Ambra Grisea

Ambra Grisea

Most probably a morbid product found in the Sperm Whale or floating in the sea.

(Not to be confounded with Amber - Succinum. )

Trituration and tincture.

Clinical (Ambra grisea)

Anus, irritation of.

Asthma.

Bashfulness.

Brain, softening of.

Cardiac asthma.

Convulsions.

Deafness.

Emaciation.

Epistaxis.

Face, pimples on.

Hysteria.

Jaundice.

Menstrual irregularity.

Music, intolerance of.

Nervousness.

Nymphomania.

Pruritus vulvae.

Puerperal convulsions.

Ranula.

Reaction defective.

Spleen, pain in.

Tympanites.

Characteristics (Ambra grisea)

Ambra produces faintness (Moschus), nervousness, jerks, and twitches.

Reflex action is increased.

The patient has an embarrassed air ; the bashful state is very characteristic in certain connections.

Embarrassed in company.

Cough worse when many people are present.

As if in a dream.

Forgetful.

There is defective reaction in nervous patients.

Sensation of icy coldness in abdomen.

The pelvic organs are painfully influenced.

There is voluptuous itching on the scrotum and some rawness below the thighs in the male.

In the female there is discharge of blood between the periods at every little accident, as straining at stool or extra work.

Severe itching on pudenda.

During urination, itching, tickling, burning of vulva and urethra.

Nymphomania, with discharge of bluish white mucus. In childbed, obstinate constipation and tenesmus with bashfulness ; cannot make the attempt to stool if any one is present, even the nurse.

There is a tickling, spasmodic cough.

Cough excited by speaking.

Night cough.

Cough followed by copious belching. Itching in chest.

The limbs go to sleep easily.

Finger nails are brittle.

Sweat on slightest exertion.

Sleepless from worry ; retires tired, wakeful as soon as touches pillows.

Suited to excitable, nervous children.

Nervous persons.

Lean persons.

Old persons.

Nervous bilious temperament.

"Dried-up" nervous persons.

"Thin, scrawny women. "

Relations (Ambra grisea)

Antidoted by : Camph. , Coff. , Nux v. , Puls. , Staph.

Mind (Ambra grisea)

Absence of ideas.

Anxiety, esp. in the evening.

Despair, and disgust of life.

Difficult conception.

Embarrassed manner in society ; bashful.

Excitement, agitation, and precipitation, chiefly during intellectual labours.

Great restlessness.

Hastiness and nervous excitement when talking.

Imagination occupied with grinning faces and wanton images.

Inconsolable sadness.

Melancholy.

Memory impaired.

Repugnance to laughter and conversation.

Slow of comprehension, has to read a sentence over and over again, and then does not understand ; thinking powers are quite impaired.

Timidity.

Head (Ambra grisea)

Acute sensation of drawing in the head, with ulcers on the scalp.

Attack of dizziness, esp. on walking in the open air.

Congestion of blood in the head, esp. on hearing music.

Dartings in the head.

In the morning, headache as after a nocturnal debauch.

Pain in the head, as if caused by a strain from lifting a weight.

Pain in the scalp on its being touched, with falling off of the hair.

Pressing pain in the forehead and vertex, with heat in the head, with pale face on alternate days, with fear of losing his senses.

Pressive pain in the head, every two days, with heat in the head, burning in the eyes, and paleness in the face.

Pressive squeezing, with perplexity, principally in the forehead and occiput.

Pressure in the forehead, with fear of losing one''s reason.

Sensation of weakness in the head, with external shivering.

The scalp feels sore in the morning, when awaking : this is followed by a sensation of numbness, extending over the whole body.

Vertigo, which compels the patient to lie down, with a sensation of weakness in the stomach.

Eyes (Ambra grisea)

Confusion of sight, like a mist, and obscurity before the eyes.

Inflammatory redness of the sclerotica, with injection of the vessels.

Insufferable tickling round the eyes.

Itching in the eyelid, as if a sty were being formed.

Pressure on the eyes, with heaviness, and a sensation as if the eyes were too deep in the head, with a difficulty of opening them in the morning.

Ears (Ambra grisea)

Acute sensation of drawing in the ears.

Crawling and tickling in the interior of the ears.

Increasing deafness ; deaf in one ear, roaring and whistling in the ear.

Tension in the ears.

Tinkling and buzzing before the ears.

Nose (Ambra grisea)

Chronic suppression of the nasal mucus.

Clots or dry blood in the nose.

Dry coryza.

Dryness and stoppage of the nose, with pain, as of excoriation.

Frequent sneezing.

Nasal haemorrhage, principally in the morning.

