Ammonium muriaticum

Ammonium muriaticum
(sal ammoniac)
* A state of prostration bordering on a typhoid state is produced by this remedy.
* All mucous secretions are increased and retained.
* It is especially adapted to fat and sluggish patients who have respiratory troubles.
* Coughs associated with catarrhs and affections of liver.
* A tendency to irregular circulation, blood seemsto be in constant turmoil, pulsations, etc.
* Many groups of symptoms are accompanied by cough, profuse glairy secretions.
* Its periods of aggravations are peculiarly divided as to the bodily region affected; thus the
head and chest symptoms are worse mornings, the abdominal in the afternoon, the pains in the
limbs, the skin and febrile symptoms, in the evenings.
* "Boiling" sensation.
Mind
- Melancholy, apprehensive; like from internal grief.
- Desire to cry, but cannot.
- Consequences of grief.
Head
- Hair falls out, with itchings and dandruff.
- Feels full, compressed; worse mornings.
Eyes
- Mist before eyes, optical illusions in incipientcataract; capsular cataract.
Nose
- Free acrid, hot watery discharge corroding the lip.
- Sneezing.
- Nose sore to touch; ulcerative pain in nostrils.
- Loss of smell. Obstructed, stuffy feeling; constant and unavailing efforts to blow it out.
- Itching.
Face
- Inflammatory face-ache.
- Mouth and lips sore and excoriated.
Throat
- Throbbing in, and swelling of tonsils, can scarcely swallow.
- Sore spot behind uvula, relieved by eating.
- Internal and external swelling of throat with viscid phlegm.
- So touch, it cannot be hawked up.
- Tonsillitis.
- Stricture of oesophagus.
Stomach
- Thirst for lemonade, regurgitation of food, bitter waterbrash.
- Nausea.
- Gnawing in stomach.
- Epigastric pain immediately after eating.
- Cancer of stomach.
Abdomen
- Splenic stitches, especially in the morning, with difficult breathing.
- Pain around navel.
- Abdominal symptoms appear during pregnancy.
- Chronic congestion of liver.
- Excessive fatty deposit around abdomen.
- Much flatus.
- Strained feeling in groin.
Rectum
- Itching and haemorrhoids, soreness with pustules.
- Hard, crumbly stool, or covered with glairy mucus.
- Stinging in perinaeum.
- Green mucus stools alternate with constipation.
- During and after stool, burning and smarting in rectum.
- Haemorrhoids after suppressed leucorrhoea.
Female
- Menses too early, too free, dark, clotted; flow more at night.
- Pain as if sprained in left side of abdomen during pregnancy.
- Diarrhoea, greenish mucous stools, and navel pain during menses.
- Leucorrhoea, like white of an egg [Alum.; Bor.; Calc.p. ]; with pain about the navel; brown,
slimy after every urination.
Respiratory
- Hoarseness and burning in larynx.
- Dry, hacking, scraping cough; worse lying on back or right side.
- Stitches in chest.
- Cough loose in afternoon, with profuse expectoration and rattling of mucus.
- Oppression of chest.
- Burning at small spots in chest.
- Scanty secretion.
- Cough with profuse salivation.
Back
- Icy coldness between shoulders; not relieved by warm covering, followed by itching.
- Bruised pain in coccyx when sitting.
- Backache, as if in a vise when sitting.
Extremities
- Pain as from ulceration in finger tips.
- Shooting and tearing in tips of finger and toes.
- Ulcerative pain in heels.
- Contraction of hamstring tendons.
- Sciatica, worse sitting, better lying.
- Neuralgic pain in amputated limbs.
- Offensive sweaty feet.
- Pain in feet during menses.
Skin
- Itching, generally evenings.
- Blisters on various parts.
- Intense burning better cold applications.
Fever
- Chilliness evenings after lying down and on awakening, without thirst.
- Heat in palms and soles.
- Sub acute, low fevers due to unhealthy climate.
- Lowest potencies.
Modalities
- Better, open air.
- Worse, head and chest symptoms in the morning; abdominal symptoms in the afternoon.
Relationship
- Antidotes : Coffea; Nux; Caust.
- Compare : Calcarea; Senega; Caustic.
Dose
- Third to sixth potency.