AMMONIUM MURIATICUM.
Ammonium chloride, NH4Cl. Common
names, Sal Ammoniac; Sal’m’iac. Preparation,
Trituration on aqueous solution (100 parts of water at 60° dissolves 36 parts of the salt).
Authorities.
1, N-g and
Hartlaub, H. and T. Annalen, 4; 2, Hahnemann, Chr.
Krank., 1; 3, Rl. (ibid.); 4,
Gumpert, Roth’s résumé; 5, Wibmer; 6, Fischer, Roth’s résumé; 7,
Rechnitz, ibid.; 8, Knorre, A. H. Z., 6, 33; 9, Frank’s Mag., poison cases; 10,
Boecker; 11, J. d. Chim. Med., 1840, poison by fumes, A.
H. Z., 20, 9.
MIND.
► When talking about
some important subject he becomes extremely excited, [2].
► She is overwhelmed with anxiety, would like to weep,
and does weep, sometimes (first day), [1]. ► Full of melancholy and anxiety, as if some internal grief and
sorrow were gnawing at her heart, [1]. ► She is sitting there, full of ill-humor, absorbed in her
thoughts, and can scarcely be induced to speak, in the evening (fifteenth day), [1]. ► Peevish, as if she
had some internal vexation, and looking as if not yet entirely conscious of herself; as if
she had not slept enough (third day), [1]. ► Irritable and peevish, in the forenoon; the mood improves
after dinner (eight day), [1]. ►
Very irritable, peevish, and easily frightened, [3]. ► Involuntary antipathy to certain persons, [2].
HEAD.
► The head feels
confused, as after intoxication (fourteenth day), [2].
[10.] ► The head
feels dizzy and confused in the room; this symptom passes off in the open air; early in the
morning (fourth day), [1]. ►
Vertigo, as if she would fall to one side; worse during motion, passing off in the open air,
frequently (third day), [1]. ►
Giddiness and fulness of the head; it feels as if it were very
heavy (one hour), [1]. ► Feeling of heaviness in the head, almost daily, after rising,
[1]. ► The head
feels so full that it seems too heavy (after twenty-fifth day), [1]. ► Violent headache, for
several days, [3]. ►
Feeling of heat and fulness in the head, early after rising, [1].
► Heat in the head, without proceeding chill, before
midnight, in bed, so that she cannot go to sleep for a long time, [1]. ► Stitches and pressure in
the head, especially in the left side, in the room (second day), [1]. ► Frequent creeping over the
head, of short duration (twenty-fifth day), [1]. [20.] ► Pimples on the
forehead, following after itching and scratching (sixth day), [1].
► Frontal headache, without mental disturbance, [5]. ► Violent throbbing
headache in the forehead, towards evening, lasting one hour; upon touching the forehead
worse; with weakness, so that he was scarcely able to walk, and chills on going to bed, [2]. ► Heaviness in the
forehead, frequently during the day, accompanied by a feeling of internal heat and a little
sweat, [1]. ►
Pressure in the forehead, with sensation of heat there, early in the morning after an uneasy
night, [1]. ►
Downward pressure in the forehead, towards the root of the nose, with sensation as if the
brain were torn, early after rising (twenty-fifth day), [1].
► Painful boring in the forehead, early after rising, and
almost during the whole day (fifth day), [1]. ► Sudden fine stitching in the left side of the forehead, of
long duration, afternoons (fourth day), [1]. ► Painful twitches, from below upwards, in the left temple
(third day), [1]. ►
Burning pain, and sometimes stitches, in the left temple, both when at rest and when
masticating and sneezing; no increase of pain when the parts are touched, [2]. [30.] ►
A sudden tearing pain from below upward in the right temple, forenoons (sixth day), [1]. ► Painful tearing in
the right temple and down into the side of the face (seventh day), [1]. ► Fine tearing, extending
upward, in the right temporal bone, during the menstruation (seventeenth day), [1]. ► A violent stitch
in the left temple; forenoons (twentieth day), [1]. ► Headache on the top of the head, as if the head were broken
in two (fourth day), [1]. ►
Stitches in the vertex, with a sensation as though the head were bursting; mornings (third
day), [1]. ►
Stitches in the vertex on stooping; afternoon at three, lasting till six (second day), [1]. ► Glowing heat on
the right side of the head, every evening, [2]. ► Fine stitches in the left side of the head, forenoons (fifth
day), [1]. ► A
painful tearing in the upper part of the right side of the head, while sitting (fifteenth
day), [1]. [40.] ► The occiput feels as if it were compressed with a vice; this
symptom afterwards manifests itself in both sides of the head, accompanied by excessive
ill-humor (seventeenth day), [1]. ► Pinching pain in the left side of the occiput, at a small
spot; forenoons (eleventh day), [1]. ► Itching pimples on the right side of the occiput, in the
evening; at night they pass off (after nineteenth day), [1].
