Hydrate of Ammonium, Aqua Ammonia, a transparent colorless liquid, holding in solution ten per cent of Ammonia gas, specific grav. 0.959, may be taken as the first decimal dilution.
General Action
A powerful cardiac stimulant; it lowers blood pressure. Applied to mucous membranes, inhaled or swallowed it is an irritant and causes oedema and ulceration. The symptoms here given are from cases of poisoning.
Relatives Alcohol, Kali caust.
Generalities
Beating the bed-clothes. Trembling; at least effort, with inability to stand on getting out of bed. Cramps. Bleedings from mouth, nose, eyes and ears, causing faintness. Emaciation, with constant vomiting, weak, frequent pulse, hectic flush on cheeks, eyes sunken, tongue foul, headache, constipation and weakness.
Semi-conscious, pupils dilated, breathing noisy and hurried, pulse rapid, sweat, pain in abdomen, vomiting of blood, mucus and shreds of mucous membrane, afterwards hoarseness, heavy, drowsy condition, face dusky, skin dry, heat, later lips swollen, tongue dry, mucous membrane of mouth eroded, mucous membrane of fauces looking oedematous, softened and inflamed, pain and tenderness of abdomen on touch, tympanitis, burning pain in throat and pit of stomach, coma and incessant retching.
Face pale, anxious and covered with clammy sweat, extremities cold, pulse rapid and feeble, mouth and throat red and inflamed, burning pain in throat, difficult swallowing, feeling of impending suffocation, voice reduced to a whisper, breathing noisy, frequent and laborious, vomiting of mucus tinged with blood, tenacious mucus in throat inducing fits of cough and sickness.
White patches on tongue and inner side of cheeks, congestion of mucous membrane of tonsils and pharynx, swallowing difficult, frequent vomiting, respiration rapid and shallow, with rales, cyanosis, afterwards unconscious with half-open eyes, pupils moderately contracted, convulsions.
Muscular pains, especially in thighs. Weakness. Amelioration from drinking vinegar and water.
Mind
Anguish; with suffocation and constriction of throat. Anxiety. Despondency. Despair. Excitement in evening, with small, quick pulse and increased oppression. Timidity. Fell back, insensible, as if choked. Coma.
Head
Confusion, with pressure in temple; confusion, with rumbling in abdomen. Sensation in brain as if pressed asunder in the middle, towards the front and to both sides. Pressure in frontal region, with feeling as if the head would split. Forehead, where the vessels are full of blood, hot to touch. Pressure in occiput.
Eyes
Red and shining. Spasmodically turned upward and lids closed. Haggard, injected, and lids swollen. Sunken and pupil dilated. Lachrymation. Pupils contracted; dilated and eyes inverted. Yellowish chemosis. Conjunctiva yellow.
Ears
Deafness.
Nose
Coryza. Watery fluid running from, and air is completely excluded. Much serous liquid. Flow of bloody fluid, and from mouth.
Face
Pale; with suffering expression. Red; during exacerbations of fever; upper part violet red, lower part blanched. Distorted, with red spots. Expression of anxiety; of anguish. Lips swollen; lower swollen; cyanotic; livid; black coating on middle of lower; lips and tongue red and denuded; mucous membrane of lips and nose destroyed; inside of upper lip, tongue, roof, of mouth and fauces white and other parts excoriated.
Mouth
Tongue white; and palate and oesophagus as far as visible, with blisters; tongue coated white, painful and tender, with patches of its membrane pulled off. Black coat at tip. Tongue, mouth and fauces red and raw, and when asked where the pain was he pointed to pomum adami, under l. ear. Curled pieces of white skin detached from tongue and throat, and those parts are red. Dry tongue. Burning and scraping at root of tongue and at posterior wall of fauces. Teeth clenched. Mouth and throat dark red, swollen, tender, with epithelium detached in places. Burning, and in oesophagus and stomach. Burning pain from mouth to stomach. Foaming. Salivation; bloody. Much mucus; much limpid mucus from salivary glands and mucous membrane of pharynx. Albuminous, viscid, bloody secretion pouring from mouth and nares.
