Ammonium phosphoricum

Phosphate of Ammonia

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory · 1901 (9th ed. 1927)

Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.

A remedy for chronic gouty patients uric acid diathesis, indicated in bronchitis and nodosities of the joints of the fingers and backs of the hands. Facial paralysis. Pain in shoulder-joint. Tightness around chest. Heaviness of limbs, unsteady, tottering gait. Coldness from least draft of air.

Head

Sneezing with excessive running from nose and eyes, only in morning.

Respiratory

Deep rough cough with greenish expectoration.

Urine

Rose-colored sediment.

Dose

Third decimal trituration.

Ammonium phosphoricum across the other classic books

Ammonium phosphoricum appears in 5 of the 27 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 — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“AMMONIUM PHOSPHORICUM. Authority. C. Voigt, M.D., Med. Examiner (Bost. Med. and Surg. Journ., vol. xxxiv, p. 308), effects of about 3 grains. In about an hour attacked by a sense of tightness in the præcordia and around the chest; nausea; thirst; a hard, small, frequent pulse; and a collapsed state of the circulation…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Ammoniæ phosphas. Hydro-diammonic phosphate (NH 4 ) 2 HPO 4 Solution. Facial paralysis / Gout / Joints, concretions on This salt has been used in cases of chronic gout with nodes of urate of soda on the joints. C. Voigt took three grains of Am. Phos., with this result: In about an hour, attacked by a sense of…”
Farrington — The differential diagnosis — remedy families narrowed through direct clinical comparison.
“I have one or two symptoms of Ammonium phosphoricum to give you. It has been successfully used in the treatment of constitutional gout when there are nodes or concretions in the joints. It is not to be used for the acute symptoms, not for the twinges of pain, but when the disease has become systemic, and when…”
Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“AMMONIUM PHOSPHORICUM. HydrO'diaininonic phosphate, (NH^),HP04. I. Provings. — i. Dr. C. Voigt, after taking about 3 gr., was seized >^ an h. with sense of tightness in pracordia and around chest ; nausea ; thirst } a hard, small, frequent pulse, and a collapsed state of the circu- Ution. These disturbances were…”

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