Ammonium Muriaticum

Melancholy, apprehensive; like from internal grief. Desire to cry, but cannot. Consequences of grief.

Great anguish, and melancholy state as from vexation or cares, with inclination to

shed tears.—Full of grief, but can't weep.—Morose, apathetic humour, with repugnance to

conversation.—Irritability and disposition to be angry.—Antipathy to certain persons.

Pains, as from ulceration in different parts of the body.—Tension in the joints,

as by contraction of the tendons.—The r. side of the body appears to be more affected than the

|.—Pains in the head and chest, which increase principally towards morning; gastric and

abdominal pains after dinner, and pains in the limbs; cutaneous affections; also febrile

symptoms, which present themselves in the evening and at night.—Ebullition of the blood with

anxiety.—Paralytic weakness and fatigue, chiefly of the lower extremities, sometimes with

giddiness, or with tension and dragging of the legs.—Scorbutic cachexia—Tendency of the blood

to decomposition.—Acute dragging pains in the bones, nightly.

Hair falls out, with itchings and dandruff. Feels full, compressed; worse mornings.

Dizziness and vertigo (flushed face and enlarged veins), which mostly disappear in the

open air.—Sensation of fulness in the head and weight over the forehead, chiefly in the morning

on rising.—Pressure in the forehead towards the root of the nose, with a sensation as if the brain

were bruised.—Acute semi-lateral sensation of pulling in the head and in the face.—Congestion of

blood in the head, with internal heat—Itching in the scalp, which forces to scratch

constantly. —The hair falls out; often with dandriff.

Mist before eyes, optical illusions in incipient cataract; capsular cataract.

Burning in the eyes, and in the corners of the eyes, in the evening, in the twilight, or in

the morning, with photophobia.—Palpitation in the eyelids.—Confused sight, as from a

mist.—Fluttering spots and points before the eyes, in the day, and in the evening by candle-

light.—Yellow spots before the eyes on looking steadfastly at any object; while sewing.

Shooting in the ears from the inside outwards, esp. in the open air.—Drawing and

piercing sensation in the ears.—Eruption in the ears.—Running from the ears—Hardness of

hearing.—Tingling and buzzing before the ears —Affection of the r. ear commencing in the

throat, as if the throat and the ear were connected.

• ▸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.

Swelling of the nose, and painful sensibility to the touch, with pain of ulceration and

bloody crusts in the nostrils.—Sneezing, with shooting in the nape of the neck, and as far as the

shoulders, and crawling in the throat.—Coryza, with stoppage of the nose (and tenderness of the

nose) and loss of smell.—Flow of clear corrosive water during the coryza, corroding the lips.

Inflammatory face-ache. Mouth and lips sore and excoriated.

Acute sensation of tearing, violent in the zygomatic bones.—Burning heat in the face in

the room.—Eruptions in the face.—Ulcerations in the corners of the mouth, and in the upper

lip.—Lips shining, as from grease.—Lips dry, wrinkled, chapped, and excoriated with burning

heat, with blotches of the skin, peeling off; the face burns with an eruption which requires cold

applications for relief—Tensive pain in the articulation of the lower jaw on chewing, and on

opening the mouth—Swelling of the sub-maxillary glands, with throbbing pain.

Burning blisters on the point of the tongue.—Shooting pain in the throat on

swallowing.—Tenacious mucus in the throat, chiefly in the morning.—Swelling of tonsils so he

can scarcely swallow after taking, cold.

Acute sensation of tearing in the teeth—Swelling of the gums, with shooting pain.

• ▸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.

• ▸Thirst for lemonade, regurgitation of food, bitter waterbrash.
• ▸Nausea.
• ▸Gnawing in stomach.
• ▸Epigastric pain immediately after eating.
• ▸Cancer of stomach.

Bitter taste in the mouth, chiefly in the morning, with bitter eructations and

anxiety.—Absence of hunger and of appetite —Much thirst, chiefly in the evening.—After every

meal, nausea, flow of water from the mouth, with shuddering, diarrhoea with colic and pains in

the limbs, and sometimes with throbbing in the chest, heat in the face, and restlessness.

Eructations, mostly bitter or imperfect.—Regurgitation of what has been taken, or

of a bitter and acid water.—Frequent violent hiccough, often with shootings in the chest—Water-

brash.—Drawing or gnawing pains in the stomach, as if from worms.—Sensation of burning in the

stomach and in the precordial region.

• ▸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.

Shooting pains in the region of the spleen, chiefly in the morning on waking,

with dyspnoea, which causes the assumption of an erect position.—Inflation of the

• ▸abdomen.
• ▸—Pinching in the abdomen.
• ▸—Tension and swelling in the groins.
• ▸—Sensation of swelling

and pain, as of ulceration in the groins, on their being touched.

