Ammonium muriaticum
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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Mind
Melancholy, apprehensive; like from internal grief. Desire to cry, but cannot. Consequences of grief.
General
Sal Ammoniac A state of prostration bordering on a typhoid state is produced by this remedy. All mucous secretions are increased and retained. It is especially adapted to fat and sluggish patients who have respiratory troubles. Coughs associated with catarrhs and affections of liver. A tendency to irregular circulation, blood seems to be in constant turmoil, pulsations, etc. Many groups of symptoms are accompanied by cough, profuse glairy secretions. Its periods of aggravations are peculiarly divided as to the bodily region affected; thus the head and chest symptoms are worse mornings, the abdominal in the afternoon, the pains in the limbs, the skin and febrile symptoms, in the evenings. "Boiling" sensation.
Modalities
Better, open air. Worse, head and chest symptoms in the morning; abdominal symptoms in the afternoon.
Head
Hair falls out, with itchings and dandruff. Feels full, compressed; worse mornings.
Face
Inflammatory face-ache. Mouth and lips sore and excoriated.
Eyes
Mist before eyes, optical illusions in incipient cataract; capsular cataract.
Nose
Free acrid, hot watery discharge corroding the lip. Sneezing. Nose sore to touch; ulcerative pain in nostrils. Loss of smell. Obstructed, stuffy feeling; constant and unavailing efforts to blow it out. Itching.
Throat
Throbbing in, and swelling of tonsils, can scarcely swallow. Sore spot behind uvula, relieved by eating. Internal and external swelling of throat with viscid phlegm. So touch, it cannot be hawked up. Tonsillitis. Stricture of œsophagus.
Stomach
Thirst for lemonade, regurgitation of food, bitter waterbrash. Nausea. Gnawing in stomach. Epigastric pain immediately after eating. Cancer of stomach.
Abdomen
Splenic stitches, especially in the morning, with difficult breathing. Pain around navel. Abdominal symptoms appear during pregnancy. Chronic congestion of liver. Excessive fatty deposit around abdomen. Much flatus. Strained feeling in groin.
Rectum
Itching and hæmorrhoids, soreness with pustules. Hard, crumbly stool, or covered with glairy mucus. Stinging in perineum. Green mucus stools alternate with constipation. During and after stool, burning and smarting in rectum. Hæmorrhoids after suppressed leucorrhœa.
Female
Menses too early, too free, dark, clotted; flow more at night. Pain as if sprained in left side of abdomen during pregnancy. Diarrhœa, greenish mucous stools, and navel pain during menses. Leucorrhœa, like white of an egg (Alum; Bor; Calc p); with pain about the navel; brown, slimy after every urination.
Respiratory
Hoarseness and burning in larynx. Dry, hacking, scraping cough; worse lying on back or right side. Stitches in chest. Cough loose in afternoon, with profuse expectoration and rattling of mucus. Oppression of chest. Burning at small spots in chest. Scanty secretion. Cough with profuse salivation.
Back
Icy coldness between shoulders; not relieved by warm covering, followed by itching. Bruised pain in coccyx when sitting. Backache, as if in a vise when sitting.
Extremities
Pain as from ulceration in finger tips. Shooting and tearing in tips of finger and toes. Ulcerative pain in heels. Contraction of hamstring tendons. Sciatica, worse sitting, better lying. Neuralgic pain in amputated limbs. Offensive sweaty feet. Pain in feet during menses.
Skin
Itching, generally evenings. Blisters on various parts. Intense burning
better cold applications.
Fever
Chilliness evenings after lying down and on awakening, without thirst. Heat in palms and soles. Sub acute, low fevers due to unhealthy climate. Lowest potencies.
Relationships
Antidotes: Coffea; Nux; Caust. Compare: Calcarea; Senega; Caustic.
Dose
Third to sixth potency.
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 Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- 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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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Ammonium muriaticum — Mind. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/ammonium-muriaticum. 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.