Ammonium Muriaticum am-m.

MUCOUS MEMBRANES: CHEST. Gall-ducts. Liver. Blood. Female organs. Tips of fingers and toes. Between scapulæ.

Morning (head, chest). Afternoon (abdomen). Evening (skin, fever, limbs). Sprains (chronic). Periodically.

Open air. Rapid motion.

Fat and puffy with thin limbs (Ant-c.). Irregular circulation; ebullitions, burnings or localized throbbings. Symptoms accompanied by cough or PROFUSE SECRETIONS. GLAIRY CATARRHS. Hæmorrhage. Tightness, as if too short; tendons, hamstrings, lumbar region, etc. Tired and sore. Festering pain.

Brain paralysis. A rough body obstructs upper nares. Acrid, watery coryza; closing one nostril. Anosmia. Slimy mouth and pharynx. Pulsation in tonsils. Tense, sprained feeling in groins; must walk bent. Scanty, hard, crumbling stools; changing color. Polyuria. Menses flow more at night. Albuminous leucorrhœa. Blood from anus or diarrhœa during menses. Prolapsus uteri. Cough, with salivation (Am-c.) or liver symptoms. Can't breathe for coughing. Noisy, rattling, tenacious mucus in chest. Bronchitis. Hoarseness, with burning in larynx. Pulsating, burning spots in chest. Swelled cervical glands. Sore sprain or cold between scapulæ. Lumbago. Bleeding eruptions. Desquamation between fingers. Contracting sciatica (l); < sitting > lying. Pain in or ulcer on heel. Chilly as often as he wakes. Senses of heat; > open air; alternating with chill.

Related: Caus.

Especially adapted to those who are fat and sluggish; or body large and fat, but legs too thin. Watery, acrid coryza, corroding the lip (All. c.). During menses: diarrhoea and vomiting; bloody discharge from the bowels (Phos.); neuralgic pains in the feet; flow more profuse at night (Bov. - on lying down, Kreos.). Obstinate constipation accompanied by much flatus. Hard, crumbling stools require great effort in expulsion; crumble from the verge of anus. (Mag. m.); vary in color, no two stools alike (Puls.). Haemorrhoids: sore and smarting; with burning and stinging in the rectum for hours after stool (Aesc., Sulph.); especially after suppressed leucorrhoea. Leucorrhoea; like white of egg, preceded by griping pain about the navel; brown, slimy, painless, after every urination. Sensation of coldness in the back, between scapulae (Lach.). Hamstrings feel painfully short when walking; tension in joints as from shortening of the muscles (Caust., Cimex). Offensive sweat of the feet (Alum., Graph., Psor., Sanic., Sil.).

Followed: by Ant. c., Phos., Puls., Sanic.

Crumbling stool; menstrual discharge worse at night, particularly if it be dark and clotted. Fat, bloated and lax individuals, who are indolent and sluggish. Body large and fat, legs too thin.

Full of grief, but can't weep. Ill-humor.

Headache (forehead), with flushed face and enlarged veins, often with vertigo. The hair falls with great itching of the scalp, often with dandruff.

Flying spots before the eyes, often dim and watery; yellow; cloudy vision.

Affection of the right ear, commencing in the throat, as if throat and the ear were connected.

Frequent sneezing, with crawling in the throat. Coryza; with obstruction of the nose and loss of smell; watery acrid coryza, corroding the nostrils and their edges as well as the upper lip. Sensation as if the nose were obstructed with a large body and itching, constant but unavailing effort is made to blow it out.

Very pale face, or burning heat, passing off in the open air. The face burns with an eruption which requires cold applications for relief.

Lips, and corners of the mouth ulcerated; shrivelled, cracked and dry, must moisten them frequently. Tip of the tongue blistered, and burns like fire; swollen and pasty. Thirst absent, or excessive. Taste bitter.

Sore throat and full of glairy mucus, with difficulty in swallowing, or expectorating; swelling of; and of tonsils, internally and externally with painful deglutition and drawing, stitching pains in sub-maxillary glands. Sensation of severe throbbing in the glands of the neck and in the tonsils, with suffocation. Sore spot behind the uvula, relieved by eating.

Easily overloaded, when it feels sore, with flatulence; feels empty without appetite; uncomfortable sensation in, of drawing, or as if it would turn around; of digging, or writhing. Nausea, with frequent vomiting. Regurgitation of food.

Full, often with severe pains; excessively fat, lax, and hanging. Sensation in the left groin or abdomen as if sprained. Stitches in the spleen. Pain around the navel before stool.

During and after the expulsion of stool, severe burning and smarting in the rectum. Pustules form beside the anus, with itching and soreness. Hard, crumbling stools, as they arrive at the verge of the anus, expelled with much difficulty; stools green, slimy, glassy; tough mucus mixed up with the stool. Diarrhœa after every meal with pain in back, belly, and limbs. A good deal of flatus is discharged, before, during, or after the stool; much coagulated blood, or the appearance of meat scrapings in the stool. Stool often varies in color at every evacuation, no two being alike. Burning and stinging in the rectum, with hæmorrhoidal tumors. Constipation alternating with diarrhœa; hard stool followed by a loose stool.

Smells strongly of ammonia; sometimes musty odor. Clayish sediment in; rises often at night and voids large quantity.

Female: Uterus enlarged, displaced, soreness in the groins, profuse menses; crumbling stools. Too early menses, with pain in the abdomen and small of the back, flow more profuse at night, especially if dark and clotted. Diarrhœa and vomiting during the menses; discharge of blood from the bowels at stool during menses. In delicate, small-built women, at the critical age, violent metrorrhagia. Leucorrhœa, often with pain about the navel; like white of egg, brown or slimy.

Hoarseness with burning in region of the larynx. Hawking and clearing from tickling in trachea, with raising of small clots of mucus; every branch of the bronchial tubes involved. Moving the arms with force, or even stooping, excites asthma. Dry, rapid, suffocating cough is of daily occurrence, often beginning at 6 P.M.; sometimes it is deep and violent, and attended with free expectoration, dry cough all night, preventing sleep; excited by lying on back; after eating; after cold drinks; sensation of coldness between the scapulæ; burning in small spots in the chest; lungs feel sore and as if paralyzed. Asthma from moving the arms with force. Stitches in chest; sensation in, as if a morsel of food had lodged; as if compressed in a vice.

A fatty swelling on nape of neck, extending from ear to ear. Stiff neck; pain on turning head extends to between the shoulders. Icy coldness, between the scapulæ, which nothing warms. Frightful backache as if shattered. Painful stiffness in small of back when sitting or when rising to an erect position. Sensation as if the back were compressed in a vice when sitting. Pain in coccyx as from a bruise when sitting or lying.

Upper: In the evening, shooting and tearing in the tips of the fingers and toes; tingling in tips of fingers. Tearing in bone of left upper arm, and afterwards in right thigh from above downwards. The right arm is very heavy and feels stiff. Skin peels off between fingers and on wrists. Swelling of axillary glands. Lower: Left hip is painful, as if tendons were too short, must limp in walking; when sitting, gnawing pain in the bone. When walking, the hamstrings of both legs seem too short, causing pain. Muscles and tendons seem too short. Tearing down the thighs when sitting, relieved by rising, comes again when sitting, afterwards no relief on motion. Drawing pain in the legs when sitting or lying; walking bent forward relieves the pain. Very severe ulcerative pain in the heel, relieved by rubbing. The feet get very cold in the evening in bed. On account of a pain in the groins, as if sprained, cannot walk erect.

Often awakens after midnight, or at 2 A.M. with violent colic. Anxious dreams.

Chilliness after lying down in the evening and as often as she awakens, without thirst. Night sweat over the whole body, most copious after midnight and early in the morning.

