====== BADIAGA ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Badiaga.</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s2}}Spongilla fluviatilis. {{anchor:s3}}Fresh Water Sponge.</span>

{{anchor:s4}}Hahnemann, after having received this popular drug from Russia, used it and made some observations with it, but they have been withheld from our School by the widow. {{anchor:s5}}In 1834 it was triturated by Dr. C. Hg., after 1835 some mention made in our journals; in 1865, well proved by Dr. Lyman Bedford, and finally published by C. Hg., in the Hahnemannian Monthly, vol. ii, page 121, 1866.

====== MIND. [1] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s7}}After pleasurable emotions, palpitation of heart.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s8}}Mind generally clear, active in spite of headache.</span>\\ {{anchor:s9}}Mistakes the days.

====== SENSORIUM. [2] ======

{{anchor:s11}}Dull, dizzy feeling.

====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s13}}Headache from 2 P. M. until 7 P. M., with slight aching in posterior portion of both eyeballs and in temples; agg. on moving eyes.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s14}}~</span> <span grade3>Whooping cough.</span>\\ {{anchor:s15}}Frontal headache; agg. in temples, extends to back of left eyeball; agg. moving eyes.\\ {{anchor:s16}}Severe headache on top of head; agg. at night <span grade2>after sleeping and in morning</span>; returning violently after breakfast.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s17}}Headache with inflamed eyes.</span>

====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s19}}Excess of dandruff; scalp sore to touch; tetter-like eruption on forehead, and dizzy feeling during forenoon.</span>\\ {{anchor:s20}}Itching on scalp, with much dandruff like tetter; dryness of hair.

====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s22}}Headache with aching in posterior parts of eyeballs, agg. on turning eyes.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s23}}~</span> <span grade3>Pertussis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s24}}Eyeballs tender; felt even when closing lids firmly.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s25}}~</span> <span grade3>Pertussis.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s26}}First right eye, afterwards left inflamed, during afternoon.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s27}}Scrofulous ophthalmia; hardening of meibomian glands.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s28}}~</span> <span grade3>Headache.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s29}}Severe intermittent pain in posterior portion of right eyeball; afternoon next day, left.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s30}}Margins of lids bluish-purple; blue under eyes.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s31}}~</span> <span grade3>Pertussis.</span>\\ {{anchor:s32}}Twitching of left eyelid.

====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s34}}Slight shocks in ears as of distant artillery; afternoon and evening.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s35}}~</span> <span grade3>Pertussis.</span>

====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s37}}Sneezing, fluent coryza, stoppage at times.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s38}}Sneezing with coryza, fluent, or thick and yellow; agg. left nostril.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s39}}~</span> <span grade3>Pertussis.</span>\\ {{anchor:s40}}Coryza and cough.\\ {{anchor:s41}}Itching of left wing of nose.

====== UPPER FACE. [8] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s43}}Redness of face.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s44}}~</span> <span grade3>Catarrh.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s45}}Face pale, ashy or leaden.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s46}}~</span> <span grade3>Pertussis.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s47}}Left cheek and malar bone sore to touch.</span>\\ {{anchor:s48}}Maxillary joint stiff.

====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ======

{{anchor:s50}}Drawing in a decayed back tooth.

====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ======

{{anchor:s52}}Bad taste in mouth, evening.

====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s54}}Mouth and breath hot, feverish, with thirst for large quantities of water at a time.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s55}}~</span> <span grade3>Pertussis.</span>\\ {{anchor:s56}}Mouth and tongue feel scalded.

====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s58}}Hawks up masses of gluey, bloody mucus from throat, which is inflamed and sore; agg. swallowing solids.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s59}}Tonsils red, inflamed; agg. swallowing solids.</span>

====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ======

{{anchor:s62}}Appetite good; thirst lessened; tongue as if scalded.\\ {{anchor:s63}}Appetite diminished; costive; urine high-colored.\\ {{anchor:s64}}Thirst for large quantities of water.

====== EATING AND DRINKING. [15] ======

{{anchor:s66}}After breakfast: headache.

