Ambra Grisea ambr.

NERVES: Pneumogastric. Solar plexus. Spinal. Mind. Female organs. One side. Chest, left.

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.

Related: Bar-c. Ign.

For children, especially young girls who are excitable, nervous and weak; nervous affections of old people, nerves "worn out.". Lean, thin, emaciated persons who take cold easily. Great sadness, sits for days, weeping. After business embarrassments, unable to sleep, must get up (Act., Sep.). Ranula with fetid breath (Thuja). Sensation of coldness in abdomen (Cal.). The presence of others, even the nurse, is unbearable during stool; frequent, ineffectual desire, which makes her anxious. Discharge of blood between periods, at every little accident - a long walk, after very hard stool, etc. Leucorrhoea; thick, bluish-white mucus, especially or only at night (Caust., Mer., Nit. ac.). Violent cough in spasmodic paroxysyms, with eructations and hoarseness; worse talking or reading aloud (Dros., Phos.); evening without, morning with expectoration (Hyos.); whooping cough, but without crowing inspiration.

Similar: to, Act., Asaf., Coca, Ign., Mosch., Phos., Val.

Warm drinks, warm room; music; lying down; reading or talking aloud; the presence of many people; after waking.

After eating; cold air; cold food and drinks; rising form bed.

Lean, delicate, sickly-looking persons remind us of this remedy. Also one-sided complaints.

Memory impaired. Slow of comprehension, has to read a sentence over and over again, and then does not understand; thinking powers are quite impaired. The mind runs upon unpleasant fancies, diabolical faces and sights; melancholy.

Vertigo, with weakness in head and stomach, must lie down. Falling off of the hair. Much tearing pain in the whole upper half on the brain.

Increasing deafness; deaf in one ear, roaring and whistling in the ear.

Copious nosebleeding early every morning.

Flushes in the face. Jaundice-colored.

Drawing toothache, sometimes on one side and then on the other. Fetid odor from the mouth. Ranula.

Grayish phlegm in the throat, which is difficult to hawk up. Sensation of soreness and rawness in the throat. Asthma in lean and delicate old people.

Frequent empty or sour eructations. Every evening, stomach seems disordered: regurgitation of an acrid substance, as high as the larynx, like heartburn. After eating, cough and gasping, and a feeling as if food did not go down into the stomach. Eructations and cough, so as almost to cause choking. Heartburn from drinking milk.

Sensation of coldness in the abdomen. Aching in a small place in the region of the liver, rather better from pressure or lying on the part:

Frequent urging, but no stool, with much anxiety; meanwhile the near presence of any one, even if in the next room, is intolerable. Constipation. Large flow of blood with the stool. Hæmorrhoids.

The urine is turbid, even whilst being emitted; brown sediment; sour-smelling urine: burning, smarting, itching, titillations in the urethra and vulva while urinating.

Male: Voluptuous itching in scrotum. Soreness between the thighs. Female: Swelling, soreness, and itching of the labia and the surrounding parts. Too early and too profuse menses. Discharge of blood at every little accident or unusual physical exertion. Stitches in the ovaries on drawing in or pressing upon the abdomen.

Cough only at night, or every evening with pain under left ribs. Violent convulsive cough, accompanied by frequent eructations, and hoarseness. Very saltish expectorations when coughing. Violent cough from titillation in the larynx, throat or trachea. Cough worse from talking or reading aloud. Spasmodic cough, and asthma of elderly or effeminate persons. Choking and vomiting whilst hawking up phlegm. Pain in the lower part of the right chest, relieved by lying upon it. Violent palpitation, with pressure in chest, as if a lump lay there. Sense of rawness in the chest. Wheezing in the chest. Tearing pressure in left side of the chest.

Upper: Tearing in left shoulder-joint. The arms go to sleep when lying upon them, and often at other times and under various circumstances. Apt to drop what one is carrying. Finger-nails brittle in old people. Lower: Cramps in the calves almost nightly. Itching of the inside of the soles of the feet. Nervousness of the legs. Tearing pain in the left leg.

Infantile or other spasms. Twitchings in the muscles. Arms and legs "go to sleep" easily. Weakness and lassitude of the whole body, in the morning in bed, in knees as if they would give way, of the feet, with loss of sensation in the stomach, must go and lie down.

Cannot sleep, must get up. Worriment from business embarrassments. Uneasy sleep with anxious dreams.

When waking up; in evening; lying in bed.

When rising from bed.

Lycop., Pulsat., Sepia, Sulphur.

Nux vom., Pulsat.

Ambergis-A Morbid Secretion of the Whale

Suitable to excitable, nervous children and thin, nervous patients. Extreme nervous hypersensitiveness. External numbness of whole body in the morning and weakness. Nervous bilious temperament. Thin, scrawny women. Adapted to hysterical subjects, or those suffering from spinal irritation, with convulsive cough, eructation, etc. Also for patients weakened by age or overwork, who are anæmic and sleepless. Great remedy for the aged, with impairment of all functions, weakness, coldness and numbness, usually of single parts, fingers, arms, etc. One-sided complaints call for it. Music aggravates symptoms. Ebullitions and pulsations after walking in open air. One-sided complaints.

Dread of people, and desire to be alone. Cannot do anything in presence of others. Intensely shy, blushes easily. Music causes weeping. Despair, loathing of life. Fantastic illusions. Bashful. Loss of love of life. Restless, excited, very loquacious. Time passes slowly. Thinking, difficult in the morning with old people. Dwells upon unpleasant things.

Slow comprehension. Vertigo, with weakness in head and stomach. Pressure on front part of head with mental depression. Tearing pain in upper half of brain. Senile dizziness. Rush of blood to head, when listening to music. Hearing impaired. Epistaxis, especially in the morning. Profuse bleeding from teeth. Hair falls out.

Eructations, with violent, convulsive cough. Acid eructations, like heartburn. Distention of stomach and abdomen after midnight. Sensation of coldness in abdomen.

Pain in bladder and rectum at the same time. Burning in orifice of urethra and anus. Feeling in urethra as if a few drops passed out. Burning and itching in urethra while urinating. Urine turbid, even during emission forming a brown sediment.

Nymphomania, Itching of pudendum, with soreness and swelling. Menses too early. Profuse, bluish leucorrhœa. Worse at night. Discharge of blood between periods, at every little accident.

Voluptuous itching of scrotum. Parts externally numb; burn internally. Violent erections without voluptuous sensations.

Asthmatic breathing with eructation of gas. Nervous, spasmodic cough, with hoarseness and eructation, on waking in morning; worse in presence of people. Tickling in throat, larynx and trachea, chest oppressed, gets out of breath when coughing. Hollow, spasmodic, barking cough, coming from deep in chest. Choking when hawking up phlegm.

Palpitation, with pressure in chest as from a lump lodged there, or as if chest was obstructed. Conscious of the pulse. Palpitation in open air with pale face.

Cannot sleep from worry; must get up. Anxious dreams. Coldness of body and twitching of limbs, during sleep.

Itching and soreness, especially around genitals. Numbness of skin. Arms "go to sleep".

Cramps in hands and fingers, worse grasping anything. Cramps in legs.

Worse, music; presence of strangers; from any unusual thing; morning, warm room. Better, slow motion in open air; lying on painful part; cold drinks.

Do not confound with Amber-Succinum q v. Moschus frequently follows advantageously. Compare: Oleum succinum (hiccough). Sumbul; Castor; Asaf; Crocus; Lilium.

Second and third potencies; may be repeated with advantage.

Great restlessness. Hastiness and nervous excitement when talking. The fancy is crowded with fantastic illusions. Aversion to talking and laughing. Embarrassed manner in society. Despair, loathing of life.

Vertigo when walking in the open air, with weakness in the stomach. Congestion of blood to the head, when listening to music. Dartings in the head. Pressing pain in the forehead and vertex, with heat in the head, with pale face on alternate days, with fear of losing his senses. The hair is sensitive to the touch, it falls out. The scalp feels sore in the morning when waking : this is followed by a sensation of numbness, extending over the whole body.

Flushes of heat to the face. Yellow color of the face. Spasmodic trembling and twitches of the facial muscles. Cramp of the lower lip.

Offensive smell from the mouth, (in the morning).

Entire thirstlessness.

Sour eructations. Heartburn from drinking milk.

