AMBRA GRIESEA
(Amberis- A Mrobid Secretion of
the Whale)
Suitable
to excitable, nervous children and thin nervous patients. Extreme nervous
hypersensitiveness. External numbness of whole body in the morning and
weakness. Nervous bilious temperament. Thin, scrawny women. Adapted to
hysterical subjects, or those suffering from spinal irritation, with convulsive
cough, eructation, etc. Also for patients weakened by age or overwork,
who are anemic and sleepless. Great remedy for the aged, with impairment of all
functions, weakness, coldness and numbness, usually of single parts,
fingers, arms, etc. One-sided complaints call for it. Music aggravates
symptoms. Ebullitions and pulsations after walking in open air. One-sided
complaints.
Mind:-
Dread of people,
and desire to be alone. Cannot do anything in presence of others. Intensely
shy, blushes easily. Music causes weeping. Despair, loathing of life.
Fantastic illusions. Bashful. Loss of
love of life. Restless, excited, very loquacious. Time passes slowly. Thinking,
difficult in the morning with old people dwells upon unpleasant things.
Head:-
Slow
comprehension. Vertigo, with weakness in head and stomach. Pressure on front
part of head with mental depression. Tearing pain in upper half of brain.
Senile dizziness. Rush of blood to head, when listening to music. Hearing
impaired. Epistaxis, especially in the morning. Profuse bleeding from
teeth. Hair falls out.
Stomach:-
Eructations, with
violent, convulsive cough. Acid eructations, like heartburn. Distention of
stomach and abdomen after midnight . Sensation of coldness in
abdomen.
Urinary:-
Pain in bladder
and rectum at the same time. Burning in orifice of urethra and anus. Feeling
in urethra as if a few drop passed out. Burning and itching in urethra
while urinating. Urine turbid, even during emission, forming a brown
sediment.
Female:-
Nymphomania, itching
of pudendum, with soreness and swelling. Menses too early. Profuse, bluish
leucorrhea. Worse at night. Discharge of blood between periods, at every
little accident.
Male:-
Voluptuous
itching of scrotum. Parts externally numb; burn internally. Violent erections
without voluptuous sensations.
Respiratory:-
Asthmatic
breathing with eructation of gas. Nervous, spasmodic cough, with
hoarseness and eructation, on waking in morning worse in presence of
people. Tickling in throat, larynx and trachea, chest oppressed, gets out of
breath when coughing. Hollow, spasmodic, barking cough, coming from deep in
chest. Choking when hawking up phlegm.
Heart:-
Palpitation, with
pressure in chest as from a lump lodged there, or as if chest was obstructed. Conscious of the pulse.
Palpitation in the open air with pale face.
Sleep:-
Cannot sleep
from worry; must get up. anxious dreams. Coldness of body and twitching of limbs, during sleep.
Skin:-
Itching and
soreness, especially around genitals. Numbness of skin. Arms “go to sleep”.
Extremities:-
Cramps in
hands and
fingers, worse grasping anything. Cramps in legs.
Modalities:-
Worse,
music; presence
of strangers; from any unusual thing; morning, warm room.
Better,
slow motion in
air, lying on painful part; cold drinks.
Relationships:-
Do not
confound with Amber – Succinum.
q.v.
Moschus frequently
follows advantageously.
Compare: Oleum
Succinum (hiccough). Sumbul; Castm.; Asaf.; Croc.