====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s68}}Pressure in pit of stomach, nausea and rumbling.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s69}}~</span> <span grade3>Forerunner of cholera Asiatica.</span>\\ {{anchor:s70}}Severe lancinating in pit of stomach, 8 A. M.; extends to vertebrae, right scapula, and at times to right side, resulting there in a pleuritic pain.

====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ======

{{anchor:s72}}Lancinating pain with a bounding movement in region of liver.

====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s74}}Indurated inguinal glands.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s75}}Syphilitic bubo.</span>

====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s77}}Catarrh of bowels.</span>\\ {{anchor:s78}}Constipation.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s79}}Hemorrhoids.</span>

====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ======

{{anchor:s81}}Sharp pain in right kidney; afternoon.\\ {{anchor:s82}}Urine high-colored, reddish.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Severe, sharp, lancinating pain, in and near orifice of urethra.

====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s85}}Chancres suppressed by cautery or mercurial ointment, leaving elevated, discolored cicatrices; general cachectic appearance and rhagades here and there.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s86}}Syphilitic bubo, left groin, hard, unequal like scirrhus; violent burning stitches during night.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s87}}Buboes from different causes; shooting pains, if suppuration has not begun, curable by tincture in three days; if fluctuation is detected, 6 drops daily in water will cause absorption.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s88}}Syphilis of infants, whole convolutes of hard glandular swellings, buboes.</span>

====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s92}}Carcinoma mamma.</span>

====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ======

<span grade4>{{anchor:s95}}Catarrhal affections of throat.</span>

====== RESPIRATION. [26] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s97}}With spasmodic cough, strangling, face turning dark.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s98}}~</span> <span grade3>Catarrh.</span>\\ {{anchor:s99}}While lying in bed on right side, just becoming unconscious by sleep, severe oppressive suffocative attacks from suspended respiration; quick effort to prevent suffocation by changing position.\\ {{anchor:s100}}Breath hot and feverish.

====== COUGH. [27] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s102}}Occasional severe paroxysms of spasmodic cough, ejecting viscid mucus from bronchial tubes which at times comes flying forcibly out of mouth; more during afternoon and evening; caused by tickling in larynx as if sugar was dissolving; amel. in a warm room.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s103}}Cough causes sneezing; profuse coryza.</span>\\ {{anchor:s104}}Whooping cough; all symptoms agg. afternoon and evening.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s105}}Catarrhal inflammation of air passages, with fever, thirst, red face, sneezing, lachrymation and spasmodic cough; during each paroxysm of coughing, crying, pressing hands to head, sometimes strangling, face turning dark and thick yellow mucus flying out of mouth and nostrils; cough loose A. M., tight P. M. and evening.</span>

====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======

{{anchor:s107}}Pain in upper part of right chest.\\ {{anchor:s108}}Severe, sharp, lancinating pain in right supraclavicular region in or near subclavian artery.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s109}}Sharp, lancinating pains in chest, agg. from motion and deep inspiration, with soreness of chest; agg. afternoon and evening.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s110}}~</span> <span grade3>Pertussis.</span>\\ {{anchor:s111}}Severe stitches in sides, especially right, from 7th to 8th rib; agg. from least motion.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Lungs feel as if sinking down.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s113}}Pneumonia typhosa.</span>

====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s115}}Tremulous, vibrating palpitation upon slightest emotion of mind.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s116}}~</span> <span grade3>Pertussis.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s117}}~</span> <span grade3>Heart disease, etc.</span>\\ {{anchor:s118}}Lying on right side, heart is heard and felt to pulsate from chest up to neck.\\ {{anchor:s119}}At midnight, while in bed, vibrating palpitation of heart for a few minutes; after which, while lying on right side, sensation as if lower lobe of left lung was settling down 3 or 4 inches, or being collapsed; amel. by changing position.

====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======

{{anchor:s121}}Neck very stiff, agg. flexing head.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Soreness, lameness with stitches in nape; agg. bending head back and forward.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Severe lancinating and stitches below scapulae, much agg. from throwing shoulders back and chest forward, or from any contortion of body.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s124}}Glandular swellings on left side of face, throat and neck, nearly as large as a hen's egg; some hard, some suppurating.</span>\\ {{anchor:s125}}Severe pain in or near head of right scapula.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Painful drawing near spine to left, downward from shoulder blade.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Pain in front of upper part of right shoulder, afterwards in left shoulder and arms.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Severe lancinating pains and stitches in posterior right side below scapula, much agg. from throwing shoulders back and chest forward, or any contortions of body; pain extorting at times a moan or shriek.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Pain in small of back, hips and lower limbs.

