BROMIUM
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The
Element
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It acts best, but not exclusively, on persons
with light blue eyes, flaxen hair, light eyebrows, fair, delicate skin; blonde,
red-cheeked, scrofulous girls.
Sensation of cobweb on the face (Bar., Bor.,
Graph.).
Fan-like motion of the alae nasi (Ant. t., Lyc.).
Sailors suffer with asthma "on shore.".
Stony, hard, scrofulous or tuberculous swelling
of glands, especially on lower jaw and throat (thyroid, submaxillary, parotid,
testes).
Diphtheria: where the membrane forms in pharynx;
beginning in bronchi, trachea or larynx, and extending upwards; chest pains
running upwards.
Membranous and diphtheritic croup; much rattling
of mucus during cough, but no choking (as in Hepar.); sounds loose, but no
expectoration (Ant. t.).
Croupy symptoms with hoarseness during whooping
cough; gasping for breath.
Dyspnoea: cannot inspire deep enough; as if
breathing through a sponge or the air passages were full of smoke or vapor of
sulphur; rattling, sawing; voice inaudible; danger of suffocation from mucous in
larynx (in bronchi, Ant. t.).
Hypertrophy of heart from gymnastics in growing
boys (from calisthenics in young girls, Caust.).
Physometra; loud emission of flatus from the
vagina (Lyc.); membranous dysmenorrhoea (Lac. c.).
Cold sensation in larynx on inspiration (Rhus,
Sulph.); > after shaving (< after shaving, Carbo an.).
Relations. - Compare: in
croup and croupy affections, Chlor., Hep., Iod., Spong.
Hard goitre cured after Iod. failed.
Brom. has cured in croup after failure of Iod.,
Phos., Hep., Spong.; especially in relapses after Iod.
"The chief distinction between Brom. and Iod. is
the former cures the blue-eyed and the latter the black-eyed patients." -
Hering.
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