AMBRA GRISEA
Ambergis-A Morbid Secretion of the Whale
Suitable to excitable, nervous children and thin, nervous patients. Extreme
nervous hypersensitiveness. External numbness of whole
body in the morning and weakness. Nervous bilious temperament. Thin, scrawny women. Adapted to
hysterical subjects, or those suffering from spinal irritation, with convulsive cough,
eructation, etc. Also for patients weakened by age or overwork,
who are anćmic and sleepless. Great remedy for the aged, with impairment of all functions,
weakness, coldness and numbness, usually of single parts,
fingers, arms, etc. One-sided complaints call for it. Music
aggravates symptoms. Ebullitions and pulsations after walking in open air.
One-sided complaints.
Mind.–
Dread of people, and desire to be alone. Cannot do
anything in presence of others. Intensely shy, blushes easily. Music
causes weeping. Despair, loathing of life. Fantastic illusions. Bashful. Loss of
love of life. Restless, excited, very loquacious. Time passes slowly. Thinking, difficult in
the morning with old people. Dwells upon unpleasant things.
Head.–
Slow comprehension. Vertigo, with weakness in head and
stomach. Pressure on front part of head with mental depression. Tearing
pain in upper half of brain. Senile dizziness. Rush of blood to head, when
listening to music. Hearing impaired. Epistaxis,
especially in the morning. Profuse bleeding from teeth. Hair falls out.
Stomach.–
Eructations, with violent, convulsive cough. Acid
eructations, like heartburn. Distention of stomach and abdomen
after midnight. Sensation of coldness in abdomen.
Urinary.–
Pain in bladder and rectum at the same time. Burning
in orifice of urethra and anus. Feeling in urethra as if a few drops
passed out. Burning and itching in urethra while urinating. Urine
turbid, even during emission forming a brown sediment.
Female.–
Nymphomania, Itching of
pudendum, with soreness and swelling. Menses too early. Profuse, bluish leucorrhśa.
Worse at night. Discharge of blood between periods, at every little
accident.
Male.–
Voluptuous itching of scrotum. Parts externally numb;
burn internally. Violent erections without voluptuous sensations.
Respiratory.–
Asthmatic breathing with eructation of gas. Nervous, spasmodic cough, with hoarseness and eructation, on waking in morning; worse in presence of people.
Tickling in throat, larynx and trachea, chest oppressed, gets out of breath when coughing. Hollow, spasmodic, barking cough, coming from deep in chest.
Choking when hawking up phlegm.
Heart.–
Palpitation, with pressure in
chest as from a lump lodged there, or as if chest was obstructed. Conscious of the
pulse. Palpitation in open air with pale face.
Sleep.–
Cannot sleep from worry; must
get up. Anxious dreams. Coldness of body and twitching of limbs, during sleep.
Skin.–
Itching and soreness, especially around genitals.
Numbness of skin. Arms “go to sleep”.
Extremities.–
Cramps in hands
and fingers, worse grasping anything. Cramps in legs.
Modalities.–
Worse, music;
presence of strangers; from any unusual thing; morning,
warm room. Better, slow motion in open air; lying on
painful part; cold drinks.
Relationship.–
Do not confound with Amber-Succinum
q v. Moschus frequently follows advantageously. Compare: Oleum succinum (hiccough). Sumbul;
Castor; Asaf; Crocus; Lilium.
Dose.–
Second and third potencies; may be repeated with
advantage.