LARYNGITIS

Acute laryngitis is by far the most frequent disease of the larynx. The majority of common colds either attack or invade the larynx in their course downward from the nose and throat to the bronchial tubes and lungs, often giving rise to a mild form of laryngitis. The chief causes of acute laryngitis are exposure to cold, excessive and improper use of the voice in public speaking and singing, and smoking. The latter in some cases produces a form of laryngitis with hoarseness and cough which is first acute, then sub-acute, and finally chronic. Here we discuss remedy resonance that help. Your homeopath will then decide which remedy best fits your similimum.

Aconite

After exposure to dry cold wind, followed by hoarseness, dry cough and soreness in larynx. Fever and thirst may be present, cough may be croupy.

Belladonna

With the dry cough the throat becomes dry and sore, with constant inclination to swallow. Throbbing headache and throbbing in the carotids; face flushed with cough.

Arum

Loss of voice from over use in singing or speaking. Voice hoarse and changeable with soreness in larynx, worse after exposure to cold winds.

Causticum

Hoarseness and loss of voice. Scraping rawness in throat. Cough, with slight mucus very difficult to expectorate.

Hepar Sulphuricum

Some wheezing and rattling in larynx with cough, somewhat croupy, worse from least cold air. Sharp pain in throat or larynx like a fish bone. Later stage of disease, with inclination to perspire with every coughing spell. Sense of suffocation or as of dust or fumes in larynx.

Kali Bichromicum

Croupy cough worse in the mornings. The expectoration, if any, is stringy and tough. Voice hoarse with some rattling of mucus.

Lachesis

Always worse after sleep and from the slightest touch about the neck, cannot tolerate any clothing about neck, cough dry and face almost livid.

Nux Vom

The mental and physical conditions are important. Overworked or debauched. Bad effects from tobacco smoking and intemperance. Cough dry and spasmodic. Worse after any mental effort.

Phosphorus

Much hoarseness, with dry cough which is much worse from use of voice in speaking or laughing, or from cold air.

Rumex

Much coughing with tickling and irritation in larynx. Worse on lying down or from inhalation of cold air.

Spongia

Dry, harking, croupy cough. Sudden starting from sleep, with sense of stoppage in larynx with suffocation and dyspnea. The attack is decidedly croupy.