(See also "ASTHMA", "HEART" and "CROUP")
Naja: Oppression of the chest with choking and obstruction of breathing.
Chloralum: Extreme dyspnoea, with sensation of weight and
constriction of chest. Asthma with sleeplessness.
Nux Vom: Dyspnoea due to accumulation of gas in abdomen.
Natrum Mur: Breathlessness accompanied with chill. Better in and
desire for open air. Worse on exertion.
Carbo Veg: Wants to be fanned in breathlessness.
Cedron: Dyspnoea during coition.
Staphisagria: Dyspnoea towards the end of coition.
Arsenic Alb: Dyspnoea accompanied with albuminuria.
Apis M: Dyspnoea in hydrocephalus.
Petroleum: Violent dyspnoea all day.
Glonoine: Dyspnoea in sun-stroke. Albuminuria may also be present.
Lachesis: Suffocates during sleeping or gasping for breath on waking.
Dyspnoea after drinking liquor.
Phosphorus: Dyspnoea on taking slightest food.
Ammonia Carb: Dyspnoea with palpitation due to exhaustion and
weak heart bu.t without any functional or organic defect; without
asthma. Dyspnoea on slightest movement. Worse in warm room and
better in cold open air.
Carboneum Sul: Fast or difficult breathing. Suffocation from alcohol
or from coal gas. Worse in the evening or ascending, closed room,
when coughing after eating, after slight exertion.
Graphites: Suffocation when falling asleep and often wakes up in the
night gasping for breath.
Aspidosperma: Cardiac dyspnoea. Thrombosis of pulmonary artery.
Uraemic dyspnoea. It increases oxygen in the blood.
Silicea: Dyspnoea on stooping.
Ferrum Met: Breathlessness worse during rest. Feels better from gentle, slow, quiet motion. Rapid motion aggravates.
Psorinum: Dyspnoea worse when sitting up, better lying down with
arms wide spread apart across the bed. Worse when the arms are
brought near the body.
Medorrhinum: Spasms of the glottis; air expelled with difficulty but
inhaled with ease. Better by lying down on the face.
Aconitum Ferox: Dyspnoea increased to such a degree that he was
obliged to breathe half sitting up, with head resting on palms of hands.
