Ammonium Muriaticum

► Desire to cry, and at times crying. ► Disinclination to speak. ► Involuntary aversion to certain persons. ► Great earnestness. ► Apprehensive and gloomy, like from internal grief. ► Irritability or bad humor, mostly mornings.

► Vertigo and fulness of head ; at times as if she would fall sideways.

► Heaviness in forehead, frequently during the day (internal sensation of heat and some sweat). ► Pressure in forehead, toward root of nose, with sensation as if brain was torn. ► Contractive pain in occiput. ► Tearing mostly in right temple, thence through right side of face. ► Stitches in left temple and side of head, and when stooping, in the vertex, with sensation as if head would split.

► Itching of the scalp. ► Itching pimples on right side of occiput.

► Mist before eyes, worse in bright light out-doors ; better in room. ► Sensation in left eyes as if a body a rose, which impeded sight. ► Yellow spots before the eyes. ► Flying spots and points before the eyes. ► Burning of the eyes and lachrymation, at night. ► Eyes gum together in morning, with burning in canthi after washing.

► Humming and roaring in right ear. ► Hard hearing, with discharge. ► Itching in both ears, not relieved by scratching, with discharge of fluid ear-wax. ► Stitches in the ears, also with boring or burning, mostly when walking in open air. ► Digging and tearing in right ear ; also at night, when lying thereon, a rooting and rolling, as if something would come out.

► Loss of smell, coryza. ► Sore internally and at the edge of the nostrils. ► Ulcerative pain in left nostril, with sensitiveness to touch. ► External swelling of left nostril, with discharge of bloody crusts. ► Bleeding from left nostril, preceded by itching. ► Constant itching in nose, with irritation to blow it, and sensation as of a large, rough body up in the nose, with obstruction. ► Coryza, with stoppage of nose, hoarseness and burning in larynx. ► Watery, acrid coryza, corroding the lip. ► Frequent sneezing.

► Very pale face. ► Burning heat of face, passes off in the open air. ► Tearing in bones of face, especially in malar and lower maxilla. ► Swelling of the check, with swelling of a gland under the angle of lower jaw, with beating, stitching pain.

► Lips burn like fire. ► Corners of mouth ulcerated. ► Dry, shrivelled, cracked lips, must moisten them with the tongue continually. ► Pimples, blisters, on upper lip.

► Pain in a decayed tooth, ceases when pressed upon with the finger. ► Stitching pain in upper incisors. ► Swelling of gums of lower left side, with stitches up to left temple.

► Blister on tip of tongue, with burning pain.

► Stitches in throat, during and between deglutition, also when yawning. ► External and internal swelling of throat, with pressing pain when swallowing, with drawing, stitching pain in the swollen submaxillary glands. ► Sore throat, with viscid phlegm, so tough that it cannot he hawked up. ► Dryness in throat.

► No appetite. ► Much thirst, especially evenings. ► After eating : beating in breast near oesophagus, with heat of face and restless mood ; sore spot behind soft palate relieved.

► Hiccough, with stitches in chest. ► Nausea, with water-brash, after eating, with shudderings. ► Regurgitation : of food ; of bitter, sour water.

► Empty or hungry feeling in stomach. ► Sensation as from fasting, yet fulness in stomach, worse after breakfast. ► Rooting and rolling in stomach, in morning, passes off after breakfast. ► Gnawing in stomach, as if worms were in it. ► Burning and stitching in scrobiculum, from thence drawing to the right axilla, and in the upper arm.

► Intermittent pains in both hypochondria. ► Stitching and burning in right hypochondrium, afternoons, when walking. ► Splenic stitches, while sitting.

► Bellyache, griping pains about the navel. ► Heaviness in lower abdomen, like from a load, with anxiety as if the abdomen would burst, ceases after sleep. ► Distention of the abdomen. ► Stitches in the abdomen, above the left hip. ► Pain from right side of pubes, to hip and small of back. ► Cutting and stitching from both ossa pubis to small of back, with urging to urinate, evenings.

► Stitching or tearing pain in perineum, when walking. ► Burning in the rectum during, and for hours after, stool. ► Green, slimy, diarrhoeic stools, in the morning. ► Diarrhoea, with soreness of anus, sore pustules near it. ► Diarrhoea after eating, with pain in abdomen, back, small of back and limbs ; much flatus. ► Hard, crumbling stools, require great effort to expel. ► Hemorrhoids, sore and smarting. ► Hemorrhoids after suppressed leucorrhoea.

► Frequent urging, with frequent urination. ► Urging, yet only a few drops pass, until next stool, when it flows freely. ► Profuse and frequent discharge during the night. ► Deep yellow urine, with light, cloudy sediment. ► Sediment like clay.

► Stitches and beating in left spermatic cord. ► Frequent erections.

► Menses too early, with pain in abdomen and small of back, continuing at night ; flow more profuse at night. θ Prolapsus uteri. ► Leucorrhoea : with tension of abdomen, without collection of wind ; like white of eggs, preceded by griping about the navel ; brown, slimy, unpainful, after every urination.

► Hoarseness, with burning in larynx, afternoon. ► Frequent hawking, with expectoration of small lumps of mucus, with sensation of rawness in throat, back of uvula.

► Shortness of breath. ► Heaviness of chest, when walking in the open air.

