AMMONIUM MURIATICUM



Temperature and Weather

      Usually better in open air.

Open air : Warm room; Room : Washing :.

Chill Fever Sweat

      Chill, with external coldness in the evening and from uncovering at night.

Chill running up the back.

Chill alternating every half hour with heat.

Heat, with red puffed up face, particularly in warm room and after bodily exertion.

Flushes of heat in frequent attacks, ending each time with sweat, which is most profuse in face, palms of hands and soles of feet.

Sweat day and night; following heat.

Profuse night-sweet over the whole body, most copious after midnight, and early in morning, in bed.

Attacks

      Stitching pain in toes, slowly coming and slowly going.

Flushes of heat in attacks :.

Sides Right : Left : Scrobiculum to right arm : heart to

      left forearm : Shoulder-joints-right, then left : Pubes to hip : Pubes to back :.

Sensations

      Blood seems in constant ebullition.

Bruised pain in whole body, in the morning after arising.

Contact Injuries etc.

      Touch : Pressure : Scratching :.

Skin

      Itching on various parts of body, generally evenings, before going to bed, better afterwards.

Fine rash over the who’e body.

Rash-like measles.

Small-pox more on trunk and upper limbs.

Stages and States

      Suitable to those who are fat and sluggish; body fat, but legs thin.

Relationship

      Similar to its relatives and to : Antim crud. (mucus membranes); Aloe (abdominal symptoms); Arsen. (catarrhs); Argentum nitr. (mucus in throat); Calcarea 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 the back; etc.) Mercur.; Mercurius corr.; Magn. mur. (especially bloody sputum; crumbling stool; atonic bladder); Natr. mur. (catarrh); Nux. Vom.; Phosphor.; Rhus tox. (sprains; joints worse sitting, etc.); Seneg. (fat people; mucus secretions; stitches in scapula with lung affections, etc.); Sepia (blisters about joints; atonic bladder, etc.); Silicea; Sulphur.

Aggravations from Ammonium mur are relieved by a hot bath.

Antidoted by : bitter almonds; Coffea; Nux. vom.

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.