Ammonium Muriaticum – Ammonium Chloride

The attenuations are prepared from Ammonium chloride, NH₄Cl, MW: 53.5.

The main indications are as follows:

Coughs and catarrhs in liver diseases. Hacking cough at night as if ulcerous, ame- liorated by rubbing. Tired, worn, shattered, better in the open air, on motion. Sciati- ca aggravated by sitting (!), better when walking, good lying down. Sciatic neuralgia with pains in the popliteal fossa (as if the tendons were too short).

Ammonium Chloride (Sal Ammoniac) encourages the secretion of urine, also the secretions of the mucosa generally, especially in the respiratory and digestive or- gans, and also enhances the action of the sweat glands in the skin, whereby, apart from uric acid, the excretion of urea is also increased.

On the basis of animal experiments and provings, similar symptoms to those of Ammonium Carbonate are shown to be present, though to a milder degree.

Only the mucosa are more strongly affected with catarrhs, tickling and coughing, hoarseness, râles and constriction of the chest.

Pappy, bitter taste, nausea and tendency to vomit, burning pains in the stomach. Abdominal distension on account of copious flatus. Discharge of copious loose stools with tenesmus and mucus. Bleeding from haemorrhoids.

A dominant symptom is the distaste and revulsion to all food and drink during ill- ness, which may be of long duration.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Ammonium chloratum, pub- lished the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for ammonium muriaticum: subacute and chronic inflammations of the respiratory passages; sciatica; neuralgia.