Spasms in the alae nasi.

Face (Ambra grisea)

Convulsive movements in the muscles of the face.

Cramp of the lower lip.

Hot lips.

Jaundiced face.

Red spot on the cheeks, cramps in the lips.

Redness and heat, sometimes transient, of the face.

Tickling and itching titillation in the face, with eruption of pimples ; the same in the forehead, and in the region of the whiskers.

Teeth (Ambra grisea)

Bleeding of the gums.

Drawing toothache, sometimes on one side and then on the other.

Drawing, shooting pains, chiefly in the teeth that are carious, and esp. in the open air ; increased by taking anything hot.

Painful swelling of the gums.

Mouth (Ambra grisea)

In the morning, on waking, dryness and sensation of numbness in the mouth, in the tongue, and in the lips.

Itching and smarting in the mouth.

Nodosities, with pain, like excoriation, below the tongue.

Offensive smell in the mouth (in the morning).

Ranula.

Tongue coated white, or greyish yellow.

Vesicles in the mouth, with burning pain.

Throat (Ambra grisea)

Accumulation of greyish mucus in the throat, with inclination to vomit, and vomiting when hawking.

Asthma in lean and delicate old people.

Gnawing and scratching in the throat.

In the morning, hawking up of mucus.

Sensation as of a plug in the throat, with difficulty of swallowing.

Strangling in the pharynx on swallowing food.

Appetite (Ambra grisea)

After eating, cough and gaping, and a feeling as if food did not go down into the stomach.

After eating, pressure at the pit of the throat, as if a piece had stopped there.

Entire thirstlessness.

Insipid or rancid taste.

Sourness in the mouth after taking milk.

Want of appetite.

Stomach (Ambra grisea)

Frequent eructations, often sour, or with the taste of the food which may have been taken.

Heartburn from drinking milk.

Hiccough after having smoked tobacco.

Imperfect eructations.

Nausea and vomiting.

Pressure and cramp-like pain in the stomach.

Pyrosis principally in the evening, or on walking in the open air.

Sensation of burning in the stomach and in the precordial region.

Abdomen (Ambra grisea)

Compression in the belly, sometimes in the morning.

Cutting pains in the evening, after midnight, and in bed in the morning with diarrhoea.

Flatulent colic in the night.

Heaviness in the belly.

Hepatic pains, most frequently pressive.

In the evening sensation of drawing in the abdominal muscles.

Incarcerated flatus.

Pain in the spleen, as if something were torn off.

Pain, as from a wound in the abdominal muscles, on coughing and on turning the body.

Pressive pain in the epigastrium and in the abdomen.

Sensation of coldness in abdomen, sometimes on one side only.

Tension and inflation of the belly, principally after eating and drinking.

Stool and Anus (Ambra grisea)

After the stool, pressure in the abdomen.

Constipation and tardy stools.

Flowing of blood with the stool.

Fruitless desire to go to stool, with anxiety, and incapability of enduring the approach of any person.

Haemorrhoidal excrescences in the anus.

Irregular intermittent stools, often only every two days.

Itching and tingling in the anus and in the rectum.

Itching, smarting, and stinging at the anus.

Soft, loose, clear-brown stools.

Urinary Organs (Ambra grisea)

Acid smell from the urine.

Burning in the orifice of the urethra.

In the morning, after getting up, an urgent desire to make water.

Increased secretion of urine, chiefly at night and in the morning.

Increased secretion of urine, much more than the amount of the fluid drunk.

Reddish cloud in the urine.

Urine of a yellowish-brown, and turbid, with brown sediment.

Urine tinged with blood.

Male Sexual Organs (Ambra grisea)

Burning in the region of the spermatic vesicles.

Erections in the morning, with numbness of the genital parts.

Sore rawness between thighs.

Violent erections in the morning, without sexual desire, with numbness of the parts.

Voluptuous excitement of, and itching in, the genital parts, without external cause.

Female Sexual Organs (Ambra grisea)

Burning, pain of excoriation, and itching, in the sexual parts.

Discharge of blood between the periods.

During menstruation, increased swelling of varicose veins, with pressure in the legs.

Leucorrhoea thick, slimy, preceded by shooting pains in the vagina.

Menses too early ; and too profuse.

Running of white-bluish matter from the vagina.

The leucorrhoea more abundant at night.

Violent itching, with swelling of the external parts.

Respiratory Organs (Ambra grisea)

Convulsive cough, with eructations and hoarseness.

Cough < by music.

Cough, with coryza, and expectoration of a whitish and salt mucus.

Hoarseness and roughness of the voice, with accumulation of thick, tough mucus, easily thrown off by coughing.

