Diphtherinum: When fluids return through the nose while swallowing.
Lycopodium: When food or drink regurgitates through the nose.
Lac Can: Fluids return though the nose when drinking. Swallowing difficult, almost impossible and the pain shoots to ears.
Nitric Acid: Swallowing very difficult. Distorts face and draws head down; cannot swallow even a teaspoon full of fluid which causes violent pain extending to ears.
Aconite N: Difficulty in swallowing so that in eating he has to press the back of neck with hand. Burning and pain in neck and parotid region.
Rhus Tox: Difficulty in swallowing saliva. In small pox; in scarlatina. Almost impossible in diphtheria.
Stramonium: Swallowing difficult on account of violent spasms of the throat.
Lachesis: Can swallow solids more easily than liquids. Warm fluids suffocate.
Belladonna: Swallowing of fluids or solids becomes difficult on account of sore throat and they are forced into the nose and sometimes out of the nose.
Hyoscyamus: Swallowing difficult on account of muscles of throat, tongue, pharynx, oesophagus becoming stiff. Fluids come out through the nose or go down into the larynx.
Gelsemium: Paresis of oesophagus causing loss of swallowing power.
Causticum: Food goes down wrong way or enters larynx or posterior nares due to paralysis of pharynx and oesophagus.
Cicuta Vir: Spasms of oesophagus which prevent swallowing power.
