AMBRA GRISEA



EARS.

Frequent tearing in the right ear, and behind the ears. Tension about, and tingling, itching, and titillation in the ears. Boring, *ringing, and whistling in the ears, in the afternoon; crepitation and snapping, as from electric sparks in the ears. Diminished hearing; deafness of one ear.

NOSE.

Bleeding form the nose, especially in the morning. Continuous dryness of the nose, a biting irritation and frequent desire to sneeze, with tingling in the nose; frequent sneezing. Dry coryza; stoppage of the nose, with a feeling of soreness; headache when blowing the nose; catarrhal feeling in the forehead and eyes. *Chronic suppression of catarrh.

FACE.

Spasmodic tremor of the muscles of the face. Flushes of head in the face. Jaundiced complexion. Red spots on the cheek Corrosive itching in the face. Pimples on the face. Hot lips.

TEETH AND JAWS.

Stinging, drawing, and lacerating pain in carious teeth, aggravated by warm, allayed by cold substances. Bleeding of the gums, especially of those of the right lower jaw. The gums are painful and swollen.

MOUTH.

Fetid smell from the mouth. Dryness of the mouth, tongue, and lips, early in the morning when waking; sometimes the parts feel numb. Smarting in the mouth, with sensation as if the parts were excoriated, and with inability to eat anything solid on account of the pain; vesicles in the mouth, with burning pain. Rheumatic pain in the tongue and fauces; scraping sensation about the palate. The tongue has a greyish-yellow coating.

THROAT AND OESOPHAGUS.

Scraping in the throat, as in catarrh; dryness early in the morning. Pain as if a foreign body were lodged in the throat. Secretion of mucus in the throat, with roughness and scraping; or with hawking, gagging, and vomiting. *Choking in the throat, when swallowing food. *Soreness in the throat.

APPETITE TASTE.

*Insipid, rancid taste in the mouth; (bitter taste, in the morning on waking). *Loss of appetite. After dinner: anguish and pressure in the pit of the throat, as if food were lodged there. Acidity in the mouth after drinking milk.

GASTRIC SYMPTOMS.

Frequent empty eructations, after dinner or in the afternoon; loud and bitter, or frequent sour eructation; ineffectual eructation; or *tasting of the ingesta. Frequent heart-burn while walking in the open air, with ineffectual eructations; acrid rising in the throat, every evening, with sensation as if the stomach were deranged. Nausea and *vomiting.

STOMACH AND HYPOCHONDRIA.

Feeling of weakness in the stomach, with vertigo. Spasm of the stomach. Pressure in the region of the liver.

ABDOMEN.

Pressure in the abdomen, and in the epigastrium, with coldness of the hands and feet. Crampy sensation in the abdomen, succeeded by a cutting pain in the epigastrium, or a fermentation and bubbling sensation in the epigastrium. Violent spasms in the abdomen. Tightness and distention of the abdomen, after eating or drinking. pain from incarceration of flatulence, principally in the right side; emission of inodorous flatulence, after pressure in the abdomen. Sensation as if the parts in the abdomen were compressed, early in the morning. Cutting in the abdomen. very violent in the evening and after midnight, with general seat; or with loose, diarrhoeic stools, early in the morning. Stitches over the hips. Twitchings in the abdominal muscles in the evening soreness of the muscles, when coughing or turning the body. Feeling of coldness in the abdomen, sometimes only in one side.

STOOL AND ANUS.

Frequent ineffectual urging to stool; crampy sensation in the abdomen, especially in the right side, after an ineffectual urging; constipation; scanty stool; *irregular intermittent stool, sometimes every other day, followed by copious, loose, light-brown stool. After stool: pressure in the hypogastrium, weakness in the pit of the stomach, and constant urging. Pain in the rectum and bladder; urging titillation of the rectum. Stinging, smarting, and itching of the anus. Discharge of blood with the stool; *varices of the rectum; haemorrhoids.

URINARY ORGANS.

Increased secretions of urine, with inability to retain it, in the morning. The urine is turbid during the emission, and dark brown; or light brown, with brown sediment, the urine itself having a yellow color; urine with a reddish cloud; having an acrid smell after standing awhile; mixed with blood; scanty urine, with reddish sediment after a couple of hours. *Sourish smell of the urine. Burning of the orifice of the urethra and in the anus.

MALE SEXUAL ORGANS.

Lacerating in the glans; or pain as if ulcerated. Burning in the region of the vesiculae-seminales. itching in the glans.

FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS.

Burning in the genital organs, with discharge of a few drops of blood, especially after walking and a hard stool. Pain as of soreness, and violent itching of the pudendum; swelling and soreness of the labia. The menses are too early. Discharge of blood between the menses. During the menses the left leg looks blue, on account of the distended varices, with pressing pain. Leucorrhoea: (only at night); discharge of thick mucus, with stitches in the vagina before the discharge; discharge of pieces of a bluish-white mucus from the vagina. Inflammation of the ovaries.?.

LARYNX AND TRACHEA.

Hoarseness and roughness of the voice. Accumulation of a greyish mucus, which it is difficult to cough up, with scraping in the throat. Burning titillation from the larynx to the abdomen. Tickling in the throat, inducing cough. Cough: excited by a scraping sensation in the throat. Deep, dry cough, with confluence of water in the mouth, and subsequent scraping in the throat. Cough, with occasional violent paroxysms; a kind of shopping cough; spasmodic cough, *especially in slender persons; with eructations and hoarseness. Cough, with expectoration of white mucus and coryza; cough, with saltish expectation. With the cough. Pressing in the temples; itching in the throat and in the region of the thyroid gland; pain in the side, below the pit of the stomach; sore pain in the throat; pressure in the umbilical region.

CHEST.

Fetid breath, in the morning on waking. Oppression and tightness of the chest, with uneasiness, impeding a deep inspiration. *Shortness of breath. *Asthmatic complaints of children and scrofulous persons? Oppression of the chest, extending to the back between the scapulae, and relieved for a short while by eating. Wheezing. Feeling of rawness, and burning lancination in the chest, extending through to the back; in the right half of the chest a violent lancination, arresting the breathing. Pressure in the chest. *Nightly tremor in the chest. Pain as if bruised, with oppression of the chest, relieved by eructating. Anxiety about the heart, with arrest of breathing and flushes of heat; palpitation of the heart during a walk in the open air, with paleness of countenance; during the palpitation of the heart he experiences a pressing in the chest as from some foreign body. Burning with pressure, aggravated by pressing upon the part; rheumatic pain in the right side; pressure with lacerating in the left.

BACK, SACRAL REGION.

Stitches in the small of the back, aggravated by movement. *Stiffness in the small of the back, after sitting. Pressing pain in the small of the back, from within outward, with great weight. Painful tension in the lumbar muscles; rheumatic pain, with tension in the back. Burning, with stinging-rheumatic pain in the scapula; drawing with pressure in the nape of the neck.

ARMS.

The arms go to sleep easily; when lying down upon them; while carrying something in the hand, also at night (the right arm), with numbness of the left arm, in rest; of the hands, at night; tingling in the thumb as if gone to sleep. Lacerating in the arms. Drawing: in the shoulder, fingers, and thumb, with pressure in the right fore-arm; rheumatic pain from the thumb to the wrist-joint. Stitches in the arms. Pain in the shoulder as if sprained and lame; in the evening with drawing. *Tremor of the arms; bubbling sensation and jerking in the arm. Lameness of the hand. Cramp in the hands; *in some cases only when taking hold of anything. (Painful swelling and stiffness of the articulations of the fingers and thumb, when in a state of rest). Continuous coldness of the hands; particularly in the evening, with chilliness of those parts. Itching of the hands.

LOWER LIMBS.

Lacerating in the lower limbs; rheumatic lacerating in the leg? Sensation in the thigh and legs as if asleep, with weight or rigidity of the muscles. Lameness of the knee, as if sprained, aggravated in the evening. Intense and painful coldness of the legs, particularly in the evening. Cramp in the thighs and calves, almost every night; buzzing sensation in the calves and feet; tingling and numbness of the feet, when lying g down, with fainting and obscuration of sight on rising, followed by vomiting of bile; he is obliged to lie down again. *Stiffness of the tarsal joint, of the feet, with great weariness; the feet are painful when walking, the heel and the left tarsal joint are painful; *pain in the bottom of the feet, as from subcutaneous ulceration; arthritic pain in the tarsal joints and in the ball of the big toe; stinging in the left foot, in the heel, in the ball of the big toe. *Swelling of the feet; of the left malleolus, with pain when beginning to walk; (pain in the legs up to the knees). Itching of the toes and interior of the bottom of the feet, not removed by rubbing. Cold feet. Burning of the bottom of the feet. Lancinations in the chilblains on the toes.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.