Ammonium Bromatum

Bromide of Ammonia

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

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.

Head

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

Eyes

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

Throat

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

Respiratory

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.

Relationship

Hyos; Con; Arg nit; Kali bich .

Dose

First potency.

Ammonium Bromatum across the other classic books

Ammonium Bromatum 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.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Chemical formula , NH4 Br. Preparation , Triturations. Authorities. A.M. Cushing, provings in Trans. Am. Inst. of Hom., 1870. Peculiar pain in head, cannot describe it (fourth day), 2. At times during day felt as if a band was tied around head above ears , pressing hardest just above the ears 1 (third and fourth…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Bromide of Ammonium. (NH 4 Br.) Solution in distilled water. Ciliary neuralgia / Corpulency / Coryza / Cough / Epilepsy / Kidney, pain in / Larynx, catarrh of / Nails, biting / Ophthalmia, scrofulous / Ovaries, affections of / Pharyngitis / Pterygium / Whooping-cough This salt has been well proved by A. M. Cushing…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Bromide of Ammonium. NH 4 Br. Proved by A. M. Cushing, 1870, after the very interesting report by J. Kitchen. See Record, 1870, p. 297. Feared he might die. See 17 . At times a feeling during day as of a band tied around head above ears, pressing hardest just above ears. Pain in side of head near eye, as if a nail was…”

Ammonium Bromatum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Ammonium Bromatum in 81 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in COUGH (21), EYE (8), GENERALITIES (7), EXTREMITIES (6), HEAD (6).

MIND - COMPANY, - aversion to - presence of strangers,to
COUGH - NIGHT
COUGH - TICKLING - tonsils,below
COUGH - SUDDEN - evening
MOUTH - PAIN - burnt,as if - morning
HEAD - PAIN, - nail,as from a - Temples
EYE - PTERYGIUM
EYE - SCROFULOUS affections
MOUTH - PAIN - burnt,as if
HEAD - CONSTRICTION,tension - band or hoop
EXPECTORATION - WHITE
GENERALITIES - SIDE,symptoms on one side - left
EXPECTORATION - VISCID
THROAT - PAIN - sore
GENERALITIES - PAIN - burning - internally
HEAD - PAIN, - pressing - Temples
GENERALITIES - NIGHT
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS - Foot
HEAD - PAIN, - pressing
ABDOMEN - RESTLESSNESS,uneasiness,etc. - evening

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