Bromium (brom) ব্রোমিয়াম
পরিচয়ঃ ইহার অপর নাম ব্রোমিন। লবণাক্ত ঝরনার জল ও সমুদ্রের জল থেকে ঔষধটি প্রস্তুত হয়। ইহা একটি এন্টিসিফিলিটিক এবং টিউবারকুলার ঔষধ।
ধাতুগত বৈশিষ্ট্যঃ ব্রোমিনের রোগী সুন্দর দেহ, নীল চক্ষু, কটা চুল ও গ্রন্থি বৃদ্ধিপ্রবণ (আইডিন-কৃষ্ণ চুল, কৃষ্ণ চক্ষুতারকা)। শরৎকালে উত্তপ্ত দিনে হঠাৎ ঠান্ডা লাগিয়া পীড়িত হওয়া ইহাদের স্বভাব।
Antidote food/ ঔষধের ক্রিয়ানাশক খাদ্য: দুগ্ধ, লবণ, কফি, কর্পূর ।
ক্রিয়ানাশকঃএমন কার্ব, ক্যাম্ফর, লবণ ইহার ক্রিয়াকে বাঁধা দেয়।
- থায়রয়েড, অন্ডকোষের বিচী, নিচের চোয়াল ও গলার গ্রন্থিসমূহ ফোলে ও শক্ত হয়।
- মাথা ঘোরে, জলের স্রোত দেখিলে বা বেগে জল বহিয়া যাইতে দেখিলে মাথাঘোরা আরো বাড়িয়া যায়।
- প্রথম রাতে রোগের বৃদ্ধি এবং দ্বিপ্রহর রাত্রের দিকে উপশম।
- রোগী বামপার্শ্বে চাপিয়া শুইতে পারে না।
- শরৎকালে উত্তপ্ত দিনে হঠাৎ ঠান্ডা লাগিয়া পীড়িত হওয়া ইহাদের স্বভাব।
- ইহা সেবনকালে দুগ্ধপান করা নিষিদ্ধ।
- লবণ ইহার ক্রিয়াকে বাঁধা দেয়।
কাতরতাঃ
শীতকাতর (দ্বিতীয় গ্রেড): [Dr. Robert Gibson Miller এবং Synthesis]
গরমকাতর (দ্বিতীয় গ্রেড): [Synthesis]
মায়াজমেটিক অবস্থাঃ (মায়াজমের দোষ নষ্ট করার শক্তি)
- এন্টি-সোরিক (তৃতীয় গ্রেড)
- এন্টি-টিউবারকুলার (দ্বিতীয় গ্রেড)
মূল কথাঃ
- রাত্রির অন্ধকারে ভূতের ভয়।
- দুর্বল ও সহজেই গা গরম হয়, তারপর ঘাম হয়।
- বুকের ব্যথা উপরের দিকে উঠে।
- তাহার পাশে কেহ আছে-এরূপ ভ্রান্ত ধারনা।
- ক্ষতকর জ্বালাযুক্ত সর্দি।
- গা বমি বমির সহিত হৃদকম্পন।
- যৌনি হতে সশব্দে বায়ু নিঃসরণ।
ব্যবহারস্থলঃ সন্ন্যস, হাঁপানি, কর্কটিয়া ক্ষত, ঘুংড়ি-কাসি, গ্রন্থি স্ফীতি, গলগন্ড, অন্ডকোষের বিবৃদ্ধি, গলার ক্ষত, হৃৎপিন্ডের বিবৃদ্ধি, তালুমুল-গ্রন্থির বিবৃদ্ধি, অর্দ্ধশিরঃ-শুল প্রভৃতি রোগ।
উপশম/হ্রাসঃ ঘোড়ায় চড়িলে; থুতু দিয়া ভিজাইলে (অর্শের বলি); অপরাহ্নে, সমুদ্রর ধারে উপশম।
বৃদ্ধিঃ প্রথম রাত্রে; সমুদ্র তীরে; দুগ্ধ পানের পর; স্রোতের জল দেখিলে; বর্ষাকালে; গরম ঘরে; টক দ্রব্যে; ভোজনের পর (উদরাময়); বাঁদিকে শুইলে (বুক ধড়ফড়ানি); বেলা ১১ টায় বৃদ্ধি।
ক্রিয়া স্থিতিকালঃ ২০-৩০ দিন।
(Inimical food) ঔষধের পরিপন্থী বা অনিষ্টকর খাদ্য: অম্ল, দুগ্ধ, ঠান্ডা খাদ্য, ঝিনুক ।
লক্ষণ সূত্রঃ এম,
ভট্রাচার্য্য: পৃষ্ঠা-১৮৭, এন, সি ঘোষ: পৃষ্ঠা-১৭১, উইলিয়াম বোরিক:
পৃষ্ঠা-৯৩, নরেন্দ্রনাথ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়: পৃষ্ঠা-৩৪৬ ও ৪৭৯, অতুল কৃষ্ণ
দত্ত: পৃষ্ঠা-২৩৬, ই. এ. ফ্যারিংটন: পৃষ্ঠা-৩৮৯, জেমস টেইলর কেন্ট:
পৃষ্ঠা-১৮৫, নীলমনি ঘটক: পৃষ্ঠা-১৫৪, ই. বি ন্যাশ: পৃষ্ঠা-৪৬৯, জে এম
মিত্র: পৃষ্ঠা-১৮৪, এস কে সাহা: পৃষ্ঠা-৩৫৮, এইচ. সি এলেন: পৃষ্ঠা-৬৫, জন
হেনরি ক্লার্ক: পৃষ্ঠা-২৯৪।
HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA
by William BOERICKE, M.D.
