AMBRA GRISEA – The Materia Medica of the Nosodes. By Henry Clay ALLEN, M. D. – Presented and arranged by Dr Robert Séror

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The Materia
Medica of the Nosodes.
By Henry Clay ALLEN, M. D.
Presented and arranged by Dr Robert Séror.

AMBRA GRISEA.
(Ambergris)

Of doubtful origin, for years on the borderland as to its true
classification, but probably a nosode or morbid product found in the
belly of the sperm-whale, the

Physeter
Macrosephalous.

It is often
found floating upon the sea or thrown upon the shore of the Baltic, or
on the coast of Madagascar or Sumatra.

But, perhaps the best specimens are those which whalers cut out and
are to be found in Boston and other whaling ports.

It has many

characteristics
of intestinal or biliary concretions and has been considered to be of
hepatic origin, probably a fatty excretion from its gall bladder.

It was introduced by

Hahnemann
in 1827
;
proved by him and his friend, Count de Gersdorf, who personally
obtained nearly one-half of the symptoms.

The so-called Oil of Amber

(used
by Dr. Holcombe in hiccough)
is Oleum Succinum, and should not be confounded with Ambergris.

Characteristics.- (Ambra grisea)

For children, especially young girls who are excitable, nervous and
weak

;
nervous affections old people, nerves “worn out ;”
premature senility ;
general functional impairment. Ailments of both extremes of life.

Lean, thin, emaciated persons who take cold easily

;
“dried up ;
” nervous ;
thin, scrawny women (Secale)
;
nervous bilious temperament.

Great sadness, sits for days weeping.

Great bashfulness, very characteristic

;
embarrassed in company, in sick room.

The presence of others, even the nurse, is unbearable during stool

;
frequent, ineffectual desire, which makes her anxious.

After business embarrassments, unable to sleep, must get up

(Act.,
Sep.).

Retires weary, yet wakeful as soon as head touches pillow. Weakness

;
lassitude ;
numbness of single parts ;
one-sided complaints.

Ranula with fetid breath

(Thuja).

Sensation of coldness in abdomen

(Cal.)
;
of single parts.

Cannot urinate in presence of other persons

(Nat.
mur.).

Discharge of blood between periods, at very little accident, a long
walk, after every hard stool, etc.

;
nymphomania ;
severe pruritus, especially in lying-in.

Leucorrhea

;
thick,
bluish-white mucus, especially
or only at night (Caust.,
Mer., Nit. ac.).

Cough violent

;
in spasmodic paroxysms, with eructations and hoarseness ;
< talking or reading aloud (Dros., Phos., Tub.) ; evening without, morning with expectoration (Bry., Carb. v., Hep., Hyos., Phos., Puls., Sep.) ; whooping-cough, but without crowing inspiration ; < when many people are present.

Relations (Ambra grisea)

Antidoted by Camph., Cof., Nux, Puls., Staph., X-ray. Ambra
antidotes Staph., especially the voluptuous itching of scrotum.

Nux antidotes the potentized Ambra.

Compare (Ambra grisea)

Calc., Nat. c., Tub.

(coldness
of abdomen)
;
Cast., Asaf., Psor., X-ray, Val., defective reaction ;
Coca,

Fer., bashfulness and blushing

;
Mosch., Val., fainting, . tin, asthma ;
Act., Ign., night cough ;
lod., Nux, Tub., thin, emaciated, nervous, irritable persons ;
Ars., Tub., asthmatic affections ;
Phos., asthma, nervous, excitable, weak, irritable patient, tall and
slender ;
Bov., flow every few days midway between the periods :
Lach., Rhus, Sepia, < from overlifting ; Cof., Croc., China, Ign., Puls., Sec., Staph., Sulph., nervous hysterical affections ; Kali bi., Iod., itching behind sternum in violent, racking, paroxysmal cough.

Carbo veg. and Petr. in lack of reaction in acute disease.

In cases of women who are excessively nervous and fail to react in
acute sickness.

