# Pertussinum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Per. is taken from the glairy and stringy mucus contai ning the virus of whooping cough. 
Introduced by Clarke for the treatment of whooping cough and other spasmodic coughs.  
In Clarke's experience, it agrees well with all other whooping cough remedies and when their specific 
indications appear he gave them in alternation or alone. Per. is an unproved remedy, except in the sense that 
every case of the disease is a proving. Can be used a preventive in whooping cough or to treat the disease. 
Spasmodic coughing attacks.  Dry cough, spasmodic of different intensity, comes suddenly. Repeated 
coughing fits which end in vomiting. Increasing jerking cough with cyanosis, with a phase of apnea followed 
by the taking of respiration. Predisposition to tuberculosis. 
Asthenia. Convu lsions. Muscularjerkings. Neuro -motor deficit. Polyneuritis. Paresis. Paralysis. Myelitis. 
Hemorrhage from the meninges. Anorexia. Sleepy and in a state of confusion. Troubles of conscience.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse by laughing, emotion, effort, rest or nervous shock.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Psycho-motor or sensorial troubles.
- State of confusion.
- Re stlessness.
- Troubles of conscience.
- Cries, 
tears.
- Psycho-motor or sensorial troubles.
- State of confusion.
- Re stlessness.
- Troubles of conscience.
- Cries, 
tears.

### Eyes
- Chemosis.
- Tears.
- Coryza with hacking cough.

### Ears
- Mastoiditis.

### Face
- Intense flushing with cough.

### Mouth
- Itching of the palate on lying down at night.
- Ulceration of the tongue.
- Nose - Nosebleed.

### Throat
- Laryngo-spasms.
- Spasm of the glottis.
- Intense tickling in throat causing cough.
- COMMENTS - Clarke gave the 30c every four hours in all cases of whooping cough, suspected or defined, as 
a matter of routine, and as a rule it quickly assumed control of the case and did all that was necessary.
- Dr.
- Sheppard wrote about giving Per.
- for whooping cough prophylaxis.
- “Pertussin 30c acts well as a protective 
against whooping cough.
- 364 cases were given daily doses of pertussin for two weeks after contact.
- “Many of these cases were seen in the day nurseries under my care and not one of these children developed 
the disease.
- As twoof the nurseries took in children from two weeks old, it was most essential that they should 
not be exposed to the infection, and it was gratifying to find that Pertussin was a means of preventing the 
 
 
spread of the disease.
- “In another private school, a child came back after the holidays with a fully developed whooping cough, in spite 
of carrying a doctor's certificate as being free from any infectious disease.
- All the twelve children in her class 
were infected.
- “The headmistress, on my advice, gave Pertussin 30 four doses hourly, and the children had the mildest attack 
of whooping cough she had ever seen.
- She was grateful to Homoeopathy, and to the nosode Pertus sin for 
turning so serious a disease into a mild one.”

### Chest
- Stinging pain in or on the chest with cough.
- Cyanosis, sweats, weakness.
- Tachycardia.
- Bronchitis.
- Dyspnea with cough.
- Whooping cough.
- Strangling sensation with cough on waking.
- Spasmodic chok ing cough.
- Spasmodic cough with intense flushing of face.
- Hacking cough with coryza.
- Deep-sounding croupy cough.
- Coughing in frequently repeated attacks.
- Cough provoked by intense tickling 
in throat, fauces or trachea.
- Sobbing or sighing at end of cough.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Vomiting or nausea at end of cough.