackie
CVO. MD. FFHom
1. A brief life sketch
Margery Grace Blackie was born at Redbourn, Hertfordshire in 1898, the youngest daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Blackie and the niece of James Compton Burnett. She qualified in medicine at the London School of Medicine for Women in 1923, and in
the following year joined the staff of the London Homeopathic Hospital. Here she came under the teaching influence of John Henry Clarke, Charles Wheeler and Douglas Borland, himself a former student of James Tyler Kent. She obtained her M. D. from the
University of London in 1928.
During her career she combined a busy homeopathic general practice with her hospital work, which culminated in her appointment in 1966 as Honorary Consultant Physician to the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital. She was Dean of the Faculty of
Homeopathy from 1965 to 1979. Appointed Physician to H. M. The Queen in 1968 she was admitted to the Royal Victorian Order in the rank of Commander in 1979. She died in 1981.
She was admired by her patients for her concerned approach, kindness, and skill. It is as a brilliant teacher, whose vivid descriptions of various constitutional types of patients became engraved in the minds of her listeners, that she is
remembered by her undergraduate and postgraduate students. It was this deep understanding of the characteristics of the individual remedy that formed the basis of her international reputation.
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Margery Blackie-ASTHMA
Aconitum napellus: - Can't bear any pain. Upset by trifles. Very red eyes. Pink eye. Just can't get their breath, terrific paroxysms.
Ambra grisea: - When needed, badly needed. Despairing and irritable. Never calm. Bleeding around the margins of nose. Constipated. Very very intolerant of noise. No stool if some telephone rings or any thing of that sort. Paroxysms of very
violent cough Very thick sputum (Sanguinaria canadensis) > by bringing up. Feeling of lump in the chest. Rawness after, In elderly people.
Ammonium carbonicum: - Emphysema, very dry. Bubbling rales. Weakness in chest + + + Tired and worn out patient. Blue lips, little bluish colour. Extreme dryness in throat, good deal of aching, open air. They feel cold. by moving, lasts till midday.
Anxiety in stomach, throbbing in stomach.
They are always very chilly.
Tender to percussion.
Hepar sulphuris calcareum: -
Frightful soreness.
For winter colds.
INTENSELY CHILLY.
Extremely noisy cough - 10 M of Spongia tosta.
Hepar is thirstless.
Intense respiratory distress. Blankets are pulled up. History of repeated attacks of asthma.
Hepar sulphuris calcareum and Phosphorus lie with their head bent back with lot of pillows.
Nux vomica is chilly but more depressed. Drinks water.
Eupatorium perfoliatum - Pain in legs and back. Bone pains.
Ipecacuanha: -
Most common remedy for moist asthma.
Great sense of oppression in the chest, fullness. Great air hunger.
Sweats a lot. Cold and clammy hands. Wants to sit by the window.
Compare Carbo vegetabilis here who is too weak to do so.
Much propped up.
Sulphur
10 M < - 6; 10M < - 6
Dulcamara: -
Dulcamara is affected by wet cold weather. Lot of mucus.
May get from suppressed sweat.
They don't like cold.
Generally very susceptible to cold [Pulsatilla].
Rheumatic NECKACHE points to Dulcamara.
Dulcamara condition changes to Sulphur indications.
Chamomilla: -
For old people.
Attack after anger.
Hard dry cough.
Absolute constriction in the throat.
Potency recommended is 30.
Medorrhinum: -
Feel chokey in the throat.
Acute spasm.
Larynx closed.
No air in.
Better lying on the face, protruding tongue out.
History of Gonorrhea.
< day light to dark.
A dry hacking cough.
All sorts of darting pains.
Weak sinking feeling behind the sternum.
Painful cough. No satisfaction much deeper cough.
Hurried patient.
They are very very fatigued.
Certain fear of dark.
They also get hot feet.
See faces around who are talking.
[Pulsatilla sees people crowding the, bed and talking.]
Get alternate asthma and rheumatism.
Leuticum: -
< Sunset to sunrise.
Pressure on the sternum.
Dread the night.
More marked in children.
Very bad in a thunder storm.
More asthmatic breathing than cough.
Bed wetting < during asthma.
{ Dr. Blackie found Pulsatilla 30 Selenium 30 either of these each night for a month very useful for bed wetting}
Hair falling (Lycopodium clavatum).
Mongols are helped very much by Medorrhinum.
All Mongols like light.
Psorinum: -
More chronic type.
Depression and always with palpitation.
As a result of suppressed eruptions.
Sensation as of a band around chest
Every cold ends in asthma.
< sitting up.
Better lying down with arms apart.
Like to sink down too low.
VERY VERY DESPAIRING PATIENT.
