Ammonium Bromatum

Bromide of Ammonium. (NH4 Br.) Solution in distilled water. OUnioaLiliary neuralgia. Corpulency. Coryza. Cough. Epilepsy. Kidney, pain in. Larynx, catarrh of. Nails, biting. Ophthalmia, scrofulous. Ovaries, affections of. Pharyngitis. Pterygium. Whooping-cough.

Characteristics

This salt has been well proved by A. M. Gushing. The eyes and ovaries are markedly affected. In the morning the eyes are red and sore, with mucus in corners « left eye). There is pain in left ovary, dull, with hard swelling. Chronic laryngeal catarrh of speakers. A sudden desire to cough— so sudden it causes strangling. Sudden short cough when rising in morning, from accumulation of mucus in throat. Cough at 3 a.m. The mucus of Am. bro.is t to be stringy. It is incUcated in epilepsy when the aura begins with a fainting or suffocating sensation at epigastrium, rising up both sides of sternum to throat There is an irritable feeling under finger nails, > only by biting them. The known conditions are : > warmth, warm drinks ; < in open air, cold air. Many symptoms occur on waking, 3 a.m. Must walk about for fear of suffocation.

Relations p. 83

Compare: Kah bro., Arg. n., Caust, Bufo, Cepa (coryza < in warm room); Lach. « after sleep). Cough from accumulation of mucus in throat, JEsc. h., Atrop., Grat., Kre,, Seneg.

Mind p. 83

Feared he might die (with stomach symptoms). — Timid, <discouraged; lack of self-confidence. — While writing mis-spelled words or numbers.

Head p. 83

Sensation of band round head pressing hardest just above ears.— Pain in side of head (1.) near eye; as if a nail driven in.— R.-ided headache < by coughing.

Eyes p. 83

In evening eyes (esp. r.) feel large, with constant blur before them. — Eyes as if sand in them. — R eye feels as if bathed in hot water; stringy mucus in it — Pterygium. — Eyes red and sore in morning, with white nracQs in comers. — Lids swollen; droop, difficult and painful to raise;

Heart p. 83

Pains round eyes into head. — In evening, difficult vision and S- Nose. — Sneezing on moving about in cold room, or on raising arms ; Hun discharge from r. nostril (next day thicker). — Sneezing on going into warm room ; stoppage of nose in warm room.

Mouth p. 83

Mouth and tongue smart severely as if just burned ; mormng.— Must hold mouth open when walking on account of heat in throat and lungs.— Stringy, tasteless mucus in mouth. — Tastes food eaten several boors before.

Throat p. 83

During day filled with white sticky mucus, streaked with blood.— Throat sore, mottled look. — Preparing to swallow is painful, the act is not— Sensation of hot air passing up throat, r. side, though stomach feels cold.— Fauces and tongue feel scalded. — Stinging and irritation in fauces with inclination to cough > by sneezing. n. Stomach. — Belching > faint stomach. — Dyspnœa, with distress in Upper epigastrium. It. Abdomen. — Sharp twisting pain just above crest of r. ilium. 13. Stool and Anu8.---Sudden urgent desire with loose stool. — Transient Rtom of old hsmorrhoid.

Urinary Organs p. 83

Feeling over r. kidney as if something were pressed hard against it ; > by pressure, but leaving a pulling sensation. ifi. Female Sexual Organs. — Dull, constant pain and hard swelling in L ovary.

Respiratory Organs p. 83

An almost continuous cough for hours, > the warm room; heaviness and beating in the forehead after dinner. — Shootings at the base of the brain. — Headache, as if from carbonic acid gas. — Sensation as if the brain moved loosely in the skull. — Soreness of the scalp smd of the hair. — Itching in the head. — Falling off of the hair. 3. Byes. — Burning in the eyes, principally in the evening, or in the morning, with photophobia. — Sensation of cold in the eyes. — Hordeolum. — Nocturnal agglutination of the eyelids. — Dry excretion in the eyelids. — Affections from over>straining the eyes. — Muscae volitantes. — Eyes weak and watery after reading or using them at fine work. — Yellow spots before the eyes on looking at white objects. — Inability to move the eyes. — Confused sight, with sparks before the eyes. — Double vision. — Myopia. — Cataract — Black spots and bright bands before the eyes. — Weeping.

