Ambrosia artemisiaefolia

Ragweed, Roman wormwood, hogweed. · Plant · Asteraceae

BoerickeClarkePhatak

Ambrosia is generally given for hay fever. The whole of the respiratory system may be affected. The nose and head feel congested, and there is sneezing, watery catarrh, and possible nosebleeds. The eyes water, smart, burn, and itch. There may be a wheezy cough, asthmatic irritation, or whooping cough. These symptoms may also be associated with diarrhea, notably in the summer months.

Key symptoms

Hay-fever with lachrymation and intolerable itching of eyelids
Watery coryza with sneezing and watery discharge
Nosebleed and stuffed-up feeling of nose and head
Irritation of trachea and bronchial tubes with asthmatic attacks
Wheezy cough and respiratory tract stoppage
Eyes smart and burn with excessive tearing
Various forms of diarrhea and dysentery

Worse (aggravation)

For being outside.

Better (amelioration)

For being indoors.

William Boericke

Homoeopathic Materia Medica · 1901

Rag-Weed (AMBROSIA)

A remedy for hay-fever, lachrymation and intolerable itching of the eye-lids. Some forms of whooping-cough. Respiratory tract in its entire length stopped up. Many forms of diarrhœa, especially during summer months, also dysentery.

Nose

Watery coryza; sneezing; watery discharge. Nosebleed. Stuffed up feeling of nose and head. Irritation of trachea and bronchial tubes, with asthmatic attacks (Aral; Eucalypt). Wheezy cough.

Eyes

Smart and burn. Lachrymation.

Relationship

Compare in hay-fever: Sabadilla, Wyethia; Succin ac; Ars jod; Arundo.

Dose

Tincture, to third potency; 10 drops in water during and after attack of epistaxis. In hay-fever high potencies.

John Henry Clarke

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1900

Ragweed. Roman Wormwood. Hogweed. (America.) N. O. Compositæ. Tincture of fresh flower heads and young shoots.

Clinical

Coryza. Hay-fever.

Characteristics

Dr. E. T. Marsh and another experimenter suffered severely from symptoms of coryza and hay-fever whilst observing the pollen of this plant. It should therefore be of service in similar affections.

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S. R. Phatak

Materia Medica of Homoeopathic Medicines

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