Presented by Médi-T
Most marked effects are seen in the respiratory symptoms, especially in larynx and trachea. It seems to affect especially scrofulous children with enlarged glands. Blond type. Enlarged parotid and goitre. Tendency to spasmodic attacks. Left-sided mumps. Sense of suffocation; excoriating discharges, profuse sweats and great weakness. Complaints from being over-heated. Tendency to infiltrate glands, become hard, but seldom suppurate.
Mind.--Delusion that strange persons are looking over patient's shoulder and that she would see some one on turning. Quarrelsome.
Head.--Megrim of left side; worse stooping, especially after drinking milk. Headache; worse heat of sun and by rapid motion. Sharp pain through eyes. Dizzy when crossing stream of water.
Nose.--Coryza, with corrosive soreness of nose. Stoppage of right nostril. Pressure at root of nose. Tickling, smarting, as from cobwebs. Fan-like motion of alæ (Lyc). Bleeding from nose relieving the chest.
Throat.--Throat feels raw, evening, with hoarseness. Tonsils pain on swallowing, deep red, with network of dilated blood vessels. Tickling in trachea during inspiration. Hoarseness coming on from being overheated.
Stomach and Abdomen.--Sharp burning from tongue to stomach. Pressure as of stone. Gastralgia; better eating. Tympanitic distention of abdomen. Painful hæmorrhoids, with black stool.
Respiratory.--Whooping cough (Use persistently for about ten days). Dry cough, with hoarseness and burning pain behind sternum. Spasmodic cough, with rattling of mucus in the larynx; suffocative. Hoarseness. Croup after febrile symptoms have subsided. Difficult and painful breathing. Violent cramping of chest. Chest pains run upward. Cold sensation when inspiring. Every inspiration provokes cough. Laryngeal diphtheria, membrane begins in larynx and spreads upward. Spasmodic constriction. Asthma; difficulty in getting air into lung (Chlorum, in expelling). Better at sea, of seafaring men when they come on land. Hypertrophy of heart from gymnastics (Rhus). Fibrinous bronchitis, great dyspnœa. Bronchial tubes feel filled with smoke.
Male.--Swelling of testicles. Indurated, with pains worse slight jar.
Female.--Swelling of ovaries. Menses too early; too profuse, with membranous shreds. Low spirited before menses. Tumor in breasts, with stitching pains; worse left. Stitch pains from breast to axillæ. Sharp shooting pain in left breast, worse, pressure.
Sleep.--Full of dreams and anguish; jerking and starting during sleep, full of fantasy and illusions; difficult to go to sleep at night, cannot sleep enough in morning; trembling and weak on awaking.
Skin.--Acne, pimples and pustules. Boils on arms and face. Glands stony, hard, especially on lower jaw and throat. Hard goitre (Spong). Gangrene.
Modalities.--Worse, from evening, until midnight, and when sitting in warm room; warm damp weather when at rest and lying left side. Better, from any motion; exercise, at sea.
Relationship.--Antidotes: Ammon carb; Camph. Salt inhibits the action of Brom.
Compare: Conium; Spongia; Iod; Aster; Arg nit. Avoid milk when taking Brom. Hydrobromic acid (Throat dry and puckering; constriction in pharynx and chest; waves of heat over face and neck; pulsating tinnitus with great nervous irritability (Houghton); vertigo, palpitation; arms heavy; seemed as if parts did not belong to him. Seems to have a specific effect on the inferior cervical ganglion, increasing the tonic action of the sympathetic, thus promoting vaso-constriction. Relieves headache, tinnitus and vertigo, especially in vaso-motor stomach disturbance. Dose, 20 minims).
