Ομοιοπαθητική ΒιβλιοθήκηAmmon Mur
Farrington - A Clinical Materia Medica · Ernest Albert Farrington · 2,699 χαρακτήρες
Blood EN
Scorbutus.
Uraemia.
Carbonized blood.
Heart EN
Mucous membranes. —
Nose EN
Throat and larynx.
Skin EN
Erythema.
Scarlatina. Organs.
We have on the board to-day several of the salts of ammonia, the Carbonate of Ammonia or Ammonium carb., Caustic Ammonia or Ammonium causticum, Muriate of Ammo?iia or Ammonium muriaticum and Phosphate of Ammonia or Ammonium phosphoricum .
The am- monium salts taken as a class, we find best suited to rather fat and bloated persons.
Ammo?iium carb. is particularly indicated in fat flabby individuals of indolent disposition who lead a sedentar}- life.
This is very different from Nux vomica and Sulphur, both of which are indicated in complaints arising from sedentary habits.
But Ammonium carb. is especially indicated in fat lazy individuals.
Ammonium ?7iur. is best indicated for fat sluggish individuals par- ticularly when the adipose tissue is mostly distributed over the trunk, the legs being disproportionately thin. That is the distinction that may be made between the Carbonate and the Muriate.
The salts of ammonium exert a considerable influence over the blood.
Thus if Ammonium carb. is taken for awhile there will be produced symptoms simulating those of scurvy.
There will be haem- orrhages from the mouth, nose and bowels, showing you that there is a disintegration of the blood.
The muscles become soft and flabby and there is well-marked tendency to emaciation.
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We find that all the salts of ammonium act powerfully on the mu- cous membranes, of which tissue every one of them produces inflam- mation. This inflammation is of a violent character, starting with a simple feeling of burning and rawness, progressing to a complete in- flammation of the mucous membrane and ending in the destruction of the epithelium, which peels off in layers and leaves a raw, burning, ulcerated surface. It is, then, not to be wondered at, that the salts of ammonia have won considerable praise in affections of the nose, throat, and larynx, and somewhat of the lungs.
The ammonium salts also have an impression on the skin.
When applied locally, there is produced a simple erythema followed by der- matitis and some little swelling.
Soon, however, an eruption appears, and this varies with the different ammonium salts.
It is at first pap- ular, then vesicular and finally advancing to ulceration.
These condi- tions are common to all the ammonium preparations of which we have any knowledge.
Therapeutically, the salts of ammonia are antagonized by Veratrum viride, Digitalis, Acotiite, cold and other cardiac sedatives.
Their action is favored by heat, Opium, Iodine, Valerian, Asafcetida, Alcohol, etc.