AMMONIUM MURIATICUM.
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Ammonium chloride, NH4 Cl.
Common names , Sal Ammoniac; Sal'm'iac.
Preparation , Trituration on aqueous solution (100 parts of water at 60° dissolves 36 parts of the salt).
Authorities.
1 , N-g and Hartlaub, H. and T. Annalen, 4; 2 , Hahnemann, Chr. Krank., 1; 3 , Rl. (ibid.); 4 , Gumpert, Roth's résumé; 5 , Wibmer; 6 , Fischer, Roth's résumé; 7 , Rechnitz, ibid.; 8 , Knorre, A. H. Z., 6, 33; 9 , Frank's Mag., poison cases; 10 , Boecker; 11 , J. d. Chim. Med., 1840, poison by fumes, A. H. Z., 20, 9.
MIND
- When talking about some important subject he becomes extremely excited, 2.
- She is overwhelmed with anxiety, would like to weep, and does weep, sometimes (first day), 1.
- Full of melancholy and anxiety, as if some internal grief and sorrow were gnawing at her heart, 1.
- She is sitting there, full of ill-humor, absorbed in her thoughts, and can scarcely be induced to speak, in the evening (fifteenth day), 1.
- Peevish, as if she had some internal vexation, and looking as if not yet entirely conscious of herself; as if she had not slept enough (third day), 1.
- Irritable and peevish, in the forenoon; the mood improves after dinner (eight day), 1.
- Very irritable, peevish, and easily frightened, 3.
- Involuntary antipathy to certain persons, 2.
HEAD
- The head feels confused, as after intoxication (fourteenth day), 2. [10.]
- The head feels dizzy and confused in the room; this symptom passes off in the open air; early in the morning (fourth day), 1.
- Vertigo, as if she would fall to one side; worse during motion, passing off in the open air, frequently (third day), 1.
- Giddiness and fulness of the head; it feels as if it were very heavy (one hour), 1.
- Feeling of heaviness in the head, almost daily, after rising, 1.
- The head feels so full that it seems too heavy (after twenty-fifth day), 1.
- Violent headache, for several days, 3.
- Feeling of heat and fulness in the head, early after rising, 1.
- Heat in the head, without proceeding chill, before midnight, in bed, so that she cannot go to sleep for a long time, 1.
- Stitches and pressure in the head, especially in the left side, in the room (second day), 1.
- Frequent creeping over the head, of short duration (twenty-fifth day), 1. [20.]
- Pimples on the forehead, following after itching and scratching (sixth day), 1.
- Frontal headache, without mental disturbance, 5.
- Violent throbbing headache in the forehead, towards evening, lasting one hour; upon touching the forehead worse; with weakness, so that he was scarcely able to walk, and chills on going to bed, 2.
- Heaviness in the forehead, frequently during the day, accompanied by a feeling of internal heat and a little sweat, 1.
- Pressure in the forehead, with sensation of heat there, early in the morning after an uneasy night, 1.
- Downward pressure in the forehead, towards the root of the nose, with sensation as if the brain were torn, early after rising (twenty-fifth day), 1.
- Painful boring in the forehead, early after rising, and almost during the whole day (fifth day), 1.
- Sudden fine stitching in the left side of the forehead, of long duration, afternoons (fourth day), 1.
- Painful twitches, from below upwards, in the left temple (third day), 1.
- Burning pain, and sometimes stitches, in the left temple, both when at rest and when masticating and sneezing; no increase of pain when the parts are touched, . [30.]
EYES
- Eyes become weak, glassy, watery, 9.
- Redness of the white of the eyes and itching of the eyes, 2.
- Pain in the eyes, 2.
- The eyes burn in the morning, after rising, if she looks at the light (fourth day), 1.
- Burning of the eyes in the evening, and closing thereof as from sleep; this symptom passed off as soon as light entered the room (fifteenth day), 1.
- The eyes are burning for several evenings, only at twilight; the pain ceases as soon as light enters the room (fifteenth day), 1. [50.]
- The eyes burn at night, with profuse lachrymation, 2.
- Violent burning in the right eye, which continues long in the open air, 1.
- Tearing in the upper border of the right eye, first made worse, then improved, by pressing upon it; afternoons while sitting (fifteenth day), 1.
- Very painful sensation, as of hammering, over the margin of the right orbit, or as if a large body were pushing there (fifteenth day), 1.
- Twitching of the left eye; she must rub a long time before it disappears (fourth day), 1.
- Slight twitching in the lower eyelids, especially the left, during the whole time of proving, 1.
- Eyes burn like fire, in the canthi, the whole day (third day), 1.
- Burning in the canthi, so that she cannot look at the light; disappears after washing; mornings (third day), 1.
- Tearing in the external canthus of the eye, 2.
- Lachrymation early after rising (third day), 1. [60.]
- Agglutination of the eyes, early on waking, with burning in the corners, after washing (second day), 1.
- A vesicle in the white of the eye, 2.
- Tearing in the eyeballs, 2.
- Twitching in the left ball, without any in the lid; disappears after rubbing (fourth day), 1.
- Mist before the eyes; in the open air she distinguishes nothing, either far or near, even in the light of the sun; in the room, on the contrary, she sees better (for five minutes), 1.
- For several mornings dimness of the eyes; there is a mist before them, which passes off after washing, 1.
- Sensation in the left eye as if a body were rising in it which prevents her from seeing; in the forenoon (fourteenth and fifteenth days), .
EARS
- Painful pimple on the anti-helix of the right ear, 2.
- Itching pimple on the external concha of the right ear, which induces him to scratch continually, 1. [70.]
- Several fine stitches in the left ear, which frequently recur; afternoons in the open air (fourth day), 1.
- Several pointed stitches in the right ear, shooting inwards; then a burning extending from the left ear outwards; on walking in the open air (first day), 1.
