Homeopathy LibraryAmmonium Muriaticum
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General
Ammonium chloride, NH 4 Cl. Common names , Sal Ammoniac; Sal'm'iac. Preparation , Trituration on aqueous solution (100 parts of water at 60° dissolves 36 parts of the salt).
Authorities. 1 , N-g and Hartlaub, H. and T. Annalen, 4; 2 , Hahnemann, Chr. Krank., 1; 3 , Rl. (ibid.); 4 , Gumpert, Roth's résumé; 5 , Wibmer; 6 , Fischer, Roth's résumé; 7 , Rechnitz, ibid.; 8 , Knorre, A. H. Z., 6, 33; 9 , Frank's Mag., poison cases; 10 , Boecker; 11 , J. d. Chim. Med., 1840, poison by fumes, A. H. Z., 20, 9.
Mind
When talking about some important subject he becomes extremely excited, [2] .
She is overwhelmed with anxiety, would like to weep, and does weep, sometimes (first day), [1] .
Full of melancholy and anxiety, as if some internal grief and sorrow were gnawing at her heart, [1] .
She is sitting there, full of ill-humor, absorbed in her thoughts, and can scarcely be induced to speak, in the evening (fifteenth day), [1] .
Peevish, as if she had some internal vexation, and looking as if not yet entirely conscious of herself; as if she had not slept enough (third day), [1] .
Irritable and peevish, in the forenoon; the mood improves after dinner (eight day), [1] .
Very irritable, peevish, and easily frightened, [3] . Involuntary antipathy to certain persons, [2] .
Head
The head feels confused, as after intoxication (fourteenth day), [2] . [10.] The head feels dizzy and confused in the room; this symptom passes off in the open air; early in the morning (fourth day), [1] .
Vertigo, as if she would fall to one side; worse during motion, passing off in the open air, frequently (third day), [1] .
Giddiness and fulness of the head; it feels as if it were very heavy (one hour), [1] .
Feeling of heaviness in the head, almost daily, after rising, [1] .
The head feels so full that it seems too heavy (after twenty-fifth day), [1] .
Violent headache, for several days, [3] .
Feeling of heat and fulness in the head, early after rising, [1] .
Heat in the head, without proceeding chill, before midnight, in bed, so that she cannot go to sleep for a long time, [1] .
Stitches and pressure in the head, especially in the left side, in the room (second day), [1] .
Frequent creeping over the head, of short duration (twenty-fifth day), [1] . [20.] Pimples on the forehead, following after itching and scratching (sixth day), [1] .
Frontal headache, without mental disturbance, [5] .
Violent throbbing headache in the forehead, towards evening, lasting one hour; upon touching the forehead worse; with weakness, so that he was scarcely able to walk, and chills on going to bed, [2] .
Heaviness in the forehead, frequently during the day, accompanied by a feeling of internal heat and a little sweat, [1] .
Pressure in the forehead, with sensation of heat there, early in the morning after an uneasy night, [1] .
Downward pressure in the forehead, towards the root of the nose, with sensation as if the brain were torn, early after rising (twenty-fifth day), [1] .
Painful boring in the forehead, early after rising, and almost during the whole day (fifth day), [1] .
Sudden fine stitching in the left side of the forehead, of long duration, afternoons (fourth day), [1] .
Painful twitches, from below upwards, in the left temple (third day), [1] .
Burning pain, and sometimes stitches, in the left temple, both when at rest and when masticating and sneezing; no increase of pain when the parts are touched, [2] . [30.]
A sudden tearing pain from below upward in the right temple, forenoons (sixth day), [1] .
Painful tearing in the right temple and down into the side of the face (seventh day), [1] .
Fine tearing, extending upward, in the right temporal bone, during the menstruation (seventeenth day), [1] .
A violent stitch in the left temple; forenoons (twentieth day), [1] .
Headache on the top of the head, as if the head were broken in two (fourth day), [1] .
Stitches in the vertex, with a sensation as though the head were bursting; mornings (third day), [1] .
Stitches in the vertex on stooping; afternoon at three, lasting till six (second day), [1] .
Glowing heat on the right side of the head, every evening, [2] .
Fine stitches in the left side of the head, forenoons (fifth day), [1] .
