Ammonium muriaticum
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
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Keynotes
Ammonium muriaticum
Sal Ammoniac. NH4CI.
Especially adapted to those who are fat and sluggish ; or body large and fat, but legs too thin.
Watery, acrid coryza, corroding the lip (All. c.).
During menses : diarrhoea and vomiting; bloody discharge from the bowels (Phos. ) ; neuralgic pains in the feet; flow more profuse at night (Bov. — on lying down, Kreos.).
Obstinate constipation accompanied by much flatus.
Hard, crumbling stools require great effort in expulsion; crumble from the verge of anus (Mag. m.) ; vary in color, no two stools alike (Puls.).
Haemorrhoids : sore and smarting ; with burning and stinging in the rectum for hours after stool (^sc., Sulph.) ; especially after suppressed leucorrhoea.
Leucorrhoea; like white of egg, preceded by griping pain about the navel ; brown, slimy, painless, after every urination.
Sensation of coldness in the back, between scapulae (Lachn.).
Hamstrings feel painfully short when walking; tension in joints as from shortening of the muscles (Caust., Cimex).
Offensive sweat of the feet (Alum., Graph., Psor., Sanic., Sil.).
Relation. — Followed: by. Ant. c., Phos., Puls., Sanic.
What the other books say about Ammonium muriaticum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Ammonium muriaticum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Ammonium muriaticum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Ammonium muriaticum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Ammonium muriaticum 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. Ammonium muriaticum — Keynotes, p. 29. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/ammonium-muriaticum. 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.