Remedy

Ammonium muriaticum

Sal ammoniac

9 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • All mucous secretions are increased and retained.
  • It is especially adapted to fat and sluggish patients who have respiratory troubles.
  • Coughs associated with catarrhs and affections of liver.
  • A tendency to irregular circulation, blood seems to be in constant turmoil, pulsations, etc.
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  • Many groups of symptoms are accompanied by cough, profuse glairy secretions.
  • Its periods of aggravations are peculiarly divided as to the bodily region affected; thus the head and chest symptoms are worse mornings, the abdominal in the afternoon, the pains in the limbs, the skin and febrile symptoms, in the evenings.
  • "Boiling" sensation.

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Mind & mood

  • Melancholy, apprehensive; like from internal grief.
  • Desire to cry, but cannot.
  • Consequences of grief.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

Head and chest symptoms in the morningAbdominal symptoms in the afternoon

Better

Open air

Symptoms by body part

Head

Hair falls out, with itchings and dandruff. Feels full, compressed; worse mornings.

Nose

Free acrid, hot watery discharge corroding the lip. Sneezing. Nose sore to touch; ulcerative pain in nostrils. Loss of smell. Obstructed, stuffy feeling; constant and unavailing efforts to blow it out. Itching.

Face

Inflammatory face-ache. Mouth and lips sore and excoriated.

Throat

Throbbing in, and swelling of tonsils, can scarcely swallow. Sore spot behind uvula, relieved by eating. Internal and external swelling of throat with viscid phlegm. So touch, it cannot be hawked up. Tonsillitis. Stricture of oesophagus.

Stomach

Thirst for lemonade, regurgitation of food, bitter waterbrash. Nausea. Gnawing in stomach. Epigastric pain immediately after eating.

Abdomen

Splenic stitches, especially in the morning, with difficult breathing. Pain around navel. Abdominal symptoms appear during pregnancy. Chronic congestion of liver. Excessive fatty deposit around abdomen. Much flatus. Strained feeling in groin.

Rectum

Hard, crumbly stool, or covered with glairy mucus. Stinging in perinaeum. Green mucus stools alternate with constipation. During and after stool, burning and smarting in rectum.

Female

Menses too early, too free, dark, clotted; flow more at night. Pain as if sprained in left side of abdomen during pregnancy. Diarrhoea, greenish mucous stools, and navel pain during menses. White vaginal discharge, like white of an egg; with pain about the navel; brown, slimy after every urination.

Respiratory

Hoarseness and burning in larynx. Dry, hacking, scraping cough; worse lying on back or right side. Stitches in chest. Cough loose in afternoon, with profuse phlegm coughed up and rattling of mucus. Oppression of chest. Burning at small spots in chest. Scanty secretion. Cough with profuse excess saliva.

Back

Icy coldness between shoulders; not relieved by warm covering, followed by itching. Bruised pain in coccyx when sitting. Backache, as if in a vise when sitting.

Extremities

Pain as from ulceration in finger tips. Shooting and tearing in tips of finger and toes. Ulcerative pain in heels. Contraction of hamstring tendons. Nerve pain down the leg, worse sitting, better lying. Neuralgic pain in amputated limbs. Offensive sweaty feet. Pain in feet during menses.

Skin

Itching, generally evenings. Blisters on various parts. Intense burning better cold applications.

Fever

Feeling cold evenings after lying down and on awakening, without thirst. Heat in palms and soles. Sub acute, low fevers due to unhealthy climate. Lowest potencies.

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