- Frequent sensitive stitches outward from the right ear; it frequently lasts a long time, 1.
- Stitches outward from the right ear, as with an awl, several times, 1.
- Boring and sticking outward from the right ear (third day), 1.
- Clawing and tearing in the right ear (nineteenth day), 1.
- Boring-twitching in the right ear (sixteenth day), 1.
- Burrowing and turmoil in the right ear, on which he lay at night, as if something would come out there (third day), 1.
- Tickling in the right ear, 1.
- Frequently fine stitches outward from the left ear, 1. [80.]
- Twisting in the left ear, also behind it, where there is a moist herpes, 1.
- Itching in both ears, which does not pass off by scratching, with discharge of liquid wax for several days (after fifth day), 1.
- Grumbling and thundering noise in the right ear when sitting, also at night, with pulsative beats (sixth day), 1.
NOSE
- External swelling of the left side of the nose, and, the next day, bloody crusts discharge (third day), 1.
- Bleeding at the nose from the left fossa, whereupon the itching ceases (third day), 1.
- On blowing nose, some brown blood with the mucus, 10.
- In morning left nostril stopped by mucus; removed by blowing, 10.
- Bloody froth from nose and mouth, 11.
- Frequent sneezing during the day (thirteenth and fourteenth days), 1.
- Frequent sneezing , without a cold, roused her from her sleep, with crawling in the throat , which caused her to cough, and produced a secretion of saliva (after six day), 3. [90.]
- Clear, acrid water runs out of the nose, corroding the lips, 1.
- Coryza, with eruptions in the nostrils (sore nose), 2.
- Coryza at one nostril, out of which runs a quantity of thick, yellow matter; this is accompanied by tearing in the cheek-bone and the teeth of the left side, 2.
- *Coryza, with obstruction of the nose and loss of smell (thirteenth and fourteenth days), 1.
- Coryza, with a feeling of obstruction in the nose, during which a large quantity of mucus passes off, with great difficulty, however (after twenty-four hours), 1.
- Dry coryza; clear water, however, runs out of the nose, 2.
- Obstruction of the nose, with pain at the right nasal fossa, at night, the symptom passing off again the next morning, 1.
- Sensation in the upper part of the nose, as when a cold is approaching, 1.
- *Sore nose, on the inside and around the margin of the nostrils, 2.
- Pain, as from ulceration, in the left nasal fossa; cannot endure the touch; this symptom occurs frequently (after third day), 1. [100.]
- Constant itching in the nose, with desire to blow it, and sensation as if a large and rough body were sticking high up in the nose, with obstruction (second day), 1.
FACE
- Distorted features expressive of the greatest anxiety, 11.
- Color of the face very pale, 3.
- Eruptions in the face, 2.
- Vesicles without any sensation upon the left side of the face (eleventh day), 1.
- Herpes in the face, dry and tettery, 3.
- Heat in the face, with burning for half an hour in the room, which goes off in the open air (third day), 1.
- Twitching pain in right upper part of the face, at a small spot; in feeling of it it disappears, and on drawing the fingers away the pain is renewed, and so repeated for three times; forenoons (fifteenth day), 1.
- Tearing in right malar bone and up into the temples; forenoons (twenty-first day), 1 . Violent painful tearing in left malar bone (eleventh day), 1. [110.]
- Repeated tearings in right side of bones of face; evenings, while sitting (sixteenth day), 1.
- Swelling of the cheek, with enlargement of a gland below the right angle of the lower jaw, attended with a throbbing and lancinating pain, 2.
- Drawing in the lower jaw, 7.
- Tearing in the left lower jaw, afterwards in the upper incisors (twenty-fourth day), 1.
- The lips became contracted and felt as if they were greasy, 1.
- Both lips burn like fire (twenty-second day), 1.
- At times burning-stinging in the upper lip (second day), 1.
- Excoriated spots on the right side of the upper lip, with burning soreness (second day), 1.
- Chapped lips, 2.
- Dry and wrinkled lips; they became chapped and she had to moisten them constantly with the tongue, 2. [120.]
- Itching pimples around the upper lip (second day), 1.
- Blisters on the upper lip, which became inflamed and ulcerated (after twenty-two days), 1.
MOUTH
- Tearing toothache, 3.
- Painful tearing in all the teeth, at 8 P.M., disappearing in bed (sixth day), 1.
- Tearing toothache, now in the right, now in the left upper row, lasted a quarter of an hour, evenings in bed, 1.
- Tearing in the decayed root of a tooth of the upper row; it immediately passes off by pressing upon it with the finger, afternoons, when sitting (fifteenth day), 1.
- Stinging pain in the upper front teeth (fifth day), 1.
- Swelling of the gums of the left lower row, by the last back teeth, accompanied by stitches extending as high as the left temple (after eleven days), 1.
- Tongue white, 9.
- White-coated tongue, 7. [130.]
- Coated tongue in forenoon, 10.
- Tongue and mouth coated in spots with a white mucous coat, like false membrane, 11.
- Vesicles at the tip of the tongue, which burn like fire , and disappear in an hour (third day), 1.*
- Vesicles at the tip of the tongue, with a burning pain, 2.*
- Disagreeable taste and collection of water in the mouth (first day), 1.
- Pappy taste in mouth, early, after rising (third day), 1.
- Bitterness of the mouth, the whole day (after seven and eight days), 1.
- Bitter taste in mouth, early in the morning, with bitter eructations, which pass off after having eaten (first day), 1.
- Bitter taste during the anxiety, and nauseating, bitter eructations, 1.
- Sourish taste in the mouth, 2. [140.]
- Sourish taste in the mouth, early on waking (fourteenth day), 1.
- Could scarcely speak, and complained of burning pains in throat and chest, 11.
THROAT
- External and internal swelling of the neck, with pressive pain when swallowing, and drawing and stinging pains in the highly swollen submaxillary glands, 2.
