Wyethia is the remedy of the dry, burning, itching vault—a torment seated in the soft palate and posterior nares, often mounting to the epiglottis where it feels as if a hair or a too-long uvula tickled the inlet. The sufferer cannot reach the itch; he swallows, scrapes with the tongue, sips water, and momentarily finds ease only to have the irritation rebound. From this focal misery spring the speaker’s hoarseness and the dry, hacking cough that leaps from the throat-pit with talking, laughing, or a draught of cool air. The case is local, functional, and dry: little secretion, no acrid excoriation, no ropy strings. Its modalities are crystalline—worse dry heat, dust, voice-use, cold draught on a dry throat; better humidity/steam, frequent small sips of cold water, and quiet voice. When hay-fever opens in this dry prodrome, Wye. can turn the current; when discharge appears, the remedy often yields to Sabad., All-c., Arum-t., Sticta, or others according to the new form. Psychologically there is no drama beyond irritability from mechanical irritation; once the local torment is soothed, mood and sleep are restored. This organ-selective clarity—palatal itch, epiglottic hair, throat-pit tickle with dry hacking cough—makes Wyethia a precise and grateful prescription in practice [Clarke], [Boericke], [Boger], [Tyler].
Plants remedies starting with "W" (1 found)
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