Ammoniacum Gummi ammc.

Gum Ammoniac (AMMONIACUM-DOREMA)

A remedy for the aged and feeble, especially in chronic bronchitis. Ill humor. Sensitive to cold. Sensation of burning and scratching in neck and œsophagus.

Catarrhal headache due to closure of frontal sinuses.

Dim sight. Stars and fiery points float before eyes. Easily fatigued from reading.

Throat dry; worse inhaling fresh air. Full feeling, burning and scraping sensation. Immediately after eating, sensation as if something stuck in œsophagus, causing swallowing.

Difficult breathing. Chronic bronchial catarrh. Large accumulation of purulent matter and feeble expectoration; worse cold weather. Mucus tough and hard. Heart beats stronger, extends to pit of stomach. Coarse rattling of chest in old people.

Antidotes: Bry; Arnica.

Compare: Senega; Tart emet; Balsam Peru.

Third trituration.

Gum-ammoniac, obtained from Dorema ammoniacum. N. O. Umbelliferæ. Trituration of the gum.

Appendicitis. Asthenopia. Asthma. Bronchitis. Eyes, affections of. Glands, affections of. Heart, affections of. Hydrocele. Panaritium.

Ill-humour is the prevailing mental feature of Ammoniac . It acts prominently on mucous membranes, causing first diminished and then increased secretion. There are stars and fiery points before the sight. Sees smoke in circles. Dim sight from a blow on the head. Dim sight from reading. Hydrocele. Heart beat too strong, < lying on left side. Great accumulations of mucus. Stitches are prominent in the provings. Stitches in the cæcum at 7 p.m., alternating with pains elsewhere. This should make it appropriate in some cases of appendicitis. There are many rheumatic pains in the limbs and loins. There is marked sensitiveness to cold and < in cold weather. It is suited to bronchial affections in old people brought on by cold weather.

Compare: Asaf., Coni., Cicut. (botanical relations); Ambra, Aur.; Arn. (effects of blow); Puls. ( < lying on left side); Bell. and Ruta (eyes). Antidoted by: Arn., Bry.

Temper sombre and taciturn; repugnance to everything; ill-humour, which induces discontent with everything that is done; incapacity for mental application.

Head confused, with incapability of mental labour; heaviness in the head. — Violent pains in the head. — A semi-lateral pressure in the forehead; pressure over the eyebrows. — A sense of confusion in the forehead, with dimness of sight; tearing sensation in the right side. — Pressure in the occipital region. — Pricking in the scalp. — Sensation of swelling at the occiput. — Itching, enforcing scratching of the parts affected, and tingling; pimples at the roots of the hair.

A sense of pressure, with tickling at the upper part of the globe of the eye; throbbing and tingling at the upper part of l. eye, followed by a sense of pressure. — Feeling of dryness in the eyes, and as of some foreign body under the upper lid of the l. eye. — Stars and fiery points floating before sight. — Sees smoke before him (amblyopia from a blow). — Dimness of sight at night, and chiefly in the morning, immediately on rising, with burning heat in the eyes. — Reading impracticable, at least without considerable effort. — Photophobia, although the weather may be cloudy.

Tearing sensation at the exterior of r. auditory passage. — Gurgling in l. ear, on scratching the occiput. Roaring in the ears, with difficulty in hearing.

Painful dryness in the nose on rising in the morning. — Increase of nasal mucus. — Sneezing, followed by an abundant flow of mucus from the nose. — Constant motion of alæ nasi.

Paleness of the face, with a sensation of uneasiness, preceded by frequent change of colour. — Drawing sensation in l. cheek-bone, towards the temple. — Throbbing in the inferior maxillary region, extending into the mouth.

8, 9. Mouth and Throat. — Dryness of the mouth and throat in the morning, on awaking. — Sensation of fulness in the back of the throat and gullet, accompanied by nausea. — Sensation, as of a foreign body in the throat, which incites efforts to swallow it. — Scraping and burning in the gullet and œsophagus.

