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AMMONIUM BROMATUM

  AMMONIUM BROMATUM   Bromide of Ammonia Indicated in chronic laryngeal and pharyngeal catarrh, neuralgic headaches, and obesity. Constrictive pain in head, chest, legs, etc. Irritable feeling under finger nails; relieved only by biting them. Head Cerebral congestion. Feeling of a band above ears. Sneezing; thick nasal discharge. Eyes Edges of lids red and swollen, also Meibomian glands. Eyeballs feel large and pain around eyes into head. Throat Smarting in mouth. Tickling in throat,  with inclination to dry, spasmodic cough, especially at night . Burning in fauces. White, sticky, mucus. Chronic speakers' catarrh. Respiratory Sudden, short cough, strangling. Tickling in trachea and bronchial tubes. Wakes at 3 am with cough. Feels suffocated; continuous cough, when lying down at night; sharp pain in lungs. Whooping Cough.--Dry, spasmodic cough on lying down. Relationship Hyos; Con; Arg nit; Kali bich . Dose First potency.

AMMONIUM BENZOICUM

  AMMONIUM BENZOICUM   Benzoate of Ammonia One of the remedies for albuminuria, especially in the gouty. Gout, with deposits in joints. Urinary incontinence in the aged. Head Heavy, stupid. Face Bloated, swollen eyelids. Swelling under tongue like ranula. Urine Smoky, scanty. Albuminous and thick deposits. Back Pain across sacrum, with urgency to stool. Soreness in region of right kidney. Relationship Compare:  Terebinth; Benz ac; Ammonia salts; Caust . In albuminuria compare:  Kalmia; Helon; Merc cor; Berb; Canth . Dose Second trituration.

AMMONIACUM GUMMI

  AMMONIACUM GUMMI   Gum Ammoniac (AMMONIACUM-DOREMA) A remedy for the aged and feeble, especially in chronic bronchitis. Ill humor. Sensitive to cold. Sensation of burning and scratching in neck and œsophagus. Head Catarrhal headache due to closure of frontal sinuses. Eyes Dim sight. Stars and fiery points float before eyes. Easily fatigued from reading. Throat Throat dry; worse inhaling fresh air. Full feeling, burning and scraping sensation. Immediately after eating, sensation as if something stuck in œsophagus, causing swallowing. Respiratory Difficult breathing . Chronic bronchial catarrh. Large accumulation of purulent matter and feeble expectoration; worse cold weather. Mucus tough and hard. Heart beats stronger, extends to pit of stomach. Coarse rattling of chest in old people. Relationship Antidotes:  Bry; Arnica . Compare:  Senega; Tart emet; Balsam Peru . Dose Third trituration.

AMBROSIA ARTEMISIAEFOLIA

  AMBROSIA ARTEMISIAEFOLIA   Rag-Weed (AMBROSIA) A remedy for hay-fever,  lachrymation  and  intolerable itching of the eye-lids . Some forms of whooping-cough. Respiratory tract in its entire length stopped up.  Many forms of diarrhœa , especially during summer months, also dysentery. Nose Watery coryza; sneezing; watery discharge.  Nosebleed . Stuffed up feeling of nose and head. Irritation of trachea and bronchial tubes, with asthmatic attacks ( Aral; Eucalypt ). Wheezy cough. Eyes Smart and burn. Lachrymation. Relationship Compare in hay-fever:  Sabadilla, Wyethia; Succin ac; Ars jod; Arundo . Dose Tincture, to third potency; 10 drops in water during and after attack of epistaxis. In hay-fever high potencies.

AMBRA GRISEA

  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 anæmic 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...

ALUMINA SILICATA

  ALUMINA SILICATA   Andalasite rock-Alumina 63, Silica 37 parts Deep acting remedy for chronic complaints of brain, spine and nerves. Constriction is a marked general symptom, also constriction of orifices. Venous distention. Weakness, especially spinal. Aching and burning in spine. Formication, numbness, pain in all limbs. Epileptiform convulsion. Coldness during pains. Head Congestion of brain. Constriction of scalp. Pain in head, better heat, perspires. Pain in eyes, flickering. Frequent coryzas. Swelling and ulceration of nose. Respiratory Catarrh of chest, pain, raw feeling. Feeling of great weakness in chest. Stitching pains. Spasmodic cough with purulent viscid expectoration. Extremities Heaviness, jerking, numbness, aching and pains. Skin Formication along course of nerves, veins feel full and distended. Sore to touch and pressure. Modalities Worse , cold air, after eating, standing.  Better , warmth, fasting, resting in bed. Dose Higher potencies. -Lower tr...

ALUMEN

  ALUMEN   Common Potash Alum The clinical application of this remedy points to its bowel symptoms, both in obstinate constipation and in hæmorrhage from bowels in the course of typhoid-one phase of the  paralytic weakness  of the muscles in all parts of the body.  Tendency to induration  is also marked, a low form of tissue-making is favored. Hardening of tissues of tongue, rectum, uterus, etc; ulcers with indurated base. Adapted to old people, especially bronchial catarrhs.  Sensation of dryness and constriction . Mental paresis; dysphagia especially to  liquids . Tendency to induration, Scirrhus of the tongue. Head Burning pain as of weight on top of lead better by pressure  of hand. Vertigo, with weakness in pit of stomach. Alopecia. Throat Throat relaxed. Mucous membrane red and swollen. Cough. Tickling in throat. Tendency to throat colds.  Enlarged and indurated tonsils . Burning pain down the œsophagus. Complete aphonia. Ever...