Lazy indolent people,
Want to be left alone.
Disagreeable.
Chilliest patients.
Can't bear cold.
Much much worse from it.
PERFECTLY WELL IN SUMMER.
Dry scaly rash. Very rough skin.
Pale sickly children.
Psorinum babies always scream.
Lachesis: -
Not commonly indicated.
Wakes with attack,
Like all Lachesis they can't bear any pressure around their neck
Hot Blooded.
SUSPICIOUS.
FRIGHTFULLY JEALOUS.
Bluish during attack.
Sambucus: -
Children's asthma.
3 AM < (Kali carbonicum, Arsenicum album)
Wakes up. < after midnight.
Wake up, sit up gasping for breath.
BLUE, RESTLESS, Great DISTRESS SWEATS A LOT IN THE DAY.
Silicea: -
Great friend in Chest Diseases.
Old sycotic, old broken down cases - Bronchitis every winter.
Full of wheezes.
Horrible cough.
Most unsatisfactory cough.
Very cooperative people.
Good deal of moisture in the chest.
Ask back history e. g. are the complaints dating after influenza, after suppressed foot sweat?:
Thin people. Doing their best to get on.
They do extremely well.
From suppressed gonorrhea.
Asthma < cold draught.
Don't like thunder. (Phosphorus, Silicea)
Head sweat.
Interesting, very useful drug.
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PRIESTLEY (UK HOMEOPATH)
Therapeutics of Asthma
Ambra grisea:
Long history. Emphysema. Difficulty in expiration. Awful attacks. Sputum very sticky and difficult expectoration, Sputum taste salty. Dry whistling asthma. Better feeling by eating in an attack.
Ammonium carbonicum
Old people. Emphysema. Wet and bubbly. Intense feeling of weakness in chest. They are cyanosed. Have general aching pains. They feel chilly, are worse in stuffy atmosphere. White and shiny difficult sputum. Feather tickling in their throat.
Complete exhaustion.
Argentum nitricum
Nervous, terrified, apprehensive patient. Typical dislike of high places, craving for sugar, salt, diarrhoea from nervous anticipation. Complain of a band around chest. < from talking, can't bear crowd, liable to bring an attack. Cool air amel.
(Pulsatilla) Painful area round the chest wall.
Arsenicum album
Constriction and tightness of chest. Arsenicum album anxiety and restlessness. < I to 2 AM. Drive them out. Curious anxiety. A period of apnoea, feel that can't take another breath. Can't bear to be alone. Like to talk. Chilly, likes lot of
clothes around them.
Cactus grandiflorus:
Angina. Asthma where constriction is prominent. Strangling sensation round the diaphragm area. Sense of suffocation. < morning. Asthma uncomplicated by bronchitis.
Ferrum phosphoricum
The attack comes on with the feeling of surgings of blood in to the chest. Dry spasmodic cough. Hectic malar flush. Profuse epistaxis during asthma, Likes to wander about in slow motion. < midnight
Kali sulphuricum:
Very useful for asthma. 2 to 4 AM
Pulsatilla Pulsatilla 12: 2 AM and 2 PM wheeze.
Kali sulphuricum very similar to Pulsatilla
Asthmas treated with cortisone are difficult to cure homeopathically.
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ELHAM OF MINITUS LIST-ASTHMA
Subject:
[Minutus] asthma
Date:
Sat, 1 Mar 2003 14:54:51 +0530
From:
"elham"
Reply-To:
minutus@yahoogroups.com
To:
I got time to read the newsletter after almost a month. Here are a few suggestions for treating cases of
asthma.
The treatment of asthma should be studied under two headings, controlling the acute attack and curing the
patient. Usually it is not difficult to control the attack specially if the patient has never had
Homoeopathy before. But curing the patient completely is absoluekly another matter. A deep acting
constitutional medicine must be found. Usually but not invariably the medicines that cure this condition
permanently are the anti sycotic remedies. The most important medicines for the permanent cure of asthma
include Thuja, Lycopodium, Sil, sulph and Kali-carb. In some places Nat-s might also do the job. I have
written here only remedies that I have seen work. There are many more remedies some of them very highly
recommded such as blatta, Cupr., hydr-ac, Ambr. etc. But I have either never used them because there
were no indicationg symptoms, or I have used them but not seen them work, so I have left them out. The
remedies below I have used and I have seen them work.
Amminium Carb: Asthma aggravaed from 3 to 5 am. Increases in a warm room, the patient feels suffocated
and has to go into the open air for relief, better in cold air. Pulmonary oedema.
Antim Ars: Whenever there is the rattling cough of Ant-tart and the anxiety of Arsenic this remedy may be
tried. Asthma with emphysema.
