Table I - Dry Coughs
Homeopathic
Remedy
Nature of Cough
Other Facts
Aconite
Constant Short, dry cough. Hoarse, loud
cough. Dryness of chest. Feels like
suffocating with each inspiration
Anxiety, restless, worse at
night. After exposure to cold
wind.
Belladonna
Cough with dryness of larynx. Red throat
with scraping in larynx. Tickling and burning
spasmodic, barking, short cough. Great
whooping cough remedy with spasms in
larynx causing whoop and difficult breathing.
Red Face, dilated pupils.
Child cries before cough
comes on. Cough ends with
sneezing
Bryonia
Hard, dry, spasmodic cough. Pain in chest,
must press hand to sternum. Cough shakes
whole body, must spring up in bed. Hurts to
breath deeply.
Irritable, worse with
movement, worse after food
or drink. Thirsty.
Phosphorus
Dry, tickling, tight cough that is exhausting.
Violent, shaking cough. Must hold chest
and abdomen while coughing. Trembles
with cough. Cough worse laughing, talking
or eating.
Chilly with thirst for ice cold
drinks. Anxious, nervous.
Worse in open air or going
from cold to warm room.
Causticum
Dry, raw, hoarse cough. Aphonia. Chest
seems full of mucus and "if I cough a little
deeper I could get the mucus out".
Better with ice-cold water.
Inability to expectorate.
Escape of urine with cough.
Spongia
Hoarseness. Dry, barking, croupy cough.
Worse during inspiration and before
midnight. Irrepressible cough from spot
deep in chest. Feels like plug in throat.
Better after eating or drinking
warm drinks. Worse lying with
head low.
Table II - Productive Coughs
Homeopathic
Remedy
Nature of Cough
Other Facts
Drosera
Spasmodic Cough dep in the chest.
Violent tickling in the larynx brings on
cough. Cough impulses so violent
cannot catch breath. Cough as soon
as head hits pillow. Principal remedy
for whooping cough.
Pain in the hypochondrium
must hold while coughing.
Worse at night. Cough can
be dry and irritative.
Hepar Sulph
Croup. Loose, rattling cough worse in
the morning. Suffocating, choking
cough. Hoarseness with loss of voice.
Better breathing warm air.
Worse when any part of
the body gets uncovered or
cold. Better sitting up and
bending head backwards
Kali Bich.
Voice hoarse with hacking cough.
Profuse white or yellow expectoration,
sticky and stringy. Cough as a brassy
sound.
Worse in the evening.
Pain in the sternum that
extends to the shoulders.
Stannum
During the day, loose cough with
heavy, green mucus. Dry cough at
night. Weakness of chest or chest
feels empty.
Worse using voice,
laughing or singing. Worse
with warm drinks.
Antimonium
tart.
Great rattling of mucus, but very little
is expectorated. Burning sensation in
chest. Bronchial tubes are
overloaded with mucus
Cough worse with eating
palpitation and hot feeling
in chest. Better sitting up.