Sal Ammoniac, N H4 Cl, is dissolved in water for use.
General Action
It causes profuse secretions from mucous membranes, especially of the air passages, and when decomposed in the blood acts as a heart-stimulant (see Caustic Ammonia).
Relations Ammonium caust., Kali, Alumina, Murexac.
Generalities
Loss of fat. Stitches in l. side of abdomen, then in r. side of chest, then in r. scapula, then in small of back, with chilliness and sleepiness during the day. Pressive burning and stinging now here, now there, in forenoon. Painful twitching, or jerking tearing now here, now there, the pain most severely beats, as if it would suppurate, 6 to 10 P.M., on sitting, (>) lying in bed. Pain and bruised feeling in all bones, when slumbering or sitting still. Bruised pain in morning after rising, (<) during motion, especially in back, with tearing in shoulders and nape. Contracted feeling in whole body, in morning, so that walking was difficult, (>) long walking. Orgasm of blood; with anxiety. Sudden faintness after dinner, when taking exercise in open air, with weakness. Weakness mornings. Weakness, inactivity, general depression (in fever). Weakness, with constriction of throat and difficult respiration. Amelioration in open air. Coffee restricts the action of the drug.
Clinical The mucous secretions are generally increased; free in the air passages; cover the stool; profuse leucorrhoeas; free discharge from nose, etc.
Mind
Excitement when talking on an important subject. Anxiety, sometimes with weeping; anxiety, with melancholy. Irritable, peevish and easily frightened; irritable and peevish in forenoon, (>) after dinner; peevish in morning, and confused, as if she had not slept enough. Ill-humored in evening, absorbed in her thoughts and can scarcely be induced to speak. Antipathy to certain persons. Timidity. Seriousness.
Head
Stitches, in the house, especially in l. side, with pressure. Aching. Confusion as after intoxication. Heaviness; after rising. Vertigo, with fulness and heaviness; V. in morning, (>) open air, with confusion; V. as if she would fall to one side, (<) motion, (>) open air (Kali carb.).
Forehead – Sudden fine stitches in l. in afternoon. Tearing when sitting. Boring. Aching; throbbing aching in evening, (<) touch, with weakness, so that he can scarcely walk, and chills on going to bed. Pressure in morning, after an uneasy night, with heat there; pressure downward towards root of nose, morning after rising, with sensation as if the brain were torn. Heaviness in front of; H., with internal heat and sweat.
Temples – Stitches in l. in forenoon. Tearing in r., extending into side of face; fine tearing upward in r. bone during menses; sudden tearing upward in r. in forenoon. Burning pain in l., and sometimes stitches. Painful twitches upward in l.
Vertex – Stitches on stooping from 3 to 6 P.M.; stitches in morning, with sensation as if head were bursting. Pain as if head were broken in two.
Side – Fine stitches in l., in forenoon. Tearing in upper part of r. while sitting.
Occiput – Compression as from a vise, then in sides of head, with ill humor. Pinching in a spot on l. side in forenoon.
Scalp – Itching. Itching pimples on r. side of occiput in evening, (>) at night.
Eyes
Pain. Sensation as if a body were rising in l., forenoons, preventing vision. Burning in morning after rising, if she looks at the light; in evening, and closing as from sleep, (>) by light; at night, with lachrymation; of r., continuing long in open air. Twitching of l., (>) long rubbing. Lachrymation morning after rising. Tearing in balls. Twitching in l. ball, (>) rubbing.
Lids – Agglutination in morning on waking, with burning in canthi after washing. Twitching of lower, (<) l. Tearing in external canthus. Burning in canthi; morning, (<) looking at the light, (>) washing.
Vesicle in white. Redness of white, with itching of eyes. Tearing in upper border of r. in afternoon, while sitting, first (<), then (>) by pressure. Hammering over margin of r. orbit in morning, or sensation as if a large body were pushing there. Vision misty in morning, (>) washing; she distinguishes nothing in the open air, even in the sunlight, sees better in the house. Yellow spots when sewing and when looking out the window into the garden. Eyes weak, glassy, watery.
Ears
Fine stitches in l. in afternoon in open air; S. inward in r. when walking in open air, then burning extending outward from l.; outward from r., also as with an awl; fine, outward in l. when walking in open air. Boring and stitching outward from r. Boring twitching in r. Clawing and tearing in r. Twisting in l. and behind it, where there is a moist herpes. Burrowing and turmoil in r. on which he lay at night, as if something would come out. Tickling in r. Itching in both, with discharge of liquid wax. Grumbling and thundering noise in r. when sitting and at night, with pulsations.