Ant-t: Asthma with rattling cough. Asthma of old people and children. Asthma better by expectoration.
Great rattliong but little comes out. The lungs get overloaded with mucus, threatened oedema and
paralysis of lungs. The expectoration is usually white in colour.
Argentum Nitr. Asthma better in cold air, better in open air. Attacks coming on in a room full of
people, in a warm room. Wants doors and windows open. The Arg patient is a hot patient, always in a
hurry, desires sweets and salt, though sweets might aggravate, claustrophobia, fear of heights.
Ars. Alb.: Asthma occuring around midnight or from 12.00 to 2.00 am. The asthma is attended with
restlessness, anxiety and anguish. The patient can not lie down, the patient is chilly. There may be
thirst for small quantities of water frequently. This medicine is very commonly indicated in acute
asthma, but one thing should be borne in mind, the medicine will stop one attack or two attacks
(Sometimes for upto a year) but usually that is all it does, after giving Arsenic a deep acting remedy
(Usually Thuja) has to be given to cure the disease. Again whenever asthma patients get coryza, Allium
cepa and Ars. Alb should be avoided as they stop the coryza and bring on a severe attack of asthma.
Ars-iod or kali-iod would be better in these patients.
Ars-iod: Ars-iod is very similar to ars alb, but the patient is a hot patient. Unlike Ars. Alb this
medicine can actually cure asthma. Unlike Ars. Alb it also does not bring on an attack of asthma if
given for coryza.
Apis Mel: Great dyspnoea as if every breath will be his last. Intense sensation of suffocation,
pulmonary oedema, the patient is thirstless and has a sensation as if his tongue is made of wood.
Brom: Asthma of sailors as soon as they come on land.
Calc-c: Asthma coming on after the slightest exertion. The patient is fine and does a little physical
activity and he gets a severe attack. Asthma of children usually due to exertion or from dust allergy.
Asthma better by retracting the shoulders. The typical calc. patient is fat, flabby, chilly and
perspires easily. The patient craves eggs.
Carbo-Veg: Asthma with sensation of distension of abdomen, the patient craves air wants all the doors
and windows open. The patient is better from eructations. Asthma of old people. Asthma better in cold
air (even though the patient may feel terribly cold).
Chamomilla: I have used this medicine only two times in this condition. It is useful in asthma of
children where the child wants to be carried during the attack. The child is irritable and angry. There
may be a rattling cough and the cough usually starts when the child is sleeping.
Grindelia: Asthma coming on as soon as the patient goes to sleep, with sensation of suffocation As
soon as the patient falls asleep his breathing stops and he wakes up with a start and gasps for air.
Accumulation of tenacious mucous which is hard to bring out but once it is out thjere is relief. Fear of
going to sleep on account of loosing breath.
Hep-s: Asthma from bending head backwards, must sit up during the attack. Asthma after exposure to cold
dry winds, worse from cold in any form. Yellowish expectoration. The patient is irritable and feels
better from external warmth and warm drinks. The attack usually starts with a painful throat. Pain
throat better warm drinks. Then after a few days there is an attack. The Hep- patient is very
irritable.
Hypericum: Asthma better by profuse perspiration and copious expectoration.
Ipecacuanha: Asthma with feeling of nausea. Rattling cough but nothing is expectorated. Coughing
followed by vomitting which releives. Specially useful in asthma of children with rattling cough (Ant-t)
Kali-ars: Asthma coming on around 2-3 am. usually 2.00 Many symptoms are like ars. alb. but the
symptoms appear a bit later. Cough coming on from cold air, cold drinks etc.
Kali-bi: Asthma with bronchiectasis, bronchial tubes get blocked from tough stringy mucous. Asthma
aggravated at 2 a.m.. The expectoration is thick, yellow and ropy. Must sit up and bend forward during
the attack.
Kali-carb: Attacks coming on around 3.00 am. The patient must sit up with head bent forward, or must
place head on table or knees. Dyspnoea aggravated from exertion, from eating, from lying down, from
motion, better by sitting up with head bent forward.
Kali-Nitr: Symptoms similar to Kali-carb only the patient is a hot patient.
Lachesis: Patient rouses up from sleep with sensation as if he is suffocating. Can not bear the least
pressure on the throat or chest. Can not bear anything (Such as a hankerchief) near the mouth, feels
suffocated if something is brought near the mouth. The patient desires to take a deep breath but deep
breathing becomes impossible. Has to have doors and windows open or must go out into the open air for
relief. Intolerance of clothing, specially around the neck.
Lobelia: Asthma aggravated at noon, from cold air, from exertion, andwalking rapidly.