Dose.--First to third attenuation. Must be prepared fresh, as it is liable to rapid deterioration.
LECTURES ON HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA
by JAMES TYLER KENT, A.M., M.D.
Late Professor of Materia Medica in
Hering College, Chicago.
Presented by Dr Robert Séror
Bromium
Bromium is one of the routine medicines.
It is one of the medicines that the neophyte will make use of for every case of diphtheria and croup, and laryngitis he comes across; and when it does not work he will "try something else."
All who prescribe on the name use Bromium as one of their routine medicines; but Bromium is so seldom indicated that most homoeopaths give it up as a perfectly useless medicine.
The reason is that they do not take the symptoms of the case and prescribe in accordance with the individualizing method.
They do not prescribe for the patient, but for the disease. You may see very few cases of diphtheria calling for Bromium; but when you see a Bromium case you want to know Bromium.
There is one underlying feature of the Bromium conditions, they are found especially in those individuals that are made sick from being heated.
It there is a diphtheria epidemic and the mother bundles up her baby until she overheats it, and keeps it in a hot room, and it happens to be a child that is sensitive to being wrapped up, and one whose complaints are worse from being wrapped up, look out.
You are going to have a Bromium diphtheria. It is indicated also in complaints that come on in the night after a very hot day in the summer.
Now, this is as near as you can come to being routine in croup and diphtheria. If the mother has the baby out in a dreadfully cold, dry day, and along towards midnight it wakens with spasmodic croup, you know that it is more likely to call for Aconite than any other medicine.
But if the mother has had the baby out in a hot day in the summer, and that baby has been overheated, with too much clothing, and it is a plethoric child, and towards midnight you are called up, and the child has a red face, and your examinations reveal a membrane in the throat, we will see as we study the remedy that this may be a Bromium case.
"Hoarseness coming on from getting overheated."
Loss of voice coming on from getting overheated. A turmoil in the whole economy; with headaches, coming on from getting overheated. That runs through Bromium. So it is in the hot weather, and being confined to a hot room, and after going from the cold into the heat.
But after the complaint comes on, no matter where it is, he is so sensitive to cold that a draft of cool air freezes him; but he cannot be overheated without suffering.
Glands: Bromium has running through it a tendency to infiltrate the glands. The glands become bard, but seldom suppurate. They generally remain hard. The glands of the neck, the parotid, the sublingual, the submaxillary, are enormously enlarged and very hard.
The processes of inflammation are slow; they are not that rapid, violent kind like we find in Bell. and Merc.
"Parts that inflame infiltrate, becoming hard."
Inflammation with hardness is the idea. It has been very useful in ulcers with this infiltration; very useful in enlarged glands with great hardness, without any tendency to suppurate.
Glands take on tuberculosis, and tissues take on tuberculosis. Glands that inflame for a while begin to take on a lower form of degeneration, a lower form of tissue making.
It is very similar to these enlarged, hard, scrofulous glands that we find in the neck; enlargement of the parotid and submaxillary. It has cured enlargement and great hardness of the thyroid gland.
Again, we have emaciation, and when we see the tendency to infiltration it is not strange that it has been a curative medicine in cancer and tuberculosis. There is weakness in this remedy. The legs become weak. Growing prostration, with tremulous limbs.
Twitching; tremulous weakness; fainting. In the catarrhal affections there is a formation, more or less, of membrane.
Membranous exudate is a natural course of events. A natural feature of the mucous membrane is infiltration, so that the mucous membrane appears to exude little grayish-white vegetations, and beneath them is induration.
That is true in ulcers, it is true in mucous membrane. And ulcer will form upon the mucous membrane and eat in, and build beneath it a hardened stratum of tissue.
It has febrile conditions along with these catarrhal states. Great nervous excitement.
"Icy coldness of the limbs. "
"Heat of the head."
"Dyspnoea, with great sweating."
Croupy manifestations. Running through most of the complaints there is palpitation.
Mind: Palpitation with nausea, palpitation with headache, palpitation with various kinds of nervous excitement. So weak is be gradually becoming that he has an "aversion to every kind of work; to reading.
Takes no interest in household duties."
Becomes indifferent. Very tired.
"Great depression of spirits, Low spirited. Sad and discouraged."
Anxiety with most complaints. Headaches from becoming overheated.
"Noise in the ears.
Throbbing and burning in the ears."
And then the complaints of the glands that are so closely associated with the ears. With ear troubles, enlargement of the glands; the parotid becomes enlarged and bard.
Ear: Ear affections following scarlet fever, with discharges from the ears. Pains and aches; inflammation; abscess of the ear.
Suppuration of the parotid gland occasionally, but it is an exception.
