====== AMMONIUM MURIATICUM ====== {{anchor:s1}}Ammonium Muriaticum. {{anchor:s2}}Sal Ammoniae. {{anchor:s3}}Ammonium chloride. {{anchor:s4}}N H 4 Cl. {{anchor:s5}}The first prover was the much-slandered Nenning, whose masterly provings, comprising 448 symptoms, were published by Hartlaub in his Annalen, in 1833. {{anchor:s6}}Hahnemann added his own symptoms (84) in the second edition of the Chronic Diseases, and a valuable proving of Rummel, consisting of 23 symptoms, and condensed Nenning's 448 to 290, without thereby occasioning a loss. {{anchor:s7}}The symptoms from a poisoning by the fumes belong to Amm. causticum. ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s9}}Neither unconsciousness nor delirium; no apoplexy.\\ {{anchor:s10}}Desire to cry, and at times crying.\\ {{anchor:s11}}Disinclination to speak.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Involuntary aversion to certain persons.\\ {{anchor:s13}}Melancholy and anxious, as if laboring under some grief or sorrow.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Apprehensive and gloomy, like from internal grief.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Great earnestness.\\ {{anchor:s16}}Indifferent mood.\\ {{anchor:s17}}Fretfullness; irritability, mostly mornings.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Mood irritable, malicious.\\ {{anchor:s19}}Consequences of grief. ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== {{anchor:s21}}Fullness of head with giddiness; feels as if it was very heavy.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Heaviness of forehead, in morning after rising and during day.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Vertigo and fullness of head; at times as if she would fall sideways. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s25}}Dull heavy pains with vertigo and pallor. {{anchor:s26}}~ Prevailing fever.\\ {{anchor:s27}}Congestive headache with flushed face and enlarged veins. {{anchor:s28}}~ Prevailing fever.\\ {{anchor:s29}}Heaviness in forehead, frequently during day (internal sensation of heat and some sweat).\\ {{anchor:s30}}Pressure in forehead, towards root of nose, with sensation as if brain was torn; agg. after rising.\\ {{anchor:s31}}Tearing mostly in right temple, through right side of face.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Stitches in left temple and side of head, and when stooping, in vertex, with sensation as if head would split.\\ {{anchor:s33}}Contractive pain in occiput as though screwed in, extending to side of head.\\ {{anchor:s34}}Rheumatic, tearing pains in head, temple and occiput.\\ {{anchor:s35}}Rheumatic pains in head so severe as to cause nausea, burning of ears and deafness.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Neuralgic headaches. ====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ====== {{anchor:s38}}Falling out of hair, with great itching of scalp.\\ {{anchor:s39}}Itching of scalp; also with dandruff.\\ {{anchor:s40}}Itching pimples on right side of occiput. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s42}}Mist before eyes, agg. in bright light, outdoors; amel. better in room.\\ {{anchor:s43}}Sensation in left eye as if a body arose which impeded sight.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Yellow spots before eyes.\\ {{anchor:s45}}Optical illusions in dark colors.\\ {{anchor:s46}}Capsular cataract.\\ {{anchor:s47}}Flying spots and points before eyes.\\ {{anchor:s48}}Burning of eyes at twilight; ceases after lighting lamp.\\ {{anchor:s49}}Eyes gum together in morning, with burning in canthi after washing.\\ {{anchor:s50}}Eyes dim, glassy, watery.\\ {{anchor:s51}}(OBS:) Yellow eyes. ====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ====== {{anchor:s53}}Humming and roaring in right ear.\\ {{anchor:s54}}Hard hearing, with discharge.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Itching in both ears, not relieved by scratching, with discharge of fluid earwax.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Stitches in ears, also with boring or burning, mostly when walking in open air.\\ {{anchor:s57}}Digging and tearing in right ear, also at night; when lying thereon, a rooting and rolling, as if something would come out.\\ {{anchor:s58}}Right ear affected for years; it commences in throat and he cannot talk right; it is as if ear and throat were connected. ====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ====== {{anchor:s60}}Loss of smell, with coryza and stoppage of the nose.\\ {{anchor:s61}}Nose sore internally and at edges of nostrils. {{anchor:s62}}~ Scarlatina.\\ {{anchor:s63}}Ulcerative pain in left nostril, with sensitiveness to touch.