Lycopodium: Attacks coming on every four hours remaining for about half an hour then reappearing again
after four hours. Usually start around 4.00 pm, then 8.00 pm, then 12.00. 4.00 am No attacks from 4.00
am to 4.00 pm. Asthma with marked flatulance.
Mag phos and kali-Phos are two biochemic medicines recommended for acute attacks of asthma. Mag-phos has
spasmodic asthma. Kali-phos has asthma due to nervous causes or asthma brought on after eating.
Medorrhinum: Asthma of children better by lying on the knee elbow position.
Mephitis: Asthma on lying down at night. Asthma aggravated from drinking cold water.
Naja: Cardiac asthma, asthma from least exertion. The attacks are worse in the evenings.
Nat-s: Asthma of children, attacks come around 5.00 am. Asthma aggravated in humid weather.
Expectoration of large quantities of whitish or greenish mucus. Holds the chest with the hand while
while coughing. This medicine was Dr. Kent's favourite for curing asthma permanently specially asthma of
children. Personally I have never seen it cure asthma permanently (probably because where I practice
there is not so much humidity). But I have seen it many times palliate attacks for a year.
Nux-v: Asthma from gastric disturbances, obstruction of nose at night, asthma better by eructations,
aggravated from cold. The patient feels extremely chilly during the attacks.
Phos: Asthma with cough and hoarseness. Cough aggravated laughing, talking, cold air, cold drinks.
Violent cough, it seems as if the whole body shakes with the cough.
Pothos: Asthma aggravated from inhalation of dust.
Psorinum: Asthma better lying down with arms spread apart.
Pulsatilla: Asthma specially of children, aggravated evenings. Asthma after suppressed eruptions.
Asthma better in open air, there is an accompanying dryness of mouth without thirst.
Rumex: Asthma aggravated 2.00 am. Asthma from change of temperature from exposure to cold air. There
is tickling in the throat pit causing cough aggravated by inhaling cold air or drinking cold drinks
(Ars.). Uncovering at night brings on the attacks (hep).
Sambucus: Asthma with obstruction of nose at night. Asthma aggravated around midnight. Suffocating
cough coming on around midnight. Sudden attack making the patient restless, has to leave the bed. More
suited to attacks of children but relieves adults too if accompanying the asthma there is profuse
perspiration and swelling of ankles and feet.
Senega: Most important remedy for asthma of old people, but not so useful in young people. Asthma
aggravated cold air better sitting upright. There is great intolerance of cold air. Walking in the cold
open air brings on a cough and an attack. Chronic rattlicg cough of old people (Ammoniacum)
Silicea: This is another of those medicines that can permanently cure this condition. The silicea
patient is a chilly patient and there is great perspiration.Asthma following exposure to a draft of air.
Asthma from exposure to cold air after being overheated. Asthma following any unusual exertion. Dust
allergy. Asthmatic attacks of children brought on from running or from exposure to cold air.
Spongia: Asthma accompanied with dry barking croupy cough. The cough is better by drinking and eating.
Irresistable cough from irritation in a spot deep in chest. Attacks come on around midnight or during
sleep, the patient feels weak in the chest can scaecely talk. Asthma from taking cold better bending
head backwards.
Stannum: Asthma with feeling of weakness in the chest. Feeling of emptiness in the chest. The
slightest exertion causes coughing and dyspnoea. There is great anxiety when breathing and the patient
feels as if the respiratory organs are very weak. Attacks come around 4-5 am. Copious green
expectoration, sweetish in taste (rarely saltish).
Sulphur: Asthma after suppressed skin eruptions or alternating with eruptions. Asthma of old people.
Wants doors and windows open during the attack. Asthma from dust allergy. Can not talk during the
attack, feels suffocated if he talks.
Thuja: One of the most important remedies in curing this condition permanently. Asthma in sycotic
subjects. May be given after the acute condition has been subdued by other remedies to prevent
recurrence. Asthma of children.
Veratrum: Asthma in damp cold weather. Rattling cough that can not be brought out. Asthma and cough
are aggravated from cold drinks and better from warm drinks.
Some observations after giving the indicated medicine:
1. After giving the homoeopathioc medicine many times there is relief of the dyspnoea but the
cough increases, and sometimes becomes violent. The remedy should not be changed as usually this subsides
in a few days time.
2. The dyspnoea and cough decrease but there is sudden increase in nasal discharge: This should
be left alone.
3. The time of the attack changes. For example if the attack came at 12.00 midnight and you gave
a medicines the next day the attack may come at 2.00 am. This also should be left alone and no medicine
given, as long as each attack comes at a later time it is a good sign. On the other hand if each
subsequent attack comes earlier on, a medicine might be needed.
