Spongia granules

General Information

Spongia Tosta (Spong.) is a remedy for dry mucous membranes (mouth, nose, throat, and larynx), dry coughs, swollen or inflamed glands, and types of respiratory and cardiac (heart) problems. Symptoms often commence or worsen before midnight and lying on the right side but improve for warm drinks and food or lying on the back. The person frequently feels chilly.

Mental-Emotional Symptoms

• Anxiety or fear of heart disease, suffocation, and death – often with a sense of uneasiness around the heart.
• Wakes at night with fear of suffocation.

Throat

• Sore throat worse for sweets.
• Laryngitis.
• Dry tickling that causes a cough.
• Constriction in throat, especially on waking.
• Swelling of the thyroid gland.

Chest

• Palpitations

Respiratory

• Dryness of mucous membranes in nose, throat and chest.
• Colds descend and affect the larynx (vocal cords).
• Dry asthma.
• Asthma better for leaning forward and pulling head backwards to breathe.
• Types of tuberculosis.

Cough

• Dry cough – hollow, crowing, or croupy.
• Like a seal’s bark or a saw being pulled through wood.
• Relieved by warm food or drinks.

Glands

• Types of goitre and hyperthyroidism.
• Types of testicular disorders.

Genitals

• Swelling or inflammation of the testes, epididymis, and spermatic cords.

Sleep

• Wakes with a suffocating feeling either from tightness in the throat, croup, cough, or from asthmatic or cardiac problems. ‘Sleeps into an aggravation’.