A painful tearing in the upper part of the right side of the head, while sitting (fifteenth day), [1] . [40.] The occiput feels as if it were compressed with a vice; this symptom afterwards manifests itself in both sides of the head, accompanied by excessive ill-humor (seventeenth day), [1] .
Pinching pain in the left side of the occiput, at a small spot; forenoons (eleventh day), [1] .
Itching pimples on the right side of the occiput, in the evening; at night they pass off (after nineteenth day), [1] .
Itching of the hairy scalp, forcing him to scratch constantly (third day), [1] .
Eyes
Eyes become weak, glassy, watery, [9] .
Redness of the white of the eyes and itching of the eyes, [2] .
Pain in the eyes, [2] .
The eyes burn in the morning, after rising, if she looks at the light (fourth day), [1] .
Burning of the eyes in the evening, and closing thereof as from sleep; this symptom passed off as soon as light entered the room (fifteenth day), [1] .
The eyes are burning for several evenings, only at twilight; the pain ceases as soon as light enters the room (fifteenth day), [1] . [50.]
The eyes burn at night, with profuse lachrymation, [2] . Violent burning in the right eye, which continues long in the open air, [1] .
Tearing in the upper border of the right eye, first made worse, then improved, by pressing upon it; afternoons while sitting (fifteenth day), [1] .
Very painful sensation, as of hammering, over the margin of the right orbit, or as if a large body were pushing there (fifteenth day), [1] .
Twitching of the left eye; she must rub a long time before it disappears (fourth day), [1] .
Slight twitching in the lower eyelids, especially the left, during the whole time of proving, [1] .
Eyes burn like fire, in the canthi, the whole day (third day), [1] .
Burning in the canthi, so that she cannot look at the light; disappears after washing; mornings (third day), [1] .
Tearing in the external canthus of the eye, [2] .
Lachrymation early after rising (third day), [1] . [60.]
Agglutination of the eyes, early on waking, with burning in the corners, after washing (second day), [1] .
A vesicle in the white of the eye, [2] . Tearing in the eyeballs, [2] .
Twitching in the left ball, without any in the lid; disappears after rubbing (fourth day), [1] .
Mist before the eyes; in the open air she distinguishes nothing, either far or near, even in the light of the sun; in the room, on the contrary, she sees better (for five minutes), [1] .
For several mornings dimness of the eyes; there is a mist before them, which passes off after washing, [1] .
Sensation in the left eye as if a body were rising in it which prevents her from seeing; in the forenoon (fourteenth and fifteenth days), [1] .
Yellow spots, as large as a penny, everywhere before the eyes, when sewing, and when looking into her garden out of the window (two minutes), [1] .
Ears
Painful pimple on the anti-helix of the right ear, [2] . Itching pimple on the external concha of the right ear, which induces him to scratch continually, [1] . [70.] Several fine stitches in the left ear, which frequently recur; afternoons in the open air (fourth day), [1] . Several pointed stitches in the right ear, shooting inwards; then a burning extending from the left ear outwards; on walking in the open air (first day), [1] .
Frequent sensitive stitches outward from the right ear; it frequently lasts a long time, [1] . Stitches outward from the right ear, as with an awl, several times, [1] .
Boring and sticking outward from the right ear (third day), [1] .
Clawing and tearing in the right ear (nineteenth day), [1] .
Boring-twitching in the right ear (sixteenth day), [1] .
Burrowing and turmoil in the right ear, on which he lay at night, as if something would come out there (third day), [1] .
Tickling in the right ear, [1] . Frequently fine stitches outward from the left ear, [1] . [80.] Twisting in the left ear, also behind it, where there is a moist herpes, [1] .
Itching in both ears, which does not pass off by scratching, with discharge of liquid wax for several days (after fifth day), [1] . Grumbling and thundering noise in the right ear when sitting, also at night, with pulsative beats (sixth day), [1] .
Nose
External swelling of the left side of the nose, and, the next day, bloody crusts discharge (third day), [1] .
Bleeding at the nose from the left fossa, whereupon the itching ceases (third day), [1] .
On blowing nose, some brown blood with the mucus, [10] .
In morning left nostril stopped by mucus; removed by blowing, [10] .
Bloody froth from nose and mouth, [11] .
Frequent sneezing during the day (thirteenth and fourteenth days), [1] .
