To identify cough, it is essential that there is swelling on the different portions of the trachea (a canal from mouth to the lungs) or not. There are different medicines which affect to the different body parts. The pipe that goes from mouth to the lungs is called canal.
Treatment of cough by different homeopathic medicines:
1. Heper:
It is an efficacious medicine if the child suffers from these symptoms as fast croup cough to the child on the first night after the attack of cold, origin of other cold disease after some days and aggravation of disease gradually. The use of hepar 200 provides a lot of relief.
2.Aconite:
- There is swelling in the canal of the patient viz swelling in the larynx and trachea both. The patient suffers from such symptoms as dry cough, blocked throat. The child grasps his throat while coughing. Mostly, this type of cough starts because of cold. Croup cough starts all of sudden. In these symptoms, the use of the medicine Aconite 6, 30 or 200 proves very beneficial.
- If two children of a family are taken for walking in cold-hot weather, it is seen that one child suffers from croup cough due to cold and the other child suffers from croup cough after one or two days. The medicine aconite should be given to such symptoms.
- If some one suffers from croup cough due to cold-hot weather, the medicine Aconite should be taken for the treatment of such types of symptoms.
- For the treatment of such types of cough, first of all Aconite 200 should be given to the patient and after that Spongia 200 and hepar 200. If the medicines are given in this way, the disease disappears. There is no need to continue this method of medicines if disease disappears by taking first dose. If the patient suffers from these symptoms as sensation of fear, restlessness, excessive worries and great problem at the night due to dry cough or catarrh because of cold, first of all the medicine Aconite should be taken.
3. Bryonia:
- Mostly patients of cough, catarrh or cough use the medicine Aconite or Belladonna. They think that they have taken adequate medicine but at the time of taking medicine they should consider that there is a great resemblance between the symptoms of disease and medicine. If there will be no resemblance between the two, all the symptoms will not end but only some symptoms disappear. Thus, the disease will not disappear fully. The medicine Aconite is used in that condition when the patient is strong but he suffers only from excessive cough, catarrh and fever. If the patient suffers from such symptoms as fast cough at midnight and catarrh, the medicine Belladonna can be used but the patient should have the symptoms related to head and brain. When the patient suffers from chillness and the symptoms appear gradually as sneezing on the very first day, running nose on the second day and fast cough or fever on the third day. In this condition, the medicine Bryonia should be taken to get relief. Therefore, typhoid comes gradually.
- The patient suffers from such symptoms as dry cough, fast cough by speaking because movement is not good for him, cough by going hot to cold and cold to hot room, pain in the chest and head by coughing, difficulty in lying at night due to cough, difficulty in expectorating phlegm from the chest due to dryness, great thirst, aggravation of disease by any movement and the patient sits after awakening due to coughing. Besides these, the patient becomes irritated, wrath and hot natured. In all these symptoms, the patient should take the medicine Bryonia for the treatment.
4. Belladonna:
- The use of Belladonna 6, 30 or 200 is very beneficial if the patient suffers from the attack of dry cough at night.
- A little phlegm comes out by coughing rapidly and the patient gets slight relief. But at the hour of relief he suffers from such symptoms as aggravation of dryness in the canal continuously, itching, fits of cough as if all the parts of canal are taking part in it, blocked throat, sometimes vomiting because of which a little bit of phlegm comes out and he gets slight relief. Belladonna should be used in all these symptoms. Such symptoms should be observed deeply and after that this medicine should be taken. Symptoms are as red face due to cough, hot face, dislikes for light and noise, hate from other’s touch and he tries to expectorate phlegm by scratching. The patient has cold nature.
5. Phosphorus:
- The patient suffers from such symptoms as constant dry cough, scanty sputum, maturation of the phlegm in the throat and chest because of which pain starts, aggravation of cough by taking breath, nervousness, aggravation of cough as stranger comes at home, unbearable pain in the throat and larynx. The patient does not want to cough and speak because of pain. In all these symptoms, the patient should take Phosphorus 30 or 200 before using this medicine. The patient should mentioned these symptoms as pain in the throat, hoarseness in the evening, cough by going hot to cold and cold to hot room, difficulty in throat, sensation of rustling sound in the larynx and sternum, fast pain in the larynx, onset of cough from the mouth palate, cough after meals, aggravation of cough due to fragrance, excessive cough before strangers, nervousness, fear from darkness, desire for cold water, great desire for salt and he wants to live alone. The patient has cold nature.
6. Nux vomica:
When phlegm sticks in the lower portion of the trachea and there is need to clear it out again and again, the medicine Nux Vomica 30, 200 should be used for the treatment of cough. During the treatment of cough by this medicine, some symptoms should be observed minutely. First of all, the patient suffers from catarrh which goes downwardly and reaches to trachea and it becomes the cause of coughing; he suffers from light fever, sensation of chillness by uncovering the clothes, headache due to cough, fit of cough in which the patient suffers from nausea, feeling bed in cold and dry weather, unbearable pain in the naval region, irritation and wrath. The patient has cold nature.
