# Ambra Grisea

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Hot
- **Aggravation Time:** Evening

## Keynote Indications
Source: Derived from a waxy substance produced in the digestive tract of sperm whales ( Physeter. macrocephalus), known as Ambergris, processed for homeopathic use. Traditional Context: Historically used in homeopathy for nervous and psychological disorders ,. particularly in individuals with extreme shyness, hypersensitivity, and anxiety in social settings. It is. noted  for  symptoms  like  nervousness,  insomnia,  and  physical  complaints  (e.g.,  constipation,. palpitations) triggered by emotional stress or social exposure, often seen in the elderly or sensitive. individuals. Modern  Context:  Indicated  for  social  anxiety  disorder,  generalized  anxiety,  functional. neurological symptoms, and insomnia related to emotional hypersensitivity. It suits patients with. heightened sensitivity to external stimuli (e.g., noise, crowds), often presenting with psychosomatic. complaints,  mild  cognitive  fog,  or  digestive  dysfunction,  typically  exacerbated  by  social. interactions or stress.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from: Social situations, presence of strangers, warm rooms, noise, evening/night,. emotional stress.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- The patient has an embarrassed feelings.
- Bashful state is very characteristic.
- Intensely shy, blushes 
easily.
- Cannot do anyth ing in presence of others.
- Embarrassed in company, cannot have others present 
during urination and stool (Nat-m.).
- The memory is impaired, slow com prehension.
- Forgetful.
- Awkward.
- Dread of people and desire to be alone.
- Dwells upon unpleasant things.
- Melan choly, sits for days weeping.
- Dreamy.
- Time passes slowly.
- Thinking 
difficult in the morning with old people.
- Cannot understand what one reads.
- Music causes weeping  and trembling.
- Sad.
- Despair, loathing of life.
- Fantastic illusions.
- Bashful, blushes 
easily.
- Loss of love of life.
- Restless, excited, very loquacious.
- Hearing others talk or talking himself affects him.
- Aversion to laughter.
- As if in a dream.
- Flitting, flighty talker, modem society girls.
- Jumping from one subject to an other, never waiting to hav e first 
question answered.
- Fixed disagreeable fancies.
- Imagines diabolic faces, sights.
- The patient has an embarrassed feelings.
- Bashful state is very characteristic.
- Intensely shy, blushes 
easily.
- Cannot do anyth ing in presence of others.
- Embarrassed in company, cannot have others present 
during urination and stool (Nat-m.).
- The memory is impaired, slow com prehension.
- Forgetful.
- Awkward.
- Dread of people and desire to be alone.
- Dwells upon unpleasant things.
- Melan choly, sits for days weeping.
- Dreamy.
- Time passes slowly.
- Thinking 
difficult in the morning with old people.
- