Ammonium phosphoricum
Ammonium phosphate · Mineral
Ammonium Phosphoricum is suited to chronic gouty patients with uric acid diathesis, presenting with nodose deposits on joints, bronchitis, and profound heaviness of the limbs. Facial paralysis and extreme sensitivity to cold drafts are characteristic features.
Key symptoms
- Nodosities of the joints of the fingers and backs of the hands in chronic gouty patients
- Facial paralysis
- Pain in the shoulder-joint
- Tightness around the chest
- Heaviness of limbs with unsteady, tottering gait
- Coldness from least draft of air
- Deep rough cough with greenish expectoration
- Rose-colored sediment in urine
Worse (aggravation)
- Least draft of cold air
Phosphate of Ammonia
A remedy for chronic gouty patients uric acid diathesis, indicated in bronchitis and nodosities of the joints of the fingers and backs of the hands. Facial paralysis. Pain in shoulder-joint. Tightness around chest. Heaviness of limbs, unsteady, tottering gait. Coldness from least draft of air.
Head
Sneezing with excessive running from nose and eyes, only in morning.
Respiratory
Deep rough cough with greenish expectoration.
Urine
Rose-colored sediment.
Dose
Third decimal trituration.
Ammoniæ phosphas. Hydro-diammonic phosphate (NH4)2 HPO4 Solution.
Clinical
Facial paralysis. Gout. Joints, concretions on.
Characteristics
This salt has been used in cases of chronic gout with nodes of urate of soda on the joints. C. Voigt took three grains of Am. Phos., with this result: In about an hour, attacked by a sense of tightness in the precordia and around the chest; nausea; thirst; a hard, small, frequent pulse; and a collapsed state of the circulation. Afterwards, fulness and tension in head; heaviness in limbs; unsteady, tottering gait. Allen says it has been used with success in some cases of facial paralysis.
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