Amygdala Amara Bitter Almond. Rosacea. According to Wöhler and Liebig, the hydrocyanic acid, formerly supposed to be contained in the almond, is the result of the reaction of water on amygdalin, the characteristic constituent of bitter almonds. The bitter almond is used for flavoring, and peach kernels and cherry seeds, which have similar properties, are often substituted. The observations of Jörg, made in...
Amphisbena Vermicularis Clinical Constipation. Cramps. Headache. Hernia, Jaw, pains in. Toothache. Characteristics Amphisbaena is a snake-like lizard, without limbs, and progressing (as its name implies) either backwards or forwards. Mure is the Amphisbena Vermicularis authority for its effects. It is prepared from the jaw as well as the poison of the animal, and has symptoms indicating action on bone like that of Silicea...
Virginia Creeper (AMPELOPSIS) Renal dropsies, hydrocele, and chronic hoarseness in scrofulous patients have been benefited by this drug. Choleric symptoms. Generally worse about 6 pm. Dilated pupils. Left costal region sore and sensitive. Elbow joints pain, back sore. Soreness of all limbs. Vomiting, purging with tenesmus. Rumbling in abdomen. Dose.–Second to third potency. ##Culled From: Materia medica by William Boericke. ...
Antimonium Tartaricum Tartar Emetic. Tartrate of Antimony and Potash Has many symptoms in common with Antimonium Crudum but also many peculiar to itself. Clinically, its therapeutic application has been confined largely to the treatment of respiratory diseases, rattling of mucus with little expectoration has been a guiding symptom. There is much drowsiness, debility and sweat characteristic of the drug, which group should always...
Ammonium Picricum Picrate of Ammonia. C6 H2 (NO2) 3 ONH3. Clinical. Headache. Neuralgia. Whooping-cough. Characteristics. Picric acid and its combinations are very powerful medicinal substances of the nitric acid group. Allen gives this indication for Am-p (which has had only a fragmentary proving): Periodical neuralgia in right side...
Ammonium Phosphoricum Phosphate of Ammonia A remedy for chronic gouty patients uric acid diathesis, indicated in bronchitis and nodosities of the joints of the fingers and backs of the hands. Facial paralysis. Pain in shoulder-joint. Tightness around chest. Heaviness of limbs, unsteady, tottering gait. Coldness from least draft of air. Head.–Sneezing with excessive running from nose and eyes, only in morning. Respiratory.–Deep rough...
Ammonium Muriaticum The first prover was the much-slandered Nenning, whose masterly provings, comprising 448 symptoms, were published by Hartlaub in his Annalen, in 1833. Hahnemann added his own symptoms (84) in the second edition of the Chronic Diseases, and a valuable proving of Rummel, consisting of 23 symptoms, and condensed Nenning’s 448 to 290, without thereby occasioning a loss. The symptoms from a...
Ammonium Formaldehyde General. Known commercially as CYSTOGEN. Dose, five to seven grains two to four times daily, dissolved in hot water, after meals. Prevents the decomposition of urine in the bladder, kidneys, and ureters. Turbid urine rendered clear and non-irritating; phosphatic deposits dissolved, and growth of pyogenic bacteria arrested. ##culled## ...
