1.        Hypersensitivity of the tracheo-bronchial tree to any allergen is psoric.

1.    Sycotic asthma is devoid of any allergic history.

1.        No nasal allergies are present in the syphilitic patient.

1.        Tubercular patients are always tired, catch cold easily, and are debilitated and often anaemic. They suffer from painful dyspnoea.

2.    Often associated with a family history or a past history of allergy such as rhinitis, eczema or urticaria. Food allergies may also have been indicated.

2.    Hereditary bronchial asthma is generally sycotic.

2.    F/H (family history) of syphilis.

2.    F/H (family history) of tuberculosis.

3.        Nasal allergies lead to sneezing followed by cough, dyspnoea and expectoration.

3.        Dyspnoea starts with a cough, which is followed by expectoration. There is no nasal allergy or rhinitis.

3.        Bronchial conditions begin with dyspnoea (nasal allergies are not initially present).

3.        Nasal blockages lead to mouth breathing and tubercular patients are poor breathers in general. There is no desire to take a full respiration and the patient cannot fully expand the chest which is often narrow (pigeon chest), lacking not only in width laterally but also in depth antero-posteriorly. The sub-clavicular spaces are hollow, one lung is larger than the other and there is a constant desire to hawk.

4.        Asthma, which starts in winter, is psoric.

4.        Starts or aggravates in rainy weather.

4.        Asthma, which starts in the summer, is syphilitic.

4.        The tubercular patient is subject to recurrent colds despite their great desire to be in the open air.

5.        The psoric patient is averse to open air and suffers aggravation during the early morning and in the evening. Amelioration comes from sweating.

5.        There is a preference for open air and early morning or late morning aggravation. Amelioration is from movement and lying on the abdomen, although some authors suggest that sycotic asthma is better by lying on the back. The patient is compelled to move, a sycotic characteristic, and asthma, pneumonia, bronchitis, coughs and colds are all aggravated in humid, moist atmospheres and during the rainy season. Stitching pains in the chest with different types of aching are ameliorated by pressure.

5.        Summer, warmth, midnight, sweat, lying down and the period of time before going to bed all aggravate. Dyspnoea occurs before going to bed or while lying down.

5.        Dyspnoea occurs on ascending stairs.

6.        There is frequent congestion of the throat with the accumulation of much mucus or phlegm. Expectoration is usually mucus, which is scanty and tasteless.

6.        Discharge and expectoration are yellow or greenish/yellow and there is profuse expectoration with asthma, which is worse during the early morning.

6.        Ulcers are present in the respiratory passage.

6.        Expectoration is yellowish and smells of sulphur or has the odour of old cheese.

7.        A dry spasmodic cough results from the suppression of measles, skin diseases etc. and leads to affectation of the lungs.

7.        The coughs of sycosis are usually bronchial.

7.        There is a paroxysmal cough with tasteless, yellowish, greenish or clean, sticky, threads-like discharge.

7.        Teasing cough with expectoration, which is sticky, viscid, pus-like, offensive and tastes sweetish or salty.

8.        The overall prognosis is favourable.

8.        Asthma alternates with skin symptoms but the prognosis is favourable.

8.        The overall prognosis is unfavourable.

8.        The overall prognosis is unfavourable.