► Itching of the hairy scalp, forcing him to scratch
constantly (third day), [1].
EYES.
► Eyes become weak,
glassy, watery, [9]. ►
Redness of the white of the eyes and itching of the eyes, [2].
► Pain in the eyes, [2].
► The eyes burn in the morning, after rising, if she
looks at the light (fourth day), [1]. ► Burning of the eyes in the evening, and closing thereof as
from sleep; this symptom passed off as soon as light entered the room (fifteenth day), [1]. ► The eyes are
burning for several evenings, only at twilight; the pain ceases as soon as light enters the
room (fifteenth day), [1]. [50.]
► The eyes burn at night, with profuse lachrymation, [2]. ► Violent burning in
the right eye, which continues long in the open air, [1].
► Tearing in the upper border of the right eye, first
made worse, then improved, by pressing upon it; afternoons while sitting (fifteenth day), [1]. ► Very painful
sensation, as of hammering, over the margin of the right orbit, or as if a large body were
pushing there (fifteenth day), [1]. ► Twitching of the left eye; she must rub a long time before it
disappears (fourth day), [1]. ►
Slight twitching in the lower eyelids, especially the left, during the whole time of
proving, [1]. ►
Eyes burn like fire, in the canthi, the whole day (third day), [1]. ► Burning in the canthi, so
that she cannot look at the light; disappears after washing; mornings (third day), [1]. ► Tearing in the
external canthus of the eye, [2]. ► Lachrymation early after rising (third day), [1]. [60.] ►
Agglutination of the eyes, early on waking, with burning in the corners, after washing
(second day), [1]. ►
A vesicle in the white of the eye, [2]. ► Tearing in the eyeballs, [2].
► Twitching in the left ball, without any in the lid;
disappears after rubbing (fourth day), [1]. ► Mist before the eyes; in the open air she distinguishes
nothing, either far or near, even in the light of the sun; in the room, on the contrary, she
sees better (for five minutes), [1]. ► For several mornings dimness of the eyes; there is a mist
before them, which passes off after washing, [1]. ► Sensation in the left eye as if a body were rising in it
which prevents her from seeing; in the forenoon (fourteenth and fifteenth days), [1]. ► Yellow spots, as
large as a penny, everywhere before the eyes, when sewing, and when looking into her garden
out of the window (two minutes), [1].
EARS.
► Painful pimple on
the anti-helix of the right ear, [2]. ► Itching pimple on the external concha of the right ear, which
induces him to scratch continually, [1]. [70.] ► Several fine stitches
in the left ear, which frequently recur; afternoons in the open air (fourth day), [1]. ► Several pointed
stitches in the right ear, shooting inwards; then a burning extending from the left ear
outwards; on walking in the open air (first day), [1].
► Frequent sensitive stitches outward from the right ear;
it frequently lasts a long time, [1]. ► Stitches outward from the right ear, as with an awl, several
times, [1]. ►
Boring and sticking outward from the right ear (third day), [1].
► Clawing and tearing in the right ear (nineteenth day), [1]. ► Boring-twitching
in the right ear (sixteenth day), [1]. ► Burrowing and turmoil in the right ear, on which he lay at
night, as if something would come out there (third day), [1].
► Tickling in the right ear, [1]. ► Frequently fine stitches
outward from the left ear, [1]. [80.] ► Twisting in the left
ear, also behind it, where there is a moist herpes, [1].
► Itching in both ears, which does not pass off by
scratching, with discharge of liquid wax for several days (after fifth day), [1]. ► Grumbling and thundering
noise in the right ear when sitting, also at night, with pulsative beats (sixth day), [1].
NOSE.