Sensation of coldness in the abdomen, (on one side only). Pressure in the liver. Pain in the spleen, as if something were torn off.

Itching, smarting, and stinging at the anus.

Frequent micturition during the night, and in the morning after rising. Increased secretion of urine, much more than the amount of fluid drank. Urine, when passing, in turbid, brown, smelling sour.

Men. Violent erections in the morning without sexual desire, with numbness in the parts. Women. Violent itching, with swelling of the external parts. Menses too early, and too profuse.

Hoarseness and roughness of the voice, with accumulation of thick, tough mucus, easily thrown off by coughing. Itching, scraping, and soreness in the larynx and trachea. Cough, with frequent eructations. Spasmodic cough from tickling in the throat, with expectoration of yellowish, or grayish-white mucus, tasting salt or sour, in the morning ; without expectoration in the evening.

Itching in the chest, and in the thyroid gland. Oppression felt in the chest, and between the scapulæ. Asthma of old people, and of children.

The arms go to sleep easily, especially when lying on them, or when carrying something in the hands. Points of the fingers are shrivelled. Cramps in the hands sometimes, only when taking hold of any thing. Itching in the palms of the hands.

Cramps in the calves at night. Sensation of contraction in the (right) thigh, the limb seems to he shortened.

Numbness of the whole body (externally) in the morning. Weakness in the morning, and at night, when awaking. Spasms and twitches in the muscular parts. Ebullitions and pulsations in the whole body, especially after walking in the open air. Tearing in the muscles of the joints, often on one side, (from the small of the back through the right leg).

Disturbed by coldness of the body and twitchings of the limbs.

Pulse, accelerated with ebullitions. Chill, in the forenoon, with weakness and sleepiness, better after eating. Heat. Flushes of heat flying, returning every fifteen minutes, worse towards evening. Perspiration, at night, more on the affected side, and after midnight. Perspiration from slight exertion, especially on the abdomen and on the thighs.

Dry, itching, burning. Burning herpes. Suppressed eruptions.

One-sided complaints, (perspiration, tearing, numbness, sensation of coldness in the abdomen). Especially suitable for lean or aged persons. Aggravation, in the evening ; while sleeping ; while lying in a warm place ; and on awaking. Amelioration, when lying on the painful part ; after rising from the bed ; by slow motion in the open air.

Ambergris. Most probably a morbid product found in the Sperm Whale or floating in the sea. (Not to be confounded with Amber-Succinum.) Trituration and tincture.

Anus, irritation of . Asthma. Bashfulness. Brain, softening of. Cardiac asthma. Convulsions. Cough. Deafness . Emaciation. Epistaxis. Face, pimples on . Hysteria. Jaundice. Menstrual irregularity . Music, intolerance of. Nervousness. Nymphomania. Pruritus vulvæ. Puerperal convulsions. Ranula. Reaction defective. Spleen, pain in. Tympanites.

Ambra produces faintness ( Moschus ), nervousness, jerks, and twitches. Reflex action is increased. The patient has an embarrassed air; the bashful state is very characteristic in certain connections. Embarrassed in company. Cough worse when many people are present. As if in a dream. Forgetful. There is defective reaction in nervous patients. Sensation of icy coldness in abdomen. The pelvic organs are painfully influenced. There is voluptuous itching on the scrotum and some rawness below the thighs in the male. In the female there is discharge of blood between the periods at every little accident, as straining at stool or extra work. Severe itching on pudenda. During urination, itching, tickling, burning of vulva and urethra. Nymphomania, with discharge of bluish white mucus. In childbed, obstinate constipation and tenesmus with bashfulness; cannot make the attempt to stool if any one is present, even the nurse. There is a tickling, spasmodic cough. Cough excited by speaking. Night cough. Cough followed by copious belching. Itching in chest. The limbs go to sleep easily. Finger nails are brittle. Sweat on slightest exertion. Sleepless from worry; retires tired, wakeful as soon as touches pillows. < Warmth; > cold; < from overlifting. Suited to excitable, nervous children. Nervous persons. Lean persons. Old persons. Nervous bilious temperament. "Dried-up" nervous persons. "Thin, scrawny women."

Compare: Moschus (faintness; hysteric asthma); Castor., Asaf., Pso. and Valer. (defective reaction); Coca (bashfulness); Kali bro., Nux v. (increased reflexes); Calc., Nat. c. (coldness in abdomen); Act. r. (night cough); Nux v. (thin, nervous persons); Ars. (Asthma); Phos. (asthma, nervous excitability; "irritable weakness"; slender build); Bov. (flow of blood between the periods); Lach. and Sep. ( < from overlifting); Coff., Chi., Ign., Sul., Puls., Staph.; Sec. (scrawny women). Antidoted by: Camph., Coff., Nux v., Puls., Staph. Antidote to: Staph. (especially the voluptuous itching of scrotum); Nux v.

Great restlessness. — Hastiness and nervous excitement when talking. — Memory impaired. — Slow of comprehension, has to read a sentence over and over again, and then does not understand; thinking powers are quite impaired. — Melancholy. — Inconsolable sadness. — Anxiety, esp. in the evening. — Timidity. — Despair, and disgust of life. — Repugnance to laughter and conversation. — Excitement, agitation, and precipitation, chiefly during intellectual labours. — Imagination occupied with grinning faces and wanton images. — Absence of ideas. — Difficult conception. — Embarrassed manner in society; bashful.

Attack of dizziness, esp. on walking in the open air. — Vertigo, which compels the patient to lie down, with a sensation of weakness in the stomach. — In the morning, headache as after a nocturnal debauch. — Sensation of weakness in the head, with external shivering. — Pressive pain in the head, every two days, with heat in the head, burning in the eyes, and paleness in the face. — Pressure in the forehead, with fear of losing one's reason. — Pressing pain in the forehead and vertex, with heat in the head, with pale face on alternate days, with fear of losing his senses. — Pressive squeezing, with perplexity, principally in the forehead and occiput. — Congestion of blood in the head, esp. on hearing music. — Acute sensation of drawing in the head, with ulcers on the scalp. — Dartings in the head. — Pain in the head, as if caused by a strain from lifting a weight. — Pain in the scalp on its being touched, with falling off of the hair. — The scalp feels sore in the morning, when awaking: this is followed by a sensation of numbness, extending over the whole body.

Pressure on the eyes, with heaviness, and a sensation as if the eyes were too deep in the head, with a difficulty of opening them in the morning. — Insufferable tickling round the eyes. — Itching in the eyelid, as if a sty were being formed. — Inflammatory redness of the sclerotica, with injection of the vessels. — Confusion of sight, like a mist, and obscurity before the eyes.

Acute sensation of drawing in the ears. — Tension in the ears. — Crawling and tickling in the interior of the ears. — Tinkling and buzzing before the ears. — Increasing deafness; deaf in one ear, roaring and whistling in the ear.

Spasms in the alæ nasi. — Nasal hæmorrhage, principally in the morning. — Clots or dry blood in the nose. — Frequent sneezing. — Dryness and stoppage of the nose, with pain, as of excoriation. — Dry coryza. — Chronic suppression of the nasal mucus.

Redness and heat, sometimes transient, of the face. — Jaundiced face. — Convulsive movements in the muscles of the face. — Tickling and itching titillation in the face, with eruption of pimples; the same in the forehead, and in the region of the whiskers. — Red spot on the cheeks, cramps in the lips. — Cramp of the lower lip. — Hot lips.

Drawing, shooting pains, chiefly in the teeth that are carious, and esp. in the open air; increased by taking anything hot. — Drawing toothache, sometimes on one side and then on the other. — Bleeding of the gums. — Painful swelling of the gums.

In the morning, on waking, dryness and sensation of numbness in the mouth, in the tongue, and in the lips. — Itching and smarting in the mouth. — Vesicles in the mouth, with burning pain. — Nodosities, with pain, like excoriation, below the tongue. — Tongue coated white, or greyish yellow. — Offensive smell in the mouth (in the morning). — Ranula.

Sensation as of a plug in the throat, with difficulty of swallowing. — Strangling in the pharynx on swallowing food. — Gnawing and scratching in the throat. — Accumulation of greyish mucus in the throat, with inclination to vomit, and vomiting when hawking. — In the morning, hawking up of mucus. — Asthma in lean and delicate old people.