Aggravation (Ambra grisea)

Various drinks, warm room

;
in the evening ;
lying, especially on the painless side (Arn.,
Bry„ Calc., Puls.,

Rhus

)
;
reading or talking aloud ;
music ;
the presence of many people ;
after waking (Lach.,
Sep.).

Amelioration (Ambra grisea)

After eating

;
in the cold open air ;
cold food and drinks ;
rising from bed, resting upon affected parts.

Pains

:
tearing, drawing, sticking ;
with sensation of pressure.

The infant is weak, peevish and mentally deficient

;
thin and emaciated, the image of a little dried-up old man.

The hair turns gray and falls

;
the memory grows unreliable ;
comprehension is dull ;
hearing, smell and sight begin to fail ;
nervousness, anxiety, melancholy ;
aversion to company or indifference to family and the affairs of life
are gradual step, in the path to senility.

From defective assimilation the tissues become impoverished

:
from weak circulation there is coldness of the extremities, numbness.,
and vertigo. These signs of senile decrepitude may be found to a
greater or less extent in any stage of life, and this is the sphere of
Ambra.-
Farrington.

Mind.- (Ambra grisea)

II

Comprehension
slow, has to read everything three or four times and then does not
understand it.

II

Distorted
images, grimaces ;
diabolical faces crowd upon his fancy.

II

Embarrassed
manner in company ;
blushing, bashful (Fer.,
X-ray, Tub.).

II

Fears of
becoming insane.

II

Memory
impaired.

I

After business
embarrassment cannot sleep, must get up and walk about (Rhus
r., Sep.).

I

Difficult
thinking in the morning.

I

Is not able to
reflect upon anything properly, feels stupid.

I

Melancholy,
sits for days weeping ;
with great weakness, loss of muscular power and pain in the
small of the back
and constipation.

Anguish and sweat all over, at night.

Anxiety, oppression, nervous weakness with irritability and
impatience.

Confusion of the head

;
of the occiput.

Cough worse when mane persons are present.

Despair

;
loathing of life.

Forced to dwell upon most disagreeable things

;
sleepless in consequence.

Great sadness

;
despondent, does not want to live.

Hurries too much while engaged in mental labor.

She is excited, loquacious

;
erratic talking fatigues her ;
was unable to sleep at night, or averse to talking and laughing.

The presence of other people aggravates the symptoms.

Sensorium.- (Ambra grisea)

I

Great weakness
in the head with vertigo.

I

She had to lie
down on account of vertigo and sensation of weakness in the stomach.

I

Vertigo with
feeling of weight on the vertex ;
< after sleep, < after eating.

Music causes the blood to rush to the head.

Head.- (Ambra grisea)

II

Falling off
of hair, hair turns gray early.

II

Rush of blood
to head caused by music.

I

On the right
side of the head, a spot, where the hair when touched pains, as if
sore.

Dullness in occiput.

Extremely painful tearing on top of head and apparently in whole
upper half of brain, with paleness of face and coldness of left hand.

Pressive drawing, ascending from nape of neck, and extending
through head towards forehead, considerable oppression remaining in
lower part of occiput.

Pressure in forehead and vertex with fear of becoming crazy.

Tearing

:
in forehead ;
in left temple up to vertex ;
in right frontal eminence and behind left ear.

Tearing pains predominate in head.

The scalp feels sore in morning, when awaking

;
this is followed by a sensation of numbness, extending over the whole
body.

Weakness in head with vertigo.

Eyes And Sight.- (Ambra grisea)

Dullness of vision, as if from looking through a mist.

Itching on eyelid as if a stye were forming.

Pressure and smarting in eyes, as from dust

;
lachrymation.

Pressure on eyes, which are difficult to open, and pain in eyes as
if they had been closed too firmly, particularly in the morning.

Ears And Hearing.- (Ambra grisea)

II

Music
aggravates the cough.

I

Deafness of
one ear.

I

Hearing^,
decreases ;
with cold sensation in abdomen.

I

Listening to
music brings on congestion to head.

I

Roaring and
whistling in ears, in afternoon.

Crackling in left ear

(like
the sound made when winding a watch).