Best to All,
Andy
Dr. Margery Blackie
Blackie
CVO. MD. FFHom
1. A brief life sketch
Margery Grace Blackie was born at Redbourn, Hertfordshire in 1898, the youngest daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Blackie and the niece of James Compton Burnett. She qualified in medicine at the London School of Medicine for Women in 1923, and in
the following year joined the staff of the London Homeopathic Hospital. Here she came under the teaching influence of John Henry Clarke, Charles Wheeler and Douglas Borland, himself a former student of James Tyler Kent. She obtained her M. D. from the
University of London in 1928.
During her career she combined a busy homeopathic general practice with her hospital work, which culminated in her appointment in 1966 as Honorary Consultant Physician to the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital. She was Dean of the Faculty of
Homeopathy from 1965 to 1979. Appointed Physician to H. M. The Queen in 1968 she was admitted to the Royal Victorian Order in the rank of Commander in 1979. She died in 1981.
She was admired by her patients for her concerned approach, kindness, and skill. It is as a brilliant teacher, whose vivid descriptions of various constitutional types of patients became engraved in the minds of her listeners, that she is
remembered by her undergraduate and postgraduate students. It was this deep understanding of the characteristics of the individual remedy that formed the basis of her international reputation.
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=============================================
Margery Blackie-ASTHMA
Aconitum napellus: - Can't bear any pain. Upset by trifles. Very red eyes. Pink eye. Just can't get their breath, terrific paroxysms.
Ambra grisea: - When needed, badly needed. Despairing and irritable. Never calm. Bleeding around the margins of nose. Constipated. Very very intolerant of noise. No stool if some telephone rings or any thing of that sort. Paroxysms of very
violent cough Very thick sputum (Sanguinaria canadensis) > by bringing up. Feeling of lump in the chest. Rawness after, In elderly people.
Ammonium carbonicum: - Emphysema, very dry. Bubbling rales. Weakness in chest + + + Tired and worn out patient. Blue lips, little bluish colour. Extreme dryness in throat, good deal of aching, open air. They feel cold. by moving, lasts till midday.
Anxiety in stomach, throbbing in stomach.
They are always very chilly.
Tender to percussion.
Hepar sulphuris calcareum: -
Frightful soreness.
For winter colds.
INTENSELY CHILLY.
Extremely noisy cough - 10 M of Spongia tosta.
Hepar is thirstless.
Intense respiratory distress. Blankets are pulled up. History of repeated attacks of asthma.
Hepar sulphuris calcareum and Phosphorus lie with their head bent back with lot of pillows.
Nux vomica is chilly but more depressed. Drinks water.
Eupatorium perfoliatum - Pain in legs and back. Bone pains.
Ipecacuanha: -
Most common remedy for moist asthma.
Great sense of oppression in the chest, fullness. Great air hunger.
Sweats a lot. Cold and clammy hands. Wants to sit by the window.
Compare Carbo vegetabilis here who is too weak to do so.
Much propped up.
Sulphur
10 M < - 6; 10M < - 6
Dulcamara: -
Dulcamara is affected by wet cold weather. Lot of mucus.
May get from suppressed sweat.
They don't like cold.
Generally very susceptible to cold [Pulsatilla].
Rheumatic NECKACHE points to Dulcamara.
Dulcamara condition changes to Sulphur indications.
Chamomilla: -
For old people.
Attack after anger.
Hard dry cough.
Absolute constriction in the throat.
Potency recommended is 30.
Medorrhinum: -
Feel chokey in the throat.
Acute spasm.
Larynx closed.
No air in.
Better lying on the face, protruding tongue out.
History of Gonorrhea.
< day light to dark.
A dry hacking cough.
All sorts of darting pains.
Weak sinking feeling behind the sternum.
Painful cough. No satisfaction much deeper cough.
Hurried patient.
They are very very fatigued.
Certain fear of dark.
They also get hot feet.
See faces around who are talking.
[Pulsatilla sees people crowding the, bed and talking.]
Get alternate asthma and rheumatism.
Leuticum: -
< Sunset to sunrise.
Pressure on the sternum.
Dread the night.
More marked in children.
Very bad in a thunder storm.
More asthmatic breathing than cough.
Bed wetting < during asthma.
{ Dr. Blackie found Pulsatilla 30 Selenium 30 either of these each night for a month very useful for bed wetting}
Hair falling (Lycopodium clavatum).
Mongols are helped very much by Medorrhinum.
All Mongols like light.
Psorinum: -
More chronic type.
Depression and always with palpitation.
As a result of suppressed eruptions.
Sensation as of a band around chest
Every cold ends in asthma.
< sitting up.
Better lying down with arms apart.
Like to sink down too low.
