Fresh-water Sponge
- Soreness of muscles and integuments; worse motion and friction of clothes, with sensitiveness to cold.
- Glands swollen.
- General paresis.
- Basedow's disease.
- Lues, bubo, roseola.
Head
- Sensation of enlargement and fullness.
- Pain in forehead and temple, extending to eyeballs, worse in afternoon.
- Blueness under eyes.
- Dandruff; scalp sore, dry, tetter-like.
- Dull, dizzy feeling in head.
- Coryza, sneezing, watery discharge, with asthmatic breathing and suffocative cough.
- Influenza.
- Slight sounds are greatly accentuated.
Eyes
- Twitching of left upper lid; eyeballs tender; aching in eyeballs.
- Intermittent sore pain in eyeball, coming on at 3 pm.
Respiratory
- Cough; worse in afternoon, better in warm room.
- The mucus flies out of mouth and nostrils.
- Whooping-cough, with thick yellow expectoration; flies out.
- Hay-fever, with asthmatic breathing.
- Pleuritic stitches in chest, neck, and back.
Stomach
- Mouth hot.
- Much thirst.
- Lancinating pain in pit of stomach extending to vertebra and scapula.
Female
- Metrorrhagia; worse at night, with feeling of enlargement of head (Arg).
- Cancer of breast (Asterias; Con; Carbo an; Plumb iod).
Heart
- Indescribable bad feeling about the heart with soreness and pain, flying stitches all over.
Skin
- Sore to touch.
- Freckles.
- Rhagades.
Back
- Stitches in nape, scapulae.
- Pain in small of back, hips and lower limbs.
- Very stiff neck.
- Muscles and skin sore, as if beaten.
Modalities
- Worse by cold.
- Better, by heat.
Relationship
- Compare: Merc similar but opposite modalities. Spongia; Kali hyd; Phytol; Conium.
- Complementary: Sulph; Merc; Iod.
Dose
- First to sixth attenuation.