Frequent risings. — Nausea, with inclination to vomit. — Taste clammy, insipid, or sweetish in the morning, bitter in the gullet, with loss of taste at end of tongue.

Borborygmi, with sensation of confusion in the forehead. — Pinching pains. — Violent abdominal pains. — Painful pressure in the region of the pubis.

Stools scanty; none until evening, or during two or three days. — Stool relaxed, of the consistence of pap; like pap after a meal. — Soft, with much wind, and preceded by borborygmi in the belly. — Mucous stools, sometimes preceded by shivering, and colicky pains which occasion writhing. — Liquid stools. — Diarrhœa, with mucous evacuations. — Pressure on the rectum.

Urine profuse, containing much lactate of urea. — Burning in the urethra. — Passing drops of urine, after having micturated.

Shooting pains in the right spermatic cord, and in its immediate neighbourhood. — Drawings internally. — Shooting pains at the root of the penis. — Itching in the pubic region. — Hydrocele.

Roughness of the orifice of the throat. — Constant tickling, without inclination to cough. — Bronchial affections of old people in cold weather.

Respiration short, with heaving of the chest, and anxiety; quickened. — During inspiration, a sense of oppression, with lancinating pains in the l. side of the chest. — Pressure in the side. — Great uneasiness at the bottom of the chest, towards the back, on r. side, followed by pressure in the deepest part of the chest.

Weight and pressure in the lumbar vertebræ. — Darting pains in the loins, chiefly during inspiration. — Rheumatic pains at the l. of the pelvis.

Shooting and tearing pains in the shoulder-joint. — Sense of weakness in l. arm. — Rheumatic pain. — A sensation of breaking, chiefly in the elbow and l. wrist; sometimes with a tearing pain in r. hand. — Swelling of the fingers. — Dragging sensation in the middle finger of r. hand. — Rheumatic pain in the forefinger of the r. hand. — Panaritium.

Darting pains about the hips while walking, which induce limping; also in r. hip joint, on being seated. — Weakness in the legs. — Jerking pain in l. thigh, along the crural nerve. — Violent pain above the knee while walking. — Sensation of swelling in the knee, at night, on being seated, with pinching pains in the popliteal space. — Shooting pains in r. knee. — Stiffness of the joint while walking. — Darting and pressive pains in the l. tibia. — Tearing pains in the joints of the foot. — Sense of pressure above r. ankle. — Cracking of the joints on moving. — Tearing, burning pains, in the metatarsal bones. — Heaviness in r. foot. — A tendency to stumble on going up stairs. — Pinching, burning, tearing, and drawing in l. foot. — Tingling in r. foot. — Swelling of the toes. — Burning and shooting pains in the great toe. — Drawing in the middle toe.

Swelling of the joints of the upper and lower extremities. — Neuralgia. — Lassitude after the least exertion. — Physical dulness and lassitude, with mental depression. — Inclination to sleep during the day, sometimes even on rising in the morning, with listlessness; yawning from emptiness of stomach, sometimes attended by weeping; sleep unquiet during the night, disturbed by dreams, unrefreshing; sleep delayed; numerous and sometimes painful dreams. — Coldness and shivering, tendency to perspire. — Pulse small, wiry, rapid, and hard.

Gum Ammoniac. Umbelliferæ.
A Persian gum obtained from Dorema ammoniacum, an umbelliferous plant. A drug famous since ancient times. Proved and introduced by I. G. Jahnel in 1837, proved again by J. B. Buchner in 1840, and by several others in 1847.

Anxiety, with congestion of lungs.
Low-spirited ; sluggish ; drowsy.
Indisposed to mental work.
Intellectual labor prevented by headache.

Aching in forehead with confusion of whole head, and such drowsiness that any effort or labor was impossible.
Forehead confused, with weakness of sight and heaviness in loins.
Confusion of head and sleepiness, with a sensation as if bruised in limbs, and pains in course of crural nerve.

