462 COCGH. 



Torpor of bowels ; stools small, hard, black balls like sheep's 

 dung; constipation from fright or fear OPIUM. 



Stool recedes back into rectum after having partly passed; dif- 

 ficulty of expulsion; infants and scrofulous children SILICEA. 



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COUGH. 



DRY COUGH Aeon., Bell. Bry., Nux Vom., Phos. 



LOOSE Dulcamara, Pulsatilla. 



Where there is short dry cough, worse at night, plethoric 

 habit; induced by cold west (dry) wind; beginning of cold; give 

 ACONITE. 



Dry cough as if caused by smoke of sulphur, with sense of suf- 

 focation; restlessness; worse about 1 A. M. ARSENICUM. 



Dry spasmodic cough; wakes from sleep; sensation of dust in 

 throat; redness and heat of face, throbbing headache BELLADONNA. 



Dry cough with stitches in chest, compelling patient to hold 

 chest with hands ; sensation as if head and chest would fly to pieces 

 when coughing BRYONIA. 



Dry spasmodic cough in children troubled with worms; cough 

 with gagging; constantly picking and boring at nose; useful in 

 whooping cough CINA. 



Croupy cough; dry hoarse cough; worse in morning; worse 

 from uncovering even a hand HEPAR SULPH. 



Dry spasmodic cough when lying down, relieved by sitting up; 

 twitching of muscles HYOSCYAMUS. 



Suffocating cough, with rattling of mucus in bronchial tubes 

 when breathing; much nausea IPECAC. 



Cough with stringy expectoration KALI BICHROMIUM. 



Cough worse at night and in damp, rainy weather; perspiration 

 without relief; sounds as if whole inside of chest were dry 

 MERCURIUS. 



Dry cough, with pain in head as if skull would burst, with 

 bruised feeling in region of stomach; constipation, after abuse of 

 cough mixtures Nux VOMICA. 



Dry tickling cough with tightness across chest; worse from 

 talking, reading aloud, laughing or drinking; hoarseness PHOS- . 

 PHORUS. 



Dry cough at night going off when sitting up in bed; (Hyos); 

 or morning cough with profuse expectoration of yellowish or green- 

 ish mucus; all the symptoms worse toward evening PULSATILLA. 



Loose cough without expectoration; nausea and vomiting of 

 mucus TARTAR EMETIC. 



Deep hollow cough from tickling low down in bronchial 

 tubes; violent cough with blueness of face and involuntary urination 

 (Canst.); great weakness; whooping cough VERATRUM ALB. 



For repetition of dose, see page 456. 