\\ {{anchor:s64}}External swelling of left nostril, with discharge of bloody crusts.\\ {{anchor:s65}}Bleeding from left nostril, preceded by itching.\\ {{anchor:s66}}Constant itching in nose, with irritation to blow it, and sensation as of a large rough body up in the nose, with obstruction.\\ {{anchor:s67}}Coryza, with stoppage of nose, hoarseness and burning in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s68}}Watery, acrid coryza, corroding the lip.\\ {{anchor:s69}}Frequent sneezing; roused her from sleep, with crawling in throat making her cough.\\ {{anchor:s70}}Coryza in children, with bluish discharge.\\ {{anchor:s71}}Coryza with stoppage, great soreness and tenderness of nose, and loss of smell.\\ {{anchor:s72}}The nose either more dry than natural, or a watery discharge and obstruction. {{anchor:s73}}~ Prevailing fever. ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== {{anchor:s75}}Very pale face.\\ {{anchor:s76}}Burning heat of face, passes off in open air.\\ {{anchor:s77}}Tearing in bones of face, especially in malar and lower maxilla.\\ {{anchor:s78}}Swelling of cheek, with swelling of a gland under angle of lower jaw, with beating, stitching pain.\\ {{anchor:s79}}Eruption on face which burns; he cannot sleep without cold applications. ====== LOWER FACE. [9] ====== {{anchor:s81}}Mouth and lips sore and excoriated. {{anchor:s82}}~ Prevailing fever.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Lips burn like fire.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Corners of mouth ulcerated.\\ {{anchor:s85}}(OBS:) Dry, shrivelled, cracked lips, must moisten them with tongue continually.\\ {{anchor:s86}}Pimples, blisters, on upper lip.\\ {{anchor:s87}}Tensive pain in articulations of jaw when chewing or opening mouth.\\ {{anchor:s88}}Submaxillary glands swollen; pulsating pains. ====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ====== {{anchor:s90}}Pain in a decayed root, ceases when pressed upon with finger.\\ {{anchor:s91}}Stitching pain in upper incisors.\\ {{anchor:s92}}Swelling of gums of lower left side, with stitches up to left temple. ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== {{anchor:s94}}Tongue swollen and pasty. {{anchor:s95}}~ Prevailing fever.\\ {{anchor:s96}}Blister on tip of tongue, with burning pain.\\ {{anchor:s97}}Tongue furred white. ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== {{anchor:s99}}Throat full and sore with increase of glairy mucus, and difficult swallowing. {{anchor:s100}}~ Prevailing fever.\\ {{anchor:s101}}Dryness in throat.\\ {{anchor:s102}}Stitches in throat during and between deglutition, also when yawning.\\ {{anchor:s103}}External and internal swelling of throat, with pressing pain when swallowing, and with drawing, stitching pain in swollen submaxillary glands.\\ {{anchor:s104}}Sore throat, with viscid phlegm; so tough that it cannot be hawked up.\\ {{anchor:s105}}Tonsils throb, but are not swollen, with uneasiness and oppressive anxiety.\\ {{anchor:s106}}Throbbing in glands of neck, which, however, are not swollen; with flushes of heat and want of air in throat. ====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ====== {{anchor:s109}}Loss of appetite.\\ {{anchor:s110}}Loss of appetite and thirstlessness. {{anchor:s111}}~ Prevailing fever.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Much thirst, mostly evenings.\\ {{anchor:s113}}Sometimes extreme thirst. {{anchor:s114}}~ Prevailing fever.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Want of appetite alternating with canine hunger. ====== EATING AND DRINKING. [15] ====== {{anchor:s117}}After eating, beating in breast near esophagus, with heat of face and restless mood; agg. on an empty stomach, but also nearly always after eating; must often eat a little, but not enough to satisfy hunger.\\ {{anchor:s118}}Sore spot behind soft palate, which is relieved or passes away for a short time by eating.\\ {{anchor:s119}}Eating and drinking cold things aggravate cough.\\ {{anchor:s120}}After dinner: sudden prostration when walking in open air. ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== {{anchor:s122}}Hiccough, with stitches in chest.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Eructations: empty; bitter; tasting of food.\\ {{anchor:s124}}Nausea: with waterbrash, after eating, with shudderings.\\ {{anchor:s125}}Regurgitation: of food; of bitter, sour water.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Frequent vomiting. {{anchor:s127}}~ Prevailing fever. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s129}}Stomach too apt to be overloaded, feels lame and sore, sometimes flatulent. {{anchor:s130}}~ Prevailing fever.