Insipid or rancid taste. — Want of appetite. — Sourness in the mouth after taking milk. — After eating, pressure at the pit of the throat, as if a piece had stopped there. — After eating, cough and gaping, and a feeling as if food did not go down into the stomach. — Entire thirstlessness.

Imperfect eructations. — Frequent eructations, often sour, or with the taste of the food which may have been taken. — Hiccough after having smoked tobacco. — Pyrosis principally in the evening, or on walking in the open air. — Nausea and vomiting. — Pressure and cramp-like pain in the stomach. — Sensation of burning in the stomach and in the precordial region. — Heartburn from drinking milk.

Hepatic pains, most frequently pressive. — Pressive pain in the epigastrium and in the abdomen. — Heaviness in the belly. — Tension and inflation of the belly, principally after eating and drinking. — Compression in the belly, sometimes in the morning. — Cutting pains in the evening, after midnight, and in bed in the morning with diarrhœa. — Pain, as from a wound in the abdominal muscles, on coughing and on turning the body. — Pain in the spleen, as if something were torn off. — Sensation of coldness in abdomen, sometimes on one side only. — In the evening sensation of drawing in the abdominal muscles. — Incarcerated flatus. — Flatulent colic in the night.

Constipation and tardy stools. — Fruitless desire to go to stool, with anxiety, and incapability of enduring the approach of any person. — Irregular intermittent stools, often only every two days. — Soft, loose, clear-brown stools. — After the stool, pressure in the abdomen. — Flowing of blood with the stool. — Hæmorrhoidal excrescences in the anus. — Itching and tingling in the anus and in the rectum. — Itching, smarting, and stinging at the anus.

In the morning, after getting up, an urgent desire to make water. — Increased secretion of urine, chiefly at night and in the morning. — Increased secretion of urine, much more than the amount of the fluid drunk. — Urine of a yellowish-brown, and turbid, with brown sediment. — Reddish cloud in the urine. — Urine tinged with blood. — Acid smell from the urine. — Burning in the orifice of the urethra.

Voluptuous excitement of, and itching in, the genital parts, without external cause. — Burning in the region of the spermatic vesicles. — Erections in the morning, with numbness of the genital parts. — Sore rawness between thighs. — Violent erections in the morning, without sexual desire, with numbness of the parts.

Menses too early; and too profuse. — Discharge of blood between the periods. — During menstruation, increased swelling of varicose veins, with pressure in the legs. — Leucorrhœa thick, slimy, preceded by shooting pains in the vagina. — Running of white-bluish matter from the vagina. — The leucorrhœa more abundant at night. — Burning, pain of excoriation, and itching, in the sexual parts. — Violent itching, with swelling of the external parts.

Cough, with coryza, and expectoration of a whitish and salt mucus. — Nocturnal cough, excited by excessive tickling in the gullet, cough in the evening, with pain in the l. side, as if something were torn away. — Spasmodic cough from tickling in the throat with expectoration of yellowish, or greyish-white mucus, tasting salt or sour, in the morning; with expectoration in the evening. — Convulsive cough, with eructations and hoarseness. — On coughing, pressive headache in the temples. — Voice hoarse, harsh, with an accumulation of thick mucus in the air ducts. — Hoarseness and roughness of the voice, with accumulation of thick, tough mucus, easily thrown off by coughing. — Cough < by music.

Breathing short. — Oppression in breathing. — Oppression felt in the chest, and between the scapulæ. — Breath fetid in the morning after waking. — Wheezing in the chest. — Painful oppression in the chest and in the back. — Pressure in the chest, chiefly in the region of the heart. — Sensation of rawness in the chest. — Itching in the chest, and in the thyroid gland. — Asthma of old people, and of children. — At night, trembling in the breast. — Palpitation of the heart, frequently when walking in the open air, with paleness of face, and pressure in the chest as if a lump were lodged there or as if the chest were obstructed. — Rheumatic pain, as from a bruise in the chest.

Pressive drawing pain in the nape of the neck, and in the back. — Shooting pain in the loins. — Stiffness in the loins after sitting long. — Heaviness in the back, with pain in the belly, as if the intestines were compressed.

The arms become easily numbed, whether they are leant upon or used to carry something, or even in the night, with sensation of torpor. — Paralytic drawing, as from dislocation, in the shoulder-joints, in the elbows, in the fore part of the arms, and in the hands. — Trembling of the arms. — Pain in the bone of the elbow when touched. — Cramp in the hands on taking hold of anything. — Prolonged coldness of the hands. — Contraction of the fingers. — In the evening, attack of trembling in the thumb. — In the morning, the skin at the extremity of the fingers is wrinkled. — Nocturnal weakness of the fingers. — Itchy tetter between the fingers. — Itching in the palms of the hands.

Sensation of torpor in the legs, with an unsteady walk. — Sensation of contraction in the (r) thigh, the limb seems to be shortened. — Nervousness of the legs. — Heaviness, stiffness, and weakness of the legs. — Cramps in the legs, and at night in the calves of the legs. — Acute drawing pain in the legs, from the os sacrum to the feet, with incapability of supporting the foot on the ground: the affected leg seems shorter than the other. — Excoriation in the hams, with pain, principally in the evening. — Tingling in the calves of the legs and in the feet. — Arthritic pains in the joints of the feet and in the great toes. — Tightness in the joints of the feet. — Pain, as of ulceration, in the soles of the feet when walking. — Burning in the soles of the feet. — Itching of the inside of the soles of the feet. — Swelling of the feet. — Shooting pains in chilblains on the toes. — Pain, as of excoriation, in the corns.

Infantile or other spasms. — Cramps and sensation of drawing in the muscles. — Tearing pains, chiefly in the joints, and often on one side only (from the small of the back through the r. leg). — Spasms and twitches in the muscular parts. — Susceptibility to numbness in various parts. — Many of the symptoms appear during sleep, and diminish after rising. — Many of the pains are mitigated by walking in the open air, or when lying on the part affected. — In the evening, and in a warm temperature, many of the symptoms are aggravated. — Sensation of drawing throughout the body. — Incisive pain in the hands and feet. — Inflation and pulsation over the whole body, with great weakness after walking in the open air. — Ebullitions and pulsations in the whole body, esp. after walking in the open air. — After having talked much, agitation and trembling all over the body, with restlessness. — Fatigue, esp. in the morning, in bed, and at night on waking. — Sensation of numbness and of torpor over the whole surface of the body, chiefly in the morning.

Dry, itching burning. — Burning herpes. — Suppressed eruptions. — Itching, and sensation of burning in several parts of the skin, as from the itch. — Tetters and itchy eruptions appear during the use of this medicine. — Dryness of the skin. — Burning tetters.

Inclination to sleep during the day. — Restlessness at night. — Worriment from business embarrassments. — Agitated sleep, in consequence of cold in the body, and a sensation of drawing in the limbs. — Sleep, with anxious dreams and reveries. — On sleeping, startings with fright.

Pulse accelerated with ebullitions. — Chill in the forenoon, with weakness and sleepiness, better after eating. — Flushes of heat, returning every fifteen minutes, worse towards evening. — Feverish shivering in different parts, followed by heat in the face. — Transient heat, sometimes with anxiety at the heart. — Perspiration from slight exertion, esp. on the abdomen and on the thighs. — Nocturnal sweat, particularly on the diseased side, after midnight.

Memory impaired.
Comprehension slow, has to read everything three or four times, and then does not understand it.
Is not able to reflect upon anything properly, feels stupid. θ Often indicated in old age.
Confusion of head ; of occiput.
Difficult thinking in morning. θ Old people.
Distorted images, grimaces ; diabolical faces crowd upon his fancy.
She is excited, loquacious ; talking fatigues her ; was unable to sleep at night, or averse to talking and laughing.
Great sadness.
Melancholy, sits for days weeping ; with great weakness, loss of muscular power and pain in small of back with constipation.
Fear of becoming crazy.
Despair ; loathing of life.
Anguish and sweat all over at night.
Anxiety, oppression, nervous weakness, with irritability and impatience.
After business embarrassment cannot sleep, must get up.
Hurries too much while engaged in mental labor.
Embarrassed manner in company.
Cough < when many persons are present.
The presence of other people aggravates the symptoms.

