{"id":1171,"remedy_name":"Spongia Tosta","remedy_type":"Homeopathic Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Tubercular Miasm","temperament":"Chilly","aggravation_time":"Night","keynote_indications":"Source: Derived from the roasted skeleton of the marine sponge, Euspongia officinalis , prepared. for homeopathic use through trituration and serial dilution to enhance therapeutic action while. eliminating material toxicity, in accordance with homeopathic pharmacopeia standards. Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for respiratory, cardiovascular, and. endocrine disorders, particularly those involving dry cough, heart palpitations, and thyroid-related. symptoms. It is noted for symptoms such as barking cough, heart oppression, and aggravation from. heat, often worsened by warmth, lying down, or midnight, and ameliorated by cold, sitting up, or. eating\/drinking. Modern  Context:  Indicated  for  respiratory  conditions (e.g.,  croup,  chronic  bronchitis),. cardiovascular conditions (e.g., palpitations, valvular heart disease), endocrine conditions (e.g.,. goiter,  hyperthyroidism),  and  psychological  conditions (e.g.,  generalized  anxiety  disorder,. adjustment  disorder).  It  suits  patients  with  acute  or  chronic  symptoms  characterized  by  dry,. barking cough, heart palpitations, thyroid enlargement, anxiety, or heat sensitivity, typically. exacerbated  by  warmth,  lying  down,  midnight,  or  stress,  and  often  seen  in  individuals  with. sensitive, nervous constitutions. The remedy is particularly relevant for those with respiratory or. cardiovascular  conditions,  often  presenting  with  symptoms  like  croupy  cough  or  irregular. heartbeats,  commonly  observed  in  patients  with  croup,  valvular  heart  disease,  or  generalized. anxiety disorder triggered by warmth, rest, or emotional stress.","modalities":"Worse from: Warmth (weather, rooms, drinks), lying down, midnight, talking, exertion,. stress, tight clothing, emotional stress, singing, cold drinks, confinement, crowds, tobacco. smoke.","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Timidity. Anxiety and difficult breathing.  Fear of future. Terror. Anxiety with pain in the region of \nheart or dyspnea. Aggravated from excitement and thinking of symptoms. Every excitement increases the \ncough. Starting from sleep. Starting from trifles. \n \n \nFear of death from suffocation  (Puls., Aeon, Phos., Stram.), wakes frightened and anxious. Fear of dying. \nAnxiety about his heart, fear of heart disease. Attacks of anguish and pain with fear. Anxiety during flushes of \nheat. \nObstinate and improper behavior. Abusive. Quarrelsome. Tired of life. Despair during fever. Apprehension of \na fatal termination of his disease. Inconsolable. \nDespondent about loss of sexual power. Suicidal disposition during perspiration. Weeps with dreams,  \nwhooping cough, fever, sweat. \nIll humor, crying, indifference to every thing, during croup. Taciturn and discon tented mood, not disposed to \ntalk. Indiffer ence to everything. Cheerful alternating with aversion to work. Irresistible desire to sing with \nexcessive mirth, followed by sadness. Singing alternating with distraction. Timidity. Anxiety and difficult breathing.  Fear of future. Terror. Anxiety with pain in the region of \nheart or dyspnea. Aggravated from excitement and thinking of symptoms. Every excitement increases the \ncough. Starting from sleep. Starting from trifles. \n \n \nFear of death from suffocation  (Puls., Aeon, Phos., Stram.), wakes frightened and anxious. Fear of dying. \nAnxiety about his heart, fear of heart disease. Attacks of anguish and pain with fear. Anxiety during flushes of \nheat. \nObstinate and improper behavior. Abusive. Quarrelsome. Tired of life. Despair during fever. Apprehension of \na fatal termination of his disease. Inconsolable. \nDespondent about loss of sexual power. Suicidal disposition during perspiration. Weeps with dreams,  \nwhooping cough, fever, sweat. \nIll humor, crying, indifference to every thing, during croup. Taciturn and discon tented mood, not disposed to \ntalk. Indiffer ence to