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Ammonium Bromatum

Bromide of Ammonia
19 sectionsBoericke · 7Clarke · 12

Essence

Prologue
Boericke

Bromide of Ammonia

Indicated in chronic laryngeal and pharyngeal catarrh, neuralgic headaches, and obesity. Constrictive pain in head, chest, legs, etc. Irritable feeling under finger nails; relieved only by biting them.

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Keynotes

Characteristics
Clarke
  • This salt has been well proved by A.
  • M.
  • Cushing.
  • The eyes and ovaries are

markedly affected. In the morning the eyes are red and sore, with mucus in corners (< left eye).

There is pain in left ovary, dull, with hard swelling. Chronic laryngeal catarrh of speakers. A

sudden desire to cough—so sudden it causes strangling. Sudden short cough when rising in

  • morning, from accumulation of mucus in throat.
  • Cough at 3 a.
  • m.
  • The mucus of Am.
  • bro.
  • is apt to

be stringy. It is indicated in epilepsy when the aura begins with a fainting or suffocating

sensation at epigastrium, rising up both sides of sternum to throat. There is an irritable feeling

under linger nails, > only by biting them The known conditions are: > warmth, warm drinks; < in

  • open air, cold air.
  • Many symptoms occur on waking, 3 a.
  • m.
  • Must walk about for fear of

suffocation.

Mentals

Symptoms — Mind
Clarke

Feared he might die (with stomach symptoms).—Timid, discouraged; lack of self-

confidence.—While writing mis-spelled words or numbers.

Generals

Symptoms — Generalities
Clarke

Malaise and fatigue < lying down, < after emission of flatus while

urinating. —Nervous restlessness.—Pains in legs at intervals, < after motion.

Head

Head
Boericke

Cerebral congestion. Feeling of a band above ears. Sneezing; thick nasal discharge.

Symptoms — Head
Clarke

Sensation of band round head pressing hardest just above ears.—Pain in side of head

  • (1.
  • ) near eye; as if a nail driven in.
  • —R.
  • —sided headache < by coughing.

Eyes

Eyes
Boericke

Edges of lids red and swollen, also Meibomian glands. Eyeballs feel large and pain around eyes into head.

Symptoms — Eyes
Clarke
  • In evening eyes (esp.
  • r.
  • ) feet large, with constant blur before them.
  • —Eyes as if sand in
  • them.
  • —R.
  • eye feels as if bathed in hot water; stringy mucus in it.
  • —Pterygium.
  • —Eyes red and sore

in morning, with white mucus in corners.—Lids swollen; droop, difficult and painful to raise;

adhere.—Pains round eyes into head.—In evening, difficult vision and hemiopia.

Nose

Symptoms — Nose
Clarke

Sneezing on moving about in cold room, or on raising arms; thin discharge from r.

nostril (next day thicker).—Sneezing on going into warm room; stoppage of nose in warm room.

Mouth

Symptoms — Mouth
Clarke

Mouth and tongue smart severely as if just burned; morning.—Must hold mouth open

when walking on account of heat in throat and lungs.—Stringy, tasteless mucus in mouth.—Tastes

food eaten several hours before.

Throat

Symptoms — Throat
Clarke

During day filled with white sticky mucus, streaked with blood.—Throat sore,

mottled look.—Preparing to swallow is painful, the act is not.—Sensation of hot air passing up

throat, r. side, though stomach feels cold —Fauces and tongue feel scalded.—Stinging and

irritation in fauces with inclination to cough > by sneezing.

Throat
Boericke
  • Smarting in mouth.
  • Tickling in throat, with inclination to dry, spasmodic cough, especially at night.
  • Burning in fauces.
  • White, sticky, mucus.
  • Chronic speakers' catarrh.

Urinary

Symptoms — Urinary Organs
Clarke

Feeling over r. kidney as if something were pressed hard against it; > by

pressure, but leaving a pulling sensation.

Respiratory

Respiratory
Boericke
  • Sudden, short cough, strangling.
  • Tickling in trachea and bronchial tubes.
  • Wakes at 3 am with cough.
  • Feels suffocated; continuous cough, when lying down at night; sharp pain in lungs.
  • Whooping Cough.
  • --Dry, spasmodic cough on lying down.
Symptoms — Respiratory Organs
Clarke

An almost continuous cough for hours, > lying down at night;

sensation of tickling irritation with heat and burning.—Sudden desire to cough, coming on so

suddenly it strangles one.—Sudden short cough when rising from bed in morning, from sensation

of mucus in throat.—Tickling in trachea and bronchial tubes, attended by cough and slight

scraping in throat while coughing —Waked 3 a.m. with cough.

Clinical

Clinical
Clarke
  • Ciliary neuralgia.
  • Corpulency.
  • Coryza.
  • Cough.
  • Epilepsy.
  • Kidney, pain in.
  • Larynx,
  • catarrh of.
  • Nails, biting.
  • Ophthalmia, scrofulous.
  • Ovaries, affections of.
  • Pharyngitis.
  • Pterygium.

Whooping-cough.

Relations

Relations
Clarke
  • Compare: Kali bro.
  • , Arg.
  • n.
  • , Caust.
  • , Bufo, Cepa (coryza < in warm room); Lach.
  • (<
  • after sleep).
  • Cough from accumulation of mucus in throat, Asc.
  • h.
  • , Atrop.
  • , Grat.
  • , Kre.
  • , Seneg.

Posology

Dose
Boericke

First potency.

Classical Posology

Acute
  • 30C or 200C · repeat every 1–4 h depending on intensity
  • Stop on improvement · reassess in 24–48 h
  • For sensitive / elderly / paediatric: prefer LM1 or 30C
Constitutional
  • 200C or 1M single dose · wait 4 weeks
  • Alternative: LM1 daily × 10 days · ascend on retest
  • Hering's-Law follow-up adapts the next script
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