Heart p. 86

Buzzing in the ears, particularly at night. — Roaring and tingling in theears. — Hardness of hearing, with suppuration and itching of the ears. — Hard swelling of the>glands of the neck, and of the parotid glands.

Nose p. 86

Heaviness in the extremity of the nose on stooping, as if from congestion of blood. — Itching and purulent pimples in the nose. — Furunculus at the extremity of the nose. — Swelling, sensation of excoriation and painful sensibility of the nostrils. — Discharge of sharp, burning water from the nose. — Discharge of pus from the nose. — Excretion of sanguineous mucus. — Bleeding of the nose, particularly in the morning on washing, or after a meal. — Obstinate dryness of the nose. — Obstinate coryza. — Dry coryza and stoppage of the nose, chiefly at night, with danger of suffocation. — With long-continued coryza, he can only breathe through the mouth.

Face p. 86

Face pale and bloated, with nausea and fatigue of body and mind. — Sickly complexion. — Heat in the face during intellectual labour. — Tension and acute dragging pains, with shootings in the right side of the face. — Tightness in the skin of the face, as if the face were swollen. — Hard swelling of the (r.) parotid gland. — Distortion of the features. — Eruptions on the face, with itching. — Furunculi on the cheeks. — Ephelides. — Tetter-like eruptions, with desquamation of the skin, on the cheeks, round the mouth, and on the chin, — Lips dry, cracked, burning, and bleeding. — The corners of the mouth and lips are sore, cracked, and burn. — Painful swelling of the sub-maxillary glands. — Itching eruptions, with soreness of the sub-maxillary glands.

Teeth p. 86

Toothache on compressing the teeth, or after lying down in the evening, or when the air has penetrated to them, or during catamenia ; the pains are, for the most part, drawing or starting, or shooting, or like those of ulceration, and they frequently extend into the cheeks and ears. — Aggravation from warm fluids, during the menses. — Pricking pain, esp. in the molar teeth ; worse when masticating or touching the decayed tooth with the tongue. — Obstinate shooting pain in the teeth. — Caries, elongation, and chronic looseness of the teeth ; rapid decay of the teeth. — The edges of the teeth feel dull. — Inflammatory swelling, suppuration, and easy bleeding of the gums.

Mouth p. 86

Redness, inflammation, pain as from excoriation, and sensation of swelling in the interior of the mouth ; esp. the inside of the cheeks. — Eruption of vesicles in the mouth and on the tongue. — Vesicles on the tongue, at the tip, on the borders, burning, hindering eating and speaking. — Difficulty of speech, as if from weakness of the organs. — Great dryness of the mouth and throat, chiefly at night. — Accumulation of saliva in the mouth, and Constant spitting. — Offensive smell from the mouth, perceptible to the patient

Throat p. 87

When swallowing, sensation as of a foreign body in the that— Sore throat, as if something were sticking in it, principally in the morning and evening. — Pain, as from excoriation and scraping in the throat, swelling of the tonsils, with difficulty in swallowing (tonsils bluish, much offensive mucus there). — Spasmodic contraction of the anterior muscles of the neck after drinking. — Putrid sore throat. 10. AppetitcTaste of blood in the mouth.— Bitter taste, chiefly after eating, or after waking in the morning. — Acid taste of food and after having taken milk.— Metallic taste of food?— Much thirst— Constant thirst.— Inability to eat without drinking. — Great craving and appetite. — Want of appetite in the morning. — When eating one is soon satiated. — Repugnance to milk. — Excessive desire for sugar. — Dizzy vertigo, and heat in the face when eating. —After a meal, pyrosis, with scraping in the throat, and drowsiness.

Stomach p. 87

Sour, or empty, or abortive risings. — Risings, with taste of food taken. — Pyrosis. — Risings, and vomiting. — Pain as from constriction in the-stomach, with nausea, water-brash and chilliness (> by pressure and by lying down). — Nausea and vomiting after eating with pressure in the pit of the

Stomach p. 87

Sensitive pain fulness of the stomach, even to the clothing. — Violent sanguineous vomiting. — Fulness in the stomach, chiefly after a meal, with nausea, and great tenderness at the pit of the stomach. — Gastralgia. — Contractive pain in the pit of the stomach, when stretching. — Heat and sensation of burning in the stomach. — Heartburn after eating.