- Swelling of the cervical glands (after twelve days), 3.
- Phlegm sticks in the throat, which he can neither hawk up nor swallow (eleventh day), 1.
- For the first eight days, phlegm constantly remains in the throat, which he can hawks up only with great difficulty, 1.
- Hawking up a quantity of phlegm, early in the morning, 2.
- Feeling of dryness in the throat (fifteenth day), 1.
- Roughness in the throat, which passes off after dinner, 1.
- Sore throat, stinging in the throat, both during and between the acts of deglutition (twentieth day), 1. [150.]
- Sore throat, with rawness, 2.
- Stinging in the throat when yawning; this symptom occurs frequently (first day), 1.
- Severe throbbing in the glands of the neck , without the glands being either inflamed or swollen; accompanied by flushes of heat, and want of air in the throat (after twenty-four days), 3.
- Sensation as of throbbing in the tonsils , which are not swollen; the throbbing is like that of an artery; with uneasiness and oppressive anxiety (after twelve days), 3.
- Swallowing almost impossible, 11.
STOMACH
- Neither hunger nor appetite; nevertheless, he take his usual meal at noon, and the food tastes naturally (eleventh day), 1.
- No hunger, for several days, though he takes his usual meals (four days), 1.
- Want of appetite in the evening; she does not wish to eat anything and frequently yawns (sixteenth day), 1.
- Almost total loss of appetite (after twenty-four days), 2.
- Thirst (first, second, and third days), 1. [160.]
- Violent thirst, 11.
- Thirst during several days and nights, which caused her to drink a good deal of water (after twenty-four days), 1.
- Very urgent thirst which is only satisfied with lemonade, 7.
- Unquenchable thirst, afternoons (third and sixth day), 1.
- Thirst at evening (first, second, fifteenth, and nineteenth days), 1.
- Thirst before the chill (evenings before 5 and 6), (nineteenth day), 1.
- Absence of thirst (contrary to habit), (first day), 1.
- Rising of air (shortly after taking the medicine), 1.
- Oppressive eructations, tasting of the ingesta (after twenty-second day), 1.
- Bitter eructations, with taste of the blood, forenoons (fifth day), 1. [170.]
- Frequent eructations of a bitter taste, the whole day (eleventh day), 1.
- Gulping up of the ingesta, 1.
- In the afternoon, gulping up of bitter, sour water, the taste of which remained in the mouth until she ate again (seventeenth day), 1.
- Frequent hiccough, or bitter eructations; with the hiccough, violent stitches in the left breast, 1.
- Hiccough an hour after dinner (fourth day), 1.
- Continual hiccough, only seldom ceasing (ninth day), 1.
- Attacks of nausea (first day), 3.
- Nausea and inclination to vomit on walking in the open air, forenoons (eleventh day), 1.
- Nausea and inclination to vomit, immediately after dinner, which is relieved by eructations, and in the open air (fourteenth day), 1.
ABDOMEN
- Long-continued, occasional pinching, as with two fingers, in both hypochondria, both when at rest and in motion (second day), 1.
- Stitches and burning in the region of the right ribs, in the afternoon, when walking (ninth day), 1.
- Occasional stitches in the right hypochondriac region, when spinning, 1.
- Splenetic stitches, even when sitting, 2. [200.]
- Rumbling around the navel, continuing a long time (one hour after taking), 1.
- Violent pinching around the navel, for half an hour; then two evacuations (nineteenth day), 1.
- Pinching in a small spot to the left of the navel, while standing; worse on stooping (third day), 1.
- Momentary cutting and shooting around the navel (fifteenth day), 1.
- Griping in abdomen, below navel (6 P.M.), 10.
- Discomfort in abdomen, below and to left of navel, 10.
- Sensation as of grinding, at a small spot near the navel (one hour after dinner), (fourth day), 1.
- Burning in right flank, on sitting, for five minutes, afternoons (twenty-second day), 1.
- A large furunculus on the right side of the abdomen, 2.
- Drawing in the side of the belly, 2. [210.]
- Pain in upper abdomen, at a small spot, like a burning, 1.
- Rumbling in bowels, without perceptible flatulence, afternoons (third day), 1.
- Growling and noises in bowels, with much passage of flatulence (sixteenth days), 1.
- Rumbling from fermentation in the sides of the abdomen, extending as far as the chest, early in the morning, on waking up, in bed, 2.
- Frequent emission of flatus (eighteenth day), 1.
- Emission of loud flatus (nineteenth day), 1.
- Frequent emission of offensive flatus, without the sensation of flatus, 1.
- Colic, 3.
- Oppression in the abdomen, 2.
- Weight in the abdomen, as of a load, with anxiety, as if the abdomen would burst; the symptom passes off during sleep, 2. [220.]
STOOL AND ANUS
- Much burning in rectum during and after the expulsion of soft stools, 1.*
- Itching soreness of the rectum, several pustules being formed by the side of it, 2.*
- Increases or produces hæmorrhoidal flux, 8.
- Much burning in anus during soft stool (eleventh day), 1.*
- Tearing in the perineum when walking, 2.
- Stinging-tearing pain in the perineum , in the evening, 2.
- *Stool hard, crumbling, scanty ; but, after dinner, the usual stool, followed by burning in anus (fourteenth day), 1.
- Evacuation consists of only two small pieces, passed with pressure, followed by a soft stool, 1.
- Stool, whose first part was solid, the last soft, with straining, followed by burning in the anus; afternoon, the usual stool; during menstruation (fourteenth day), 1. [250.]
- Hard stool, soon after taking a new dose (ninth day); on the next day stool, whose first part was hard, the last part soft, 1.
- Solid stool, the third or fourth days (only one a day); the fifth day, the usual soft stool, 1.
- Stool as usual (in two hours); a similar one follows in the afternoon, 1.
