(See also "CROUP")
Aconite N: When there is irritating hacking cough. Fever with restlessness and anxiety. Dry hot skin and hoarseness.
Spongia: It should generally be administered six hours after Aconite or as soon as the breathing becomes shrill and there is a barking cough, hoarseness and aphonia, accompanied by pain in the upper part of the windpipe.
Allium Cepa: Hoarse, harsh, ringing, spasmodic cough, excited by constant tickling in the larynx with a raw splitting pain. Severe laryngeal cough.
Hepar Sulph: This should be thought of when the burning heat of skin continues even after the administration of Aconite. Croupy cough and hoarseness, worse in morning.
Lachesis: Throat sensitive, swallowing difficult, warm drinks aggravate. It is to be given when the above remedies fail.
Kali Bi: Is indicated when there is thick, sticky and stringy expectoration.
Causticum: When there is weakness of vocal muscles; hard cough, causing urging of urine.
Phosphorus: In dry, irritable, pale and anaemic larynx. Hoarseness that remains after attack.
Manganum: In dry hoarse cough.
Chlorum: Is also useful, if given in 12 or 30 dilution.
Selenium:
Nat. Mur:
In tubercular laryngitis.
Sambucus Nigra: Accumulation of viscid mucus in larynx.
Hoarseness: Suffocative, hollow, deep cough with agitation and thirst. Sibilant wheezing.
Carbo Veg: Tubercular or otherwise when cold begins in the nose and finally settles down in the chest and larynx.
Sabal Serrulata: Laryngeal phthisis.
Rumex: Irritating, incessantly tickling. Aggravated by breathing cold air.
