# Senega (HMT)

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Remedy
- **Alternative Names:** Snake Wort
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Senega is an allopathic medicine used for the treatment of chest
diseases for over 100 years.  It has been a constant component of the
conventional therapy for chronic cough, tuberculosis and other chest
diseases.  No doubt, it helps in the initial stage of treatment however,
its prolonged use can be  dangerous.  The diseases that initially
improve become worse later on.  On the other hand, the homoeopathic
treatment with Senega can cure al l these conditions, without any fear
of harm.  Senega has also been found useful in the treatment of
cardiac asthma.

Senega is very closely related to pleurisy and has been successfully
used in its treatment.  Pleura are the outer covering of the lungs, which
when inflamed is called pleuri sy or pleural pneumonia.  Its
effectiveness against pleurisy is well established.  At times, it may not
prove that effective in human beings  due to a wrong diagnosis, but in
the case of cattle, Senega has always worked as a sure shot remedy for
pleurisy.  In the cattle, the symptoms of an ailment are persistently
universal and unlikely to change.  So, if it wo rks in one animal, it
would certainly be found useful in other animals also.

In most of the lung diseases, the sputum is very  sticky and copious.
With the aggravation of tuberculosis, the sputum becomes more
copious.  Senega offers a significan t relief of phlegm, although it does
not provide complete cure.

The chest pain associated with Senega becomes worse on taking rest.
The cough increases on movement, especially the cardiac asthma
becomes much worse on movement.  The patient does not like to be
moved during an attack of asthma.  It is particularly useful in the
treatment of tuberculosis of the larynx.  The extremely sticky sputum
is very difficult to expel even on repeated coughing.  Senega has been
successfully used in the terminal stage of tuberculosis also.
According to some homoeopaths, if the patient is of Senega
constitution, it can cure  his left-sided facial palsy, also.  A Senega
patient by nature is very quarrelsome.

Potency: 30 to 200

## Symptoms by System