Crawling, itching and tickling in ears.

Tearing in right ear.

Violent tearing pain in and behind right auricle.

Nose.- (Ambra grisea)

II

Nosebleed
with the menses.

I

Bleeding of
the nose early in the morning.

I

Copious
nosebleed early in bed, several successive days.

I

Dried blood
gathered in nose.

Long continued dryness of the nose, frequent irritation as from
sneezing.

Nose stopped up and paining as if sore internally.

Face.- (Ambra grisea)

Cramp of the lower lip.

Flushes of heat in face.

Heat in face with chill of other parts.

Jaundiced color of the face.

Lips hot.

Lips numb and dry, in the morning on awaking.

Painful swelling of the cheek on upper jaw, with throbbing in the
gums.

Paleness of face with headache.

Pimples, and itching in whiskers.

Spasmodic twitching of the facial muscles, lower part of face

;
in the evening, in bed.

Tearing in the upper part of the face, particularly near the right
ala nasi.

Teeth And Gums.- (Ambra grisea)

I

Bleeding of
gums.

Drawing pain now in one and again in another tooth

;
increased by warmth, momentarily removed by cold ;
not aggravated by chewing and passes off after a meal ;
it the same time the inner portion of the gums was swollen.

Mouth.- (Ambra grisea)

III

Ranula.

I

Fetor of
mouth, worse mornings.

Accumulation of water in the mouth with cough.

Bitter taste in mouth in morning on awaking.

Blisters in mouth, pain as if burnt

;
under the tongue, lumps like small growths, which pain like
excoriation ;
smarting and cracked painful condition of mouth ;
on account of pain she could not cat anything hard.

In the morning on awaking, tongue, mouth and lips as if numb and
dry

(sensation
of numbness in throat, Mag., Sulph.).

Pain as if sore, folds under the tongue, like small growths.

Rasping, smarting pain in mouth when eating solid food

(Phos.
ac.).

Sour taste after drinking milk.

Tongue coated grayish-yellow.

Tongue, bluish, lead colored

(Ars.).

Throat.- (Ambra grisea)

I

Accumulation
of grayish phlegm in throat, which is difficult to hawk up,
accompanied by rawness.

I

Sensation of
rawness in region of velum pendulum palati.

I

Sore throat
after exposure to a draught of air ;
stitching from the throat into right ear ;
pains particularly from motion of the tongue.

Dryness of throat in morning.

Hawking the phlegm from fauces produces vomiting and choking.

Papular-like eruption in pharynx.

Rawness in throat with cough.

Smarting at the back of the fauces when not swallowing.

Sore feeling in throat during deglutition, and from outward
pressure, not when swallowing food, with tension of glands of throat
as if swollen.

Tearing pain in palate, extending into left ear.

Tickling in throat and thyroid body, during act of coughing.

Tickling in throat which induces coughing.

When hawking up mucus in the morning, almost unavoidable retching
and vomiting.

Stomach. – (Ambra grisea)

I

After eating,
cough and gaping or gagging ; anxiety ; pressure in pit of stomach, as
if the food stuck and would not go down (food descends slowly and gets
into the larynx, Kali carb.) ; food is felt until it enters the
stomach (Alum., Bry., Phos.).

I

Eructations
either empty, sour or bitter.

I

Eructations
with cough, so as almost to cause choking.

I

Pressure in
stomach and hypochondria.

After breakfast, nausea.

After drinking milk

:
sour taste ;
heartburn.

After exposure to the cold in a sleigh-ride, had suffered
continually, summer and winter, for

14
years, with sensation of coldness in the stomach ;
had used all kinds of pads and warmers without relief ;
cured in 24
hours.

Aggravation

from
warm drinks, especially from warm milk.

Belching removes pressure under scrobiculum.

Belching with and after cough.

Better after eating

:
toothache ;
oppression in chest ;
chill, etc.

Concussion in pit of stomach with the cough.

Every evening, sensation of disordered stomach and acrid rising^,

;
up to larynx.

Heartburn

:
with abortive eructations ;
when walking in the open air ;
from drinking milk, especially warm milk.