In the morning, after rising from bed.

Mercur., Phosphor., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Ant. crud., Coffea, Nux vom.

Coffea, Nux vom.

Influenza; acrid, watery coryza, corroding the lips sore throat, hoarseness with rawness and burning in the larynx; dry tickling cough. Constipation, stool hard and crumbling, requiring great effort to expel. During menses a bloody discharge from the bowels. Cannot walk erect on account of a pain as from a sprain in the groins.

Sal Ammoniac

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.

Melancholy, apprehensive; like from internal grief. Desire to cry, but cannot. Consequences of grief.

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

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

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.

Inflammatory face-ache. Mouth and lips sore and excoriated.

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 touch, it cannot be hawked up. Tonsillitis. Stricture of œsophagus.

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

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.

Itching and hæmorrhoids, soreness with pustules. Hard, crumbly stool, or covered with glairy mucus. Stinging in perineum. Green mucus stools alternate with constipation. During and after stool, burning and smarting in rectum. Hæmorrhoids after suppressed leucorrhœa.

Menses too early, too free, dark, clotted; flow more at night. Pain as if sprained in left side of abdomen during pregnancy. Diarrhœa, greenish mucous stools, and navel pain during menses. Leucorrhœa, like white of an egg (Alum; Bor; Calc p); with pain about the navel; brown, slimy after every urination.

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.

Icy coldness between shoulders; not relieved by warm covering, followed by itching. Bruised pain in coccyx when sitting. Backache, as if in a vise when sitting.

Pain as from ulceration in finger tips. Shooting and tearing in tips of finger 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.

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

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.

Better, open air. Worse, head and chest symptoms in the morning; abdominal symptoms in the afternoon.

Antidotes: Coffea; Nux; Caust.

Compare: Calcarea; Senega; Caustic.

Third to sixth potency.

One symptom of this remedy that has proved to be a valuable keynote for its administration is: "Sensation of coldness in the back, between the shoulders." It is generally found in chest affections, such as cough or pains in the chest without cough. I have found it as reliable a keynote as is the burning between the shoulders of Lycopodium or Phosphorus. It is also a remedy for constipation, the stool being hard, dry and crumbling and also very difficult to expel. Sometimes the stool is covered with mucus, something like Causticum, which has stool covered with mucus, shining, as if greased. There is also a resemblance between these two remedies affecting the muscles and ligaments. Ammonium mur. has pain with a sensation as if the muscles were contracted or too short, while Causticum goes a step further and has actual contraction of these parts, producing what is known as arthritis deformans. (Cimex, Nat. m.).

There are two remedies that have menses, or flow of blood from the uterus, at night. They are Ammonium mur. and Bovista, the other symptoms, of course, deciding the choice between them (Kreosot. menses flow only on lying down, cease when sitting or walking about; Lilium tig. flows only when moving about, ceased to flow when she ceased to walk; Magnesia carb. flows only at night or when lying, ceases when walking). This remedy is also sometimes useful in sciatica. Here we have the sense of contraction in the tendons and the patient is worse while sitting, some better when walking and entirely relieved when lying down. It also has pains in the heels as if ulcerated. For pains in the heels see also Phytolacca, Cyclamen, Manganum, Ledum and Causticum. I once cured a case, very severe and long lasting, with Valeriana.

Irritability and bad humor, especially in the morning, with disinclination to speak.

Giddiness, with fulness in the head. Head feels too heavy and full ; more in the forehead, especially in the morning, after rising.

Burning in the eyes, at twilight : this disappears after lighting a candle. Dimness of sight, as if obscured by a fog. Flying spots and points before the eyes. Yellow spots before the eyes, while sewing.

Stitches in the ears. Discharges of matter from the ears, with hardness of hearing.

Coryza, with stoppage, great soreness and tenderness of the nose, and loss of smell.

The face is burning-hot in the room. Dry, cracked lips, with blotches of the skin peeling of.

Stitches in the throat, when swallowing. Burning blister on the tip of the tongue. Swelling of the sub-maxillary glands, with pulsating pains.

Much thirst, especially in the evening. Hiccough, with stitches in the chest.

Constipation ; stools hard, crumbling. Diarrhœa, slimy, green. Before the stool, pain around the navel. During stool, stitches in the anus.

Diminished secretion of urine. Slow flow of urine ; more abundant during stool. Frequent urination, especially towards morning. Sediment, like clay.

Women. Menstruation too early and too profuse, with pain in the abdomen and small of the back ; continuing daring the night, when the menstrual discharge is more profuse. During menstruation, vomiting and diarrhœa. Fluor albus, like the white of an egg, preceded by pain around the navel.

Frequent hawking, with expectoration of mucus. Hoarseness, with burning in the larynx. Dry cough in the morning, from tickling in the throat. Cough at night, when lying on the back. Cough aggravated by eating, drinking any thing cold, and when lying down. Pressure, heaviness and stitches in the chest, sensation, as if a swallowed morsel had lodged in the chest. When breathing, stitches in the shoulder-blades.

Painful stiffness of the neck. Intolerable pain in the small of the back, at night. Coldness in the back, especially between the shoulders.

Swelling and hardness of the axillary glands. The right arm is heavy and stiff. Blisters on the wrist, forming scabs. The skin peels of between the lingers. Stitches and pulsations in the tips of the fingers, or tingling in them.

Pain in the left hip, as if the tendons were too short, causing limping or pain as from dislocation. The muscles under the knee (hamstrings) feel too short when walking, with stiffness of the knee-joint. Sensation of soreness and tearing in the heels. The tips of the toes are very painful. Coldness of the feet, especially in the evening, in bed. Offensive perspiration of the feet. Ebullitions, with anxiety and weakness, as if paralyzed. Tension in the joints, as from shortening of the muscles. Burning, stinging, throbbing, as from a boil. Sensation of soreness in different parts of the body.

Sleeplessness after midnight, from cutting pain in the abdomen, at 2 A.M. ; or from sneezing ; pain in the small of the back.

Pulse much accelerated, day and night. Heat, with red, bloated face ; worse in the warm room. Frequent attacks of flushes of heat, followed by perspiration, which is more abundant on the face, palms of the hands and soles of the feet. Perspiration moist profuse after midnight and in the morning, in bed.

Blisters, forming scabs.

Many groups of symptoms are accompanied by cough. In the hours of the morning, sensation of stiffness, which is relieved by walking in the open air. Aggravation, of the heal and chest symptoms in the morning ; of the abdominal symptoms in the afternoon ; of the skin and fever symptoms in the evening. Amelioration, in the open air.

Sal ammoniac. Ammonium chloride. NH 4 Cl.

Anosmia . Bronchitis. Constipation. Coryza. Cough. Diarrhœa. Eyes, inflammation of . Feet, pains in. Glands, enlarged. Hæmorrhoids. Liver, affections of . Melancholia. Menstruation, disorders during. Pneumonia. Sciatica. Scurvy. Spleen, pains in. Sprains. Stumps, neuralgia in. Tonsils, swelling of. Ulcers.

