Cough remedies

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• Dry Cough

First Class remedies

		Main character	Modalities/ Concomitants
Top Remedy for Dry Cough Vomiting Spasmodic Asthmatic (Wheezing)	Dros	Dry, irritative cough, Tickling in the larynx/ Scraping / Sore throat Cough comes in attacks that follow each other rapidly. The episodes are too frequent, one followed by the other Marked fatigue attends the coughing episodes. Cough appears During/ After measles Cough begins on lying down. Constriction / Heaviness in chest. Wakes up due to spasmodic cough episodes, lasting for a few minutes and then goes to sleep.	Fetid breath with the cough. Episode of incessant dry cough resulting in Retching / Vomiting. Agg after lying down at night. Laughing/ Singing Excessive talking Extreme weakness followed by the episode
Nocturnal cough	Con	Cough at night on lying down.  They are restless at night and tend to sit up many times due to coughing spells. A tickling sensation in the throat pit may be prominently present.	Unusually dry spot in the larynx. Headache on coughing may arise.
	Rumx	The cough is dry with constant tickling in the throat. Cough prevents sleep. Esp for children cough Dry, suffocating, choking or barking type of a cough that is followed by tiredness or fatigue.	Slightest exposure to Cold air / Uncovering Talking Pressure on throat Lying down Moving to another room. 11:00 pm, 2:00 am and 5:00 am.
Dry Asthmatic Cough Extreme dryness of the mucous membranes	Spong	Cough is an exclusively dry, barking, hacking type. Dryness in air passages (Throat, Trachea, Larynx, Tongue) caused cough Pain in the chest /Painful pressure under the ribs while coughing. Maybe some expulsion of small quantity of mucus in morning with effort. Frequent episodes of a night-time cough Cough + Dyspnea + Labored respiration	may attend the cough. Warm drinks / Food amel Agg: Talking Rising from bed Drinking milk or cold drinks. After the midnight During winter / Chills
Rattling Cough	Ant-t	Loose, rattling cough and the lungs feel full of mucus. Cough remains constant throughout the day and night. Excessive difficulty in raising the phlegm. Dyspnea (most marked at night time) makes him sit up from a prone position	Burning sensation in the chest may be present. Chest pain on coughing Cough agg after each meal
Cough from PND (Caust)	Cor-r	Cough appears in quick, short attacks that follow each other in quick succession. Cough + Excessive hawking Extreme exhaustion is felt along with the cough.	Extremely sensitive air passages to air (inhaled air feels cold).
Cough + Hemoptysis	Mill	Cough + Hemoptysis in any lung disease Difficulty in breathing and oppression of chest appear.	Hemoptysis after injury or following violent exertion also indicates Mill
Cough + White Phlegm	Nat-m	The sputa may be salty to taste. Other attending symptoms are a cough with the flowing of tears from the eyes, a headache of bursting nature, and shortness of breath.	Sore, bruised feeling in the chest Involuntary urination during coughing.
Cough + Yellow & Green Phlegm	Kali-s	Yellow expectoration + Rattling of mucus in the chest, difficult expectoration, and wheezing in the chest.
	Puls	Greenish expectoration is present Cough agg in a warm room and find relief in the open air.	Cough after measles.
Bronchitis Laryngitis (Caust, Spong) (Caust ₳ Phos) Phos ₳ Spong Pneumonia (Ant-t, Hep, Ip)	Phos	Phos is a Respiratory /Cough polycrest Cough with sputum expectoration of a purulent nature, frothy or blood-stained sputum. The phlegm may be salty or sweet to taste. Strong odours may trigger a cough. Along with cough, chest tightness, oppression of chest Laryngitis Sudden aphonia Laryngitis with or after suppression of rhinitis (All-c) (All-c ₳ Phos) Sudden onset of rhinitis followed by laryngitis and cough Turning rhinitis with a lot of fluid secretion into cough and aphonia (Caust) (Caust ₳ Phos)	Sharp stitching pain in the chest Heat/ burning sensation in the chest The sound of coughs indicates that the larynx is tight/closed. Loudness of voice and dry coughs have become constant and annoying COUGH - CONSTRICTION; from - Larynx; in AGAR, CUPR Cough caused by reading aloud Coughing - DRY, cough - reading, aloud Pneumonia Cough is dry at first, but gradually purulent and sticky sputum appears. (Kali-bi) Pneumonia of the base of lungs, esp the right lung + Liver involvement