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Empty or hungry feeling in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Sensation as from fasting, yet fullness in stomach; agg. after breakfast.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Rooting and rolling in stomach, in morning; passes off after breakfast.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Gnawing in stomach, as if worms were in it.\\ {{anchor:s135}}Burning and itching in scrobiculum, from thence drawing to right axilla, and into upper arm.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Empty sensation in stomach, but she cannot make up her mind to eat anything. ====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ====== {{anchor:s138}}Intermittent pains in both hypochondria.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Stitching and burning in right hypochondrium, afternoons, when walking.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Splenic stitches, while sitting; also in morning on awaking, with difficulty of breathing, obliging him to rise.\\ {{anchor:s141}}(OBS:) Liver complaint. {{anchor:s142}}Gallstones. ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s144}}Abdomen full and distended, sometimes severe pains. {{anchor:s145}}~ Prevailing fever.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Bellyache, griping pains about navel.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Heaviness in lower abdomen, as from a load, with anxiety as if abdomen would burst; ceases after sleep.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Distension of abdomen, without accumulation of wind.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Stitches in abdomen, above left hip.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Pain from right side of pubes, to hip and small of back.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Cutting and stitches from both ossa pubium to small of back, with urging to urinate, evenings.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Stitches in right groin, coming out behind hip, when sitting.\\ {{anchor:s153}}Groins feel sore and as if swollen. {{anchor:s154}}~ Uterine displacement.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Tearing and tensive pain in groin when walking.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Pain as if sprained in left abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s157}}Pain as from a sprain in left groin. {{anchor:s158}}~ During pregnancy.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Pain in abdomen and back with menses. {{anchor:s160}}~ Prolapsus uteri.\\ {{anchor:s161}}Excessive amount of fat in abdomen: lax and hanging. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s163}}The various affections of bowels are accompanied by flatus. {{anchor:s164}}~ Prevailing fever.\\ {{anchor:s165}}Soreness up along rectum, when sitting.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Itching soreness of rectum, several pustules being formed at side of it; often with diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Much burning and smarting in rectum during and for hours after stool.\\ {{anchor:s168}}Stitching or tearing pain in perineum, when walking. {{anchor:s169}}~ Pregnancy.\\ {{anchor:s170}}Green, slimy, diarrheic stools, in morning.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Color of stools varies; white and undigested, or green and watery, or green slimy, or yellow and bloody watery and slimy. {{anchor:s172}}~ Prevailing fever.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Diarrhea after eating, with pain in abdomen, back, small of back and limbs.\\ {{anchor:s174}}Hard, crumbling stools, requiring great effort in their expulsion.\\ {{anchor:s175}}Obstinate and extreme constipation.\\ {{anchor:s176}}Prevailing fever.\\ {{anchor:s177}}Watery stools copious, other kinds scanty, though often repeated. {{anchor:s178}}~ Prevailing fever.\\ {{anchor:s179}}Stool hard, crumbling, scanty.\\ {{anchor:s180}}Stools like scrapings of meat or copious, consisting of coagulated blood. {{anchor:s181}}~ Prevailing fever.\\ {{anchor:s182}}Discharge of blood during stool.\\ {{anchor:s183}}Hard stool covered with mucus.\\ {{anchor:s184}}Glassy, tough mucus in stool.\\ {{anchor:s185}}Hemorrhoidal trouble with burning and stinging in rectum.\\ {{anchor:s186}}Hemorrhoids sore and smarting. {{anchor:s187}}~ After suppressed leucorrhea.\\ {{anchor:s188}}(OBS:) Constipation changing with diarrhea. ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s190}}Constant tenesmus vesical; agg. {{anchor:s191}}4 A. M.\\ {{anchor:s192}}Frequent urging, with frequent urination.