Am. mur . is less prominently a right-side medicine than Am. c .; Guernsey regards it as rather left-sided. It acts specially also on the forehead. It causes ulceration and ulcerative pains; also dislocation-like pains and tension as if tendons were contracted. Both cause paralytic weakness; both are < in open air. Am. mur. has > from warm bath. Am. carb . has greater sensibility to cold and to damp weather than the muriate. Both have itching eruptions of all kinds; drowsiness by day with indolence; shivering in the evening. The mental state is very similar in the two. The muriate has perhaps more melancholy and disposition to tears than the other, and it has peculiar to itself "antipathy to certain persons." Am. mur . has fear of darkness, like Stram ., which is not noted under Am. carb . The muriate has fulness in head; weight in forehead. Burning in eyes in twilight or in morning with photophobia. Keratitis. Ulceration in corners of mouth. Sensation in stomach as if fasting, which nevertheless feels full; < after breakfast. Intermittent pains in both hypochondria. Stitches and burning in liver region, stitches in spleen < sitting. Tension in either groin. Shootings in scapula and ice-cold sensation between scapulæ, unrelieved by external wraps. In the fever chilliness predominates. Choudhury cured with it a case of intermittent characterised by absence of thirst in all stages. Constipation and piles with bleeding at stool. Sore, smarting hæmorrhoids. Hard stool covered with mucus; mucous secretions generally increased. Menses too early and too copious ( Am. c .), with pains in loins. Vomiting, diarrhœa, and neuralgic pains in feet during period. Coryza, acrid, watery; scalding hot; with cold feeling between shoulders. Loss of smell. Cough and asthmatic symptom < evening and at night and < in open air. Pain as from ulceration at tips of fingers. Neuralgic pains in stumps of amputated limbs ( Al. cep .). Ulcerative pains in heels (ulcers from friction Al. cep .). (Panaris.) Sciatic pain as if tendons were too short. < Sitting or walking. Tension in legs on lying. Large buttocks. Fatty tumours. Obesity. Body fat; legs thin ( Am. c ., fat all over). There is > walking crooked, < on walking erect. Most symptoms are < at night and from two to four a.m.

Compare: Mag. mur., Nat. mur.; Val. and Ac. mur. (pains in feet and heels); Rhus (sprains; < sitting); Seneg. (fat people); Sep., Sul. In "aversion to darkness" compare: Calc., Carb. an., stron., Val., and Stram. A hot bath relieves aggravation caused by Am. m. Antidotes to Am. m.: Bitter almonds; Coffea; Nux v.

Great anguish, and melancholy state as from vexation or cares, with inclination to shed tears. — Full of grief, but can't weep. — Morose, apathetic humour, with repugnance to conversation. — Irritability and disposition to be angry. — Antipathy to certain persons.

Dizziness and vertigo (flushed face and enlarged veins), which mostly disappear in the open air. — Sensation of fulness in the head and weight over the forehead, chiefly in the morning on rising. — Pressure in the forehead towards the root of the nose, with a sensation as if the brain were bruised. — Acute semi-lateral sensation of pulling in the head and in the face. — Congestion of blood in the head, with internal heat. — Itching in the scalp, which forces to scratch constantly. — The hair falls out; often with dandriff.

Burning in the eyes, and in the corners of the eyes, in the evening, in the twilight, or in the morning, with photophobia. — Palpitation in the eyelids. — Confused sight, as from a mist. — Fluttering spots and points before the eyes, in the day, and in the evening by candle-light. — Yellow spots before the eyes on looking steadfastly at any object; while sewing.

Shooting in the ears from the inside outwards, esp. in the open air. — Drawing and piercing sensation in the ears. — Eruption in the ears. — Running from the ears. — Hardness of hearing. — Tingling and buzzing before the ears. — Affection of the r. ear commencing in the throat, as if the throat and the ear were connected.

Swelling of the nose, and painful sensibility to the touch, with pain of ulceration and bloody crusts in the nostrils. — Sneezing, with shooting in the nape of the neck, and as far as the shoulders, and crawling in the throat. — Coryza, with stoppage of the nose (and tenderness of the nose) and loss of smell. — Flow of clear corrosive water during the coryza, corroding the lips.

Acute sensation of tearing, violent in the zygomatic bones. — Burning heat in the face in the room. — Eruptions in the face. — Ulcerations in the corners of the mouth, and in the upper lip. — Lips shining, as from grease. — Lips dry, wrinkled, chapped, and excoriated with burning heat, with blotches of the skin, peeling off; the face burns with an eruption which requires cold applications for relief. — Tensive pain in the articulation of the lower jaw on chewing, and on opening the mouth. — Swelling of the sub-maxillary glands, with throbbing pain.

Acute sensation of tearing in the teeth. — Swelling of the gums, with shooting pain.

Burning blisters on the point of the tongue. — Shooting pain in the throat on swallowing. — Tenacious mucus in the throat, chiefly in the morning. — Swelling of tonsils so he can scarcely swallow after taking, cold.

Bitter taste in the mouth, chiefly in the morning, with bitter eructations and anxiety. — Absence of hunger and of appetite. — Much thirst, chiefly in the evening. — After every meal, nausea, flow of water from the mouth, with shuddering, diarrhœa with colic and pains in the limbs, and sometimes with throbbing in the chest, heat in the face, and restlessness.

Eructations, mostly bitter or imperfect. — Regurgitation of what has been taken, or of a bitter and acid water. — Frequent violent hiccough, often with shootings in the chest. — Water-brash. — Drawing or gnawing pains in the stomach, as if from worms. — Sensation of burning in the stomach and in the precordial region.

Shooting pains in the region of the spleen, chiefly in the morning on waking, with dyspnœa, which causes the assumption of an erect position. — Inflation of the abdomen. — Pinching in the abdomen. — Tension and swelling in the groins. — Sensation of swelling and pain, as of ulceration in the groins, on their being touched.

Constipation. — Hard stools, or frequent and soft. — Hard, crumbly stool, or covered with glairy mucus. — Diarrhœa with pain, as if caused by excoriation, or by a bruise in the belly. — Loose, slimy, greenish stools. — Before the stool, pain in the belly round the navel. — Discharge of blood with the stool. — During stool, stitches in anus. — Pustules form beside the anus, with itching and soreness. — Stool often varies in colour at every evacuation, no two being alike. — Pain, as from excoriation in the rectum when sitting; during and after the expulsion of stool, severe burning and smarting. — Pain in the perinæum when walking. — Hæmorrhoids: burning, stinging, smarting, soreness.

Evacuation of urine increased, principally in the night. — Reddish, clear urine, without sediment. — Diminished secretion, of urine. — Slow flow of urine; more abundant during stool. — Frequent urination, esp. towards morning. — Sediment, like clay. — Urine smells strongly of ammonia; sometimes musty odour.

Shootings and throbbings in the spermatic cord. — Frequent erections.

Menses too early and too copious, with pain in the abdomen, loins, and pains, compressive or drawing, in the back; continuing during the night, when the menstrual discharge is more profuse. — During the menses, vomiting and diarrhœa, drawing in the feet, or discharge of blood on going to stool. — Leucorrhœa, with inflation of the belly; or like the white of an egg, preceded by pinchings round the navel; or slimy and brown, discharged after making water.

Hoarseness, with sensation of burning in the larynx. — Violent cough, chiefly in the evening and at night, when lying on the back. — Frequent hawking, with expectoration of mucus. — Dry cough in the morning (with tickling of the throat), with expectoration of whitish and thick matter. — The cough is aggravated after a meal, as well as after a cold drink, and when lying with the head low. — Cough on breathing deeply, esp. when lying on the r. side. — When coughing, shootings in the chest and in the hypochondria. — Spitting of blood, preceded by tickling in the throat. — When breathing, stitches in the shoulder-blades.

Asthmatic state on moving the arms up and down. — Weight and oppression of the chest, with difficulty of breathing, chiefly in the open air, or at night. — Pressure and shootings in the chest. — Pressure, heaviness, and stitches in the chest, sensation as if a swallowed morsel had lodged in the chest. — Throbbing in the chest when standing. — Burning in small spots in the chest, lungs feel sore and as if paralysed. — Tension and pain, as from fatigue, in the exterior of the chest. — Eruption and red spots, burning and itching on the chest.

