AMMONIUM CAUSTICUM
Keynote / Introductory Description
Powerful cardiac stimulant with oedematous and ulcerative mucous membrane action, useful in croup and suffocative respiratory states.
Modalities
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Dose / Potency
First to third potency; also five to ten minims diluted with water.
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Nose
Nasal diphtheria with burning excoriating discharge.
Throat
Burning raw throat, scraping and burning in oesophagus, aphonia and white mucus on uvula.
Respiratory
Difficult breathing, incessant cough with mucus, loss of voice, glottic spasm, suffocation and membranous croup.
Heart
Powerful cardiac stimulant; useful in syncope, thrombosis, haemorrhage, snake-bites and chloroform narcosis.
Extremities
Exhaustion, muscular debility and rheumatism of shoulders.
Skin
Skin hot and dry.
General Description
AMMONIUM CAUSTICUM
Hydrate of Ammonia-Ammonia Water
This is a powerful cardiac stimulant. As such in syncope, thrombosis, haemorrhage, snake-bites, chloroform narcosis, may be given by inhalation.
The oedema and ulceration of mucous membranes produced by this powerful drug have been utilized as guiding symptoms for its use; hence in membranous croup with burning in oesophagus. Aphonia. See Causticum.
Respiratory.--Difficult respiration. Accumulation of mucus with incessant coughing. Loss of voice. Burning rawness in throat. Spasm of the glottis with suffocation; patient gasps for breath. Pain in oesophagus on breathing deeply. Scraping and burning in throat and oesophagus. Uvula covered with white mucus. Nasal diphtheria, with burning excoriating discharge.
Extremities.--Excessive exhaustion and muscular debility. Rheumatism of shoulders. Skin hot and dry.
Dose.--First to third potency; also five to ten minims, well diluted with water.