\\ {{anchor:s193}}Urging, yet only a few drops pass, until next stool, when it flows freely.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Profuse and frequent discharge during night.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Sediment like clay.\\ {{anchor:s196}}Copious urine smells strongly ammoniacal; sometimes mouldy or musty. ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== {{anchor:s198}}Stitches and beating in left spermatic cord.\\ {{anchor:s199}}Frequent erections.\\ {{anchor:s200}}Hypertrophy of prostate.\\ {{anchor:s201}}(OBS:) Blennorrhea of urethra.\\ {{anchor:s202}}(OBS:) Strictures and contracted urethra.\\ {{anchor:s203}}(OBS:) Old gonorrhea. ====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ====== {{anchor:s205}}Neuralgic pains in ovaries.\\ {{anchor:s206}}Hypertrophy of uterus.\\ {{anchor:s207}}Uterus displaced, with soreness in groins as if swollen; crumbling stools; profuse menses.\\ {{anchor:s208}}Menses too early, with pain in abdomen and small of back, continuing at night; flow more profuse at night. {{anchor:s209}}~ Prolapsus uteri.\\ {{anchor:s210}}Menses black, clotted.\\ {{anchor:s211}}During menses: diarrhea and vomiting; bloody discharge from bowels; neuralgic pains in feet.\\ {{anchor:s212}}Violent metrorrhagia; delicate, small-built woman, aet 47.\\ {{anchor:s213}}Leucorrhea preceded by pain around navel.\\ {{anchor:s214}}Constant leucorrhea.\\ {{anchor:s215}}Leucorrhea: with tension of abdomen, without collection of wind; like white of egg, preceded by griping about navel; brown, slimy, after every urination.\\ {{anchor:s216}}Painless leucorrhea. ====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ====== {{anchor:s220}}During pregnancy; crumbling stool; feeling as if sprained in left groin; hemorrhoids. ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== {{anchor:s223}}Voice husky. {{anchor:s224}}~ Prevailing fever.\\ {{anchor:s225}}Hoarseness, with burning in larynx, afternoon; could scarcely speak.\\ {{anchor:s226}}Frequent hawking, with expectoration of small lumps of mucus, with sensation of rawness in throat, back of uvula.\\ {{anchor:s227}}Every branch of bronchial tubes affected to end. {{anchor:s228}}~ Prevailing fever.\\ {{anchor:s229}}Constant hawking, groaning and crowing from a tickling in throat, with raising much mucus. ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== {{anchor:s231}}Worse when taking a deep breath.\\ {{anchor:s232}}Shortness of breath.\\ {{anchor:s233}}Heaviness of chest, when walking in open air.\\ {{anchor:s234}}Asthma when moving arms with force and when stooping. ====== COUGH. [27] ====== {{anchor:s236}}Many groups of symptoms are accompanied by cough.\\ {{anchor:s237}}Daily recurring, dry, rapid, suffocating cough, with inability to utter a single word during the paroxysms, attacks beginning at 6 P. M.; no sputa, but much water in mouth.\\ {{anchor:s238}}Could deep and violent, attended by tolerably free expectoration. {{anchor:s239}}~ Prevailing fever.\\ {{anchor:s240}}Cough: dry, from tickling in throat; night or day; dry in morning, with stitches in chest or left hypochondrium; becomes loose in afternoon; loose at night, with stitches in left hypochondrium, lying on back; agg. when turning on side; agg. before eating or drinking cold things.\\ {{anchor:s241}}Expectoration of blood, following an itching in throat. ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== {{anchor:s243}}Bronchitis.\\ {{anchor:s244}}Heaviness on chest nights in bed, which awakes him, with restlessness; awoke again at 3 A. M.\\ {{anchor:s245}}Heaviness so great when walking she cannot breathe, must stand still.\\ {{anchor:s246}}Pressure, heaviness and stitches in chest, as if a morsel of food had lodged there.\\ {{anchor:s247}}Painful tension below right breast.\\ {{anchor:s248}}Bruised pain in lower right chest.\\ {{anchor:s249}}Lungs sore and paralytic. {{anchor:s250}}~ Prevailing fever.\\ {{anchor:s251}}Burning at small spots in chest.\\ {{anchor:s252}}Beating, like a pulse, at a small spot in left chest, only when standing, mornings.\\ {{anchor:s253}}In pulmonary affections, coldness between the scapulae. ====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ====== {{anchor:s255}}Soreness in left chest.\\ {{anchor:s256}}Tearing in region of heart, going thence into left forearm.\\ {{anchor:s257}}Pulse accelerated. ====== OUTER CHEST. [30] ====== {{anchor:s259}}Burning, itching, red spots on left chest, which pale under pressure. ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== {{anchor:s261}}Stiff neck, with pain from nape to between shoulders, when turning.