Acute drawings in the sides of the neck and in the collar-bone. — A fatty swelling on nape of neck, extending from ear to ear. — Stiffness of the neck, with pain on moving it, from the nape of the neck to the shoulders. — Coldness in the back, esp. between the shoulders (which nothing warms). — Pain in small of back as if beaten and shattered. — Pain in coccyx, when sitting, < when sleeping. — Pains, as from fatigue in the loins, principally at night, when lying down, when walking, or after stooping. — Painful stiffness in the loins, which forces one to stoop in walking. — Shootings in the shoulder-blades, esp. on breathing.

Heavy and stiff, as if paralysed. — Tearing in bone of l. upper arm, and afterwards in r. thigh from above downwards. — During the night, acute tearing in the arms, as if it were in the bones. — Swelling and hardness of the axillary glands. — The r. arm is heavy and stiff. — Tearing in the shoulders. — Swelling of the wrists with tearing pain. — Blisters on the wrists, which form crusts. — Pain, as from dislocation, in the wrist. — Sudden jerks, tearings, or shootings, throbbing, tingling and pain as from ulceration at the tips of the fingers. — Exfoliation of the skin between the fingers (and on wrists).

Tension in the hips and the hams. — Shootings, pain of dislocation (l. hip is painful, as if the tendons were too short, causing limping), and pulling in the hip. — When sitting, gnawing pain in the bone. — Contraction of the tendons of the hams (the muscles under the knee feel too short when walking), and stiffness in the joint of the knee. — At night, acute pulling in the legs, as if in the bone. — Shooting pain in the calves of the legs, after having walked long. — Legs dead and insensible. — Pain of ulceration and pulling in the heels. — Cold feet, esp. in evening, in bed. — Fetid sweat in the feet. — Sudden jerks, pullings, or shootings, throbbing and tingling in the extremity of the toes. — Ebullitions, with anxiety and weakness, as if paralysed. — Tension in the joints, as from shortening of the muscles. — Burning, stinging, throbbing, as from a boil. — Sensation of soreness in different parts of the body. — Very severe ulcerative pain in the heel, > by rubbing. — The feet get very cold in the evening in bed.

Pains, as from ulceration in different parts of the body. — Tension in the joints, as by contraction of the tendons. — The r. side of the body appears to be more affected than the l. — Pains in the head and chest, which increase principally towards morning; gastric and abdominal pains after dinner, and pains in the limbs; cutaneous affections; also febrile symptoms, which present themselves in the evening and at night. — Ebullition of the blood with anxiety. — Paralytic weakness and fatigue, chiefly of the lower extremities, sometimes with giddiness, or with tension and dragging of the legs. — Scorbutic cachexia. — Tendency of the blood to decomposition. — Acute dragging pains in the bones, nightly.

Itching and titillation, giving an impulse to scratch, followed by eruption of pimples. — Miliary eruption. — Vesicular eruptions which form scurf. — Exfoliation of the skin in several places.

Diurnal drowsiness, with indolence and dread of exertion. — Early in the evening, inclination to sleep. — Restlessness before midnight. — Sleeplessness after midnight, from cutting pain in the abdomen, at two a.m.; or from sneezing; pain in small of back. — Waking too early. — Many dreams, anxious, terrific, or lascivious. — At night, colicky pains, frequent sneezing, crawling in the throat, weight and pressure on the chest (nightmare?), violent suffering in the veins, and pains in the trunk and in the limbs, cold feet, heat in the head, shivering, and itching in the skin.

Cold shivering, most frequently in the evening, about six o'clock; without thirst. — All stages of fever without thirst. — Shivering after lying down in bed, evening, and as often as she wakes. — Cold feeling between shoulders. — Heat with thirst, and face bloated. — Nocturnal sweat, after midnight. — Sweat increased by every motion.

Neither unconsciousness nor delirium ; no apoplexy.
Desire to cry, and at times crying.
Disinclination to speak.
Involuntary aversion to certain persons.
Melancholy and anxious, as if laboring under some grief or sorrow.
Apprehensive and gloomy, like from internal grief.
Great earnestness.
Indifferent mood.
Fretfulness ; irritability, mostly mornings.
Mood irritable, malicious.
Consequences of grief.

Fulness of head with giddiness ; feels as if it was very heavy.
Heaviness of forehead, in morning after rising and during day.
Vertigo and fulness of head ; at times as if she would fall sideways.

Dull heavy pains with vertigo and pallor. θ Prevailing fever.
Congestive headache with flushed face and enlarged veins. θ Prevailing fever.
Heaviness in forehead, frequently during day (internal sensation of heat and some sweat).
Pressure in forehead, towards root of nose, with sensation as if brain was torn ; < after rising.
Tearing mostly in right temple, through right side of face.
Stitches in left temple and side of head, and when stooping, in vertex, with sensation as if head would split.
Contractive pain in occiput as though screwed in, extending to side of head.
Rheumatic, tearing pains in head, temple and occiput.
Rheumatic pains in head so severe as to cause nausea, burning of ears and deafness.
Neuralgic headaches.

Falling out of hair, with great itching of scalp.
Itching of scalp ; also with dandruff.
Itching pimples on right side of occiput.

Mist before eyes, < in bright light, outdoors ; > better in room.
Sensation in left eye as if a body arose which impeded sight.
Yellow spots before eyes.
Optical illusions in dark colors.
Capsular cataract.
Flying spots and points before eyes.
Burning of eyes at twilight ; ceases after lighting lamp.
Eyes gum together in morning, with burning in canthi after washing.
Eyes dim, glassy, watery.
(OBS :) Yellow eyes.

Humming and roaring in right ear.
Hard hearing, with discharge.
Itching in both ears, not relieved by scratching, with discharge of fluid earwax.
Stitches in ears, also with boring or burning, mostly when walking in open air.
Digging and tearing in right ear, also at night ; when lying thereon, a rooting and rolling, as if something would come out.
Right ear affected for years ; it commences in throat and he cannot talk right ; it is as if ear and throat were connected.

Loss of smell, with coryza and stoppage of the nose.
Nose sore internally and at edges of nostrils. θ Scarlatina.
Ulcerative pain in left nostril, with sensitiveness to touch.
External swelling of left nostril, with discharge of bloody crusts.
Bleeding from left nostril, preceded by itching.
Constant itching in nose, with irritation to blow it, and sensation as of a large rough body up in the nose, with obstruction.
Coryza, with stoppage of nose, hoarseness and burning in larynx.
Watery, acrid coryza, corroding the lip.
Frequent sneezing ; roused her from sleep, with crawling in throat making her cough.
Coryza in children, with bluish discharge.
Coryza with stoppage, great soreness and tenderness of nose, and loss of smell.
The nose either more dry than natural, or a watery discharge and obstruction. θ Prevailing fever.

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The patient frequently feels a boiling throughout the body as if in the blood vessel.

Sensitive to cold. Many complaints increase while in the open air. Flushes of heat, ending in sweat.

Tearing pains and smarting prevail extensively. Burning and excoriation of mucous membranes.

Drawing or sensation of shortening of tendons. It is a long-acting remedy.

There are few reliable mental symptoms known. Anxiety, fretfulness and antipathy to certain persons. Neuralgic and, rheumatic pains in the head. Tearing pains in the head.

Stitching and tearing in the temples. Itching of the scalp and other parts. Rash all over body like measles.

It cures capsular cataract, when the symptoms agree. Yellow spots before the eyes. Burning of the lids and balls in twilight or dim light. Mist before the eyes in a bright light.

Burning of the ears when walking in cold air. Difficult hearing. Catarrh of right ear, throat and larynx.

Much sneezing, watery burning discharge, yet stoppage of nose. Coryza with burning in larynx. It has been used extensively in traditional medicine for coryza. Some sore throat and inflammation of the larynx.

