Ammonium Bromatum am-br.

Bromide of Ammonia

Indicated in chronic laryngeal and pharyngeal catarrh, neuralgic headaches, and obesity. Constrictive pain in head, chest, legs, etc. Irritable feeling under finger nails; relieved only by biting them.

Cerebral congestion. Feeling of a band above ears. Sneezing; thick nasal discharge.

Edges of lids red and swollen, also Meibomian glands. Eyeballs feel large and pain around eyes into head.

Smarting in mouth. Tickling in throat, with inclination to dry, spasmodic cough, especially at night. Burning in fauces. White, sticky, mucus. Chronic speakers' catarrh.

Sudden, short cough, strangling. Tickling in trachea and bronchial tubes. Wakes at 3 am with cough. Feels suffocated; continuous cough, when lying down at night; sharp pain in lungs. Whooping Cough.--Dry, spasmodic cough on lying down.

Hyos; Con; Arg nit; Kali bich.

First potency.

Bromide of Ammonium. (NH 4 Br.) Solution in distilled water.

Ciliary neuralgia. Corpulency. Coryza. Cough. Epilepsy. Kidney, pain in. Larynx, catarrh of. Nails, biting. Ophthalmia, scrofulous. Ovaries, affections of. Pharyngitis. Pterygium. Whooping-cough.

This salt has been well proved by A. M. Cushing. 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 apt to be stringy. It is indicated 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 linger 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.

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

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

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

In evening eyes (esp. r.) feet 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 mucus in corners. — Lids swollen; droop, difficult and painful to raise; adhere. — Pains round eyes into head. — In evening, difficult vision and hemiopia.

Sneezing on moving about in cold room, or on raising arms; thin discharge from r. nostril (next day thicker). — Sneezing on going into warm room; stoppage of nose in warm room.

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

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.

Belching > faint stomach. — Dyspnœa, with distress in upper epigastrium.

Sharp twisting pain just above crest of r. ilium.

Sudden urgent desire with loose stool. — Transient return of old hæmorrhoid.

Feeling over r. kidney as if something were pressed hard against it; > by pressure, but leaving a pulling sensation.

Dull, constant pain and hard swelling in l. ovary.

An almost continuous cough for hours, > lying down at night; sensation of tickling irritation with heat and burning. — Sudden desire to cough, coming on so suddenly it strangles one. — Sudden short cough when rising from bed in morning, from sensation of mucus in throat. — Tickling in trachea and bronchial tubes, attended by cough and slight scraping in throat while coughing. — Waked 3 a.m. with cough.

Waked 3 a.m. with pain from sternum to spine, > by changing position.

After fatiguing walk, late in evening, irregular action of heart.

Malaise and fatigue < lying down, < after emission of flatus while urinating. — Nervous restlessness. — Pains in legs at intervals, < after motion.

Chilly feeling in back of chest and nape of neck.

Bromide of Ammonium. NH 4 Br.
Proved by A. M. Cushing, 1870, after the very interesting report by J. Kitchen. See Record, 1870, p. 297.

Feared he might die. See 17 .

At times a feeling during day as of a band tied around head above ears, pressing hardest just above ears.
Pain in side of head near eye, as if a nail was driven into it.
Sharp pains in left side of head near eye.
Headache from congestion to brain.

In evening, eyes feel very large, with constant blue before them.
Right eye feels large and smarts ; has to wear a shade evenings to read or write ; full of stringy mucus ; as if bathed in hot water.
Eyes feel sore as if sand was in them.
Pterygium.
In morning eyes red and sore, with white mucus in corners, < left eye. θ Ophthalmia scrofulosa.
Lids swollen.
Every evening eyelids droop ; difficult and painful to raise.
Lids stick together.
Scrofulous ophthalmia.
Pains around eyes and into head.
Sharp pain near eye in left side of head.

Sneezing relieves stinging in throat.
Nose stopped up ; then clear discharge.
Occasional discharge of watery fluid from left nostril.

Tongue smarts severely as if just burned ; morning.

Must hold mouth open when walking, on account of heat in throat and lungs.
Mouth feels as if burned, in morning.
Stringy, tasteless mucus in mouth.
Tasting of food eaten several hours before.

Throat during day filled with white, sticky mucus, streaked with blood.
Throat sore, looks mottled, as if a diphtheritic deposit were commencing.
Irritation of throat, mostly on sides, with inclination to cough ; evening.
Fauces dark red ; congested.
Preparing to swallow is painful, the act is not.
Sensation of hot air passing up throat, right side, though stomach feels cold.
Fauces and tongue feel scalded.
Stinging in fauces with inclination to cough, > by sneezing.
Stringy, sometimes blood-streaked mucus in throat.

Food does not digest.

Belching relieves faint stomach.
Something seems to rise from pit of stomach, almost stopping breath, causing a faint and very disagreeable sensation, partially > by raising wind.

Swallowing anything causes distress the length of œsophagus and into stomach.
During afternoon and evening, sensation of fainting or suffocation, beginning at epigastrium and rising on both sides of sternum to throat, causing him to sigh and walk around room ; feared he might die.
Sharp cutting pain in stomach.
Terrible distress in upper part of epigastrium ; could not sit still had to walk the room ; much belching ; pain through to back and to both hypochondria ; caused sweat ; could scarcely get his breath.

Sharp, twisting pain just above crest of right ilium.