"Swelling and hardness of the left parotid gland."
The ovaries, testes, etc., are all affected by Bromium.
Nose: Bleeding of the nose. Ulcerations in the nose. Catarrhal affections of the nose. Much sneezing.
Acute coryza, violent, with much burning in the nose, and a sensation of coldness, as if the mucous membrane of the nose were cold from inhaling cold air.
It is useful for June cold, with the first hot weather in June, or if the first hot weather comes in July. Violent coryza once a year, during the hot season. Fluent coryza, with headaches.
"The nose is sore and the wings of the nose swell.
Scurf forms on it, with pain and bleeding on wiping it."
Rawness round about the nostrils.
Face: A Bromium patient is one that is likely to have flushed face, especially those due to acute Bromium conditions.
"Flushed face."
He becomes heated easily. But this is entirely the opposite of the chronic constitutional Bromium condition.
That is true with a good many remedies, especially many of the antipsorics. The old sickly broken-down constitutions, those needing Bromium for chronically enlarged glands, for goitre, for cancerous affections, will have the "gray, earthy color of the face.
Oldish appearance."
It is a sickly face, an ash-colored face.
"Face ashy gray."
Then again we have children that are plethoric, with red face, easily overheated. Of course, when the acute condition is on and the breathing has been that of dyspnoea for several hours or many days, then the patient becomes cyanotic, gasping for breath, and choking, the face becomes ashy pale, as it is in diphtheria, in croup, and in laryngeal affections.
"Stony, hard swelling of glands, especially of the lower jaw and throat."
Throat: We find that repeated in many divisions of the subject. Many of the throat complaints that are laid down in Bromium begin in the larynx and creep up into the throat.
Some of them begin in the throat and go down into the larynx; but the two are so closely associated in Bromium that both are likely to be affected; so that diphtheria spreads from one to the other. Diphtheria begins in the throat and goes into the larynx.
Bromium fits the most malignant type of diphtheria. The membrane grows like a weed, shuts off breathing, closes up the larynx, So severe are the cases, that though be has been sick but two or three days and even when Bromium has mastered the case, the patient is left with great prostration. All those that belong to Bromium are of that type.
Great violence; great prostration. Extremely sick, and with deathly weakness. A great many of the cures that have been performed in the throat have been left sided diphtheria, yet it has cured both sides. You will very seldom see Bromium develop in cold dry weather; but in hot damp weather Bromium cases come on; affections in the spring, and in the fall and summer.
Stomach: The chronic cases that will need Bromium are such as have ulcers of the stomach. Suspicious ulcers in the stomach, and suspicious symptoms about the stomach.
Vomiting like coffee grounds, and vomiting with signs of ulceration. Aggravation after eating; either vomiting, or diarrhoea. Cannot take acids. Diarrhoea or cough worse after eating, or after acids.
"After eating oysters, diarrhoea, and a disordered stomach.
Worse from the slightest inhalation of tobacco smoke.
Vomiting of bloody mucus.
Eructations.
" Foul stomach. Pain in the stomach from warm things, from hot tea, hot drinks. "
It is a common feature when there is ulcer in the stomach or when the mucous membrane is about to ulcerate, that hot drinks are intolerable.
"Pains from taking hot foods."
Stools and rectum: In studying the stool and rectum symptoms we find exudation. Membranous formations pass in the stool. Diarrheic stool with membrane.
"Black, fecal stool." Diarrhoea; must go to stool after eating."
We have running through the remedy enlarged veins. These are found also in the rectum. Hemorrhoids protrude from the rectum, burning. Smarting day and night.
"Blind, intensely painful varices, with black, diarrheic stools.
Blind, painful hemorrhoids," and hemorrhoids that protrude.
"Haemorrhoids during and after stool."
During the stool the rectum is painful from hemorrhoidal tumors.
Genitals: Swelling and induration of the left testicle. Notice the left sidedness, the left side of the throat, and the left testicle. Then, again, dull pain in the region of the left ovary.
"Constant dull pain in the ovary; with swelling and hardness."
There is the same induration of the left ovary. It does seem strange that some medicines single out more particularly the left organs and the left side of the body. Like Lach. in many instances it picks out the left side of the body.
A great many remedies show a preference for one side of the body; the glands in this remedy are more affected upon the left side of the body than the right.
"Swelling of the ovarian region before and during menses."
Suppression of the menses. Loud emission of flatus from the vagina.
Larynx: In the larynx it has produced more symptoms than in any other part of the body. It produces a raw, sore feeling in the larynx from inhaled air.
"Rawness in the larynx.
Loss of voice.
Hoarseness from overheating."