► External swelling
of the left side of the nose, and, the next day, bloody crusts discharge (third day), [1]. ► Bleeding at the
nose from the left fossa, whereupon the itching ceases (third day), [1]. ► On blowing nose, some brown
blood with the mucus, [10]. ►
In morning left nostril stopped by mucus; removed by blowing, [10].
► Bloody froth from nose and mouth, [11]. ► Frequent sneezing during
the day (thirteenth and fourteenth days), [1]. ► Frequent sneezing, without a cold, roused her from her
sleep, with crawling in the throat, which caused her to
cough, and produced a secretion of saliva (after six day), [3].
[90.] ► Clear, acrid
water runs out of the nose, corroding the lips, [1]. ► Coryza, with eruptions in the nostrils (sore nose), [2]. ► Coryza at one
nostril, out of which runs a quantity of thick, yellow matter; this is accompanied by
tearing in the cheek-bone and the teeth of the left side, [2].
► *Coryza, with obstruction of the nose and loss of smell
(thirteenth and fourteenth days), [1]. ► Coryza, with a feeling of obstruction in the nose, during
which a large quantity of mucus passes off, with great difficulty, however (after
twenty-four hours), [1]. ►
Dry coryza; clear water, however, runs out of the nose, [2].
► Obstruction of the nose, with pain at the right nasal
fossa, at night, the symptom passing off again the next morning, [1]. ► Sensation in the upper part
of the nose, as when a cold is approaching, [1]. ► *Sore nose, on the inside and around the margin of the
nostrils, [2]. ►
Pain, as from ulceration, in the left nasal fossa; cannot endure the touch; this symptom
occurs frequently (after third day), [1]. [100.] ► Constant itching in
the nose, with desire to blow it, and sensation as if a large and rough body were sticking
high up in the nose, with obstruction (second day), [1].
FACE.
► Distorted features
expressive of the greatest anxiety, [11]. ► Color of the face very pale, [3].
► Eruptions in the face, [2].
► Vesicles without any sensation upon the left side of
the face (eleventh day), [1]. ►
Herpes in the face, dry and tettery, [3]. ► Heat in the face, with burning for half an hour in the room,
which goes off in the open air (third day), [1]. ► Twitching pain in right upper part of the face, at a small
spot; in feeling of it it disappears, and on drawing the fingers away the pain is renewed,
and so repeated for three times; forenoons (fifteenth day), [1].
► Tearing in right malar bone and up into the temples;
forenoons (twenty-first day), [1]. Violent painful
tearing in left malar bone (eleventh day), [1]. [110.] ► Repeated tearings in
right side of bones of face; evenings, while sitting (sixteenth day), [1]. ► Swelling of the cheek, with
enlargement of a gland below the right angle of the lower jaw, attended with a throbbing and
lancinating pain, [2]. ►
Drawing in the lower jaw, [7]. ►
Tearing in the left lower jaw, afterwards in the upper incisors (twenty-fourth day), [1]. ► The lips became
contracted and felt as if they were greasy, [1]. ► Both lips burn like fire (twenty-second day), [1]. ► At times burning-stinging
in the upper lip (second day), [1]. ► Excoriated spots on the right side of the upper lip, with
burning soreness (second day), [1]. ► Chapped lips, [2]. ► Dry and wrinkled lips; they became chapped and she had to
moisten them constantly with the tongue, [2]. [120.] ► Itching pimples
around the upper lip (second day), [1]. ► Blisters on the upper lip, which became inflamed and
ulcerated (after twenty-two days), [1].
MOUTH.
► Tearing toothache,
[3]. ► Painful
tearing in all the teeth, at 8 P.M., disappearing in bed (sixth day), [1]. ► Tearing toothache, now in
the right, now in the left upper row, lasted a quarter of an hour, evenings in bed, [1]. ► 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), [1].
► Stinging pain in the upper front teeth (fifth day), [1]. ► 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), [1]. ► Tongue white, [9]. ► White-coated tongue, [7].
[130.] ► Coated
tongue in forenoon, [10]. ►
Tongue and mouth coated in spots with a white mucous coat, like false membrane, [11]. ► *Vesicles at the tip
of the tongue, which burn like fire, and disappear in an hour (third day), [1]. ► *Vesicles at the tip
of the tongue, with a burning pain, [2]. ► Disagreeable taste and collection of water in the mouth
(first day), [1]. ►
Pappy taste in mouth, early, after rising (third day), [1].
