Ambra Grisea – Ambergris

The attenuations are prepared from ambergris, a waxy substance excreted by the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). N.O. Physeteridae.

The principal symptoms are as follows:

Heaviness and sensation of pressure in the head with vertigo. Dryness of the nose and oral mucosa. Halitosis. Itching of the genitalia. Nervous excitement, hearing impairment, difficulty in concentration. Seminal emissions followed by weakness.

Ambra Grisea is not a remedy for inflammatory conditions. In the foreground of its picture we find nervous symptoms of a predominantly chronic nature such as nervous weakness of vision and hearing, vertigo, weakness of memory, deterioration of brain- function and generaly powers of decision; senility with general mental prostration.

However, Ambra Grisea is also indicated in nocturnal coughing paroxysms with dyspnoea, whooping cough, states of heightened sexual excitement with seminal emissions and neurasthenia, and in women with frequent menstruation and leucor- rhoea.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Ambra, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for ambra: nervous hyperexcitability and nervous exhaustion; insomnia; dysregulation of the au- tonomous nervous system; melancholic emotional discord or upset; angiosclerosis; premature ageing.