From too much clothing on a warm day, or from keeping on an overcoat in a room that is heated; coming out into the air he cools off. He has laryngitis.
"Tickling in the larynx," keeping up a constant coughing.
Scraping and rawness in the larynx. Scraping mucus from the larynx, scraping and coughing. It is not a hawk, because that noise clears the throat.
Every medical should go through all the noises he hears others make, and try and observe as much as possible what feeling is accompanied with that noise, so that he can put himself in the other's place.
Each one is accompanied with its own sound, and the instant you hear it you realize the exact place he is drawing mucus from and just where the irritation is.
If you allow the patient to describe it he always calls it by the wrong name. The patient knows very little about this part except that it is the throat, and if he is drawing mucus from the throat, or scraping it from the larynx, he always calls it the throat.
But the physician must waive all that and observe as to sound. So let each one go alone by himself and make all these noises that he bears people make, and then realize for himself what part it is he is scraping.
It may seem ludicrous, but how else will you learn about it? It is just as important to figure out these sounds as it is to figure out what a child needs by its sounds and motions. It is impossible to get the symptoms and wants of a child except by interpreting its motions.
Every motion it makes indicates something. An astute observer, one who has been watching children for a number of years, will understand the child, and will hardly have to ask the mother a question. He will know at once where the child is sick by what it does.
The child is like the animal. You never have to ask a horse or dog where he feels pain, because he will always tell by his motions. So does the infant.
The hoarseness comes on after being overheated. Remember that.
"Rough, dry cough; pain in the larynx." jumping up for want of breath.
"Gasping and suffering for breath, with wheezing and rattling in larynx.
Sensation as if air passages were full of smoke."
Now we have all these rough sounds; rough breathing; croupy breathing; rasping breathing different ways of describing different forms of croup.
You cannot individualize a remedy by these because one child will croup in one pitch, and another will croup in another; but to get at the constitution of the child and the mother is the important point.
"Voice hardly audible."
"Spasm in the glottis."
In the croupy condition it is really a membranous formation upon the inflamed surface, very often extending downward through the trachea into the bronchial tubes, and producing a croupous pneumonia.
Bromium has that in its nature. But without any membranous formation at all Bromium constricts the larynx. It has constriction of the larynx; just like a clutching, a spasm.
"Tickling in the larynx, with irritation to cough.
Scraping and rawness in the larynx.
Sensation of coldness in the larynx."
That is a very peculiar symptom with Bromium. In laryngitis, where the patient says the feeling is as if it was covered with down.
I have heard them describe it as if it was covered with velvet, but it feels so cold.
The air breathed, feels cold, just like it was the air blown off from snow or ice.
Sensation of coldness in the larynx.
"Constant sore pain in the larynx."
This means that the larynx is painful to touch. Phos., Bell., and Rumex have soreness in the larynx, sore to touch; but the Bromium soreness is commonly below the larynx and in the throat pit as well.
"Sensation as if the air tubes were full of smoke."
Some patients, will describe that as sulphur fumes, or as of smoke from tar. After the first few hours mucus begins to accumulate in the larynx and trachea, and a constant expectoration keeps up, of a whitish thick mucus, and he coughs and scrapes the larynx constantly, and there is no peace.
This is often present in laryngitis without any membranous formation. Bromium is not given as often as it is indicated in voicelessness, in irritation of the larynx, in rawness of the larynx because it is uncommon for persons to have laryngitis and hoarseness in the larynx from being overheated.
Many of those cases would be cured promptly by Bromium. But where it is thought of by the routine prescriber is where there is croup or diphtheria.
That was never taught by Hahnemann.
"Much rattling of mucus in the larynx.
Inspiration very difficult.
Larynx drawn down."
This would take place in croup, after the formation of the membrane.
"Cough hoarse, crowing, suffocative; breathing sawing, whistling.
Spasms of the larynx; suffocative cough.
Membranous formation in larynx and trachea.
Croupous inflammation formed by exuberant growth of fungi."
"Asthma of sailors as soon as they go ashore;" relieved again as soon as they are at sea.
Difficult breathing with rattling throughout the chest. Bronchitis and pneumonia. Bromium is often the remedy when whooping cough is prevailing in the spring, towards the hot weather, and membranes form in the larynx.
The cough gets immediately worse from dust. Handling old books from the shelf aggravates. Sneezing, hoarseness, irritation in the respiratory tract from picking up and handling dusty things.
"Cough, with sudden paroxysms of suffocation on swallowing."
Bromium is full of catarrhal conditions, especially of the breathing apparatus. It has hepatization of the lungs; infiltration is one of its most natural features.
A DICTIONARY OF PRACTICAL
MATERIA MEDICA
By John Henry CLARKE, M.D.