► Bitterness of the mouth, the whole day (after seven and
eight days), [1]. ►
Bitter taste in mouth, early in the morning, with bitter eructations, which pass off after
having eaten (first day), [1]. ►
Bitter taste during the anxiety, and nauseating, bitter eructations, [1]. ► Sourish taste in the mouth,
[2]. [140.] ► Sourish taste in the mouth, early on waking (fourteenth day),
[1]. ► Could
scarcely speak, and complained of burning pains in throat and chest, [11].
THROAT.
► External and
internal swelling of the neck, with pressive pain when swallowing, and drawing and stinging
pains in the highly swollen submaxillary glands, [2]. ► Swelling of the cervical glands (after twelve days), [3]. ► Phlegm sticks in
the throat, which he can neither hawk up nor swallow (eleventh day), [1]. ► For the first eight days,
phlegm constantly remains in the throat, which he can hawks up only with great difficulty, [1]. ► Hawking up a
quantity of phlegm, early in the morning, [2]. ► Feeling of dryness in the throat (fifteenth day), [1]. ► Roughness in the
throat, which passes off after dinner, [1]. ► Sore throat, stinging in the throat, both during and between
the acts of deglutition (twentieth day), [1]. [150.] ► Sore throat, with
rawness, [2]. ►
Stinging in the throat when yawning; this symptom occurs frequently (first day), [1]. ► 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), [3]. ►
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), [3]. ► Swallowing almost
impossible, [11].
STOMACH.
► Neither hunger
nor appetite; nevertheless, he take his usual meal at noon, and the food tastes naturally
(eleventh day), [1]. ►
No hunger, for several days, though he takes his usual meals (four days), [1]. ► Want of appetite in the
evening; she does not wish to eat anything and frequently yawns (sixteenth day), [1]. ► Almost total loss
of appetite (after twenty-four days), [2]. ► Thirst (first, second, and third days), [1]. [160.] ►
Violent thirst, [11]. ►
Thirst during several days and nights, which caused her to drink a good deal of water (after
twenty-four days), [1]. ►
Very urgent thirst which is only satisfied with lemonade, [7].
► Unquenchable thirst, afternoons (third and sixth day), [1]. ► Thirst at evening
(first, second, fifteenth, and nineteenth days), [1]. ► Thirst before the chill (evenings before 5 and 6),
(nineteenth day), [1]. ►
Absence of thirst (contrary to habit), (first day), [1].
► Rising of air (shortly after taking the medicine), [1]. ► Oppressive
eructations, tasting of the ingesta (after twenty-second day), [1]. ► Bitter eructations, with
taste of the blood, forenoons (fifth day), [1]. [170.] ► Frequent eructations
of a bitter taste, the whole day (eleventh day), [1]. ► Gulping up of the ingesta, [1].
► In the afternoon, gulping up of bitter, sour water, the
taste of which remained in the mouth until she ate again (seventeenth day), [1]. ► Frequent hiccough, or
bitter eructations; with the hiccough, violent stitches in the left breast, [1]. ► Hiccough an hour after
dinner (fourth day), [1]. ►
Continual hiccough, only seldom ceasing (ninth day), [1].
► Attacks of nausea (first day), [3]. ► Nausea and inclination to
vomit on walking in the open air, forenoons (eleventh day), [1].
► Nausea and inclination to vomit, immediately after
dinner, which is relieved by eructations, and in the open air (fourteenth day), [1]. ► After every dinner
and supper, he is attacked with nausea, waterbrash, and horripilation (after twenty-six
days), [2]. [180.]
► Nausea, with oppression at the stomach; nevertheless,
there is an inclination to eat, [2]. ► Burning from the stomach, up towards the pharynx, like
heartburn, [1]. ►
Burning and pressure at the stomach, becomes a stinging, afternoons (twelfth day), [1]. ► Heat at the
stomach (morning of the first day), [5]. ► 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, [1]. ► Sensation in stomach as of emptiness, or hunger (shortly), [1]. ► Emptiness in
stomach, not relieved by eating, [9]. ► Empty feeling in the stomach, and yet he can hardly persuade
himself to take food, [4]. ►
Sensation as of fasting in the stomach, which nevertheless, feels full; worse after
breakfast (sixteenth day), [1]. ►
Frequent drawing in the stomach, [1]. [190.] ► 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, [1]. ►
Grinding and writhing in the stomach, early in the morning, passing off after breakfast
(second day), [1]. ►
Gnawing, or grinding, at the stomach, as if
it contained worms, [1]. ►
Gnawing sensation at the stomach, soon after taking a new dose, [1]. ► Pressure at the stomach,
with nausea, [5]. ►
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),
[1].