For these troubles in olden times the large chunk of sal ammoniac was produced, a few crystals shaved off with a common jack knife into a glass of water. All got the same thing, regardless of symptoms.

Some were cured promptly of these bad colds, with or without fever. It is now an overlooked remedy. Its symptoms should be carefully studied.

With many of its complaints there is much pallor of the face. Tearing in the bones of the face. Swelling of the submaxillary and parotid glands with stitching pains.

Burning and excoriation of mouth and lips, like Am. c. Tongue swollen. It is a very useful remedy for nondescript sore throat; but especially useful where there is marked burning and much viscid mucus, pulsating in the neck and glands of neck, great swelling, pale face, stitching in the throat, great pain on swallowing, with or without thirst.

Eructations of food as eaten, and vomiting. Sensation of hunger with fullness, which is a flatulent state. Empty feeling, gnawing in the stomach and spleen. Burning, stitching, tearing pains in the abdomen.

Distension from flatus. Much grumbling in the bowels. Much pain in inguinal region. Pain in abdomen and back during menses. The abdomen is fat, relaxed and heavy, and the lower limbs are lean.

Excoriation and burning of the rectum and anus during and long after stool. Stitching, tearing pains in the perineum. Hard, crumbling stool, most difficult to expel; must use the abdominal muscles.

All the salts of ammonia, like this one, have painful hemorrhoids. It cures diarrhea when the stools are like scrapings, bloody and watery; also green slimy stools in the morning. Diarrhea and vomiting during menses, like Am. c. It has cured enlarged prostate, also enlarged uterus.

Menses too soon each month, with pain in back and abdomen. The flow is black and clotted, much like Am. c. During menses there is often haemorrhage from the bowels or rectum with cholera-like symptoms.

Copious uterine haemorrhage. Copious white painless leucorrhoea. With all the abdominal and menstrual symptoms there is copious flatus, with rumbling and colic.

These symptoms especially in pale, sickly, feeble women.

In catarrhal troubles that extend into the larynx and bronchial tubes, with stitching, tearing, burning.

Hoarseness and loss of voice, with burning in the larynx. Constantly scraping white mucus from the larynx. Difficult breathing when using the arms or from manual labor. Weight on the chest in open or cold air. Dry cough from constant tickling in the larynx. Daily recurring suffocating cough. In weakly people going toward phthisis, with daily dry cough and fast pulse.

Violent backache at waist line, worse at night. Coldness between the shoulders.

Stitching, drawing, tearing in limbs. Drawing in the limbs. Tension in the muscles and tendons of the lower limbs.

Tension in posterior part of thighs when walking. Cold feet at night in bed. Copious night sweats latter part of night. Flushes of heat and fever.

If the reader will take up the provings and study them carefully he should be able to use this remedy in the direction pointed out, and most likely would see uses not mentioned.

Suitable to those who are fat and sluggish; or body large and fat but legs thin (see Lyc.).

Watery, acrid coryza, excoriating the lip (Cepa); mouth and lips sore and excoriated (Nat. m.).

Stools: like scrapings of meat or copious, consisting of coagulated blood; green, slimy, yellow, watery or undigested.

The various affections of the bowels have much flatus (Aloe, Carbo v., Lyc., Pod.).

Obstinate constipation accompanied by much flatus.

Hard, crumbling stools require great effort in expulsion; crumble from the verge of anus (Mag. m.); vary in color, no two stools alike (Puls.).

Hemorrhoids: sore and smarting; with burning and stinging in the rectum for hours after stool (Æsc., Sul.); especially after suppressed leucorrhœa.

During menses : diarrhœa and vomiting ; bloody discharge from the bowels (Phos.); neuralgic pains in the feet ; flow more profuse at night (Bov.—on lying down, Kreos.).

Leucorrhœa ; like white of egg, preceded by griping pain about the navel ; brown, slimy, painless, after every urination.

Sensation of coldness in the back, between scapulæ (Lachn.).

Hamstrings feel painfully short when walking ; tension in joints as from shortening of the muscles (Caust., Cimex).

Offensive sweat of the feet (Alum., Graph., Psor., Sil.).

Blood seems in constant ebullition. Chills alternating with heat every half hour.

From uncovering during fever paroxysm (Acon., Nux).

No periodicity.

3 till 4 A. M.—5, 6 and 7 P. M.

Septimani.—Chill and fever followed by profuse sweat every seventh day (Cinch., Sul.).

Thirst; sleeplessness.

Without thirst. Chilliness evenings after lying down, and as often as she awakes, lasting entire night. Violent shivering, without subsequent heat (without subsequent heat or sweat, Bov.). Chill running up the back; warm covering does not relieve the coldness. Chill with external coldness day, evenings and nights; worse from uncovering, dares not uncover on account of chilliness (Nux). Chill alternating every half hour, with heat and bloated red face (yellowish, mahogany-red, Eup. perf.). Severe pain in lumbo-sacral region.

With thirst; over the whole body, with redness of face and a kind of stinging heat in skin, especially over whole chest (Apis, Nit. ac.—itching over whole body, Led., Petr.).

Flushes of heat frequently coming on, always ending in sweat, which is most profuse in face, palms of hands and soles of feet.

Without thirst; day and night; following heat. Increased transpiration; every movement makes him sweat (Bry., Sul., Ver.—when sitting quietly, Staph.). Sweat on the lower part of the body. Night-sweat, most copious after midnight and towards morning, in bed. Fever paroxysms begin with chilliness, then heat, and end with sweat.

Chill < by uncovering (Nux); alternating every half hour with heat and bloated red face. The intestinal flatus, meat scrapings and stools of coagulated blood indicate it in enteric or continued fever.

Desire to cry, and at times crying.
Disinclination to speak.
Involuntary aversion to certain persons.
Great earnestness.
Apprehensive and gloomy, like from internal grief.
Irritability or bad humor, mostly mornings.

Vertigo and fulness of head; at times as if she would fall sideways.

Heaviness in forehead, frequently during the day (internal sensation of heat and some sweat).
Pressure in forehead, toward root of nose, with sensation as if brain was torn.
Contractive pain in occiput.
Tearing mostly in right temple, thence through right side of face.
Stitches in left temple and side of head, and when stooping, in the vertex, with sensation as if head would split.

Itching of the scalp.
Itching pimples on right side of occiput.

Mist before eyes, worse in bright light out-doors; better in room.
Sensation in left eyes as if a body a rose, which impeded sight.
Yellow spots before the eyes.
Flying spots and points before the eyes.
Burning of the eyes and lachrymation, at night.
Eyes gum together in morning, with burning in canthi after washing.

Humming and roaring in right ear.
Hard hearing, with discharge.
Itching in both ears, not relieved by scratching, with discharge of fluid ear-wax.
Stitches in the ears, also with boring or burning, mostly when walking in open air.
Digging and tearing in right ear; also at night, when lying thereon, a rooting and rolling, as if something would come out.

Loss of smell, coryza.
Sore internally and at the edge of the nostrils.
Ulcerative pain in left nostril, with sensitiveness to touch.
External swelling of left nostril, with discharge of bloody crusts.
Bleeding from left nostril, preceded by itching.
Constant itching in nose, with irritation to blow it, and sensation as of a large, rough body up in the nose, with obstruction.
Coryza, with stoppage of nose, hoarseness and burning in larynx.
Watery, acrid coryza, corroding the lip.
Frequent sneezing.

Very pale face.
Burning heat of face, passes off in the open air.
Tearing in bones of face, especially in malar and lower maxilla.
Swelling of the check, with swelling of a gland under the angle of lower jaw, with beating, stitching pain.

Lips burn like fire.
Corners of mouth ulcerated.
Dry, shrivelled, cracked lips, must moisten them with the tongue continually.
Pimples, blisters, on upper lip.