Itching and haemorrhoids, soreness with pustules. Hard,

• ▸crumbly stool, or covered with glairy mucus.
• ▸Stinging in perineum.
• ▸Green mucus stools alternate with constipation.
• ▸During and after stool, burning and smarting in rectum.
• ▸Haemorrhoids after suppressed leucorrhoea.

Constipation.—Hard stools, or frequent and soft.—Hard, crumbly stool, or

covered with glairy mucus.—Diarrhcea with pain, as if caused by excoriation, or by a bruise in

the belly.—Loose, slimy, greenish stools.—Before the stool, pain in the belly round the

• ▸navel.
• ▸—Discharge of blood with the stool.
• ▸—During stool, stitches in anus.
• ▸—Pustules form beside

the anus, with itching and soreness.—Stool often varies in colour at every evacuation, no two

being alike.—Pain, as from excoriation in the rectum when sitting; during and after the expulsion

of stool, severe burning and smarting.—Pain in the perineum when walking.—Hzemorrhoids:

burning, stinging, smarting, soreness.

Evacuation of urine increased, principally in the night.—Reddish, clear

urine, without sediment.—Diminished secretion, of urine.—Slow flow of urine; more abundant

• ▸during stool.
• ▸—Frequent urination, esp.
• ▸towards morning.
• ▸—Sediment, like clay.
• ▸—Urine smells

strongly of ammonia; sometimes musty odour.

• ▸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.

Menses too early and too copious, with pain in the abdomen, loins,

and pains, compressive or drawing, in the back; continuing during the night, when the menstrual

discharge is more profuse.—During the menses, vomiting and diarrhoea, drawing in the feet, or

discharge of blood on going to stool—Leucorrheea, with inflation of the belly; or like the white

of an egg, preceded by pinchings round the navel; or slimy and brown, discharged after making

water.

• ▸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.

Hoarseness, with sensation of burning in the larynx.—Violent cough,

chiefly in the evening and at night, when lying on the back.—Frequent hawking, with

expectoration of mucus.—Dry cough in the morning (with tickling of the throat), with

expectoration of whitish and thick matter—The cough is aggravated after a meal, as well as after

a cold drink, and when lying with the head low.—Cough on breathing deeply, esp. when lying on

the r. side—When coughing, shootings in the chest and in the hypochondria.—Spitting of blood,

preceded by tickling in the throat—When breathing, stitches in the shoulder-blades.

Asthmatic state on moving the arms up and down.—Weight and oppression of the

chest, with difficulty of breathing, chiefly in the open air, or at night—Pressure and shootings in

the chest.—Pressure, heaviness, and stitches in the chest, sensation as if a swallowed morsel had

lodged in the chest.—Throbbing in the chest when standing.—Burning in small spots in the chest,

lungs feel sore and as if paralysed—Tension and pain, as from fatigue, in the exterior of the

chest.—Eruption and red spots, burning and itching on the chest.

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.

Acute drawings in the sides of the neck and in the collar-bone.—A fatty

swelling on nape of neck, extending from ear to ear.—Stiffness of the neck, with pain on moving

it, from the nape of the neck to the shoulders.—Coldness in the back, esp. between the shoulders

(which nothing warms).—Pain in small of back as if beaten and shattered.—Pain in coccyx, when

sitting, < when sleeping.—Pains, as from fatigue in the loins, principally at night, when lying

down, when walking, or after stooping. —Painful stiffness in the loins, which forces one to stoop

in walking.—Shootings in the shoulder-blades, esp. on breathing.

Heavy and stiff, as if paralysed—Tearing in bone of |. upper arm, and

afterwards in r. thigh from above downwards.—During the night, acute tearing in the arms, as if it

were in the bones.—Swelling and hardness of the axillary glands—The r. arm is heavy and

stiff—Tearing in the shoulders —Swelling of the wrists with tearing pain.—Blisters on the wrists,

which form crusts.—Pain, as from dislocation, in the wrist.—Sudden jerks, tearings, or shootings,

throbbing, tingling and pain as from ulceration at the tips of the fingers.—Exfoliation of the skin

between the fingers (and on wrists).