- Soft stool, with pain in lower abdomen (eighteenth day), 1.
- Soft stool, with excessive urgency, follows some rumblings in the umbilical region (in one hour after a new dose), 1.
- Soft stool, soon after taking; none on second day; usual stool on third day, 1.
- Two soft stools (first and nineteenth day), 1.
- Stool rather soft than hard (second and third days), 1.
- Soft stool, the first day, at an unusual time, 1.
- Soft stool, the first day, two and three times, and large amounts of urine, 1. [260.]
- Several soft stools , after each fresh dose, 1.
- Five half liquid stools, with pains around the navel (second afternoon), (prover always inclined to soft stools), .
URINARY ORGANS
- Pinching and stitching pain in the bladder, as far as the urethra, when lying down, 2.
- Constant tenesmus of the bladder, after 4 o'clock A.M., 2.
- Desire to urinate, only a few drops of urine being passed; afterwards the urine was emitted regularly with the stool, 1.
- He can only pass urine very slowly, 2.
- Diminished urinating (first day), 1.
- Scanty urinating (fourth and fifth days), 1.
- Urine less in amount and frequency (second day), 1. [280.]
- Urine increased (second day), 1.
- Urine increased (ninth day), 1.
- Urine increased, the first day, though she drinks less, 1.
- Frequent desire to urinate, and frequent micturition, early in morning, 2.
- Must rise at night to urinate, and passes an unusual amount (first day before menses), (sixteenth day), 1.
- Rises three times at night to urinate, and passes much urine (first day), 1.
- He constantly passes more urine than usual (seventeenth day), 1.
- Constantly increased urine, which compels him to rise at night, 1.
- Increased urging to urinate, at 10 A.M. (first day), 5.
- Copious urine, 9. [290.]
- Copious emission of urine, which has a stale smell, yet remains clear, 4.
- The urine, when passing, feels hot; its quantity is increased (the first day), 1.
- Reddish, bright urine, with a loose, cloudy sediment (sixth day), 1.
- Clayey sediment in the urine, after one hour (fifth day), 1.
SEXUAL ORGANS
- Male.
- Frequent erections (after seventh day), 1.
- Stitches and beating in the left spermatic cord (fifth day), 1.
- Female.
- Sensation in the female genital organs as after a nightly embrace, early after waking, 2.
- The menses appear two days too soon, with pain in the abdomen and small of the back; they continue at night, when the blood flows more abundantly (after seventeenth day), 1.*
- Discharge of a quantity of blood with the stool during the catamenia, 2.
- Leucorrhœa, with distension of the abdomen, without accumulation of flatus, 2. [300.]
- Leucorrhœa, like the white of an egg, after previous pinching around the navel, 1.
- Brown, slimy, painless leucorrhœa, after every discharge of urine (sixth and seventh days), 1.
RESPIRATORY APPARATUS
- Irritation causing hawking, whereby only a piece of phlegm is expectorated; with it a raw sensation; then a long-lasting sore feeling up behind the uvula; mornings (fourth day), 1.
- Hoarseness, with burning in the region of the larynx , the whole afternoon (after third day), 1.*
- Could scarcely speak, and complained of burning pains in throat and chest, 11.
- Aphonia, 11.
- Violent cough, in the evening, when in bed, during which water comes up into her mouth (third and fourth days), 1.
- Cough when breathing deeply, especially when lying on the right side, 2.
- Dry cough (thirteenth or fourteenth day), 1.
- Dry cough, mornings (seventeenth day), 1.
- Frequent, dry, hacking cough (second day), 1. [310.]
- Dry, hacking cough, caused by tickling in the throat , which also continues when not coughing; forenoons (fifth day), 1.
- Dry cough, evenings, from six to nine, from tickling in the throat; it passes off after lying down in bed (third day), 1.
- Dry cough troubles her nearly the whole night, so that she cannot sleep on account of it (sixth day), 1.
- (A previous dry cough and dry catarrh become more severe, and lasts through the whole proving, 1.
- (A constant, troublesome cough, which was seated before taking the drug, and during fifteen days of the proving, disappeared suddenly without expectoration, which follows first after several days (fifteenth day), 1.
- The cough is usually dry, mornings, and loosens in the afternoon; most frequently, with sticking in the left hypochondriac region, 1.
- Dry cough in the morning, with sticking in the forepart of the chest, 1.
- Cough nights when lying on the back , with sticking in the left middle false ribs, extending down to the last false ribs; he could not "cough out," on account of pain, though the cough was loose; more severe on turning on to side (on fourth day). On the following evening the cough returned, but without the sticking; each attack lasted only a few minutes, 1.
- Constant hawking, without expectoration, .
CHEST
- Rattling in chest, 11.
- Burning at small spots of the chest (when walking in the open air), (shortly, and after thirteenth day), 1. [330.]
- Rawness in chest (evening at 8), 10.
- Tension, or compression as with a vice, in front, at the lower part of the chest, when standing; not affected by breathing (first day), 1.
- Beating in the chest after dinner; the beating extends to the pharynx, with heat of the face and uneasy mood, 2.
- Pressure in middle of the chest, with stitches , as if a morsel which had been swallowed had stuck there; afternoon (sixth day), 1.
- Oppression at the chest , with inclination to eructations, which came on in the open air, and relieved the pressure; early, after rising (after nineteen days), 1.
- Oppression of the chest, when moving the arms with force and when stooping, 2.
- It becomes so heavy in the chest when walking in the open air that she cannot take breath in sufficient quantity, and is therefore obliged frequently to stand still (second day), 1.
- Heaviness on the chest, nights, in bed, which wakes him, with restlessness, which does not allow him to go to sleep again.
- At 3 A.M. this heaviness wakes him again; he was kept in a kind of half sleep, in which he was partly conscious, and thought, or rather dreamed, that he had been hanged, and the chest had been hard pressed (fifth day), 1.
