Homeopathic materia medica

<p>When the catarrhal symptoms are slight and the spasmodic whoop is marked, MEPHITIS is to be selected. The cough is worse at night and after lying down. There is a suffocative feeling; the child cannot exhale. It vomits its food, sometimes hours after eating. In whooping-cough you should compare with MEPHITIS, CORALLIUM. RUBRUM, which has, however, smothering BEFORE the cough, and great exhaustion afterwards.</p><p>The whooping-cough of CORALLIUM RUBRUM has been styled the minute-gun cough, the paroxysms, as already described, coming very close together. During the day, the cough is short, quick, and ringing in character; when night comes, decided paroxysms of whooping appear. These seem to take the child&#x27;s breath completely away, so that when they have ceased, he falls back completely exhausted. In this whooping-cough it is similar to MEPHITIS.</p><p>KALI BICHROMIOUM has a dry barking cough, worse in the morning. The expectoration is stringy, but it is yellow in color - not clear, as under COCCUS CACTI.</p><p>SENEGA is useful in chubby children. It has tough expectoration which is clear like the white of an egg, but the cough is worse towards evening. The expectoration is difficult to raise. If the child is old enough, it will complain of a crushing weight on the chest</p>