Throat
Redness externally and swelling of soft parts; deep redness of velum, its pillars, tonsils and posterior wall of pharynx; deep redness of posterior wall of pharynx, of epiglottis and mouth, with pain in throat. Uvula contracted and covered with white mucus. Pain, and especially in epigastric region. Heat. Burning pain; with feeling of suffocation; burning pain down throat and in epigastrium and l. hypochondrium, with tenderness to pressure on these parts. Scraping; and lancination. Hawking of frothy mucus; constant hawking, causing pain, with expectoration. Swallowing difficult; painful; impossible. Dryness of oesophagus. Burning pain in oesophagus, with tenderness of stomach on pressure.
Stomach
Thirst; with difficulty in swallowing; with inability to swallow. Eructations. Ineffectual retching. Vomiting; blood; matter like soap-suds; mucus, constantly; stringy mucus, light, then dark; throws up by mouth and nostrils a burning whitish fluid, smelling like sal volatile liniment. Pain; from a hearty meal; in epigastric region, also (<) pressure; pain in epigastrium and l. hypochondrium, with tenderness. Epigastrium tender and swollen; epigastric region sensitive at 4 P.M., with small pulse and shiverings. Heartburn. Heat, and in chest; feeling as if on fire from stomach to mouth. Burning pain, and in throat.
Abdomen
Rumbling; with confusion of head. Soft. Pain; in lower A. and in back and sacral region; inexpressible, in upper part of intestinal tube.
Rectum and Stool
Spasmodic contraction of rectum, an injection spouted forcibly from it as soon as thrown up. Much blood from anus; with tenesmus. Stools frequent, bloody. Profuse, liquid, fetid, of much disorganized blood. Solid, with cessation of confusion of head. Involuntary. Several, after vomiting, causing burning at anus. None.
Urine
Incontinence of. Suppressed. Scanty, red. Alkaline and dark. High-colored, thick, with abundant heavy lateritious elimination. Smelling of ammonia. Albuminuria. Much sediment, consisting of urates.
Menses
Too early and profuse.
Respiratory Organs
Voice lost; weak and indistinct; hoarse; hoarse and weak; deep and weak; speech fatiguing, interrupted, also with low weak voice. Glottis; oedema; spasm, with asphyxia. Tickling in larynx, with pain in epigastrium. Coarse mucous rales in larynx and trachea. Trachea spasmodically rising and falling. Bronchitis, with profuse expectoration.
Cough and much expectoration, (<) after drinking; with much mucous expectoration; when he tries to drink, with expectoration, also with mucous expectoration; obstinate; sonorous, moist, like suffocative catarrh, with tracheal rales; spasmodic, with expectoration of much membrane. Bloody expectoration. Profuse mucous expectoration.
Suffocation; rousing from sleep. Choking sensation on swallowing. Respiration difficult; and stertorous, quick; stridulous; hoarse, croaking; heavy and rattling; rapid. Inclination to draw a long breath, which is prevented by pain in back of chest, in oesophageal region. Gasping for breath.
Clinical Loss of voice, with great debility or with burning rawness in throat. Spasm of the glottis (or paralysis), with suffocation, the patient gasps for breath.
Chest
Mucous rattling. Cutting opposite fifth and sixth cervical vertebrae, at bottom of pharynx. Pain, with suffocative anguish; pain on speaking. Oppression; with increased rattling and threatened suffocation. Catarrh of lungs. Heat, and in stomach.
Heart
Anguish in praecordia, with oppression of chest. Praecordial region distended and painful. Tumultuous action. Carotids beat violently. Pulse rapid; rapid and hard; rapid, small and weak; slow and irregular; pulse and heart’s action slow and intermittent; pulse small; small and hard; small, depressed; weak; weak and irregular.
Extremities
Nails violet. Twitches of r. arm.
Clinical Muscular rheumatism of the shoulders.
Skin
Pale, cold and inelastic. Dry. Redness over nose and frontal sinuses. Rosaceous spots on inner and anterior surface of forearms, then on whole inner surface of arm, generally following the lymphatics. Red erythematous spots with yellow borders, especially along lymphatics. Erysipelas. Skin is taken off by a blister plaster, but no serum is secreted.
Sleep
Restless night. Sleeplessness.
Fever
Coldness; of limbs; of skin; of skin, especially of limbs. Hot skin; hot, dry skin. Sweat; cold.
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.