Homeopathy medicine Ammonium Muriaticum from William Boericke’s Pocket manual of homoeopathic materia medica, comprising the characteristic and guiding symptoms of all remedies, published in 1906…

Sal Ammoniac


Mind.–Melancholy, apprehensive; like from internal grief. Desire to cry, but cannot. Consequences of grief.

Head.–Hair falls out, with itchings and dandruff. Feels full, compressed; worse mornings.

Eyes.–Mist before eyes, optical illusions in incipient cataract; capsular cataract.

Nose.–Free acrid, hot watery discharge corroding the lip. Sneezing. Nose sore to touch; ulcerative pain in nostrils. Loss of smell. Obstructed, stuffy feeling; constant and unavailing efforts to blow it out. Itching.

Face.–Inflammatory face-ache. Mouth and lips sore and excoriated.

Throat.–Throbbing in, and swelling of tonsils, can scarcely swallow. Sore spot behind uvula, relieved by eating. Internal and external swelling of throat with viscid phlegm. So touch, it cannot be hawked up. Tonsillitis. Stricture of œsophagus.



Rectum.–Itching and hæmorrhoids, soreness with pustules. Hard, crumbly stool, or covered with glairy mucus. Stinging in perineum. Green mucus stools alternate with constipation. During and after stool, burning and smarting in rectum. Hæmorrhoids after suppressed leucorrhœa.

Female.–Menses too early, too free, dark, clotted; flow more at night. Pain as if sprained in left side of abdomen during pregnancy. Diarrhœa, greenish mucous stools, and navel pain during menses. Leucorrhœa, like white of an egg (Alum; Bor; Calc p); with pain about the navel; brown, slimy after every urination.


Back.–Icy coldness between shoulders; not relieved by warm covering, followed by itching. Bruised pain in coccyx when sitting. Backache, as if in a vise when sitting.

Extremities.–Pain as from ulceration in finger tips. Shooting and tearing in tips of finger and toes. Ulcerative pain in heels. Contraction of hamstring tendons. Sciatica, worse sitting, better lying. Neuralgic pain in amputated limbs. Offensive sweaty feet. Pain in feet during menses.

Skin.–Itching, generally evenings. Blisters on various parts. Intense burning better cold applications.

Fever.–Chilliness evenings after lying down and on awakening, without thirst. Heat in palms and soles. Sub acute, low fevers due to unhealthy climate. Lowest potencies.

Modalities.–Better, open air. Worse, head and chest symptoms in the morning; abdominal symptoms in the afternoon.

Relationship.–Antidotes: Coffea; Nux; Caust.

Compare: Calcarea; Senega; Caustic.

Dose.–Third to sixth potency.

William Boericke