Pain in a decayed tooth, ceases when pressed upon with the finger.
Stitching pain in upper incisors.
Swelling of gums of lower left side, with stitches up to left temple.

Blister on tip of tongue, with burning pain.

Stitches in throat, during and between deglutition, also when yawning.
External and internal swelling of throat, with pressing pain when swallowing, with drawing, stitching pain in the swollen submaxillary glands.
Sore throat, with viscid phlegm, so tough that it cannot he hawked up.
Dryness in throat.

No appetite.
Much thirst, especially evenings.
After eating: beating in breast near œsophagus, with heat of face and restless mood; sore spot behind soft palate relieved.

Hiccough, with stitches in chest.
Nausea, with water-brash, after eating, with shudderings.
Regurgitation: of food; of bitter, sour water.

Empty or hungry feeling in stomach.
Sensation as from fasting, yet fulness in stomach, worse after breakfast.
Rooting and rolling in stomach, in morning, passes off after breakfast.
Gnawing in stomach, as if worms were in it.
Burning and stitching in scrobiculum, from thence drawing to the right axilla, and in the upper arm.

Intermittent pains in both hypochondria.
Stitching and burning in right hypochondrium, afternoons, when walking.
Splenic stitches, while sitting.

Bellyache, griping pains about the navel.
Heaviness in lower abdomen, like from a load, with anxiety as if the abdomen would burst, ceases after sleep.
Distention of the abdomen.
Stitches in the abdomen, above the left hip.
Pain from right side of pubes, to hip and small of back.
Cutting and stitching from both ossa pubis to small of back, with urging to urinate, evenings.

Stitching or tearing pain in perineum, when walking.
Burning in the rectum during, and for hours after, stool.
Green, slimy, diarrhœic stools, in the morning.
Diarrhœa, with soreness of anus, sore pustules near it.
Diarrhœa after eating, with pain in abdomen, back, small of back and limbs; much flatus.
Hard, crumbling stools, require great effort to expel.
Hemorrhoids, sore and smarting.
Hemorrhoids after suppressed leucorrhœa.

Frequent urging, with frequent urination.
Urging, yet only a few drops pass, until next stool, when it flows freely.
Profuse and frequent discharge during the night.
Deep yellow urine, with light, cloudy sediment.
Sediment like clay.

Stitches and beating in left spermatic cord.
Frequent erections.

Menses too early, with pain in abdomen and small of back, continuing at night; flow more profuse at night. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Leucorrhœa: with tension of abdomen, without collection of wind; like white of eggs, preceded by griping about the navel; brown, slimy, unpainful, after every urination.

Hoarseness, with burning in larynx, afternoon.
Frequent hawking, with expectoration of small lumps of mucus, with sensation of rawness in throat, back of uvula.

Shortness of breath.
Heaviness of chest, when walking in the open air.

Dry, from tickling in the throat, night or day; dry in morning, with stitches in chest or left hypochondrium, becomes loose in afternoon; loose at night with stitches in left hypochondrium, lying on back, worse when turning on side; worse before eating or drinking cold things.
Expectoration of blood, following an itching in throat.

Pressure and stitches in the chest, as if a morsel of food had lodged there.
Painful tension below the right breast.
Bruised pain in lower right chest.
Burning at small spots of the chest.
Beating, like a pulse, at a small spot in the left chest, only when standing, morning.

Tearing in region of heart, going from there into left forearm.
Pulse accelerated.

Burning, itching, red spots on left chest, pain under pressure.

Stiff neck, with pain, from nape to between shoulders, when turning.
Tearing pains in side of neck, alternating with tearing in the cheek.
Pains in small of back, as if bruised or crushed, during rest or motion, also at night, in bed, could neither lie on back nor on side.
Bruised and sprained pain between the scapulæ.
Stitches in the left scapulæ.
Pinching in muscles of the right scapula.
Coldness in back and between the shoulders, not relieved by feather or wool covering, followed by itching.
Severe pains in lumbo-sacral region.

Swelling of the axillary glands.
Rheumatic pain, first in right, then in left shoulder-joint.
Tearing in left arm, like in the tendons, to the fingers; ceases from strong motion.
Drawing and tearing, from right elbow to fingers.
Itching on inside of forearm, with eruption in bend of elbow.
Right forearm heavy and as if "asleep".
Tearing in left wrist, with swelling of hand.
Stitches and painful beating under nail of left thumb.
Skin peels off between thumb and forefinger of both hands.

Languor and weakness in lower limbs.
Pain in left hip, as it the tendons were too short, must limp when walking; when sitting, gnawing pain in the bone.
Tearing in thighs when sitting.
Stitches in knee-joints, evening, when sitting.
Hamstrings painful when walking, as it too short.
Cramp like contraction in lower part of left leg.
Violent tearing (and stitches), with ulcerative pain in heels; at times relieved by rubbing; occurs also at night in bed.
Feet feel as if "asleep".
Cold feet, evening, in bed.
Itching in sole of right foot evening.
Stitching in toes, coming slowly and going slowly.

Tearing and painful jerks, now here, and again there, through all the limbs.

Pain in limbs better from motion.
Must walk bent, with uterine displacement.
Rest: 31. Lying: 6, 27. Sitting: 33. Standing: 28. Stooping: 3. Motion: 31, 32. Turning on side: 27. Turning head: 31. Walking: 18, 20, 33, 36.

Ebullitions with anxiety, weakness, as if paralyzed.
Sudden prostration after dinner when walking open air.
Great weakness, mornings.

Constant yawning without sleepiness, mornings.
Sleepiness early in evening, eyelids fall shut; better after candle-light.
Cannot fall asleep before midnight, on account of cold feet.
Heat in head prevents sleep before midnight.
Restless sleep and waking after midnight.
Anxious, fearful dreams, starts out of sleep.
Dreams: of falling into water; of sickness; lascivious.
Wakes at 2 A.M. from violent cutting in abdomen.
Wakes at night: from sneezing, with tickling in throat causing cough; pain in small of back.

Morning: 1, 5, 17, 27, 28, 36, 37, 40, 43. Afternoon: 18, 25, 27. Evening: 15, 19, 33, 37, 40, 46. Night: 5, 6. Day: 2. Day and night: 40. Night or day: 5.

Usually better in open air.
Open air: 5, 6, 8, 26, 36. Warm room: 40. Room: 5. Washing: 5.

Chill, with external coldness in the evening and from uncovering at night.
Chill running up the back.
Chill alternating every half hour with heat.
Heat, with red puffed up face, particularly in warm room and after bodily exertion.
Flushes of heat in frequent attacks, ending each time with sweat, which is most profuse in face, palms of hands and soles of feet.
Sweat day and night; following heat.
Profuse night-sweet over the whole body, most copious after midnight, and early in morning, in bed.

Stitching pain in toes, slowly coming and slowly going.
Flushes of heat in attacks: 40.

Right: 3, 4, 6, 18, 19, 28, 31, 32, 33. Left: 3, 5, 7, 10, 19, 22, 27, 28, 31, 32, 33.
Scrobiculum to right arm: 17. Heart to left forearm: 29.
Shoulder-joints-right, then left: 32. Pubes to hip: 19. Pubes to back: 19.

Blood seems in constant ebullition.
Bruised pain in whole body, in the morning after arising.

Touch: 7. Pressure: 10. Scratching: 6.

Itching on various parts of body, generally evenings, before going to bed, better afterward.
Fine rash over the whole body.
Rash-like measles.
Small-pox more on trunk and upper limbs.

Suitable to those who are fat and sluggish; body fat, but legs thin.

