Ammonium causticum
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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General
Hydrate of Ammonia Ammonia Water This is a powerful cardiac stimulant. As such in syncope, thrombosis, hæmorrhage, snake-bites, chloroform narcosis, may be given by inhalation. The œdema and ulceration of mucous membranes produced by this powerful drug have been utilized as guiding symptoms for its use; hence in membranous croup with burning in œsophagus. Aphonia. See Causticum.
Respiratory
Difficult respiration. Accumulation of mucus with incessant coughing. Loss of voice. Burning rawness in throat. Spasm of the glottis with suffocation; patient gasps for breath. Pain in œsophagus on breathing deeply. Scraping and burning in throat and œsophagus. Uvula covered with white mucus. Nasal diphtheria, with burning excoriating discharge.
Extremities
Excessive exhaustion and muscular debility. Rheumatism of shoulders. Skin hot and dry.
Dose
First to third potency; also five to ten minims, well diluted with water.
What the other books say about Ammonium causticum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Ammonium causticum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Ammonium causticum — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/ammonium-causticum. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.