7. Casticum:
It is very efficacious medicine in these symptoms as hoarseness in the morning, cough due to cold water or no relief in throat problem due to cold water.
8. Ignatia:
The use of Ignatia 200 is very beneficial in these symptoms as dry cough, aggravation of cough as the patient coughs, aggravation of cough if larynx is contracted and sensation of touch of feather in the throat. The patient has cold nature.
9. Sulphur:
If the patient suffers from such symptoms as suffocation due to cough, cough at night, desire for open air so he opens the windows and gates, inflammation in the feet, waves of hot on the head, chest and face, sensation of heat, chronic cough, dry or wet cough, red lips, ear, eyelids and other organs, walk by bending, difficulty in standing for a long time, excessive appetite at 11 am, dislikes for bath and desire for ghee, the use of Sulphur 30-200 proves very beneficial.
10. Hyoscyamus:
The patient suffers from such symptoms as dry cough, constant irritation because of which cough starts, aggravation of cough by lying, no relief after sitting; the reason of it is that cough comes when uvula touches the mouth palate and when the patient lies; uvula does not touch to the mouth palate and cough does not start; cough start by an dry spot in the canal. In all these symptoms, the patient should take Hyoscyamus 30, 200. Its use provides a lot of relief.
11. Cammomila:
It is an efficacious medicine if the child suffers from dry cough at the time of dentition. Camommila 30 should be given in this condition.
12. Calcarea Carb:
The patient suffers from such symptoms as whooping cough, sensation of dust in the throat, cough after meals, cough by lying, pus like substance in the phlegm, yellow, salty and fetid phlegm, aggravation of disease due to cold or humidity and cold wind, wet feet, sweating from head to neck. In all such symptoms, the patient should take Calcarea Carb 30-200 for treatment.
13. Ammonia Mur:
If cough starts from the larynx and the patient suffers from these symptoms as irritation in the larynx, white phlegm, cough in the whole larynx, dry cough, the use of Ammonia Mur 3, 6 provides relief.
Treatment of moist cough by different medicines:
- Ammonia carb: If the patient suffers from such symptoms as entangling phlegm in the canal because of which there is difficulty in breathing, excessive phlegm in the chest which is not coming out, excessive cough at 3 am in the morning, suffocation, difficulty in breathing, he should take Ammonia 6 in all these symptoms. Its use provides a lot of relief. If the patient of tuberculosis faces problem while expectorating phlegm from the lungs, the use of Ammonia Carb provides a lot of relief.
- Antim tart: The patient suffers from these symptoms as asthma or cough due to phlegm in the lungs, rattling sound, difficulty while expectorating to the phlegm, the medicine named Antim Tart 6 should be given in all these symptoms of children and old persons for relief. Sometimes, this medicine saves a man from the grasp of death. If the patient suffers from these symptoms phlegm in the lungs, rattling sound, catarrh, bronchitis, croup cough, bronchi pneumonia and pluro pneumonia, the use of this medicine proves very beneficial. Phlegm does not come out due to lungs’ weakness. The weakness of lungs disappears by the use of this medicine.
- Hepar Sulph: This medicine affects very much to the lungs. hepar Sulph 30, 200 should be taken if the patient suffers from croup cough. The medicine hepar can be used like Aconite if the cause of cough originates due to dry cold wind. If the patient suffers from croup cough due to sticking phlegm; cough starts if any body organ is uncovered; aggravation of disease in dry and cold wind and amelioration in hot and moist wind, the patient should take Hepar Sulph.
- Antim Tart: The patient suffers from these symptoms as phlegm in the chest, cough like asthma, fit of cough, sensation of blocked throat, whispering sound while taking breath, convulsion in the child’s body due cough, blue body, retching and vomiting. Such patient who suffers from these symptoms should take Antim Tart 30, 200. While taking this medicine it should be remembered that the tongue of the patient is clean and neat. This medicine helps in expectorating phlegm.
- Cali Bycom: The patient expectorates white phlegm like thread and pieces of mucus membrane also come with phlegm. The patient should take Cali Bycom 30 for the treatment.
- Stenum: If the patient suffers from fever of tuberculosis, excessive sweating at night, cough starts from the deep of lungs, sensation of lungs’ emptiness, excessive sputum, sputum like egg but with light yellowness and greenness, sputum sometimes sweet and sometimes salty, aggravation of cough by speaking and sensation of emptiness in the chest, the medicine Stenum 30 should be taken for treatment.
- Drosera: The patient vomits while coughing and he suffers from these symptoms as whooping cough, aggravation of cough while sleeping, at night, by laughing, by weeping, by singing, by smoking, by drinking water, vomiting or retching, blood particles with phlegm, sweating after sleeping. In all these symptoms, the patient should take the medicine Drosera to get relief.
