Pictrate of Ammonia
by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory
(AMMONIUM PICRATUM)
A remedy for malarial fever and neuralgias and so-called, bilious headaches. Pain in occiput and mastoid region. Whooping cough.
Periodical neuralgia in right side of occiput ; boring extends to ear, orbit, and jaw. Vertigo on rising. Periodic bilious headaches ( Sanguin ).
Third trituration.
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Ammonium Picricum appears in 2 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.
“Picrate of Ammonia. C 6 H 2 (NO 2 ) 3 ONH 3 . Headache / Neuralgia / Whooping-cough 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…”
