AMBRA GRISEA
Ambergis-A Morbid Secretion of the Whale
Suitable to excitable, apprehensive kids and thin, anxious patients. Extreme worried hypersensitiveness. External numbness of complete physique in the morning and weakness. Nervous bilious temperament. Thin, scrawny women. Adapted to hysterical subjects, or these struggling from spinal irritation, with convulsive cough, eructation, etc. Also for sufferers weakened via age or overwork, who are anaemic and sleepless. Great treatment for the aged, with impairment of all functions, weakness, coldness and numbness, generally of single parts, fingers, arms, etc. One-sided complaints name for it. Music aggravates symptoms. Ebullitions and pulsations after strolling in open air. One-sided complaints.
Mind.–Dread of people, and wish to be alone. Cannot do some thing in presence of others. Intensely shy, blushes easily. Music reasons weeping. Despair, loathing of life. Fantastic illusions. Bashful. Loss of love of life. Restless, excited, very loquacious. Time passes slowly. Thinking, hard in the morning with ancient people. Dwells upon disagreeable things.
Head.–Slow comprehension. Vertigo, with weak spot in head and stomach. Pressure on the front phase of head with intellectual depression. Tearing ache in top 1/2 of brain. Senile dizziness. Rush of blood to head, when listening to music. Hearing impaired. Epistaxis, specifically in the morning. Profuse bleeding from teeth. Hair falls out.
Stomach.–Eructations, with violent, convulsive cough. Acid eructations, like heartburn. Distention of belly and stomach after midnight. Sensation of coldness in abdomen.
Urinary.–Pain in bladder and rectum at the identical time. Burning in orifice of urethra and anus. Feeling in urethra as if a few drops handed out. Burning and itching in urethra while urinating. Urine turbid, even at some stage in emission forming a brown sediment.
Female.–Nymphomania, Itching of pudendum, with suffering and swelling. Menses too early. Profuse, bluish leucorrhoea. Worse at night. Discharge of blood between periods, at each little accident.
Male.–Voluptuous itching of scrotum. Parts externally numb; burn internally. Violent erections except voluptuous sensations.
Respiratory.–Asthmatic respiration with eructation of gas. Nervous, spasmodic cough, with hoarseness and eructation, on waking in morning; worse in presence of people. Tickling in throat, larynx and trachea, chest oppressed, receives out of breath when coughing. Hollow, spasmodic, barking cough, coming from deep in chest. Choking when hawking up phlegm.
Heart.–Palpitation, with strain in chest as from a lump lodged there, or as if chest was once obstructed. Conscious of the pulse. Palpitation in open air with faded face.
Sleep.–Cannot sleep from worry; should get up. Anxious dreams. Coldness of physique and twitching of limbs, throughout sleep.
Skin.–Itching and soreness, mainly round genitals. Numbness of skin. Arms “go to sleep”.
Extremities.–Cramps in palms and fingers, worse greedy anything. Cramps in legs.
Modalities.–Worse, music; presence of strangers; from any uncommon thing; morning, heat room. Better, sluggish movement in open air; mendacity on painful part; bloodless drinks.
Relationship.–Do no longer confound with Amber-Succinum q v. Moschus regularly follows advantageously. Compare: Oleum succinum (hiccough). Sumbul; Castor; Asaf; Crocus; Lilium.
Dose.–Second and 1/3 potencies; may additionally be repeated with advantage.