- Natrum Mur: The use of Natrum Mur 30, 200 provides a lot of relief to the patient if he suffers from these symptoms as phlegm like clean water or frothy phlegm, dry cough due to the enlargement of uvula and dryness in the one portion of the larynx from there cough starts.
- Pulstilla: The patient should take Pulstilla 30, 200 if he suffers from these symptoms as yellow or blue phlegm, aggravation of phlegm in the evening, amelioration of symptoms of disease by sitting and urinate while coughing involuntarily. The patient can take the medicine Cali Sulph if he expectorates yellow colored phlegm.
- Cina: If the patient suffers from these symptoms as dry cough, inflammation in the nose, insomnia due to cough, excessive cough in the night, he should take the medicine Cina to get relief.
- Rhus tox: The use of Rhus Tox 30 is very beneficial if cough starts from the throat and the patient suffers from wet cough and cough due to wetting.
- Thuja: The patient should take Thuja 30 if the patient suffers from cough during day not night.
- Gelsimium: If the patient suffers from these symptoms as rapid cough along with hoarseness, pain in the chest and the patient feels lots of trouble, he should take Gelsimium 3 for the treatment.
- Sepia: The patient suffers from these symptoms as excessive sweating, difficulty while expectorating because of which the patient swallows the phlegm, cough due to sticking phlegm in the chest. In these symptoms, the patient should take Sepia 30 to get relief.
- Sanguinaria Nitricum: It is an efficacious medicine if the patient suffers from titillation in the nose. The medicine Sanguinaria Nitricum 6 should be taken.
- Antim Tart: If the patient suffers from such symptoms as suppression of voice, hoarseness, excessive phlegm while speaking, rattling sound of phlegm while inhaling and exhaling breath, no phlegm while coughing, sometimes frothy phlegm, panting while coughing, difficulty in expectorating phlegm, vomiting while having meal because of which eaten meal comes out with vomiting, yawning while coughing, the use of Antim Tart 3 or 30 provides a lot of relief.
- Acid Nitric: In such symptoms as dry cough, chronic cough, no phlegm, pain under the bones of the chest, constipation and the patient gets a lot of trouble due to cough, the patient should take the medicine Acid Nitric 3, 30 for treatment.
- Manganum Aceticum: The patient of this disease has to cough slightly while sleeping and he suffers from hoarseness. The disease aggravates in the evening and moist wind. Such patient should take Manganum Aceticum 3 or 30 for getting relief.
- Rumex: If the patient suffers from these symptoms as constant dry cough, unconsciousness while coughing, aggravation of disease in the cold wind or night and 10-12 am and the patient gets a lot of relief if he covers himself with a cloth from head to feet. The use of Rumex 6 is beneficial.
- Sticta: The patient should take Stictak 6 or 12 if he suffers from these symptoms as no difficulty while coughing, whooping cough, and sensation of unconsciousness like cough and aggravation of disease at night.
- Merc- vivus: If the patient suffers from these symptoms as dry cough that puzzles to the patient, sensation of suppressed throat or sore in the throat due to coughing, sores in the nose and sweating, he should take the medicine Merc Bybus 3 to get relief.
- Allium Sativa: If the symptoms are as chronic cough with excessive mucus and the patient suffers from excessive cough as he comes out from the room after sleeping, the use of Allium Sativa 3 to get relief.
- Coccus Cacti: If the patient suffers from these symptoms as excessive phlegm with cough, phlegm like thread, sensation of enlarged uvula because of which cough troubles continuously, feeling unconsciousness in the morning, choking breath and cough starts as the patient wakes up, he should take Coccus Cacti 6 to get relief.
- Nitric acid: If the patient suffers from constipation along with cough, he should take nitric acid 3 for the treatment of the disease.
- Merc Sol: If the patient suffers from these symptoms as chronic cough with dilute phlegm, aggravation of cough at night and greasy and sticky phlegm, he should take Merc-Sol for the treatment of the disease.
- Mentha Pipreta: The symptoms of the patient of dry cough aggravates by sunlight or wind. The patient should take Menthe Pipreta 3 to obtain relief.
- Natrum Phos: If the patient suffers from cough due to acidity, he should take Natrum Phos 6 for the treatment of disease.
- Corelium: If the patient of Hysteria or ligament suffers from cough, he should take Corelium 3 or 30 to get relief.
- Cali-sulph: If the patient expectorates yellow colored phlegm with cough, he should take Cali-Sulph 6 to obtain relief.
- Conium: If the patient suffers from such symptoms as cough due to titillation in the throat, aggravation of cough by sleeping, sitting, laughing, at night and amelioration during day, he can take Conium 6 or 30 for the treatment.
- Natrum-Sulph: If the patient suffers from these symptoms as cough due to acidity, amelioration of cough in rainy season or humid wind, the use of Natrum Sulph 6 provides a lot of relief.