Ammonium muriaticum [Am-m.] Buy Now

Natural History.

Sal. Ammoniac

General.

A state of prostration bordering on a typhoid state is produced by this remedy. All mucous secretions are increased and retained. It is especially adapted to fat and sluggish patients who have respiratory troubles. Coughs associated with catarrhs and affections of liver. A tendency to irregular circulation, blood seems to be in constant turmoil, pulsations, etc. Many groups of symptoms are accompanied by cough, PROFUSE GLAIRY SECRETIONS. Its periods of aggravations are peculiarly divided as to the bodily region affected; thus the head and chest symptoms are worse mornings, the abdominal in the afternoon, the pains in the limbs, the skin and febrile symptoms, in the evenings. "Boiling" sensation.

Mind.

Melancholy, apprehensive; like from internal grief. DESIRE TO CRY, but cannot. Consequences of grief.

Head.

Hair falls out, with itchiness and dandruff. Feels full, compressed; worse mornings.

Eyes.

Mist before eyes, optical illusions in incipient cataract; capsular cataract.

Nose.

Free ACRID, HOT WATERY DISCHARGE corroding the lip. Sneezing. Nose sore to touch; ulcerative pain in nostrils. LOSS OF SMELL. OBSTRUCTED, STUFFY FEELING; constant and unavailing efforts to blow it out. Itching.

Face.

Inflammatory face ache. Mouth and lips sore and excoriated.

Throat.

Throbbing in, and swelling of tonsils, can scarcely swallow. Sore spot behind uvula, relieved by eating. Internal and external swelling of throat with VISCID PHLEGM. So tough, it cannot be hawked up. TONSILLITIS. Stricture of oesophagus.

Stomach.

Thirst for lemonade, regurgitation of food, bitter water brash. Nausea. Gnawing in stomach. Epigastric pain immediately after eating. Cancer of stomach.

Abdomen.

Splenic stitches, especially in the morning, with difficult breathing. Pain around navel. Abdominal symptoms appear during pregnancy. Chronic congestion of liver. Excessive fatty deposit around abdomen. Much flatus. Strained feeling in groin.

Rectum.

Itching and hemorrhoids, soreness with pustules. Hard, CRUMBLY stool, or covered with glairy mucus. Stinging in perinaeum. Green mucus stools alternate with constipation. During and after stool, burning and smarting in rectum. Hemorrhoids after suppressed leucorrhoea.

Female.

Menses too early, too free, dark, clotted; FLOW MORE AT NIGHT. Pain as if sprained in left side of abdomen during pregnancy. Diarrhoea, greenish mucous stools, and navel pain DURING MENSES. Leucorrhoea, like white of an egg (Alum.; Bor.; Calc. p.); with pain about the navel; brown, slimy AFTER EVERY URINATION.

Respiratory.

HOARSENESS AND BURNING IN LARYNX. Dry, hacking, scraping cough; worse lying on back or right side. Stitches in chest. Cough loose in afternoon, with profuse expectoration and rattling of mucus. Oppression of chest. Burning at small spots in chest. Scanty secretion. Cough with profuse salivation.

Back.

ICY COLD BETWEEN SHOULDERS; not relieved by warm covering, followed by itching. Bruised pain in coccyx when sitting. Backache, as if in a vise when sitting.

Extremities.

Pain as from ulceration in finger tips. Shooting and tearing IN TIPS OF FINGERS AND TOES. Ulcerative pain in heels. CONTRACTION OF HAMSTRING TENDONS. Sciatica, WORSE SITTING, BETTER LYING. Neuralgic pain in amputated limbs. Offensive sweaty feet. Pain in feet during menses.

Skin.

Itching, generally evenings. Blisters on various parts. Intense burning better cold applications.

Fever.

CHILLINESS EVENINGS AFTER LYING DOWN and on awakening, without thirst. Heat in palms and soles. Sub acute, low fevers due to unhealthy climate. Lowest potencies.

Aggravation.

WORSE, head and chest symptoms in the morning; abdominal symptoms in the afternoon.

Amelioration.

Better open air.

Relationship.

Antidotes: Coffea; Nux; Caust.

Dose.

Third to sixth potency.

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