Ambra Grisea

Ambergris.

Most probably a nosode or morbid product found in the belly of the sperm-whale. The best is that which whalers cut out and which is usu- ally to be had in Boston. Most of it is picked up in the Eastern Seas. Used by the Arabians and since. Introduced by Hahnemann in 1827 ; especially proved by his friend, the Count de Gersdorf, from whom are nearly one-third of the symptoms. The alcoholic tincture is the best preparation. The so-called oil of amber is oleum succinum, and was used by Holcombe in hiccough.

^ Mind. I Memory impaired.

■ Comprehension slow, has to read everything three or four

times and then does not understand it. lis not able to reflect upon anything properly, feels stupid.

d Often in old age. Confusion of the head ; of the occiput. iDiflScult thinking in the morning, d Old people.

■ Distorted images, grimaces; diabolical faces crowd upon his

fancy.

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She is excited, loquacious ; talking fatigues her ; was unable

to sleep at night, or, averse to talking and laughing. Great sadness.

■ Melancholy, sits for days weeping; with great weakness, loss

of muscular power and pain in the small of the back and

constipation. Fears of becoming crazy. Despair ; loathing of life. Anguish and sweat all over, at night. Anxiety, oppression, nervous weakness with irritability and

impatience.

■ After business embarrassment cannot sleep, must get up. Hurries too much while engaged in mental labor. Embarrassed manner in company.

Cough worse when many persons are present. The presence of other people aggravates the symptoms. See 2. ^ Sensorium. ■Vertigo with feeling of weight on the vertex ; worse after sleep.

■ Had to lie down on account of vertigo and feeling of weak-

ness in the stomach. Music causes the blood to rush to the head.

■ Great weakness in the head with vertigo.

^ Inner Head. Pressure in forehead and vertex with fear of be- coming crazy.

Tearing : in forehead ; in left temple up to vertex ; in right frontal eminence and behind left ear.

Extremely painful tearing on top of head and apparently in whole upper half of brain, with paleness of face and cold- ness of left hand.

Pressive drawing, ascending from nape of neck, and extending through head towards forehead, considerable oppression re- maining in lower part of occiput.

Dullness in occiput.

Tearing pains predominate in head.

Rush of blood to head caused by music.

Weakness in head with vertigo. ^ Outer Head. ■Falling off of hair.

■ On the right side of the head, a spot, where the hair when

touched pains, as if sore.

The scalp feels sore in morning, when awaking ; this is fol- lowed by a sensation of numbness, extending over the whole body. ^ Sight and Eyes. Dullness of vision, as if from looking through a mist.

Pressure and smarting in eyes, as from dust ; lachrymation.

Pressure on eyes, which are difficult to open, and pain in eyes as if they had been closed too firmly, particularly in the morning.

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Itching on eyelid as if a stye were forming. ® Hearing and Ears. I Roaring and whistling in ears, in after- noon.

I Deafness of one ear.

Crackling in left ear (like the sound made when winding a watch).

■ Hearing decreases ; with cold sensation in abdomen. See 19. Violent tearing pain in and behind right auricle.

Tearing in right ear.

Crawling, itching and tickling in ears.

I Music aggravates the cough.

■ Listening to music brings on congestion to head. ^ Nose. I Dried blood gathered in the nose.

I Bleeding of the nose early in the morning.

Nosebleed with the menses. See 23.

I Copious nosebleed early in bed, several successive days. d Old lady.

Nose stopped up and paining as if sore internally.

Long continued dryness of the nose, frequent irritation as from sneezing. ^ Face. Paleness of face with headache. See 3.

Flushes of heat in face.

Heat in face with chill of other parts.

Tearing in the upper part of the face, particularly near the right ala nasi.

Pimples, and itching in whiskers.

Painful swelling of the cheek on the upper jaw, with throbbing in the gums.

Jaundiced color of the face.

Spasmodic twitching of the facial muscles. ^ Lower Part of Face. Lips hot.

Lips numb and dry in the morning on awaking.

Cramp of the lower lip. '" Teeth and Gums. Drawing pain now in one and again in another tooth ; increased by warmth, momentarily removed by cold ; not aggravated by chewing and passes off after a meal ; at the same time the inner portion of the gums was swollen.

Bleeding of the gums. " Taste, Speech, Tongue. Bitter taste in mouth in morning on awaking.

Sour taste after drinking milk.

Folds pain as if sore under the tongue, like small growths.

llRanula. ^^ Inner Mouth. I Fetor of the mouth, worse mornings, d Whoop- ing-cough.

Blisters in mouth, pain as if burnt.

