Ambra Grisea
For children, especially young girls who are excitable, nervous and weak; nervous affections of old people, nerves “worn out.”. Lean, thin, emaciated persons who take cold easily.
Great sadness, sits for days, weeping.
After business embarrassments, unable to sleep, must get up (Act., Sep.).
Ranula with fetid breath (Thuja). Sensation of coldness in abdomen (Cal.).
The presence of others, even the nurse, is unbearable during stool; frequent, ineffectual desire, which makes her anxious.
Discharge of blood between periods, at every little accident – a long walk, after very hard stool, etc.
Leucorrhoea; thick, bluish-white mucus, especially or only at night (Caust., Mer., Nit. ac.).
Violent cough in spasmodic paroxysyms, with eructations and hoarseness; worse talking or reading aloud (Dros., Phos.); evening without, morning with expectoration (Hyos.); whooping cough, but without crowing inspiration.
Relationship. – Similar: to, Act., Asaf., Coca, Ign., Mosch., Phos., Val.
Aggravation. – Warm drinks, warm room; music; lying down; reading or talking aloud; the presence of many people; after waking.
Amelioration. – After eating; cold air; cold food and drinks; rising form bed.
About Dr. HC Allen
Dr. Henry Clay ALLEN
(1836-1909, US)
Dr. Henry C. Allen was born [on February 10, 1836] in the village of Nilestown, near London, Ontario, and was the son of Hugh and Martha Billings Allen. On his paternal side, he was a descendant of that distinguished family of Vermonters of the same name, Gen. Ira Allen and Ethan Allen, both famous in the revolution. On his maternal side, the Billings' were well known among the Colonial families of Massachussetts Bay, and one of them, the great-grand-father of Dr. Allen, owned the farm lands on which the present city of Salem is built. After selling this property, the family moved to Deerfield, in the Connecticut Valley and were there at the time the Indians pillaged and ravaged that part of the country.
In 1875 he moved to Detroit, Michigan, and in 1880, being appointed Professor of Materia Medica at the University of Michigan, he moved to Ann Arbor, where he has since resided. In 1892 he founded the Hering Medical College and Hospital, of which he was Dean and Professor of Materia Medica until his death, January 22nd, 1909.
Dr. Allen was an honorable senior of the American Institute of Homeopathy ; a number of the International Hahnemannian Association ; of the Illinois Homeopathic Medical Association ; of the Englewood Homeopathic Medical Society ; of the Regular Homeopathic Medical Society of Chicago ; Honorary Vice-President of the Cooper Club of London, England ; and Honorary Member of the Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio State Medical Societies and Honorary Member of the Homeopathic Society of Calcutta, India.
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