DROSERA ROTUNDIFOLIA.

Sundew. (Droseraceae.)

Whooping-cough with violent paroxysms which follow each other

rapidly, is scarcely able to get breath (wakes at 6-7 a. m. and does not
cease coughing until a large quantity of tenacious mucus is raised, Coc.

c. - profuse epistaxis during every paroxysm, Ind.; "minute gun" during

the day, whooping at night, Cor. r.).

Deep sounding, hoarse barking cough (Verb.),

< after midnight, during or after measles; spasmodic, with gagging,

retching and vomiting (Bry., Kali c.).

Constant, titillating cough in children, begins as soon as head touches

pillow at night (Bell., Hyos, Rum.). Nocturnal cough of young persons
in phthisis; bloody or purulent sputa.

Cough: < by warmth, drinking, singing, laughing, weeping, lying

down, after midnight.
During cough; vomiting of water, mucus, and often bleeding at the nose
and mouth (Cup.).

Sensation of feather in larynx, exciting cough.

Diseases prevailing during epidemic pertusis.

Clergyman's sore throat; with rough, scraping, dry sensation deep in the
fauces; voice hoarse, deep, toneless, cracked, requires exertion to speak
(Arum.).

Constriction and crawling in larynx; hoarseness, and yellow or green

sputa.

Laryngeal phthisis following whooping-cough (bronchial catarrh

following, Coc. c.).

Relations

. - Complementary: to, Nux vomica.

Follows well: after, Samb., Sulph., Ver.

Is followed: by, Cal., Puls., Sulph.

Compare: Cina, Coral, Cup., Ipec., Samb. in spasmodic coughs. Often

relieves the constant, distressing night-cough in tuberculosis.

Hahnemann says (Mat. Med. Pura.): "One single dose of the 30th
potency is sufficient to cure entirely epidemic whooping cough. The
cure takes place surely between seven and eight days.

Never give a second dose immediately after the first; it would not only
prevent the good effect of the former, but would be injurious."