Ammonium Picricum

Picric acid and its combinations are very powerful medicinal substances of

• ▸the nitric acid group.
• ▸Allen gives this indication for Amm.
• ▸pic.
• ▸(which has had only a fragmentary

proving): Periodical neuralgia in right side of occiput, boring extending to the ear, orbit and jaw;

vertigo on rising, especially in irregular menstruation. Hale, who introduced the remedy to

homeceopathy, commends it in congestion of brain and spinal cord. Heavy, pressive pains in

occiput and mastoid region; on sides of head to temples and eyes. Face darkly flushed. Mind

• ▸obtuse, disinclined to labour.
• ▸Periodic bilious headache like that of Sang.
• ▸, and Act.
• ▸r.
• ▸One case he

cured had these symptoms: Middle-aged woman, short, stout, florid, every six or eight days

would wake in morning with violent pain in occipital region, heaviness of head, vertigo on

rising. Pain < on getting up; extended over sides of head to temples and eyes. In afternoon

nausea and vomiting of sour bilious matter. Another case was that of a doctor who had been

thrown from his carriage and injured about the back of his head. He seemed more frightened than

hurt, but in a few days he noticed that on turning in bed, or stooping, or on any sudden motion,

he would be seized with a "wild feeling" in the occiput, trembling beating of heart with

• ▸intermission, and great alarm.
• ▸Am.
• ▸pic.
• ▸completely relieved him after other medicines had been

• ▸given in vain.
• ▸Am.
• ▸pic is intensely bitter, and like Pic.
• ▸ac.
• ▸and other picrates has a strong action

• ▸on the liver.
• ▸Pic.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, like Am.
• ▸pic.
• ▸, has occipital headache, proceeding down the spine; and also a

• ▸pain travelling the reverse way.
• ▸I gave great relief with Pic.
• ▸ac.
• ▸in a case of spinal paresis in

• ▸which a pain rising up the spine into the head was complained of.
• ▸I think it is the Pic.
• ▸ac.
• ▸element

in this ammonia salt that accounts for its action in these cases of Hale's.

Periodical neuralgia in right side of occiput; boring extends to ear, orbit, and jaw. Vertigo on rising. Periodic bilious headaches (Sanguin).

Third trituration.