Pains throughout whole forehead ; increasing all day till evening, preventing intellectual labor.
Severe headache continuing during night, preventing sleep.
Aching in forehead, with confusion of whole head, and such drowsiness that any effort or labor was utterly impossible.
Pressive pains in whole forehead, and over eyes.
Transient, stitching pains in left temporal region.
Tearings in left side of head.
Pressive pain in whole head, especially in supraorbital region and occiput.
Stitching pains through head.
Heaviness of the head.

Itching, mostly on border of hair in nape of neck.
Pimples on border of scalp.
Frequently returning knifelike stitches in middle of hairy scalp.
Stitching in occiput, on edge of hair ; under hair pustules formed.
Numbness in occiput.

Stars and fiery points floating before his eyes.
Beams of light and sparks proceeding from eyes.
Candlelight surrounded by brilliant colored rings.
Glaring as from melted metal before eyes ; sparks and streaks < in evening.
Sees things through a thick mist or a cloud of dust.
Dim sight after a blow on head.
Eyes fatigued from reading ; they become injected and throb.
Dimness and obstruction of sight in evening, amounting almost to blindness.
He sees before him smoke, which, taking flight of small birds, forms a large circle and is most distinct at twenty paces, on a white ground. Generally smaller circles are present ; in which case the smoke seems only an appendage to these circles. The appearance and motion of these circles depend upon the unsteadiness of the look and correspond to an appearance of congestion at internal corners of eye. The margins of the circles are always grey, and become black on sudden motion. On first looking at an object, circles appear above lens, but on looking steadily they sink to middle and remain floating there. They are clearer in clear weather and dimmer in dark weather. Sometimes he also sees a black spot which becomes larger as night advances. θ Amblyopia, after a blow.
Daylight hurts his eyes.
Aching in upper part of eye.

Buzzing, roaring in ears, with hardness of hearing.
Pain in ears, with toothache.
Large secretion of earwax.

Mucous discharge from nose with frequent sneezing and mucous expectoration. θ Coryza.
Dry nose on waking.
Constant motion of alæ nasi. θ Congestion of lungs.

Pale face, feels sick ; frequent change of color.
Drawing in right malar bone towards temple.
Dark face, anxious, parched look. θ Congestion of lungs.

Darting from region of lower jaw to interior of mouth.

Toothache, pain extending into ear.

Insipid taste.

Darting from region of lower jaw into mouth.

Bitterish unpleasant taste in throat.
After swallowing, a sensation in throat as from a dry cough.
Sensation of sharpness and burning in throat and œsophagus.
Dryness of throat, most troublesome in morning, always increases by inhaling fresh air.

Want of appetite.

Belching after eating.

Disgust, with inclination to vomit.
(OBS :) Vomiting and purging.

Aching in pit of stomach.

Induration of liver.
(OBS :) Infarcts of liver, spleen and pancreas.

Slight pains in belly with borborygmi.
Chilliness and wandering pain in abdomen, followed by an abundant mucous stool.
Dull, shooting, jerking pain in region of cecum ; < when turning on to right side.
Pressure and heaviness in pubic region.

Constipation.
Abundant mucous stool, after chilliness and wandering pain in abdomen.
Stools sometimes fluid.
Fetid flatulence with papescent stool.
Chronic diarrhœa, with cutting pains, weakness, discharges bilious or mucous.
Summer complaint of children.

After a few days many torulæ were formed in urine.
Lactate of urea much increased.
Burning in urethra.
Dribbling after urination.

Heaviness and aching in pubic region.
Itching in pubic region.
Shooting and drawing in right spermatic cord and penis.
Indurated testicles.
(OBS :) Hydrocele.

Menotasia, dysmenorrhœa from obstructions in portal system.
(OBS :) Irregular menstruation, amenorrhœa from chlorosis.

Rough throat.
Tickling without cough.
(OBS :) Chronic bronchitis.

Short, loud, accelerated breathing, with anxiety.
Oppression and stitches in left chest, when inspiring.
Difficult breathing. θ Congestion of lungs.
Oppression of chest relieved by raising tough phlegm.
(OBS :) Spasmodic asthma.

