Cough croup

Pulmonary complaints and bronchitis. Should be administered in whooping-cough and croup until emesis occurs. The powdered root is used as a snuff in nasal catarrh, and externally in ringworm and other skin eruptions. The American Thomsonians use it in the treatment of... 

Croup is most commonly caused by the parainfluenza vims and presents with night time symptoms of a barking cough. Hoarseness, inspiratory stridor and respiratory depression may be present in varying degrees of severity. Although both upper and lower airways may be affected it is primarily related to the upper... 

Argent Nitras (nitrate of silver) Sometimes referred to as lunar caustic, it was given topically and internally. Used externally as a counterirritant used internally for dyspepsia, diarrhea, croup, cough, tonsillitis, and other affections of the throat, ophthalmic conditions, and even reportedly used for gonorrhea. 

The root of the ipecac is commonly used as an expectorant in the treatment of bronchitis, croup, asthma amoebacide and whooping cough, as an emetic in cases of poisoning, and an amoebacide in amoebic dysentery. It has appeared in the Japanese Pharmacopoeia (2001) as ipecac, powdered ipecac and ipecac S)nxip [6]. The ipecac is rich in isoquinoline alkaloids such as emetine, cephaeline, psychotrine. 

Croup Acute obstruction of the larynx that produces a characteristic high-pitched barking cough. 

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