Chemical formula
by Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Preparation for use , Solution in water.
Authority.
Wibmer's provings, two to twenty grains in solution.
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Ammonium Benzoicum appears in 4 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.
“Benzoate of Ammonia One of the remedies for albuminuria, especially in the gouty. Gout, with deposits in joints. Urinary incontinence in the aged. Heavy, stupid. Bloated, swollen eyelids. Swelling under tongue like ranula. Smoky, scanty. Albuminous and thick deposits. Pain across sacrum, with urgency to stool…”
“Benzoate of Ammonia. NH 4 C 7 H 5 O 2 . Solution in distilled water. Albuminuria / Dropsy / Gout / Indigestion / Ranula / Rheumatism The chief symptoms of this salt (which has been proved) are: Head heavy, stupid. Urine scanty; smoky. Pight kidney sensitive to pressure. Gout with fluid in great toe-joint or with…”
“Benzoate of Ammonium. C 7 H 5 O(NH 4 )O. Proved by Wibmer ; also proved and used by Jeanes. Feeling of swelling and soreness, apparently in puncta and saccus lachrymalis. Eyelids swollen. θ Albuminuria. Face bloated. θ Albuminuria. Swelling under tongue, right side, like ranula. Eructation of food without acidity…”
Kent's Repertory lists Ammonium Benzoicum in 2 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic.
