Senega is an allopathic medicine used for the treatment of
chest diseases
for over 100 years. It has been a constant component of the conventional
therapy for chronic cough, tuberculosis and other chest diseases. No
doubt, it helps in the initial stage of treatment however, its prolonged use
can be dangerous. The diseases that initially improve become
worse later on. On the other hand, the homoeopathic treatment with
Senega can cure all these conditions, without any fear of harm. Senega
has also been found useful in the treatment of cardiac asthma.
Senega is very closely related to pleurisy and has been
successfully used in its treatment. Pleura are the
outer covering of the lungs, which when inflamed is called pleurisy or
pleural pneumonia. Its effectiveness against pleurisy is
well established. At times, it may not prove that effective in human beings
due to a wrong diagnosis, but in the case of cattle, Senega has always
worked as a sure shot remedy for pleurisy. In the cattle, the symptoms
of an ailment are persistently universal and unlikely to change. So,
if it works in one animal, it would certainly be found useful in
other animals also. In
most of the lung diseases,
the sputum is very sticky and copious. With
the aggravation of tuberculosis,
the sputum becomes more copious. Senega offers a significant
relief of phlegm, although it does not provide complete cure.
The chest pain associated with Senega becomes worse on
taking rest. The
cough increases on movement, especially the cardiac asthma becomes much worse
on movement. The patient does not like to be moved during an
attack of asthma. It is particularly useful in the treatment of
tuberculosis of the larynx. The extremely sticky sputum is very difficult
to expel even on repeated coughing. Senega has been successfully used
in the terminal stage of tuberculosis also. According to some homoeopaths, if the patient is of
Senega constitution,
it can cure his left-sided facial palsy, also. A Senega patient by nature
is very quarrelsome.