	Hep	Bronchitis in older adults. Cough with thick, tenacious, yellow sputa. Cough may worsen from exposure to cold air, while warmth relieves it. Hep is an important medicine for pharyngitis, pneumonia, and in later stages, remedy for cough and sinusitis Other characteristics (sore throat, cold, ...) other than cough lead us to remedy	Cough + Weakness in recovery (Ant-t, Ip) Harsh / Dry / Strong coughs Suffocation attacks with coughing When closes his eyes, coughing is starting Coughing - CLOSING, eyes at night excites cough Cough caused by cold, cold wind esp single part cold (Acon ₳ Hep) (Hep ₳ Rhus-t) COUGH - AIR - dry - cold: ACON COUGH - COLD - becoming - Single part: RHUS-T
	Kali-bi	Its special phlegm Croupy / Dry coughs caused by Chest / Larynx phlegm in the morning waking up (Kali-bi ₳ Spong) Hacking coughs at night before sleep, caused by larynx irritation. The stimulation point is on the trachea (above the sternum). Sinusitis (Sticky catarrh + Neuralgic headache + Sensitive to cold) He feels that his sputum so coughs hard to get ride of it, but only in the morning a large amounts comes out. (Kali-bi ₳ Squil) (Kali-bi ₳ Seneg) (Kali-bi ₳ Stict) (Kali-bi ₳ Puls) Cough caused by the sensation of burning liquid in the back of the nose and throat Cough agg by eating (Kali-bi ₳ Nux-v)	Coughing - MUCUS, general - mucus, chest, in : ANT-T , PULS , STANN Coughing - MUCUS, general - mucus, larynx : LACH Coughing - MORNING - waking, on : NUX-V , RUMX, SIL Coughing - ITCHING, in chest - trachea, from Coughing - DRY, cough - expectoration, hawking, later copious green sputum - morning, only in PULS, SQUIL COUGH - ACRID fluid through posterior nares; cough from sensation of Coughing - ACRID, sensation of fluid through post nasal
	Ant-ar	Emphysema Cough+ Extreme dyspnea attends. Lying down worsens the cough and dyspnea. Excessive mucus expectoration is also there with an emphysematous cough.	A general weakness and loss of appetite may be present.
	Bry	Pneumonia Dry, hard cough and Brick colored/ Blood streaked sputa. Chest pain on coughing, which makes a person hold the chest is the chief attending feature. Stitching pain in the chest which is worse on inhaling is another prominent symptom	The chest pain may benefit from lying on the painful side
Asthmatic Cough	Ars	Cough + Dyspnea+ Wheezing/ Whistling in the chest. Tightness in the chest may also arise. Tenacious expectoration of yellow/ green colour may be there. Other attending feature is suffocative attacks during sleep.	Anxiety and restlessness may occur
	Ip	Difficult expectoration: Loose rattling cough + Marked difficulty in expectoration. Cough + Vomitting/ Nausea Dry spasmodic cough provoked by tickling in the larynx. Throat Constricted feeling triggers the cough Exhausting episodes of cough which lasts for an hour Cough with retching of a great amount of mucus. There is breathlessness and difficult breathing. The cough comes typically in fits. There is rattling of mucus or phlegm in the chest which is vomited with cough. A constricted feeling in the chest and Dyspnea may arise.	Evening coughs Cough is usually triggered at night (mostly after dinner or after going to bed). Abdominal pain Pressure in bladder Suffocative spells may accompany the cough.
Violent Cough	Mephitis	Dry and spasmodic coughs. The episodes of a cough are Suffocative /Severe and violent / Life-threatening. Hollow cough + Chest rawness Vomiting immediately or a few hours after eating. Hoarseness and rattling of mucus with a cough, Difficulty breathing at night (the individual has to sit up in bed to breathe) Difficulty in exhaling are other symptoms.	Worse at night Talking, reading loudly or Drinking ice or cold water. Frequent episodes of Flu or fever along with the cough variant asthma. Vomiting with a cough (esp after eating)