Abdomen p. 87

Pressure, pain as from excoriation and burning in the hepatic region. — Piercing shootings in the liver, when seated in the evening. — Pun in the abdomen, with diarrhoea. — Contractive spasmodic colics, with nausea, and accumulation of water in the mouth. — Pain, as from commotion in the abdomen, when walking. — Noise in the abdomen. — Elastic swelling in the ffmn like flatulent hernia. — Flatulent, painful colic.

Stool and Anus p. 87

Constipation. — Difficult evacuations.— Slow, hard emanations, in small pieces. — Stool difficult, hard, knotty. — Soft or loose slimy evacuations, followed or preceded by cutting pains. — Af ter and during an evacuation, discharge of blood from the anus. Haemorrhoids in the anus, sometimes bleeding, with smarting pains. — Protrusion of haemorrhoids from the rectum during the evacuation, with much pain afterwards. — HaemoriboidaJ tumours protruding before, during, and after stool. — Nocturnal burning and itching in the anus. — Excoriation between the legs and at the anus.

Urinary Organs p. 87

Constant inclination to make water, even at night, with scanty emission. — Frequent desire to urinate, with continued pressure on the bladder. — Frequent and copious micturition, esp. in the evening. — Passing water at night, during sleep (morning). — Wetting the bed. —White, sandy urine. — Reddish urine, like water mixed with blood. — Emission of blood from the urethra.

Male Sexual Organs p. 87

Excessive sexual desire, without lascivious (external) genital parts of the female. — Excoriation of the skin in the parts, and in the anus. — Premature and too copious menses, with emission of black and acrid blood. — Before and during the catamenia, colic and pains in the loins. — During the catamenia, toothache, pressure on the matrix, cuttings, acute drawings in the back and in the genital parts, desire to lie down, paleness of the face, shivering, coryza, and sadness. — Discharge of serum from the matrix. — Great weakness during the menstrual flow ; haemorrhoids < during. — Acrid, corrosive, or burning leucorrhoea, or watery.

Respiratory Organs p. 88

Roughness and hoarseness, with difficulty of speech. — Inability to speak a loud word. — Catarrh, with hardness of hearing, and burning in the stomach. — Cough, with hoarseness. — Dry cough, as if from a feather in the throat. — Cough, with asthmatic oppression, particularly when in bed in the evening. — Tickling cough, with expectoration. — Cough only at night, or only by day, or in the evening, before going to sleep, or in the morning towards three or four o'clock ; dry from tickling in the throat, as of dust. — Cough, with spitting of blood, with previous sweet taste and with great dyspnoea. — Cough, with stitches in the small of the back. — When coughing, shootings in the loins, in the sternum, or in the pit of the stomach. — Cough, with mucous and sanguineous expectoration, shortness of breath, and sensation of a weight in the chest. — Expectoration of pure blood, produced by coughing.

Chest p. 88

Short breath, with choking, principally on going upstairs. — Asthmatic respiration, and dyspnoea, chiefly in the heat of a room, as well as after any exertion, sometimes with palpitation of the heart. — Nocturnal dyspnoea. — Painful sensation of spasmodic asthma, with short and dull cough. --Shootings in the chest and in the sides, particularly when breathing, singing, stooping, walking, or at night, with inability to lie for any time on the side affected. — Feeling of fatigue in the chest. — Congestion towards the chest — Heaviness in the chest, as from congestion of blood to the chest. — Burning in the chest. — Stitch in the heart, frequently. — Palpitation of the heart, chiefly after exertion, and sometimes with retraction of the epigastrium, and weakness in the pit of the stomach. — Shootings in the integuments of the chest. — Purple miliary eruptions and f urunculi on the chest.

Neck and Back p. 88

Pains in the lumbar region, and pains in the nape of the neck, mostly of a dragging nature. — Acute draggings from the side to the scapulary joint. — Painful swelling of the glands of the neck and of the axillary glands. — Goitre. — Drawing tension in the back and in the loins.

