Ammonium Benzoicum

by John Henry Clarke — A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

Benzoate of Ammonia. NH 4 C 7 H 5 O 2 . Solution in distilled water.

Clinical

Albuminuria / Dropsy / Gout / Indigestion / Ranula / Rheumatism

Characteristics

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 lithates. The right side is most affected.

Relations

It is similar in its action to the Ammonias and to Benzoic acid. Also to Gnaphal. (gouty concretions), Caustic., Tereb., Urtica.

3. Eyes

Feeling of swelling and soreness, apparently in the puncta and saccus lachrymalis. Lids swollen.

8. Tongue

Swelling under tongue, r. side, like ranula.

11. Stomach

Eructation of food without acidity, with apparent weakness of digestion, or acid eructations. Increased warmth in stomach.

14. Urinary Organs

Sensation of internal soreness on pressure in leaning the back against the cushioned back of a carriage in region of r. kidney. Bloated face, eyelids swollen, head heavy, stupid; urine scanty smoky. (Albuminuria.). Urine smoky-looking, scanty, strong-smelling.

17. Respiratory Organs

Increased mucus in larynx causes frequent hawking and spitting.

20. Back

Pains across sacrum, with urgency to stool.

Ammonium Benzoicum across the other classic books

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.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Chemical formula Preparation for use , Solution in water. Authority. Wibmer's provings, two to twenty grains in solution. Increased frequency of the pulse. Increased mucous secretion in the larynx, causes frequent hawking and spitting. Increased warmth in the stomach, slight. Slight discomfort in the stomach. Pain…”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“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…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“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…”

Ammonium Benzoicum in Kent's Repertory

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.

BACK - PAIN - Sacral region - stool - with urging to
MOUTH - SWELLING - Tongue - one-sided - right

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