Presented by Médi-T ®
Bromium.
Bromine. Br. (A. W. 79.9). Solution in distilled water.
Clinical.─Apoplexy. Asthma. Breast, cancer of. Cancer. Cough. Croup. Diphtheria. Dysmenorrhœa. Emphysema. Feet, pain in. Fistula lachrymalis. Glands, enlargement of. Goître. Heart, disease of; hypertrophy of. Laryngismus. Migraine. Parotid gland, induration of. Respiration, affections of. Scrofula. Seaside, effects of. Testicles, induration of. Throat, sore. Tonsils, enlarged; inflamed. Trachea, irritation of. Tuberculosis. Tumour of breast. Ulcers. Uterus, air in. Vagina, air in. Vertigo.
Characteristics.─Bromine forms a leading constituent in the mineral waters of Kreutzach and Woodhall. It is a predominantly left-side medicine. It affects particularly the internal head, left side. It is suited to blue-eyed, fair people (opp. Iod.), especially children with thin, white, delicate skins, and very light hair and eyebrows (patients with dark hair are not excluded); to scrofulous constitutions. The glands (thyroid, testes, maxillary, parotid) are swollen and indurated. There is much anxiety of mind; a fear of ghosts or visions when in the dark. Like the other Halogens, Bromine is a strong anti-scorbutic. It has > at the sea-side (opp. Nat. mur.); but < in sailors when coming ashore. Migraine chiefly left side, < from stooping, especially after drinking milk. It has a peculiar vertigo: sensation deep in brain as if vertigo would come on; tendency to fall backward; < at the sight of running water; or if he put his foot on a bridge; < in damp weather. Vertigo with nose-bleed. Soreness and crusts inside nose. Nose-bleed accompanies many affections, especially of chest. There is a peculiar headache with coryza. In the cases of diphtheria indicating it the disease begins in the larynx and runs up. In croup, with all the croupy sound, there is much loose rattling in larynx with the breathing and coughing, but no choking in the cough, as there is in Hepar (Guernsey). Tuberculosis, especially of right lung. Hypertrophy of the heart and palpitation. Pain in heart going up to axilla. A very peculiar symptom is: loud emissions of air from the vagina. Symptoms are < by cold air; cold water; cold diet; cold damp weather; heat of sun. The cough is < entering warm room. Headache < from drinking milk; from stooping. Complaints are better at sea-side; sailors coming ashore suffer from asthma, which is relieved when they go to sea again. Symptoms < evening till midnight; when at rest; > riding on horseback. After dinner feels he will have an attack of apoplexy. Exertion = oppression at heart.
Relations.─Compare: Iod. (but Iod. has < morning; dark hair and eyes); Chlorum, Lach., Spong., Fluor. ac., Hep., Apis, Arg. n., Chi., Con., Coff., Cin., Cup., Lyc., Merc., Pho., Rhus (cardiac hypertrophy, also Spo.; Arn.─from over-exertion); Sep., Sul., Ant. t.; Pul. (blondes. Fear of ghosts or visions; also, Aco., Ars., Carb. v., Pho., Sul.). Antidoted by: Camph., Am. c., Mag. c., Op. Useful after: Iod., Pho., Spo. Compatible: Arg. n. (generally after Bro.); Kali c. (emphysema).
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─Cheerful, desire for mental labour.─Low-spirited and out of humour.─Crying and lamentation, with hoarse voice.─Anxiety; originating in body (heart, lungs), patients expect to see things jump around the floor.─In evening, when alone, feels as if he should see something if he should turn round; as if some one were behind him.
2. Head.─Sensation deep in brain (after dinner) as if vertigo or fit of apoplexy would come on.─Vertigo with tendency to fall backward; < stepping on bridge; from running water; from rapid motion in front of him; with anxiety.─Peculiar headache and coryza: pressure in forehead which seems to be pushing brain down and out at root of nose.─Headache: deep in crown, with palpitation; over l. eye; < from stooping; from drinking milk.─Scalp tender; malignant scald-head.
3. Eyes.─Lachrymation (r.) with swelling of tear-gland.─Darting through eye (l.).─Dilated pupils.─Flashes before eyes.─Protruded eyes.
4. Ears.─Noise in ears.─Swelling and hardness of (l.) parotid gland; feeling warm to the touch.─Suppuration of l. parotid, edges of the opening smooth; discharge watery and excoriating; swelling remaining hard and unyielding; after scarlatina.
5. Nose.─Soreness in (swollen) nose with scurfs; pain and bleeding on wiping.─Bleeding of nose relieving chest.─Severe coryza, r. nostril stopped up and sore throughout, later l.─Coryza, with sneezing; margins of nose and parts under nose corroded, with stoppage (occurring annually).