====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ======

{{anchor:s131}}Pain in front of upper part of right shoulder, afterwards in left shoulder and arm.\\ {{anchor:s132}}In scapula pain from pit of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Palms hot and dry.

====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ======

{{anchor:s135}}Pain in hips.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Intermitting pain in muscles of lower posterior third part of leg, with a sore, clumsy, contracted, bruised feeling of anterior muscles of lower third, agg. flexing foot and going up-stairs, when toes tend to drop down; must step higher with right foot; amel. remaining quiet at home.\\ {{anchor:s137}}Next day posterior parts not felt, but anterior of same leg worse; muscles sore as if beaten, and a contracted feeling, numb while sitting or lying.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s138}}Chilblains.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s139}}Lessened hard cellular swelling of both legs.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s140}}Hurts of horses' hoofs; bad ulcers on horses' feet.</span>\\ {{anchor:s141}}Sharp stinging in posterior of right heel; agg. from least pressure.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Checked foot sweat (externally).\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s143}}Toes bend while walking as if extensors were paralyzed.</span>

====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======

{{anchor:s147}}Rest: pain in muscles of leg better.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Lying in bed: palpitation; suffocation when lying on right side.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Throwing shoulders back and chest forward: pains below scapulae worse.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Sitting: palpitation; stitches in neck.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Sitting or lying: legs numb, soon feel sore, must change position.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Flexing head: stiff neck worse.\\ {{anchor:s153}}Changing position: suffocative attack amel.; palpitation better.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Motion: eyes and head agg.; pains in chest worse.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Walking: toes bend as if extensors were paralyzed.

====== SLEEP. [37] ======

{{anchor:s157}}Restless at night; <span grade2>must frequently change position, body feels so sore.</span>\\ {{anchor:s158}}Awoke with frightful dreams and severe crampy pains in metatarsal bones of both feet; 3 to 4 A. M.\\ {{anchor:s159}}After sleep, head better.

====== TIME. [38] ======

{{anchor:s161}}From 3 to 4 A. M.: cramps in feet.\\ {{anchor:s162}}Morning: headache on vertex amel.; cough loose.\\ {{anchor:s163}}At 8 A. M.: pain in pit of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Forenoon: dizziness.\\ {{anchor:s165}}From 2 P. M. to 7 P. M.: headache.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Afternoon: eyes inflamed; shocks in ears as of distant artillery; pain in kidney; spasmodic cough agg.; cough tight; pains in chest worse.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Evening: shocks in ears; bad taste in mouth; spasmodic cough agg.; cough tight; pains in chest worse.\\ {{anchor:s168}}Night: headache on vertex amel.; restlessness.\\ {{anchor:s169}}Midnight: palpitation of heart.

====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ======

{{anchor:s171}}Warm room: whooping cough better.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s172}}Sensitive to cold, especially cold air.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s173}}Worse in stormy weather.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s174}}Chilblains.</span>

====== FEVER. [40] ======

{{anchor:s176}}Heat in forehead.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s177}}Fever and thirst.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s178}}~</span> <span grade3>Catarrh.</span>\\ {{anchor:s179}}Feverish, hot breath and mouth.\\ {{anchor:s180}}Hot stitches in bubo.\\ {{anchor:s181}}Palms dry, hot.\\ {{anchor:s182}}Foot sweat checked.

====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======

{{anchor:s184}}Right: pain in eyeball; pleuritic pain in side; pain in kidney; suffocation while lying on side; pain in upper chest; pain in supraclavicular region; pain in head of scapula; stinging of heel.\\ {{anchor:s185}}Left: headache extends to back of eyeball; twitching of eyelid; coryza left nostril agg.; itching wing of nose; cheek and malar bone sore; bubo in groin; glandular swellings on side of face and neck; pain in shoulder and arm.\\ {{anchor:s186}}Right to left: eyes inflamed; pain in shoulder; pleuritic pains; pain in knees.\\ {{anchor:s187}}Above downward: drawing in spine.\\ {{anchor:s188}}Posterior muscles of right leg one day, next day anterior.

