Scientific Name: Ammonium Muriaticum
Common Name: Muriate of Ammonia / Sal Ammoniac
Source: A salt prepared from Ammonia and Hydrochloric Acid
Family: Inorganic Salt
Miasm: Psoro-sycotic
Temperament: Sluggish, melancholic
Thermal State: Chilly
Prover: Dr. Hahnemann
KEYNOTES (Allen & Boericke Combined)
"Discharges are acrid, burning, profuse, and stringy. Obese, chilly patients with hard, painful swellings of glands." – Allen
A Salt of Sluggish Circulation and Secretion Disorders
"Cold, fat, flabby, and broken-down constitutions with marked venous and mucous gland derangement."
MENTAL SYMPTOMS
- Sadness, melancholy, easily weeping
- Anxious, especially during the night
- Cannot concentrate; irritability from trivial things
- Forgetful, gloomy, indifferent
- Aversion to talking, company
GENERALITIES
- Obesity, especially of the lower body
- Coldness of extremities, especially in the morning
- Debility after stool
- Worse in warm room, wants cold open air
- Glandular swellings, indurated and painful
- Fat but chilly, worse during menses
RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
- Catarrhal cough with much rattling of mucus, but difficult expectoration
- Cough at night, worse lying on right side
- Hoarseness and tough mucus in throat
- Asthma in corpulent patients
- Expectoration tough, white or yellow, salty, stringy
GASTROINTESTINAL SYSTEM
- Dry mouth without thirst
- Bitter taste in morning
- Desire for pickles and vinegar
- Aversion to meat
- Constipation: stool crumbly, falls apart like burnt sponge
- Diarrhoea early morning, involuntary when passing flatus
- Piles with burning pain and itching
FEMALE SYSTEM
- Menses dark, clotted, profuse, exhausting
- Pain in back during menses, as if it would break
- Leucorrhoea, acrid, corrosive, profuse, worse at night
- Sterility from vaginal dryness or leucorrhoea
- Obesity with irregular menses
EXTREMITIES
- Cracking of joints, especially knees during motion
- Stiffness and pain, worse in cold, better from warmth
- Tearing pains, shifting nature
- Legs and feet feel heavy, especially after stool
- Burning soles at night, must uncover
SLEEP
- Sleeplessness with restless tossing
- Awakes with heat and anxiety
- Dreams of fire, quarrels, or grief
MODALITIES
|
Worse From |
Better From |
|
Warm room |
Open cold air |
|
Lying on right side |
Lying on abdomen |
|
Morning (esp. 5–7 AM) |
Sitting upright |
|
During menses |
Motion |
CLINICAL
CONDITIONS
- Obesity in females
- Chronic bronchitis with tough mucus
- Asthma in fat persons
- Chronic constipation and piles
- Leucorrhoea with sterility
- Enlarged painful glands
- Headache with heaviness in occiput
- Burning soles, restless legs at night
POTENCY & DOSAGE
- 6C–30C: For general conditions (cough, menses, leucorrhoea)
- 30C–200C: For chronic glandular or constitutional cases
- Mother tincture: Rarely used
- Use infrequent repetition in sensitive patients
MEMORY TRICK – "Am-Mur = Acrid, Mucus, Menstrual & Massive"
- A – Acrid discharges, Asthma
- M – Menses profuse, painful
- M – Mucus tough & rattling
- M – Massive body (obesity)
- U – Unrefreshing sleep, Uterine symptoms
- R – Right-sided complaints worse
COMPARE
WITH
|
Remedy |
Difference |
|
Kali bichromicum |
Stringy mucus, but more ulceration and sinus symptoms |
|
Pulsatilla |
Also has leucorrhoea and menses issues, but mild and weepy |
|
Calcarea carb |
Also fat and chilly, but with delayed development |
|
Sepia |
Irritable, indifferent, also leucorrhoea and sterility |
CONCLUSION
Ammonium muriaticum is an excellent remedy for obese, chilly females, especially those with menstrual and respiratory affections, acrid discharges, and stiff joints. It is deep-acting, suited to glandular and mucous membrane disorders, particularly in slow, sluggish constitutions.
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