Sources 16 entries across 15 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …
Dose Boericke
3X–6X
Third to sixth potency
Reason for useClarke
Am. mur. is less prominently a right-side medicine than Am. c.; Guernsey regards it as rather left-sided. It acts specially also on the forehead. It causes ulceration and ulcerative pains; also dislocation-like pains and tension as if tendons were contracted. Both cause paralytic weakness; both are < in open air. Am. mur. has > from warm bath. Am. carb. has greater sensibility to cold and to damp weather than the muriate. Both have itching eruptions of all kinds; drowsiness by day with indolence; shivering in the evening. The mental state is very similar in the two. The muriate has perhaps more melancholy and disposition to tears than the other, and it has peculiar to itself "antipathy to certain persons." Am. mur. has fear of darkness, like Stram., which is not noted under Am. carb. The muriate has fulness in head; weight in forehead. Burning in eyes in twilight or in morning with photophobia. Keratitis. Ulceration in corners of mouth. Sensation in stomach as if fasting, which nevertheless feels full; < after breakfast. Intermittent pains in both hypochondria. Stitches and burning in liver region, stitches in spleen < sitting. Tension in either groin. Shootings in scapula and ice-cold sensation between scapulae, unrelieved by external wraps. In the fever chilliness predominates. Choudhury cured with it a case of intermittent characterised by absence of thirst in all stages. Constipation and piles with bleeding at stool. Sore, smarting haemorrhoids. Hard stool covered with mucus; mucous secretions generally increased. Menses too early and too copious (Am. c.), with pains in loins. Vomiting, diarrhoea, and neuralgic pains in feet during period. Coryza, acrid, watery; scalding hot; with cold feeling between shoulders. Loss of smell. Cough and asthmatic symptom < evening and at night and < in open air. Pain as from ulceration at tips of fingers. Neuralgic pains in stumps of amputated limbs (Al. cep.). Ulcerative pains in heels (ulcers from friction Al. cep.). (Panaris.) Sciatic pain as if tendons were too short. < Sitting or walking. Tension in legs on lying. Large buttocks. Fatty tumours. Obesity. Body fat; legs thin (Am. c., fat all over). There is > walking crooked, < on walking erect. Most symptoms are < at night and from two to four a.m.
By regionClarke
Mind Great anguish, and melancholy state as from vexation or cares, with inclination to shed tears.—Full of grief, but can't weep.—Morose, apathetic humour, with repugnance to conversation.—Irritability and disposition to be angry.—Antipathy to certain persons.
Head Dizziness and vertigo (flushed face and enlarged veins), which mostly disappear in the open air.—Sensation of fulness in the head and weight over the forehead, chiefly in the morning on rising.—Pressure in the forehead towards the root of the nose, with a sensation as if the brain were bruised.—Acute semi-lateral sensation of pulling in the head and in the face.—Congestion of blood in the head, with internal heat.—Itching in the scalp, which forces to scratch constantly.—The hair falls out; often with dandriff.
Eyes Burning in the eyes, and in the corners of the eyes, in the evening, in the twilight, or in the morning, with photophobia.—Palpitation in the eyelids.—Confused sight, as from a mist.—Fluttering spots and points before the eyes, in the day, and in the evening by candle-light.—Yellow spots before the eyes on looking steadfastly at any object; while sewing.
Stomach Eructations, mostly bitter or imperfect.—Regurgitation of what has been taken, or of a bitter and acid water.—Frequent violent hiccough, often with shootings in the chest.—Water-brash.—Drawing or gnawing pains in the stomach, as if from worms.—Sensation of burning in the stomach and in the precordial region.
Female Sexual Organs Menses too early and too copious, with pain in the abdomen, loins, and pains, compressive or drawing, in the back; continuing during the night, when the menstrual discharge is more profuse.—During the menses, vomiting and diarrhoea, drawing in the feet, or discharge of blood on going to stool.—Leucorrhoea, with inflation of the belly; or like the white of an egg, preceded by pinchings round the navel; or slimy and brown, discharged after making water.
Respiratory Organs Hoarseness, with sensation of burning in the larynx.—Violent cough, chiefly in the evening and at night, when lying on the back.—Frequent hawking, with expectoration of mucus.—Dry cough in the morning (with tickling of the throat), with expectoration of whitish and thick matter.—The cough is aggravated after a meal, as well as after a cold drink, and when lying with the head low.—Cough on breathing deeply, esp. when lying on the r. side.—When coughing, shootings in the chest and in the hypochondria.—Spitting of blood, preceded by tickling in the throat.—When breathing, stitches in the shoulder-blades.
Neck And Back Acute drawings in the sides of the neck and in the collar-bone.—A fatty swelling on nape of neck, extending from ear to ear.—Stiffness of the neck, with pain on moving it, from the nape of the neck to the shoulders.—Coldness in the back, esp. between the shoulders (which nothing warms).—Pain in small of back as if beaten and shattered.—Pain in coccyx, when sitting, < when sleeping.—Pains, as from fatigue in the loins, principally at night, when lying down, when walking, or after stooping.—Painful stiffness in the loins, which forces one to stoop in walking.—Shootings in the shoulder-blades, esp. on breathing.
Lower Limbs Tension in the hips and the hams.—Shootings, pain of dislocation (l. hip is painful, as if the tendons were too short, causing limping), and pulling in the hip.—When sitting, gnawing pain in the bone.—Contraction of the tendons of the hams (the muscles under the knee feel too short when walking), and stiffness in the joint of the knee.—At night, acute pulling in the legs, as if in the bone.—Shooting pain in the calves of the legs, after having walked long.—Legs dead and insensible.—Pain of ulceration and pulling in the heels.—Cold feet, esp. in evening, in bed.—Fetid sweat in the feet.—Sudden jerks, pullings, or shootings, throbbing and tingling in the extremity of the toes.—Ebullitions, with anxiety and weakness, as if paralysed.—Tension in the joints, as from shortening of the muscles.—Burning, stinging, throbbing, as from a boil.—Sensation of soreness in different parts of the body.—Very severe ulcerative pain in the heel, > by rubbing.—The feet get very cold in the evening in bed.
Skin Itching and titillation, giving an impulse to scratch, followed by eruption of pimples.—Miliary eruption.—Vesicular eruptions which form scurf.—Exfoliation of the skin in several places.
Sleep Diurnal drowsiness, with indolence and dread of exertion.—Early in the evening, inclination to sleep.—Restlessness before midnight.—Sleeplessness after midnight, from cutting pain in the abdomen, at two a.m.; or from sneezing; pain in small of back.—Waking too early.—Many dreams, anxious, terrific, or lascivious.—At night, colicky pains, frequent sneezing, crawling in the throat, weight and pressure on the chest (nightmare?), violent suffering in the veins, and pains in the trunk and in the limbs, cold feet, heat in the head, shivering, and itching in the skin.
Fever Cold shivering, most frequently in the evening, about six o'clock; without thirst.—All stages of fever without thirst.—Shivering after lying down in bed, evening, and as often as she wakes.—Cold feeling between shoulders.—Heat with thirst, and face bloated.—Nocturnal sweat, after midnight.—Sweat increased by every motion.
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Antidoted by Coffea Cruda 4, Nux Vomica 4, Causticum
* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works. homeopathylibrary.com/remedy/ammonium-muriaticum
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