Upper Limbs p. 88

Arms and fingers dead and stiff at night, as well as in the morning, and when grasping anything. — Heaviness and paralytic weakness of the arms. — Acute pulling in the joints of the arms, of the hands, and of the fingers, > by the heat of the bed. — Pain, as from a sprain in the wrist. — Attack of trembling in the hands. — Swollen veins and bluish colour of the hands, after having washed them in cold water. — Exfoliation of the skin of the hands. — The skin of the hands becomes hard and cracked. — Cramps in the fingers. — Numbness of the fingers. — Swelling of the hands when the arms are suffered to fall down. — Swelling of the joints of the fingers.

Lower Limbs p. 88

Tightness in the legs, as if the tendons were too short.-— Jerking and contracting of the legs. — Great fatigue in the legs. — Pain, as from fatigue, in the coxo-femoral joint, and the thighs, particularly in bed in the morning; > by walking. — Pain, as if bruised in the thighs. — Cramps in the feet, in the calves of the legs, and in the tibiae. — Jerking of the knees and legs. — Drawing pain in the legs, when seated. — Acute dragging in the joints of the feet, > by the heat of the bed. — Pain, as of ulceration, and shootings in the heels. — Sensation of burning in the feet. — Swelling of the feet — Sweating of the feet. — Cold and shivering in the feet, chiefly on going to bed in the evening. — Pain (as from dislocation) in the great toe, principally in bed at night, on moving it. — Redness, heat, and swelling of the great toe, in the evening, as if from chilblains.

Generalities p. 89

Pain, as from subcutaneous ulceration. — Pains, as of ulceration in different parts, or shootings and acute dragging, mitigated by the heat of the bed. — Pains, as of dislocation, drawing and tension of the joints, as if from contraction of the tendons. — The right side of the body appears to be more affected than the left side. — The pains for the most part year either in the evening or at night, or in the morning. — General restlessness in the Ixxiy in the evening. — Inclination to stretch out the arms and the legs.— <great fatigue felt from speaking much and from listening to another. — Weariness, bmise-like pain and great weakness in the limbs, chiefly when walking in the open air, or in the evening, sometimes with an inclination to lie down. — Repugnance to exercise. — Convulsions. — Local inflammations. — Tetanus.— Scorbutic dyscrasia. — Tendency of the blood to decomposition. — Emaciation. — Great sensibility to cold.

Skin p. 89

Violent itching here and there, with burning vesicles and pimples after scratching. — Miliary, chronic eruptions. — Redness like scaxiatina on all the upper part of the body. — Scarlatina (malignant), dark red, sore throat, parotids and cervical glands much swollen, stertorous breathing, involuntary stools, vomiting. — Freckles. — Burning, acute shootings and drawings in the corns. — Excoriation of the skin (between the legs, and in the anus, and in the genital parts). — Desquamation of the skin (palms of the hands). — (Ganglia.)-— Swelling of the glands. — Rachitis.

Sleep p. 89

Sleepiness in the daytime. — Sleeplessness, and sleep delayed, esp. after going late to bed.— Sleeplessness till 4 a.m., and when falling asleep, perspiration. — Nightmare when falling asleep. — Frequent waking, with fright (9%at fear afterwards), and difficulty in going to sleep again. — Sleep full of dreams, both anxious and romantic, historical and lascivious. — Dreams of species of death, of vermin, and of quarrels. — Disturbed and unrefreshing sleep.— At night, attacks of anguish, vertigo, congestion of blood in the head, cephalalgia, toothache, nausea, gastralgia, colic, inclination to make water, spitting of slimy matter, pains in the great toes and in the ganglia, shocks in the body, pains in the limbs, itching and pricking in the skin, restlessness, ebnOitkm of the blood, dry heat, sweat, esp. in the legs, shivering and cdd. ty. Fever. — Pulse hard, tense, and frequent— Attacks of shivering in the evening. — Violent shivering with trembling, before going to sleep. — Feverish heat in the head, with cold in the feet. — Sweats, every night and towards the morning. — Perspiration in the morning and during the day, fflostfjr on the joints.