Ammonium Muriaticum

Head

Headache (forehead), with flushed face and enlarged veins, often with vertigo. The hair falls with great itching of the scalp, often with dandruff.

Eyes

Flying spots before the eyes, often dim and watery; yellow; cloudy vision.

Ears

Affection of the right ear, commencing in the throat, as if throat and the ear were connected.

Nose

Frequent sneezing, with crawling in the throat. Coryza; with obstruction of the nose and loss of smell; watery acrid coryza, corroding the nostrils and their edges as well as the upper lip. Sensation as if the nose were obstructed with a large body and itching , constant but unavailing effort is made to blow it out.

Face

Very pale face, or burning heat, passing off in the open air. The face burns with an eruption which requires cold applications for relief.

Mouth

Lips, and corners of the mouth ulcerated; shrivelled, cracked and dry, must moisten them frequently. Tip of the tongue blistered, and burns like fire; swollen and pasty. Thirst absent, or excessive. Taste bitter.

Throat

Sore throat and full of glairy mucus, with difficulty in swallowing, or expectorating; swelling of; and of tonsils, internally and externally with painful deglutition and drawing, stitching pains in sub-maxillary glands. Sensation of severe throbbing in the glands of the neck and in the tonsils, with suffocation. Sore spot behind the uvula, relieved by eating.

Stomach

Easily overloaded, when it feels sore, with flatulence; feels empty without appetite; uncomfortable sensation in, of drawing, or as if it would turn around; of digging, or writhing. Nausea, with frequent vomiting. Regurgitation of food.

Abdomen

Full, often with severe pains; excessively fat, lax, and hanging. Sensation in the left groin or abdomen as if sprained. Stitches in the spleen. Pain around the navel before stool.

Stool

During and after the expulsion of stool, severe burning and smarting in the rectum. Pustules form beside the anus, with itching and soreness. Hard, crumbling stools, as they arrive at the verge of the anus, expelled with much difficulty; stools green, slimy, glassy; tough mucus mixed up with the stool. Diarrhoea after every meal with pain in back, belly, and limbs. A good deal of flatus is discharged, before, during, or after the stool; much coagulated blood, or the appearance of meat scrapings in the stool. Stool often varies in color at every evacuation, no two being alike. Burning and stinging in the rectum, with haemorrhoidal tumors. Constipation alternating with diarrhoea; hard stool followed by a loose stool.

Urine

Smells strongly of ammonia; sometimes musty odor. Clayish sediment in; rises often at night and voids large quantity.

Sexual.-- Female : Uterus enlarged, displaced, soreness in the groins, profuse menses; crumbling stools. Too early menses, with pain in the abdomen and small of the back, flow more profuse at night, especially if dark and clotted. Diarrhoea and vomiting during the menses; discharge of blood from the bowels at stool during menses. In delicate, small-built women, at the critical age, violent metrorrhagia. Leucorrhoea, often with pain about the navel; like white of egg, brown or slimy.

Chest

Hoarseness with burning in region of the larynx. Hawking and clearing from tickling in trachea, with raising of small clots of mucus; every branch of the bronchial tubes involved. Moving the arms with force, or even stooping, excites asthma. Dry, rapid, suffocating cough is of daily occurrence, often beginning at 6 P.M.; sometimes it is deep and violent, and attended with free expectoration, dry cough all night, preventing sleep; excited by lying on back; after eating; after cold drinks; sensation of coldness between the scapulae; burning in small spots in the chest; lungs feel sore and as if paralyzed. Asthma from moving the arms with force. Stitches in chest; sensation in, as if a morsel of food had lodged; as if compressed in a vice.

Neck and Back.-- A fatty swelling on nape of neck, extending from ear to ear. Stiff neck; pain on turning head extends to between the shoulders. Icy coldness , between the scapulae, which nothing warms. Frightful backache as if shattered. Painful stiffness in small of back when sitting or when rising to an erect position. Sensation as if the back were compressed in a vice when sitting. Pain in coccyx as from a bruise when sitting or lying.

Extremities

Upper : In the evening, shooting and tearing in the tips of the fingers and toes; tingling in tips of fingers. Tearing in bone of left upper arm, and afterwards in right thigh from above downwards. The right arm is very heavy and feels stiff. Skin peels off between fingers and on wrists. Swelling of axillary glands. Lower : Left hip is painful, as if tendons were too short, must limp in walking; when sitting, gnawing pain in the bone. When walking, the hamstrings of both legs seem too short, causing pain. Muscles and tendons seem too short. Tearing down the thighs when sitting, relieved by rising, comes again when sitting, afterwards no relief on motion. Drawing pain in the legs when sitting or lying; walking bent forward relieves the pain. Very severe ulcerative pain in the heel, relieved by rubbing. The feet get very cold in the evening in bed. On account of a pain in the groins, as if sprained, cannot walk erect.

Sleep

Often awakens after midnight, or at 2 A.M. with violent colic. Anxious dreams.

Fever

Chilliness after lying down in the evening and as often as she awakens, without thirst. Night sweat over the whole body, most copious after midnight and early in the morning.

Worse.-- In the morning, after rising from bed.

Remedies following:-- Mercur., Phosphor., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Ant. crud., Coffea, Nux vom .

Antidotes

Coffea, Nux vom .