Hiccough.

Nausea after breakfast.

Pressure and burning under scrobiculum

;
belching removes it.

Sensation of coldness in the stomach.

Tension and pressure or stitches and pressure in the stomach.

Thirstlessness.

Vomiting and choking when hawking phlegm from fauces.

Weakness in stomach accompanying vertigo

;
must lie down on account of vertigo and a sensation of weakness in the
stomach.

When walking in the open air heart-burn with balked eructations.

Abdomen.- (Ambra grisea)

III

Sensation of
coldness in the abdomen.

I

Coldness of
one side of the abdomen (left)
;
also with the deafness.

I

Pain in r.
hypochondriac region while lying upon it.

Colic, sometimes followed by diarrhea.

Distended abdomen

;
accumulation of much flatus, which subsides without being passed.

Pressing pain in a small spot in the upper right side of the
abdomen, though not felt to touch.

Pressure deep in the hypogastrium after the evacuation.

Tearing pain in the region of the spleen, as if something were torn
away.

Tension and distension in abdomen after every mouthful he eats,
even after every mouthful of fluid.

Stool And Anus.- (Ambra grisea)

III

Frequent
ineffectual desire for stool ;
this makes her very anxious,

II

At this time
the presence of other persons becomes unbearable.

I

Large flow of
blood with the stool.

After the evacuation pressure deep in the hypogastrium.

Constipation

:
Frequent ineffectual urging as in Nux vomica, but attended by much
anxiety at stool and a sense of marked coldness in the abdomen, the
patients being put to a great distress by the presence of others in
the room (near
presence of others unbearable while urinating, Nat. m.)
;
after stool, aching deep in hypogastrium ;
itching and smarting in anus relieved by rubbing.

Diarrhea preceded by colic.

First copious, soft, light brown stools, after a few days’
constipation.

Itching in anus.

Stitches in anus.

Stool not hard, though large.

Urinary Organs.- (Ambra grisea)

I

During
urination, burning, smarting, itching and titillation in the urethra
and vulva.

I

Sour smelling
urine.

I

Urine when
emitted is clouded, yellowish-brown and deposits a brownish sediment,
after which the urine looks clear and yellow ;
coffee ground sediment.

Frequent micturition at night

(Lyc.)
and in the morning after rising.

Pain in bladder and rectum simultaneously.

Sensations as if a few drops passed through the urethra.

Urinates three times as much as the drink taken, especially in the
morning

;
followed by a dull pain in the region of the kidneys.

Urine sour smelling

;
urine turbid even when first passed.

Male Sexual Organs.- (Ambra grisea)

I

A man. aet. 80,
gets asthma when attempting coition.

I

Sore rawness
between the thighs.

I

Voluptuous
itching on scrotum.

Impotence.

Internal, strong, voluptuous sensation in genital organs.

Itching pimples over male genitals.

Violent morning erections without desire, with numbness in the
parts.

Female Sexual Organs.- (Ambra grisea)

III

Discharge of
blood between the periods, at every little accident, as every hard
stool or after a walk a little longer than usual.

II

Burning in
sexual parts, with discharge of a few drops of blood.

II

During
urination :
itching, titillation, burning of vulva and urethra.

II

Menses too
early and too profuse.

I

In childbed
obstinate constipation and tenesmus ;
abdomen puffed, causing much anxiety ;
so nervous she cannot attempt a stool in the presence of other people,
not even the nurse.

I

Menses appear
seven days before time.

I

Puerperal
eclampsia.

I

Severe itching
on the pudenda, must rub the parts.

I

Soreness and
itching, with swelling of the labia.

I

Stitches in
ovarian region, when drawing in abdomen or pressing upon it.

I

Thick, mucous
leucorrhea, increased from day to day, or leucorrhea at night, of
bluish-white mucus ;
preceding each discharge, a stitch in the vagina.

During pregnancy

:
nervous, restless ;
pruritus vulvae.

Impending abortion.

Is said to cause uterine atony.

Lessens the severity of the labor-pains.

