Ambra Grisea

► Memory impaired. ► Comprehension slow, has to read everything three or four times, and then does not understand it. ► Is not able to reflect upon anything properly ; feels stupid. ► Confusion of the head. ► Difficult thinking in the morning. θ Old people. ► Distorted images, grimaces, diabolical faces crowd upon his fancy. ► She is excited, loquacious ; talking fatigues her ; was unable to sleep at night. ► Melancholy ; great sadness ; despair ; melancholy following excessive mental excitation. ► Fears of becoming crazy. ► Anguish and sweat all over, at night.

► Had to lie down on account of vertigo and feeling of weakness in the stomach. ► Music causes the blood to rush to the head.

► Pressure in forehead, with fear of becoming crazy. ► Tearing : in forehead ; in left temple up to the vertex ; in right frontal eminence and behind the left ear. ► 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. ► Dulness in the occiput. ► Tearing pains predominate in the head.

► Falling off of the hair. ► On the right side of the head, there is a spot, where the hair when touched pains, as if sore.

► Dulness of vision, like looking through a mist. ► Pressure and smarting in eyes as from dust ; lachrymation. ► Pressure on eyes, which are difficult to open, and pain in them as if they had been closed too firmly, particularly in the morning. ► Itching on the eyelid as if a stye were forming.

► Roaring and whistling in the ears, in the afternoon. ► Crackling in left ear (like the sound made when winding a watch). ► Hearing decreases ; with cold sensation of abdomen. ► Violent tearing pain in and behind right auricle. ► Tearing in the right ear. ► Crawling ; itching and tickling in the ears. ► Music aggravates cough. ► Listening to music brings on congestion to head.

► Nosebleed, particularly in the morning. ► Dried blood collects in the nose. ► Nose stuffed up, paining as if sore, internally. ► Long continued dryness of nose, frequent irritation, as from sneezing.

► Flushes of heat in the face. ► Tearing in upper part of face, particularly near right ala nasi. ► Pimples, and itching in the whiskers. ► Painful swelling of cheek on upper jaw, with throbbing in gums. ► Jaundiced color of face.

► Lips hot. ► Lips numb and dry in the morning on awaking.

► 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 ; at the same time the inner portion of the gums was swollen. ► Bleeding of the gums.

► Bitter taste in mouth in morning on awaking. ► Sore taste after drinking milk. ► Folds pain as if sore under the tongue, like small growths. ► Ranula.

► Fetor of the mouth, worse mornings. θ Pertussis. ► Blisters in the mouth, pain as if burnt. ► Smarting and cracked painful condition of the mouth.

► Tearing pain in palate, extending into left ear. ► Dryness of the throat in the morning. ► Sore feeling in the throat during empty deglutition, and from outward pressure, not when swallowing food, with tension of the glands of the throat as if swollen. ► Sore throat after exposure to a draught of air ; stitching from the throat into the right ear, and pains particularly from motion of the tongue.

► Thirstlessness.

► Aggravation from warm drinks, especially from warm milk. Better after eating : 40.

► Eructations either empty, sour or bitter. ► Heartburn : with abortive eructations ; when walking in the open air ; from drinking milk. ► Every evening, sensation as of spoiled stomach and acrid risings up to the larynx. ► Nausea after breakfast.

► Pressure and burning under the scrobiculum ; belching removes it. ► Pressure in the stomach and hypochondria. ► Tension and pressure, or stitches and pressure in the stomach.

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

► Distended abdomen ; accumulation of much flatus, which subsides without being passed. ► Sensation of coldness in the abdomen. ► Coldness of one side of the abdomen. ► Colic, sometimes followed by diarrhoea.

► First copious, soft, light brown stools, after few days, constipation. ► Stool not hard, though large. ► Frequent ineffectual desire for stool, this makes her very anxious, at this time the presence of other persons becomes unbearable. ► Large flow of blood with the stool. ► Itching in the anus ; stitches.

► Frequent micturition at night. ► Urine when emitted is clouded, yellowish-brown, and deposits a brownish sediment, after which urine looks clear and yellow. ► Sour-smelling urine. θ Whooping-cough. ► Urinates three times as much as the drink taken, especially in morning ; followed by a dull pain in region of kidneys. ► Sensation as if a few drops passed through the urethra.

► Internal, strong, voluptuous sensation in the genital organs ; nocturnal pollutions. ► Itching pimple over the male genitals.

► Stitches in ovarian region, when drawing in the abdomen or pressing upon it. ► Discharge of blood between periods, at every little accident, as after every hard stool or after a walk a little longer than usual. ► During the menses, the left leg becomes quite blue from distended varices, with pressive pain in the leg. ► Thick, mucous leucorrhoea, increased from day to day, or leucorrhoea, at night, of bluish-white mucus ; preceding each discharge, a stitch in the vagina. ► Lying down aggravates the uterine symptoms. ► Severe itching on the pudenda, must rub the parts. ► Soreness and itching, with swelling of the labia.