Nocturnal cough, excited by excessive tickling in the gullet, cough in the evening, with pain in the left side, as if something were torn away.

On coughing, pressive headache in the temples.

Spasmodic cough from tickling in the throat with expectoration of yellowish, or greyish-white mucus, tasting salt or sour, in the morning ; with expectoration in the evening.

Voice hoarse, harsh, with an accumulation of thick mucus in the air ducts.

Chest (Ambra grisea)

Asthma of old people, and of children.

At night, trembling in the breast.

Breath fetid in the morning after waking.

Breathing short.

Itching in the chest, and in the thyroid gland.

Oppression felt in the chest, and between the scapulae.

Oppression in breathing.

Painful oppression in the chest and in the back.

Palpitation of the heart, frequently when walking in the open air, with paleness of face, and pressure in the chest as if a lump were lodged there or as if the chest were obstructed.

Pressure in the chest, chiefly in the region of the heart.

Rheumatic pain, as from a bruise in the chest.

Sensation of rawness in the chest.

Wheezing in the chest.

Neck and Back (Ambra grisea)

Heaviness in the back, with pain in the belly, as if the intestines were compressed.

Pressive drawing pain in the nape of the neck, and in the back.

Shooting pain in the loins.

Stiffness in the loins after sitting long.

Upper Limbs (Ambra grisea)

Contraction of the fingers.

Cramp in the hands on taking hold of anything.

In the evening, attack of trembling in the thumb.

In the morning, the skin at the extremity of the fingers is wrinkled.

Itching in the palms of the hands.

Itchy tetter between the fingers.

Nocturnal weakness of the fingers.

Pain in the bone of the elbow when touched.

Paralytic drawing, as from dislocation, in the shoulder-joints, in the elbows, in the fore part of the arms, and in the hands.

Prolonged coldness of the hands.

The arms become easily numbed, whether they are leant upon or used to carry something, or even in the night, with sensation of torpor.

Trembling of the arms.

Lower Limbs (Ambra grisea)

Acute drawing pain in the legs, from the os sacrum to the feet, with incapability of supporting the foot on the ground : the affected leg seems shorter than the other.

Arthritic pains in the joints of the feet and in the great toes.

Burning in the soles of the feet.

Cramps in the legs, and at night in the calves of the legs.

Excoriation in the hams, with pain, principally in the evening.

Heaviness, stiffness, and weakness of the legs.

Itching of the inside of the soles of the feet.

Nervousness of the legs.

Pain, as of excoriation, in the corns.

Pain, as of ulceration, in the soles of the feet when walking.

Sensation of contraction in the (right) thigh, the limb seems to be shortened.

Sensation of torpor in the legs, with an unsteady walk.

Shooting pains in chilblains on the toes.

Swelling of the feet.

Tightness in the joints of the feet.

Tingling in the calves of the legs and in the feet.

Generalities (Ambra grisea)

After having talked much, agitation and trembling all over the body, with restlessness.

Cramps and sensation of drawing in the muscles.

Ebullitions and pulsations in the whole body, esp. after walking in the open air.

Fatigue, esp. in the morning, in bed, and at night on waking.

In the evening, and in a warm temperature, many of the symptoms are aggravated.

Incisive pain in the hands and feet.

Infantile or other spasms.

Inflation and pulsation over the whole body, with great weakness after walking in the open air.

Many of the pains are mitigated by walking in the open air, or when lying on the part affected.

Many of the symptoms appear during sleep, and diminish after rising.

Sensation of drawing throughout the body.

Sensation of numbness and of torpor over the whole surface of the body, chiefly in the morning.

Spasms and twitches in the muscular parts.

Susceptibility to numbness in various parts.

Tearing pains, chiefly in the joints, and often on one side only (from the small of the back through the right leg).

Skin (Ambra grisea)

Burning herpes.

Burning tetters.

Dry, itching burning.

Dryness of the skin.

Itching, and sensation of burning in several parts of the skin, as from the itch.

Suppressed eruptions.

Tetters and itchy eruptions appear during the use of this medicine.

Sleep (Ambra grisea)

Inclination to sleep during the day.

Restlessness at night.

Worriment from business embarrassments.

Fever (Ambra grisea)

Chill in the forenoon, with weakness and sleepiness, better after eating.

Feverish shivering in different parts, followed by heat in the face.

Flushes of heat, returning every fifteen minutes, worse towards evening.

Nocturnal sweat, particularly on the diseased side, after midnight.

Perspiration from slight exertion, esp. on the abdomen and on the thighs.

Pulse accelerated with ebullitions.

Transient heat, sometimes with anxiety at the heart.