Smarting and cracked painful condition of mouth.

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Accumulation of water in the mouth with cough. See 27. ^^ Palate and Throat. ■ Sensation of rawness in region of velum pendulum palati.

Rawness in throat with cough.

Tearing pain in palate, extending into left ear.

Dryness of throat in morning.

Sore feeling in throat during empty deglutition, and from out- ward pressure, not when swallowing food, with tension of glands of throat as if swollen.

BSore throat after exposure to a draught of air; stitching from throat into r. ear ; pains particularly from motion of the tongue.

Tickling in throat which induces coughing.

Tickling in throat and thyroid body, during act of coughing.

■ Accumulation of grayish phlegm in throat, which is difficult

to hawk up, accompanied by rawness. Plawking the phlegm from fauces produces vomiting and

choking. Papular-like eruption in pharynx. '* Thirst. Thirstlessness. ^^ Eating and Drinking. After breakfast, nausea.

After eating: Icough and gagging; anxiety; pressure in pit of stomach, as if the food stuck and would not go down.

■ Aggravation from warm drinks, especially from warm

milk. Better after eating : toothache ; oppression in chest ; chill,

etc. After drinking milk : sour taste ; heartburn. ^® Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. 1 1 Belch- ing with and after the cough.

■ Eructations either empty, sour or bitter.

■ Eructations with cough, so as almost to cause choking. Belching removes pressure under scrobiculum.

• Hiccough.

Heartburn : with abortive eructations ; when walking in the

open air; from drinking milk. Every evening, sensation as of disordered stomach and acrid

risings up to larynx. Nausea after breakfast.

Vomiting and choking when hawking phlegm from fauces. ^^ Scrobiculum and Stomach. Pressure and burning under

scrobiculum ; belching removes it.

■ Pressure in stomach and hypochondria. ^Whooping-cough. Tension and pressure or stitches and pressure in the stomach. Concussion in pit of stomach with the cough.

Weakness in stomach accompanying vertigo. See 2. '^ Hypochondria. Pressing pain in a small spot in the upper right side of the abdomen, though not felt to touch.

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Tearing pain in the region of the spleen, as if something were

torn away. I Pain in r. hypochondriac region, >> while lying upon it. ^^ Abdomen. Distended abdomen ; accumulation of much flatus, which subsides without being passed. IB Sensation of coldness in the abdomen. I Coldness of one side of the abdomen (left) ; also with the

deafness. See 6. Colic, sometimes followed by diarrhoea. Pressure deep in the hypogastrium after the evacuation. ^° Stool and Anus. First copious, soft, light brown stools, after a few days constipation.

■ Constipation. ^Whooping-cough. ^Melancholy. Diarrhoea preceded by colic.

Stool not hard, though large.

I Frequent ineffectual desire for stool ; this makes her very anxious. Hat this time the presence of other persons be- comes unbearable.

I Large flow of blood with the stool. ,

Itching in anus.

Stitches in anus.

After the evacuation pressure deep in hypogastrium. 2^ Urinary Organs. Frequent micturition at night and in the morning after rising.

I Urine when emitted is clouded, yellowish-brown and deposits a brownish sediment, after which the urine looks clear and yellow ; coffee ground sediment, d Dropsy after scarlatina.

I Sour smelling urine. ^Whooping-cough.

Urinates three times as much as the drink taken, especially in the morning ; followed by a dull pain in the region of the kidneys.

Sensation as if a few drops passed through the urethra.

■ During urination, burning, smarting, itching and titillation in

the urethra and vulva, d Oophoritis. " Male Sexual Organs. 'A man, set. 80, gets asthma when

attempting coition. : Impotence. Violent morning erections without desire, with numbness in

the parts. Internal, strong, voluptuous sensation in genital organs. Itching pimple over male genitals. I Sore rawness between the thighs.

■ Voluptuous itching on scrotum. ^Following the use of

StapJtisagria. " Female Sexual Organs. Nymphomania : often with discharge of bluish-white mucus. I I Burning in sexual parts, with discharge of a few drops of bl6od.

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I Stitches in ovarian region, when drawing in abdomen or press- ing upon it.

llDischarge of blood between the periods, at every little acci- dent, as every hard stool or after a walk a little longer than usual.

During the menses, the left leg becomes quite blue from dis- tended varices, with pressive pain in the leg.

Lying down aggravates the uterine symptoms.

Is said to cause uterine atony.

: Suppressed catamenia.

Menses too early and too profuse.

I Menses appear seven days before time.

I Severe itching on the pudenda, must rub the parts.

