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Dry Cough
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Also known as: irritant cough · unproductive cough · Tussis sicca · tickling cough · dry cough reflex · cough without mucus · scratching in the throat · persistent cough reflex · barking cough
Your Body Is Speaking
You cough, but nothing comes. No mucus, no expectoration, no relief. Only the irritation, again and again — dry, scratchy, tormenting. You cough and feel worse afterward, not better — more exhausted. It is as though your body wants to get rid of something that cannot be grasped. An eruption without substance. A scream without words.
Medically, a dry cough is an irritant cough — the airways respond to an irritation without transporting any mucus. The mucous membranes are irritated but empty. The reflex fires, but delivers no result. And it is precisely this misfiring that is so revealing from a psychosomatic perspective. Because a normal cough expels something, while a dry cough strikes into emptiness. It is an attempt at expression that does not succeed.
A dry cough is not an eruption. It is a struggle — with something that cannot be released.
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