Ammonium Bromatum am-br.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Bromide of Ammonia

General

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.

Head

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

Eyes

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

Throat

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

Respiratory

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.

Relationship

Hyos; Con; Arg nit; Kali bich.

Dose

First potency.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

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

Clinical

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

Characteristics

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.

Relations

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.

Mind

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

Head

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.

Eyes

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.

Nose

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

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.

Throat

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.

Stomach

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

Abdomen

Sharp twisting pain just above crest of r. ilium.

Stool and Anus

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

Urinary Organs

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

Female Sexual Organs

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

Respiratory Organs

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.

Chest

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

Heart

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

Generalities

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

Fever

Chilly feeling in back of chest and nape of neck.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

General

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.

Mind

Feared he might die. See 17 .

Inner head

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.

Sight and eyes

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.

Smell and nose

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

Taste, speech, tongue

Tongue smarts severely as if just burned ; morning.

Inner mouth

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.

Palate and throat

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.

Eating and drinking

Food does not digest.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

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.

Scrobiculum and stomach

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.

Abdomen and loins

Sharp, twisting pain just above crest of right ilium.

Stools and rectum

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

Urinary organs

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

Female sexual organs

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

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

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

Respiration

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

Cough

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.

Inner chest and lungs

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.

Neck and back

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

Upper limbs

Sensation in right shoulder as if pressed by a weight.

Lower limbs

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.

Rest. position. motion

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.

Nerves

(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).

Time

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.

Temperature and weather

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

Fever

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.

Attacks, periodicity

Coughing spells with but a few moments interval.

Locality and direction

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.

Sensations

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.

Tissues

Obesity.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Pressure > pain over right kidney.

Relations

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.