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Ambra Grisea

30C / 200CAmbra
Ambergris · Sperm Whale Secretion · "The Premature Ageing Remedy"
ambr.AnimalUncommonPsoric
🎯 Acts primarily on the nervous system to treat hypersensitivity, exhaustion, and spasmodic conditions in nervous or elderly individuals.
📖 Boericke writes:
Ambergis-A Morbid 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 temperament. Thin, scrawny women. Adapted to hysterical subjects, or those suffering from spinal irritation, with convulsive cough, , etc. Also for patients weakened by age or overwork, who are 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.
👤 Constitution
•Thin, nervous, scrawny women; excitable children; or elderly patients suffering from physical and mental decline, weakness, and coldness.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Extreme nervous hypersensitiveness.
introduction
Adapted to hysterical subjects, or those suffering from spinal irritation, with convulsive cough, , etc. Also for patients weakened by age or overwork, who are and sleepless.
introduction
Music aggravates symptoms.
introduction
Music causes weeping.
mind
Tearing pain in upper half of brain.
head
dizziness.
head
Hearing impaired.
head
of stomach and abdomen after midnight.
stomach
Feeling in as if a few drops passed out.
urinary
Urine , even during emission forming a brown sediment.
urinary
Nymphomania, Itching of pudendum, with soreness and swelling.
female
Discharge of blood between periods, at every little accident.
female
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Useful for social anxiety, extreme shyness, and emotional sensitivity, especially when triggered by music.
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.
🔑 Modalities
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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Second and third potencies
Other
📝may be repeated with advantage
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
⏩ Follows Well After
Moschus →
🔄 Compare With
Asa Foetida →Sumbulus Moschatus →Crocus Sativus →Lilium Tigrinum →Moschus →Castoreum →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

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Ambra Grisea is listed in 159 rubrics across 21 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 44 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Respiratory System25Modalities21Female Sexual System18Nervous System18Mind16Urinary System9Abdomen8Head6Locomotor System6Male Sexual System5Generalities4Ears4Skin4Throat3Mouth2Tongue2Face2Stomach2Circulatory System2Nose1Gums1

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