The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica
Ammonium Benzoicum am-be.
General
Benzoate of Ammonium. C 7 H 5 O(NH 4 )O.
Proved by Wibmer ; also proved and used by Jeanes.
Sight and eyes
Feeling of swelling and soreness, apparently in puncta and saccus lachrymalis.
Eyelids swollen. θ Albuminuria.
Upper face
Face bloated. θ Albuminuria.
Taste, speech, tongue
Swelling under tongue, right side, like ranula.
Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting
Eructation of food without acidity, with apparent weakness of digestion, or acid eructations.
Scrobiculum and stomach
Increased warmth in stomach.
Slight discomfort in stomach.
Abdomen and loins
Sensation of soreness between abdominal rings, in spermatic cord, and extending slightly downward.
Stools and rectum
Pain across sacrum with urgency to stool.
Urinary organs
Sensation of internal soreness on pressure in leaning back against cushioned back of carriage, in region of right kidney.
Bloated face, eyelids swollen, head heavy, stupid ; urine scanty, smoky. θ Albuminuria.
Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia
Increased mucous secretion in larynx, causes frequent hawking and spitting.
Heart, pulse and circulation
Increased frequency of pulse.
Neck and back
Pain across sacrum with urgency to stool.
Soreness in region of right kidney when pressing back against seat of carriage.
Locality and direction
Right : swelling under tongue ; soreness in kidney.
Sensations
Soreness : and swelling in eyes ; in region of r. kidney ; between abdominal rings, in spermatic cord.
Increased warmth and discomfort in stomach.
Pain : across sacrum.
Tissues
Albuminuria.
Gout with fluid in great toe-joint or with lithates.
Touch. passive motion. injuries
Pressure : against seat of carriage ; soreness in kidney.
Relations
Similar to its relatives, the ammonia salts and Benz. ac ., especially the latter in gout, rheumatism and kidney affections, and the Amm. phosph ., in gouty deposits.
Also similar to : Gnaphal . (gouty concretions) ; Caustic. ; Tereb ., (smoky, albuminous urine ; rheumatism).