Similar to its relatives and to: Ant. crud. (mucus membranes); Aloe soc. (abdominal symptoms); Arsen. (catarrhs); Arg. nitr. (mucus in throat); Calc. ostr. (fat people; coldness between scapulæ; profuse menses); Conium (night cough); Caustic. (stiff joints, contractions of muscles; burning hoarseness); Carb. veg. (hoarseness; burning on chest, etc.); Coloc. (in colic); Hepar; Iodine; Kali bichr. (stringy mucus, etc.) Kali chlor. (catarrh); Kali hydr. (pimples on the back; etc.) Mercur.; Merc. corr.; Magn. mur. (especially bloody sputum; crumbling stool; atonic bladder); Natr. mur. (catarrh); Nux Vom.; Phosphor.; Rhus tox. (sprains; joints worse sitting, etc.); Seneg. (fat people; mucus secretions; stitches in scapula with lung affections, etc.); Sepia (blisters about joints; atonic bladder, etc.); Silic.; Sulphur.
Aggravations from Amm. mur. are relieved by a hot bath.
Antidoted by: bitter almonds; Coffea; Nux vom.

Sal Ammoniac, N H4 Cl, is dissolved in water for use.

It causes profuse secretions from mucous membranes, especially of the air passages, and when decomposed in the blood acts as a heart-stimulant (See Caustic Ammonia).

Ammon. Caust., Kali, Alumina, Mur. Ac.

Loss of fat. ▶ Stitches in left side of abdomen, then in right side of chest, then in right scapula, then in small of back, with chilliness and sleepiness during the day. ▶ Pressive burning and stinging now here, now there, in forenoon. ▶ Painful twitching, or jerking tearing now here, now there, the pain most severely beats, as if it would suppurate, 6 to 10 P.M., on sitting, amel. lying in bed. ▶ Pain and bruised feeling in all bones, when slumbering or sitting still. ▶ Bruised pain in morning after rising, agg. during motion, especially in back, with tearing in shoulders and nape. ▶ Contracted feeling in whole body, in morning, so that walking was difficult, amel. long walking. ▶ Orgasm of blood; with anxiety. ▶ Sudden faintness after dinner, when taking exercise in open air, with weakness. ▶ Weakness mornings. ▶ Weakness, inactivity, general depression (in fever). ▶ Weakness, with constriction of throat and difficult respiration. ▶ Amelioration in open air. ▶ Coffee restricts the action of the drug.

The mucous secretions are generally increased; free in the air passages; cover the stool; profuse leucorrhœas; free discharge from nose, etc.

Excitement when talking on an important subject. ▶ Anxiety, sometimes with weeping; anxiety, with melancholy. ▶ Irritable, peevish and easily frightened; irritable and peevish in forenoon, amel. after dinner; peevish in morning, and confused, as if she had not slept enough. ▶ Ill-humored in evening, absorbed in her thoughts and can scarcely be induced to speak. ▶ Antipathy to certain persons. ▶ Timidity. ▶ Seriousness.

Stitches, in the house, especially in left side, with pressure. ▶ Aching. ▶ Confusion as after intoxication. ▶ Heaviness; after rising. ▶ Vertigo, with fulness and heaviness; V. in morning, amel. open air, with confusion; V. as if she would fall to one side, agg. motion, amel. open air (Kali c.).

Sudden fine stitches in left in afternoon. ▶ Tearing when sitting. ▶ Boring. ▶ Aching; throbbing aching in evening, agg. touch, with weakness, so that he can scarcely walk, and chills on going to bed. ▶ Pressure in morning, after an uneasy night, with heat there; pressure downward towards root of nose, morning after rising, with sensation as if the brain were torn. ▶ Heaviness in front of; H., with internal heat and sweat.

Stitches in left in forenoon. ▶ Tearing in right, extending into side of face; fine tearing upward in right bone during menses; sudden tearing upward in right in forenoon. ▶ Burning pain in left, and sometimes stitches. ▶ Painful twitches upward in left.

Stitches on stooping from 3 to 6 P.M.; stitches in morning, with sensation as if head were bursting. ▶ Pain as if head were broken in two.

Fine stitches in left, in forenoon. ▶ Tearing in upper part of right, while sitting.

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Ammon. mur. is extremely unlike Ammon. carb. (the Muriatic acid seems to have overpowered the Ammonia so far as pathogenetic effects go).
We find no stimulus, but prostration, a low typhoid state; pronounced action on mucous membranes, particularly of the respiratory organs; neuralgia.
As compared with Ammon. carb., Ammon. m. affects more the left side, Ammon. c. the right side; though Amm. mur. affects both sides.

General weakness.
Neuralgic pains, tearing, burning, ulcerative.
Tense feeling of muscles.
Increased mucous secretions.
(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 evening. - Bœnninghausen.)

Irritable, especially in the morning.

Vertigo, ameliorated in open air.
Heaviness and fullness in the forehead mornings.

Burning in the canthi, ameliorated by washing.
Vision weak, vanishing by candle-light.
Floating opacities.

Sharp, neuralgic pains, outward, especially in the open air.
Symptoms of catarrhal deafness.

Sneezing.
Discharge of clear water from the nose, scalding hot.
Obstruction.
Smell impaired or lost.

Tearing pains in the malar regions.
Burning heat of the face in the house.
Lips dry, cracked, with raw places; corners ulcerated.
Sub-maxillary glands swollen, pulsating.

Burning vesicles on the tip of the tongue.

Sticking on swallowing.
Sore throat, swollen tonsils, glairy mucus.

Thirst, especially evenings.
Bitter taste; bitter regurgitations.

Colic; pains about the navel, in the hypochondria, drawings in the groins, etc.

Hard, crumbling, covered with glairy mucus or green, slimy diarrhœa, preceded by colic.

Burning in anus; itching soreness in rectum.

Frequent micturition at night, but urine usually diminished in quantity.

(Enlarged prostate.)

Menses early and profuse, with pains in abdomen and small of back.
Flow often more profuse at night, at times black and clotted.
Leucorrhœa follows a pain around the navel.
Leucorrhœa albuminous.
Menstruation and leucorrhœa generally accompanied by abdominal symptoms, jaundice, constipation, sore liver, flatulence, etc.

Hoarseness, with burning in the larynx.
Cough, dry, in the morning, caused by tickling in the throat (pharynx).
Cough, dry, at night preventing sleep.
Cough aggravated on lying on the back.
Cough very fatiguing, seeming to start from low down in the chest.
Cough becomes loose, with free expectoration, especially in the afternoon.
Cough, with mucous rales in the chest, in old people.
With the cough, sore, burning spots in the chest, or between the shoulders; great prostration, suffocation (but none of the heart weakness and cold sweat of Tartar Emetic).

Tearing pains in the sides of the neck, extending to the clavicles.
Stiffness, painful.
Pain in the small of the back, as if beaten, at night.
Bruised pain in the coccyx, at night.

Tearings in the tips of the fingers.
Contraction of the tendons under the knee.
Tearings and ulcerative-pains in the heels.
Tips of toes painful.
Offensive perspiration of feet.
(Sciatica, pains aggravated by sitting, ameliorated by lying. Various rheumatoid pains aggravated at night in bed.)

Vesicular eruptions, becoming scaly.

Chilliness evenings at six and on waking in forepart of night.
Coldness between scapulæ.
Flushes of heat, with red, puffy face.
Sweat after mid-night.

AMMONIUM MURIATICUM. CHLORIDE OF AMMONIUM, SAL AMMONIAC. [*].

[*] Sal ammoniacum depuratum.

We takes one drachm of sal ammoniac in lumps, as being the purest. This is dissolved in 1 ½ drachms of boiling distilled water, filtered through white printing paper and then set in the cellar to quietly crystallize. Of the crystallized and dried salt [*] one grain is then triturated three times with one hundred grains of sugar of milk within three hours to the millionfold powder-attenuation, and then in dilution is diluted and potentized to the 30th development of power, as has been taught concerning the other dry drugs at the end of the first volume.

