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Ammonium muriaticum (Am‑m.)

Ammonium muriaticum (Am‑m.) appears in the repertory in 291 rubrics. Of these, 8 are single-remedy rubrics in which only this remedy is listed, and 14 are small rubrics with at most two other remedies. The emphasis is on Anxiety, Delusions, Ailments from certain causes, Fear, and Children, as well as Anger and Morose. These yield the picture of a person who believes himself threatened by enemies and systematically done in, and whose mind is tinged by grief and twilight.

Persecution as king-pin symptom

The remedy's king-pin symptom is the delusion of being murdered. The note on it distinguishes three states of consciousness: the awareness of being killed by someone, the awareness that one's own illness is so fatal that it spares nothing, and the awareness that bad days lie ahead. As typical for the remedy the same note names further rubrics: an enemy under the bed, head surrounded by fire, a boiling sensation, a sword above the head.

Enemies and sword

These rubrics stand as single-remedy rubrics in the repertory. Added to them is paranoid schizophrenia with an enemy under the bed. The images are close to the body and threatening: fire around the head, a sword above it. The threat remains hanging over the person's head.

Grief

The second strand is grief. A single-remedy rubric lists anxiety as if from grief, small rubrics fear as from something grieving, and the delusion that a sorrow weighs upon the person. Here too the mood reaches into the body, as in a small rubric on anxiety, as if paralyzed.

Evening mood and withdrawal

The evening and twilight hours color the mood. The person is morose at twilight, in the afternoon as in the evening. A single-remedy rubric records reserve in the evening, small rubrics absorption in thought in the evening, insulting behavior in the evening, and taciturnity in the forenoon. The indifference concerns fame.

Anger

Anger occurs with eight rubrics, and it has a turn of its own: a single-remedy rubric records that it is better after eating. A small rubric names anger at noon, beside it a bitter taste.

Summary

Am‑m. appears as the picture of a person who feels persecuted and systematically threatened, is burdened by grief, and becomes morose and closed at twilight. With 22 specific rubrics the data are scant, but the king-pin symptom clearly carries the picture.

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