Ammonium benzoicum
Ammonium benzoate · Mineral
Ammonium Benzoicum is suited to gouty, rheumatic patients — particularly elderly individuals — presenting with albuminuria, urinary incontinence, and deposits in the joints. The right side is predominantly affected, with a heavy and stupid head and facial swelling characteristically present.
Key symptoms
- Albuminuria especially in gouty patients
- Gout with deposits in joints; fluid in great toe-joint or lithates
- Urinary incontinence in the aged
- Smoky, scanty urine with albuminous and thick deposits
- Soreness in the region of the right kidney
- Pain across sacrum with urgency to stool
- Head heavy and stupid
- Swelling under the tongue like ranula; bloated face with swollen eyelids
Benzoate of Ammonia
One of the remedies for albuminuria, especially in the gouty. Gout, with deposits in joints. Urinary incontinence in the aged.
Head
Heavy, stupid.
Face
Bloated, swollen eyelids. Swelling under tongue like ranula.
Urine
Smoky, scanty. Albuminous and thick deposits.
Back
Pain across sacrum, with urgency to stool. Soreness in region of right kidney.
Relationship
Compare: Terebinth; Benz ac; Ammonia salts; Caust.
In albuminuria compare: Kalmia; Helon; Merc cor; Berb; Canth.
Dose
Second trituration.
Benzoate of Ammonia. NH4 C7 H5 O2. Solution in distilled water.
Clinical
Albuminuria. Dropsy. Gout. Indigestion. Ranula. Rheumatism.
Characteristics
The chief symptoms of this salt (which has been proved) are: Head heavy, stupid. Urine scanty; smoky. Pight kidney sensitive to pressure. Gout with fluid in great toe-joint or with lithates. The right side is most affected.
Relations
It is similar in its action to the Ammonias and to Benzoic acid. Also to Gnaphal. (gouty concretions), Caustic., Tereb., Urtica.
3. Eyes
Feeling of swelling and soreness, apparently in the puncta and saccus lachrymalis.─Lids swollen.
8. Tongue
Swelling under tongue, r. side, like ranula.
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