- Pressure in the forepart of the chest, without dyspnœa, for half an hour, evenings (first day), 1.
- Stitches in the forepart of the chest, and pressure for two minutes; afternoons, and the following morning (third day), 1. [340.]
- Stitches in the forepart of the chest, in every position, though, apparently, relieved by sitting; afternoons (first day), 1.
- Red spots, as large as a penny, on the left side of the chest, with a sensation as of burning itching, and turning pale when pressed upon with the finger (tenth day), 1.
- Painful tension under the right mamma, in any position, frequently intermittent (after dinner), (fifteenth and sixteenth days), 1.
- Pain, as from a bruise, in a spot of a hand's breadth under the right mamma, both when touched and left alone, frequently intermittent, and often with shortness of breath (twelfth to sixteenth day), .
HEART AND PULSE
NECK AND BACK
- Tension and stiffness in the nape of the neck, so that she was unable to move; in the evening; it passes off after lying down (eighteenth day), 1.
- Drawing in the nape of the neck; this drawing seems to be in the tendons (third day), 1.
- Itching of the nape of the neck, in the evening, when undressing; after lying down, the itching passes off (eighteenth day), 1.
- Stiff neck , with pain when turning it, reaching from the nape of the neck as far as between the shoulders; for six days (after six days), 3.
- Frequent intermitting tearing in the cords of the right side of the neck, during menses (seventeenth day), 1.
- Tearing in cords of left side of neck (one hour after taking), 1.
- Tearing, now in both sides of the neck, now in the cheeks; lasts five minutes; frequently at evening (fourth day), 1.
- Tearing stitches in the neck and left clavicle, on moving the head, 2. [370.]
- Icy coldness in the back and between the shoulders, at the spot of a previously existing pain, only internal; neither feathers nor wool can warm that spot; after half a day, the coldness terminates in itching (after twelve days), 3.
- When sitting, tension in the back, and as if the back were compressed with a vice; disappears by motion (fifteenth day), 1.
- Tension in back, preceded by painless itching of the left scapula (fifteenth day), 1.
- Pain, as if bruised, in the back, so that she was unable to rest upon it; at night (after three days), 1.
- When she had fallen asleep, an hour after lying down in the evening, she was awakened by a fearful backache; she frequently fell asleep again, but the pain always woke her again (sixteenth day), 1.
- Terrific backache wakes her at night at 1, and lasts till 4, with paralytic pain in both hips, and in external surface of thigh, above the knee; these parts are still painful to touch the next forenoon (eighteenth day), 1.
- Backache, forenoons at 10; afterwards, weakness of the thighs during menstruation (seventeenth day), 1.
- Bruised backache, nights (second day), 1.
- Backache, as if bruised, afternoons, while spinning; disappears after motion (second day), 1.
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL
- Fatigue and weakness of the limbs, 7.
- Painful tearing here and there, (as, for example), on the inner surface of the left wrist, right and left upper arm, both hands, of the knee, only not on trunk and head; evenings, on sitting; disappears after lying (third day), 1.
- Stinging, jerking, and crawling in tips of fingers and toes; afternoons, 1 to 2 (seventeenth day), 1.
- A burning crawling, now in tips of fingers, now in tips of toes, as if they would go to sleep; on standing (third and fourth days and fifth night), 1.
- Stinging in tips of fingers and toes, when walking in open air; afternoons (twenty-second day), 1.
- In the evening, a shooting and tearing in the tips of the fingers and toes ; then in the right upper arm, where the tearing is of an erratic nature; it is attended with anxiety, and passes off after lying down; evenings, 6 to 10 (sixteenth day), 1. [400.]
- Tearing, apparently in the bone of the left upper arm, and afterwards of the right thigh, from the hip downwards, when sitting (tenth day), 1.
- Tearing in the left arm and foot (first day), 3.
- Wakened, at 11 at night, by tearing pains in the middle of the right upper arm, and on the back of both lower legs, from the heels upwards, in the bones (twenty-fourth day), 1.
- The limbs of the right side appear to be more affected than those of the left, 1.
- Tearing in fingers and toes, evenings, at 8, on spinning, so that she must lie down; after awhile, in bed, it disappears (fourth day), 1.
- Frequent crawling in tips of fingers and toes; afternoons (nineteenth day), 1.
UPPER EXTREMITIES
- Blisters, of the size of peas, upon the right shoulder, tensive and burning, and forming a kind of scurf, after three days (after two days), 1.
- Tearing in both shoulders, on awaking, before midnight (twenty-first day), 1.
- Rheumatic pain in the shoulder-joints, when moving them, first to the right, then to the left, 2.
- Burning and pressure in the right shoulder (second day), 1. [410.]
- Throbbing in the right shoulder, as with a finger, mornings, in bed, and also frequently by day (nineteenth day), 1.
- Drawing in the right shoulder-joints, as after a cold; when at rest, 1.
- A swollen gland in the axilla, resembling a hard, red ulcer, which separated, however, constantly into parts, like a large pimple (after eighteen days), 3.
- Sudden throbbing in left axilla, which frequently disappears and returns, while sitting (twelfth day), 1.
- Violent itching at night, between the shoulders and on the left lower arm, so that he would like to scratch the skin off (after two days), 1.
- Her right arm is very heavy and feels rigid ; the upper arm seems paralyzed, in the evening, when spinning, and early in morning (sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth days), 1.
- Tearing in the left arm, as if in the tendons, reaches into the fingers, passing off during active motion (ninth day), 1.
- Compressive pain in the left upper arm, when leaning it against the table, passing off during motion of the arm (twenty-second day), 1.
- Tearing in the upper arm, a hand's breadth below the shoulder, as if in the marrow, as far as the wrist-joint (thirteenth day), 1.