► Dry, from tickling in the throat, night or day ; dry in morning, with stitches in chest or left hypochondrium, becomes loose in afternoon ; loose at night with stitches in left hypochondrium, lying on back, worse when turning on side ; worse before eating or drinking cold things. ► Expectoration of blood, following an itching in throat.

► Pressure and stitches in the chest, as if a morsel of food had lodged there. ► Painful tension below the right breast. ► Bruised pain in lower right chest. ► Burning at small spots of the chest. ► Beating, like a pulse, at a small spot in the left chest, only when standing, morning.

► Tearing in region of heart, going from there into left forearm. ► Pulse accelerated.

► Burning, itching, red spots on left chest, pain under pressure.

► Stiff neck, with pain, from nape to between shoulders, when turning. ► Tearing pains in side of neck, alternating with tearing in the cheek. ► Pains in small of back, as if bruised or crushed, during rest or motion, also at night, in bed, could neither lie on back nor on side. ► Bruised and sprained pain between the scapulae. ► Stitches in the left scapulae. ► Pinching in muscles of the right scapula. ► Coldness in back and between the shoulders, not relieved by feather or wool covering, followed by itching. ► Severe pains in lumbo-sacral region.

► Swelling of the axillary glands. ► Rheumatic pain, first in right, then in left shoulder-joint. ► Tearing in left arm, like in the tendons, to the fingers ; ceases from strong motion. ► Drawing and tearing, from right elbow to fingers. ► Itching on inside of forearm, with eruption in bend of elbow. ► Right forearm heavy and as if "asleep". ► Tearing in left wrist, with swelling of hand. ► Stitches and painful beating under nail of left thumb. ► Skin peels off between thumb and forefinger of both hands.

► Languor and weakness in lower limbs. ► Pain in left hip, as it the tendons were too short, must limp when walking ; when sitting, gnawing pain in the bone. ► Tearing in thighs when sitting. ► Stitches in knee-joints, evening, when sitting. ► Hamstrings painful when walking, as it too short. ► Cramp like contraction in lower part of left leg. ► Violent tearing (and stitches), with ulcerative pain in heels ; at times relieved by rubbing ; occurs also at night in bed. ► Feet feel as if "asleep". ► Cold feet, evening, in bed. ► Itching in sole of right foot evening. ► Stitching in toes, coming slowly and going slowly.

► Tearing and painful jerks, now here, and again there, through all the limbs.

► Ebullitions with anxiety, weakness, as if paralyzed. ► Sudden prostration after dinner when walking open air. ► Great weakness, mornings.

► Constant yawning without sleepiness, mornings. ► Sleepiness early in evening, eyelids fall shut ; better after candle-light. ► Cannot fall asleep before midnight, on account of cold feet. ► Heat in head prevents sleep before midnight. ► Restless sleep and waking after midnight. ► Anxious, fearful dreams, starts out of sleep. ► Dreams : of falling into water ; of sickness ; lascivious. ► Wakes at 2 A.M. from violent cutting in abdomen. ► Wakes at night : from sneezing, with tickling in throat causing cough ; pain in small of back.

► Chill, with external coldness in the evening and from uncovering at night. ► Chill running up the back. ► Chill alternating every half hour with heat. ► Heat, with red puffed up face, particularly in warm room and after bodily exertion. ► Flushes of heat in frequent attacks, ending each time with sweat, which is most profuse in face, palms of hands and soles of feet. ► Sweat day and night ; following heat. ► Profuse night-sweet over the whole body, most copious after midnight, and early in morning, in bed.

► Stitching pain in toes, slowly coming and slowly going. ► Flushes of heat in attacks : 40.

► Blood seems in constant ebullition. ► Bruised pain in whole body, in the morning after arising.

► Itching on various parts of body, generally evenings, before going to bed, better afterward. ► Fine rash over the whole body. ► Rash-like measles. ► Small-pox more on trunk and upper limbs.

► Suitable to those who are fat and sluggish ; body fat, but legs thin.

► Similar to its relatives and to : Ant. crud. (mucus membranes) ; Aloe soc. (abdominal symptoms) ;

Arsen. (catarrhs) ; Arg. nitr. (mucus in throat) ;

Calc. ostr. (fat people ; coldness between scapulae ; profuse menses) ; Conium (night cough) ; Caustic.

(stiff joints, contractions of muscles ; burning hoarseness) ; Carb. veg. (hoarseness ; burning on chest, etc.) ; Coloc.

(in colic) ; Hepar ; Iodine ; Kali bichr.

(stringy mucus, etc.) Kali chlor. (catarrh) ; Kali hydr. (pimples on the back ; etc.) Mercur. ;

Merc. corr. ; Magn. mur. (especially bloody sputum ; crumbling stool ; atonic bladder) ; Natr. mur.

(catarrh) ; Nux Vom. ; Phosphor. ; Rhus tox.

(sprains ; joints worse sitting, etc.) ; Seneg. (fat people ; mucus secretions ; stitches in scapula with lung affections, etc.) ; Sepia (blisters about joints ; atonic bladder, etc.) ;

Silic. ; Sulphur. ► Aggravations from Amm. mur. are relieved by a hot bath. ► Antidoted by : bitter almonds ; Coffea ; Nux vom.