Ambra



Tongue, mouth, and lips feel quite numb and dry; early, on waking. Fetid odor from the mouth. Badly smelling breath, early after waking.

Blisters in the mouth, which pain as if the place were burnt.

Great dryness of the mouth, early on waking, accompanied by a total want of thirst, for several days.

Smarting, and sensation of excoriation in the interior of the mouth; pain prevented her from eating anything acrid.

Feeling of contraction in the salivary glands during a meal, especially when swallowing the first mouthfuls.

Bitter taste in the mouth, early when waking).

Sourish taste in the mouth, after drinking milk.

Throat.

Secretion of mucus in the throat, with roughness and rawness.

Accumulation of grayish phlegm in the throat, which is difficult to hawk up, accompanied by rawness of the throat.

Hawking up of mucus early in the morning.

Choking and vomiting can hardly be avoided when hawking up phlegm from the fauces.

Rawness of the throat. Rawness of the throat, as in a cold.

Rawness of the throat, as in a cold, for some days.

Sensation in the throat as if she had something lodged in it.

After dinner, pressure in the pit of the throat, as if food were lodged there which will not go down.

Tearing in the interior of the throat, and in the upper back part of the fauces.

Tearing in the back part of the throat, and on the left side of the palate, during dinner.

Sore throat, as if something impeded deglutition (after eight days).

(Sore throat, not when swallowing food, but during an empty deglutition, and on pressure from without, accompanied by tension of the cervical glands, as if they were swollen) (after four days).

(Sore throat, after a draft of air; there are stitches shooting from the neck into the right ear; the parts are especially painful when moving the tongue).

Tickling in the throat, which induces coughing.

Tickling in the throat and the thyroid body, during the act of coughing.

Sensation during the act of coughing, as of a sore place in the throat.

Pain of a submaxillary gland, which looked swollen (after three days).

Tearing pain of the palate as far as into the left ear.

Sensation of rawness in the region of the velum pendulum palati.

Sense as of biting in the back part of the fauces, between the acts of swallowing.

Pressive, biting pain in the back part if the fauces, from time to time.

Stomach.

Somewhat insipid eructations, frequently in the afternoon.

Frequent empty eructations (after three and one-half hours).

Violent eructations after dinner.

Frequently sour eructations (after forty-eight and seventy-two hours).

Audible eructations, tasting bitter.

Heartburn, with suppressed eructations, when walking in the open air.

Every evening, sense as of a spoiled stomach, and regurgitation of acrid substances as high up as the larynx like heartburn.

(Nausea, after breakfast) (after seventy-two hours).

(Nausea, turning the stomach) (after twenty-four hours).

Qualmishness about the stomach.

Burning in the stomach (after three hours).

Burning in the region of the stomach and higher up.

Cramp of the stomach.

She had to lie down in the afternoon, on account of a feeling of weakness in the stomach, and vertigo (after seventy- two hours).

Tension and pressure in the region of the stomach.

Stitches and pressure in the region of stomach.

Pressure and burning below the pit of the stomach; this symptom goes off by an eructation.

(After every evacuation a weakness about the pit of the stomach).

Abdomen.

Aching in the region of the liver.

Aching in a small place in the right side of the abdomen, in the region of the liver; the pain is not felt when touching the parts.

Pressure in the umbilical region, with heartburn; this goes off by an eructation.

Stitching pain around the navel, when moving the abdomen, especially when drawing the abdomen in.

Pressure on the side of the abdomen, over the right hip.

Pressure in the epigastrium, hands and feet being cold.

Continual pressure in the epigastrium, diminishing by walking in the open air, returning when sitting down.

Stitches over the hips for two days (after five days).

Sharp pressure, or dull stitch, over the right hip.

Tension and inflation of the abdomen, after every meal even every time he drinks.

Distended abdomen (after a few hours).

Distended abdomen (after five hours).

Soon after midnight he wakes with a considerably distended abdomen, especially a distended hypogastrium, owing to incarcerated flatulence exciting a colic, or, at any rate, a violent pressure downwards; this accumulation of flatulence disappears during the subsequent sleep, without any emission of flatus, the abdomen becoming easy(190).

