Expectoration:A good productive cough is an indication of healing

- BOUKO LEVY M., Homeopathic and Drainage Repertory,
 During an acute respiratory disease, a good productive cough is an indication that healing has begun.
 Homeopathic remedies are extremely useful.

 Copious 

 -- profuse soft coryza with burning lachrymation :
 • 3 granules, as needed : EUPHRASIA 4C
 -- repeated, lasting bronchitis, sensitive to damp cold :
 • 3 granules, as needed : DULCAMARA 4C
 -- purulent, thick lumpy, white yellow :
 • 3 granules, as needed : CALCAREA SULFURICA 4C
 -- extremely painful cough :
 • 3 granules, as needed : HEPAR SULFUR 4C
 -- extremely exhausting, chronic bronchitis :
 • 3 granules, as needed : STANNUM METAL 4 ch

 Difficult 

 -- with constant tickling, hayfever :
 • 3 granules, as needed : RUMEX 4C
 -- vomits big quantities of mucus; agg. at 11.30 P.M. ; allergic coughs :
 • 3 granules, as needed : COCCUS CACTI 5C
 -- scanty compared to cough; burning hoarseness :
 • 3 granules, as needed : CAUSTICUM 4C
 -- nausea, vomiting, hiccough, bloody, asthma :
 • 3 granules, as needed : IPECA 4C
 -- suffocation by tough mucus; chronic bronchitis :
 • 3 granules, as needed : SENEGA 4C

 Colour
 Bloody 

 -- chest full of secretions, but difficulty to expectorate; asthma :
 • 3 granules, as needed : IPECA 4C
 -- lungs congestion; burning pains in chest :
 • weak patient :
 3 granules, as needed : FERRUM PHOSPHORICUM 7C
 • sudden hemoptysis :
 3 granules, as needed :  PHOSPHORUS 5C

 Greyish 

 -- easy expectoration like starch; chest and larynx great weakness :
 • 3 granules, as needed : ARGENTUM METAL 4C
 -- profuse mucus in old age emphysema :
 • 3 granules, as needed : SENEGA 4C

 Greenish 

 -- easy; agg. by use of voice, with sore, raw larynx, and chest weakness; sinusitis :
 • 3 granules, as needed : KALIUM BICHROMICUM 4C
 -- like soapsuds; agg. in the morning; pneumonia; asthma; maxilar sinusitis :
 • 3 granules, as needed : KALIUM IODATUM 4C

 White 

 -- in chidren, thick and tenacious; chronic serous otitis :
 • 3 granules, as needed : KALIUM MURIATICUM 4C
 -- scanty expectoration must be swallowed; teasing cough :
 • 3 granules, as needed : CAUSTICUM 4C

 Yellow 

 -- copious mucus; dry cough at night, loose in the morning :
 • 3 granules, as needed : PULSATILLA 4C
 -- thick, tenacious, ancient bronchial catarrh; sinusitis :
 • 3 granules, as needed : HYDRASTIS 4C
 See : adenoids, asthma, bleeding, bronchitis, coryza, cough, drainage, emphysema, infections, nodes, nose obstruction, rhinopharyngitis, sinusitis, whooping cough.