Ammonium Muriaticum



Face.

Distorted features expressive of the greatest anxiety.

Color of the face very pale.

Eruptions in the face.

Vesicles without any sensation upon the left side of the face (eleventh day).

Herpes in the face, dry and tettery.

Heat in the face, with burning for half an hour in the room, which goes off in the open air (third day).

Twitching pain in right upper part of the face, at a small spot; in feeling of it disappears, and on drawing the fingers away the pain in renewed, and so repeated for three times; forenoons (fifteenth day).

Tearing in right malar bone and up into the temples; forenoons (twenty-first day).

Violent painful tearing in left malar bone (eleventh day).

Repeated tearings in right side of bones of face; evenings, while sitting (sixteenth day).

Swelling of the cheek, with enlargement of a gland below the right angle of the lower jaw, attended with a throbbing and lancinating pain.

Drawing in the lower jaw.

Tearing in the left lower jaw, afterwards in the upper incisors (twenty-fourth day).

The lips became contracted and felt as if they were greasy.

Both lips burn like fire (twenty-second day).

At times burning-stinging in the upper lip (second day).

Excoriated spots on the right side of the upper lip, with burning soreness (second day).

Chapped lips.

Dry and wrinkled lips; they became chapped and she had to moisten them constantly with the tongue.

Itching pimples around the upper lip (second day).

Blisters on the upper lip, which became inflamed and ulcerated (after twenty-two days).

Mouth

Tearing toothache.

Painful tearing in all the teeth, at 8 P.M., disappearing in bed (sixth day).

Tearing toothache, now in the right, now in the left upper row, lasted a quarter of an hour, evenings in bed.

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).

Stinging pain in the upper front teeth (fifth day).

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).

Tongue white.

White-coated tongue.

Coated tongue in forenoon.

Tongue and mouth coated in spots with a white mucous coat, like false membrane.

Vesicles at the tip of the tongue, which burn like fire, and disappear in an hour (third day).

Vesicles at the tip of the tongue, with a burning pain.

Disagreeable taste and collection of water in the mouth (first day).

Pappy taste in mouth, early, after rising (third day).

Bitterness of the mouth, the whole day (after seven and eight days).

Bitter taste in mouth, early in the morning, with bitter eructations, which pass off after having eaten (first day).

Bitter taste during the anxiety, and nauseating, bitter eructations.

Sourish taste in the mouth.

Sourish taste in the mouth, early on waking (fourteenth day).

Could scarcely speak, and complained of burning pains in throat and chest.

Throat

External and internal swelling of the neck, with pressive pain when swallowing, and drawing and stinging pains in the highly swollen submaxillary glands.

Swelling of the cervical glands (after twelve days).

Phlegm sticks in the throat, which he can neither hawk up nor swallow (eleventh day).

For the first eight days, phlegm constantly remains in the throat, which he can hawk up only with great difficulty.

Hawking up a quantity of phlegm, early in the morning.

Feeling of dryness in the throat (fifteenth day).

Roughness in the throat, which passes off after dinner.

Sore throat, stinging in the throat, both during and between the acts of deglutition (twentieth day).

Sore throat, with rawness.

Stinging in the throat when yawning; this symptom occurs frequently (first day).

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).

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).

Swallowing almost impossible.

Stomach.

Neither hunger nor appetite; nevertheless, he take his usual meal at noon, and the food tastes naturally (eleventh day).

No hunger, for several days, though he takes his usual meals (four days).

Want of appetite in the evening; she does not wish to eat anything and frequently yawns (sixteenth day).

Almost total loss of appetite (after twenty-four days).

Thirst (first, second and third days).

Violent thirst.

Thirst during several days and nights, which caused her to drink a good deal of water (after twenty-four days).

Very urgent thirst, which is only satisfied with lemonade.

Unquenchable thirst, afternoons (third and sixth days).

Thirst at evening (first, second, fifteenth and nineteenth days).

Thirst before the chill (evenings before 5 and 6), (nineteenth day).