6. Face.─Greyish, earthy complexion; old appearance.─Pale.─Heat in cheek, first r., later l.─Sensation of cobweb.─Strong, hard swelling of glands, esp. on lower jaw and throat.
8. Mouth.─Ptyalism; much frothy mucus in mouth.─Burning from mouth to stomach.─Heat in mouth and œsophagus.─Stinging in tip of tongue.
9. Throat.─With all the croupy sound there is a good deal of loose rattling in larynx with the breathing and coughing, but no choking in the cough as there is in Hepar.─Inflammation of throat with net-like redness and corroded places.─Scraping in throat.─Swelling of mucous membranes of fauces and pharynx.─The diphtheria begins in the larynx and runs up.
10. Appetite.─Desire for acids, which < and cause diarrhœa.─Water tastes saltish.
11. Stomach.─Vomiting bloody mucus.─Nausea, retching, and pains in stomach; > after eating.─Feeling of emptiness in stomach > after eating.─Heavy feeling in stomach.─Inflammation of stomach.
12. Abdomen.─Tympanitic distension of abdomen, and passage of much wind.─Enlargement and induration of spleen.
13. Stool and Anus.─Diarrhœa, stools yellow, green, black; < after every meal.─Hæmorrhoids, blind, painful, during and after stool < from application of cold or warm water; > wetting with saliva; (with black diarrhœic stools).─Intensely painful hæmorrhoids.
15. Male Sexual Organs.─Swelling and induration of (l.) testis, with sore pain or sensation of coldness.─Swelling of scrotum (with chronic gonorrhœa).
16. Female Sexual Organs.─Loud emission of flatulency from vagina.─During menses pain in abdomen and small of back.─Menses too early and too profuse; of bright red blood; flow passive, with much exhaustion; or membranous shreds may pass off.─Violent contractive spasm before or during menses, lasting hours, leaving the abdomen sore.─Membranous dysmenorrhœa.─Dull pain in ovary (l.).─Stitching pains from breast to axillæ, cannot bear pressure (scirrhus).
17. Respiratory Organs.─Hoarseness and aphonia < evening.─Soreness and roughness in throat.─Cold sensation in larynx, with cold feeling when inspiring, after breakfast; > after shaving.─Constriction in the larynx; tickling, causing cough.─Tickling in trachea during inspiration causing cough.─Stitch in posterior portion of larynx, with feeling of constriction when swallowing saliva.─Scraping and rawness in larynx, provoking cough, as if pit of throat were pressed against trachea.─Diphtheria.─When the diphtheria begins in the larynx and runs up.─Croup.─When with all the croupy sound there is a good deal loose rattling in the larynx with the breathing and coughing, but no choking in the cough.─Dry, spasmodic, wheezing cough, with rattling breathing.─Cough rough, barking, from tickling in throat.─Inspiration very difficult; cannot inspire deep enough.─Cough with sudden paroxysms of suffocation on swallowing; respiration very short; obliged to catch for breath.─Sensation as if the air passages were full of smoke.─Spasmodic closure of the glottis.
18. Chest.─Stitches in r. side of chest.─R. lung most affected.─Stitch (inflammation of lungs r. side).─Sensation of weakness in chest.─Tightness (asthma); < at night; in sailors when they come ashore.
19. Heart.─Violent palpitation < lying l. side; (hypertrophy).
20. Neck and Back.─Neck stiff.─Glands of neck much swollen.─Goître.─Two encysted tumours on both sides of the neck.─Aching at inner border l. scapula up to neck, on moving l. arm, or sitting leaning to l.─Boring in spinous processes of different vertebræ.
21. Limbs.─Stiffness in all limbs, 11 a.m., > in afternoon.─Pains in limbs alternating with chilliness and heat.
22. Upper Limbs.─L. arm feels paralysed.─Eruptions on l. elbow.─Icy-cold forearms.─Hands cold and moist.
23. Lower Limbs.─Paralytic sensation in one or other leg.─Pains in one or both tibiæ.
24. Generalities.─Excessive languor and debility (worse after breakfast).─Great weakness and lassitude after all the symptoms passed off; in diphtheria.─Shivering with yawning and stretching; repeated every other day, as a chilliness and cold feet.─Tremulousness all over.
25. Skin.─Pimples and pustules (acne).─Boils on the arms and face.
26. Sleep.─Irresistible drowsiness while reading.─Continued yawning and drowsiness with the respiratory troubles.
27. Fever.─Pulse much accelerated.─Chill every other day with shaking, yawning, and stretching; with cold feet.─Skin cool, covered with viscous sweat.─Sweat on palms.─Perspiration from the least exertion.