VERY VERY DESPAIRING PATIENT.
Lazy indolent people,
Want to be left alone.
Disagreeable.
Chilliest patients.
Can't bear cold.
Much much worse from it.
PERFECTLY WELL IN SUMMER.
Dry scaly rash. Very rough skin.
Pale sickly children.
Psorinum babies always scream.
Lachesis: -
Not commonly indicated.
Wakes with attack,
Like all Lachesis they can't bear any pressure around their neck
Hot Blooded.
SUSPICIOUS.
FRIGHTFULLY JEALOUS.
Bluish during attack.
Sambucus: -
Children's asthma.
3 AM < (Kali carbonicum, Arsenicum album)
Wakes up. < after midnight.
Wake up, sit up gasping for breath.
BLUE, RESTLESS, Great DISTRESS SWEATS A LOT IN THE DAY.
Silicea: -
Great friend in Chest Diseases.
Old sycotic, old broken down cases - Bronchitis every winter.
Full of wheezes.
Horrible cough.
Most unsatisfactory cough.
Very cooperative people.
Good deal of moisture in the chest.
Ask back history e. g. are the complaints dating after influenza, after suppressed foot sweat?:
Thin people. Doing their best to get on.
They do extremely well.
From suppressed gonorrhea.
Asthma < cold draught.
Don't like thunder. (Phosphorus, Silicea)
Head sweat.
Interesting, very useful drug.
-==================================
PRIESTLEY (UK HOMEOPATH)
Therapeutics of Asthma
Ambra grisea:
Long history. Emphysema. Difficulty in expiration. Awful attacks. Sputum very sticky and difficult expectoration, Sputum taste salty. Dry whistling asthma. Better feeling by eating in an attack.
Ammonium carbonicum
Old people. Emphysema. Wet and bubbly. Intense feeling of weakness in chest. They are cyanosed. Have general aching pains. They feel chilly, are worse in stuffy atmosphere. White and shiny difficult sputum. Feather tickling in their throat.
Complete exhaustion.
Argentum nitricum
Nervous, terrified, apprehensive patient. Typical dislike of high places, craving for sugar, salt, diarrhoea from nervous anticipation. Complain of a band around chest. < from talking, can't bear crowd, liable to bring an attack. Cool air amel.
(Pulsatilla) Painful area round the chest wall.
Arsenicum album
Constriction and tightness of chest. Arsenicum album anxiety and restlessness. < I to 2 AM. Drive them out. Curious anxiety. A period of apnoea, feel that can't take another breath. Can't bear to be alone. Like to talk. Chilly, likes lot of
clothes around them.
Cactus grandiflorus:
Angina. Asthma where constriction is prominent. Strangling sensation round the diaphragm area. Sense of suffocation. < morning. Asthma uncomplicated by bronchitis.
Ferrum phosphoricum
The attack comes on with the feeling of surgings of blood in to the chest. Dry spasmodic cough. Hectic malar flush. Profuse epistaxis during asthma, Likes to wander about in slow motion. < midnight
Kali sulphuricum:
Very useful for asthma. 2 to 4 AM
Pulsatilla Pulsatilla 12: 2 AM and 2 PM wheeze.
Kali sulphuricum very similar to Pulsatilla
Asthmas treated with cortisone are difficult to cure homeopathically.
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ELHAM OF MINITUS LIST-ASTHMA
Subject:
[Minutus] asthma
Date:
Sat, 1 Mar 2003 14:54:51 +0530
From:
"elham"
Reply-To:
minutus@yahoogroups.com
To:
I got time to read the newsletter after almost a month. Here are a few suggestions for treating cases of
asthma.
The treatment of asthma should be studied under two headings, controlling the acute attack and curing the
patient. Usually it is not difficult to control the attack specially if the patient has never had
Homoeopathy before. But curing the patient completely is absoluekly another matter. A deep acting
constitutional medicine must be found. Usually but not invariably the medicines that cure this condition
permanently are the anti sycotic remedies. The most important medicines for the permanent cure of asthma
include Thuja, Lycopodium, Sil, sulph and Kali-carb. In some places Nat-s might also do the job. I have
written here only remedies that I have seen work. There are many more remedies some of them very highly
recommded such as blatta, Cupr., hydr-ac, Ambr. etc. But I have either never used them because there
were no indicationg symptoms, or I have used them but not seen them work, so I have left them out. The
remedies below I have used and I have seen them work.
Amminium Carb: Asthma aggravaed from 3 to 5 am. Increases in a warm room, the patient feels suffocated
and has to go into the open air for relief, better in cold air. Pulmonary oedema.
Antim Ars: Whenever there is the rattling cough of Ant-tart and the anxiety of Arsenic this remedy may be
tried. Asthma with emphysema.