Frequent sneezing , without a cold, roused her from her sleep, with crawling in the throat , which caused her to cough, and produced a secretion of saliva (after six day), [3] . [90.] Clear, acrid water runs out of the nose, corroding the lips, [1] .
Coryza, with eruptions in the nostrils (sore nose), [2] .
Coryza at one nostril, out of which runs a quantity of thick, yellow matter; this is accompanied by tearing in the cheek-bone and the teeth of the left side, [2] .
*Coryza, with obstruction of the nose and loss of smell (thirteenth and fourteenth days), [1] . Coryza, with a feeling of obstruction in the nose, during which a large quantity of mucus passes off, with great difficulty, however (after twenty-four hours), [1] .
Dry coryza; clear water, however, runs out of the nose, [2] .
Obstruction of the nose, with pain at the right nasal fossa, at night, the symptom passing off again the next morning, [1] . Sensation in the upper part of the nose, as when a cold is approaching, [1] . *Sore nose, on the inside and around the margin of the nostrils, [2] .
Pain, as from ulceration, in the left nasal fossa; cannot endure the touch; this symptom occurs frequently (after third day), [1] . [100.] Constant itching in the nose, with desire to blow it, and sensation as if a large and rough body were sticking high up in the nose, with obstruction (second day), [1] .
Face
Distorted features expressive of the greatest anxiety, [11] . Color of the face very pale, [3] .
Eruptions in the face, [2] .
Vesicles without any sensation upon the left side of the face (eleventh day), [1] .
Herpes in the face, dry and tettery, [3] .
Heat in the face, with burning for half an hour in the room, which goes off in the open air (third day), [1] .
Twitching pain in right upper part of the face, at a small spot; in feeling of it it disappears, and on drawing the fingers away the pain is renewed, and so repeated for three times; forenoons (fifteenth day), [1] .
Tearing in right malar bone and up into the temples; forenoons (twenty-first day), [1] .
Violent painful tearing in left malar bone (eleventh day), [1] . [110.] Repeated tearings in right side of bones of face; evenings, while sitting (sixteenth day), [1] .
Swelling of the cheek, with enlargement of a gland below the right angle of the lower jaw, attended with a throbbing and lancinating pain, [2] .
Drawing in the lower jaw, [7] .
Tearing in the left lower jaw, afterwards in the upper incisors (twenty-fourth day), [1] .
The lips became contracted and felt as if they were greasy, [1] .
Both lips burn like fire (twenty-second day), [1] .
At times burning-stinging in the upper lip (second day), [1] .
Excoriated spots on the right side of the upper lip, with burning soreness (second day), [1] .
Chapped lips, [2] .
Dry and wrinkled lips; they became chapped and she had to moisten them constantly with the tongue, [2] . [120.] Itching pimples around the upper lip (second day), [1] .
Blisters on the upper lip, which became inflamed and ulcerated (after twenty-two days), [1] .
Mouth
Tearing toothache, [3] .
Painful tearing in all the teeth, at 8 P.M., disappearing in bed (sixth day), [1] .
Tearing toothache, now in the right, now in the left upper row, lasted a quarter of an hour, evenings in bed, [1] .
Tearing in the decayed root of a tooth of the upper row; it immediately passes off by pressing upon it with the finger, afternoons, when sitting (fifteenth day), [1] .
Stinging pain in the upper front teeth (fifth day), [1] .
Swelling of the gums of the left lower row, by the last back teeth, accompanied by stitches extending as high as the left temple (after eleven days), [1] .
Tongue white, [9] .
White-coated tongue, [7] . [130.] Coated tongue in forenoon, [10] .
Tongue and mouth coated in spots with a white mucous coat, like false membrane, [11] . *Vesicles at the tip of the tongue, which burn like fire , and disappear in an hour (third day), [1] . *Vesicles at the tip of the tongue, with a burning pain , [2] . Disagreeable taste and collection of water in the mouth (first day), [1] .
Pappy taste in mouth, early, after rising (third day), [1] .
Bitterness of the mouth, the whole day (after seven and eight days), [1] .
Bitter taste in mouth, early in the morning, with bitter eructations, which pass off after having eaten (first day), [1] .
Bitter taste during the anxiety, and nauseating, bitter eructations, [1] .
Sourish taste in the mouth, [2] . [140.] Sourish taste in the mouth, early on waking (fourteenth day), [1] .