- Tearing in the upper arm, the arm being very sensitive to pressure (nineteenth day), 1. [420.]
- Drawing in the lower arm, from the right elbow to the left finger; it becomes a tearing pain, and passes off by motion (second day), 1.
- Pressure in the left lower arm, when lying in bed, which passes off by motion, but is renewed by leaning the arm upon the table when writing (eleventh and twelfth days), 1.
- Itching and burning in left lower arm, under the bend of the elbow (thirteenth day), 1.
- Itching of the inside of the lower arm, early in the morning, and pimples in the bend of the elbow (thirteenth day), .
, of aggravations of sciatic pains while sitting, pain on the left side . These symptoms have led me to use
Amm. mur . in several cases of severe and long-continued sciatica with complete success. (Comparative case when walking ; complete freedom from pain while lying down , until in the course of time the 'painful spots' were developed)" Dr Dunham had underlined in
Amm. mur
., S., 285, 297, 392, 400, 460, 467, 468, 469, 474, 552]
- Pain in the left hip, as if the tendons were too short, so that she is obliged to limp when walking; when sitting there is gnawing pain in the bone, 1.*
- Sticking on external surface of left hip , in all positions, at night, from 12.30 till 2, relieved by pressure, with copious passage of flatus, and it seems as though the violent pain was caused by the flatulence, 1.
- Violent itching around the hip, at night, and early in the morning; also of the thighs, legs; and around the bend of the knee, with rash pimples, 2.
- Weariness and weakness of the legs, the whole day, only ceases at night (first day), 1.
- The hamstrings of both legs are painful when walking; they feel too short; not so when at rest, 1.
- Trembling of the left leg, with sensitiveness to the touch (tenth day), 1.
- When sitting, tearing down the thighs from the left hip; first, it is relieved by rising, and comes on again when sitting down; afterwards, motion no longer relieves the pain (sixteenth day), 1.*
- Tearing pain in front of the thigh, when sitting, 2.*
- *Painful tearings in the *exterior surface of the right thigh , in the evening, *when sitting down (fifteenth day), 1.
- Excessively painful stitches in the knee-joints, in the evenings at nine, *when sitting ; can hardly be endured (third day), 1. [470.]
- Stinging and tearing in the left knee, when walking (eleventh day), 1.
- (In a child that had been affected with swelling of the knee, and whose knee, after the swelling had been cured, remained stiff , and curved from before backwards, the mobility was very soon restored), 3.
- Twitching in left popliteal region; on walking, the cords seem too short; disappears after long walking (second day), 1.
- Early, when rising, the thighs were contracted about the popliteal region, as if dried up, or too short, so that she was unable to go downstairs; this symptom passed off after long and violent exercise (fifteenth day), .
GENERALITIES
- Much affected, 3.
- Weakness, inactivity, general depression (in fever), 4. [500.]
- Very weak, mornings, 3.
- General weakness, sluggishness, and dejection of whole body, 9.
- Sudden faintness and weakness after dinner, when taking exercise in the open air (nineteenth day), 1.
- Weakness, with sense of severe constriction of throat and difficult respiration, 11.
- He appears to be constantly affected with orgasm of blood, 2.
- Orgasm in the whole body, with anxiety; in the beginning of the proving period she feels more warm than cold, 1.
- Early in the morning, after waking, she feels contracted in the whole body, so that she was scarcely able to walk; the pain went off by long walking (nineteenth day), 1.
- Painful twitching, or jerking-tearing, here and there, in the calves, on a spot size of the hand; also, on right temple, on arms, between right index and middle fingers, where the pain most severely throbs and beats, as if it would suppurate; evenings, six to ten, on sitting; pain first disappears on lying in bed (fifteenth day), 1.
- Pressive burning and stinging at several places, here and there, forenoons (third day), 1.
- Stitches in the left side of the abdomen, then in the right side of the chest, then in the right scapula, and, lastly, in the small of the back, accompanied by chilliness and sleepiness during the day, 2. [510.]
- She appears to be better in the open air, 1.
- All the bones of the body are painful and feel bruised, when slumbering or sitting still, 2.
- Pain, as from bruises, in the whole body, especially in the back, with tearing in both shoulders and in the back, early in the morning, after rising, and worse during motion (after twenty-fifth day), 1.
- Coffee seems to restrict the action of the drug, 1.
SKIN
- Fine rash over the whole body for two weeks (after sixteenth day), 2.
- Constant subcutaneous formication all over the body, 4.
- Very fine miliary eruption (sudamina), following profuse perspiration, 6.
- Psoric eruption over the greater part of the back and lower extremities, 7.
- Itching, here and there, over the whole body, evenings before lying down, 1.
- Itching and biting over the whole body; cannot scratch enough, evenings, 1. [520.]
- Itching, evenings, on front of chest, on left forearm, whereon little pimples appear, which disappear over night (second day), 1.
- Itching over whole body, evenings, before lying down; it lasts some time after lying down, with small pimples, here and there (tenth day), 1.
- After itching and scratching on forepart of the forehead some pimples, which soon disappear (sixth day), 1.
- Itching pimples on the right side of the occiput, in the evening; at night they pass off (after nineteenth day), 1.
- Painful pimple on the antihelix of the right ear, 2.
- Eruptions on the face, 2.
- A vesicle, without sensation, on left side of face (eleventh day), 1.
- Herpes in the face, dry and tettering, 3.
- Excoriated spots in the right side of the upper lip, with burning soreness (second day), 1.
- Chapped lips, 2. [530.]
- Dry and wrinkled lips; they become chapped, and she had to moisten them constantly with the tongue, 2.
- Itching pimples around the upper lip (second day), 1.
- Blisters on the upper lip, which become inflamed and ulcerated (after second day), 1.
- Vesicles at the tip of the tongue, with a burning pain, 2.