ABDOMEN.
► Long-continued,
occasional pinching, as with two fingers, in both hypochondria, both when at rest and in
motion (second day), [1]. ►
Stitches and burning in the region of the right ribs, in the afternoon, when walking (ninth
day), [1]. ►
Occasional stitches in the right hypochondriac region, when spinning, [1]. ► Splenetic stitches, even
when sitting, [2]. [200.]
► Rumbling around the navel, continuing a long time (one
hour after taking), [1]. ►
Violent pinching around the navel, for half an hour; then two evacuations (nineteenth day), [1]. ► Pinching in a
small spot to the left of the navel, while standing; worse on stooping (third day), [1]. ► Momentary cutting
and shooting around the navel (fifteenth day), [1]. ► Griping in abdomen, below navel (6 P.M.), [10]. ► Discomfort in abdomen,
below and to left of navel, [10]. ► Sensation as of grinding, at a small spot near the navel (one
hour after dinner), (fourth day), [1]. ► Burning in right flank, on sitting, for five minutes,
afternoons (twenty-second day), [1]. ► A large furunculus on the right side of the abdomen, [2]. ► Drawing in the
side of the belly, [2]. [210.]
► Pain in upper abdomen, at a small spot, like a burning,
[1]. ► Rumbling in
bowels, without perceptible flatulence, afternoons (third day), [1]. ► Growling and noises in
bowels, with much passage of flatulence (sixteenth days), [1].
► Rumbling from fermentation in the sides of the abdomen,
extending as far as the chest, early in the morning, on waking up, in bed, [2]. ► Frequent emission of flatus
(eighteenth day), [1]. ►
Emission of loud flatus (nineteenth day), [1]. ► Frequent emission of offensive flatus, without the sensation
of flatus, [1]. ► Colic,
[3]. ► Oppression
in the abdomen, [2]. ►
Weight in the abdomen, as of a load, with anxiety, as if the abdomen would burst; the
symptom passes off during sleep, [2]. [220.] ► Fulness in the
abdomen, [10]. ►
Severe pinching in the abdomen, which is soon followed by a loose evacuation (immediately), [2]. ► Pinching in the
abdomen at every inspiration, which passes off again by expiration (thirteenth day), [1]. ► Pinching all
around in the abdomen and in the groins, as before the appearance of the menses, early after
rising (eighteenth day), [1]. ►
Gripings, here and there, in the bowels, without sensation of flatulence, afternoons
(eighteenth day), [1]. ►
Gripings and movings in all the bowels, the whole day (fourth day), [1]. ► Violent cutting in the
whole abdomen, at two o’clock at night; this rouses her from sleep (after twenty-four
hours), [1]. ►
Pressure in the left side of the abdomen, as with the hand (nineteenth day), [1]. ► Stitches in the left side
of the abdomen, over the hip, when sitting, and when stooping while standing, [2]. ► Frequent disappearing and
recurring gripings in the lower abdomen, forenoons (thirteenth day), [1]. [230.] ►
Pinching and griping pain in the lower abdomen, with dyspnœa, [2]. ► Pressive tension in the
left side of the abdomen, near the ring, as if something were pressing out, [2]. ► Pain in both groins, like
severe gripings, which afterward extended to the navel, and disappeared after a few
evacuations, evenings (first day), [1]. ► Cutting and stitches in both groins, as far as the small of
the back, with urging to urinate every half hour in the evening, [1]. ► Tearing and tensive pain in
the groin, when walking, [2]. ►
Distension, with a tensive sensation and grinding, in the right groin, [1]. ► Indescribably vehement pain
in the right groin; it often extends to the hip and the small of the back (fifteenth day), [1]. ► Stitches in the
right groin, and coming out behind the hip, when sitting (fourth day), [1]. ► Sense of distension in left
groin, which becomes somewhat painful on sitting (fifteenth day), [1]. ► Pain, as from a sprain, in
the left groin; it obliges him to walk crooked (third day), [1].
[240.] ► Pain, as
from ulceration, in the left groin, perceptible only when walking, [1].® 2000
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