Ammoniacum Gummi

Ill-humour is the prevailing mental feature of Ammoniac. It acts prominently

on mucous membranes, causing first diminished and then increased secretion. There are stars and

• ▸fiery points before the sight.
• ▸Sees smoke in circles.
• ▸Dim sight from a blow on the head.
• ▸Dim

• ▸sight from reading.
• ▸Hydrocele.
• ▸Heart beat too strong, < lying on left side.
• ▸Great accumulations of

• ▸mucus.
• ▸Stitches are prominent in the provings.
• ▸Stitches in the czecum at 7 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸, alternating with

pains elsewhere. This should make it appropriate in some cases of appendicitis. There are many

rheumatic pains in the limbs and loins. There is marked sensitiveness to cold and < in cold

weather. It is suited to bronchial affections in old people brought on by cold weather.

Temper sombre and taciturn; repugnance to everything; ill-humour, which induces

discontent with everything that is done; incapacity for mental application.

Catarrhal headache due to closure of frontal sinuses.

Head confused, with incapability of mental labour; heaviness in the head.—Violent

pains in the head.—A semi-lateral pressure in the forehead; pressure over the eyebrows.—A sense

of confusion in the forehead, with dimness of sight; tearing sensation in the right side.—Pressure

• ▸in the occipital region.
• ▸—Pricking in the scalp.
• ▸—Sensation of swelling at the occiput.
• ▸—Itching,

enforcing scratching of the parts affected, and tingling; pimples at the roots of the hair.

Dim sight. Stars and fiery points float before eyes. Easily fatigued from reading.

A sense of pressure, with tickling at the upper part of the globe of the eye; throbbing

and tingling at the upper part of 1. eye, followed by a sense of pressure.—Feeling of dryness in

the eyes, and as of some foreign body under the upper lid of the 1. eye —Stars and fiery points

floating before sight.—Sees smoke before him (amblyopia from a blow).—Dimness of sight at

night, and chiefly in the morning, immediately on rising, with burning heat in the eyes.—Reading

impracticable, at least without considerable effort—Photophobia, although the weather may be

cloudy.

• ▸Tearing sensation at the exterior of r.
• ▸auditory passage.
• ▸—Gurgling in I.
• ▸ear, on

scratching the occiput. Roaring in the ears, with difficulty in hearing.

Painful dryness in the nose on rising in the morning.—Increase of nasal

mucus.—Sneezing, followed by an abundant flow of mucus from the nose.—Constant motion of

ale nasi.

Paleness of the face, with a sensation of uneasiness, preceded by frequent change of

colour.—Drawing sensation in 1. cheek-bone, towards the temple —Throbbing in the inferior

maxillary region, extending into the mouth.

8, 9. Mouth and Throat.—Dryness of the mouth and throat in the morning, on

awaking.—Sensation of fulness in the back of the throat and gullet, accompanied by

nausea.—Sensation, as of a foreign body in the throat, which incites efforts to swallow

it—Scraping and burning in the gullet and cesophagus.

Throat dry; worse inhaling fresh air. Full feeling, burning and scraping sensation. Immediately after eating, sensation as if something stuck in oesophagus, causing swallowing.

Frequent risings.—Nausea, with inclination to vomit.—Taste clammy, insipid, or

sweetish in the morning, bitter in the gullet, with loss of taste at end of tongue.

Borborygmi, with sensation of confusion in the forehead.—Pinching

pains.—Violent abdominal pains.—Painful pressure in the region of the pubis.

Stools scanty; none until evening, or during two or three days.—Stool

relaxed, of the consistence of pap; like pap after a meal.—Soft, with much wind, and preceded by

borborygmi in the belly.—Mucous stools, sometimes preceded by shivering, and colicky pains

• ▸which occasion writhing.
• ▸—Liquid stools.
• ▸—Diarrhoea, with mucous evacuations.
• ▸—Pressure on the

rectum.

Urine profuse, containing much lactate of urea.—Burning in the

urethra.—Passing drops of urine, after having micturated.