- Vesicles at the tip of the tongue, which burn like fire, and disappear in an hour (third day), 1.
- Blisters of the size of peas, upon the right shoulder, tensive and burning, and forming a kind of scurf, after two days (after second day), 1.
- Itching and burning in left lower arm under the bend of the elbow (thirteenth day), 1.
- Itching of the inside of the lower arm, early in the morning, and pimples in the bend of the elbow (thirteenth day), .
FEVER
- Coldness, evenings, at seven, with some thirst; lasts two hours (sixth day), 1.
- Evenings, at five, a violent shivering creeps over her, for three and a half hours, without subsequent heat (first days), 1.
- Chilly and shivering the whole day, especially evenings, also nights; she dares not uncover herself, on account of chilliness (seventh day), 1. [550.]
- Chilliness, evenings; coldness runs down the back, for a quarter of an hour (nineteenth day), 1.
- Chilliness, evenings, at six; goes off after lying down, with thirst during it (twenty-fourth day), 1.
- Chilliness, evenings, after lying down, and as often as she wakes, without thirst (twenty-first day), 1.*
- Chilliness, evenings, after lying down and the whole night (twenty-seventh day), 1.
- Chilliness and shivering, evenings at six, and the next morning at seven; sweat, morning, in bed; all without thirst (twentieth day), 1.
- Chilliness somewhat, evenings at 5.30, in a warm room; then sweat before midnight (third day), 1.
- Chilliness, then alternating heat; then sweat, evenings, without thirst (first day), 1.
- Frequent attacks of fever, followed by chills and heat, with bloated red face, and thirst during the chills and the heat; the intervals when there is no fever last about half an hour, 2.
- More heat (warmth) than coldness during the last period of the proving (after seventeenth day), 1.
- Heat over the whole body in a warm room, and after quick motion; this heat is accompanied by redness of the face and a sensation of stinging heat, which is especially external over the whole chest, 2. [560.]
- Heat in forenoon; thirst early in the evening, after rising, 1.
- Frequently dry heat in the head, upon entering the room, followed by a little thirst in the evening (nineteenth day), 1.
- Heat in the whole body, as if sweat would break out (after fourteenth day), 1.
- Frequent flashes of heat, with subsequent sweat (thirteenth day), 1.
- Great heat when in bed at night, then sweat, early in the morning (eighteenth day), 1.
- Heat in the palms of the hands, soles of the feet, and in the face, in the evening, immediately after lying down (with thirst); afterwards sweat (twenty-third day); fourth evening, heat without thirst, .
SLEEP AND DREAMS
- In the morning constant yawning, without being sleepy (seventh day), 1.
- Early in evening , great sleepiness with closing of the eyes; passes off when light is brought into the room, 1.
- She cannot fall asleep before 3 o'clock in the morning; she then sleeps until morning, and wakes with sweats, 1.
- She cannot fall asleep before midnight, on account of heat in the head, 1. [580.]
- Starting up, while one is falling asleep, evenings (fifth day), 1.
- Uneasy sleep, after midnight, with frequent waking up and turning from one side to another, amidst dreams, 2.
- Restless sleep, 10.
- She cannot get to sleep before 3 o'clock, without cause (first day), 1.
- She wakes up about 12 and cannot sleep more (seventeenth day), 1.
- At evening soon asleep (contrary to habit); sleeps well the first night, 1.
- Sleepless night, and, at 3 A.M. till 4, chilliness, then heat, and then sweat; all without thirst (thirteenth day), 1.
- Uneasy nights, 3.
- Sleep full of dreams (after third day), 1.
- Dreams the whole night, almost frightful and fearful (first day), 1. [590.]
- Anxious dreams, that her father and brother had come, and she could not get the cooking ready (fifteenth day), 1.
- Dreams that some one held her tightly by the hand and, in spite of her efforts, she could not get away; she would cry out, but could not; then she awoke anxious (seventeenth day), 1.
- He dreams that a horse bit his arm, which frightened him very much (fourteenth day), 1.
- Dreams that she saw a soldier shot, at which she cried and woke in anxiety (thirteenth day), 1.
- Dreams that she fell into the water; that she found a living child, and other anxious dreams (third day), 1.
- Dreams that he was in danger of falling into a flood; then he climbed into a tree, from which he soon fell (twelfth day), 1.
- Dreams of vexation and fright; that she was lost in a forest (third day), 1.
- Dreams that she would take a long journey, but did not know the way nor kind of journey, and, on inquiring the way, no one could give information, which made her feel very sick (third day), .
CONDITIONS
- Aggravation.
- ( Morning ), Stitches in vertex; burning in canthi; dimness of eyes; left nostril stopped; slight diarrhœa; green, slimy stools; irritation, causing hawking, etc.; dry cough ; cough dry; stitches in chest; very weak; constant yawning.
- ( Early in morning ), Head feels dizzy, etc.; pressure in forehead, etc.; bitter taste in mouth; hawking of phlegm; grinding, etc., in stomach; frequent desire to urinate; cough, with expectoration; beating in left cavity of chest; right arm very heavy, etc .; itching in inside of lower arm; itching in tip of index-finger; itching around hip; sweat.
- ( Early, on waking ), Agglutination of the eyes; sourish taste in mouth; sensation in female genitals, as after an embrace; tearing in bone of upper arm, etc.; rumbling in the sides of the abdomen.
- ( Early, after waking ), Whole body feels contracted.
- ( Early, in bed ), Sweat.
- ( Early, when rising ), Thighs contracted, etc.
- ( Mornings, in bed ), Throbbing in right shoulder; sweat.
- ( Morning, after rising ), Eyes burn.
- ( Early, after rising ), Heat and fulness in head; downward pressure in forehead, etc.; boring in forehead; lachrymation; pappy taste in mouth; pinching in abdomen; pain in whole body; sensation of heat, etc.