■ Soreness and itching, with swelling of the labia. ^Pru-

ritus. During urination: itching, titillation, burning of vulva and

urethra. Thick, mucous leucorrhoea, increased from day to day, or leu- » corrhoea at night, of bluish-white mucus ; preceding each

discharge, a stitch in the vagina. ^* Pregnancy, During pregnancy : nervous, restless ; pruritus vulvae. Impending abortion.

■ Puerperal eclampsia.

Lessens the severity of the labor-pains.

I In childbed obstinate constipation and tenesmus; abdomen puffed, causing much anxiety ; so nervous she cannot at- tempt a stool in the presence of other people, not even the nurse. ^' Voice and Larynx. I Titillation in larynx with spasmodic cough.

■ Titillation in throat, larynx and trachea, causing violent

Hoarseness and roughness of the voice, with accumulation of

thick, tough mucus, easily thrown off by coughing. I Itching, scraping and soreness in the larynx and trachea.

breath or yawn deeply.

■ Oppression felt in chest and between scapulse ; it subsides for

a short time after eating. 6 Asthma. Feeling of pressure in chest worse during exhalation.

■ Asthma of old people and children. ^Asthma siccum.

■ Asthma comes on while he is attempting coition. ^An old

man.

■ Whistling in chest during breathing.

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I Hollow, spasmodic, barking cough; worse from talking or

reading aloud.

■ Spasmodic cough of elderly or of emaciated persons.

■ Paroxysms of cough coming from deep in chest, excited by

violent tickling in throat, evening without, morning with ex- pectoration, generally of grayish-white, seldom of yellow mucus, of salty or sour taste.

I I Violent spasmodic cough, with frequent eructations and hoarseness. See 16.

Lifting a heavy weight aggravates the cough.

I Cough only at night, produced by an excessive irritation in

the throat. 1 Cough every evening with pain under the left ribs, as if

inspiration. I Deep dry cough, with accumulation of water in the mouth,

and subsequent rawness in the throat.

■ Choking and vomiting when hawking up phlegm from the

fauces.

Sputa yellow-white, cream-like.

Collection of phlegm in the throat difficult to cough up.

I Old coughs. ^^ Inner Chest and Lungs. Pain in lower part of r. chest re- lieved by lying on the back.

■ Sensation of pressure deep in r. chest; also in 1. chest or in

upper part of chest.

■ Sensation of rawness in chest.

■ Itching in chest. ^Whooping-cough. Sensation of a lump in chest.

^^ Heart and Pulse. ■Anxiety at the heart, causing oppression of breathing, with flushes of heat ; oppression beginning in the heart. ^Asthma. Palpitation when walking in open air, with paleness of face.

■ Violent palpitation, \vith pressure in chest, as if a lump lay

there, or as if the chest was stuffed up. Pulse accelerated, with ebullitions.

He perceives the pulse in the body ; it feels like the tick of a watch. ^" Outer Chest. Burning on the chest.

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^^ Neck and Back, Glands ofthroat tense as if swollen. See 13.

Burning in left scapula.

Tearing in the left, or in both shoulders.

Rheumatic pains in the r. side of the back.

Painful tension in the lumbar muscles.

Stitches in small of back, when sitting.

I I Stiffness in small of back after sitting.

Drawing, as if sprained and lame in the shoulder.

I The arms go to sleep when lying on them, when carrying anything in the hands or at night ; Avith numbness espe- cially of the left arm in rest ; tingling in the thumb.

Tearing pains in the shoulder, elbow, forearm and hand.

Weakness of the fingers at night.

Stinging in hands and fingers, as from insects.

Drawing in fingers and thumb.

Itching in palms of hands.

Cramps in hands, sometimes only when taking hold of any- thing.

Tips of fingers are shrivelled.

Tearing, lancinating or itching in tips of fingers and thumb.

Skin on the fingers feels tense.

Long lasting icy coldness of hands.

I Coldness of left hand with headache. See 3.

I Finger nails brittle, with a very old man; they got soft, elas- tic and pink. ^^ Lower Limbs, Tearing pain, first in 1., then in r., hip- joint.

Sensation of contraction in right thigh ; the limb seems to be shortened.

Tearing in nates, hip, knee, leg, ankle and foot.

Heaviness of the legs.

Strumming sensation in legs.

Sensation as if " gone to sleep " in both legs ; has no firm step.

Cramps in legs and calves nearly every night.

Cold feet.

Gouty pain in ball of great toes.

Itching on inner border of sole of the right foot, not relieved by scratching.

I Sore and raw between the thighs,, I land in the hollow of the knees.

