Myosotis symphytifolia
Plant · Boraginaceae
Myosotis Symphytifolia is suited to patients with chronic bronchitis or phthisis marked by copious muco-purulent expectoration, gagging during cough, and night sweats. The left lower lung is particularly affected with pain sensitive to percussion. Emaciation accompanies the chronic respiratory depletion.
Key symptoms
- Cough with profuse muco-purulent expectoration, gagging, and vomiting
- Pain in left lower lung, sensitive to percussion
- Cough worse during or immediately after eating
- Profuse sweating day and night
- Chronic bronchitis with emaciation and night-sweats
- Bronchorrhoea with copious expectoration
Worse (aggravation)
- During or immediately after eating (cough)
- While coughing (left lung pain)
Forget-me-not (MYOSOTIS)
Chronic bronchitis and phthisis. Night-sweats.
Respiratory
Cough with profuse muco-purulent expectoration, gagging and vomiting during cough; worse while or after eating. Bronchorrhœa. Pain in left lung (lower); painful while coughing and sensitive to percussion.
Dose
Tincture to second potency.
Myosotis symphytifolia. "Black-root." (Marshy places in Indiana. N. O. Boraginaceæ. Tincture of fresh plant.
Clinical
Bronchitis, chronic. Cough. Lungs, affections of.
Characteristics
Hale has collected some clinical experiences with Myosotis (which differs from M. Palustris in having large Symphytum-like leaves), showing it to have a strong affinity for the respiratory organs. The left lower lung was most affected. Copious expectoration, emaciation, night-sweat. During the cough there was gagging or vomiting; cough < during or immediately after eating; pain in left side (lower lung) not < in any position, but < while coughing and sensitive to percussion. Profuse sweat day and night.
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