Vertigo with feeling of weight on vertex ; < after sleep.
Had to lie down on account of vertigo and feeling of weakness in stomach.
Music causes blood to rush to head.
Great weakness in head with vertigo.

Pressure in forehead and vertex with fear of becoming crazy.
Tearing : in forehead ; in left temple up to vertex ; in r. frontal eminence and behind left ear.
Extremely painful tearing on top of head and apparently in whole upper half of brain, with paleness of face and coldness of left hand.
Pressive drawing, ascending from nape of neck, and extending through head towards forehead, considerable oppression remaining in lower part of occiput.
Dulness in occiput.
Tearing pains predominate in head.
Rush of blood to head caused by music.
Weakness in head with vertigo.

Falling off of hair.
On right side of head, a spot, where hair when touched pains, as if sore.
Scalp feels sore in morning, when awaking ; this is followed by a sensation of numbness, extending over whole body.

Dulness of vision, as if from looking through a mist.
Pressure and smarting in eyes, as from dust ; lachrymation.
Pressure on eyes, which are difficult to open, and pain in eyes as if they had been closed too firmly, particularly in morning.
Itching on eyelid as if a stye was forming.

Roaring and whistling in ears, in afternoon.
Deafness of one ear.
Crackling in left ear (like sound made when winding a watch).
Hearing decreases ; with cold sensation in abdomen.
Violent tearing pain in and behind right auricle.
Tearing : in right ear.
Crawling, itching and tickling in ears.
Music aggravates cough.
Listening to music brings on congestion to head.

Dried blood gathered in nose.
Bleeding of nose early in morning.
Nosebleed with menses.
Copious nosebleed early in bed, several successive days. θ Old lady.
Nose stopped up and paining as if sore internally.
Long-continued dryness of nose, frequent irritation as from sneezing.

Paleness of face with headache.
Flushes of heat in face.
Heat in face with chill of other parts.
Tearing in upper part of face, particularly near right ala nasi.
Pimples, and itching in whiskers.
Painful swelling of cheek on upper jaw, with throbbing in gums.
Jaundiced color of face.
Spasmodic twitching of facial muscles.

Continue in Hering 40 more passages →

On looking over this remedy as a whole it will appear to you that you have been studying the characteristics of one prematurely old.

You will often see symptoms coming on in one at fifty years of age that should appear at eighty, and after studying this remedy you will see that the same aspect is presented, a premature old age.

We recognize trembling and a peculiar kind of feebleness that cannot be described by any expression but senility; it is not the confusion of mind belonging to sickness, but the peculiar state we recognize in old people, in declining life; trembling and tottering and a dreamy state of mind with forgetfulness.

He goes on from one subject to another, asking a question, and, without waiting for it to be answered, asking another.

And so he jumps about from one topic to another. It can hardly be said to be confusion, it is a dreamy state of mind, a state of senility.

This remedy is useful when such a state is found in young persons, when the mind is not insane and yet it is weak. Especially is it indicated in those persons who manifest a momentary, fleeting inquisitiveness, jumping from one subject to another.

Often a patient asks me one question after another, never waiting to have the first one answered, a flitting, flighty talker, who does not seem to realize that I have not answered his questions; that patient, I say to myself, needs Ambra grisea.

That state of mind belongs to modern society women in such great frequency that you will be astonished to note it on all hands.

A modern society belle that could not darn the heel of her stocking to save her soul will in a few years get into just that state, and even Ambra will not cure her.

But there is a kind of nervous sickness manifested by these symptoms that Ambra grisea will cure. Alternation of depression of spirits with vehemence of temper is an other feature. That naturally belongs to old age.

A period of greatest excitability is often followed by depression, a state of indifference to all things, to joy, to grief, to people etc., treating with indifference things that would naturally break the heart of a well-balanced person.

He does not even wonder why he is not excited over these wonderful things, so decided is the state of indifference. Many of the complaints are worse in the morning.

He gets up with confusion and dullness of mind and is in a dreamy state and towards evening he takes on symptoms of insanity.

Ambra is one of the most frequently indicated medicines in simple, nondescript vertigo of old men.

So dizzy that they cannot go out on the street; so dizzy upon getting up in the morning that they must wait a while until they can get a-round on their feet. It is the dizziness belonging to senility and to premature old age.

Now, when this man undertakes to meditate upon something his ideas are whisked away. It is a sort of confusion with vanishing of ideas.

He has to make an unusual effort a few times to bring his thoughts back to the place before he can concentrate the mind to meditate upon some idea.

But while concentration of the mind is difficult, he is compelled to sit and dwell upon the most disagreeable things that force themselves upon him and he cannot get rid of them.

It is somewhat analogous to Natrum mur., but the peculiar feature of the Natr. mur. is that she delights to dwell upon past unpleasant occurrences and lies awake at night thinking about them.

Ambra grisea is forced to dwell upon such things. Images, false faces, hideous imaginations, fancies and visions annoy him and keep him awake.

In the semi-dreamy state he is kept holding up before his mind these grimaces. Such a state of mind may come on from business embarrassments with vertigo, congestion to the head and brain fag.

One thing running through this remedy is that the presence of other persons aggravates the symptoms; also the marked aggravation from conversation.

A woman, when attended by a nurse, is unable to have a stool without sending the nurse into another room. In spite of much straining she can do nothing unless alone.

It is said in Natr. mur. that the patient cannot urinate in the presence of other persons.

The urine will not start when anyone is around. That is a port of general feature of this remedy. Confusion of mind and embarrassment in the presence of other persons. Embarrassment in company. As soon as he goes into company there is flushing, trembling, nervous excitement and the thoughts vanish.

With these symptoms the patient imagines that he is going out of his mind, and finally he settles down into a state of melancholy, sadness and despair, and does not want to live. He loathes his life and wants to die.

"Great sadness."

"Melancholy, sits for days weeping."

Such is the mental state of this prematurely old patient with broken down constitution. It is a picture of a wreck and the question will arise when you find a patient that looks and acts in this way whether you have received him in time to cure him.

You readily see you have before you one who is going down hill and going into insanity of one form or another. A physician sees the forerunner of a great breakdown when he sees an Ambra grisea patient with the nervous mental state, the quivering, trembling and excitement in one who was once a strong, vigorous man.

Some great business or domestic shock has come upon this patient. It is not the aspect you see when phthisis is coming on; you do not we the cachectic condition, but it is a prostration of the nervous system, a mental prostration.

A man goes through the trial of one death after another in the family and there seems to be nothing remaining; he cannot look at it philosophically; he has lost his business and his friends and then he takes on dreaminess and wonders whether life is worthing living.

Then it is you get the Ambra grisea aspect.

Many of the complaints come on in the morning and many come on after eating.

"Vertigo with feeling of weight on vertex; worse after sleep," but especially in the morning.

It is not mentioned in the text, but it is also worse after eating.

"Had to lie down on account of vertigo and feeling of weakness in stomach."

Running through the nervous symptoms we have music is intolerable; music makes him tremble, aggravates his mental symptoms and gives him pain in the back as from a hammer.

A number of physical symptoms are brought out by listening to music. The tones seem as if they were a material substance taking hold of him.

Complaints are often one-sided; perspiration on one side of the body or perspiration on the affected side.

"On right side of head, a spot where hair when touched pains as if sore."

The same sensation is in the skip, oversensitive to touch.

"Scalp feels sore in the morning when awaking; this is followed by a sensation of numbness."

The word numbness you will find running through the complaints.

You will find a peculiar kind of numbness, such as belongs to old people. Diminished sensibility of the parts; feeble circulation.

Again, we find under the eye symptoms,

"Dullness of vision as if from looking through a mist."

There is dimness of vision coming on without any condition in the eye that would justify it. It is a nervous dimness of vision, a senile paralysis coming on.

"Itching on eyelid as if a sty was forming."

Itching is felt all over the body; itching in all the little openings.

Among the symptoms that, are not in the text and that are decided symptoms belonging to this remedy are,

"Pressing headache starting from both temples, drawing and tearing in the head, to and fro. Shooting through the head, lancinating, cutting pains, worse on exertion, better from quiet and lying. Headache when blowing nose.

Pressing pain in the left frontal eminence and in the eye. Burning in the right eye and in the eye-lids. Tearing in short streaks in and upon the right eye, pressure on the left eye-brow, shooting, aggravated after eating; lachrymation."

