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Natural History.

Ambergis - A Morbid Secretion of the Whale

General.

Suitable to excitable, nervous children and thin, nervous patients. Extreme NERVOUS HYPERTENSIVENESS. External numbness of whole body in the morning and weakness. Nervous bilious temperament. Thin, scrawny women. Adapted to hysterical subjects, or those suffering from spinal irritation, with convulsive cough, eructation, etc. Also for patients WEAKENED BY AGE or overwork, who are anaemic and sleepless. Great remedy for the aged, with impairment of all functions, weakness, coldness and NUMBNESS, usually of single parts, fingers, arms, etc. One-sided complaints call for it. MUSIC AGGRAVATES SYMPTOMS. Ebullitions and pulsations after walking in open air. One-sided complaints.

Mind.

Dread of people, and desire to be alone. Cannot do anything in presence of others. Intensely shy, blushes easily. MUSIC CAUSES WEEPING. Despair, loathing of life. Fantastic illusions. Bashful. Loss of love of life. Restless, excited, very loquacious. Time passes slowly. Thinking difficult in the morning with old people. Dwells upon unpleasant things.

Head.

Slow comprehension. Vertigo, with weakness in head and stomach. Pressure on front part of head with mental depression. TEARING PAIN IN UPPER HALF OF BRAIN. SENILE DIZZINESS. Rush of blood to head, when listening to music. HEARING IMPAIRED. Epistaxis, especially in the morning. Profuse bleeding from teeth. Hair falls out.

Stomach.

Eructations, with violent, convulsive cough. Acid eructations, like heartburn. DISTENSION OF STOMACH AND ABDOMEN after midnight. Sensation of coldness in abdomen.

Urinary Organs.

Pain in bladder and rectum at the same time. Burning in orifice of urethra and anus. FEELING IN URETHRA AS IF A FEW TWO DROPS PASSED OUT. Burning and itching in urethra while urinating. URINE TURBID, EVEN DURING EMISSION, forming a brown sediment.

Female.

Nymphomania, ITCHING OF PUDENDUM, WITH SORENESS AND SWELLING. Menses too early. Profuse, bluish leucorrhoea. Worse at night. DISCHARGE OF BLOOD BETWEEN PERIODS, AT EVERY LITTLE INCIDENT.

Male.

Voluptuous itching of scrotum. Parts externally numb; burn internally. Violent erections without voluptuous sensations.

Respiratory.

Asthmatic breathing with eructation of gas. NERVOUS SPASMODIC COUGH, with hoarseness and eructation, on waking in morning; worse in presence of people. Tickling in throat, larynx and trachea, chest oppressed, gets out of breath when coughing. HOLLOW, SPASMODIC, BARKING COUGH, COMING FROM DEEP IN CHEST. Choking when hawking up phlegm.

Heart.

PALPATION, WITH PRESSURE IN CHEST AS IF FROM A LUMP LODGED THERE, OR AS IF CHEST WERE OBSTRUCTED. Conscious of the pulse. Palpation in open air with pale face.

Sleep.

CANNOT SLEEP FROM WORRY; MUST GET UP. Anxious dreams. Coldness of body and twitching of limbs, during sleep.

Skin.

Itching and soreness, especially around genitals. Numbness of skin. Arms "go to sleep."

Extremities.

CRAMPS IN HANDS and fingers, worse grasping anything. Cramps in legs.

Aggravation.

WORSE, music; presence of strangers; FROM ANY UNUSUAL THING; morning, warm room.

Amelioration.

BETTER, slow motion in open air; lying on painful part; cold drinks.

Relationship.

Do not confound with AMBER - Succinum. q.v. MOSCHUS frequently follows advantageously. Compare: Oleum succinum (hiccough). Sumbul; Castor.; Asaf.; Crocus. Lilium.

Dose.

Second and third potencies; may be repeated with advantage.

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