Thymus serpyllum
Plant · Lamiaceae
Boericke
Thymus serpyllum suits children with respiratory infections characterized by dry nervous asthma or whooping cough with severe spasmodic paroxysms but scanty sputum. There is accompanying throat burning and ear ringing with pressure in the head. The remedy is indicated where the spasmodic element predominates over mucous secretion.
Key symptoms
- Dry nervous asthma with severe spasms but little sputum
- Whooping cough with severe spasmodic paroxysms
- Respiratory infections of children
- Ringing in ears with feeling of pressure in head
- Burning in pharynx; sore throat worse on empty swallowing
- Blood vessels of throat distended and dark
William Boericke
Homoeopathic Materia Medica · 1901
Wild Thyme
Respiratory infections of children; dry nervous asthma, whooping-cough, severe spasms but little sputum.
Ringing in ears with feeling of pressure in head. Burning in pharynx, sore, throat worse empty swallowing; blood vessels distended, dark.
Dose
Tincture.
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