====== AMMONIUM BROMATUM ====== {{anchor:s1}}Ammonium Bromidum. {{anchor:s2}}Bromide of Ammonium. {{anchor:s3}}NH4 Br. {{anchor:s4}}Proved by A. M. Cushing, 1870, after the very interesting report by J. Kitchen. {{anchor:s5}}See Record, 1870, p. 297. ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s7}}Feared he might die. {{anchor:s8}}See 17. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s10}}At times a feeling during day as of a band tied around head above ears, pressing hardest just above ears.\\ {{anchor:s11}}Pain in side of head near eye, as if a nail was driven into it.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Sharp pains in left side of head near eye.\\ {{anchor:s13}}Headache from congestion to brain. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s15}}In evening, eyes feel very large, with constant blue before them.\\ {{anchor:s16}}Right eye feels large and smarts; has to wear a shade evenings to read or write; full of stringy mucus; as if bathed in hot water.\\ {{anchor:s17}}Eyes feel sore as if sand was in them.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Pterygium.\\ {{anchor:s19}}In morning eyes red and sore, with white mucus in corners, agg. left eye. {{anchor:s20}}~ Ophthalmia scrofulosa.\\ {{anchor:s21}}Lids swollen.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Every evening eyelids droop; difficult and painful to raise.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Lids stick together.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Scrofulous ophthalmia.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Pains around eyes and into head.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Sharp pain near eye in left side of head. ====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ====== {{anchor:s28}}Sneezing relieves stinging in throat.\\ {{anchor:s29}}Nose stopped up; then clear discharge.\\ {{anchor:s30}}Occasional discharge of watery fluid from left nostril. ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== {{anchor:s32}}Tongue smarts severely as if just burned; morning. ====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ====== {{anchor:s34}}Must hold mouth open when walking, on account of heat in throat and lungs.\\ {{anchor:s35}}Mouth feels as if burned, in morning.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Stringy, tasteless mucus in mouth.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Tasting of food eaten several hours before. ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== {{anchor:s39}}Throat during day filled with white, sticky mucus, streaked with blood.\\ {{anchor:s40}}Throat sore, looks mottled, as if a diphtheritic deposit were commencing.\\ {{anchor:s41}}Irritation of throat, mostly on sides, with inclination to cough; evening.\\ {{anchor:s42}}Fauces dark red; congested.\\ {{anchor:s43}}Preparing to swallow is painful, the act is not.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Sensation of hot air passing up throat, right side, though stomach feels cold.\\ {{anchor:s45}}Fauces and tongue feel scalded.\\ {{anchor:s46}}Stinging in fauces with inclination to cough, amel. by sneezing.\\ {{anchor:s47}}Stringy, sometimes blood-streaked mucus in throat. ====== EATING AND DRINKING. [15] ====== {{anchor:s49}}Food does not digest. ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== {{anchor:s51}}Belching relieves faint stomach.\\ {{anchor:s52}}Something seems to rise from pit of stomach, almost stopping breath, causing a faint and very disagreeable sensation, partially amel. by raising wind. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s54}}Swallowing anything causes distress the length of esophagus and into stomach.\\ {{anchor:s55}}During afternoon and evening, sensation of fainting or suffocation, beginning at epigastrium and rising on both sides of sternum to throat, causing him to sigh and walk around room; feared he might die.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Sharp cutting pain in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s57}}Terrible distress in upper part of epigastrium; could not sit still had to walk the room; much belching; pain through to back and to both hypochondria; caused sweat; could scarcely get his breath. ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s59}}Sharp, twisting pain just above crest of right ilium. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s61}}Sudden urgent desire, with loose stool.\\ {{anchor:s62}}An old hemorrhoidal tumor returned quite hard, sore and small, but soon left. ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s64}}Feeling over right kidney as if something were pressed hard against it; relieved by pressure, but leaving a pulling sensation. ====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ====== {{anchor:s66}}Dull constant pain and hard swelling in left ovary.\\ {{anchor:s67}}Ovarian neuralgia.\\ {{anchor:s68}}Uterine hemorrhage from ovarian irritation or inflammation. ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== {{anchor:s71}}Trachea and Bronchia. {{anchor:s72}}Tickling in throat causing cough, in evening.\\ {{anchor:s73}}When walking, must hold mouth open on account of heat in throat and lungs. ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== {{anchor:s75}}Inclination to draw a long breath.\\ {{anchor:s76}}Sense of suffocation from lung, she must move about from fear of suffocation. ====== COUGH. [27] ====== {{anchor:s78}}Cough dry, spasmodic and very severe, at times an interval of only a few minutes.\\ {{anchor:s79}}An almost continuous cough for hours, especially when lying down at night; sensation of tickling irritation, with heat and burning.\\ {{anchor:s80}}Sudden short cough when rising from bed in morning, from sensation of mucus in throat.\\ {{anchor:s81}}Sudden cough from tickling in throat just below tonsils.\\ {{anchor:s82}}Sudden desire to cough coming so suddenly it strangles one. {{anchor:s83}}~ Pertussis.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Expectoration of white sticky mucus; sharp pain in both lungs, and during forenoon, pain seems to be mostly in pleura. ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== {{anchor:s86}}Pain under middle of left clavicle.\\ {{anchor:s87}}Frequent constrictive pain across chest.