Twitchings in the abdominal muscles, in the evening.

Fermentation and audible rumbling in the abdomen, which, however, is not felt. (Browning in the abdomen).

Sense of coldness in the abdomen.

Coldness of one side of the abdomen for two days (after forty-eight hours).

Violent cramps in the belly.

First pinching pain in the belly, then a little cutting in the epigastrium, which goes off by an eructation.

The abdomen feels compressed.

Compressive weight in the abdomen, early in the morning.

Weight in the abdomen, and sensation as if the parts had been sprained, and were suffering a pressure, coming from the spinal marrow.

Pressure in the abdomen is followed by the emission of inodorous flatulence.

Trouble caused by incarcerated flatulence, occasioning a pain, especially in the left side of the abdomen.

Violent cutting colic, in the evening.

Cutting colic, when in bed, after midnight, even during a general sweat.

Cutting colic, with a soft stool, early in the morning, on two mornings in succession (after five days).

Violent cutting colic, with diarrhoea occurring three times, three days in succession (after five days).

Sense as of pinching in the hypogastrium, with violent fermentation and gurgling, especially in the epigastrium, when lying in bed early in the morning; diminished by rising, renewed by lying down again, especially when lying upon the back.

When drawing the abdomen in, violent prickings in the hypogastrium, which may also be excited by pressing the parts from without.

Pressure below the pit of the stomach and in the hypogastrium, from time to time, also at night.

After ineffectual urging, a pinching pain in the hypogastrium, especially of the right side (after some days).

Pressure deep in the hypogastrium, after the evacuation.

Stool and Anus.

Tenesmus in the abdomen, remaining after the stool (he feels as if he had not yet done), upwards of a minute.

Tenesmus of the rectum, (Drawing in the rectum).

Stitches of the rectum.

Tickling of the rectum.

Itching and biting of the rectum, which go off by rubbing.

Itching of the anus.

Itching of the anus (after some hours).

Frequent urging, no stool; this gives her a good deal of anxiety; during this time the neighborhood of other people was intolerable to her.

Four ordinary evacuations within the space of a few hours (after a few hours).

Copious, soft, light-brown stool (after eight days).

(Ambra grisea appears to improve stools, which had been delaying heretofore) (after ten and fifteen days).

Scanty stools (after twenty-four hours).

Constipation (after four days).

A quantity of blood is passed with the soft stool (after seven days).

Urinary Organs.

Pain in the bladder, and simultaneously in the rectum (after five days).

Sensation as if a few drops passed out of the urethra.

Burning in the orifice of the urethra (after six days).

Burning in the orifice of the urethra and the rectum.

(Twitchings in the urethra) (after twelve days).

Urgent desire to urinate, early after rising, for two hours; he often cannot retain his urine.

Frequent micturition at night.

The urine he emits is three times the quantity of what he drinks, especially early in the morning; afterwards, a dull pain in the region of the kidneys.

Copious, bright-colored, cloudless urine (after four days).

Diminished secretion of urine (the first three days).

Little urine, which, in a few hours, deposits a reddish sediment.

A little urine, with a reddish cloud, without any thirst.

Brown urine.

Whitish, flocculent urine.

The urine is of a lemon-yellow color, almost inodorous, a little flocculent.

The urine is dark-brown and a little turbid, even while being emitted (after twenty hours).

The urine is turbid, even while being emitted; yellow- brown; it formed a brown sediment, while the clear urine above it was yellow.

Urine with a reddish cloud.

The urine has a penetrating odor after standing awhile.

Bloody urine (after seven days).

Sexual Organs.

An itching pimple on the male parts of generation.

Burning in the genital organs, with a few drops of blood being emitted, especially after a walk and hard stool.

Vehement, voluptuously delightful feeling in the interior of the genital organs, without any considerable erection or irritation of the external organs; that feeling continues for hours (after four days).

Violent erections, early on waking, without any voluptuous desire, the parts being externally numb; when the erection subsides there is a tingling-tearing in the forepart of the urethra.

The erection subside (reaction).

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.