Tension in the hips and the hams.—Shootings, pain of dislocation (1. hip is

painful, as if the tendons were too short, causing limping), and pulling in the hip.—When sitting,

gnawing pain in the bone.—Contraction of the tendons of the hams (the muscles under the knee

feel too short when walking), and stiffness in the joint of the knee.—At night, acute pulling in the

legs, as if in the bone.—Shooting pain in the calves of the legs, after having walked long. —Legs

• ▸dead and insensible.
• ▸—Pain of ulceration and pulling in the heels.
• ▸—Cold feet, esp.
• ▸in evening, in

bed.—Fetid sweat in the feet—Sudden jerks, pullings, or shootings, throbbing and tingling in the

extremity of the toes.—Ebullitions, with anxiety and weakness, as if paralysed.—Tension in the

joints, as from shortening of the muscles.—Burning, stinging, throbbing, as from a

boil.—Sensation of soreness in different parts of the body.—Very severe ulcerative pain in the

heel, > by rubbing.—The feet get very cold in the evening in bed.

• ▸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.

Itching, generally evenings. Blisters on various parts. Intense burning better cold applications.

Itching and titillation, giving an impulse to scratch, followed by eruption of

pimples.—Miliary eruption.—Vesicular eruptions which form scurf—Exfoliation of the skin in

several places.

Diurnal drowsiness, with indolence and dread of exertion.—Early in the evening,

inclination to sleep.—Restlessness before midnight.—Sleeplessness after midnight, from cutting

• ▸pain in the abdomen, at two a.
• ▸m.
• ▸; or from sneezing; pain in small of back.
• ▸—Waking too

early —Many dreams, anxious, terrific, or lascivious.—At night, colicky pains, frequent sneezing,

crawling in the throat, weight and pressure on the chest (nightmare?), violent suffering in the

veins, and pains in the trunk and in the limbs, cold feet, heat in the head, shivering, and itching in

the skin.

• ▸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.

Cold shivering, most frequently in the evening, about six o'clock; without thirst.—All

stages of fever without thirst—Shivering after lying down in bed, evening, and as often as she

• ▸wakes.
• ▸—Cold feeling between shoulders.
• ▸—Heat with thirst, and face bloated.
• ▸—Nocturnal sweat,

after midnight.—Sweat increased by every motion.

• ▸Anosmia.
• ▸Bronchitis.
• ▸Constipation.
• ▸Coryza.
• ▸Cough.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Eves, inflammation of.

• ▸Feet, pains in.
• ▸Glands, enlarged.
• ▸Hemorrhoids.
• ▸Liver, affections of: Melancholia.
• ▸Menstruation,

• ▸disorders during.
• ▸Pneumonia.
• ▸Sciatica.
• ▸Scurvy.
• ▸Spleen, pains in.
• ▸Sprains.
• ▸Stumps, neuralgia in.

Tonsils, swelling of. Ulcers.

• ▸Characteristics——Am.
• ▸mur.
• ▸is less prominently a right-side medicine than Am.
• ▸c.
• ▸; Guernsey

regards it as rather left-sided. It acts specially also on the forehead. It causes ulceration and

ulcerative pains; also dislocation-like pains and tension as if tendons were contracted. Both cause

• ▸paralytic weakness; both are < in open air.
• ▸Am.
• ▸mur.
• ▸has > from warm bath.
• ▸Am.
• ▸carb.
• ▸has

greater sensibility to cold and to damp weather than the muriate. Both have itching eruptions of

all kinds; drowsiness by day with indolence; shivering in the evening. The mental state is very

similar in the two. The muriate has perhaps more melancholy and disposition to tears than the

• ▸other, and it has peculiar to itself "antipathy to certain persons.
• ▸" Am.
• ▸mur.
• ▸has fear of darkness,

• ▸like Stram.
• ▸, which is not noted under Am.
• ▸carb.
• ▸The muriate has fulness in head; weight in

• ▸forehead.
• ▸Burning in eyes in twilight or in morning with photophobia.
• ▸Keratitis.
• ▸Ulceration in

corners of mouth. Sensation in stomach as if fasting, which nevertheless feels full; < after

breakfast. Intermittent pains in both hypochondria. Stitches and burning in liver region, stitches

in spleen < sitting. Tension in either groin. Shootings in scapula and ice-cold sensation between

scapule, unrelieved by external wraps. In the fever chilliness predominates. Choudhury cured

with it a case of intermittent characterised by absence of thirst in all stages. Constipation and

piles with bleeding at stool. Sore, smarting hemorrhoids. Hard stool covered with mucus;

• ▸mucous secretions generally increased.
• ▸Menses too early and too copious (Am.
• ▸c.
• ▸), with pains in

loins. Vomiting, diarrhoea, and neuralgic pains in feet during period. Coryza, acrid, watery;

scalding hot; with cold feeling between shoulders. Loss of smell. Cough and asthmatic symptom

< evening and at night and < in open air. Pain as from ulceration at tips of fingers. Neuralgic

• ▸pains in stumps of amputated limbs (A/.
• ▸cep.
• ▸).
• ▸Ulcerative pains in heels (ulcers from friction A/.