Mucous expectoration.
(OBS :) Asthenic pulmonary complaints.
Promotes power of ejecting sputa if sick have not the strength.
Mucus tough, profuse and hard.
(OBS :) Chronic pulmonary and bronchial catarrh, with nauseous thick fluid, puslike sputa.
(OBS :) Large accumulation of purulent or viscid matter, with feeble or difficult expectoration.
Aged people suffer in cold weather from bronchial affections, with accumulation of mucus and much difficulty in raising it.

Pressure in chest.
Dull and numb feeling in posterior part of right chest, followed by pressure deep in.
Lungs congested ; dulness on both sides ; great difficulty in breathing and anxiety, constant motion of alæ nasi ; face dark with anxious and parched look ; no expectoration ; with this an attack of asthma. θ Suppressed eczema following vaccination.

Heart-beat stronger, but not more rapid ; extends into pit of stomach ; < in evening when lying down and when lying on back or l. side.
At night, when lying down, heart and arteries throb ; eyes weary after reading ; cannot get to sleep.
Pulse small, corded, quick and hard.
Pulse quickened, frequent and hard.
Pulse tense.

Weight and pressure in lumbar vertebræ, with stitches in loins during inhalation, and rheumatic pain in left pelvis.

Lancination in shoulder joints.
Left arm weak.
Rheumatic pain, as if bruised, most in elbow joint and l. wrist, with tearing in right hand.
Pain in left shoulder joint and arm.
Panaritium.

Stitches in right hip when sitting.
Stitches over hip when walking, he limps.
Cannot walk from pain in right hip joint.
Darting pain in left thigh along crural nerve.
Violent pain over knee when walking.
Knee swollen in evening, while sitting, with pinching in bend of joint.
Stitches in right knee, in tibia and tarsal joint.
Gouty pain in left big toe.
Itching on soles of feet.
Tingling in right foot.
Pinching, tearing, drawing, burning in left foot.
Swelling of toes.

Tearing pain in wrist and ankles, followed by swollen toes and fingers.
Tired feeling and heaviness in limbs, even after slightest exertion.

Lying down on back or on left side ; heart symptoms worse.
Turning on right side : increases pain in cecum.
Sitting : stitches in right hip ; knee swollen, pricking in bend of joint.
Walking ; stitches over hip ; pain over knee.
Cannot walk : from pain in right hip joint.
After slightest exertion : tiredness and heaviness of limbs.

Uneasiness ; weariness.
(OBS :) Hysteria with weakness.

Drowsiness all day, sleep full of dreams.
Drowsiness with headache, making labor impossible.
Gaping because stomach is empty, brings tears in eyes.
On awaking : nose, mouth and throat very dry.
On getting up in morning : lazy, drowsy and depressed in spirits.

Night : headache continues ; heart and arteries throb.
Morning : dryness of throat < ; lazy, drowsy and depressed on rising.
All day till evening : pain throughout whole forehead.
All day : drowsy.
Evening : glaring before eyes ; sparks and streaks before eyes < ; dimness of vision ; heart symptoms < ; knee swollen.
As night advances : sees a black spot. θ Amblyopia.

Fresh air : inhaling it makes dryness of throat worse.
Cold weather : increase of bronchial troubles.
In clear weather, objects look clearer ; in dull weather, dimmer. θ Amblyopia.

Chilliness followed by slight fever and headache.
A running chill from feet up over back.
Disposition to sweat.

Right : drawing in malar bone ; dull and numb, posterior part of chest ; tearing in hand ; stitches in hip ; stitches in knee ; tingling in foot.
Left : transient stitches in temple ; tearing in side of head ; stitches in chest ; rheumatic pains in pelvis ; arm weak ; rheumatic pains in wrist, arm and shoulder joint ; darting pain in thigh ; gouty pain in big toe ; pinching, tearing, drawing and burning in foot.
Below upward : running chill from feet up back.

Stitches : in left temporal region ; through head ; in hairy scalp ; in occiput on edge of hair ; in left chest when inspiring ; in loins during inhalation ; in shoulder joints ; in right hip when sitting ; over hip when walking ; in right knee, tibia and tarsal joint ; as from dry cough in throat after swallowing.
Lancination : in shoulder joints.
Darting : from region of lower jaw into mouth ; in left thigh along crural nerve.
Shooting : in right spermatic cord and penis.
Tearing : in left side of head ; in right hand ; in wrist and ankles ; in left foot.
Cutting pain : with diarrhœa.
Sharpness and burning : in throat and œsophagus.
Drawing : in right malar bone towards temple ; in spermatic cord and penis ; in left foot.
Burning : in urethra.
Aching : in forehead ; in upper part of eye ; in pit of stomach ; in pubic region.
Bruised feeling : in limbs ; in upper limbs.
Pinching : in bend of joint ; in left foot.
Heaviness : of head ; in loins with headache ; in pubic region ; in lumbar vertebræ ; in limbs.
Itching : on border of hair in nape of neck ; in pubic region ; on soles of feet.
Tingling : in right foot.
Numbness : in occiput ; in posterior part of right chest.
Dryness : of nose ; in throat.
Chilliness : in abdomen with wandering pain.
Pain : in forehead ; in course of crural nerves ; in ears ; in left shoulder joint and arm ; over knee.
Stinging, tearing, pricking pain, here and there, mostly in lower limbs.
Tired feeling and heaviness : in limbs after slight exertion.
Dull shooting jerking pain : in region of cecum.
Toothache extending into ears.
Pressure : in chest ; in pubic region ; in lumbar vertebræ.
Rheumatic pain : in left pelvis ; in elbow joint and left wrist.
Gouty pain : in left big toe.
Pressive pains : in forehead ; in whole head.

(OBS :) Hemorrhages.
(OBS :) Causes abundant serous discharges.
(OBS :) Dropsical complaints.
(OBS :) Gout not developing in usual form of attacks, but disturbing general health.
(OBS :) Scrofulous tumors or enlarged joints.

Blows with a stick over the head, followed by dim sight. θ Amblyopia.

Red rash over whole body.
After itching, little blisters like rash in typhus, but containing a yellow fluid ; afternoon, violent fever with swelling of face, more like a red rash.
Suppression of eczema following vaccination. θ Congestion of lungs.

Constitution. Man, æt. 26, fair haired, robust frame. θ Amblyopia.
Aged people suffering during cold weather. See bronchial affections .

Similar to its relatives : the umbelliferæ, especially Conium (glands, eyes, etc.) ; Opoponax ; Asaf . (asthma) ; Cicut . (eruption in whiskers) ; Galban. ; Sagap. ; Sumbul (heart-throb too strong). Also : Acon . (heart) ; Ambra (asthma) ; Arnic . (traumatic amblyopia) ; Arsen . (heart ; asthma) ; Aurum (congestion to eyes ; heart ; indurated testicle, etc.) ; Bellad . (eyes ; heart ; Ammoniac in asthenopia, stands between Bellad. and Ruta.) ; Chelid . (strong, but not quickened heart-throb) ; Cotyl . (strong heart-throb) ; Fagopyr . (strong throb of heart and arteries) ; Iber . (strong heart-beat) ; Lycop. ; Myrrh. ; Natr. mur . (asthenopia, eruption at nape, etc.) ; Nitr. ac . ( See 27 ) ; Oliban. ; Phosphor . (strong heart-throb ; eyes ; asthma) ; Pulsat . (styes ; heart < when lying on l. side) ; Sulphur (congestive palpitation and throbbing all over at night, etc.) ; Seneg . (asthma from mucus ; heart-beat too strong, etc.).
Antidoted by : Arnic . and Bryon .

Gum Ammoniac is obtained from Dorema Ammoniacum, Don, natural order Umbelliferæ. For use the gum (inspissated juice) is first triturated.

