Ambergris. Most probably a morbid product found in the Sperm Whale or floating in the sea. (Not to be confounded with Amber Succinum.) Trituration and tincture.
Clinical
*Anus, *irritation of. Asthma. Bashfulness. Brain, softening of. Cardiac asthma. Convulsions. *Cough. *Deafness. Emaciation. Epistaxis. *Face, *pimples on. Hysteria. Jaundice. *Menstrual *irregularity. Music, intolerance of. Nervousness. Nymphomania. Pruritus vulvae. Puerperal convulsions. Ranula. Reaction defective. Spleen, pain in. Tympanites.
Characteristics
*Ambra produces faintness (*Moschus), nervousness, jerks, and twitches. Reflex action is increased. The patient has an embarrassed air, the bashful state is very characteristic in certain connections. Embarrassed in company. Cough worse when many people are present. As if in a dream. Forgetful. There is defective reaction in nervous patients. Sensation of icy coldness in abdomen. The pelvic organs are painfully influenced. There is voluptuous itching on the scrotum and some rawness below the thighs in the male. In the female there is discharge of blood between the periods at every little accidents, as straining at Stool or extra work. Severe itching on pudenda. During urination, itching, tickling, burning of vulva and urethra. Nymphomania, with discharge of bluish white mucus. In childbed, obstinate constipation and tenesmus with bashfulness, cannot make the attempt to Stool if any one is present, even the nurse. There is a tickling, spasmodic cough. Cough excited by speaking. Night cough. Cough followed by copious belching. Itching in chest. The limbs go to sleep easily. Finger nails are brittle. Sweat on slightest exertion. Sleepless from worry, retires tired, wakeful as soon as touches pillows. worse Warmth, better cold, worse from overlifting. Suited to excitable, nervous children. Nervous persons. Lean persons. Old persons. Nervous bilious temperament. “Dried-up” nervous persons. “Thin, scrawny women.”.
Relations.
*Compare: Moschus (faintness, hysteric asthma), Castor., Asafoetida, Psorinum and Valer. (defective reaction), Coca (bashfulness), Kali- br., Nux-v. (increased reflexes), Calcarea, Nat-c. (coldness in abdomen), Act-r. (night cough), Nux-v. (thin, nervous persons), Arsenicum (Asthma), Phosphorus (asthma, nervous excitability, “irritable weakness,” slender build), Bovista (flow of blood between the periods), Lachesis and Sepia ( worse from overlifting), Coffea, China, Ignatia, Sulphur, Pulsatilla, Staphysagria, Secale (scrawny women). *Antidoted by: Camph., Coffea, Nux-v., Pulsatilla, Staphysagria *Antidote to: Staphysagria (especially the voluptuous itching of scrotum), Nux-v.
Mind
Great restlessness. Hastiness and nervous excitement when talking. Memory impaired. Slow of comprehension, has to read a sentence over and over again, and then does not understand, thinking powers are quite impaired. Melancholy. Inconsolable sadness. Anxiety, especially in the evening. Timidity. Despair, and disgust of life. Repugnance to laughter and conversation. Excitement, agitation, and precipitation, chiefly during intellectual labours. Imagination occupied with grinning faces and wanton images. Absence of ideas. Difficult conception. Embarrassed manner in society, bashful.
Head
Attack of dizziness, especially on walking in the open air. Vertigo, which compels the patient to lie down, with a sensation of weakness in the stomach. In the morning, headache as after a nocturnal debauch. Sensation of weakness in the head, with external shivering. Pressive pain in the head, every two days, with heat in the head, burning in the eyes, and paleness in the face. Pressure in the forehead, with fear of losing one’s reason. Pressing pain in the forehead and vertex, with heat in the head, with pale face on alternate days, with fear of losing his senses. Pressive squeezing, with perplexity, principally in the forehead and occiput. Congestion of blood in the head, especially on hearing music. Acute sensation of drawing in the head, with ulcers on the scalp. Dartings in the head. Pain in the head, as if caused by a strain from lifting a weight. Pain in the scalp on its being touched, with falling off of the hair. The scalp feels sore in the morning when awaking: this is followed by a sensation of numbness, extending over the whole body.
Eyes
Pressure on the eyes, with heaviness, and a sensation as if the eyes were too deep in the head, with a difficulty of opening them in the morning. Insufferable tickling round the eyes. Itching in the eyelid, as if a sty were being formed. Inflammatory redness of the sclerotica, with injection of the vessels. Confusion of sight, like a mist, and obscurity before the eyes.
