Ciliary neuralgia. Corpulency. Coryza. Cough. Epilepsy. Kidney, pain in. Larynx, catarrh of. Nails, biting. Ophthalmia, scrofulous. Ovaries, affections of. Pharyngitis. Pterygium. Whooping-cough.

This salt has been well proved by A. M. Cushing. The eyes and ovaries are markedly affected. In the morning the eyes are red and sore, with mucus in corners (< left eye). There is pain in left ovary, dull, with hard swelling. Chronic laryngeal catarrh of speakers. A sudden desire to cough─so sudden it causes strangling. Sudden short cough when rising in morning, from accumulation of mucus in throat. Cough at 3 a.m. The mucus of Am. bro. is apt to be stringy. It is indicated in epilepsy when the aura begins with a fainting or suffocating sensation at epigastrium, rising up both sides of sternum to throat. There is an irritable feeling under linger nails, > only by biting them The known conditions are: > warmth, warm drinks; < in open air, cold air. Many symptoms occur on waking, 3 a.m. Must walk about for fear of suffocation.

Compare: Kali bro., Arg. n., Caust., Bufo, Cepa (coryza < in warm room); Lach. (< after sleep). Cough from accumulation of mucus in throat, Æsc. h., Atrop., Grat., Kre., Seneg.

Feared he might die (with stomach symptoms).─Timid, discouraged; lack of self-confidence.─While writing mis-spelled words or numbers.

Sensation of band round head pressing hardest just above ears.─Pain in side of head (l.) near eye; as if a nail driven in.─R.─sided headache < by coughing.

In evening eyes (esp. r.) feet large, with constant blur before them.─Eyes as if sand in them.─R. eye feels as if bathed in hot water; stringy mucus in it.─Pterygium.─Eyes red and sore in morning, with white mucus in corners.─Lids swollen; droop, difficult and painful to raise; adhere.─Pains round eyes into head.─In evening, difficult vision and hemiopia.

Sneezing on moving about in cold room, or on raising arms; thin discharge from r. nostril (next day thicker).─Sneezing on going into warm room; stoppage of nose in warm room.

Mouth and tongue smart severely as if just burned; morning.─Must hold mouth open when walking on account of heat in throat and lungs.─Stringy, tasteless mucus in mouth.─Tastes food eaten several hours before.

During day filled with white sticky mucus, streaked with blood.─Throat sore, mottled look.─Preparing to swallow is painful, the act is not.─Sensation of hot air passing up throat, r. side, though stomach feels cold.─Fauces and tongue feel scalded.─Stinging and irritation in fauces with inclination to cough > by sneezing.

Belching > faint stomach.─Dyspnœa, with distress in upper epigastrium.

Sharp twisting pain just above crest of r. ilium.

Sudden urgent desire with loose stool.─Transient return of old hæmorrhoid.

Feeling over r. kidney as if something were pressed hard against it; > by pressure, but leaving a pulling sensation.

Dull, constant pain and hard swelling in l. ovary.

An almost continuous cough for hours, > lying down at night; sensation of tickling irritation with heat and burning.─Sudden desire to cough, coming on so suddenly it strangles one.─Sudden short cough when rising from bed in morning, from sensation of mucus in throat.─Tickling in trachea and bronchial tubes, attended by cough and slight scraping in throat while coughing.─Waked 3 a.m. with cough.

Waked 3 a.m. with pain from sternum to spine, > by changing position.

After fatiguing walk, late in evening, irregular action of heart.

Malaise and fatigue < lying down, < after emission of flatus while urinating.─Nervous restlessness.─Pains in legs at intervals, < after motion.

Chilly feeling in back of chest and nape of neck.

Ammonium bromatum

• It is indicated in laryngeal and pharyngeal catarrh.

• Sudden strangling, suffocating, cough.

• Suffocating sensation before epilepsy.

• Irritable feeling in finger nails amel. by biting it.