everything. Cheerful alternating with aversion to work. Irresistible desire to sing with \nexcessive mirth, followed by sadness. Singing alternating with distraction.","Vertigo":"Vertigo with giddiness to such an extent as to fall. Vertigo with a sensa tion as if head were about to \nfall on one side. Vertigo with nausea, on waking at night. \nCOMMENTS - The action of Spong, on the respiratory organs is closely connected with its action on t he \nglandular system, \nSpongia tosta the lymphatics. The thyroid and testes are indurated. The blood, heart and veins are also \ninvolved and, with the protruding eyes, a perfect picture of exophthalmic goiter is produced.  \nTuberculosis of the larynx. Tuberculo sis of apices, with commencing solidification, tu bercles spreading \ndownwards. Tuberculosis of the lungs with weakness of the voice and a chronic, dry, hacking cough. \nCongestion of chest coming on when the patient is moving about, with sudden weakness as i f he would fall. \nCroup (Aeon., Hep., Samb., Brom., and lod.), of the larynx. Croupy deposits on the valves of the heart.  \nChronic bronchitis with a deep, resonating cough, especially in the elderly, worse excitement or exertion, with \nconstant dryness, hacking. Must sit up and lean forward. Respiratory symptoms in excited children. Dry asthma \nwith asthmatic cough, wheezing and whistling. Laryngitis with change of voice, the throat feels plugged up, like \nthe larynx was grabbed. \nRapid and suffocative breathi ng with a deep, resonating cough. Slow and deep breathing. Paralyzed with \ndryness and con striction, must breathe slowly. Sensation of a sponge in the throat, as though they had to \nbreathe through a sponge. Wakes up at night suffocating (Aeon., Lach.), wit h dryness. Fear of suffocation. \nGeneral dryness of the mucus membranes (Bry., Alum., Nux-m.). Suffocating, constricting dryness. Dry nasal \npassages with dry cough, worse in acold, dry wind (Aeon.). Chronic sore throat, especially with swollen glands \nand cough. Dry, hacking coughs (Bry., Rumx.). Deep, resonating coughs. Foghorn coughs with a shrill at the \nend, peaks at the end. Burning and rawness in the chest with the coughing. As though the chest would burst \nbecause of all the coughing. \nCough is worse i n cold, dry weather, wind, warm and stuffy rooms. Cough worse from exertion. Tobacco \naggravates the cough. Worse lying down and with head lowered. Talking aggravates, can\u2019t talk during attacks. \nDesires warm fluids. \nHypertrophy of the heart with asthma. Sensation as though the heart will burst. In a heart attack the heart feels \nbigger and bigger (Cact. feels smaller and smaller.). Constriction of the chest and the heart (Cact.). Stinging, \n \n \npressing pain in the heart with violent gasping. \nExcitement of the ner ves, tendency to start, twitching of muscles with fever. Stiff, without ability to move. \n\u201cConscious but unable to act on her limbs\u201d as in a cataleptic state. Clumsiness of the body. Faint when losing \nbreath. Feeling of numbness of lower half of body. \nThyroid problems (Calc -i., Fuc., Sep., Nat -m., Thyr.). Hyperthyroid. Goiter. Ex ophthalmic goiter, protruding \neyes, staring, headaches and enlarged thyroid. Keynote sensation of something alive in the goiter, as if \nsomething moving there. Swollen and hard glan ds, causes difficulty in breathing, suffocative dryness. There \nmay be tingling or shooting pain in the thyroid. \nTesticular problems. Metastasis of mumps to the testes (Puls., Carb -v.), orto the breast. Hard, swollen, \nindurated testicles. Pressing, squeezin g or sharp pains in the testicles. The testicles are swollen and very \npainful (Clem., Aur., and Puls.). Orchitis, with heaviness and screw -like squeezing pain in cord and testicles. \nOrchitis from suppressed gonorrhea (Thuj.). \nChill usually commences across  the back, cannot be warmed. Chill, followed by heat, extendiung over the \nwhole body except the thighs, which remain numb and chilly. Frequent flashes of heat. Skin is hot and dry. \nEtiology of exposure to cold, dry wind (Aeon.), but takes a day or so to come out. \nWorse after sleep, or sleeps into the ag gravation (Lach.). Worse when thinking of the symptoms (Ox -ac.). \nAversion to tobacco and aggravated from it. Problems may start on the right and go to the left.  \nKent gave the indication \u201cRheumatic fever after having been over-heated with arising heart complications.\u201d \nNash gave the keynote of Spong, in valvular diseases^ \u201cAwakes out of sleep from a sense of suffocation with \nviolent, loud cough, great alarm, agitation, anxiety and difficult respiration.\u201d Nash said it is better \nthan Lach., and relieves the \u201cdry, chronic, sympathetic cough of organic heart disease\u201d more frequently and \nmore permanently than Naja. Psor. also meets thickening of joints after rheumatic fever. \nBoenninghausen\u2019s croup powders con sisted of a sequence of Aeon., Spong., and Hep., given in that order. \nSpong, is dry. Hep. rattling, Spong, worse before midnight, Hep. worse after midnight.","Head":"Rush of blood, bursting headache, worse forehead. Throbbing, pulsation, heaviness and fullness of \nhead. Headache with lachrymation. Pressing headache. Sensation as if hair were standing on end, on vertex. \nViolent itching in scalp. Rush of blood, bursting headache, worse forehead. Throbbing, pulsation, heaviness and fullness of \nhead. Headache with lachrymation. Pressing headache. Sensation as if hair were standing on end, on vertex. \nViolent itching in scalp.","Eyes":"Protrude, staring. Red with lachrymation and burning. Watering, gummy or mucus discharge. Diplopia, \nbetter lying down.","Ears":"Otalgia with contractive pain. Ul ceration of external ear. Boils on left ear painful to touch. Inflamed \nnodule in left concha. Heat, pressure in ears. Hard of hearing. Dull ringing in ears.","Face":"Terrified, anxious expression. Blue lips. Pale from exercise instead of ruddy glow. Cold sweat on chin. \nChin numb.","Mouth":"Sweetish taste. Salivation. Tongue dry and brown. Mouth and edge of tongue covered with ve sicles. \nBurning pain. Speech difficult. \nNose - Nose pinched, cold. Chronic dryness. Dry, nasal catarrh. Dry coryza, nose feels stuffed up. Fluent \ncoryza, alternating with stoppage. Nostrils wide open, fan like motion.","Throat":"Burning and stinging. Stitches and dryness. Bitter taste. Sensation as if plug in larynx. Diphtheria. \nLarynx, painful, dry, constricted worse touch, singing, talking or swallowing, he grasps it. Laryngeal \ntuberculosis. Sore throat, worse eatin g sweet things. Clears throat constantly. Throat symptoms better lying \non back. Swallows water in small quantity and with difficulty. Numb externally. Hoarseness with many \ncomplaints, cough, coryza. Voice gives way when singing or talking.","Chest":"Dry, barking cough, with a sensation of tightness or scraping, resembling croup,. worse  with  warmth,  lying  down,  midnight,  or  talking,  often  with  hoarseness  or. wheezing, likened to a \"saw through wood\" sound. Difficulty  breathing  or  dyspnea,  with  a  tendency  to  suffocation  or  oppression,. resembling chronic bronchitis, aggravated by warmth, exertion, or lying flat, often. with rattling or stridor. Laryngeal irritation or soreness, with a sensation of dryness or burning, resembling. laryngitis, worse with warmth, singing, or cold drinks, often with voice loss or throat. sensitivity. Tendency to respiratory hypersensitivity, with aggravation in warm or resting states. Palpitations  or  irregular  heartbeats,  with  a  sensation  of  fluttering  or  heaviness,. resembling palpitations, worse with warmth, lying down, exertion, or stress, often. with anxiety or faintness. Chest oppression or pain, with a tendency to fullness or constriction, resembling. valvular heart disease, aggravated by warmth, lying on the back, or midnight, often. with dyspnea or radiating pain. Sensation of heart weakness or fatigue, with a tendency to discomfort or pressure,. resembling cardiomyopathy, worse with warmth, emotional stress, or rest, often with. swelling or cyanosis. Tendency to cardiovascular hypersensitivity, with aggravation in warm or stressed. states. Endocrine:. Thyroid enlargement or swelling, with a sensation of fullness