Ant-t: Asthma with rattling cough. Asthma of old people and children. Asthma better by expectoration.
Great rattliong but little comes out. The lungs get overloaded with mucus, threatened oedema and
paralysis of lungs. The expectoration is usually white in colour.
Argentum Nitr. Asthma better in cold air, better in open air. Attacks coming on in a room full of
people, in a warm room. Wants doors and windows open. The Arg patient is a hot patient, always in a
hurry, desires sweets and salt, though sweets might aggravate, claustrophobia, fear of heights.
Ars. Alb.: Asthma occuring around midnight or from 12.00 to 2.00 am. The asthma is attended with
restlessness, anxiety and anguish. The patient can not lie down, the patient is chilly. There may be
thirst for small quantities of water frequently. This medicine is very commonly indicated in acute
asthma, but one thing should be borne in mind, the medicine will stop one attack or two attacks
(Sometimes for upto a year) but usually that is all it does, after giving Arsenic a deep acting remedy
(Usually Thuja) has to be given to cure the disease. Again whenever asthma patients get coryza, Allium
cepa and Ars. Alb should be avoided as they stop the coryza and bring on a severe attack of asthma.
Ars-iod or kali-iod would be better in these patients.
Ars-iod: Ars-iod is very similar to ars alb, but the patient is a hot patient. Unlike Ars. Alb this
medicine can actually cure asthma. Unlike Ars. Alb it also does not bring on an attack of asthma if
given for coryza.
Apis Mel: Great dyspnoea as if every breath will be his last. Intense sensation of suffocation,
pulmonary oedema, the patient is thirstless and has a sensation as if his tongue is made of wood.
Brom: Asthma of sailors as soon as they come on land.
Calc-c: Asthma coming on after the slightest exertion. The patient is fine and does a little physical
activity and he gets a severe attack. Asthma of children usually due to exertion or from dust allergy.
Asthma better by retracting the shoulders. The typical calc. patient is fat, flabby, chilly and
perspires easily. The patient craves eggs.
Carbo-Veg: Asthma with sensation of distension of abdomen, the patient craves air wants all the doors
and windows open. The patient is better from eructations. Asthma of old people. Asthma better in cold
air (even though the patient may feel terribly cold).
Chamomilla: I have used this medicine only two times in this condition. It is useful in asthma of
children where the child wants to be carried during the attack. The child is irritable and angry. There
may be a rattling cough and the cough usually starts when the child is sleeping.
Grindelia: Asthma coming on as soon as the patient goes to sleep, with sensation of suffocation As
soon as the patient falls asleep his breathing stops and he wakes up with a start and gasps for air.
Accumulation of tenacious mucous which is hard to bring out but once it is out thjere is relief. Fear of
going to sleep on account of loosing breath.
Hep-s: Asthma from bending head backwards, must sit up during the attack. Asthma after exposure to cold
dry winds, worse from cold in any form. Yellowish expectoration. The patient is irritable and feels
better from external warmth and warm drinks. The attack usually starts with a painful throat. Pain
throat better warm drinks. Then after a few days there is an attack. The Hep- patient is very
irritable.
Hypericum: Asthma better by profuse perspiration and copious expectoration.
Ipecacuanha: Asthma with feeling of nausea. Rattling cough but nothing is expectorated. Coughing
followed by vomitting which releives. Specially useful in asthma of children with rattling cough (Ant-t)
Kali-ars: Asthma coming on around 2-3 am. usually 2.00 Many symptoms are like ars. alb. but the
symptoms appear a bit later. Cough coming on from cold air, cold drinks etc.
Kali-bi: Asthma with bronchiectasis, bronchial tubes get blocked from tough stringy mucous. Asthma
aggravated at 2 a.m.. The expectoration is thick, yellow and ropy. Must sit up and bend forward during
the attack.
Kali-carb: Attacks coming on around 3.00 am. The patient must sit up with head bent forward, or must
place head on table or knees. Dyspnoea aggravated from exertion, from eating, from lying down, from
motion, better by sitting up with head bent forward.
Kali-Nitr: Symptoms similar to Kali-carb only the patient is a hot patient.
Lachesis: Patient rouses up from sleep with sensation as if he is suffocating. Can not bear the least
pressure on the throat or chest. Can not bear anything (Such as a hankerchief) near the mouth, feels
suffocated if something is brought near the mouth. The patient desires to take a deep breath but deep
breathing becomes impossible. Has to have doors and windows open or must go out into the open air for
relief. Intolerance of clothing, specially around the neck.
Lobelia: Asthma aggravated at noon, from cold air, from exertion, andwalking rapidly.