In general Ammoniac acts on all the mucous membranes, at first causing diminished then increased secretions (See eye, throat, bowels and bronchi). ▶ The pains developed by the provings are noteworthy, especially violent in the lower extremities; notice the pains referred to the cæcal region; the disturbance of vision, etc. ▶ It was formerly used largely as an expectorant in chronic bronchitis and asthma.

Asap., Senega, Ammon. Mur., Ferrum.

Stitches in various parts in evening, on left great toe, left knee and in chest. ▶ Fermentation here and there. ▶ Pulsation in whole body, with restlessness, delaying sleep, though he had drunk less beer than usual. ▶ Sluggishness on rising, with drowsiness, depression of spirits, physical heaviness and weariness. ▶ Weariness on least motion; weariness, with bruised feeling in limbs.

Melancholy; and discomfort. ▶ Ill humor; with uneasiness. ▶ Disinclination for anything. ▶ Incapacity for mental exertion.

Stitches through. ▶ Aching; at night, preventing sleep; in whole head at noon, especially in supraorbital region and occiput. ▶ Confusion in afternoon; in evening; with heaviness and aching, and with drowsiness; with heaviness and aching, and with drowsiness; with sleepiness, weariness of limbs and pain in crural nerve. ▶ Heaviness. ▶ Vertigo while reading, passing into headache, which lasted into the night.

Forehead, aching; agg. all day till evening; right half; and over eyes; and over eyes, stronger in temporal region, amel. after dinner; with confusion of head and drowsiness. ▶ Confusion in sinciput with weakness of sight and heaviness in loins. ▶ Stitching in left temple. ▶ Tearing in left side of head. ▶ Fuzzy sensation at occiput. ▶ Pustules where hair ceased. ▶ Itching vesicles on left occiput where the hair ceased and a vesicle in beard in right side of face. ▶ Stitches as from a knife in middle of scalp. ▶ Itching; more in vertex and below; on left side of occiput where hair ceased; on occiput where hair ceased, with pustules under the hair. ▶ Prickling when scratched.

Drawing stitching. ▶ Tension and dull stitching, agg. stooping. ▶ Dry feeling, with sensation of a foreign body between left upper lid and ball. ▶ Weariness after reading. ▶ Aching in upper part of ball. ▶ Prickling in upper half of ball. ▶ Purulent matter in inner canthi, agg. right, morning on waking. ▶ Stitches in right lower lid, agg. moving lids, touching them or stooping; throbbing pricking in left upper, followed by pressure. ▶ Pains in lower had disappeared and only a hard pellicle could be felt in left. ▶ Feeling as if a gland were swollen under lid.

Beams of light and sparks proceeding from eyes and a burning light surrounded by brilliant colored rings. ▶ Dim, almost lost, in evening, with stars and fiery points moving before eyes; dim in evening, agg. morning after rising, with warmth in eyes; as through a thick mist or cloud of dust in evening. ▶ Of a waving cloud of dust. ▶ Of floating dust before eyes (which were heavy from sleep), with pressure upon orbital region. ▶ Daylight hurts eyes. ▶ Cannot read without straining eyes.

Stitches in right; at noon. ▶ Deep-seated tearings in right external auditory passage. ▶ Humming. ▶ Clinking in left at 10 P.M. when scratching occiput.

Mouth and throat dry on waking. ▶ Profuse mucous discharge from nose. ▶ Frequent sneezing.

Countenance changed and she became pale. ▶ Drawing in left zygoma late in evening, extending to temples. ▶ Lips dry and burning.

Short rheumatic stitches in left eye-tooth. ▶ Dull stitching jerking pains in two left lower incisors at 7 o'clock. ▶ Yellowish coat on tongue; with bitter taste. ▶ Dry roughness in tip of tongue and in hard palate; in posterior part of hard palate, with pressure in pit of stomach. ▶ Dryness of mouth and oppression of chest, agg. morning. ▶ Taste clayey; flat, somewhat sweetish, in morning; bitter; no taste in fore part of tongue, but nauseating, bitter in pharynx, amel. after eating.

