{"id":18174,"remedy_name":"Spongia Tosta (HMT)","remedy_type":"Remedy","alternative_names":["Roasted Sponge"],"miasm":"Tubercular Miasm","temperament":"Neutral","aggravation_time":"Neutral\/Anytime","keynote_indications":"This is a soft and porous sponge type of marine life.  It usually clings\nto the rocks and stones in the sea.  Once detached or severed, it settles\nto a new stony surface and starts gr owing rapidly.  Thus a new sponge\ncolony forms.  When dead, it floats on the surface of the sea.  Some\npeople pick it up from there and sell it to make their living. On\nsqueezing a sponge loses its water, which it reabsorbs on the release\nof pressure.  This quality of sponge is permanent.  Even if left as such\nfor hundred years, it keeps its quality.  The Sponge is of great\ndomestic use, and besides this, it ha s been used in many remedies in a\nroasted form.\n\nThe homoeopathic remedy prepared from roasted sponge is useful in\nmany diseases.  Its use is mostly related to asthmatic bronchitis and\nheart problems.  Cardiac asthma \/ cough is a condition in which the\nmuscles of the heart become weak, swollen and flabby.  The resultant\nfailure of the heart muscles ca uses water logging in the lungs\n(pulmonary congestion), leading to shortness of breath.  Spongia is the\nbest remedy for this condition.  In this type of cough, the breathing\nsounds like the sound of a saw.  Spo ngia definitely benefits the cough\narising from failure of the heart.  No other remedy will be of avail in\nthis kind of cough.\n\nCardiac cough , associated with the fee ling of fear, rapid shallow\nbreathing and the feeling of a fai ling heart, resistant to common\nremedies for asthma, will be benefited by Spongia significantly.\n\nSpongia, by way of the associated fear, also resembles Aconite.  In\nfact, fear is a very salient feature of cardiac asthma.\n\nOn waking up at night, the patient feels disorientated as to where he is\nand where the door\/window is.  This can happen in th e patient\u2019s own\nhouse, supporting further the diagnosis of Spongia.  This kind of\nmental confusion  is very pronounced in Spongia, though it can\nhappen in other homoeopathic remedies too.  A sudden frightful\nwake-up at night with anxiety is a very salient f eature of Grandiola\nand Arsenic, but disorientation as to where the patient is, besides\nSpongia, also present in Phosphor us, Lachesis, Carbo Veg, Glonoine,\nLycopodium and Aesculus.  Whenev er startled at night, a Spongia\npatient, will be disorientated.\n\nSpongia is also very useful in the treatment of ch ronic failure and\nenlargement of the heart .  Usually, the heart once enlarged does not\nreturn to its normal size.  S pongia is one out of many possible\nhomoeopathic remedies for this condition.  Rhus Tox should be\nspecially studied in this connec tion.  Besides Spongia, Crataegus Q\nshould also be used to strengthen the heart.\n\nSpongia is by nature a hot remedy.  The patient feels very hot and\nlikes the open air.  The symptoms become worse in a heated room and\nwith touch and pressure.  It also  aggravates on movement, walking\nand bending over.  A patient feels better in cold weather, except the\ncough, which becomes more severe.\n\nSpongia is also useful in the treatment of thyroid goitre .  The\nthyroid gland becomes enlarged but it is not hard.  It is soft and\nresilient like a sponge.  In Spongia, the glands inside the uterus  also\nbecome swollen like a sponge.\n\nChildren whose glands are swollen and their body is flabby will\nbenefit from Spongia.  Some people have a double chin with soft skin\nhanging down. Spongia is said to benefit them.\n\nThere is an interesting sign in Spongia i.e., the throat becomes sore\non eating sweets and candy .  Spongia 30 will he lp relieve this\ncondition.  Sweets must be aba ndoned during the course of the\ntreatment but may be tried again afte r a few days.  If the sore throat\nreturns, then Spongia 200 should be tried.  A Spongia patient is very\nrestless at night and unable to sl eep soundly.  He gets frequently\nstartled during sleep .  His symptoms aggravate at night.  Moreover,\nhe cannot sleep well during the day either.\n\nSpongia is very useful in the treatment of pericarditis (inflammation\nof the outer lining of the heart) as well as the infection of the heart\n(endocarditis).\n\nA Spongia patient becomes fatigued easily.  There is severe headache\ndue to increased blood flow to the head.  The discharge from the eyes\nis very sticky.  The nose feels blocked, though dry.  Blisters form\ninside the mouth.  The throat feels stuck with a needle, is dry and\nvery painful.  A hissing type of cough arises from the throat.\n\nIn Spongia, the patient feels extremely hungry a nd thirsty.  The taste\nin the mouth is bitter.  Menstrua l bleeding decreases; preceded by\nsevere backache, increased appetite and palpitation of the heart .\nThe patient, during her periods, frequently wakes up at night.  The\ncough can become relentless and turns into asthma.\n\nThe symptoms of Spongia aggravate on climbing the stairs and at\nabout midnight.  The patient feels better on coming down the stairs.\n\nPotency: 30","modalities":"","symptoms_by_system":[],"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}