Materia Medica de A a Z

BROMIUM (Brom)

Region

LARYNX. RESPIRATION. Heart. Circulation. Glands (Parotid. Thyroid. Ovaries. Mammæ).

Worse

WARM (DAMPNESS. Overheating. Room). Chilled while hot. Sea bathing. Dust. Drafts. Until midnight.

Better

Nosebleed (vertigo, head, chest). At sea. Motion.

General

Scrophulous blondes. Constrictions, glandular induration or membranous formations. Weak and easily overheated, then sweaty and sensitive to drafts..................... Head congested, fears a stroke. Acrid, burning coryza. Nosebleed. Face seems drawn to a point at nose. Flatus from vagina. Inhaled air seems smoky, cold or raw. Lungs feel coated with down. Wants to take a deep breath, but it excites cough. Suffocative fits; he starts up choked with croupy or wheezing cough, or with palpitation. Asthma. Spasm of glottis. Asthma of sailors going ashore. Deep hoarseness, agg. if heated. Diphtheritic croup. Colds start in larynx; go upward (Merc; Sep) and downward. Thick, white expectoration. Even a small goitre oppresses. Nervous palpitation. Cardiac hypertrophy. Slow, glandular enlargement. Boring in bones.

Related: Lach; Samb.