Cocculus Indicus - Throat symptoms - T.F. Allen

THROAT

Throat

Objective.

Carotid arteries beating violently (third day),

A kind of paralysis of the throat; the oesophagus does not seem to permit swallowing,

Dryness of the throat,

Dryness of the throat, with sensation of heat in the pharynx and stomach (after two hours),

Dryness of the upper and back part of the throat, as if it were raw, and the tongue rough,

Pain in the upper part of the throat, with sensation of swelling at the root of the tongue, which makes swallowing painful,

Burning in throat and stomach, which afterwards spreads over whole abdomen (soon after),

Burning like fire in the throat, extending into the palate, together with shivering about the head, in the evening,

Sensation in the pit of the throat, as if something arrested the breathing; it constricts the throat,

A kind of choking contraction in the upper part of the throat, which impedes breathing and provokes cough (after one hour),

Great sensitiveness within the throat; all food seems as sharp and biting as if it had been excessively salted or peppered,

Scraping in the throat, disappearing on swallowing,

Tonsils.

Pressive pain in the tonsils, much worse on swallowing saliva than on swallowing food,

Fauces.

Dryness and roughness in the fauces and throat, especially noticed when swallowing, without thirst (after two hours),

External Throat.

Painless, swollen glands beneath the jaw (after eight hours),

Swollen, hard glands beneath the lower jaw, with nodes on the forearm, which are painful if one passes the hand over them,

Swelling of the parotid glands,

Larynx

Tough mucus hangs in the larynx and obliges him to hack and hawk,

Irritation to cough, very high up in the larynx,

Irritation to cough, in the posterior portion of the larynx, in the evening, in bed; the cough was always in short paroxysms,