Left leg becomes blue from distended varices during menses. See 23. ^* Limbs in General, Tearing or rheumatic pains, in parts of all the limbs.

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Uncommon twitching and coldness of the body, at night.

Uneasiness, like a crawling, with anxiety, only by day.

In bed, early in the morning : weakness.

Worse after lying down : cough.

Desire to bend and stretch the limbs.

Worse in room with other persons : cough.

When sitting: stitches in small of back.

After sitting : stiffness in small of back.

Better lying on painful part : pain in hypochondriac region ; pain in right side of chest.

When lying on them : arms go to sleep.

Lying down : aggravates the uterine symptoms.

I Worse after lying down. 6 Pertussis.

Must lie down : with vertigo and weakness in stomach.

Motion of tongue : ■< pain in throat.

When walking in open air : palpitation and pale face ; uneas- iness in the blood, more rapid circulation ; < weakness.

After a longer walk than usual : discharge of blood between the menstrual periods. See 23.

During exercise : profuse sweat on abdomen and thighs.

Lifting a heavy weight : aggravates the cough.

When carrying anything in hands : arms go to sleep.

When taking hold of anything : cramps in hands.

■ Sweat from the slightest exertion. ^Intermittent. 36 JJeryes, : Trismus neonatorum.

■ Infantile spasms.

■ Spasms and twitches in the muscular parts. : Spasmodic complaints.

■ Arms and limbs " go to sleep " easily.

■ Great lassitude, especially mornings in bed. \ Fainting.

■ Weakness: of the whole body; of the knees, as if they

would give way ; of the feet, with loss of sensation ; in the

Numbness of the whole body.

When walking in the open air, an uneasiness in the blood and more rapid circulation, with greater weakness of the body.

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Conversation causes fatigue, heaviness of the head, sleepless- ness, oppression of the chest, sweat, anxiety ; tremor and quivering ; nervousness and irritability. ^^ Sleep. I Cannot sleep, must get up ; worriment from business embarrassment.

Cannot sleep at night, yet knows not why.

Restless sleep, with anxious dreams.

■ Vexatious, anxious dreams and talking in sleep; awaken frightened. 6 Children.

Sleepless after 1 a.m.

Worse from too little sleep.

Uneasy sleep from coldness and twitching.

Nearly every night cramp in calves.

Worse after sleep : vertigo ; weight on vertex ; whooping- cough ; feels weak ; mouth dry ; weary, eyes feel as if they had been closed too tightly.

When awaking : soreness of scalp ; lips numb and dry ; bitter taste in mouth.

Early in bed : nosebleed ; great lassitude. ^^ Time. Gi^'^en in the evening apt to make aggravations.

Worse evening and night, d Whooping-cough.

At night : anguish and sweat all over ; frequent urination ; leucorrhoea ; cough ; numbness in arms : weakness of fin- gers ; cramp in legs and calves ; twitching in limbs ; cold- ness of body ; profuse sweat, worse after midnight.

In morning : soreness of scalp ; pressure on eyes and difficulty in opening them; nosebleed; lips numb and dry; bitter taste ; fetor of mouth ; dryness of throat ; frequent and copious urination ; violent erections with numbness in the parts.

In forenoon : chill with lassitude and sleepiness.

In afternoon : roaring and whistling in ears.

Towards evening : < anxious flushes of heat.

In evening : sensation of disordered stomach ; cough. ^^ Temperature and Weather. Worse from warmth : toothache.

Better from cold : toothache.

Worse in warm room : cough.

Better from motion in open air.

Aggravation from warm drinks.

After exposure to draught of air : sore throat.

When walking in open air : heartburn ; palpitation ; uneasi- ness in the blood; < weakness.

Took cold and had perspiration checked, after a thunder-storm, by north wind in the face ; tormenting cough for several weeks. See 27. *" Fever. ■ Chill in the forenoon, with lassitude and sleepiness ; relieved by eating, d Intermittent fever.

Chill of single parts of the body, with heat of the face.

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Anxious flushes of heat returning every quarter hour; I most violent towards evening . d Intermittent fever, d Whoop- ing-cough.

Profuse sweat at night, worse after midnight and most on the affected side.

Profuse sweat, particularly on the abdomen and thighs, during exercise.

• Malignant fevers. *^ Attacks. I ■ Cough in spasmodic paroxysms.

Anxious flushes of heat return every quarter of an hour. ^^ Locality and Direction. One-sided complaints : perspira- tion, tearing, numbness, sensation of coldness in the ab- domen.

