Coqueluchinum
Nosode
Coqueluchinum is indicated for typical whooping cough presentations and for influenzal coughs of similar paroxysmal character. The patient suffers recurrent choking spasms of cough ending in vomiting, sobbing, or flushing of the face. Clarke recommended it routinely in the 30th attenuation every four hours as a primary treatment.
Key symptoms
- Paroxysmal spasmodic cough in frequently repeated bouts
- Intense tickling in throat or trachea provoking cough
- Strangling sensation on waking with cough
- Intense flushing of face with spasmodic cough
- Vomiting or nausea at end of coughing fit
- Sobbing or sighing at end of cough
- Deep-sounding croupy or barking cough
- Stinging pain in chest with cough
Pertussin. The nosode of Whooping-cough.
Clinical
Cough, paroxysmal. Whooping-cough.
Characteristics
In 1906 Messrs. Epps published a little book of mine dealing with this nosode, to which I then gave the name of Pertussin. But it appeared that a German firm of chemists had registered in England a patent medicine under that name, and threatened the publishers with an action unless the book was withdrawn! As the matter was not worth a law-suit, I adopted the French name for the nosode, and a second revised and enlarged edition was brought out by the Homœopathic Publishing Co. under the title Whooping-cough Cured with Coqueluchin. Since that date later experience has fully confirmed all that was then written, and many patients, old as well as young, have experienced the virtues of Coqueluchin. In all cases of whooping-cough suspected or defined I give the remedy in the 30th attenuation every four hours as a matter of routine, and as a rule it quickly assumes control of the case and does all that is necessary. …
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