\\ {{anchor:s262}}Tearing pains in sides of neck, alternating with tearing in cheek.\\ {{anchor:s263}}(OBS:) A fatty swelling on neck, extending from ear to ear.\\ {{anchor:s264}}Small, painful, nonsuppurating tubercles on right scapula.\\ {{anchor:s265}}Bruised and sprained pain between scapulae.\\ {{anchor:s266}}Stitches in left scapula.\\ {{anchor:s267}}Pinching in muscles of right scapula.\\ {{anchor:s268}}Coldness in back and between shoulders, not relieved by feather or wool covering, followed by itching. {{anchor:s269}}~ Pulmonary affections.\\ {{anchor:s270}}Backache, especially at night.\\ {{anchor:s271}}Pain in small of back, as if bruised or crushed, during rest or motion, also at night, in bed; could neither lie on back nor side.\\ {{anchor:s272}}Stiffness in small of back.\\ {{anchor:s273}}Severe pain in lumbo-sacral region. {{anchor:s274}}~ Prevailing fever. ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s276}}Swelling of axillary glands.\\ {{anchor:s277}}Rheumatic pain, first in right, then in left shoulder joint.\\ {{anchor:s278}}Tearing in left arm, as if in tendons, to fingers; ceases from strong motion.\\ {{anchor:s279}}Small, painful, nonsuppurating tubercles on right scapula.\\ {{anchor:s280}}Stitches in right scapula when inspiring.\\ {{anchor:s281}}Blisters on right scapula, tensive and burning; scurf forms.\\ {{anchor:s282}}Right arm heavy and feels rigid.\\ {{anchor:s283}}Drawing and tearing, from right elbow to fingers.\\ {{anchor:s284}}Itching on inside of forearm, with eruption in bend of elbow.\\ {{anchor:s285}}(OBS:) Fatty swelling on left shoulder, extending into axilla.\\ {{anchor:s286}}Right forearm heavy and as if "asleep."\\ {{anchor:s287}}Tearing in left wrist, with swelling of back of hand.\\ {{anchor:s288}}Small blisters on wrist itching, then burning when scratched.\\ {{anchor:s289}}Pulsation in a finger like that from panaritium.\\ {{anchor:s290}}Stitches and painful beating under nail of left thumb.\\ {{anchor:s291}}Skin peels off between thumb and forefinger of both hands. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s293}}Languor and weakness of lower limbs, with dizziness.\\ {{anchor:s294}}Pain in left hip, as if tendons were too short, must limp when walking; when sitting, gnawing pain in bone.\\ {{anchor:s295}}Tearing pain in front part of thighs, when sitting.\\ {{anchor:s296}}Drawing tension in legs when sitting or lying.\\ {{anchor:s297}}Restored mobility in knee, which had been swollen and stiff (child).\\ {{anchor:s298}}Stitches in knee joint, evening, when sitting.\\ {{anchor:s299}}Hamstrings painful when walking, as if too short.\\ {{anchor:s300}}Cramplike contraction in lower part of left leg.\\ {{anchor:s301}}(OBS:) Large buttocks.\\ {{anchor:s302}}Violent tearing and stitches, with ulcerative pain in heels; at times relieves by rubbing; occurs also at night, in bed.\\ {{anchor:s303}}Feet feel as if "asleep."\\ {{anchor:s304}}Cold feet, especially in evening in bed.\\ {{anchor:s305}}Itching in sole of right foot: evenings.\\ {{anchor:s306}}Stitching in toes, coming slowly and going slowly.\\ {{anchor:s307}}Offensive sweat of feet. ====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ====== {{anchor:s309}}Tearing and painful jerks, now here, and again there, through all limbs.\\ {{anchor:s310}}Tearing rheumatic pains in extremities. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s314}}Has to walk crooked. {{anchor:s315}}~ Uterine displacement.\\ {{anchor:s316}}Cannot walk erect, on account of a pain as from a sprain in groins.\\ {{anchor:s317}}During rest: backache.\\ {{anchor:s318}}Lying: drawing tension in legs; chilly in evening.\\ {{anchor:s319}}Lying on ear: sensation as if something would come out.\\ {{anchor:s320}}Lying on back: loose cough at night with stitches in left hypochondrium.\\ {{anchor:s321}}Cannot lie on back or side: with backache.\\ {{anchor:s322}}Walking: stitches in ears in open air; stitching and burning in right hypochondrium; tearing and tension in groin; stitching and tearing in perineum; heaviness of chest in open air; heaviness on chest very great; must limp from pain in left hip; hamstrings seem too short; sudden prostration.\\ {{anchor:s323}}Motion: backache; increases sweat; pains in limbs better.\\ {{anchor:s324}}From exertion: heat and puffiness of face.\\ {{anchor:s325}}After rising: pressure in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s326}}Must rise: with stitches in spleen.\\ {{anchor:s327}}Stooping: stitches in head and splitting sensation; asthma.\\ {{anchor:s328}}Turning: pain from stiff neck to between shoulders.\\ {{anchor:s329}}Turning from back to side: cough with stitches in left hypochondrium worse.