====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======

{{anchor:s190}}Tongue as if scalded; lungs feel as if sinking down.\\ {{anchor:s191}}Sharp pain: in right kidney; near orifice of urethra.\\ {{anchor:s192}}Lancinating: in pit of stomach; in region of liver; near orifice of urethra; in right supraclavicular region; in chest; below scapulae; below right scapula.\\ {{anchor:s193}}Stitches: violent burning, in bubo; in sides; in nape; below scapulae; below right scapula.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Pleuritic pain: in right side.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Shooting: in buboes.\\ {{anchor:s196}}Stinging: in right heel.\\ {{anchor:s197}}Soreness: of chest; in nape; of thigh muscles.\\ {{anchor:s198}}Aching: in posterior portion of eyeballs and in temples.\\ {{anchor:s199}}Scalded feeling: of mouth and tongue.\\ {{anchor:s200}}Drawing: in decayed molar; near spine from left shoulder blade.\\ {{anchor:s201}}Pressure: in pit of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s202}}Bruised feeling: of thigh muscles.\\ {{anchor:s203}}Crampy pains: in feet.\\ {{anchor:s204}}Lameness: in nape.\\ {{anchor:s205}}Undefined pain: in upper right chest; in front of upper right shoulder; in left shoulder and arms; in small of back; in hips and lower limbs.\\ {{anchor:s206}}Tickling: in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s207}}Itching: of left wing of nose; on scalp.

====== TISSUES. [44] ======

<span grade4>{{anchor:s209}}Chronic rheumatism.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s210}}Catarrhal troubles.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s211}}Adenitis.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s212}}Scrofulosis.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s213}}Glands enlarged, indurated.</span> <span sbitared>{{anchor:s214}}~</span> <span grade4>Scrofula.</span> <span sbitared>{{anchor:s215}}~</span> <span grade4>Syphilitic buboes.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s216}}Induration of cellular tissues.</span>

====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ======

{{anchor:s220}}Touch: scalp sore; malar bones sore; <span grade3>skin sore.</span>\\ {{anchor:s221}}Least pressure: stinging in heel agg.\\ {{anchor:s222}}Swallowing solids: sore throat agg.; tonsils agg.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s223}}Lesions, pains and suggillations after concussion or contusion.</span>

====== SKIN. [46] ======

{{anchor:s225}}Itching on scalp.\\ {{anchor:s226}}Skin sore to touch.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s227}}Elevated and discolored cicatrices.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s228}}Rhagades here and there.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s229}}Brown and blue spots in skin after concussions.</span>\\ {{anchor:s230}}Causes checked eruptions to reappear (externally applied).

====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======

{{anchor:s232}}General cachectic appearance.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s233}}Scrofulous constitutions.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s234}}Fat children.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s235}}~</span> <span grade2>Whooping cough.</span>

====== RELATIONS. [48] ======

{{anchor:s237}}Side relation: <span grade2>Spongia.</span>\\ {{anchor:s238}}Cured a syphilitic bubo of left groin after <span grade2>Sulphur, Carb. an., Clemat., Silic., Iodium</span> and <span grade2>Arsen.</span> had failed.\\ {{anchor:s239}}Compare: <span grade2>Seneg.</span> (cough caused by sneezing, opposite of 13); <span grade2>Spongia</span> (cough, with much sneezing).\\ {{anchor:s240}}Similar to: <span grade2>Calc. sulph.</span> (indurations); <span grade2>Carb. an.</span> (indurations, buboes); <span grade2>Cist. can.</span> (scrofula); <span grade2>Clemat., Hepar, Iodium, Kali hydr., Laches., Mercur., Merc. jod., Nitr. ac., Silic., Sulphur.</span>\\ {{anchor:s241}}Complementary to: <span grade2>Sulphur, Iodium</span>, and <span grade2>Mercur.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s242}}Laches.</span> follows well.

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 02, 1880 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r366|Badiaga]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r366|Badiaga]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C. |
^ Year: | 1880 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}