or pressure, resembling. goiter, worse with warmth, stress, night, or tight clothing, often with heat intolerance. or irritability. Hyperthyroid-like  symptoms,  including  restlessness  or  palpitations,  resembling. hyperthyroidism, aggravated by warmth, emotional stress, or confinement, often with. sweating or weight loss. Hormonal irritability or sensitivity, with a tendency to mood swings or agitation,. resembling  thyroid  dysfunction,  worse  with  warmth,  night,  or  stress,  often  with. fatigue or tremors. Tendency to endocrine hypersensitivity, with aggravation in warm or stressed states. Psychological:. Anxiety  or  fearfulness,  with  a  sensation  of  dread  or  restlessness,  resembling. generalized anxiety disorder, worse with warmth, confinement, stress, or midnight,. often with palpitations or insomnia. Spongia tosta 1821. Restlessness or irritability, with a tendency to agitation or sensitivity, resembling. adjustment disorder, aggravated by warmth, emotional stress, or crowds, often with. difficulty concentrating or mood swings. Mental  fatigue  or  overwhelm,  with  a  sensation  of  dullness  or  nervousness,. resembling mild cognitive impairment, worse with warmth, overexertion, or stress,. often with anticipatory anxiety or tearfulness. Tendency to psychological hypersensitivity, with aggravation in warm or stressed. states.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Cannot bear tight clothing. Stomach feels flaccid as if standing open. Chill in pit of stomach. Sour \nregurgitations. Frequent hiccough. Nausea with acidity in mouth. Vomiting after having partaken of m ilk. \nTemperature -Attacks of heat with anxiety. Heat, redness of face, perspiration. Heat in flushes with anxiety, \ncardiac pain, would rather die, with cold moist thighs, worse thinking of it. Heat and sudden weakness after \nwalking in open air, must lie down. Violent action of abdominal muscles during inspiration. Viscera drawn up against diaphragm. Pain \nin abdomen instead of menses. Excessive \u00fa\u00faist. great hunger. Desire for dainties, sweets aggravate. \nGlands - Glands painful on pressure. Swelling and induration of glands.  Cervical glands swollen with \ntensive pain on turning head. Thyroid disorders. Hyperthyroid. Thyroid gland swollen, even with the chin. \nExophthalmic goiter. Goiter with suffocative spells, worse touching neck or pressure or pains with heart.","Urinary & Genital":"Screwing, squeezing or stitches up into cord and testes. Orchitis. Testes hard and swollen. Swelling \nof spermatic cord and testicles  with pain and tender ness. Epididymitis. Fistulous opening in scrotum with \nlittle, thick, white discharge. Genitals hot. Hunger and palpitations of heart before menses. Pain in sacrum before menses or instead of menses. \nAwakes with suffocative spells during menses (Cupr., lod., Lach.). Amenorrhea with asthma (Puls.).","Extremities":"Fingers numb. Numbness of lower half of the body. Thighs, numb and cold. Pain in the knees, when \nrising from kneeling. Thickening of joints after rheumatic fever.","Neck & Back":"Neck as if a cord about. Pain in sacrum instead of menses. Cramps in the muscles of neck. Coldness \nin back, not better by warmth of stove.","Skin":"Sensitive to touch. Biting, itching of the whole body. Red, itching blotches. Herpes. Ringworm. Ulcers \nwith scanty discharge. Erysipelas, erythema. Pricking, itching during fever. Measles. Itching in swollen glands.","Sleep":"Sleeplessness with fantastic dreams and delirium on going to sleep. Gener ally worse after sleep or \nsleeps into an aggravation (Lach.). Awakes in a fright andfeels as if suffocating  with terror and fear. \nStarting from sleep. Sad, anxious, frightful dreams. Somnambulism.","Generalities":"As if head would fall to one side. As if tipsy. As if skull would burst. As if hair were standing on \nend. Eyes as if twisted around. As if a battery of guns  were discharged in ears. Stitches as if passing through \ntympanum. As if skin of neck were compressed between fingers. As if air were passing up and down thyroid \nand cervical glands."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}