Could scarcely speak, and complained of burning pains in throat and chest, [11] .
Throat
External and internal swelling of the neck, with pressive pain when swallowing, and drawing and stinging pains in the highly swollen submaxillary glands, [2] .
Swelling of the cervical glands (after twelve days), [3] .
Phlegm sticks in the throat, which he can neither hawk up nor swallow (eleventh day), [1] .
For the first eight days, phlegm constantly remains in the throat, which he can hawks up only with great difficulty, [1] .
Hawking up a quantity of phlegm, early in the morning, [2] .
Feeling of dryness in the throat (fifteenth day), [1] .
Roughness in the throat, which passes off after dinner, [1] .
Sore throat, stinging in the throat, both during and between the acts of deglutition (twentieth day), [1] . [150.] Sore throat, with rawness, [2] .
Stinging in the throat when yawning; this symptom occurs frequently (first day), [1] . Severe throbbing in the glands of the neck , without the glands being either inflamed or swollen; accompanied by flushes of heat, and want of air in the throat (after twenty-four days), [3] .
Sensation as of throbbing in the tonsils , which are not swollen; the throbbing is like that of an artery; with uneasiness and oppressive anxiety (after twelve days), [3] . Swallowing almost impossible, [11] .
Stomach
Neither hunger nor appetite; nevertheless, he take his usual meal at noon, and the food tastes naturally (eleventh day), [1] .
No hunger, for several days, though he takes his usual meals (four days), [1] .
Want of appetite in the evening; she does not wish to eat anything and frequently yawns (sixteenth day), [1] .
Almost total loss of appetite (after twenty-four days), [2] .
Thirst (first, second, and third days), [1] . [160.]
Violent thirst, [11] .
Thirst during several days and nights, which caused her to drink a good deal of water (after twenty-four days), [1] .
Very urgent thirst which is only satisfied with lemonade, [7] .
Unquenchable thirst, afternoons (third and sixth day), [1] .
Thirst at evening (first, second, fifteenth, and nineteenth days), [1] .
Thirst before the chill (evenings before 5 and 6), (nineteenth day), [1] .
Absence of thirst (contrary to habit), (first day), [1] .
Rising of air (shortly after taking the medicine), [1] .
Oppressive eructations, tasting of the ingesta (after twenty-second day), [1] .
Bitter eructations, with taste of the blood, forenoons (fifth day), [1] . [170.] Frequent eructations of a bitter taste, the whole day (eleventh day), [1] .
Gulping up of the ingesta, [1] .
In the afternoon, gulping up of bitter, sour water, the taste of which remained in the mouth until she ate again (seventeenth day), [1] .
Frequent hiccough, or bitter eructations; with the hiccough, violent stitches in the left breast, [1] .
Hiccough an hour after dinner (fourth day), [1] .
Continual hiccough, only seldom ceasing (ninth day), [1] .
Attacks of nausea (first day), [3] . Nausea and inclination to vomit on walking in the open air, forenoons (eleventh day), [1] .
Nausea and inclination to vomit, immediately after dinner, which is relieved by eructations, and in the open air (fourteenth day), [1] . After every dinner and supper, he is attacked with nausea, waterbrash, and horripilation (after twenty-six days), [2] . [180.]
Nausea, with oppression at the stomach; nevertheless, there is an inclination to eat, [2] . Burning from the stomach, up towards the pharynx, like heartburn, [1] .
Burning and pressure at the stomach, becomes a stinging, afternoons (twelfth day), [1] .
Heat at the stomach (morning of the first day), [5] .
Sensation of fulness in the stomach, with oppression, without shortness of breath; this symptom lasts the whole afternoon, and is relieved neither by rest, motion, nor eructations, [1] .
Sensation in stomach as of emptiness, or hunger (shortly), [1] .
Emptiness in stomach, not relieved by eating, [9] .
Empty feeling in the stomach, and yet he can hardly persuade himself to take food, [4] .
Sensation as of fasting in the stomach, which nevertheless, feels full; worse after breakfast (sixteenth day), [1] .
Frequent drawing in the stomach, [1] . [190.] Sensation in the stomach, as if everything would turn round, with disposition to waterbrash and great qualmishness, even unto vomiting, on walking in the open air; relieved by eructations, forenoons; also, afterwards, while sitting; he must go into the open air, where it soon disappears, [1] .
