• Hysterical, ‘dried up’, nervous persons
• Extreme nervous hypersensitiveness
• Bashful, intensely shy
• Erratic symptoms (Ign, Nat-m)
• Mental and emotional disorders marked by intense shyness and introversion in early stage followed later by silliness and marked loquacity.

Source: Morbid secretion of the whale

Synonyms: Ambergis

Introduction and History: Ambra grisea is found in the intestines and the excreta of sperm whale. It is generally found floating on the sea or thrown upon the coast in tropical countries, especially those along the Indian and Pacific oceans. It has a fat-like, waxy appearance, available in pieces of various sizes and shapes.

It is a great remedy for the elderly with impairment of all functions. It predominantly affects the nerves.

Ailments From: Effects of domestic shock, business worries, loss of near relatives, business failure, deaths one after another in the family, suppressed cutaneous eruptions.

Characteristic Mental Symptoms (Psychology)

• Dread of people and desire to be alone.
• Cannot do anything in the presence of others. Intensely shy, blushes easily.
• MUSIC CA– USES WEEPING.
• Despair, loathing of life.
• Fantastic illusions. Bashful. Loss of love of life.
• Restless, excited, very loquacious.
• Time passes slowly.
• Thinking difficult in the morning with old people.
• Dwells upon unpleasant things.

Important Characteristic Features

Head: Slow comprehension. Vertigo with weakness in head and stomach. Pressure on front part of head with mental depression. TEARING PAIN IN UPPER HALF OF BRAIN. SENILE DIZZINESS. Rush of blood to head when listening to music. HEARING IMPAIRED. Epistaxis, especially in the morning. Profuse bleeding from teeth. Hair falls out.

Stomach: Eructations with violent, convulsive cough. Acid eructations like heartburn. DISTENSION OF STOMACH AND ABDOMEN after midnight. Sensation of coldness in the abdomen.

Urinary: Pain in bladder and rectum at the same time. Burning in orifice of urethra and anus. FEELING IN URETHRA AS IF A FEW DROPS PASSED OUT. Burning and itching in urethra while urinating. URINE TURBID, EVEN DURING EMISSION, forming a brown sediment.

Female: Nymphomania, ITCHING OF PUDENDUM WITH SORENESS AND SWELLING. Menses too early. Profuse, bluish leucorrhoea. Worse at night. DISCHARGE OF BLOOD BETWEEN PERIODS, AT EVERY LITTLE INCIDENT

Male: Voluptuous itching of scrotum. Parts externally numb; burn internally. Violent erections without voluptuous sensations.

Respiratory: Asthmatic breathing with eructation of gas. NERVOUS SPASMODIC COUGH, with hoarseness and eructation, on waking in the morning; worse in the presence of people. Tickling in the throat, larynx and trachea; chest oppressed; gets out of breath when coughing. HOLLOW, SPASMODIC, BARKING COUGH, COMING FROM DEEP IN THE CHEST. Choking when hawking up phlegm.

Heart: Palpitation, WITH PRESSURE IN CHEST AS FROM A LUMP LODGED THERE, OR AS IF CHEST WAS OBSTRUCTED. Conscious of the pulse, Palpitation in open air with a pale face.

Sleep: CANNOT SLEEP FROM WORRY: MUST GET UP. Anxious dreams. Coldness of body and twitching of limbs, during sleep.

Skin: Itching and soreness, especially around genitals. Numbness of skin. Arms go to sleep.

Extremities: CRAMPS IN HANDS and fingers, worse grasping anything. Cramps in legs.

General Modalities

Aggravation: Music, presence of strangers, FROM ANY UNUSUAL THING, morning, warm room.

Amelioration: Slow motion in open air, lying on painful part, cold drinks.

Remedy Relationships

Follows well: Mosch, Lyc, Puls, Sep, Sulph.

Antidotal to: Staph (especially the voluptuous itching of scrotum), Nux-v.

Antidioted by: Camph, Coff, Puls, Staph, Nux-v.

Compare: Oleum succinum (hiccough), Sumb, Castor-eq, Asaf, Croc, Lill-t.

Potency: Second and third potency.

Repetition: May be repeated with advantage.

Therapeutic Value: Colitis, Headache, High blood pressure, Non-descript vertigo, Ranula.