The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Ammonium Benzoicum am-be.

Hering, 1879–91 (1879)In every bookSave

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).