Bromium

▲   GENERAL

General

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.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, from evening, until midnight, and when sitting in warm room; warm damp weather when at rest and lying left side.

Better

BETTER, from any motion; exercise, at sea.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Conium Mac ^Conium; Spongia Tosta ^Spongia; Iodium ^Iod.; Asterias Rubens ^Aster.; Argentum Nitricum ^{Arg. Nit}. Avoid milk when taking Bromium. 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 vasoconstriction. Relieves headache, tinnitus and vertigo, especially in vasomotor stomach disturbance. Dose, 20 minims.)

Antidotes

Antidotes: Ammonium Carbonicum ^{Ammon. Carb}.; Camphora ^Camph. Salt inhibits the action of Bromium.

▲   MIND

Mind

Delusion that strange persons are looking over patient’s shoulder and that she would see someone on turning

Quarrelsome.

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Dizzy when crossing stream of water.

▲   HEAD

Head

Megrim of left side; worse stooping, especially after drinking milk

Headache

Headache; worse heat of sun and by rapid motion

Sharp pain through eyes

Pain, headache

sides; left

top of head (vertex)

▲   EYES

Vision

Lost vision, blindness; evening; while reading

▲   FACE

Face

Heat

Inflammation

parotid gland (gland in front and below ear lobe); left

parotid gland (gland in front and below ear lobe); suppurating (producing pus)

Swelling

parotid gland (gland in front and below ear lobe)

parotid gland (gland in front and below ear lobe); left

parotid gland (gland in front and below ear lobe); after measles-like rash

parotid gland (gland in front and below ear lobe); hard

submaxillary gland (gland under jaw, by throat)

left

hard

▲   NOSE

Nose

Pressure at root of nose

Tickling, smarting, as from cobwebs

Fan-like motion of alae ( Lycopodium ^Lyc.) Bleeding from nose relieving the chest.

Catarrh

Pain; rawness; nostrils

Discharge

Coryza, with corrosive soreness of nose

Stoppage of right nostril

Running or blocked nose (coryza); chronic, long-continued

obstinate, with soreness beneath nose and on edge of nose

▲   THROAT

Throat

Throat feels raw, evening, with hoarseness

Tonsils pain on swallowing, deep red, with networks 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 hemorrhoids, with black stool.

Larynx (voice box); scraping, clearing

scraping, clearing; evening

Choking, constricting; throat-pit

Sensation of coldness; on breathing

Croup

from being heated

membranous

during whooping cough

extending to throat at back of mouth

Inflammation; larynx; from getting heated

Membrane, exudation, diphtheria, etc.

Mucus; larynx

Pain

rawness; larynx

rawness; larynx; from coughing

Pressure in throat-pit

Sounds; rattling larynx

Voice

hoarseness

indistinct

lost

External throat; pain; pressing; throat-pit

▲   CHEST

Chest

Constriction, tension

Respiration

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 ( Chlorinum ( Chlorum ) ^Chlorum, in expelling.) Better at sea, of seafaring men when they come on land

Hypertrophy of heart from gymnastics ( Rhus Tox ^Rhus.) Fibrinous bronchitis, great dyspnoea

Bronchial tubes feel filled with smoke.

Asthma attack; sailors as soon as they go ashore

Difficult (dyspnea); swallowing

Impeded, obstructed; on swallowing

Rough; sawing

▲   COUGH

Cough

Dry cough

evening

from scraping in larynx

Hoarse

Sensations in throat and air passages (either from coughing, or causing coughing); scraping; from larynx

Comes on suddenly; suffocation, suddenly on swallowing

Suffocating; on swallowing

Swallowing

▲   SKIN

Skin

Acne, pimples and pustules

Boils on arms and face

Glands stony, hard, especially on lower jaw and throat

Hard goitre ( Spongia Tosta ^Spong.) Gangrene.

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Haemorrhoids

internal

walking

Pain

Stool

Black; normal consistency

▲   GENITALS ETC

Male

Male; Swelling of testicles

Female

Female; flatulence from vagina

Genitals

Indurated, with pains worse slight jar.

Female; Swelling of ovaries

Tumor in breasts, with stitching pains; worse left

Stitch pains from breast to axillae

Sharp shooting pain in left breast, worse, pressure.

Menses

Menses too early; too profuse, with membranous shreds

Low spirited before menses

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Coldness

upper limbs; forearm; icy cold

lower limbs; foot

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Shaking, shivering, rigors; on breathing in

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

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.

Generalities

Inflammation; indurated (hard from inflammation); glands

Pain

pressing; internally

pressing; as from load

as if scraped

Swelling; glands

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness)

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