Ant-Tart is usually seen with very few other symptoms such as fever and chills. It is therefore often given after other remedies, like Ipecac and Byrine, where those symptoms are present. For example, Ipecac is for rattling in the first few days of sickness, whereas ant-tart is for use when the cough becomes rattling after a few days of illness. The rattling cough may come with suffocative shortness of breath.
Ant-Tart is also used for kids with recurrent bouts of bronchitis and recurrent coughs that tend to linger for months.