| Remedy |
Type of Cough |
Mucus or Phlegm |
Time of Day |
Better or Worse |
Other |
|
Ant Tart |
Feeling of suffocation. Persistent rattling |
Large amount sticky phlegm difficult to
expectorate. |
Worse evening |
Better sitting up |
Weakness. Drowsiness |
|
Aconite |
Short dry cough or hard ringing cough |
Mucus membranes dry nose stopped up |
Worse at night and after midnight. Sudden onset |
Worse exposure to cold dry winds. Better open air |
Acute onset anxiety |
|
Bryonia |
Dry hard spasmodic painful cough |
Tough mucus in trachea |
Worse at night and for warmth of room |
Worse for movement. Cold dry weather. Better rest
and pressure |
Thirsty for cold water. Irritable mood |
|
Caustic |
Hard cough, racks whole chest. Loss of voice |
Inability to expectorate. Swallow phlegm |
|
Better for cold drinks. Worse cold dry winds |
Burning, rawness and soreness are characteristic |
|
Drosera |
Tickle in larynx brings on deep spasmodic cough
with retching and gagging |
Yellow expectoration |
Worse at night |
Better open air
Worse lying down |
Hoarseness |
|
Ipecacuanha |
Spasmodic suffocation cough – wheezing Sudden
attack |
Blocked nose, chest seems full of phlegm, does not
yield to coughing |
|
Worse for moist warm wind, lying down |
Particularly useful for young people’s acute
symptoms.
Nausea not relieved by vomiting |
|
Phosphorus |
Dry hard tickling cough |
Chronic catarrh with slight haemorrhage |
Worse evenings |
Worse change of temperature.
Worse talking and when active |
Tightness in chest, headache.
Patient nervous and anxious |
|
Rumex |
Spasmodic dry cough |
Tough, stringy phlegm |
Worse lying down at night and on walking in a.m. |
Worse cold air. Better head under bedclothes |
Hoarseness and constant desire to hawk |
|
Spongia |
Noisy rasping cough.
Violent croupy |
Tough phlegm difficult to cough up |
Worse before midnight |
Worse talking, singing, swallowing. Better hot
drinks and eating |
Dryness of air passage |