A Text-Book of Materia Medica.
(Characteristic, Analytical, and Comparative.)
By Pr. Allen Corson Cowperthwaite, M. D., PH. D., LL. D.
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BROMIUM.
(Bromine.)
General Analysis.-
Acts as a powerful irritant to the mucous membranes, especially to the respiratory tract, the larynx being mostly involved.
An intense inflammation is established, which tends to the determination of a false membrane, hence its value in the treatment of membranous croup and diphtheria.
When taken internally it also acts as a corrosive poison, producing violent gastritis, and the phenomena of depression and collapse, which usually attend the action of corrosive poisons.
Characteristic symptoms.
Mind.- (Bromium)
Desire for mental labor.
Head.- (Bromium)
Headache ; heavy pressure in forehead in heat of sun, passes off when in the shade.
Headache after drinking milk.
Eyes.- (Bromium)
Lachrymation of right eye, with swelling of the lachrymal gland.
Stitches through the left eye.
Ears.- (Bromium)
Hard swelling of the left parotid gland, feeling warm to the touch.
Suppuration of left parotid, edges of the opening smooth ; discharge watery and excoriating ; swelling remaining hard and unyielding ; after scarlatina.
Nose.- (Bromium)
Severe coryza, right nostril stopped up and sore throughout, later the left.
Fluent coryza, with sneezing (Acon., Gels.) ; long-continued and obstinate ; corrosive soreness under the nose and on margins of nostrils. (Ailanth., Arum, Cepa.)
Nose sore and swollen, with scurfs in it, and pain and bleeding on wiping. (Nitr. ac.)
Face.- (Bromium)
Grayish, earthy complexion.
Sensation as of a spider web on the face. (Baryt. carb., Carls., Graph.)
Throat.- (Bromium)
Scraping in the throat.
Swelling of mucous membrane of fauces and pharynx.
Abdomen.- (Bromium)
Tympanitic distention of the abdomen, and passage of much wind. (Aloe, Arn., Cinch.)
Stool and Anus.- (Bromium)
Blind, intensely painful haemorrhoids, with black stool.
Female Organs.- (Bromium)
Loud emission of flatus from the vagina. (Lyc.)
Menses too early and too profuse (Ars., Calc. c., Nux v.) ; of bright-red blood (Bell., Ipec.) ; flow passive, with much exhaustion (Carb. an., Cinch) ; or membranous shreds may pass off. (Cycl.)
Violent contractive spasm before or during the menses, lasting hours, leaving the abdomen sore.
Respiratory Organs.- (Bromium)
Cold sensation in larynx, with cold feeling when inspiring.
Constriction in the larynx.
Stitch in posterior portion of larynx, with feeling of constriction when swallowing saliva.
Scraping and rawness in larynx, provoking cough, in evening. (Carb. v.)
Tickling in larynx or trachea, producing cough.
Contracted sensation internally, in the trachea, or feeling as if the pit of throat were pressed against the trachea.
Voice hoarse, cannot speak clearly ; loss of voice.
Cough, with sudden paroxysms of suffocation on swallowing ; respiration very short ; obliged to catch for breath.
Deep, forcible inspiration is necessary from time to time.
Difficulty of breathing ; cannot inspire deep enough.
Sensation as if the air passages were full of smoke. (Baryt. carb., Natr. ars.)
Right lung most affected.
Generalities.- (Bromium)
Great weakness and lassitude after all the symptoms passed off.
Icy-cold forearms, or only cold hands.
Sleep.- (Bromium)
Continued yawning and drowsiness, with the respiratory troubles. (Ant. tart.)
Skin.- (Bromium)
Swelling and induration of the glands-thyroid, testes, submaxillary, parotid. (Baryt. carb., Calc. c., Coni., Iodi., Graph., Natr. carb.)
Boils on the arms and face. (Sil.)
Therapeutic Range.- (Bromium)
Inflammatory affections of larynx and trachea ; laryngitis, croup, diphtheria, etc.
In bronchial catarrh and pneumonia.
In membranous dysmenorrhoea.
In enlarged and indurated glands-goitre, etc.
Follows Spongia well in croup.
Aggravation.- (Bromium)
In the evening till midnight ; left side most affected.
Amelioration.- (Bromium)
From motion, walking, riding on horseback.
Conditions.- (Bromium)
More suitable for persons with light hair and blue eyes.
Compare.- (Bromium)
Iodi., Spong.
Antidotes.- (Bromium)
Emetics, followed by tepid demulcents, starch, flour, arrowroot, etc.
Inhalations of the vapors of Ammonia neutralize the effects of Bromine inhalations.
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