Shooting pains in the right spermatic cord, and in its immediate

• ▸neighbourhood.
• ▸—Drawings internally.
• ▸—Shooting pains at the root of the penis.
• ▸—Itching in the

pubic region.—Hydrocele.

• ▸Difficult breathing.
• ▸Chronic bronchial catarrh.
• ▸Large accumulation of purulent matter and feeble expectoration; worse cold weather.
• ▸Mucus tough and hard.
• ▸Heart beats stronger, extends to pit of stomach.
• ▸Coarse rattling of chest in old people.

Roughness of the orifice of the throat —Constant tickling, without

inclination to cough.—Bronchial affections of old people in cold weather.

Respiration short, with heaving of the chest, and anxiety; quickened.—During

inspiration, a sense of oppression, with lancinating pains in the |. side of the chest.—Pressure in

the side.—Great uneasiness at the bottom of the chest, towards the back, on r. side, followed by

pressure in the deepest part of the chest.

Weight and pressure in the lumbar vertebree.—Darting pains in the loins, chiefly

during inspiration—Rheumatic pains at the 1. of the pelvis.

Shooting and tearing pains in the shoulder-joint.—Sense of weakness in I.

• ▸arm.
• ▸—Rheumatic pain.
• ▸—A sensation of breaking, chiefly in the elbow and |.
• ▸wrist; sometimes

• ▸with a tearing pain in r.
• ▸hand.
• ▸—Swelling of the fingers.
• ▸—Dragging sensation in the middle finger

• ▸of r.
• ▸hand.
• ▸—Rheumatic pain in the forefinger of the r.
• ▸hand.
• ▸—Panaritium.

Darting pains about the hips while walking, which induce limping; also in r.

• ▸hip joint, on being seated.
• ▸—Weakness in the legs.
• ▸—Jerking pain in |.
• ▸thigh, along the crural

nerve.—Violent pain above the knee while walking.—Sensation of swelling in the knee, at night,

on being seated, with pinching pains in the popliteal space —Shooting pains in r. knee.—Stiffness

of the joint while walking. —Darting and pressive pains in the I. tibia—Tearing pains in the joints

• ▸of the foot—Sense of pressure above r.
• ▸ankle.
• ▸—Cracking of the joints on moving.
• ▸—Tearing,

burning pains, in the metatarsal bones.—Heaviness in r. foot—A tendency to stumble on going up

• ▸stairs.
• ▸—Pinching, burning, tearing, and drawing in |.
• ▸foot.
• ▸—Tingling in r.
• ▸foot—Swelling of the

toes—Burning and shooting pains in the great toe.—Drawing in the middle toe.

24. Generalities—Swelling of the joints of the upper and lower

• ▸extremities.
• ▸—Neuralgia.
• ▸—Lassitude after the least exertion.
• ▸—Physical dulness and lassitude, with

mental depression.—Inclination to sleep during the day, sometimes even on rising in the morning,

with listlessness; yawning from emptiness of stomach, sometimes attended by weeping; sleep

unquiet during the night, disturbed by dreams, unrefreshing; sleep delayed; numerous and

sometimes painful dreams.—Coldness and shivering, tendency to perspire —Pulse small, wiry,

rapid, and hard.

• ▸Appendicitis.
• ▸Asthenopia.
• ▸Asthma.
• ▸Bronchitis.
• ▸Eyes, affections of.
• ▸Glands, affections

• ▸of.
• ▸Heart, affections of.
• ▸Hydrocele.
• ▸Panaritium.

• ▸Compare: Asaf.
• ▸, Coni.
• ▸, Cicut.
• ▸(botanical relations); Ambra, Aur.
• ▸; Arn.
• ▸(effects of

• ▸blow); Puls.
• ▸(< lying on left side); Bell.
• ▸and Ruta (eyes).
• ▸Antidoted by: Arn.
• ▸, Bry.

Antidotes: Bry; Arnica.

Compare: Senega; Tart emet; Balsam Peru.

Third trituration.