• Respiratory system – bronchi, lungs, trachea
• Mucous membranes – especially of the chest and stomach
• Gastrointestinal system – nausea, vomiting, weakness
• Circulation and skin – cyanosis, coldness, eruptions
• Elderly and infants – especially in low vitality states
• Right side – symptoms more prominent on the right

• Sitting upright
• Burping or expectorating mucus (though often difficult)
• Cold open air (for some symptoms)
• Sleep (though sleep may be restless)
• Sweating (relieves feverish symptoms)

• Lying down, especially flat on the back
• Warmth, warm rooms or heat of bed
• Eating or drinking
• Motion
• Touch (oversensitivity of body)
• Suppression of eruptions or secretions
• Cold damp weather

The Antimonium tartaricum mental picture includes great anxiety, fear of suffocation, and aversion to being touched or disturbed. The patient is mentally dull, sleepy, and irritable. There is a tendency to complain, moan, or weep without reason. Children are fretful, want to be carried, but cry when touched [Hering]. Mental sluggishness accompanies the physical exhaustion—there is desire for rest, for silence, and for solitude. The sense of impending doom and suffocative fear during chest conditions is intense. Indifference alternates with irritability. Dullness and confusion of the mind accompany most acute states, particularly fever or bronchial infections.

Heaviness in the head, with dull aching or bursting sensations. Headache aggravated by stooping or coughing. Vertigo on rising or turning in bed. Scalp may be sensitive, with a feeling of internal pressure. Cold sweat on forehead. Children may have cranial congestion with red cheeks and lethargy. Headache may be reflex from gastric or respiratory distress.