COMMON NAME:
SAL AMMONIAC.
Symptoms
Especially adapted to those, who are fat and sluggish; or whose bodies are large and fat, but legs too thin (A.).
Nasal catarrh the discharge is watery and acrid.
making the inside of the nostrils and the upper lip sore (All-C., Arsenicum, Mercurius- C., Natrum muriaticum,) (C.)(<)
Sensation of soreness in different parts of the body (Apis., Arnica, Belladonna, Eup- P., Rhus toxicodendron, Pyrog.).
SENSATION OF COLDNESS IN THE BACK, BETWEEN THE SCAPULAE (Lachesis). (A(<)).
CONSTIPATION: STOOL HARD AND CRUMBLING (Nat.-M) REQUIRING GREAT EFFORT TO EXPEL (Alumina, Plb., Sepia) (C.).
Constipation, alternating with diarrhoea: hard stools, followed by a loose stool (Ant-C.) (G.).
Chronic congestion of the liver (China, Iodium, Mercurius, Podophyllum, Sepia, Sulphur). (Br.).
Haemorrhoids: sore and smarting; with burning and stinging in the rectum, for hours after stool(A.).
Burning., stinging and throbbing as from a boil (Apis., Ars-I., Hepar)
LEUCORRHOEA: LIKE WHITE OF AN EGG, PRECEDED BY GRIPING PAIN ABOUT THE NAVEL; BROWN, SLIMY, PAINLESS, AFTER EVERY URINATION (A.).
Prolapsus uteri (Natrum muriaticum, Sepia) (B.).
Tension in the joints, as from shortening of the muscles.
Contraction of the hamstring tendons (Br.).
Neuralgic pains in the stumps of amputated limbs (Hypericum). (Bl.).
Offensive sweat on the feet (Alumina, Graphites, Psorinum, Sanicula, Silicea) (A.).
SCIATICA: WORSE SITTING, BETTER LYING (Br.).
Ebullition, with anxiety and weakness. Irregular circulation (B.).
Chilly, as often as he wakes (B.).
Night sweat over the whole body, most copious after midnight and early in the morning (Arsenicum, Chelidonium, Ferrum, Phosphorus, Psorinum, Silicea, Tuberculinum). (G.).
Regurgitation of food (Nux vomica, Pulsatilla, Sepia) (G.).
Hiccough (Arsenicum, Belladonna, Carbo vegetabilis, Cicuta, Cuprum, Magnesia phos., Nux vomica, Phosphorus Pulsatilla, Sulphur, Veratrum)
Blisters on the tongue(Arsenicum, Nat_m., Rhus toxicodendron)
sore throat, with viscid phlegm, so tough that it cannot be hawked up (Alumina, Borax, Kali bichromicum).
Cough, with salivation (Ambr., Arsenicum, Carbo vegetabilis, Cyclamen, Lachesis, Mercurius) or liver symptoms (B.).
Many group of symptoms are accompanied by cough.
Noisy, rattling, tenacious mucus in the chest (Carbo vegetabilis, Hydrastis, Nat-S.). (B.).
In the morning hours she feels stiff, but is relieved by walking in the open air.
Menses too early, with pain in the abdomen and small of back (C.).,
During menses: diarrhoea and vomiting; bloody discharge from the bowels (Phosphorus); neuralgic pains in the feet; flow more profuse at night (Bovista: on lying down- Kreosotum) (A.).
Moving the arms with force, or even stooping, excites asthma (G.).
Complains of heaviness in the chest (Bryonia, Phosphorus) (F.).
Backache, as if in a vise, when sitting (Br.).
Hoarseness, with burning in region of the larynx (Causticum, Phosphorus) (G.).
Throbbing in the tonsils (Belladonna,) (F.).
Haemorrhoids, after suppressed leucorrhoea (Br.). Hard stool, covered with mucus (Graphites). (C.).
Profuse and frequent discharge of urine at night (Ambr., Acid phosphoricum.) (C.).
AGGRAVATION:
Of the head and chest symptoms, in the morning; of the abdominal symptoms in the afternoon; and of the skin and fever symptoms, in the evening.
AMELIORATION:
In the open air.
RELATIONSHIP:
Similar to Alumina, Amm-C., Argentum nitricum, Arsenicum, Kali-c., Mur-Ac., Natrum muriaticum, Phosphorus, Silicea and Sulph.
ANTIDOTES: Camph., Coffea, Hepar, and Nux vomica
ANTIDOTES to large doses. Vinegar or Vegetable Acids. To be followed by Ant-C., Phosphorus, Pulsatilla, and Sanicula
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)