Ammonium picricum
Ammonium picrate · Mineral
Ammonium Picricum is suited to patients — often middle-aged, short, and stout — who suffer from periodic, right-sided occipital neuralgias and bilious headaches recurring every six to eight days. The headache is worse on rising and extends over the sides of the head to temples and eyes, accompanied by afternoon nausea and bilious vomiting.
Key symptoms
- Periodical neuralgia in the right side of the occiput boring to the ear, orbit, and jaw
- Periodic bilious headaches worse on rising in the morning
- Vertigo on rising, especially with irregular menstruation
- Heavy, pressive pains in occiput and mastoid region extending to temples and eyes
- Face darkly flushed with obtuse, disinclined mind
- Nausea and vomiting of sour bilious matter in the afternoon
- Whooping cough
Worse (aggravation)
- Getting up (rising from bed)
Pictrate of Ammonia (AMMONIUM PICRATUM)
A remedy for malarial fever and neuralgias and so-called, bilious headaches. Pain in occiput and mastoid region. Whooping cough.
Head
Periodical neuralgia in right side of occiput; boring extends to ear, orbit, and jaw. Vertigo on rising. Periodic bilious headaches (Sanguin).
Dose
Third trituration.
Picrate of Ammonia. C6 H2 (NO2)3 ONH3.
Clinical
Headache. Neuralgia. Whooping-cough.
Characteristics
Picric acid and its combinations are very powerful medicinal substances of the nitric acid group. Allen gives this indication for Amm. pic. (which has had only a fragmentary proving): Periodical neuralgia in right side of occiput, boring extending to the ear, orbit and jaw; vertigo on rising, especially in irregular menstruation. Hale, who introduced the remedy to homœopathy, commends it in congestion of brain and spinal cord. Heavy, pressive pains in occiput and mastoid region; on sides of head to temples and eyes. Face darkly flushed. Mind obtuse, disinclined to labour. Periodic bilious headache like that of Sang., and Act. r. One case he cured had these symptoms: Middle-aged woman, short, stout, florid, every six or eight days would wake in morning with violent pain in occipital region, heaviness of head, vertigo on rising. Pain < on getting up; extended over sides of head to temples and eyes. In …
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