Sudden urgent desire, with loose stool.
An old hemorrhoidal tumor returned quite hard, sore and small, but soon left.

Feeling over right kidney as if something were pressed hard against it ; relieved by pressure, but leaving a pulling sensation.

Dull constant pain and hard swelling in left ovary.
Ovarian neuralgia.
Uterine hemorrhage from ovarian irritation or inflammation.

Trachea and Bronchia. Tickling in throat causing cough, in evening.
When walking, must hold mouth open on account of heat in throat and lungs.

Inclination to draw a long breath.
Sense of suffocation from lung, she must move about from fear of suffocation.

Cough dry, spasmodic and very severe, at times an interval of only a few minutes.
An almost continuous cough for hours, especially when lying down at night ; sensation of tickling irritation, with heat and burning.
Sudden short cough when rising from bed in morning, from sensation of mucus in throat.
Sudden cough from tickling in throat just below tonsils.
Sudden desire to cough coming so suddenly it strangles one. θ Pertussis.
Expectoration of white sticky mucus ; sharp pain in both lungs, and during forenoon, pain seems to be mostly in pleura.

Pain under middle of left clavicle.
Frequent constrictive pain across chest.
Sharp pain in lungs, < upper part of right.
Lungs feel cold inside.
Sharp pain in both lungs, and during forenoon pain seems to be mostly in pleura.

Feeling over right kidney as if something pressed hard against it ; > by pressure, but leaving a pulling sensation.

Sensation in right shoulder as if pressed by a weight.

Legs ache.
Like a cord around right leg, midway between hips and knee, causing limping and pain all forenoon ; in afternoon pain went to left leg below knee ; in evening in ankle, then in foot, soon passing off, and inclination to cough returning.
Feet cold in warm room, causing legs to ache.

Could not sit still, had to walk floor with distress in stomach.
When walking : must hold mouth open on account of heat in throat and lungs.
Must move about from fear of suffocation.
When rising from bed in morning sudden short cough.

(OBS :) Epilepsy.
Decrease of irritability, followed by tetanic convulsions ; later all excitability gone, the frog lies in whatever position it is placed, the spasms become more violent, and death ensues from asphyxia.
Weakness and uncertain movements in a rabbit (after non-fatal doses).

Morning : eyes red and sore ; tongue dry ; tongue smarts ; mouth dry ; mouth as if burnt and full of mucus, also throat ; tickling in throat ; short cough on rising.
Forenoon : pain in pleura ; as if cord was tied around leg.
Afternoon : stomach easier.
Afternoon and evening : fainty ; cough deeper.
Evening : eyes feel large, smart, lids droop ; tickling in throat, hacking cough, feet cold.

Swallowing anything cold causes distress along œsophagus.
Feels the cold more than usual.
Must warm the feet while in a warm room.

Troubled with the cold more than any other time during winter ; must warm feet even in warm room.
Inclined to be chilly and flashes of heat.
Flashes of heat over body as if sweat would come on.

Coughing spells with but a few moments interval.

Right : eye feels large and smarts ; full of stringy mucus, as if bathed in hot water ; as if hot air passed up throat ; pain above crest of ileum ; pain over kidney ; sharp pain in upper lung ; pressure as from a weight in shoulder.
Left : eye sore and red ; watery discharge from nostril ; pain under middle of clavicle ; dull pain in ovary.

Feeling of a band tied around head above ears ; like a cord around right leg ; as if a nail was driven into side of head ; eyes feel large in evening ; as of sand in eyes ; eyes as if bathed in hot water : tongue as if burned ; as of hot air passing up throat ; as of something rising from stomach causing suffocation ; sense of fainting, beginning at epigastrium ; terrible distress in epigastrium ; sense of suffocation from lung ; as if pressed by a weight in right shoulder.
Pain : around eyes and in head ; from epigastrium to back and into hypochondria ; in left leg below knee ; in ankle, then in foot.
Sharp pain : in left head near eye ; in lungs and pleura.
Sharp cutting : in stomach.
Stinging : in fauces ; in throat.
Sharp twisting pains : above crest of right ileum.
Smarting : in right eye ; on tongue.
Scalded feeling : in fauces and tongue.
Constrictive pain : across chest.
Pulling sensation : over right kidney.
Pressure : over right kidney ; in right shoulder.
Aching : in legs.
Dull pain : in left ovary.
Distress : in œsophagus and scrobiculum.
Tickling : in throat.
Heat : in throat and lungs ; in flushes over body.
Cold feeling : in lungs ; in stomach.

Obesity.

Pressure > pain over right kidney.

Antidoted spasms caused by a low dose of Hyosc .
Similar to its relatives : Amm. carb., Amm. mur., Amm. caust., Amm. phosph ., and to Kali brom., Kali bichr . (stringy mucus) ; Cinnab . (scrof. ophthal, pains around orbit) ; Natr. ars . (throat) ; Kali permang . (throat) ; Zincum, Ratan ., and Arg. nitr . (pterygium) ; Calc. ostr . (scrof. ophthal.) ; Kali brom. ; Silic . (aura begins in epigas.) ; Nux vom . (aura from stomach) ; Art. vulg . (must walk about) ; Caustic. ; Sulphur ; Bufo ; bromide of camphor.

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

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.

Bromine, Ammon, Caust, Kali c.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Flushing.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Rapid.

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

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.

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

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.

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