Ambra Grisea

▲   GENERAL

General

Suitable to excitable, nervous children and thin, nervous patients. Extreme Nervous hypertensiveness. 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 anaemic 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.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, music; presence of strangers; From any unusual thing; morning, warm room.

Better

BETTER, slow motion in open air; lying on painful part; cold drinks.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Oleum succinum (hiccough). Sumbul ^Sumbul; Castor Equi ^Castor.; Asa Foetida ^Asaf.; Crocus Sativus ^Crocus. Lilium Tigrinum ^Lilium.

▲   MIND

Mind

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.

Aversions, dislikes

company; to presence of strangers

company; people intolerable during stool

Conversation

Intellectual faculties

impaired thinking; dull, sluggish; aged people

impaired thinking; imbecility

Insecure, uncertain, scared

anxiety; evening; in bed

anxiety; during fever

anxiety; from not being able to stool when desired

Memory

forgetful

weakness of memory

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Vertigo, with weakness in head and stomach

senile dizziness

▲   HEAD

Head

Slow comprehension

Pressure on front part of head with mental depression

Rush of blood to head, when listening to music

Hearing impaired

Epistaxis, especially in the morning

Profuse bleeding from teeth

Hot; from music

Headache

Tearing pain in upper half of brain

Scalp

Hair falls out.

▲   NOSE

Nose

Nose bleed

morning

Discharge from nose; grey

Discharge

Running or blocked nose (coryza)

▲   MOUTH

Tongue

Growths, blisters, swellings; cyst under tongue, from obstructed salivary gland (ranula)

▲   CHEST

Chest

Heart; Palpation, with pressure in chest as if from a lump lodged there, or as if chest were obstructed

Conscious of the pulse

Palpation in open air with pale face.

Respiration

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.

Asthma attack

▲   COUGH

Cough

Night

Music

Intermittent

▲   EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

Greyish

▲   SKIN

Skin

Itching and soreness, especially around genitals

Numbness of skin

Go to sleep."

Abnormal growths; ulcers; like eczema

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back

Stiffness

rising; from a seat

after sitting

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Stomach; Eructations, with violent, convulsive cough

Distension of stomach and abdomen after midnight

Sensation of coldness in abdomen.

Urinary Organs.

Pain in bladder and rectum at the same time

Burning in orifice of urethra and anus

Feeling in urethra as if a few two drops passed out

Burning and itching in urethra while urinating

Urine torbid, even during emission, forming a brown sediment.

Coldness

Perspiration

Stomach

burping, belching; after coughing

burping, belching; empty; after cough

heartburn

Eructation

Acid eructations, like heartburn

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Constipation

ineffectual urging and straining

unable to pass the stool in presence of nurse

Urging, desire to stool (see pain; urge to stool, or urinate, but producing nothing); absent in company (see inactivity)

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Sediment; brown

Male

Male; Voluptuous itching of scrotum

Female

Female; Nymphomania, Itching of pudendum, with soreness and swelling

Genitals

Profuse, bluish leucorrhoea

Worse at night

Parts externally numb; burn internally

Violent erections without voluptuous sensations.

Female

irritation; itching

irritation; itching; intolerable

metrorrhagia (non-menstrual bleeding); after exertion

metrorrhagia (non-menstrual bleeding); from passing hard stool

metrorrhagia (non-menstrual bleeding); after every stool

Menses

Menses too early

Discharge of blood between periods, at every little incident.

Female

period; copious; exertion

period; frequent

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Cramps in hands and fingers, worse grasping anything

Cramps in legs.

Perspiration; thigh

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

After eating

Single parts

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Cannot sleep from worry; must get up

Anxious dreams

Coldness of body and twitching of limbs, during sleep.

Sleepiness, tiredness; evening

Sleeplessness, insomnia

evening; after going to bed

night; from before midnight

night; after conversation

night; after going to bed, but sleepy before

Convulsions

Jerking; as in convulsions

Perspiration

On parts affected with other conditions

Generalities

Evening

Lean people

Lying down

after lying down

lying in bed

Pain; constricting; internally

In aged people

Lack of reaction

Symptoms not symmetrical; crosswise, left lower and right upper

Trembling

externally

music

On waking

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