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Ammonium Muriaticum

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Sal Ammoniac · Ammonium Chloride · "The Grief-Filled Cough Remedy"

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🎯 It acts primarily on the mucous membranes, causing increased and retained secretions, and is indicated in sluggish patients with respiratory or liver complaints.

📖 Boericke writes:

A state of prostration bordering on a typhoid state is produced by this remedy. All mucous secretions are increased and retained. It is especially adapted to fat and sluggish patients who have respiratory troubles. Coughs associated with catarrhs and affections of liver. A tendency to irregular circulation, blood seems to be in constant turmoil, pulsations, etc. Many groups of symptoms are accompanied by cough, profuse glairy secretions. Its periods of aggravations are peculiarly divided as to the bodily region affected; thus the head and chest symptoms are worse mornings, the abdominal in the afternoon, the pains in the limbs, the skin and febrile symptoms, in the evenings. "Boiling" sensation.

👤 Constitution

•Fat and sluggish patients who are prone to respiratory troubles and catarrhal conditions.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

A tendency to irregular circulation, blood seems to be in constant turmoil, pulsations, etc. Many groups of symptoms are accompanied by cough, profuse glairy secretions.

introduction

Free acrid, hot watery discharge corroding the lip.

nose

Loss of smell.

nose

Leucorrhoea, like white of an egg (Alum; Bor; Calc p); with pain about the navel; brown, slimy after every urination.

female

Hoarseness and burning in larynx.

respiratory

Icy coldness between shoulders; not relieved by warm covering, followed by itching.

back

Contraction of hamstring tendons.

extremities

Sciatica, worse sitting, better lying.

extremities

Chilliness evenings after lying down and on awakening, without thirst.

fever

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Useful for emotional states stemming from grief and suppressed sadness.

Melancholy, apprehensive; like from internal grief.

Desire to cry, but cannot.

Consequences of grief.

🔑 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.

Third to sixth

Decimal

📝Lowest potencies.

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🚫 Antidotes

Coffea Cruda →Nux Vomica →Causticum →

🔄 Compare With

Calcarea Carbonica →Causticum →Senega →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Ammonium Muriaticum is listed in 180 rubrics across 20 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 37 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Abdomen35 Locomotor System30 Respiratory System24 Female Sexual System22 Nervous System11 Nose10 Throat8 Stomach7 Fever5 Modalities5 Skin4 Mind4 Circulatory System4 Generalities3 Head2 Mouth2 Urinary System1 Eyes1 Face1 Male Sexual System1

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