Spongia Tosta – Roasted Sea Sponge
Spongia Tosta – Roasted Sea Sponge
The tincture is prepared from the roasted and pulverised marine sponge, Euspongia officinalis L., which occurs in the Mediterranean, the Red Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. N.O. Spongiidae.
The main indications are:
Orchitis. Epididymitis. Glandular swellings generally. Goitre. Croup, with barking, hollow, hard, metallic cough. Cardiac defects with murmurs. Dyspnoea, cannot lie with the head low. Scurfy eruptions on the head. Asthma with expectoration like sago. The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Euspongia officinalis, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for spongia: inflammations and spasmodic conditions of the respiratory organs; enlargement and hardening of glandular organs such as the lymph glands, thyroid, testicles, and epididymis; cardiac inflammation and cardiac insufficiency;