Lycopodium: Attacks coming on every four hours remaining for about half an hour then reappearing again
after four hours. Usually start around 4.00 pm, then 8.00 pm, then 12.00. 4.00 am No attacks from 4.00
am to 4.00 pm. Asthma with marked flatulance.
Mag phos and kali-Phos are two biochemic medicines recommended for acute attacks of asthma. Mag-phos has
spasmodic asthma. Kali-phos has asthma due to nervous causes or asthma brought on after eating.
Medorrhinum: Asthma of children better by lying on the knee elbow position.
Mephitis: Asthma on lying down at night. Asthma aggravated from drinking cold water.
Naja: Cardiac asthma, asthma from least exertion. The attacks are worse in the evenings.
Nat-s: Asthma of children, attacks come around 5.00 am. Asthma aggravated in humid weather.
Expectoration of large quantities of whitish or greenish mucus. Holds the chest with the hand while
while coughing. This medicine was Dr. Kent's favourite for curing asthma permanently specially asthma of
children. Personally I have never seen it cure asthma permanently (probably because where I practice
there is not so much humidity). But I have seen it many times palliate attacks for a year.
Nux-v: Asthma from gastric disturbances, obstruction of nose at night, asthma better by eructations,
aggravated from cold. The patient feels extremely chilly during the attacks.
Phos: Asthma with cough and hoarseness. Cough aggravated laughing, talking, cold air, cold drinks.
Violent cough, it seems as if the whole body shakes with the cough.
Pothos: Asthma aggravated from inhalation of dust.
Psorinum: Asthma better lying down with arms spread apart.
Pulsatilla: Asthma specially of children, aggravated evenings. Asthma after suppressed eruptions.
Asthma better in open air, there is an accompanying dryness of mouth without thirst.
Rumex: Asthma aggravated 2.00 am. Asthma from change of temperature from exposure to cold air. There
is tickling in the throat pit causing cough aggravated by inhaling cold air or drinking cold drinks
(Ars.). Uncovering at night brings on the attacks (hep).
Sambucus: Asthma with obstruction of nose at night. Asthma aggravated around midnight. Suffocating
cough coming on around midnight. Sudden attack making the patient restless, has to leave the bed. More
suited to attacks of children but relieves adults too if accompanying the asthma there is profuse
perspiration and swelling of ankles and feet.
Senega: Most important remedy for asthma of old people, but not so useful in young people. Asthma
aggravated cold air better sitting upright. There is great intolerance of cold air. Walking in the cold
open air brings on a cough and an attack. Chronic rattlicg cough of old people (Ammoniacum)
Silicea: This is another of those medicines that can permanently cure this condition. The silicea
patient is a chilly patient and there is great perspiration.Asthma following exposure to a draft of air.
Asthma from exposure to cold air after being overheated. Asthma following any unusual exertion. Dust
allergy. Asthmatic attacks of children brought on from running or from exposure to cold air.
Spongia: Asthma accompanied with dry barking croupy cough. The cough is better by drinking and eating.
Irresistable cough from irritation in a spot deep in chest. Attacks come on around midnight or during
sleep, the patient feels weak in the chest can scaecely talk. Asthma from taking cold better bending
head backwards.
Stannum: Asthma with feeling of weakness in the chest. Feeling of emptiness in the chest. The
slightest exertion causes coughing and dyspnoea. There is great anxiety when breathing and the patient
feels as if the respiratory organs are very weak. Attacks come around 4-5 am. Copious green
expectoration, sweetish in taste (rarely saltish).
Sulphur: Asthma after suppressed skin eruptions or alternating with eruptions. Asthma of old people.
Wants doors and windows open during the attack. Asthma from dust allergy. Can not talk during the
attack, feels suffocated if he talks.
Thuja: One of the most important remedies in curing this condition permanently. Asthma in sycotic
subjects. May be given after the acute condition has been subdued by other remedies to prevent
recurrence. Asthma of children.
Veratrum: Asthma in damp cold weather. Rattling cough that can not be brought out. Asthma and cough
are aggravated from cold drinks and better from warm drinks.
Some observations after giving the indicated medicine:
1. After giving the homoeopathioc medicine many times there is relief of the dyspnoea but the
cough increases, and sometimes becomes violent. The remedy should not be changed as usually this subsides
in a few days time.
2. The dyspnoea and cough decrease but there is sudden increase in nasal discharge: This should
be left alone.
3. The time of the attack changes. For example if the attack came at 12.00 midnight and you gave
a medicines the next day the attack may come at 2.00 am. This also should be left alone and no medicine
given, as long as each attack comes at a later time it is a good sign. On the other hand if each
subsequent attack comes earlier on, a medicine might be needed.