These are in the original provings, but not in the text; they have been left out. This is the case all through the Guiding Symptoms; important symptoms were left out because it was necessary to cut down the work.

"Hearing decreases."

Dullness of hearing without any organic affection of the ear. So perverted is his ability to hear that music aggravates his symptoms, that is through the nerves of hearing.

"Listening to music brings on congestion to head."

Music aggravates his cough. Think of one commencing to cough simply because he hears music! What a strange thing that is! Calcarea has such sensitiveness that the stroke of the piano is painful in parts, especially in the larynx.

This remedy is full of bleeding.

Copious bleeding from the nose in the morning. There we get the morning aggravation again. We get the idea of the feeble circulation because of the easy oozings from mucous membranes.

"Copious nose bleed early in bed."

"Dried blood gathered' in nose."

"Long continued dryness of the nose, frequent irritation as from sneezing."

In the nose an old, dry catarrh with atrophic condition of the mucous membrane. The nose inside becomes shiny and withered.

Dryness of the mouth without thirst.

Biting pain in the throat between the acts of swallowing. Rawness in the throat. The throat complaints are worse in the morning. Complaints are worse after eating and worse from warm drinks, especially from warm milk.

"After eating, cough and gagging."

There is a peculiar combination of symptoms about the throat. Dryness and accumulation of mucus in the throat which he tries to expel, and, when making an effort to cough out the mucus he gags and sometimes vomits.

Vomiting from cough. Weakness at the pit of the stomach; after every evacuation; in "all-gone" feeling in the pit of the stomach.

Pressure deep in the region of the liver; worse in the morning; worse after eating; worse after stool. Distension of the abdomen with great flatulence, especially after eating.

Some symptoms are worse after drinking. Sometimes these complaints come on in the middle of the night, rousing him up with rumbling and cutting in the bowels.

The abdomen is cold; it feels as if the whole inside of the abdomen were cold. At other times the coldness seems to be on one side of the abdomen.

Inveterate constipation in old persons, and especially when it is impossible to have anyone near at the time, of stool.

"Frequent ineffectual desire for stool; this makes her very anxious; at this time presence of other persons becomes unbearable."

After the normal stool there is pressure in the abdomen or a sense of emptiness and weakness in the abdomen which is better after passing flatus or eructation.

Bloody urine with red sediment in the urine.

Urine when emitted is clouded, yellowish-brown and deposits a brownish sediment.

"Sour smelling urine." The urine is copious.

"During urination burning, smarting, itching and titillation in the urethra and vulva."

"Sore rawness between the thighs."

"Voluptuous itching on scrotum."

"Violent morning erections without desire," with numbness of the genitals.

The symptoms are most erratic, as much so, as in Ignatia and Natr. mur . Taken as a whole they can be reconciled, but taken a few at a time they seem wonderfully inconsistent. You must get the whole remedy in order to comprehend it.

Copious discharge of blood between the menstrual periods.

"Discharge of blood between periods at every little accident."

Discharge of blood from the vagina from pressing at hard stool; even from a walk that is a little too long or from too great exertion.

"During menses left leg becomes quite blue from distended varices, with pressive pain in leg."

"Lying down aggravates uterine symptoms," quite an unexpected thing.

Menses too early and too profuse.

"Menses appear seven days before time," and then comes that horrible itching of the genitals;

"soreness and itching with swelling of labia."

Another marked feature of this remedy that you might expect with all this nervous excitement and prostration is dyspnoea with cardiac symptoms, difficult breathing, a sort of asthma. It comes on from any little exertion.

Asthma on attempting coition,

"Itching, scraping and soreness in larynx and trachea."

"Titillation in throat, larynx and trachea."

Everywhere there is itching, and the itching is very often a form of crawling.

"Asthma of old people and children," in feeble, tremulous, weakly ones.

"Whistling chest during breathing."

"Spasmodic cough."

Violent spasmodic cough with frequent eructations and hoarseness,"

A good deal of this cough is of nervous origin. It is a cough with excitement, with nervousness, with trembling, which would make one of considerable experience wonder if that patient did not have brain and spinal cord trouble.

Nervous cough, such as occurs often, in spinal irritation. Cough from constriction of the larynx followed by copious flow of white mucus.

This is a paroxysmal cough, much like whooping cough. Asthmatic dyspnoea from any little exertion, from music, from excitement. Cough with congestion of blood to the head. Cough from thinking and from anxiety.

It is not very long after these symptoms show themselves before this patient will emaciate and wither. until the skin looks like dried beef. With all he is a tremulous and shaky patient.

He complains a great deal of tearing pressure deep in the left side of the chest. Sensation of rawness in the chest and itching in the chest. Titillation and itching, moving about here and there if he tries to touch the place and scratch it.

You will not be surprised to know that this patient suffers from palpitation of the heart upon slight exertion, from excitement, from music, from any effort to put the mind on anything, with trembling and quivering.

And this palpitation he notices even to the extremities; he throbs all over. His extremities pulsate. He is conscious of his arteries everywhere and the palpitation of his heart causes oppression of breathing.

The limbs easily become numb; pressed upon in the slightest manner they go to sleep; go to sleep on being crossed. Coldness, trembling and stiffness of the extremities. The finger nails become brittle and are shriveled.

The arms go to sleep when lying down.

"Sore and raw between the thighs and in hollow of knees."

Heaviness of lower limbs, Paralytic weakness; the patient is growing old; senility is coming on.

This remedy has cured the premature trembling that comes on in middle-aged persons.

It has cured the "going to sleep" and numbness and feeble circulation with loss of muscular power. It is very suitable in children who are excitable and nervous and weak.

"In lean persons." "Old persons and children."

For children, especially young girls who are excitable, nervous and weak; nervous affections of old people, nerves "worn out."

Lean, thin, emaciated persons who take cold easily.

Great sadness, sits for days weeping.

After business embarrassments, unable to sleep, must get up (Act., Sep.).

Ranula with fetid breath (Thuja).

Sensation of coldness in abdomen (Æth., Cal.).

The presence of others, even the nurse, is unbearable during stool (while urinating, Nat. m.); frequent, ineffectual desire, which makes her anxious.

Discharge of blood between periods, at every little accident—a long walk, after every hard stool, etc.

Leucorrhœa; thick, bluish-white mucus, especially, or only, at night (Caust., Merc., Nit. ac.).

Violent cough in spasmodic paroxysms, with eructations and hoarseness; worse talking or reading aloud (Dros., Phos.); evening without, morning with expectoration (Hyos.); whooping-cough, but without crowing inspiration.

Warm drinks; warm room; lying down; at night; too little sleep; the presence of others during stool.

After eating; cold air; cold room and drinks.

No periodicity.

In the forenoon. Fever, without chill, 7 to 8 P. M.

Of single parts of body, with heat of face. Chill, with lassitude and sleepiness, > by eating (sweat > by eating, Anac.); chills before dinner. Skin of whole body, except face, neck and genitals, cold (ice cold genitals, Sul.) Coldness of left hand, with headache.

In face and over the whole body every quarter of an hour, most violent from 7 to 8 o'clock in the evening.

Profuse night-sweat, < after midnight, the body being warm. Sweat every morning, worse on affected side (Ant. t.). Profuse sweat of abdomen and thighs (during exercise).

Chill: of single parts, > by eating.

Sweat.—Profuse, of affected parts; < on affected side.

Should not be given in the evening, apt to produce nightly aggravation.

Memory impaired.
Comprehension slow, has to read everything three or four times, and then does not understand it.
Is not able to reflect upon anything properly; feels stupid.
Confusion of the head.
Difficult thinking in the morning. θ Old people.
Distorted images, grimaces, diabolical faces crowd upon his fancy.
She is excited, loquacious; talking fatigues her; was unable to sleep at night.
Melancholy; great sadness; despair; melancholy following excessive mental excitation.
Fears of becoming crazy.
Anguish and sweat all over, at night.

Had to lie down on account of vertigo and feeling of weakness in the stomach.
Music causes the blood to rush to the head.

Pressure in forehead, with fear of becoming crazy.
Tearing: in forehead; in left temple up to the vertex; in right frontal eminence and behind the left ear.
Extremely painful tearing on top of head and apparently in whole upper half of brain, with paleness of face and coldness of left hand.
Pressive-drawing ascending from nape of neck, and extending through head towards forehead, considerable oppression remaining in lower part of occiput.
Dulness in the occiput.
Tearing pains predominate in the head.