Lying down aggravates the uterine symptoms.

Menses early, the left leg becomes quite blue from distended
varices, with pressive pain in the leg.

Nymphomania

:
often with discharge of bluish-white mucus, < at night ; stitching in vagina, proceeding discharge.

Suppressed catamenia.

Revillout compares the general action of Ambra with that of Kali
bromatum. The effect appears quicker after Ambra, but that of Kali
bromatum continues longer. Ambra, therefore, is preferable for the
removal of severe reflex actions, infantile spasms, puerperal
eclampsia. Ambra quiets beautifully the nervous restlessness of
pregnancy and thus prevents convulsions

;
it also retards uterine contractions.

Revillout recommends Ambra in pregnancy

1

. To prevent
eclampsia.

2

. To diminish
too severe labor-pains.

3

. In too early
labor or threatening abortion.

But Ambra given too frequently and in too large a dose may also
produce uterine atony. Ambra given in large closes may generally
remove convulsions, from whatever cause, and by diminishing
nervousness acts favorably on nervous persons, infants and young
girls.

Here, then, is another case of involuntary Homeopathy. Ambra
produces in the healthy burning in the sexual parts, with discharge of
a few drops of blood

;
menses set in a few days too soon ;
it produces discharge of blood at other times than the catamenia, also
fluor albus, and also perhaps ovaritis.

It also produces twitchings in muscular parts, spasms,
restlessness, infirmity, anxiety, oppression, nervous weakness with
irritability and impatience, twitching and jerkings in the
extremities, with coldness of the body and great debility, a state so
often found in females and excitable, weakly children, combined with
sleeplessness

;
many dreams, frightened awaking, restless sleep at night, general
restlessness, irritability, anxiety and despair.

Respiration.- (Ambra grisea)

II

Asthma comes
on while he is attempting coition.

II

Get out of
breath with the cough, which is spasmodic ;
rush of blood to the head.

I

Asthma of old
people and children.

I

Itching,
scraping and soreness of the larynx and trachea.

I

Oppression
felt in chest and between scapula :
it subsides for a short time after eating.

I

Titillation in
larynx with spasmodic cough.

I

Titillation in
throat, larynx and trachea, causing violent cough.

I

Whistling in
chest during breathing.

Feeling of pressure in chest worse during exhalation.

Hoarseness and roughness of the voice, with accumulation of thick,
tough mucus, easily thrown off by coughing.

Itching in thyroid gland

;
itching behind the sternum causing cough.

Reading aloud or talking aggravates the cough.

Tightness of the chest, cannot take a deep breath or yawn deeply.

Cough.- (Ambra grisea)

III

Cough in
spasmodic paroxysms.

III

Violent
spasmodic cough, with frequent eructations and hoarseness ;
with pain in region of spleen as if something were torn off.

I

A kind of
whooping-cough ;
paroxysmal but without crowing inspiration. < after lying down.

I

Choking and
vomiting when hawking up phlegm from the fauces.

I

Cough every
evening with pain under the left ribs, as if something was torn loose
there.

I

Cough only at
night, produced by an excessive irritation in the throat.

I

Cough with
emaciation.

I

Deep dry
cough, with accumulation of water in mouth, and subsequent rawness of
the throat.

I

Hollow,
spasmodic, barking cough ;
worse from talking or reading aloud ;
with gagging after eating.

I

Paroxysms of
cough coming from deep in chest, excited by violent tickling in
throat, evening without, morning with expectoration, generally of
grayish-white, seldom of yellow mucus, of salty or sour taste ;
tough grayish mucus ;
worse in the morning.

I

Spasmodic
cough of elderly or emaciated persons.

Accumulation of grayish mucus, difficult to hawk up, accompanied by
rawness and almost unavoidable retching and vomiting.

Collection of phlegm in the throat difficult to cough up.

Cough causes concussion in pit of stomach.

Cough mostly only at night from violent irritation, with concussion
of the pit of the stomach

;
cough sometimes in spasmodic paroxysms, with oppression of the chest,
getting out of breath, great restlessness, and afterward a great deal
of belching, a kind of whooping cough.