Absence of thirst (contrary to habit), (first day).

Rising of air (shortly after taking the medicine).

Oppressive eructations, tasting of the ingesta (after twenty-second day).

Bitter eructations, with taste of the food, forenoons (fifth day).

Frequent eructations of a bitter taste, the whole day (eleventh day).

Gulping up of the ingesta.

In the afternoon, gulping up of bitter, sour water, the taste of which remained in the mouth until she ate again (seventeenth day).

Frequent hiccough, or bitter eructations; with the hiccough, violent stitches in the left breast.

Hiccough an hour after dinner (fourth day).

Continual hiccough, only seldom ceasing (ninth day).

Attacks of nausea (first day).

Nausea and inclination to vomit on walking in the open air, forenoons (eleventh day).

Nausea and inclination to vomit, immediately after dinner, which is relieved by eructations, and in the open air (fourteenth day).

After every dinner and supper, he is attacked with nausea, waterbrash, and horripilation (after twenty-six days).

Nausea, with oppression at the stomach; nevertheless, there is an inclination to eat.

Burning from the stomach up towards the pharynx, like heartburn.

Burning and pressure at the stomach, becomes a stinging, afternoons (twelfth day).

Heat at the stomach, (morning of the first day),.

Sensation of fulness in the stomach, with oppression, without shortness of breath; this symptom lasts the whole afternoon, and is relieved neither by rest, motion, nor eructations.

Sensation in stomach as of emptiness, or hunger (shortly).

Emptiness in stomach, not relieved by eating.

Empty feeling in the stomach, and yet he can hardly persuade himself to take food.

Sensation as of fasting in the stomach, which, nevertheless, feels full; worse after breakfast (sixteenth day).

Frequent drawing in the stomach.

Sensation in the stomach, as if everything would turn round, with disposition to waterbrash and great qualmishness, even unto vomiting on walking in the open air; relieved by eructations, forenoons; also, afterwards while sitting; he must go into the open air, where it soon disappears.

Grinding and writhing in the stomach, early in the morning, passing off after breakfast (second day).

Gnawing, or grinding, at the stomach, as if it contained worms.

Gnawing sensation at the stomach, soon after taking a new dose.

Pressure at the stomach, with nausea.

At 8 A.M., sensitive stinging and burning in the pit of the stomach, which extends to the right axilla, and into the muscles of the right upper arm, for one minute (seventeenth day).

Abdomen.

Long-continued, occasional pinching, as with two fingers, in both hypochondria, both when at rest and in motion (second day).

Stitches and burning in the region of the right ribs, in the afternoon, when walking (ninth day).

Occasional stitches in the right hypochondriac region, when spinning.

Splenetic stitches, even when sitting.

Rumbling around the navel, continuing a long time (one hour after taking).

Violent pinching around the navel, for half an hour; then two evacuations (nineteenth day).

Pinching in a small spot to the left of the navel, while standing; worse on stooping (third day).

Momentary cutting and shooting around the navel (fifteenth day).

Griping in abdomen, below navel (6 P.M)..

Discomfort in abdomen, below and to left of navel.

Sensation as of grinding, at a small spot near the navel (one hour after dinner), (fourth day).

Burning in right flank, on sitting, for five minutes, afternoons (twenty-second day).

A large furunculus on the right side of the abdomen.

Drawing in the side of the belly.

Pain in upper abdomen, at a small spot, like a burning.

Rumbling in bowels, without perceptible flatulence, afternoons (third day).

Growling and noises in bowels, with much passage of flatulence (sixteenth day).

Rumbling from fermentation in the sides of the abdomen, extending as far as the chest, early in the morning, on waking up, in bed.

Frequent emission of flatus (eighteenth day).

Emission of loud flatus (nineteenth day).

Frequent emission of offensive flatus, without the sensation of flatus.

Colic.

Oppression in the abdomen.

Weight in the abdomen, as of a load, with anxiety, as if the abdomen would burst; the symptom passes off during sleep.

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.