► Tickling in the throat exciting cough. ► Hoarseness and roughness of the voice, with accumulation of thick, tough mucus, easily thrown of by coughing. ► Itching, scraping and soreness in the larynx and trachea. ► Reading aloud or talking aggravates the cough.

► Tightness of the chest, cannot take a deep breath or yawn fully. ► Oppression felt in the chest and between the scapulae. ► Feeling of pressure in chest, worse during exhalation. ► Asthma of old people and of children.

► Paroxysms of cough coming from deep in the chest, excited by violent tickling in the throat, evening without morning with expectoration generally of greyish-white, seldom of yellow mucus, of salty or sour taste, and often in large quantities. ► Violent spasmodic cough, with frequent eructations and hoarseness. ► Lifting a heavy weight aggravates the cough.

► Sensation of pressure deep in right chest ; also in left chest or in upper part of chest. ► Sensation of rawness in the chest. ► Itching in the chest and thyroid gland.

► Anxiety at the heart, causing oppression of breathing, with flushes of heat. ► Palpitation when walking in open air, with paleness of face. ► Violent palpitation with pressure in chest, as if a lump lain there, or as if chest was stuffed up. ► Pulse accelerated with ebullitions.

► Burning on the chest.

► Pressive drawing pain in nape of neck. ► Tearing in the left, or in both shoulders. ► Rheumatic pains in the right side of the back. ► Painful tension in the lumbar muscles.

► Tearing in the left shoulder-joint. ► Drawing, and as if sprained and lame in the shoulder. ► Arms "go to sleep" during day, when at rest, as well as during night ; numbness of left arm ; tingling in thumb. ► Tearing pains in the shoulder, elbow, forearm and hand. ► Weakness of the fingers at night. ► Long-lasting icy-coldness of the hands. ► Stinging in the hands and fingers, like from insects. ► Drawing in the fingers and thumb. ► Itching in the palms of hands. ► Cramp in hands sometimes when taking hold of any thing. ► Tips of the fingers are shrivelled. ► Tearing, lancinating or itching, in tips of fingers and thumbs.

► Tearing pain, first in left, then in right hip-joint. ► Sensation of contraction in (right) thigh, the limb seems to be shortened. ► Tearing in nates, hip, knee, leg, ankle and foot. ► Heaviness of the legs. ► Sensation as if "gone to sleep" in both legs ; has no firm step. ► Cramp in the legs and in the calves nearly every night. ► Cold feet. ► Gouty pain in ball of great toes. ► Itching on inner border of sole of the right foot, not relieved by scratching.

► Tearing or rheumatic pains, in parts of all the limbs. ► Uncommon twitching in all the limbs and coldness of the body, at night. ► Uneasiness like a crawling, with anxiety, only by day. ► Weariness, with painful soreness of all the limbs.

► Spasms and twitches in the muscular parts ; after in nervous affections. ► Arms and limbs "go to sleep" easily. ► Great lassitude. ► Hemiplegia, left side. ► 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 the she must lie down.

► Cannot sleep at night, yet knows not why. ► Restless sleep, with anxious dreams. ► Vexatious, anxious dreams and talking in sleep.

► Chill in the forenoon, with lassitude and sleepiness, relieved by eating. ► Chill of single parts of the body, with heat of the face. ► Anxious flushes of heat returning every quarter hour, most violent towards evening. ► Profuse sweat at night worse after midnight and most on the affected side. ► Profuse sweat, particularly on the abdomen and thighs, during exercise.

► Cough in spasmodic paroxysms.

► Tearing in muscles and joints, often on one side. ► Softening of the brain. ► Emaciation.

► Burning in the skin. ► The tips of fingers become wrinkled. ► Soreness of a wart on the finger. ► Itch-eruption is reproduced by it (Ambra). ► Numbness of the skin. ► Burning herpes.

► In old age. θ Asthma. θ Colds. ► The so called bilious or nervous-bilious temperament.

► Similar to Arsen. (cardiac asthma) ; Act. rac. (night cough) ;

Castor ; Asaf. (women who are nervous and fail to re-act) ; Coca (embarrassed, bashful) ;

Coffea ; Cinchon. ; Ignat. ► Kali brom. (increase of reflex action) ;

Moschus (hysteric asthma) ; Nux vom. (both suit nervous, thin, bilious persons) ; Opium ;

Phosphor. (asthma ; nervous excitability ; "irritable weakness" ; slender build, etc.) ; Phosph. ac. ;

Pulsat. ; Sepia ; Staphis. ; Sulphur ;

Sulph. ac. (cough and belching). Valer. (nervousness, hysteria ; lack of reaction in nervous weakness) ;

Laches. and Sepia (worse from overlifting) ; Laches., Ver. alb. (cough with belching ; coldness, etc.). ► Antidotes to Ambra : Camphor, Coffea, Nux vom., Pulsat., Staphis. ► Ambra antidotes : Staphis. (especially the voluptuous itching of scrotum) ;

Nux vom.