ASTHMA and BRONCHITIS
Carbo veg
Breath cold, cold sweat on the limbs. Suffocation extreme - patient cries "Fan me, I want air". Excessive flatulence. Very helpful when patient is sinking.
Lachesis
Asthma with flushes of heat, suffocation - wants to loosen clothes, particularly around the throat to prevent being suffocated. Cough and asthma increases during sleep.
Kali carbonica
Wheezing, suffocation is worse at 3 am. Patient find it difficult to breath. Sitting up and leaning forward offers relief.
Ipecac
Asthma with cough and spasms. Suffocation with severe accumulation of mucus. Extreme nausea. Patient vomits repeatedly, but there is no relief.
Antimonium tartaricum
Asthma with great accumulation of mucus in the lungs. Wheezing and cough - a coarse rattling sound is heard. Inability to expectorate. Nausea and vomiting relieves asthma. Patient feels extremely sleepy.
Hepar sulph
Cough severe, great difficultly in breathing. All complaints are worse by the slightest change in weather or by cold air or a draft, but the patient is better in damp and wet weather.
Dulcamara
Asthma in cold weather. Particularly when the weather changes from dry and warm to wet and cold. Lot of secretion of mucus.
Natrum sulphuricum
Chronic asthma which is worse in damp and wet weather. Loose cough, with soreness and pain in chest, particularly in left side. Cough hurts so much that the patient has to jump up in bed and hold the left side of the chest for relief. Sometimes, patient feels like shooting himself.
Senega
Asthma - wheezing and suffocation. Cough with great mucus. Very helpful for old patients.