Falling off of the hair.
On the right side of the head, there is a spot, where the hair when touched pains, as if sore.

Dulness of vision, like looking through a mist.
Pressure and smarting in eyes as from dust; lachrymation.
Pressure on eyes, which are difficult to open, and pain in them as if they had been closed too firmly, particularly in the morning.
Itching on the eyelid as if a stye were forming.

Roaring and whistling in the ears, in the afternoon.
Crackling in left ear (like the sound made when winding a watch).
Hearing decreases; with cold sensation of abdomen.
Violent tearing pain in and behind right auricle.
Tearing in the right ear.
Crawling; itching and tickling in the ears.
Music aggravates cough.
Listening to music brings on congestion to head.

Nosebleed, particularly in the morning.
Dried blood collects in the nose.
Nose stuffed up, paining as if sore, internally.
Long continued dryness of nose, frequent irritation, as from sneezing.

Flushes of heat in the face.
Tearing in upper part of face, particularly near right ala nasi.
Pimples, and itching in the whiskers.
Painful swelling of cheek on upper jaw, with throbbing in gums.
Jaundiced color of face.

Lips hot.
Lips numb and dry in the morning on awaking.

Drawing pain now in one and again in another tooth; increased by warmth, momentarily removed by cold; not aggravated by chewing and passes off after a meal; at the same time the inner portion of the gums was swollen.
Bleeding of the gums.

Bitter taste in mouth in morning on awaking.
Sore taste after drinking milk.
Folds pain as if sore under the tongue, like small growths.
Ranula.

Fetor of the mouth, worse mornings. θ Pertussis.
Blisters in the mouth, pain as if burnt.
Smarting and cracked painful condition of the mouth.

Tearing pain in palate, extending into left ear.
Dryness of the throat in the morning.
Sore feeling in the throat during empty deglutition, and from outward pressure, not when swallowing food, with tension of the glands of the throat as if swollen.
Sore throat after exposure to a draught of air; stitching from the throat into the right ear, and pains particularly from motion of the tongue.

Thirstlessness.

Aggravation from warm drinks, especially from warm milk. Better after eating: 40.

Eructations either empty, sour or bitter.
Heartburn: with abortive eructations; when walking in the open air; from drinking milk.
Every evening, sensation as of spoiled stomach and acrid risings up to the larynx.
Nausea after breakfast.

Pressure and burning under the scrobiculum; belching removes it.
Pressure in the stomach and hypochondria.
Tension and pressure, or stitches and pressure in the stomach.

Pressing pain in a small spot in the upper right side of the abdomen, though not felt to touch.
Tearing pain in the region of the spleen.

Distended abdomen; accumulation of much flatus, which subsides without being passed.
Sensation of coldness in the abdomen.
Coldness of one side of the abdomen.
Colic, sometimes followed by diarrhœa.

First copious, soft, light brown stools, after few days, constipation.
Stool not hard, though large.
Frequent ineffectual desire for stool, this makes her very anxious, at this time the presence of other persons becomes unbearable.
Large flow of blood with the stool.
Itching in the anus; stitches.

Frequent micturition at night.
Urine when emitted is clouded, yellowish-brown, and deposits a brownish sediment, after which urine looks clear and yellow.
Sour-smelling urine. θ Whooping-cough.
Urinates three times as much as the drink taken, especially in morning; followed by a dull pain in region of kidneys.
Sensation as if a few drops passed through the urethra.

Internal, strong, voluptuous sensation in the genital organs; nocturnal pollutions.
Itching pimple over the male genitals.

Stitches in ovarian region, when drawing in the abdomen or pressing upon it.
Discharge of blood between periods, at every little accident, as after every hard stool or after a walk a little longer than usual.
During the menses, the left leg becomes quite blue from distended varices, with pressive pain in the leg.
Thick, mucous leucorrhœa, increased from day to day, or leucorrhœa, at night, of bluish-white mucus; preceding each discharge, a stitch in the vagina.
Lying down aggravates the uterine symptoms.
Severe itching on the pudenda, must rub the parts.
Soreness and itching, with swelling of the labia.

Tickling in the throat exciting cough.
Hoarseness and roughness of the voice, with accumulation of thick, tough mucus, easily thrown of by coughing.
Itching, scraping and soreness in the larynx and trachea.
Reading aloud or talking aggravates the cough.

Tightness of the chest, cannot take a deep breath or yawn fully.
Oppression felt in the chest and between the scapulæ.
Feeling of pressure in chest, worse during exhalation.
Asthma of old people and of children.

Paroxysms of cough coming from deep in the chest, excited by violent tickling in the throat, evening without morning with expectoration generally of greyish-white, seldom of yellow mucus, of salty or sour taste, and often in large quantities.
Violent spasmodic cough, with frequent eructations and hoarseness.
Lifting a heavy weight aggravates the cough.

Sensation of pressure deep in right chest; also in left chest or in upper part of chest.
Sensation of rawness in the chest.
Itching in the chest and thyroid gland.

Anxiety at the heart, causing oppression of breathing, with flushes of heat.
Palpitation when walking in open air, with paleness of face.
Violent palpitation with pressure in chest, as if a lump lain there, or as if chest was stuffed up.
Pulse accelerated with ebullitions.

Burning on the chest.

Pressive drawing pain in nape of neck.
Tearing in the left, or in both shoulders.
Rheumatic pains in the right side of the back.
Painful tension in the lumbar muscles.

Tearing in the left shoulder-joint.
Drawing, and as if sprained and lame in the shoulder.
Arms "go to sleep" during day, when at rest, as well as during night; numbness of left arm; tingling in thumb.
Tearing pains in the shoulder, elbow, forearm and hand.
Weakness of the fingers at night.
Long-lasting icy-coldness of the hands.
Stinging in the hands and fingers, like from insects.
Drawing in the fingers and thumb.
Itching in the palms of hands.
Cramp in hands sometimes when taking hold of any thing.
Tips of the fingers are shrivelled.
Tearing, lancinating or itching, in tips of fingers and thumbs.

Tearing pain, first in left, then in right hip-joint.
Sensation of contraction in (right) thigh, the limb seems to be shortened.
Tearing in nates, hip, knee, leg, ankle and foot.
Heaviness of the legs.
Sensation as if "gone to sleep" in both legs; has no firm step.
Cramp in the legs and in the calves nearly every night.
Cold feet.
Gouty pain in ball of great toes.
Itching on inner border of sole of the right foot, not relieved by scratching.

Tearing or rheumatic pains, in parts of all the limbs.
Uncommon twitching in all the limbs and coldness of the body, at night.
Uneasiness like a crawling, with anxiety, only by day.
Weariness, with painful soreness of all the limbs.

Lying: 23. Must lie down: 2, 36. In bed, early in morning, weakness. Exercise: 40. Walking: 23; in open air: 16, 29. Motion of tongue: 13. Desire to bend and stretch limbs. Lifting heavy weights: 27.

Spasms and twitches in the muscular parts; after in nervous affections.
Arms and limbs "go to sleep" easily.
Great lassitude.
Hemiplegia, left side.
Weakness: of the whole body; of the knees, as if they would give way; of the feet, with loss of sensation; in the stomach, so that the she must lie down.

Cannot sleep at night, yet knows not why.
Restless sleep, with anxious dreams.
Vexatious, anxious dreams and talking in sleep.

Morning: 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 21, 27, 34. Forenoon: 40. Afternoon: 6. Evening: 27, 40. Night: 1, 21, 23, 32, 33, 34, 37, 40. After midnight: 40. Day: 34. Day and night: 32. Every quarter hour: 40.

Warmth: 10. Cold: 10. Open air: 16. Draught of air: 13. Worse during the spring.

Chill in the forenoon, with lassitude and sleepiness, relieved by eating.
Chill of single parts of the body, with heat of the face.
Anxious flushes of heat returning every quarter hour, most violent towards evening.
Profuse sweat at night worse after midnight and most on the affected side.
Profuse sweat, particularly on the abdomen and thighs, during exercise.

Cough in spasmodic paroxysms.

Right: 3, 4, 6, 8, 13, 18, 28, 31, 33. Left: 3, 6, 13, 18, 23, 28, 31, 32. Left to right: 33. Behind forwards: 3.