\\ {{anchor:s330}}Sitting: stitches in spleen; stitches in right groin; soreness up rectum; gnawing in left hip bone; tearing in front of thighs; drawing tension in legs; stitches in knee.\\ {{anchor:s331}}Moving arms: asthma.\\ {{anchor:s332}}Must stand still: from heaviness on chest.\\ {{anchor:s333}}Standing: beating like pulse in left chest. ====== NERVES. [36] ====== {{anchor:s335}}Ebullitions with anxiety and weakness as if paralyzed.\\ {{anchor:s336}}Sudden prostration after dinner, when walking in open air.\\ {{anchor:s337}}Great weakness, mornings.\\ {{anchor:s338}}Prostration and great weariness. ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== {{anchor:s340}}Languor during day, with laziness.\\ {{anchor:s341}}Constant yawning without sleepiness, mornings.\\ {{anchor:s342}}Sleepiness early in evening, eyelids fall shut; amel. after candlelight.\\ {{anchor:s343}}Cannot fall asleep before midnight, on account of cold feet.\\ {{anchor:s344}}Heat in head prevents sleep before midnight.\\ {{anchor:s345}}Restless sleep, and waking after midnight.\\ {{anchor:s346}}Anxious, fearful dreams, starts out of sleep.\\ {{anchor:s347}}Dreams: of falling into water; of sickness; lascivious.\\ {{anchor:s348}}Wakes at 2 A. M. from violent cutting in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s349}}Wakes at night: from sneezing, with tickling in throat, causing cough; pain in small of back.\\ {{anchor:s350}}Generally agg. after getting out of bed. ====== TIME. [38] ====== {{anchor:s352}}Worse after rising in morning.\\ {{anchor:s353}}Night: digging and tearing in right ear; frequent and profuse urination; menstrual flow most profuse; cough loose; heaviness in chest; backache; tearing in heels, in bed; cold feet in bed; restless sleep, awakes frequently; chill from uncovering; sweating, most copious after midnight.\\ {{anchor:s354}}At 2 A. M.: awakened by cutting in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s355}}At 3 A. M.: awakened with heaviness in chest.\\ {{anchor:s356}}At 4 A. M.: tenesmus vesical worse.\\ {{anchor:s357}}Early morning: sweating most copious.\\ {{anchor:s358}}Morning: irritability; heaviness of forehead after rising; eyes agglutinated; stitches in spleen; green diarrheic stools; cough dry; beating in left chest; great weakness; constant yawning and sleepiness; bruised pain all over after rising.\\ {{anchor:s359}}Night and day: dry cough; sweat.\\ {{anchor:s360}}All day: heaviness of forehead; languor and laziness.\\ {{anchor:s361}}Afternoon: burning and stitching in right hypochondrium; hoarseness and burning in larynx; cough loose.\\ {{anchor:s362}}Twilight: burning of eyes.\\ {{anchor:s363}}At 6 P. M.: attacks of cough begin daily.\\ {{anchor:s364}}Evening: has most thirst; cutting and stitching in ossa pubium to back; stitches in knee when sitting; itching in sole of right foot; sleepy early; chilliness; itching in various parts.\\ {{anchor:s365}}Midnight: cannot fall asleep till then from cold feet and heat in head. ====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ====== {{anchor:s367}}A warm bath relieves.\\ {{anchor:s368}}Warm covering: does not relieve coldness in back.\\ {{anchor:s369}}Out-doors: mist before eyes worse.\\ {{anchor:s370}}Open air: stitches in ears when walking; heat of face passes off; heaviness of chest when walking; sudden prostration when walking.\\ {{anchor:s371}}In room: mist before eyes amel.; heat and puffiness of face when warm.\\ {{anchor:s372}}In bed: tearing in heels; cold feet; itching in various parts becomes better.\\ {{anchor:s373}}Uncovering: chilly at night.\\ {{anchor:s374}}After washing: burning in canthi. ====== FEVER. [40] ====== {{anchor:s376}}Chilliness evenings, after lying down, and as often as she awakens; without thirst.\\ {{anchor:s377}}Chill, with external coldness in evening and from uncovering at night.\\ {{anchor:s378}}Chill running up back.\\ {{anchor:s379}}Chill alternating every half hour, with heat.\\ {{anchor:s380}}Chill and heat, ending with copious sweat; seventh day of typhoid.\\ {{anchor:s381}}Heat with red, puffed-up face, particularly in warm room, and after bodily exertion.\\ {{anchor:s382}}Thirst with heat.\\ {{anchor:s383}}Flushes of heat in frequent attacks, ending each time with sweat, which is most profuse in face, palms of hands, and soles of feet.\\ {{anchor:s384}}Sweat day and night, following heat.\\ {{anchor:s385}}Profuse night-sweat over whole body, most copious after midnight and early in morning in bed.\\ {{anchor:s386}}Sweat without thirst.\\ {{anchor:s387}}Sweat increased by every motion.\\ {{anchor:s388}}Sweat on lower part of body. ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== {{anchor:s390}}Stitching pain in toes, comes slowly and goes slowly.\\ {{anchor:s391}}Septimani: chill and fever followed by profuse sweat every seventh day.\\ {{anchor:s392}}Daily: cough beginning at 6 P. M.\\ {{anchor:s393}}Chills alternating with heat every half hour.\\ {{anchor:s394}}Seventh day of typhus; chill and heat ending with copious sweat.\\ {{anchor:s395}}Flushes of heat ending with sweat in frequent attacks. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s397}}Tearing and jerking through all limbs change locality often.\\ {{anchor:s398}}Tearing and jerking through all limbs change locality often.\\ {{anchor:s399}}Right: tearing in temple and side of face; itching pimples side of occiput; humming and roaring in ear; digging and tearing in ear; ear affected for years; burning and stitching in axilla, and in hypochondrium; pain from side of pubes to back; stitches in groin; painful tension below breast; bruised pain in lower chest; small tubercles, blisters, scurf on scapula; pinching in muscles of scapula; stitches in scapula when inspiring; arm heavy and rigid; tearing from elbow to fingers.\\ {{anchor:s400}}Left: stitches in temple and side of head; ulcerative pain in nostril; external swelling of nostril; bleeding from nostril; swelling of gums side of lower jaw; stitches in abdomen above hip; pain as if sprained in side of abdomen and groin; stitches and beating in spermatic cord; stitches in chest and hypochondrium with cough; beating at a small spot in chest; soreness in chest; red spots on chest; stitches in scapula; tearing in arm; tearing in wrist; stitching and beating under thumb-nail; pain in hip; contraction in lower part of leg.\\ {{anchor:s401}}Right and left: rheumatic pain in shoulder joint.\\ {{anchor:s402}}Diagonally: burning and stitching from scrobiculum to right axilla.\\ {{anchor:s403}}Before backward: stitches in abdomen and groin.\\ {{anchor:s404}}Tearing from heart to left forearm. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s406}}As if brain was torn; as if head was split; as if occiput was screwed in; as if a body arose in left eye which impeded sight; as if ear and throat were connected; as from a load in lower abdomen; as if abdomen would burst; swollen feeling in groins; as if a morsel of food had lodged in throat; blood seems to be in constant ebullition; a running sensation between skin and muscles.\\ {{anchor:s407}}Dull heavy pains: in head, with vertigo and pallor.\\ {{anchor:s408}}Pain: from right side of pubes to hip and small of back; in lumbo-sacral region; in left hip as if tendons were too short; in abdomen and back, with menses.\\ {{anchor:s409}}Stitches: in left temple and side of head; in vertex when stooping; in ears; in submaxillary gland; in upper incisors; to left temple, from swollen gums; in throat; in chest with hiccough or cough; in scrobiculum; in hypochondria; in spleen; in abdomen above left hip; from pubes to small of back; in right groin, coming out behind hip; in perineum; in left spermatic cord; in left scapula; in right scapula when inspiring; under left thumbnail; in knee-joint; and tearing in heels; in toes.\\ {{anchor:s410}}Stinging: in rectum.\\ {{anchor:s411}}Cutting: from ossa pubium to small of back.\\ {{anchor:s412}}Tearing pain: in right temple and through right side of face; in temples and occiput; in head, causing nausea; in right ear; in bones of face; in groin; in perineum; from cardiac region into left arm; in side of neck, alternating with tearing in cheek; in left arm to fingers; and drawing from right elbow to fingers; in left wrist; in front part of thighs; and stitches in heels; through limbs.\\ {{anchor:s413}}Burning: of eyes; in canthi; of ears; in larynx; heat of face; eruption on face; of lips; in blister on tip of tongue; in scrobiculum; in right hypochondrium; in rectum; at small spots in chest; red spots on left chest; in blisters on right scapula; in small blisters on wrist.\\ {{anchor:s414}}Smarting: in rectum.\\ {{anchor:s415}}Rawness: in throat, back of uvula.\\ {{anchor:s416}}Soreness: and tenderness of nose; of nose and nostrils; of mouth and lips; in throat; in a spot behind soft palate; in stomach; in groins; in rectum; itching in rectum; in lungs; in left chest.\\ {{anchor:s417}}Pressure: in forehead towards root of nose; in throat when swallowing; and stitches in chest.\\ {{anchor:s418}}Bruised pain: in lower right chest; between scapulae; in small of back; in whole body in morning after rising.\\ {{anchor:s419}}Tensive pain: in articulations of jaw; in groin; below right breast; in blisters on right scapula; and drawing in legs.\\ {{anchor:s420}}Ulcerative pain: in left nostril; in heels.