AMBRA GRISEA
Keynote / Introductory Description
For nervous, hypersensitive, aged or overworked patients with sleeplessness, numbness and one-sided complaints; aggravated by music and company.
Modalities
Worse music, strangers, morning and warm room. Better open air, slow motion and cold drinks.
Dose / Potency
Second and third potencies.
Relationship
Moschus follows well. Compare: Oleum succinum, Sumbul, Castor, Asaf, Crocus, Lilium.
Compare
Oleum succinum, Sumbul, Castor, Asaf, Crocus, Lilium
Complementary
Information not added yet.
Mind
Dread of people, wants solitude, shy, emotional from music, despairing, restless and loquacious.
Head
Slow comprehension, vertigo, tearing brain pain, senile dizziness, epistaxis and hair loss.
Stomach
Eructations with cough, acid eructations and abdominal coldness.
Urine
Burning and itching urethra, sensation of dribbling, turbid urine with brown sediment.
Male
Scrotal itching, numb external parts with internal burning and erections without pleasure.
Female
Nymphomania, pudendal itching and swelling, early menses and bluish leucorrhoea.
Respiratory
Asthmatic breathing, spasmodic cough, hoarseness, chest oppression and choking on phlegm.
Heart
Palpitation with chest lump sensation and conscious pulse.
Extremities
Hand and finger cramps worse grasping; leg cramps.
Sleep
Insomnia from worry with anxious dreams and twitching.
Skin
Itching, soreness and numbness, especially genital.
General Description
AMBRA GRISEA
Ambergis-A Morbid Secretion of the Whale
Suitable to excitable, nervous children and thin, nervous patients. Extreme nervous hypersensitiveness. External numbness and weakness. Nervous bilious temperament. Adapted to hysterical and spinal irritation cases, weakened by age or overwork, anaemic and sleepless. One-sided complaints. Music aggravates.
Mind.--Dread of people, desire to be alone. Cannot act in presence of others. Shy, blushes easily. Music causes weeping. Despair, loathing of life, illusions, restlessness, loquacity and slow thinking.
Head.--Slow comprehension. Vertigo with weakness. Pressure in front of head. Tearing pain in upper brain. Senile dizziness. Rush of blood from music. Hearing impaired. Epistaxis. Bleeding gums. Hair falls out.
Stomach.--Eructations with convulsive cough. Acid eructations. Distention after midnight. Cold feeling in abdomen.
Urinary.--Pain in bladder and rectum together. Burning urethra and anus. Feeling as if drops escape. Burning and itching while urinating. Turbid urine with brown sediment.
Female.--Nymphomania. Itching and swelling of pudendum. Early menses. Bluish leucorrhoea worse night. Intermenstrual bleeding.
Male.--Voluptuous scrotal itching. External numbness with internal burning. Violent erections without sensation.
Respiratory.--Asthmatic breathing with gas eructation. Nervous spasmodic cough with hoarseness and eructation, worse presence of people. Tickling throat and oppressed chest. Barking cough and choking when hawking phlegm.
Heart.--Palpitation with chest pressure or lump sensation. Conscious pulse. Palpitation in open air with pale face.
Sleep.--Sleepless from worry; must rise. Anxious dreams. Cold body and twitching during sleep.
Skin.--Itching and soreness especially genital. Numb skin. Arms go to sleep.
Extremities.--Hand and finger cramps worse grasping. Leg cramps.
Modalities.--Worse music, strangers, unusual things, morning and warm room. Better slow motion in open air, lying on painful part and cold drinks.
Relationship.--Moschus follows well. Compare: Oleum succinum, Sumbul, Castor, Asaf, Crocus, Lilium.
Dose.--Second and third potencies.