Abrotanum Abrot
In pleurisy, after Acon., and Bry., when a pressing sensation remains in affected side, impeding respiration.
Aconite Acon
Severe fever, with stitching pains on a fixed spot of the thorax, worse by breathing, gaping, coughing, sneezing, with superficial, short, hurried respiration, accelerated pulse, great thirst, hot skin.
Antimonium tart Ant-t
Commencement of pleuro-pneumonia; rapid, short, heavy and anxious breathing, must be supported in a sitting posture in bed; violent pains from chest to shoulder, lancinating and tearing; palpitation of heart.
Apis mell Apis
Fever moderate, very little pain; oppression with heat and smarting in throat; cough short, tearing, (<) at night in bed and from the heat of the room great lassitude, extreme irritability, but no fear of death, though he has a strange feeling as if he could not take another breath, paleness, oedema of face, feeble pulse, urine scanty and like black coffee; morning diarrhoea; OPPRESSION AND FAINTISHNESS FROM THE QUALITY OF EXUDATION, especially useful in chronic or latent cases.
Arnica Arn
After mechanical injuries; must continually change position, bed feels too hard; articulation and cartilaginous connections of chest feel as if beaten, when moving, breathing or coughing; dry, short, hacking cough; stitches in chest (left), (<) from dry cough and motion, (>) from external pressure; PNEUMOTHORAX FROM EXTERNAL INJURIES; stitches in cardiac region, asthmatic sensation; dry, cold extremities with internal heat; in traumatic pleurisy Sulph.ac. follows well after Arn.
Arsenicum Ars
Serous effusion in pleura; asthmatic respiration; great weakness, tendency to faint; asthenia; dyspnoea increasing with the rapid accumulation of serous or bloody fluid in chest, fear of death; insomnia; colliquative sweat, diarrhoea, great thirst; dropsical swellings.
Arsenicum iod Ars-i
Pleuritic exudation; great emaciation and prostration intercostal spaces filled, dull sound on percussion; breathing too rapid, even when at rest, (<) on exertion, soon only a wheezing; frequent, short, suppressed cough, often loose; heaviness of limbs with weariness of whole body.
Asclepias tub Asc-t
Acute pleuritic pain in right side, with dry hacking cough and scanty mucous expectoration, better by bending forward, and worse by motion; stitches in left side, shooting over to right side and up the left shoulder; rheumatic stitching pains in muscles and joints, dark-red urine, and hot perspiring skin; high fever, with hot sweat, chronic pleurisy in tuberculous patients.
Bryonia Bry
Stitching pain in chest worse from slightest motion; chest very sensitive on inspiration, with stitches in left side; stitches in sternum when coughing, has to hold the chest with his hands; respiration impeded, quick and deep, without motion of the ribs, better in cold air, and from drinking cold water; INTENSE AND PERSISTENT FEVER, seat of pain very sensitive to pressure; affection of right side; better when lying on affected side, as by the pressure exerted he moves it less (Bell. worse), and later on account of effusion; free, sour and warm sweat.
Cactus Cact
Painful sensation of constriction, as if a cord were tightly bound around false ribs, obstructing respiration; pain from lower part of chest to shoulder-blades; dull percussion sound.
Cantharis Canth
FEBRILE STATE NOT MARKED; shooting pain in chest, from front to back, impeding respiration; stitches in chest, more on right side, or first left, then right; in lower right chest, extending towards middle of sternum; burning in chest; exudation within pleura; when trying to breathe deeply and when speaking fears to exert herself on account of great weakness of respiratory organs; excessive dyspnoea; displacement of heart, tendency to fainting; dry, hacking cough.
Carbo an Carb-an
PLEURISY ASSUMING A TYPHOID CHARACTER; sickly, bluish color of skin, expectoration puriform, putrid; ichoraemia and degeneration of the exudation in chest; green pus from chest, right side; the stitch remains, though everything else is gone.