Sticking from region of right submaxillary glands into mouth. ▶ Feeling of something sticking deep in throat, necessitating swallowing. ▶ Scraping and burning in throat and œsophagus. ▶ Roughness; and dryness. ▶ Fulness extending up into throat at 10 A.M. fulness in throat and gullet, almost inducing nausea. ▶ Peculiar sensation, causing cough, amel. after eating. ▶ Sensation after swallowing as from a dry cough. ▶ Scraping in œsophagus.

Eructations; of resinous odor; of resinous bitter taste; violent. ▶ Nausea. ▶ Pressure; after supper; in pit, with tension; in pit, alternating with pressure and heaviness in pubic region. ▶ Burning in pit; with pressure.

Rumbling after 1 P.M.; rumbling, with confusion in sinciput; rumbling, then soft stool, with much flatus. ▶ Flatus copious at night; copious sour in morning; strong smelling. ▶ Cutting. ▶ Gripping. ▶ Pain; in afternoon; with borborygmus.

Stitches under ribs and navel, agg. left side; under left short ribs and between superior and anterior spinous processes of ilium and left side of navel; under right short ribs, in cæcal region, and after rising, in right ear; under right short ribs at 9 o'clock, also at 8 A.M., noon and evening; fleeting, under short ribs in morning on waking, and in cæcum. ▶ Pain about navel, with tension as if pressed together. ▶ Stitches in cæcum at 7 o'clock; the stitches in cæcum alternated with similar pains in corresponding part of left side; jerking, in cæcum, returning on change of posture, agg. reclining towards left, when lying. ▶ Pain in cæcum, then in corresponding point on left side.

Stitches between crest of left ilium and navel, then in cæcal region; in right pubic region, almost in spermatic cord, returning in the evening. ▶ Cutting below navel after dinner. ▶ Pain and tension below left side of navel, from which there was developed a stitching (apparently superficial). ▶ Pain in pubic region; with heaviness, also the same alternating with pain in pit of stomach; drawing pains about lower abdomen; rheumatic pain in left side of pelvis. ▶ Jerking, drawing in left groin.

Pressure on while sitting.

Fluid. ▶ Copious; and mucous. ▶ Pappy, in morning; in afternoon, with rumbling in abdomen; frequently after 1 P.M. ▶ Soft; and dark brown; and unsatisfactory. ▶ Insufficient in morning, then a pappy one at 1. 30, after dinner; stools diminished while urine was increased, with increase of the pain in pubic region. ▶ Delayed till evening; delayed and firm. ▶ Hard, sluggish. ▶ Difficult, even when there was slight urging the rectum was so inactive that the stool was affected only by effort and with interruptions.

Stitches through fossa navicularis. ▶ Burning at orifice of urethra, diminishing interiorly. ▶ Some drops of urine were discharged after urinating. ▶ Urine and sweat increased, with diminished stools. ▶ Urine had a peculiar smell; contained much mucus. ▶ Uric acid increased.

Stitches at root of penis; in spermatic cord and in left pubic region; right spermatic cord in evening; right spermatic cord while walking; drawing in left spermatic cord at 11 o'clock. ▶ Aching drawing in testicles. ▶ Drawing pain along spermatic cord; in evening. ▶ Drawing in right spermatic cord; intermittent, in region of left spermatic cord.

Tickling in trachea. ▶ Voice hoarse. ▶ Coughing up mornings thickish mucus from larynx. ▶ Mucous expectoration. ▶ Dyspnœa and oppression of chest. ▶ Respiration accelerated. ▶ Respiration short and more in upper part of lungs, with anxiety and discomfort.

Ammoniacum has obtained some repute for the relief of humid asthma, and catarrhal affections of the air passages, as an expectorant. ▶ It has relieved severe bronchitis with free mucus, expectoration, stitches in chest, frontal headache, dim vision, etc. ▶ Violent bronchial cough at night, with very free expectoration of stringy mucus. ▶ Often used for chronic bronchorrhœa with very tenacious expectoration, sometimes with a feeling as if something would be torn loose, and the patient clutches at the sternum, generally worse at night.