\\ {{anchor:s88}}Sharp pain in lungs, agg. upper part of right.\\ {{anchor:s89}}Lungs feel cold inside.\\ {{anchor:s90}}Sharp pain in both lungs, and during forenoon pain seems to be mostly in pleura. ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== {{anchor:s92}}Feeling over right kidney as if something pressed hard against it; amel. by pressure, but leaving a pulling sensation. ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s94}}Sensation in right shoulder as if pressed by a weight. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s96}}Legs ache.\\ {{anchor:s97}}Like a cord around right leg, midway between hips and knee, causing limping and pain all forenoon; in afternoon pain went to left leg below knee; in evening in ankle, then in foot, soon passing off, and inclination to cough returning.\\ {{anchor:s98}}Feet cold in warm room, causing legs to ache. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s102}}Could not sit still, had to walk floor with distress in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s103}}When walking: must hold mouth open on account of heat in throat and lungs.\\ {{anchor:s104}}Must move about from fear of suffocation.\\ {{anchor:s105}}When rising from bed in morning sudden short cough. ====== NERVES. [36] ====== {{anchor:s107}}(OBS:) Epilepsy.\\ {{anchor:s108}}Decrease of irritability, followed by tetanic convulsions; later all excitability gone, the frog lies in whatever position it is placed, the spasms become more violent, and death ensues from asphyxia.\\ {{anchor:s109}}Weakness and uncertain movements in a rabbit (after non-fatal doses). ====== TIME. [38] ====== {{anchor:s111}}Morning: eyes red and sore; tongue dry; tongue smarts; mouth dry; mouth as if burnt and full of mucus, also throat; tickling in throat; short cough on rising.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Forenoon: pain in pleura; as if cord was tied around leg.\\ {{anchor:s113}}Afternoon: stomach easier.\\ {{anchor:s114}}Afternoon and evening: fainty; cough deeper.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Evening: eyes feel large, smart, lids droop; tickling in throat, hacking cough, feet cold. ====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ====== {{anchor:s117}}Swallowing anything cold causes distress along esophagus.\\ {{anchor:s118}}Feels the cold more than usual.\\ {{anchor:s119}}Must warm the feet while in a warm room. ====== FEVER. [40] ====== {{anchor:s121}}Troubled with the cold more than any other time during winter; must warm feet even in warm room.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Inclined to be chilly and flashes of heat.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Flashes of heat over body as if sweat would come on. ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== {{anchor:s125}}Coughing spells with but a few moments interval. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s127}}Right: eye feels large and smarts; full of stringy mucus, as if bathed in hot water; as if hot air passed up throat; pain above crest of ileum; pain over kidney; sharp pain in upper lung; pressure as from a weight in shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Left: eye sore and red; watery discharge from nostril; pain under middle of clavicle; dull pain in ovary. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s130}}Feeling of a band tied around head above ears; like a cord around right leg; as if a nail was driven into side of head; eyes feel large in evening; as of sand in eyes; eyes as if bathed in hot water: tongue as if burned; as of hot air passing up throat; as of something rising from stomach causing suffocation; sense of fainting, beginning at epigastrium; terrible distress in epigastrium; sense of suffocation from lung; as if pressed by a weight in right shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Pain: around eyes and in head; from epigastrium to back and into hypochondria; in left leg below knee; in ankle, then in foot.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Sharp pain: in left head near eye; in lungs and pleura.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Sharp cutting: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Stinging: in fauces; in throat.\\ {{anchor:s135}}Sharp twisting pains: above crest of right ileum.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Smarting: in right eye; on tongue.\\ {{anchor:s137}}Scalded feeling: in fauces and tongue.\\ {{anchor:s138}}Constrictive pain: across chest.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Pulling sensation: over right kidney.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Pressure: over right kidney; in right shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Aching: in legs.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Dull pain: in left ovary.\\ {{anchor:s143}}Distress: in esophagus and scrobiculum.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Tickling: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Heat: in throat and lungs; in flushes over body.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Cold feeling: in lungs; in stomach. ====== TISSUES. [44] ====== {{anchor:s148}}Obesity. ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== {{anchor:s152}}Pressure amel. pain over right kidney. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s154}}Antidoted spasms caused by a low dose of Hyosc.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Similar to its relatives: Amm. carb., Amm. mur., Amm. caust., Amm. phosph., and to Kali brom., Kali bichr. (stringy mucus); Cinnab. (scrof. ophthal, pains around orbit); Natr. ars. (throat); Kali permang. (throat); Zincum, Ratan., and Arg. nitr. (pterygium); Calc. ostr. (scrof. ophthal.); Kali brom.; Silic. (aura begins in epigas.); Nux vom. (aura from stomach); Art. vulg. (must walk about); Caustic.; Sulphur; Bufo; bromide of camphor. ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 01, 1879 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r562|Ammonium bromatum]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r562|Ammonium bromatum]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C. | ^ Year: | 1879 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}