Carbo veg Carb-v
Pleurisy complicated with chronic bronchitis; dull stitches in left side of chest, extending into short ribs; pleuritic serous exudation, with hectic fever and evening aggravation; asthmatic affection from hydrothorax; pain and burning in chest from coughing; great dyspnoea and anxiety but no restlessness.
Colchicum Colch
Arthritic pleuritis, serous effusion in chest; great dyspnoea, (<) at night; lancinating pains, as with a knife; stinging in cardiac region, with oppression.
Hepar Hep
Plastic exudation into pleura, often of long standing; hectic fever, emaciation; chilliness; sensitiveness to damp air, which brings on coughing.
Kali carb Kali-c
The violent stitching fails to yield to Bry., especially on left side, with violent palpitation of heart, dry cough, (<) 3 A.M.; pleura affected by extension from the lungs; pleuritis of tuberculous patients, affecting especially the clavicular region; pain as if lower lobe of right lung were adhering to ribs; pleurisy, stitches in left chest, with violent palpitation, dry cough, (<) 3 A.M., and on inspiration.
Kali iod Kali-i
Subacute pleurisy and effusion in chest; great difficulty in breathing, cannot lie in comfort, and not all on right side; heart displaced; pleuro-pneumonia of right side, with serous effusion and hepatization of lower lung; absence of respiratory sounds in affected parts.
Mercurius Merc
Stitching pain through to back when coughing or sneezing, especially on right side; utter impossibility of lying on right side; great fever with chills, often followed by burning heat and weakening, foetid sweats; considerable thirst; intense gastro- intestinal catarrh and light, icteric color.
Nitric acid Nit-ac
PLEURITIS OF OLD PEOPLE, when the pain leaves and the pulse increase and becomes smaller chest sore when coughing or breathing; dyspnoea from weakness; diarrhoea; heaviness and trembling of limbs, especially in morning.
Ranunculus bulb Ran-b
ACUTE STABBING PAINS WITH EFFUSION OF SERUM dyspnoea, anguish and distress; stitches about chest at every change of weather, often from pleuritic adhesions; breathing short and oppressed, with inclination to take a deep breath.
Rhus tox Rhus-t
After exposure to wet, or from straining, lifting, etc.; oppression of breathing, as if it were stopped at the pit of stomach; dry, teasing cough; stitches in chest, (<) when at rest, sitting crooked, or when sneezing; tingling in chest, with tension in the intercostal muscles, (<) when at rest; tip of tongue red, fever-blisters.
Senega Seneg
Dyspnoea, sensation as if chest were too tight; violent afflux of blood to chest with beating of heart; dull stitches and burning pain in left chest, when sitting or lying; violent beating of heart, shaking the whole chest; pulse unequal; throat dry and sensitive so that even talking is painful.
Sepia Sep
PLEURISY IN DYSCRASIC PATIENTS; dry, short, hacking cough with stitches in chest; cough at night, waking her from sleep; pleuritic exudations; coldness between shoulders, as from a cold hand; oppression of chest and shortness of breath when walking, worse towards evening; stitches in upper part of lung from clavicle to third rib, (<) breathing and coughing.
Squilla Squil
Stitching pain in left side; short rattling cough, disturbing sleep; inability to lie on left side; granting of teeth; twitching of lips, which are covered with thick yellow crusts, more on left side, worse mornings; oppression across chest as if it were too tight; stitches when coughing; dry heat with chills when uncovering ever so little.
Stannum Stann
Sharp, knife-like stitches beginning in left axilla and extending up into left clavicle or down into abdomen, (<) from bending forward, pressure and inspiration; great sore feeling in chest; oppressed breathing from every movement, when lying down and in the evening; tension across upper part of chest, with emptiness in lower one.
Sulphur Sulph
Shortness of breath and oppression on bending the arms backward; sharp stitches through the chest, extending into left scapula, worse lying on back and during least motion; pain in chest from overlifting, pain as if chest would fly to pieces when coughing or drawing a deep breath; plastic EXUDATION after pleuritis; lips bright-red; follows well after Bry. or Rhus.