Ambra grisea
ambr-griAmbergis
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,
Ambra grisea — Materia Medica
Ambra grisea — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
Slight causes: Presence of others. Music. Embarrassment. Agitation. Worry. Thinking of it. Old age. Evening. Warmth. Milk. Dry, nervous, meager habit. Early senility. Weakness of upper part of body with trembling of lower parts. Worn out, yet overimpressionnable; slight things < the breathing, the heart, start the menses, etc. Symptoms suddenly change place; asleep, numb feeling (in spots), twitching, itching, trembling, ebullitions, etc. General pulsation. .................... Dreamy, flitting ideas or fixed disagreeable fancies. Slow grasp. Does not understand what she reads. Sad. Bashful. Vertigo; senile. Nosebleed, during menses. Coldness in abdomen. Confusion, in occiput; also sprained feeling in. Imaginations. Coldness of body with twitching. Asthma: dry; senile; < coition. Flatulence. Can't have others present when urinating (Nat-m.) or during stool; < during pregnancy. Itching labiæ. Spasmodic cough, then eructations. Bluish, white expectoration. As a lump in chest (l). Palpitation. Sweat on abdomen and thighs.
Ambra grisea — mind · James Tyler Kent
Now, when this man undertakes to meditate upon something his ideas are whisked away. It is a sort of confusion with vanishing of ideas. He has to make an unusual effort a few times to bring his thoughts back to the place before he can concentrate the mind to meditate upon some idea. But while concentration of the mind is difficult, he is compelled to sit and dwell upon the most disagreeable things that force themselves upon him and he cannot get rid of them. It is somewhat analogous to Natrum mur., but the peculiar feature of the Natr. mur. is that she delights to dwell upon past unpleasant occurrences and lies awake at night thinking about them. Ambra grisea is forced to dwell upon such things. Images, false faces, hideous imaginations, fancies and visions annoy him and keep him awake. In the semi-dreamy state he is kept holding up before his mind these grimaces. Such a state of mind may come on from business embarrassments with vertigo, congestion to the head and brain fag. One thing running through this remedy is that the presence of other persons aggravates the symptoms; also the marked aggravation from conversation. A woman, when attended by a nurse, is unable to have a stool without sending the nurse into another room. In spite of much straining she can do nothing unless alone. It is said in Natr. mur. that the patient cannot urinate in the presence of other persons. The urine will not start when anyone is around. That is a port of general feature of this remedy. Confusion of mind and embarrassment in the presence of other persons. Embarrassment in company.
Ambra grisea — general · James Tyler Kent
Premature old age: On looking over this remedy as a whole it will appear to you that you have been studying the characteristics of one prematurely old. You will often see symptoms coming on in one at fifty years of age that should appear at eighty, and after studying this remedy you will see that the same aspect is presented, a premature old age. We recognize trembling and a peculiar kind of feebleness that cannot be described by any expression but senility; it is not the confusion of mind belonging to sickness, but the peculiar state we recognize in old people, in declining life; trembling and tottering and a dreamy state of mind with forgetfulness. He goes on from one subject to another, asking a question, and, without waiting for it to be answered, asking another. And so he jumps about from one topic to another. It can hardly be said to be confusion, it is a dreamy state of mind, a state of senility. This remedy is useful when such a state is found in young persons, when the mind is not insane and yet it is weak.
Ambra grisea — modalities · James Tyler Kent
Many of the complaints come on in the morning and many come on after eating. "Vertigo with feeling of weight on vertex; worse after sleep," but especially in the morning. It is not mentioned in the text, but it is also worse after eating. "Had to lie down on account of vertigo and feeling of weakness in stomach." Running through the nervous symptoms we have music is intolerable; music makes him tremble, aggravates his mental symptoms and gives him pain in the back as from a hammer. A number of physical symptoms are brought out by listening to music. The tones seem as if they were a material substance taking hold of him. Complaints are often one-sided; perspiration on one side of the body or perspiration on the affected side. "On right side of head, a spot where hair when touched pains as if sore." The same sensation is in the skip, oversensitive to touch. "Scalp feels sore in the morning when awaking; this is followed by a sensation of numbness." The word numbness you will find running through the complaints. You will find a peculiar kind of numbness, such as belongs to old people. Diminished sensibility of the parts; feeble circulation.
Ambra grisea — head · James Tyler Kent
Ambra is one of the most frequently indicated medicines in simple, nondescript vertigo of old men. So dizzy that they cannot go out on the street; so dizzy upon getting up in the morning that they must wait a while until they can get a-round on their feet. It is the dizziness belonging to senility and to premature old age.
Ambra grisea — eyes · James Tyler Kent
Again, we find under the eye symptoms, "Dullness of vision as if from looking through a mist." There is dimness of vision coming on without any condition in the eye that would justify it. It is a nervous dimness of vision, a senile paralysis coming on. "Itching on eyelid as if a sty was forming." Itching is felt all over the body; itching in all the little openings. Among the symptoms that, are not in the text and that are decided symptoms belonging to this remedy are, "Pressing headache starting from both temples, drawing and tearing in the head, to and fro. Shooting through the head, lancinating, cutting pains, worse on exertion, better from quiet and lying. Headache when blowing nose. Pressing pain in the left frontal eminence and in the eye. Burning in the right eye and in the eye- lids. Tearing in short streaks in and upon the right eye, pressure on the left eye-brow, shooting, aggravated after eating; lachrymation." These are in the original provings, but not in the text; they have been left out. This is the case all through the Guiding Symptoms; important symptoms were left out because it was necessary to cut down the work.
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