Ammonium muriaticum
Remedy of constitutional obesity with sluggishness. Fat, sluggish persons who catch cold easily. Coryza with loss of smell. Sciatic pain worse sitting, better lying down and walking. Body too fat, legs too thin. Offended without cause.
Source
Prepared from ammonium chloride (NH4Cl), triturated and potentised.
Available Potencies
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Keynote Symptoms
Fat body with thin legs. Sluggish, chilly. Chronic catarrh with viscid, tough mucus. Sciatic pain worse sitting, better lying and walking. Menses too early with pain in abdomen and small of back. Hard, crumbling stool requiring great effort. Offended without cause — bears grudges. Coryza with loss of smell.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Offended without cause — holds grudges. Melancholy. Does not want to talk. Fearful. Antipathy to certain people. Body image — dissatisfied.
General Symptoms
Fat, sluggish constitutional type. Worse from morning, head complaints afternoon, abdominal symptoms night, cold, sitting. Better from lying down, walking, open air, evening.
Physical Symptoms
Head
Headache with nausea. Heavy, pressing on forehead.
Nose
Chronic catarrh — viscid, tough mucus. Loss of smell. Obstructed. Sneezing.
Throat
Tough, viscid mucus in throat. Constant hawking. Sore throat with viscid mucus.
Stomach
Thirst for lemonade. Nausea. Gnawing in stomach. Epigastric burning.
Abdomen
Flatulence. Tight, distended. Stitching pains.
Rectum
Hard, crumbling stool requiring great effort and covered with glistening mucus. Hemorrhoids — sore, burning, especially during menses. Stitching in perineum.
Female Genitalia
Menses too early, profuse, dark, clotted. Shooting pains in perineum during menses. Flow more at night. Leucorrhea like egg white.
Extremities
Sciatica — worse sitting, better lying down and walking (the keynote modality). Heels painful. Cords feel too short. Contracted hamstrings. Body fat, legs thin.
Respiratory
Cough — dry, tickling, worse lying down. Hoarseness. Tough mucus in chest.
Skin
Itching. Dry. Body too fat, extremities too thin.
Modalities
Better From
Lying down, walking, open air, evening
Worse From
Morning (head), afternoon (body), night (abdomen), cold, sitting, during menses
Constitutional Type
Fat, sluggish individuals with thin legs. Chilly. Chronic catarrhal tendency. Those who hold grudges without obvious cause.
Clinical Indications
Sciatica (worse sitting), chronic catarrh, obesity with thin legs, constipation (crumbling stool), hemorrhoids during menses, viscid mucus conditions
Comparative Materia Medica
Calcarea carbonica is also fat and chilly but more perspiring and with head sweat. Graphites is fat and chilly but with more skin symptoms. Antimonium crudum has obesity with thick white tongue.
Safety Information
Coffea, Hepar sulphuris, Nux vomica.
Ammonium chloride is used as a cough expectorant and food additive (E510). Low toxicity in normal doses. Large doses cause acidosis and GI irritation. Safe in all potencies.
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