[] Ammonium muriaticum, first appearing here, has its pathogenesis mainly made up from one published in 1833, in Hartlaub and Trinks' Annalen, Vol. iv. It is a joint one as will be Hahnemann's observation will have been on patients, as shown in the preface ; Rummel's are probably from provings with 30th dilution. -Hughes*.

This natural salt, which has been abused by allopathy so frequently and in such large doses, in diseases of every kind, shows itself in homœopathic practice as an excellent anti-psoric, even in a dose of one or two of the smallest pellets moistened with a potency of high degree, and administered in dilution of more or less water (according as it is desired to act more or less strongly), or also by smelling of such a larger or smaller pellet. This salt deserves in a high degree further provings as to its pure effects. This medicine has proved itself particularly efficacious where one or more of the following symptoms appeared : Lugubrious, peevish, indifferent mood ; flying spots and points before the vision, in day-time and in the evening at candle-light ; (hard hearing) ; Ringing and buzzing in the ears ; ulcerated corners of the mouth ; tensive pains in the articulations of the jaws, during chewing and opening the mouth ; empty eructation ; lancinating pains in the left hypochondrium, early on awaking in bed, with dyspnœa compelling the person to sit up ; the groin, on being touched, feels as if it were festered and swollen ; tendency to constipation ; discharge of blood during stool ; pain as of soreness in the rectum and passing upwards in sitting ; during the menses vomiting and diarrhœa ; pressive and contractive pain in the abdomen and the back during the menses ; during the menses, pain in the small of the back ; tearing in the feet during menses ; while sneezing, tearing stitches in the nape of the neck into the shoulders ; severe cough ; tightness in the chest during manual labor ; stiffness in the small of the back ; stitches in the right shoulder-blade in respiring ; tearing stitching pain as of spraining in the left hip ; cold feet ; paralytic weakness in the limbs, with dizziness ; drowsiness in the day-time, with indolence and indisposition to work ; night-sweats. The abbreviations of the names of my fellow provers are Ng. ; Hb. ; Dr. Hartlaub ; Rl., Dr. Rummel.

Great seriousness.

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Am. m. / Amos.

Ammonium mur, With pallid face,
And burning lips, we note thy case.
With coldness of the feet and back
Between the shoulders, this the track.
With legs so slender- tottery, bent-
And sweating feet of fetid scent.
And sluggish bowels, like stubborn mules,
That long delay the crumbling stools.

Amos,- Has Dry, Crumbling Stools.

Amos Mag. mur.,- Has a snug awning.

This Amos,- Who is subject to foul odor of the feet,- Is at Black clay Bar, with Silas Gravy and Pete Sanicula.

Dry Crumbling Stools: Am. m., Mag. m., Sul., Nux. v., Graph., Alu., Nat. m.

Foul Odor of the Feet: Am. m., Sep., Alu., Bar. c., Sil., Graph., Pet., Sanicula.

Indicated chiefly in diseases of the respiratory organs, with much prostration; in fat, bloated persons of lax fibre and of indolent, sluggish habit. Body large and fat; leg, too thin (H. N. Guernsey). "Its periods of aggravation 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 evening " (Wm. Boericke).

Acrid, hot, watery, coryza, corroding the lips.

Soreness of the nose, as though ulcerated. Itching. Annoying sense of obstruction, with constant but unavailing efforts ot get relief by blowing nose.

Hoarseness and burning of the larynx.

Throat swollen internally and externally, with fulness in the tonsils and difficulty of swallowing.

Sore spot behind uvula, better from eating.

Dry, hacking cough, loose in the afternoon, with rattling and copious raising of mucus.

Burning of small spots in the chest.

Icy coldness between the shoulders, not better from covering warmly.

Chronic congestion of the the liver.

Constipation of hard, crumbling stool, covered with mucus; after stool, smarting and soreness in the rectum.

Diarrhoea of green, mucous stools (occur also during menses).

Menstrual flow too early, profuse, dark, clotted, especially copious at night; the feet ache while menstruating.

Leucorrhoea like the white of egg, with colicky pain about the navel.

After urinating, brown, slimy discharge from the vagina.

Pain in the coccyx, as from a bruise, when sitting or lying down.

Worse from lying on the back, after eating, after cold drinks, in the morning, when getting up.

Irritable and fretful in forenoon, but in better humor in afternoon. Anxiety with weeping. Low spirited from care and grief.

Dizzy, disappearing in open air.

Sense of heaviness and fullness in forehead, early in morning.

Burning of, in twilight, disappearing in artificial light. Burning in canthi with photophobia, early in morning, disappearing after washing. Flying spots before.

Outward sticking in, especially in open air. Running ears with difficult bearing.

Sensitiveness and ulcerative pain deep in nasal cavity. Fluent coryza with discharge of acrid water, stoppage of nose and loss of smell.

Burning heat of, in room. Violent tearing in zygoma. Angles of mouth ulcerated. Dry cracked lips with denuded spots thereon. Throbbing pain in swollen submaxillary glands.

Sticking pain in throat when swallowing. Burning vesicles on tip of tongue.

Thirst: Much, particularly in evening.

Taste: Bitter, in mouth early in morning.

Eructations: Bitter. Hiccough with stitches in chest.

Vomiting: Mucus, early in morning.

Pinching bellyache. Twitching about naval and in hypochondria.

Constipation. Bellyache about naval before.

Diminished discharge of. Frequent nightly urination.

Menses: Two early and too profuse, with abdominal and lumbar pains.

Day, from tickling in throat, early in the morning. Chronic straining cough coming from deep within chest. When lying on back, in evening and at night.

Hoarseness with burning in.

Neck: Tearing in sides of, extending into clavicle. Painful stiffness of nape.

Back: Extraordinary lumbar pains as though beaten, at night. Stitches in scapula when breathing.

Blisters which become scabby, on wrists. Feeling of skin between fingers. Painful fingertips (panaritia).

Contraction of tendons of popliteal spaces and stiff knee joints. Deadness of legs. Ulcerative pains and tearing in heels. Painful tips of toes. Fetid foot sweat.

Ulcerative pains in many parts of body. Tightening in joints, as from contraction of muscles. In the morning hours the parts are as if contracted, it disappears during rapid walking in open air. The right side is principally affected. Chest and head symptoms are in morning, abdominal symptoms in afternoon, and pain in extremities, skin diseases and fever in evening.

Tearing in, at night.

Vesicular eruptions finally forming scabs. Peeling off, of skin of many parts of body.

Sleepless after midnight.

Pulse: Constantly accelerated day and night. Chill: With external coldness in evening, and from uncovering it night. Coldness runs up back. Alternating with heat every half hour. Heat: With puffy red face, especially in a warm room and after physical exertion. Frequent attacks of overrunning heat, each time ending with sweat, which breaks out most profusely on face, palms and soles. Sweat: After previous heat, at night as well as during day. Profuse night sweat over entire body, most violent after midnight and in early morning in bed.

Allied Remedies: Ars., Nux - v., PUL, Rhus-t.

Sensation of soreness in different parts of the body.

Burning, stinging and throbbing, as from a boil.

Tension in the joints, as from shortening of the muscles.

Ebullition with anxiety and weakness.

Hiccough.

Blisters on the tongue.

Many groups of symptoms are accompanied by cough.

In the morning hours she feels stiff, but is relieved by walking in the open air.

Aggravation of the head and chest symptoms in the morning, of the abdominal symptoms in the afternoon, of the skin and fever symptoms in the evening.

Amelioration in the open air.