Homeopathy Health Care

Coughs

Coughing is an important way to keep your throat and airways clear. However, excessive coughing may mean you have an underlying disease or disorder, .It’s forceful release of air from the lungs that can be heard.

Homeopathic treatment of coughs is frequently and often rapidly effective, but it needs very careful symptom observation.

If coughing is accompanied by high fever, chest pain, bloody sputum; or is especially severe.


Remedies /Symptoms

HEPAR SULPHUR:

• The cough is more moist, with rattling of mucus in the chest.
• The throat may be sensitive to touch, there being a splinter-like pain.
• The larynx may be painful, worse from cough and from swallowing food.
• An effective remedy for croupy coughs, worse after 4 a.m.
• This patient is also very irritable and extremely chilly.

• It corresponds to a dry cough with a sore chest and stitching pains when coughing and moving.
• Patients will usually hold the chest when coughing to splint it.
• Cough may also be worse after eating, drinking, on entering a warm room, and after a deep breath.
• Headaches from cough or motion may occur.
• The pains are better from pressure, the patient is often irritable, wanting to be alone, and thirsty.

• A dry, tight cough, often there is a pronounced sense of oppression of the chest.
• The cough is worse from laughing, talking, eating, lying on the left side; it is also prone to be worse from exposure to open air and to changes in air temperature, as when going from cool outside air to a warm room or vice versa.
• Sputum may taste salty or sweet, or appear rusty. There is usually a strong thirst for cold drinks.
• The patient is often chilly, anxious, and prefers company.

• It is often useful for coughs that linger.
• The cough is liable to be worse all night long., the patient wants air.
• There may be local sensations of heat, such as burning sensations in the chest, head, or face.
• The patient is often hungry and thirsty; he may put his feet out of the covers at night. Look for the telltale unusual redness of the lips.

• Head colds descend to the chest producing coughing which is typically dry and teasing.
• Exposure to dry, cold weather aggravates.
• The cough is often worse after eating and ameliorated by warm drinks.
• Almost always the patient is very chilly; chills result from motion and uncovering.
• The cough may cause headache.
• Expect the person to be extremely irritable, unappreciative of assistance, and averse to answering any questions if quite ill.