Pulmo vulpis
Fox lung · Sarcode
Suited to elderly, much-reduced individuals suffering from persistent humid asthma complicated by chronic catarrh and signs of pulmonary oedema. The patient is compelled to sit upright bent forward, with visible cyanosis and cardiac irregularity suggesting an advanced, debilitated state.
Key symptoms
- Humid asthma with loud rattling or whistling sounds over whole chest
- Accelerated short breath amounting to suffocation
- Cough with inability to expectorate
- Persistent shortness of breath, worse on slightest bodily exertion
- Can only lie sitting up and bent forward
- Constant lividity of face, lips, and extremities
- Dropsy of legs with irregular heart pulsations
Worse (aggravation)
- Least bodily exertion triggers paroxysmal asthma
- Lying down impossible
Better (amelioration)
- Sitting upright bent forward
- After the remedy, refreshing sleep and ability to lie down
Fox's Lung. A Sarcode. Trituration.
Clinical
Asthma. Bronchitis. Catarrh. Lungs, œdema of; catarrh of.
Characteristics
Recent discoveries in the uses of tissues and organs as remedies have thrown light on many curiosities of ancient medicine. As the fox is probably the longest-winded of all animals, the doctrine of signatures pointed to his lungs as a likely remedy for short breath. Grauvogl has put on record this case (quoted Hom. News, xxv. 490): Woman, 65, much reduced in flesh by a persistent condition of humid asthma. It commenced with, chronic catarrh and symptoms of œdema of the lungs. Strong, sonorous bubbling, now rattling, now whistling sounds over whole chest, and at some distance away; perceptible also to hand laid on chest. Accelerated short breath amounting to suffocation, even without corresponding heaving of the chest, frequently with cough and inability to expectorate. [Sometimes, in light cases, there is no catarrh present, and only persistent shortness of breath, becoming a paroxysm of …
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