Tearing in muscles and joints, often on one side.
Softening of the brain.
Emaciation.

Soreness of parts after rubbing.
Touch: 4. Chewing: 10. Scratching: 33. Pressure: 13, 23.

Burning in the skin.
The tips of fingers become wrinkled.
Soreness of a wart on the finger.
Itch-eruption is reproduced by it (Ambra).
Numbness of the skin.
Burning herpes.

In old age. θ Asthma. θ Colds.
The so called bilious or nervous-bilious temperament.

Similar to Arsen. (cardiac asthma); Act. rac. (night cough); Castor; Asaf. (women who are nervous and fail to re-act); Coca (embarrassed, bashful); Coffea; Cinchon.; Ignat.
Kali brom. (increase of reflex action); Moschus (hysteric asthma); Nux vom. (both suit nervous, thin, bilious persons); Opium; Phosphor. (asthma; nervous excitability; "irritable weakness"; slender build, etc.); Phosph. ac.; Pulsat.; Sepia; Staphis.; Sulphur; Sulph. ac. (cough and belching). Valer. (nervousness, hysteria; lack of reaction in nervous weakness); Laches. and Sepia (worse from overlifting); Laches., Ver. alb. (cough with belching; coldness, etc.).
Antidotes to Ambra: Camphor, Coffea, Nux vom., Pulsat., Staphis.
Ambra antidotes: Staphis. (especially the voluptuous itching of scrotum); Nux vom.

Ambergris seems to be a morbid product of whales; it floats on the sea and is tossed occasionally upon the shore. A trituration is prepared for use (it dissolves in alcohol.).

Nervous phenomena predominate, convulsive cough, eructations, etc. ▶ It has been used for hysterical complaints for a long time.

Mosch., Phos., Zinc., Camph., Agar., Chin. s.

Pulsation like the ticking of a watch. ▶ Uneasiness; by day; in blood when walking in open air, with rapid circulation and weakness. ▶ Inclination to stretch. ▶ Weakness; morning in bed, also especially in upper part of body, with confusion in head, sensation as if eyes had been tightly closed, nausea in pit of stomach and disinclination to rise; at midnight on waking, with nausea, pressure in pit of stomach and in abdomen, violent erections without voluptuous sensation, dryness in mouth and insensibility of surface of body; on waking, with dryness of mouth and pressure in upper abdomen, which is amel. lying on abdomen, then tearing in small of back, which is amel. by lying on back; amel. walking; sudden in morning in a hot room, with cold sweat on hand and forehead; with giving way of knees; with pain in all limbs; with heaviness. ▶ Amelioration while walking in open air, but symptoms return while sitting.

Useful for persons who are debilitated either by age or overwork, who are anæmic, sleepless, have twitching of the muscles.

Memory bad, with weakness of thought, so that he has to read everything three or four times and then does not seize the meaning. ▶ Stupid feeling. ▶ Distorted images, grimaces, diabolical faces crowd upon his fancy and he cannot get rid of them. ▶ Lewd fancies, even when dreaming, the mind and sexual organs, however, are but little excited by them. ▶ Excitement; and loquacity, with fatigue from talking, inability to sleep at night, headache as from a load, oppression, necessity to sit up in bed, anguish and general sweat. ▶ Hurry in mental occupations. ▶ Uneasiness; with oppression of chest. ▶ Despair. ▶ Anguish in evening; anguish, with tremor. ▶ Anxiety; after eating. ▶ Sadness; with sinking about heart. ▶ Easily aroused to indignation. ▶ Impatience. ▶ Irritation from talking, with general trembling, especially in lower limbs, and necessity to be alone to rest. ▶ Whining, then peevish and quarrelsome. ▶ Indifference to joy or grief, but more depressed than composed. ▶ Dreamy condition. ▶ Constant alternation of depression of spirits with vehemence of temper.

Lancinations on exertion and at every step, amel. lying, with cutting. ▶ Tearing through. ▶ Aching; at night on waking, amel. rising; when blowing nose; amel. walking in open air; especially over and on top of head, with tearing; with stitches; as if a cold would come on; external, and in neck and nape, as from a strain in lifting, with pain on touch. ▶ Aching confusion after eating, agg. during motion; compressing confusion. ▶ Drawings and tearings to and fro. ▶ Empty feeling every morning, as if she had reveled all night. ▶ Stupefying tension. ▶ (Twitching in.). ▶ Congestion of blood; rush of blood caused by music. ▶ Vertigo; afternoon; forenoon and afternoon on walking in open air; in afternoon, with feeling of weakness in stomach. ▶ Weakness, with vertigo; W., with chilliness of head.

Continue in Allen 43 more passages →

This substance formerly had considerable reputation as a remedy for various "nervous" complaints, but of late it has been used very little. The provings seem to show that its old reputation was well founded.

Tearing pains, especially in the joints, mostly one-sided.
Cramps and twitchings of muscles.
Feeling of numbness all over in the morning.
Useful for old persons, or for sickly-looking people.
The symptoms arise during sleep and are > by rising.
Relief on slowly moving in the open air and on lying on the painful part.

Difficult to think or understand.
Vivid fancies which cannot be got rid of.
Melancholia.
Especially nervous in the presence of strangers.

Rush of blood to the head.
Vertigo in the open air, with weakness.
Tearing pains.
Dread of becoming crazy from headache ("every other day," Boenninghausen).
The hair falls out and the scalp is sensitive on touching the hair.

Pains as if the eyes had been too tightly closed.

Roaring and whistling; one-sided deafness.

Epistaxis, mornings in bed, or during the menses.

Jaundiced hue.
Flushes of heat.
Spasmodic tremblings and twitchings of the muscles of the face and lips.

Tearing toothache (probably neuralgic), shifting about, aggravated by warmth, ameliorated by cold (compare coffea).
Bleeding of the gums.

Great dryness and insensibility, especially in the morning on waking.
Fetor from the mouth.
(Painful swellings under the tongue. Ranula, B.)

Secretion and hawking of gray mucus, with a sensation of scraping, and also at times retching and vomiting.
Sore throat after a draft, with shooting into the right ear.
Tickling causes a cough.

Convulsive eructations, sometimes sour, usually tasteless and gaseous.
(Aggravated from milk.)
Violent hiccough from emotional causes.

Internal coldness, especially one-sided.
Flatulent distention after every meal.
Pain in the hepatic region, ameliorated by lying on it.

Itching and crawling in the anus and rectum.
Ineffectual urging to stool, aggravated by presence of people.
Constipation.
Blood with a stool, that may not be hard.

Frequent micturition at night, urine copious.
Urine turbid, sediment brown, odor sour.

Excessive itching and even burning of external parts, particularly of women.
Erections with numbness.
Heat and soreness of vagina; labia swollen.
Menses too early and profuse, with labor-like pains.
Disposition to hæmorrhage between the periods from slight causes, mental or physical.
During pregnancy numerous nervous reflexes; hiccough, bloated abdomen, pruritus vulvæ, cough, etc.

Spasmodic, dry cough, accompanied by violent eructations or hiccough.
Cough at night from tickling in the throat.
Hoarseness, caused by an accumulation of gray mucus in the larynx.
Respiratory oppression in chest and back.
Asthma, in nervous women or old men, wheezing, palpitation and precardial oppression.

The arms feel heavy, as if paralyzed, they "fall asleep" easily, especially when lying on them; articles drop from the hands.
The legs also get numb and heavy.
Pains through the arms like hot irons.
(The tips of the fingers shrivel.)
Cramps in the calves.
Burning in the soles.

Skin (and mucous membranes) inclined to be dry.
Itching and burning, without evident cause (nervous).

Restless, disturbed by dreams, by twitchings; nervous chills.

Frequent chilliness.
Febrile flushes or simple flushes of heat, without rise of temperature.
Sweat of one side (the one affected).
Sweat on abdomen, on thighs.
Sweat after midnight.

Amb. / Ambrosa.

Ambra grisea- Nervous Sprite!
Lying wakeful all the night,
Wheezing, coughing with a gulp,
Dizzy headed, sitting up.
Belching oft, and feeling then
Coldness in the abdomen.
Every little trifling thing
Doth a show of menses bring.
With an itching that compels
Rubbing of the genitals.
Better in the cold to stay,
After eating, too, alway.
Worse from music- worse when warm,
Even victuals warm do harm.