In Children	Samb	Paroxysmal type. Sudden spells, mainly of a suffocative cough arise during night hours. Child frequently sits up at night because of the coughing spells.	Cough + Whistling sound from the chest
In Older Adults	Seneg	Rattling in the chest with marked difficulty in raising the tough sputa arises along with the cough. Soreness and oppressed sensation in the chest may also assist. Pain in the back on coughing could be present.	Cough in asthma, emphysema, and bronchitis all indicates the use of Seneg.
Spasmodic Cough Asthmatic Cough	Cina	Sudden/Violent cough that ends in vomiting. Child may throw up after the violent coughing. Cough is so intense that it brings tears to the eyes. Cough in paroxysms with attending Dyspnea Dry, Tickling sensation in the throat. Mucus rattles in chest, but could not to be expelled out. Loud / Short breathing at night, Child sleeps with open mouth. Dyspnea / Suffocation + Cough episodes	Dry cough + Flu-like symptoms (Mainly sneezing and loss of appetite with sleeplessness) Evening/ Night agg Exposure to cold air When the child wakes up from sleep. Child has to put much effort into breathing (Excessive sweating at night)
	Cocc	Suffocating: Accumulation of mucus in the chest which is difficult to expel Tickling sensation in the larynx which wakes him at night. Early morning: Spasmodic cough agg in morning. The cough ends with vomiting of viscid mucus. Regular paroxysms of cough + expectoration of much ropy mucus.	Cough is followed by an incessant cough ending in vomiting of profuse mucous or food. Early morning cough \which leads to vomiting of a lot of mucus Sense of Discomfort / Pressure in chest due to the accumulation of excessive mucus.
Cough with Acidity (GERD)	Nux-v	Cough and difficulty in breathing with an accumulation of gas in the abdomen. Nausea, vomiting, fullness in the stomach and Sour/ Bitter belching are prominently present with a cough.	Acid-reflux: Cough caused by Acid-reflux (Bell, Phos) (Bell ₳ Phos) Note that in this situation miasmatic remedy is suggested
PND, Sinusitis Cough Difficult phelgm	Caust	Laryngitis and PND and to some extent pneumonia Chronic coughs: Constant, Exhausting /Debilitating coughs Intense / Painful / Scratchy / Tormenting cough He has phlegm, but the cough is dry (Kali-bi) because the respiratory tracts are dry and these secretions from the sinuses have poured into the respiratory tract. He coughs deeply, but as if not deep enough to expel phlegm Coughing - DEEP, cough - deep, enough, as though he could not cough deep to start mucus PND that doesn't come out well, that's why he has constant hawking Burning/ Dryness in Throat / Respiratory tract causes Dry / Rough / Hollow coughs Hacking / Percussive coughs caused by itching and burning in the larynx. Violent cough	Cold and dry weather agg (Hep, Acon) Eating amel Agg by Bending forward Cough accompanied by pelvic pain, esp left side Cough starts with Rolling over in bed (Puls) Warming up or exercise
Rhinitis that turns into laryngitis	All-c	Mild allergic rhinitis that turns into laryngitis (Phos) (dry cough)(All-c ₳ Spong) Het feels that he has to hold his larynx with his hand, as if the cartilages want to separate due to intense coughs, or his larynx is tearing. Coughs are very intense and annoying, unlike a mild cold	Coughing - GRASPING, larynx involuntarily at every feeling as though larynx would be torn Cold agg: Cough with temperature change

Other remedies

Coughing - TORMENTING, cough : ARS, BELL ,CAUST, DROS, IP

Coughing - SCRAPING, cough from : CAUST, STANN

Coughing - PAINFUL, cough : ALL-C , BRY , CAUST, CUPR

Coughing - VIOLENT, cough

Bell

• Acid-reflux: Cough caused by Acid-reflux (Bell ₳ Phos)
• 9 P.M. agg.
• He has a red face and congestion along with a cough.

Mosch

• Hysteric Coughing (Ign ₳ Mosch)