Ambra grisea
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
Ambergis
This is one author on one remedy. A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative. Read Ambra grisea in every book at once →
Keynotes
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.
Region
NERVES: Pneumogastric. Solar plexus. Spinal. Mind. Female organs. One side. Chest, left.
Relationships
Related: Bar-c. Ign.
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 Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- 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.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Ambra grisea — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/ambra-grisea. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.