Bromine
- Most marked effects are seen in the respiratory symptoms, especially in larynx and trachea.
- It seems to affect especially scrofulous children with enlarged glands.
- Blond type.
- Enlarged parotid and goitre.
- Tendency to spasmodic attacks.
- Left-sided mumps.
- Sense of suffocation; excoriating discharges, profuse sweats and great weakness.
- Complaints from being over-heated.
- Tendency to infiltrate glands, become hard, but seldom suppurate.
Mind
- Delusion that strange persons are looking over patient's shoulder and that she would see some one on turning.
- Quarrelsome.
Head
- Megrim of left side; worse stooping, especially after drinking milk.
- Headache; worse heat of sun and by rapid motion.
- Sharp pain through eyes.
- Dizzy when crossing stream of water.
Nose
- Coryza, with corrosive soreness of nose.
- Stoppage of right nostril.
- Pressure at root of nose.
- Tickling, smarting, as from cobwebs.
- Fan-like motion of alae (Lyc).
- Bleeding from nose relieving the chest.
Throat
- Throat feels raw, evening, with hoarseness.
- Tonsils pain on swallowing, deep red, with network of dilated blood vessels.
- Tickling in trachea during inspiration.
- Hoarseness coming on from being overheated.
Stomach and Abdomen
- Sharp burning from tongue to stomach.
- Pressure as of stone.
- Gastralgia; better eating.
- Tympanitic distention of abdomen.
- Painful hemorrhoids, with black stool.
Respiratory
- Whooping cough (Use persistently for about ten days).
- Dry cough, with hoarseness and burning pain behind sternum.
- Spasmodic cough, with rattling of mucus in the larynx; suffocative.
- Hoarseness.
- Croup after febrile symptoms have subsided.
- Difficult and painful breathing.
- Violent cramping of chest.
- Chest pains run upward.
- Cold sensation when inspiring.
- Every inspiration provokes cough.
- Laryngeal diphtheria, membrane begins in larynx and spreads upward.
- Spasmodic constriction.
- Asthma; difficulty in getting air into lung (Chlorum, in expelling).
- Better at sea, of seafaring men when they come on land.
- Hypertrophy of heart from gymnastics (Rhus).
- Fibrinous bronchitis, great dyspnea.
- Bronchial tubes feel filled with smoke.
Male
- Swelling of testicles.
- Indurated, with pains worse slight jar.
Female
- Swelling of ovaries.
- Menses too early; too profuse, with membranous shreds.
- Low spirited before menses.
- Tumor in breasts, with stitching pains; worse left.
- Stitch pains from breast to axilla.
- Sharp shooting pain in left breast, worse, pressure.
Sleep
- Full of dreams and anguish; jerking and starting during sleep, full of fantasy and illusions; difficult to go to sleep at night, cannot sleep enough in morning; trembling and weak on awaking.
Skin
- Acne, pimples and pustules.
- Boils on arms and face.
- Glands stony, hard, especially on lower jaw and throat.
- Hard goitre (Spong).
- Gangrene.
Modalities
- Worse, from evening, until midnight, and when sitting in warm room; warm damp weather when at rest and lying left side.
- Better, from any motion; exercise, at sea.
Relationship
- Antidotes: Ammon carb; Camph.
- Salt inhibits the action of Brom.
- Compare: Conium; Spongia; Iod; Aster; Arg nit.
- Avoid milk when taking Brom.
- Hydrobromic acid (Throat dry and puckering; constriction in pharynx and chest; waves of heat over face and neck; pulsating tinnitus with great nervous irritability (Houghton); vertigo, palpitation; arms heavy; seemed as if parts did not belong to him. Seems to have a specific effect on the inferior cervical ganglion, increasing the tonic action of the sympathetic, thus promoting vaso-constriction. Relieves headache, tinnitus and vertigo, especially in vaso-motor stomach disturbance. Dose, 20 minims).
Dose
- First to third attenuation.
- Must be prepared fresh, as it is liable to rapid deterioration.