Cough with eructations of gas so as almost to choke the patient

(Lach.).

Cough worse when many persons are present.

In nervous persons it causes titillation in the larynx and
spasmodic paroxysms of cough

;
whistling in the chest ;
spasmodic short breathing ;
cardiac anguish and spasmodic palpitation.

Lifting a heavy weight aggravates the cough.

Old coughs.

Scraping and tickling in the throat, larynx, down along the
windpipe causing violent cough with sensation of tightly adhering
mucus in the windpipe

:
during breathing whistling in the chest ;
rough and hoarse voice ;
collection of mucus in the throat, difficult to cough up.

Spasmodic cough, loses her breath

;
with rush of blood to the head ;
finally some phlegm comes up.

Sputa yellow-white, cream-like

;
a “sputum coctum.”

Chest and Lungs.- (Ambra grisea)

I

Itching in
chest.

I

Sensation of
pressure deep in r. chest ;
also in l. chest or in upper part of chest.

I

Sensation of
rawness in chest.

Aching in the chest over epigastrium, as if parts had been beaten

;
relieved by eructations.

Burning in the external parts of the chest.

Lancination in chest extending to back.

Oppression of the chest extending to back between the scapula.

Pain in lower part of r. chest relieved by lying on the back.

Pressure in upper part of the chest, coming in regular paroxysms.

Relieved a short while by eating.

Sensation of a lump in chest.

Tearing pressure in left side of the chest.

Tightness of the chest, can neither yawn nor breathe deeply.

Violent, dull stitching pain in right mamma, interrupting
breathing.

Wheezing in the chest.

Heart And Pulse.- (Ambra grisea)

I

Anxiety at the
heart, causing oppression of breathing, with flushes of heat ;
oppression beginning in the heart.

I

Violent
palpitation, with pressure in chest, as if a lump lay there, or as if
the chest was stuffed up.

He perceives the pulse in the body

;
it feels like the tick of a watch.

Palpitation when walking in the open air, with paleness of face.

Pulse accelerated, with ebullitions.

Outer Chest.- (Ambra grisea)

Burning on the chest.

Neck And Back.- (Ambra grisea)

II

Stiffness in
small of back after sitting.

Burning in left scapula.

Glands of the throat tense as if swollen.

Pain in small of back, with loss of muscular power and
constipation.

Painful tension in the lumbar muscles.

Rheumatic pains in the r. side of the back.

Stitches in small of back, when sitting.

Tearing in the left, or in both shoulders.

Upper Limbs.- (Ambra grisea)

I

Coldness of
left hand with headache.

I

Finger nails
brittle, with a very old man ;
they got soft, elastic and pink.

I

The arms go to
sleep when lying on them, when carrying anything in the hands or at
night ;
with numbness especially of the left arm in rest ;
tingling in the thumb.

Cramps in hands, sometimes only when taking hold of anything.

Drawing in fingers and thumb.

Drawing, as if sprained and lame in the shoulder.

Itching in palms of hands.

Long lasting icy coldness of hands.

Skin on the fingers feels tense.

Stinging in hands and fingers, as from insects.

Tearing in left shoulder joint.

Tearing pains in the shoulder, elbow, forearm and hand.

Tearing, lancinating or itching in tips of fingers and thumb.

Tips of fingers are shrivelled.

Weakness of the fingers at night.

Lower Limbs.- (Ambra grisea)

I

Sore and raw
between the thighs, II
and in the hollow of the knees.

Cold feet.

Cramps in legs and calves nearly every night.

Gouty pain in ball of great toes.

Heaviness of the legs.

Itching on inner border of sole of the right foot, not relieved by
scratching.

Left leg becomes blue from distended varices during menses.

Sensation as if ” gone to sleep ” in both legs

;
has no firm step.

Sensation of contraction in right thigh

;
the limb seems to be shortened.

Strumming sensation in legs.

Tearing in nates, hip, knee, leg, ankle and foot.

Tearing or rheumatic pains, in parts of all the limbs.

