SILPHIUM LACINATUM
Rosin-weed (SILPHIUM)
Is used in quite a number varieties of allergies and continual bronchitis Catarrh of bladder. Catarrhal influenza. Dysentery; assault preceded by means of constipated stools included with white mucus.
Respiratory.–Cough with expectoration profuse, stringy, frothy, light-colored. Excited with the aid of experience of mucus rattling in chest and worse via drafts of air. Constriction of lungs. Catarrh, with copious, stringy, mucous discharges. Desire to hawk and scrape throat. Irritation of posterior nares, involving mucous membranes of nasal passages with constriction of supra-orbital region.
Relationship.–Compare: Aral; Copaiv; Tereb; Cubeb; Samb; Silphion cyrenaicum (phthisis pulmonum, with incessant cough, profuse night-sweats, emaciation, etc); Polygonum aviculare (has been discovered beneficial in phthisis, when given in cloth doses of the mom tincture); Salvia (tickling cough). Arum dracontium (loose cough at night time on mendacity down). Justicia adhatoda (bronchial catarrh, hoarseness, oversensitive).
Dose.–Third potency. Lower triturations desired through some.
