Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics

Ammonium Bromatum am-br.

Allen (1889)In every bookSave

General

The Bromide of Ammonia (NH4Br) is triturated with sugar of milk for homœopathic use.

General Action

Large doses of Bromide of Ammonia produce mental dullness and physical depression; locally applied, anæsthesia results, in short the general symptoms common to all the bromides. ▶ Special attention should be directed to the symptoms of the throat and the cough, so clearly developed by Dr. Cushing's proving.

Allied Drugs

Bromine, Ammon, Caust, Kali c.

Generalities

Circulation excited; with nervous excitement as after wine; vascular excitement, with exhilaration as after morphine, then drowsiness. ▶ Feeling as after a dose of opium, though less excited.

Head

Indescribable pain. ▶ Pain in side near left eye; back of eyes, agg. left near right eye as if a nail were driven in. ▶ Feeling of a band above ears, pressing hardest just above ears. ▶ Tightness in temples.

Eyes

Redness; with soreness; in morning, agg. left, with soreness and with white mucus in corners. ▶ R. full of white stringy mucus. ▶ Pain around eyes, extending into head. ▶ Soreness; right; sore feeling, with sensation as if sand were in them. ▶ Smarting in evening. ▶ R. feels as if bathed in hot water. ▶ At 3 P.M. bad feeling. ▶ Enlarged feeling in evening, with blurred vision; right feels large and smarts, and he has to wear a shade in the evening to read and write. ▶ Balls feel large and sore in evening. ▶ Lids, swollen; mucus on lashes; agglutinated; agglutinated in morning; drooping of lids evenings, with pain on raising them. ▶ Pain around orbits. ▶ Redness between orbit and inner canthus, and appearance as if a membrane were growing over it.

Ears

Sharp pain in lower part of left at 8 P.M., extending to cheek and neck.

Nose

Stoppage; then discharge of clear fluid. ▶ Watery discharge from left nostril.

Face

Flushing.

Tongue

Soreness; of top, sides and tip. ▶ Smarting as if burnt in morning. ▶ Burnt feeling, agg. talking or reading; B. feeling, especially near tip. ▶ Biting in left side of tip. ▶ Dryness in morning, with soreness and stiffness. ▶ Stiffness. ▶ Mouth and throat full of white sticky mucus in morning; white frothy mucus in mouth; stringy tasteless mucus in mouth. ▶ Mouth feels burnt; in morning. ▶ Mouth dry in morning. ▶ Salivation. ▶ Taste of food eaten several hours before.

Throat

Redness. ▶ Mucus; in posterior fauces; sticky mucus; white, sticky, blood-streaked; white, thick. ▶ Stinging, amel. sneezing, with inclination to cough. ▶ Pain in tonsils. ▶ Smarting; when hawking up white sticky mucus. ▶ Scalded feeling in fauces and top of tongue for half its length. ▶ Soreness; agg. left side; with mottled look, as if diphtheritic deposit were beginning; with white sticky mucus from nose and throat; at 8 P.M., preparing to swallow is painful, but the act of swallowing is not. ▶ Irritation; with inclination to cough. ▶ Tickling; in morning and at 11 A.M., with inclination to cough; in evening; with cough. ▶ Heat at midnight when walking, and in lungs. ▶ Feeling as if hot air passed up right side, though the stomach feels cold. ▶ Distress in œsophagus and stomach on swallowing anything cold.

Stomach

Eructations of sour gas. ▶ Indigestion. ▶ Rising of something from pit, impeding breathing and causing faint and disagreeable feeling, amel. eructations; feeling as if something, not wind, were rising from stomach, causing faint feeling. ▶ Cutting. ▶ Distress; amel. afternoon; in upper part of epigastrium, extending to back and hypochondria, with inability to sit still, empty eructations, impeded breathing and general sweat. ▶ Sore lame feeling. ▶ Faintness in epigastrium or suffocation, in afternoon and evening, rising on sides of sternum to throat, causing sighing, walking about and fear that he might die.

Abdomen

Uneasiness towards evening, next day diarrhœa and feeling as if distended by flatus. ▶ Twisting pain above crest of right ilium.

Rectum

Old hæmorrhoid returned with hardness and soreness, but speedily disappeared. ▶ Sudden urging to stool and loose stool.

Clinical

It has cured neuralgia of the left ovary.

Valuable in the chronic laryngeal catarrh of speakers, or with dry spasmodic cough, which becomes almost continuous, especially at night, with tickling, heat and burning.

Respiratory Organs

Cough, with tickling in throat. ▶ Deep cough; deeper in after and evening from tickling before tonsils and causing pain in tonsils; deep from tickling on both sides of throat. ▶ Sudden C.; in evening from tickling in throat, agg. sides; from tickling; below tonsils; with white mucous expectoration; sudden deep; sudden hacking, in evening, with watery nasal discharge; short sudden, in morning on rising, from sensation of mucus in throat; spasmodic sudden from tickling in throat. ▶ Frequent C. ▶ Inclination to cough from deep in throat; sudden, from tickling in throat, also causing strangling; sudden, from tickling just below both tonsils; almost constant. ▶ Expectoration of white sticky mucus; and occasionally of blood; of gelatinous mucus. ▶ Suffocating sensation from lungs, causing him to more around. ▶ Inclination to draw a long breath.

Chest

Pain under middle of left clavicle; in lungs; right lung; in lungs in forenoon, especially in pleura; worse in upper part of right lung; constrictive, across chest. ▶ Tightness; with pain in lungs. ▶ Coldness inside lung.

Pulse

Rapid.

Back

Pressure over right kidney, amel. pressure, but leaving a pulling. ▶ Sore spot over right kidney.

Extremities

Weight on right shoulder at 9 P.M. ▶ Pain posteriorly in middle of thigh, left then right. ▶ Pain as from a cord around middle or right thigh in forenoon, causing limping, the same pain below left knee in afternoon, in ankle in evening, then in left foot. ▶ Legs ache; from coldness of feet. ▶ Left ankle and foot lame.

Skin

Villous and papillated rash in flexures of neck. ▶ Prickling.

Sleep

Nodding. ▶ Sleep but two hours at night. ▶ Dreamed of trying to pass urine into a bottle, but could not do so on account of being in a crowd of men and women.

Fever

Coldness; with flashes of heat; cold back; cold feet, also in evening. ▶ Heat in flashes, as if sweat would break out.