• Asthma of sea faring men when they come to land, better AT SEA
• Membrane formation occurs in the larynx, then runs upwards to the fauces
• Cold sensation in larynx when inspiring, better after shaving

Source: An element
Synonyms: Bromine
Group: Halogen group
Prover: Dr Hering
Duration of Action: 20-30 days
Miasmatic Background: It covers all the three miasms
Diathesis: Scrofulous
Thermal Relationship: Chilly patient

Introduction and History: Bromium is a deep acting polychrest medicine. Its chief action is on the respiratory organs, especially larynx and trachea.

Habit and Habitat: Bromine is found in sea water as well as in springs. It is found together with iodine in ash of seaweed and sponges.

Preparation: It is prepared with distilled water till the second potency. Higher potencies are prepared with alcohol.

Constitution and Physiognomy: It is suited to people with light blue eyes, flaxen hair, light eyebrows, fair, delicate skin, blonde, red cheeked, scrofulous girls.

Ailments From: Complaints from becoming overheated, chilled when hot, too much clothing, damp warm weather (of spring, summer, autumn), effects of sea side.

Seat of Action (Pharmacodynamics): Bromium has a tendency to cause indurations and enlargement of glands. Also acts on the respiratory system, heart, male and female genitals.

Characteristic Mental Symptoms (Psychology)

1. Anxious apprehensiveness, with great depression of spirits.
2. Expects to see things jump around the floor as if someone were behind him.

Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms

1. Sensation as if a cobweb was on the face.
2. Glandular swellings, stony hardness, of scrofulous or tuberculous type.

General Modalities

Aggravation: Dust, warmth, over heating, on the shore, wrapped up, chilled when hot, lying on the left side, by sea bathing, when at rest, in a warm room, from evening until midnight.

Amelioration: At sea, shaving, from any motion, exercise, riding on horse back, nose bleed (vertigo, head, chest).

Remedy Relationships

Follows well: Arg-n, Kali-c.

Antidotes: Camph, Op, Mag-c, Am-c.

Comparison

Glandular indurations: Bar-m, Bell, Calc, Calc-f, Con, lod, Phyt, Sulph.

Sensation of a cobweb on the face: Bar-c, Borx, Graph.

Potency: 6, 30, 200.

Repetition: Maybe repeated infrequently.

Therapeutic Value: Asthma, Cough, Diphtheria, Glandular affections, Heart troubles, Hypertrophy of mumps, Physometra, Respiratory affections.