\\ {{anchor:s421}}Gnawing: in stomach; in left hip bone.\\ {{anchor:s422}}Boring and digging: in ears.\\ {{anchor:s423}}Pinching: in muscles of right scapula.\\ {{anchor:s424}}Griping: about navel.\\ {{anchor:s425}}Contractive pain: in occiput.\\ {{anchor:s426}}Cramplike contraction: in left hip; in hamstrings; in lower left leg.\\ {{anchor:s427}}Sprained feeling: in left side of abdomen; in groin; between scapulae.\\ {{anchor:s428}}Lame feeling: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s429}}Rooting and rolling: in right ear as if something would come out; in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s430}}Neuralgic pains: in head; in feet.\\ {{anchor:s431}}Rheumatic pains: in head; in varices; first in right, then in left shoulder joint; in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s432}}Heaviness: with fullness in head; in forehead; in lower abdomen; of chest; and rigidity of right arm.\\ {{anchor:s433}}Fullness: of head; in throat; in stomach; in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s434}}Empty sensation: in stomach as from fasting; in throat, with no desire to eat.\\ {{anchor:s435}}Pulsating: in submaxillary gland; in tonsils; in glands of neck; in breast near esophagus; in left spermatic cord; small spot in left chest; in finger, like panaritium; under nail of left thumb; in various places.\\ {{anchor:s436}}Drawing: in submaxillary gland; from right elbow to fingers.\\ {{anchor:s437}}"Gone to sleep" feeling: in feet.\\ {{anchor:s438}}Itching: of scalp; pimples on right side of occiput; in ears; in nose with sensation of a foreign body; of rectum; in throat, followed by expectoration of blood; red spots on left chest; between scapulae; on inside of forearm; in small blisters on wrist; in sole of right foot; on various parts before going to bed.\\ {{anchor:s439}}Tickling: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s440}}Crawling: in throat, causing cough.\\ {{anchor:s441}}Coldness: between scapulae; of feet.\\ {{anchor:s442}}Stiffness: in small of back.\\ {{anchor:s443}}Dryness: in throat. ====== TISSUES. [44] ====== {{anchor:s445}}Orgasm of blood.\\ {{anchor:s446}}Produces an increased secretion of mucus; hence useful in catarrhs.\\ {{anchor:s447}}Burning, rawness, on mucous surfaces; later formation of vesicles and ulcers.\\ {{anchor:s448}}Tension in joints as from shortening of muscles.\\ {{anchor:s449}}(OBS:) Fatty tumors.\\ {{anchor:s450}}(OBS:) Obesity. ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== {{anchor:s454}}Touch: left nostril sensitive.\\ {{anchor:s455}}Pressure: with finger relieves pain in decayed tooth; red spots on chest become pale.\\ {{anchor:s456}}Scratching: does not relieve itching in ears; causes itching blisters on wrist to burn.\\ {{anchor:s457}}Rubbing: relieves pain in heels. ====== SKIN. [46] ====== {{anchor:s459}}Itching on various parts of body, generally evenings, before going to bed, amel. afterwards.\\ {{anchor:s460}}Fine rash over whole body, like measles.\\ {{anchor:s461}}Smallpox more on trunk and upper limbs.\\ {{anchor:s462}}Blisters on various parts, with tension, burning and formation of scurf. ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== {{anchor:s464}}Suitable to those who are fat and sluggish; body fat, but legs thin. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s466}}Similar to its relatives and to: Ant. crud. (mucous membranes); Aloes (abdominal symptoms); Arsen. (catarrhs); Arg. nitr. (mucus in throat); Calc. ostr. (fat people; coldness between scapulae; profuse menses); Conium (night cough); Caustic. (stiff joints, contractions of muscles; burning hoarseness); Carb. veg. (hoarseness; burning on chest, etc.); Coloc. (in colic); Hepar; Iodine; Kali bichr. (stringy mucus, etc.); Kali chlor. (catarrh); Kali hydr. (pimples on back, etc.); Mercur.; Merc. corr.; Magn. mur. (especially bloody sputum; crumbling stool; atonic bladder); Natr. mur. (catarrh); Nux. vom.; Phosphor.; Rhus tox. (sprains; joints agg. sitting, etc.); Seneg. (fat people; mucous secretions; stitches in scapula with lung affections, etc.); Sepia (blisters about joints; atonic bladder, etc.); Silic.; Sulphur.\\ {{anchor:s467}}Aggravations from Amm. mur. are relieved by a hot bath.\\ {{anchor:s468}}Antidoted by: bitter almonds; Coffea; Nux vom. ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 01, 1879 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r68|Ammonium muriaticum]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r68|Ammonium muriaticum]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C. | ^ Year: | 1879 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}