Grinding and writhing in the stomach, early in the morning, passing off after breakfast (second day), [1] .
Gnawing , or grinding, at the stomach , as if it contained worms, [1] .
Gnawing sensation at the stomach, soon after taking a new dose, [1] . Pressure at the stomach, with nausea, [5] .
At 8 A.M., sensitive stinging and burning in the pit of the stomach, which extends to the right axilla, and into the muscles of the right upper arm, for one minute (seventeenth day), [1] .
Abdomen
Long-continued, occasional pinching, as with two fingers, in both hypochondria, both when at rest and in motion (second day), [1] .
Stitches and burning in the region of the right ribs, in the afternoon, when walking (ninth day), [1] .
Occasional stitches in the right hypochondriac region, when spinning, [1] . Splenetic stitches, even when sitting, [2] . [200.]
Rumbling around the navel, continuing a long time (one hour after taking), [1] .
Violent pinching around the navel, for half an hour; then two evacuations (nineteenth day), [1] .
Pinching in a small spot to the left of the navel, while standing; worse on stooping (third day), [1] .
Momentary cutting and shooting around the navel (fifteenth day), [1] .
Griping in abdomen, below navel (6 P.M.), [10] .
Discomfort in abdomen, below and to left of navel, [10] .
Sensation as of grinding, at a small spot near the navel (one hour after dinner), (fourth day), [1] .
Burning in right flank, on sitting, for five minutes, afternoons (twenty-second day), [1] .
A large furunculus on the right side of the abdomen, [2] .
Drawing in the side of the belly, [2] . [210.]
Pain in upper abdomen, at a small spot, like a burning, [1] .
Rumbling in bowels, without perceptible flatulence, afternoons (third day), [1] .
Growling and noises in bowels, with much passage of flatulence (sixteenth days), [1] .
Rumbling from fermentation in the sides of the abdomen, extending as far as the chest, early in the morning, on waking up, in bed, [2] . Frequent emission of flatus (eighteenth day), [1] .
Emission of loud flatus (nineteenth day), [1] .
Frequent emission of offensive flatus, without the sensation of flatus, [1] .
Colic , [3] .
Oppression in the abdomen, [2] .
Weight in the abdomen, as of a load, with anxiety, as if the abdomen would burst; the symptom passes off during sleep, [2] . [220.] Fulness in the abdomen, [10] .
Severe pinching in the abdomen, which is soon followed by a loose evacuation (immediately), [2] .
Pinching in the abdomen at every inspiration, which passes off again by expiration (thirteenth day), [1] .
Pinching all around in the abdomen and in the groins, as before the appearance of the menses, early after rising (eighteenth day), [1] .
Gripings, here and there, in the bowels, without sensation of flatulence, afternoons (eighteenth day), [1] .
Gripings and movings in all the bowels, the whole day (fourth day), [1] . Violent cutting in the whole abdomen, at two o'clock at night; this rouses her from sleep (after twenty-four hours), [1] .
Pressure in the left side of the abdomen, as with the hand (nineteenth day), [1] .
Stitches in the left side of the abdomen, over the hip, when sitting, and when stooping while standing, [2] .
Frequent disappearing and recurring gripings in the lower abdomen, forenoons (thirteenth day), [1] . [230.]
Pinching and griping pain in the lower abdomen, with dyspnoea, [2] .
Pressive tension in the left side of the abdomen, near the ring, as if something were pressing out, [2] .
Pain in both groins, like severe gripings, which afterward extended to the navel, and disappeared after a few evacuations, evenings (first day), [1] .
Cutting and stitches in both groins, as far as the small of the back, with urging to urinate every half hour in the evening, [1] .
Tearing and tensive pain in the groin, when walking, [2] .
Distension, with a tensive sensation and grinding, in the right groin, [1] .
Indescribably vehement pain in the right groin; it often extends to the hip and the small of the back (fifteenth day), [1] .
Stitches in the right groin, and coming out behind the hip, when sitting (fourth day), [1] .
Sense of distension in left groin, which becomes somewhat painful on sitting (fifteenth day), [1] .
Pain, as from a sprain, in the left groin; it obliges him to walk crooked (third day), [1] . [240.] Pain, as from ulceration, in the left groin, perceptible only when walking, [1] .