AMBRA



Arms and limbs ” go to sleep ” easily.

Great lassitude.

Hemiplegia, left side.

Weakness : of the whole body; of the knees, as if they would give way; of the feet, with loss of sensation; in the stomach, so that the she must lie down.

Sleep

      Cannot sleep at night, yet knows not why.

Restless sleep, with anxious dreams.

Vexatious, anxious dreams and talking in sleep.

Time

      Morning : Forenoon : Afternoon : Evening : Night : After midnight : Day :. Day and night : Every quarter hour :.

Temperature and Weather

      Warmth : Cold : Open air : Draught of air :. Worse during the spring.

Chill Fever Sweat

      Chill in the forenoon, with lassitude and sleepiness, relieved

by eating.

Chill of single parts of the body, with heat of the face.

Anxious flushes of heat returning every quarter hour, most violent towards evening.

Profuse sweat at night worse after midnight and most on the affected side.

Profuse sweat, particularly on the abdomen and thighs, during exercise.

Attacks

      Cough in spasmodic paroxysms.

Sides

      Right L Left : Left to right BAck to front :.

Tissues

      Tearing in muscles and joints, often on one side.

Softening of the brain.

Emaciation.

Contact Injuries etc.

      Soreness of parts after rubbing.

Touch : Chewing :. Scratching : Pressure :,.

Skin

      Burning in the skin.

The tips of fingers become wrinkled.

Soreness of a wart on the finger.

Itch-eruption is reproduced by it (Ambra).

Numbness of the skin.

Burning herpes.

Stages and States

      In old age, Asthma. Colds.

The so called bilious or nervous-bilious temperament.

Relationship

      Similar to Arsen. (cardiac asthma); Actea rac. (night cough); Castor; Asaf (Women who are nervous and fail to re-act); Coca (embarrassed, bashful) Coffea; Cinchon; Ignat.

Kali brom (increase of reflex action); Moschus (hysteric asthma); Nux vomica (both suit nervous, thin, bilious persons); Opium; Phosphor. (asthma; nervous excitability; “irritable weakness”; slender build, etc.); Phosph. ac.; Pulsat.; Sepia.; Staphis.; Sulphur; Acid Sulphuricum (cough and belching). Valer. (nervousness, hysteria; lack of reaction in nervous weakness); Laches. and Sepia (worse form overlifting); Laches., ver. alb. (cough with belching; coldness, etc.).

Antidotes to Ambra : Camphor, Coffea, Nux vomica, Pulsat, Staphis.

Ambra antidotes : Staphis. (especially the voluptuous itching of scrotum); Nux vomica

C. Hering
Hering got the degree of M. D. from the University of Wuezburg with highest honours. The theme of his thesis was "De'Medicina Futura" (The medicine of future). Hering left Germany for West Indies and finally arrived at Philadelphia in Jan, 1833. He established a homeopathic school at Allentown, Pennsylvania, commonly known as "Allentown Academy". Soon he became very popular as a physician. He is known as the 'Father of Homeopathy' in America.