Ammonium muriaticum
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
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Keynotes
Fat and puffy with thin limbs (Ant-c.). Irregular circulation; ebullitions, burnings or localized throbbings. Symptoms accompanied by cough or PROFUSE SECRETIONS. GLAIRY CATARRHS. Hæmorrhage. Tightness, as if too short; tendons, hamstrings, lumbar region, etc. Tired and sore. Festering pain. .................... Brain paralysis. A rough body obstructs upper nares. Acrid, watery coryza; closing one nostril. Anosmia. Slimy mouth and pharynx. Pulsation in tonsils. Tense, sprained feeling in groins; must walk bent. Scanty, hard, crumbling stools; changing color. Polyuria. Menses flow more at night. Albuminous leucorrhœa. Blood from anus or diarrhœa during menses. Prolapsus uteri. Cough, with salivation (Am-c.) or liver symptoms. Can't breathe for coughing. Noisy, rattling, tenacious mucus in chest. Bronchitis. Hoarseness, with burning in larynx. Pulsating, burning spots in chest. Swelled cervical glands. Sore sprain or cold between scapulæ. Lumbago. Bleeding eruptions. Desquamation between fingers. Contracting sciatica (l); < sitting > lying. Pain in or ulcer on heel. Chilly as often as he wakes. Senses of heat; > open air; alternating with chill.
Worse
Morning (head, chest). Afternoon (abdomen). Evening (skin, fever, limbs). Sprains (chronic). Periodically.
Better
Open air. Rapid motion.
Region
MUCOUS MEMBRANES: CHEST. Gall-ducts. Liver. Blood. Female organs. Tips of fingers and toes. Between scapulæ.
Relationships
Related: Caus.
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 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.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Ammonium muriaticum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/ammonium-muriaticum. 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.