- ( Forenoon ), Irritable and peevish; tearing in right temple; stitch in left temple; stitches in left side of head; sensation of body rising in left eye, which prevents sight; pain in upper part of face; tearing in right malar bone; coated tongue; bitter eructations, etc.; nausea, etc.; turning sensation in stomach; grippings in lower abdomen; dry, hacking cough, etc.; stitches come out of left chest; tearings in right index-finger; left foot goes to sleep; burning, etc., at several places; heat.
- ( Afternoon ), Stitching in left side of forehead; stitches in vertex; tearing in upper border of right eye; fine stitches in left ear; tearing in root of tooth; unquenchable thirst; gulping up bitter, sour water; burning, etc., at stomach; stitches, etc., in region of right ribs; burning in right flank; rumbling in bowels; griping in bowels; hoarseness, etc.; cough loosens; expectoration of tough mucus; pressure in middle of chest, etc.; , etc.; stitches below right female breast; stitch in left chest; stinging, etc., in finger-tips, etc.; crawling in tips of fingers, etc.; tearing in tendons of left wrist; tearing in left index-finger; stitches in thumb-joint; tearing in right great toe; sticking in left great toe; sweat.
8 A.M .), Stinging, etc., in pit of stomach.
- (
10 A.M .), Increased urging to urinate; backache.
- ( 1 to 5 P.M .), Throbbing in left thumb.
- (
4 P.M .), Pain below navel, etc.
- (
8 P.M .), Tearing in all the teeth; rawness in chest; tearing in fingers.
- ( 5, evenings ), Violent shivering, etc.
- ( 5.30, evenings ), Some chilliness.
- ( 6, evenings ), Chilliness and shiverings.
- ( 6 to 10 evenings ), Twitching, etc., here and there, in calves.
- ( 7, evenings ), Coldness.
- ( 9, evenings ), Stitches in knee-joint.
- ( 11, night ), Pains in right upper arm.
- ( 12.30 till 2, night ), Stitch on surface of left hip.
- ( 1, night ), Terrific backache.
- ( 2, night ), Cutting in abdomen.
- ( 3 at night ), Tearings, etc., in right heel.
- ( Open air ), Burning in right eye; distinguishes nothing; eructations.
- ( Exercise in open air ), Pressure upon left mamma; sudden faintness, etc.; heat over whole body, etc.
- ( Going from warm room into open air ), Pressure in left side of chest.
- ( Walking in open air ), Stitches in right ear, etc.; nausea, etc.; turning sensation in stomach, etc.; burning in chest; heaviness on chest, etc.; lancinations through the hands.
- ( On going to bed ), Chilliness.
- ( Bending part inward ), Pain in right middle finger.
- ( Sitting bent ), Stitches below right female breast.
- ( After breakfast ), Sensation of fasting in stomach.
- ( Before chill ), Thirst.
- ( After dinner ), Beating in chest; tension under right mamma; sudden faintness, etc.
- ( Immediately after dinner ), Nausea, etc.
- ( An hour after dinner ), Hiccough.
- ( After every dinner and supper ), Nausea, etc.
- ( Inspiration ), Pinching in abdomen; stitch in left chest.
7 A.M .), Chilliness, etc.
- ( Open air ), Dizziness, etc.; vertigo; burning in right eye; stitches in left eye; heat in face, etc.; nausea, etc.; turning sensation in stomach, etc.; appears to be better.
- ( In bed ), Tearing in all the teeth; tearings in fingers, etc.
- ( After breakfast ), Grinding and writhing in stomach.
- ( Bending the part ), Aching in finger-joint.
- ( Walking crooked ), Drawing tension in legs.
- ( After dinner ), Mood improves; roughness in throat.
- ( After eating ), Bitter eructations.
- ( Eructation ), Nausea, etc.; tearing sensation in stomach, etc.; pressure on chest.
- ( Expiration ), Pinching in abdomen.
- ( Extending hands ), Pain in the dorsa.
- ( Long and violent exercise ), Thighs contracted, etc.
- ( Feeling the part ), Pain in upper part of face.
- ( Lemonade ), Very urgent thirst.
- ( Light ), Burning of eyes, etc.; sleepiness.
- ( Lying down ), Tension and stiffness in nape of neck; itching of nape of neck; tearing here and there, etc.; shooting, etc., in tips of fingers, etc .; evening chilliness.
- ( Lying in bed ), Dry cough; twitching, etc., in calves.
- ( Motion ), Tension in back, etc.; backache, etc.; tearing in outer border of foot.
- ( Motion of the part ), Pain in left upper arm; drawing in lower arm, etc.; pressure in left lower arm; beating in right palm; stitches in hand.
- ( Active motion ), Tearing in left arm, etc.
- ( Pressure ), Tearing in decayed root of tooth; sticking on surface of left hip.
- ( Long pressure ), Stitches in ball of right thumb.
- ( Pressing upon thumb-joint ), Pain in backs of hands.
SUPPLEMENT: AMMONIUM MURIATICUM. Authority.
12 , Dr. C. Browne, Lancet, 1868 (1), p. 720, H. W., æt. twenty-five years, subject to mania, ate a quantity of Ammonium chloride.
- Delirious, fancying that enemies were hiding under his bed, and accosting him; that a sword was hanging over his head; and that flames were surrounding his head, 12.
- Insensibility as if dead, 12.
- Giddiness, 12.
- Dazzling before eyes, 12.
- Tremulousness of the eyelids, 12.
- Singing in ears, 12.
- Sickness and pain in bowels, 12.
- Sobbing respiration, as of hysteria, 12.
- Pulse feeble, 100, 12. [610.]
- Extremities of a bluish tinge, 12.
- Convulsive paroxysms, which in a few minutes passed off, leaving only firm flexure of the hands and forearms, 12.
- Skin cold and moist, 12.