Nose
External swelling of l. side, then discharge of bloody crusts. Mucous membrane of nose and lips destroyed. Sore on the inside and around margins of nostrils. Ulcerative pain in l. nostril, (<) touch. Obstruction at night, with pain at r. nasal fossa; l. nostril stopped by mucus, (>) blowing. Itching in nose, with desire to blow it, sensation as if a large, rough body were sticking high up; and obstruction. Sensation in upper part as before a cold. Sneezing frequently; without a cold, rousing from sleep, with crawling in throat, causing cough and salivation.
Clear water running from nose and corroding lips. Coryza, with eruptions in nostrils; C., with obstruction of nose and loss of smell; with obstructed feeling and difficult discharge of much mucus; dry, but clear water runs out of nose; at one nostril, out of which runs thick, yellow matter, with tearing in cheek-bone and teeth of l. side. Brown blood with the mucus on blowing. Bleeding, morning on washing face; B. from l. nostril, with relief of the itching. Bloody froth from nose and mouth.
Clinical Coryza, with acrid, watery discharge, ulcerative pain in nostril, nose very sore to touch. Discharge scalding hot, also with cold feeling between shoulder. Loss of smell.
Face
Pallor. Distortion, expression of anxiety. Swelling of cheek, with enlargement of a gland below r. angle of jaw, with throbbing and lancinating pain. Tearing in bones of r. side, evening while sitting; in l. malar-bone; in r. malar-bone in forenoon, extending into temples; in cheeks in evening, alternating with tearing in sides of neck. Twitching pains in a spot in r. upper part, in forenoon, (>) during touch. Tearing stitches in r. side of chin. Tearing in l. lower jaw, then in upper incisors. Drawing in lower jaw. Lips chapped; dry, wrinkled and chapped, she had to moisten them constantly with the tongue; itching pimples around upper; blisters on upper, becoming inflamed and ulcerated; excoriated spot on r. side of upper, with burning soreness; contracted, with greasy feeling; burning stinging of upper.
Mouth
Teeth, tearing; in all at 8 P.M., (>) in bed; in upper, evening in bed, r., then l.; in a decayed root of l. upper, in afternoon when sitting, (>) pressure. Stinging in upper incisors. Swelling of gums of lower back teeth, with stitches extending to l. temple. Tongue white; coated more than usual on rising; coated white; white mucous coat in spots on tongue and mouth, like a false membrane; vesicles at tip, with burning pain; burning vesicles at tip. Could scarcely speak and complained of burning pain in throat and chest. Taste bitter, also in morning, (>) after eating. with frequent bitter eructations; bitter, during the anxiety, with nauseating bitter eructations; sourish, also morning on waking; pappy. morning after rising; disagreeable, with salivation.
Throat
Swelling, external and internal, with pressive pain when swallowing, and drawing and stinging pain in the swollen submaxillary glands. Stinging; when yawning. Stinging raw sensation. Soreness, with rawness. Burning pain in throat and chest; with difficulty in speaking. Constriction, with difficult respiration. Roughness, (>) after dinner. Dryness. Itching, then expectoration of blood. Throbbing in tonsils, as if in an artery, with uneasiness and anxiety. Constant hawking from tickling in throat, without much expectoration. Hawking up mucus in morning. Hawking with expectoration of small pieces of mucus. Mucus difficult to hawk up. Mucus which he can neither swallow nor hawk up. Swallowing almost impossible.
Clinical Swelling of tonsils so that he can scarcely swallow, after taking cold.
Stomach
Appetite capricious, sometimes lost, sometimes ravenous, with constipation or diarrhoea; want of; want of, in evening, with frequent yawning; none, yet he takes his usual food. Thirst; evening; before the chill, before 5 P.M.; satisfied only with lemonade; unquenchable, afternoons; absence of.
Eructations of air; of food; oppressive, tasting of ingesta; bitter; bitter in forenoon, with taste of food; of bitter, sour water in afternoon, the taste of which remained till she ate again. Hiccough; after dinner; frequent H. or bitter eructations, with the hiccough stitches in l. breast.
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.