Ears
Acute sensation of drawing in the ears. Tension in the ears. Crawling and tickling in the interior of the ears. Tickling and buzzing before the ears. Increasing deafness, deaf in one ear, roaring and whistling in the ear.
Nose
Spasms in the alae nasi. Nasal Haemorrhage, principally in the morning. Clots of dry blood in the nose. Frequent sneezing. Dryness and stoppage of the nose, with pain, as of excoriation. Dry coryza. Chronic suppression of the nasal mucus.
Face
Redness and heat, sometimes transient, of the face. Jaundiced face. Convulsive movements in the muscles of the face. Tickling and itching titillation in the face, with eruption of pimples, the same in the forehead, and in the region of the whiskers. Red spot on the cheeks, cramps in the lips. Cramp of the lower lip. Hot lips.
Teeth
Drawing, shooting pains, chiefly in the teeth that are carious, and especially in the open air, increased by taking anything hot. Drawing toothache, sometimes on one side and then on the other. Bleeding of the gums. Painful swelling of the gums.
Mouth
In the morning, on waking, dryness and sensation of numbness in the mouth, in the tongue, and in the lips. Itching and smarting in the mouth. Vesicles in the mouth, with burning pain. Nodosities, with pain, like excoriation, below the tongue. Tongue coated white, or greyish yellow. Offensive smell in the mouth (in the morning). Ranula.
Throat
Sensation as of a plug in the throat, with difficulty of swallowing. Strangling in the pharynx on swallowing food. Gnawing and scratching in the throat. Accumulation of greyish mucus in the throat, with inclination to vomit, and vomiting when hawking. In the morning, hawking up of mucus. Asthma in lean and delicate old people.
Appetite
Insipid or rancid taste. Want of appetite. Sourness in the mouth after taking milk. After eating, pressure at the pit of the throat, as if a piece had stopped there. After eating, cough and gaping, and a feeling as if food did not go down into the stomach. Entire thirstlessness.
Stomach
Imperfect eructations. Frequent eructations, often sour, or with the taste of the food which may have been taken. Hiccough after having smoked tobacco. Pyrosis principally in the evening, or on walking in the open air. Nausea and vomiting. Pressure and cramp- like pain in the stomach. Sensation of burning in the stomach and in the precordial region. Heartburn from drinking milk.
Abdomen
Hepatic pains, most frequently pressive. Pressive pain in the epigastrium and in the abdomen. Heaviness in the belly. Tension and inflation of the belly, principally after eating and drinking. Compression in the belly, sometimes in the morning. Cutting pains in the evening, after midnight, and in bed in the morning with diarrhoea. Pain, as from a wound in the abdominal muscles, on coughing and on turning the body. Pain in the spleen, as if something were torn off. Sensation of coldness in abdomen, sometimes on one side only. In the evening sensation of drawing in the abdominal muscles. Incarcerated flatus. Flatulent colic in the night.
Stool and Anus.
Constipation and tardy Stools. Fruitless desire to go to Stool, with anxiety, and incapability of enduring the approach of any person. Irregular intermittent Stools, often only every two days. Soft, loose, clear-brown Stools. After the Stool, pressure in the abdomen. Flowing of blood with the Stool. Haemorrhoidal excrescences in the anus. Itching and tingling in the anus and in the rectum. Itching, smarting, and stinging at the anus.
Urinary Organs
In the morning, after getting up, an urgent desire to make water. Increased secretion of urine, chiefly at night and in the morning. Increased secretion of urine, much more than the amount of the fluid drunk. Urine of a yellowish-brown, and turbid, with brown sediment. Reddish cloud in the urine. Urine tinged with blood. Acid smell from the urine. Burning in the orifice of the urethra.
Male Sexual Organs
Voluptuous excitement of, and itching in, the genital parts, without external cause. Burning in the region of the spermatic vesicles. Erections in the morning, with numbness of the genital parts. Sore rawness between thighs. Violent erections in the morning, without sexual desire, with numbness of the parts.
Female Sexual Organs
Menses too early, and too profuse. Discharge of blood between the periods. During menstruation, increased swelling of varicose veins, with pressure in the legs. Leucorrhoea thick, slimy, preceded by shooting pains in the vagina. Running of white-bluish matter from the vagina. The leucorrhoea more abundant at night. Burning, pain of excoriation, and itching, in the sexual parts. Violent itching, with swelling of the external parts.