Ambrosa,- Feels better when Cold.

Ambrosa Fluor, is in with Polar Jo.

This Ambrosa,- Who is subject to coldness in the abdomen,-Is at Camp Cove, with her lady waiter and coachman.

Better when cold: Amb., Flu. a., Pul., Lyc., Iod. (In Cold weather, Bry., Lyc.)

Coldness in the abdomen: Amb., Camp., Cal. c., Verat. a., Pul., Ars., Thuj., Colch. (Burning or coldness, Ars., Colch.)

Animated phantasies of which he cannot rid himself. Difficult thinking and comprehension. Restless and hasty. Long after excitement after talking. Despair and satiety of life. Embarrassed in company. Sadness. Great seriousness with aversion to talking and laughing.

Intense, in open air.

Aching to temples from congestion thereto. Rush of blood to, also when listening to music. Tearing in, with ulcers on scalp. Violent (pressing) headaches on alternate days, with fear of going mad. The hair falls out and is painful to touch. Smarting soreness of scalp early on waking, followed by numbness thereof, as well as of skin of entire body.

Pressure, as if they had been closed too firmly. Inflammatory redness of sclerotic.

Tearing in. One sided deafness.

Nose - bleed in early morning. Cramp in wings of. Stopped coryza with smarting pain inside of.

Jaundiced color. Flushes of heat in. Spasmodic trembling and twitching of muscles of, and of lips.

Tearing pain in hollow, by warmth, Bleeding and twitching of muscles of, and of lips.

Dry and numb inside, early on awaking, Fetor from, early in morning. Excoriative, smarting pain in a nodule (ranula) under tongue. Early in morning there is much gray mucus in throat necessitating hawking, thereby causing gagging and vomiting.

Thirst: Entirely absent.

Eructations: Abortive. Sour. Heartburn, particularly after drinking milk.

Hypochondriac: Pressive pain in (r.), and in stomach. Splenic pain, as if something were torn loose there.

Pressure and heaviness in. Distension of, after every meal. Cold sensation on one side of. Pain in upper and lower.

Constipated and retarded.

Itching and crawling in, and in rectum.

Frequent micturition at night. Turbid, with brown sediment. Sour odor of.

Burning, itching and smarting sensations in, with violent voluptuous feelings. Early in bed, erections with numbness in parts. Inflammation of internal sexual organs.

Menses: Too early and too profuse, with varices.

Short, with tightness of chest.

Dry, spasmodic, with eructations and hoarseness (particularly in emaciated persons). Nightly, from tickling in throat. In long paroxysms coming from deep in chest, dry in evening, expectoration of grayish - white, seldom yellow mucus, of a salty or sour taste in morning.

Trachea etc. - Hoarseness from much thick mucus in. Itching, scratching and soreness in, and in larynx.

Compression in, and in back. Pressure in and on, particularly in cardiac region. Palpitation with a pale face. Itching in.

Neck: Itching in thyroid gland.

Asleep sensation with numbness of arm on which he lies at night. Gouty tearing in joints of arms and hands. Shriveled finger tips.

Tearing from lumbar region throughout entire right thigh, it is impossible to stop, and limb seems shorter than the sound one. Nightly cramps in calves. Burning in soles.

The arms and limbs easily go to sleep. Tearing pains particularly in joints, often one sided. Spasms and twitching in muscular parts. Benumbed sensation of entire surface of body, in morning. Many complaints appear during sleep and disappear after during sleep and disappear after rising. Many complaints are by slow exercise in the open air and by lying on painful parts. Particularly adapted to elderly and emaciated persons.

Dry. Itching and burning in many localities. Burning herpes.

Disturbed by coldness of body and twitching of limbs at night. Full of reveries, with anxious dreams and phantasies.

Pulse: Accelerated and ebullition of blood. Chill: In forenoon, with weariness and sleepiness, by eating. At night, preventing falling to sleep. Of single parts, with heat of face. Anxious flying. Heat: Recurring every fifteen minutes, most violent toward evening, Sweat, Profuse, at night, mostly after midnight, on affected side. Profuse, especially on abdomen and thighs, during motion.

Allied Remedies: Bell., Calc-a., Lyc., Nux v., Puls., Staph., Sul.

Description:
Of doubtful origin, for years on the borderland as to its true classification, but probably a nosode or morbid product found in the belly of the sperm-whale, the Physeter Macrosephalous. It is often found floating upon the sea or thrown upon the shore of the Baltic, or on the coast of Madagascar or Sumatra. But, perhaps the best specimens are those which whalers cut out and are to be found in Boston and other whaling ports. It has many characteristics of intestinal or biliary concretions and has been considered to be of hepatic origin, probably a fatty excretion from its gall-bladder. It was introduced by Hahnemann in 1827; proved by him and his friend, Count de Gersdorf, who personally obtained nearly one-half of the symptoms.
The so-called Oil of Amber (used by Dr. Holcombe in hiccough) is Oleum Succinum, and should not be confounded with Ambergris.

For children, especially young girls who are excitable, nervous and weak; nervous affections, old people, nerves "worn out"; premature senility; general functional impairment.
Ailments of both extremes of life.
Lean, thin, emaciated persons who take cold easily; "dried up"; nervous, thin, scrawny women (Secale); nervous bilious temperament.
Great sadness, sits for days weeping.
Great bashfulness, very characteristic; embarrassed in company, in sick room.
The presence of others, even the nurse, is unbearable during stool; frequent, ineffectual desire, which makes her anxious.
After business embarrassments, unable to sleep, must get up (Act., Sep.).
Retires weary, yet wakeful as soon as head touches pillow.
Weakness; lassitude; numbness of single parts; one-sided complaints.
Ranula with fetid breath (Thuja).
Sensation of coldness in abdomen (Cal.); of single parts.
Cannot urinate in presence of other persons (Nat. mur.).
Discharge of blood between periods, at very little accident - a long walk, after every hard stool, etc.; nymphomania; severe pruritus, especially in lying-in.
Leucorrhœa; thick, bluish-white mucus, especially or only at night (Caust., Mer., Nit. ac.).
Cough violent; in spasmodic paroxysms, with eructations and hoarseness; < talking or reading aloud (Dros., Phos., Tub.); evening without, morning with expectoration (Bry., Carb. v., Hep., Hyos., Phos., Puls., Sep.); whooping cough, but without crowing inspiration; < when many people are present.

Antidoted by Camph., Cof., Nux, Puls., Staph., X-ray.
Ambra antidotes Staph., especially the voluptuous itching of scrotum.
Nux antidotes the potentized Ambra.

Calc., Nat. c., Tub. (coldness of abdomen); Cast., Asaf., Psor., X-ray, Val., defective reaction; Coca, Fer., bashfulness and blushing; Mosch., Val., fainting, hysteric asthma; Act., Ign., night cough; Iod., Nux, Tub., thin, emaciated, nervous, irritable persons; Ars., Tub., asthmatic affections; Phos., asthma, nervous, excitable, weak, irritable patient, tall and slender; Bov., flow every few days midway between the periods: Lach., Rhus., Sepia, < from overlifting; Cof., Croc., China, Ign., Puls., Sec., Staph., Sulph., nervous hysterical affections; Kali bi., Iod., itching behind sternum in violent, racking, paroxysmal cough.
Carbo veg. and Petr. in lack of reaction in acute disease.
In cases of women who are excessively nervous and fail to react in acute sickness.

Continue in Allen 32 more passages →

Tearing in the muscles of the joints, often one-sided.

Itching from the small of the back through the right leg and burning, especially where the skin turns into mucous membranes.

External numbness of the whole body in the morning.

Weakness in the morning and at night when awakening.

Ebullitions and pulsations in the whole body after walking in the open air.

One-sided complaints (perspiration, tearing, numbness and sensation of coldness in the abdomen).

Spasms and twitches in the muscular parts.

Ambra is especially suitable for lean or aged persons.

Asthma of children or old people.

Itching and burning in the skin.

Suppressed cutaneous eruptions.

Many complaints appear while sleeping and disappear after rising.

There is an aggravation in the evening, while lying in a warm place and on awakening.

Many complaints, however, are relieved by slow motion in the open air, or while lying on the painful part.