Tearing pain, first in l., then in r. hip joint.

Uncommon twitching and coldness of the body, at night.

Uneasiness, like a crawling, with anxiety, only by day.

Weariness, with painful soreness of all the limbs.

Nerves.- (Ambra grisea)

I

Arms and limbs
“go to sleep” easily.

I

Great
lassitude, especially mornings in bed.

I

Infantile
spasms.

I

Jerks and
twitches.

I

Loss of
muscular power.

I

Spasms and
twitches in the muscular parts.

I

Weakness of
the whole body ;
of the knees, as if they would give way ;
of the feet, with loss of sensation ;
in the stomach, so that she must lie down.

Chlorosis.

Conversation causes fatigue, heaviness of the head, sleepless,
oppression of the chest, sweat, anxiety

;
tremor and quivering ;
nervousness and irritability.

Convulsions.

Epilepsy.

Fainting.

Great prostration after lingering fevers.

Numbness of the whole body.

Paralytic complaints.

Restlessness.

Spasmodic complaints.

Trismus neonatorum.

Vertigo and nervous apoplexy.

When walking in the open air, an uneasiness in the blood and more
rapid circulation, with greater weakness of the body.

B. W., aet.

58,
stout, florid, right side paralyzed for five years ;
walks with difficulty, dragging right foot ;
vertigo, with
feeling of great weight on vertex for
five years ;
worse after sleeping ;
sleepless after 1
A. M. ;
loss of memory ;
loss of sense of smell ;
numbness of right side ;
cold sweat on extremities, right foot colder than left ;
nausea in abdomen ;
has had much grief. Ign., Con., Ver. b. ;
little relief. Ambra 200
(two
doses dry)
removed pain in vertex, vertigo and nausea.

Sleep.- (Ambra grisea)

II

Sleepy on
retiring ;
but as soon as head touches the pillow is wide awake for hours,
restless, tossing, or simply unable to close the eyes.

I

Cannot sleep,
must get up ;
worriment from business embarrassment ;
insomnia of business men.

I

Vexatious,
anxious dreams and talking in sleep ;
awaken frightened.

Cannot sleep at night, yet knows not why.

Early in bed

:
nosebleed ;
great lassitude.

Nearly every night cramp in calves.

Restless sleep, with anxious dreams.

Sleepless after

1
A. M.

Twitching of limbs preventing sleep, and coldness.

Uneasy sleep from coldness and twitching.

When awaking

:
soreness of scalp ;
lips numb and dry ;
bitter taste in mouth.

Worse after sleep

;
vertigo ;
weight on vertex ;
whooping cough ;
feels weak ;
mouth dry ;
weary, eyes feel as if they had been closed too tightly.

Worse from too little sleep.

Temperature And Weather.- (Ambra grisea)

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from warmth
:
toothache.

• from cold

:
toothache.

• in warm room

:
cough.

• from motion in open air.
• from warm drinks.

After exposure to draft of air

:
sore throat.

When walking in open air

:
heartburn ;
palpitation ;
uneasiness in the blood ;
< weakness.

Took cold and had perspiration checked, after a thunderstorm, by
north wind in face, tormenting cough for several weeks.

Fever.- (Ambra grisea)

I

Chill in
forenoon, with lassitude and sleepiness ;
relieved by eating ;
skin of whole body cold, except face and genitals.

Anxious flushes of heat returning every quarter hour

;
most violent towards evening.

Chill of single parts of the body, with heat of the face.

Malignant fevers.

Profuse sweat at night, worse after midnight and most on the
affected side.

Profuse sweat, particularly on the abdomen and thighs, during
exercise.

Skin.- (Ambra grisea)

II

Itching.

Burning herpes.

Burning in skin.

Distended varices on leg during menses.

Itching pimples in whiskers.

Jaundiced color of face.

Leprous complaints.

Nervous itching over the whole body, especially the mucous outlets
of the body.

Numbness of the skin.

Reproduces the itch-eruption.

Sore and raw between legs and in hollow of knees.

Soreness of a wart on the finger.

The tips of the fingers become shriveled.

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