Jerking stitches about left short ribs, more upward towards chest. ▶ Oppression when inspiring, with stitches in left half. ▶ Constriction, with pain. ▶ Pressure in. ▶ Affection of lower half of left, then deep-seated pain there.

Palpitation in evening, with restless sleep; in chest and carotids in evening after lying down, making it difficult to get to sleep throbbing of heart and arteries at night when lying down, strong throbbing of heart extending below pit of stomach, at night on going to bed, agg. lying on back or left side, preventing sleep. ▶ Pulse tense; and small. ▶ Rapid; and hard.

Stitches in left lumbar region, agg. expiration. ▶ Heaviness and pressure at end of lumbar vertebræ.

Tearing in wrists and ankles; in right shoulder-joint, knee and tarsus, and left tarsal bone. ▶ Stitches in right knee and left elbow. ▶ Rheumatic pains in left shoulder, knee and right ankle. ▶ Weariness. ▶ Heaviness in evening.

Shoulder. ▶ Stitches in right; in left joint; in left, with tearing; in left joint, extending over deltoid, amel. pressure; in shoulder and axilla, extending to elbow; in glands of right axilla in evening; drawing stitches in right deltoid at 9 A.M. ▶ Rheumatic pain in right shoulder.

Bruised pain, especially about elbow. ▶ Rheumatic pain in right about 12 o'clock; in right, now at one point, now at another. ▶ Paralyzed feeling in left. ▶ Tensive itching aching on fleshy parts of extensors of right forearm and elbow. ▶ Drawing and tearing in right wrist. ▶ Bruised feeling in left wrist, then right. ▶ Rheumatic pain in right metacarpal bones, in elbow and shoulder. ▶ Rheumatic pain in left index. ▶ Drawing in right middle finger.

Thigh. ▶ Stitches in right trochanter major from 3.50 to 5.30 P.M. with weariness of leg; in right hip-joint, at 10 A.M. when sitting; above right hip-joint, agg. sitting bent up. ▶ Pain above right knee, agg. walking; in crural nerve, extending towards inguinal ring and spermatic cord; jerking, in left crural nerve in evening; drawing in right trochanter at 4 A.M.; drawing, in right trochanter and left knee in evening, extending to spermatic cord. ▶ Weariness of right; in right trochanter major; in hip-joints in evening.

Stitches in left side of right towards morning. ▶ Indefinable pain in left. ▶ Tension in right when walking. ▶ Swollen feeling in left at 9 P.M. while sitting, with heat in knee and pricking in bend of knee.

Stitches and pressure on left, at side of left knee, at protuberance of tibia. ▶ Tearing in right shin. ▶ Pain above right ankle; below knee when walking. ▶ Ankles, tearing; cracking in left ankle in evening when moving.

Stitches in right metatarsus; below right metatarsus; on outer dorsum of left foot; in left metatarsus, with burning. ▶ Tearing and drawing in left sole. ▶ Pain in middle of left sole. ▶ Painful drawing in left foot. ▶ Heaviness in right sole, so that he trips when ascending stairs.

Stitches in right great toe, after a burning in it; stitches in left little toe, at left of joint where skin was thickened. ▶ Gouty pain in left great toe, agg. walking. ▶ Drawing in left middle, at 10 A.M.

Itching returns in evening; itching in right groin.

Yawning frequently bringing tears into eyes; Y., because the stomach felt empty, after soft stool. ▶ Sleepiness; all day, with late falling asleep in evening, then frightful dreams always as soon as he fell asleep, which woke him, then difficult falling asleep again. ▶ Falls asleep late. ▶ Interrupted sleep from 12 to 3 o'clock, then sleeplessness. ▶ Restless sleep; interrupted and unrefreshing. ▶ Waking frequently. ▶ Dreams distressing; confused; continued; remembered; many, also after 4 A.M.

Chills running from feet up over back at 10 o'clock; the same after dinner, at 1 o'clock. ▶ Burning in left metatarsus; in right great toe, then stitches. ▶ Disposed to sweat.