• ▸cep.
• ▸).
• ▸(Panaris.
• ▸) Sciatic pain as if tendons were too short.
• ▸< Sitting or walking.
• ▸Tension in legs on

• ▸lying.
• ▸Large buttocks.
• ▸Fatty tumours.
• ▸Obesity.
• ▸Body fat; legs thin (Am.
• ▸c.
• ▸, fat all over).
• ▸There is >

walking crooked, < on walking erect. Most symptoms are < at night and from two to four a.m.

• ▸Compare: Mag.
• ▸mur.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸mur.
• ▸; Val.
• ▸and Ac.
• ▸mur.
• ▸(pains in feet and heels); Rhus

• ▸(sprains; < sitting); Seneg.
• ▸(fat people); Sep.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸In "aversion to darkness" compare: Calc.
• ▸,

• ▸Carb.
• ▸an.
• ▸, stron.
• ▸, Val.
• ▸, and Stram.
• ▸A hot bath relieves aggravation caused by Am.
• ▸m.
• ▸Antidotes to

Am. m.: Bitter almonds; Coffea; Nux v.

Antidotes: Coffea; Nux; Caust.

Compare: Calcarea; Senega; Caustic.

Third to sixth potency.

The patient frequently feels a boiling throughout the body as if in

the blood vessel. Sensitive to cold. Many complaints increase while

in the open air. Flushes of heat, ending in sweat. Tearing pains and

smarting prevail extensively. Burning and excoriation of mucous

membranes. Drawing or sensation of shortening of tendons. It is

a long-acting remedy. There are few reliable mental symptoms

• ▸known.
• ▸Anxiety, fretfulness and antipathy to certain persons.
• ▸Neuralgic and rheumatic pains in the head.
• ▸Tearing pains in the head.

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Stitching and tearing in the temples. Itching of the scalp and other

parts. Rash all over body like measles. It cures capsular cataract,

when the symptoms agree. Yellow spots before the eyes. Burning

of the lids and balls in twilight or dim light. Mist before the eyes in

• ▸a bright light.
• ▸Burning of the cars when walking in cold air.
• ▸DiflScult hearing.
• ▸Catarrh of right ear, throat and larynx.

Much sneezing, watery burning discharge, yet stoppage of nose.

Coryza with burning in larynx. It has been used extensively in traditional medicine for coryza. Some sore throat and inflammation of the

larynx. P'or these troubles in olden times the large chunk of sal

ammoniac was produced, a few crystals shaved off with a common

jack knife into a glass of water. All got the same thing, regardless

of symptoms. Some were cured promptly of these bad colds, with or

without fever. It is now an overlooked remedy. Its symptoms should

be carefully studied.

With many of its complaints there is much pallor of the face.

Tearing in the bones of the face. Swelling of the submaxillary and

patroid glands with stitching pains. Burning and excoriation of mouth

• ▸and lips, like Am.
• ▸c.
• ▸Tongue swollen.
• ▸It is a very useful remedy

for nondescript sore throat ; but especially useful where there is

marked burning and much viscid mucus, pulsating in the neck and

glands of neck, great swelling, pale face, stitching in the throat, great

pain on swallowing, with or without thirst.

Eructations of food as eaten, and vomiting. Sensation of hunger

with fullness, which is a flatulent state. Empty feeling, gnawing in

• ▸the stomach and spleen.
• ▸Burning, stitching, tearing pains in the abdomen.
• ▸Distension from flatus.
• ▸Much grumbling in the bowels.

Much pain in inguinal region. Pain in abdomen and back during

menses. The abdomen is fat, relaxed and heavy, and the lower limbs

are lean. Excoriation and burning of the rectum and anus during and

long after stool. Stitching, tearing pains in the perineum. Hard,

crumbling stool, most difficult to expel ; must use the abdominal muscles. All the salts of ammonia, like this one, have painful haemorrhoids. It cures diarrhoea when the stools are like scraping^s, bloody

and watery; also green slimy stools in the morning. Diarrhoea and

vomiting during menses, like Am. c. It has cured enlarged prostate,

also enlarged uterus.

Menses too soon each month, with pain in back and abdomen. The

flow is black and clotted, much like Am. c. During menses there is often

haemorrhage from the bowels or rectum with cholera-like symptoms.

Copious uterine haemorrhage. Copious white painless leucorrhoea.

With all the abdominal and menstrual symptoms there is copious

flatus, with rumbling and colic.

These symptoms especially in pale, sickly, feeble women.