Right : spot on head sore to touch ; tearing pain in auricle ; tearing pain in ear ; tearing near ala nasi ; pressing pain in side of abdomen ; pain in hypochondriac region ; pain in lower part of chest ; rheumatic pains in back ; itching on border of foot-sole.

Left : hand cold ; crackling in ear ; coldness in abdomen ; leg becomes blue during menses ; pain under ribs, with cough ; burning in scapula ; tearing in shoulder ; arm gets numb.

Left to right : tearing pain in hip-joints.

Upper limbs, right side ; lower limbs, left side.

Ascending : pressing drawing from nape of neck through head to forehead.

Extending over whole body : soreness in scalp on waking. *^ Sensations. Ebullitions and pulsations in the whole body, especially after walking in the open air.

Heat : in face ; in lips.

Heaviness : of legs.

I Numb feeling of the whole surface of the body, mornings. d Pruritus vaginae.

Numbness : of legs in morning ; in male sexual parts ; of arms, particularly the left ; in legs ; of the whole body.

Throbbing : in gums.

Twitching : of facial muscles.

Sense of contraction : in right thigh.

Pressure : in forehead and vertex ; on eyes, difiicult to open ; and burning under scrobiculum ; in stomach and hypo- chondria ; and tension in stomach ; in small spot upper r. side of abdomen ; in hypogastrium ; in chest ; in left vari- cose leg during menses.

Drawing : in teeth ; in shoulder ; in fingers and thumb.

Pressive drawing : from nape of neck through head to fore- head.

Smarting : in mouth.

Pressure and smarting : in eyes.

Rawness : velum palati ; in throat ; in chest.

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Tearing pain : in forehead ; in left temple up to vertex ; in right frontal eminence ; behind left ear ; in upper half of brain ; in right auricle ; in upper part of face, near r. ala nasi ; from palate into 1. ear ; in region of spleen ; in shoulders ; in 1. shoulder-joint, elbow, forearm and hand ; in tips of fingers and thumb ; in hip-joints, nates, hip, knee, leg, ankle and foot.

Stinging as from insects : in hands and fingers.

Stitches : from throat into r. ear ; — and pressure in stomach ; in anus ; in ovarian region ; a stitch in vagina preceding leucorrhoeal discharge ; in small of back.

Painful tension : in lumbar muscles ; skin in fingers feels tense.

Lancinating : in tips of fingers and thumb.

Cramp : of lower lip ; in hands ; in legs and calves.

Sprained feeling : in shoulder.

Burning : in urethra ; in sexual parts ; in left scapula.

Soreness : spot on side of head, in scalp ; in nose ; under tongue ; in throat during empty deglutition ; rawness be- tween thighs and hollow of knees ; in female sexual parts ; in larynx and trachea ; of all the limbs.

Scraping : in larynx and trachea.

Crawling : in ears ; in all the limbs.

Strumming : in legs.

Gouty pain : in ball of great toe.

Itching : on eyelid ; in ears ; pimples in whiskers ; in anus ; pimples over male genitals ; voluptuous itching on scrotum ; itching on pudendum, in larynx and trachea ; in thyroid gland ; in chest ; in palms of hands ; in tips of fingers and thumbs ; on border of sole of right foot.

Tickling : in ears ; in throat induces cough ; in thyroid body.

Tingling : in thumb.

Burnt feeling: blisters in mouth.

Coldness : of left hand with headache ; in abdomen ; of hands and feet.

Dryness : of throat in morning.

As if something was torn away : in region of spleen.

I Ranula.

Tearing in muscles and joints, often on one side.

• Softening of the brain.

I Emaciation. *^ Touch. Passive Motion, Slight touch : < pain in thumb.

Rubbing : relieves itching and tickling in rectum.

Sore to touch : spot on right side of head.

From outward pressure : < soreness in throat.

Worse from overlifting.

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^^ Skin. I 1 Itching.

Jaundiced color of face.

Burning in skin.

The tips of fingers become shrivelled. See 32.

Soreness of a wart on the finger.

Itching pimples in whiskers.

Sore and raw between legs and in hollow of knees.

Distended varices on leg during menses. See 23.

Reproduces the itch-eruption. " Stages of Life, Constitution. » Children who are excitable, nervous and weak.

llNervous persons, infants or young girls.

1 1 In old age. d Asthma, d Colds.

The so-called bilious or nervous bilious temperament.

1 1 Lean persons.

I Old people and children, d Asthma.

I A very old man. ^Brittle finger-nails. ^Asthma when

Antidotes to Amhra: Camphor, Coffea, Nux vom., Pulsat., Staphis.

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