Ambra grisea

Ambra grisea
(ambergis - a morbid secretion of the whale)
* Suitable to excitable, nervous children and thin, nervous patients.
* Extreme nervous hypersensitiveness.
* External numbness of whole body in the morning and weakness.
* Nervous bilious temperament.
* Thin, scrawny women.
* Adapted to hysterical subjects, or those suffering from spinal irritation, with convulsive
cough, eructation, etc.
* Also for patients weakened by age or overwork, who are anaemic and sleepless.
* Great remedy for the aged, with impairment of all functions, weakness, coldness and
numbness, usually of single parts, fingers, arms, etc.
* One-sided complaints call for it.
* Music aggravates symptoms.
* Ebullitions and pulsations after walking in openair.
* One-sided complaints.
Mind
- Dread of people, and desire to be alone.
- Cannot do anything in presence of others.
- Intensely shy, blushes easily.
- Music causes weeping.
- Despair, loathing of life.
- Fantastic illusions.
- Bashful.
- Loss of love of life.
- Restless, excited, very loquacious.
- Time passes slowly.
- Thinking, difficult in the morning with old people.
- Dwells upon unpleasant things.
Head
- Slow comprehension.
- Vertigo, with weakness in head and stomach.
- Pressure on front part of head with mental depression.
- Tearing pain in upper half of brain. Senile dizziness.
- Rush of blood to head, when listening to music.
- Hearing impaired.
- Epistaxis, especially in the morning.
- Profuse bleeding from teeth.
- Hair falls out.
Stomach
- Eructations, with violent, convulsive cough.
- Acid eructations, like heartburn.
- Distention of stomach and abdomen after midnight.
- Sensation of coldness in abdomen.
Urinary
- Pain in bladder and rectum at the same time.
- Burning in orifice of urethra and anus.
- Feeling in urethra as if a few drops passed out.
- Burning and itching in urethra while urinating.
- Urine turbid, even during emission forming a brown sediment.
Female
- Nymphomania, Itching of pudendum, with soreness and swelling.
- Menses too early.
- Profuse, bluish leucorrhoea.
- Worse at night.
- Discharge of blood between periods, at every little accident.
Male
- Voluptuous itching of scrotum.
- Parts externally numb; burn internally.
- Violent erections without voluptuous sensations.
Respiratory
- Asthmatic breathing with eructation of gas.
- Nervous, spasmodic cough, with hoarseness and eructation, on waking in morning; worse in
presence of people.
- Tickling in throat, larynx and trachea, chest oppressed, gets out of breath when coughing.
- Hollow, spasmodic, barking cough, coming from deep in chest.
- Choking when hawking up phlegm.
Heart
- Palpitation, with pressure in chest as from a lump lodged there, or as if chest was
obstructed.
- Conscious of the pulse.
- Palpitation in open air with pale face.
Sleep
- Cannot sleep from worry; must get up.
- Anxious dreams.
- Coldness of body and twitching of limbs, during sleep.
Skin
- Itching and soreness, especially around genitals.
- Numbness of skin.
- Arms "go to sleep".
Extremities
- Cramps in hands and fingers, worse grasping anything.
- Cramps in legs.
Modalities
- Worse, music; presence of strangers; from any unusual thing; morning, warm room.
- Better, slow motion in open air; lying on painful part; cold drinks.
Relationship
- Do not confound with Amber - Succinum.q. v.
- Moschus frequently follows advantageously.
- Compare : Oleum succinum (hiccough).
- Sumbul; Castor.; Asaf.; Crocus.; Lilium.
Dose
- Second and third potencies; may be repeated withadvantage.