Ambra grisea
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
Ambergis
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Keynotes
Ambra grisea
Ambergris, A Nosode.
For children, especially young girls who are excitable, nervous and weak; nervous affections of old people, nerves ‘‘worn out.”
Lean, thin, emaciated persons who take cold easily.
Great sadness, sits for days weeping.
After business embarrassments, unable to sleep, must get up (Act, Sep.).
Ranula with fetid breath (Thuja).
Sensation of coldness in abdomen (Cal.).
The presence of others, even the nurse, is unbearable during stool ; frequent, ineffectual desire, which makes her anxious.
Discharge of blood between periods, at every little accident — a long walk, after every hard stool, etc.
Leucorrhoea; thicks bluish-white mucus, especially or only at night (Caust., Men, Nit. ac.).
Violent cough in spasmodic paroxysms, with eructations and hoarseness ; worse talking or reading aloud (Bros., Phos.) ; evening without, morning with expectoration (Hyos.) ; whooping-cough, but without crowing inspiration.
Relations.— Similar : to. Act., Asaf., Coca, Ign., Mosch., Phos., Val.
Aggravation. — Warm drinks, warm room; music; lying down; reading or talking aloud; the presence of many people; after waking.
Amelioration. — After eating; cold air; cold food and drinks; rising from bed.
What the other books say about Ambra grisea
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Ambra grisea in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Ambra grisea in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Ambra grisea in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Ambra grisea in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Ambra grisea — Keynotes, pp. 26–27. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/ambra-grisea. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.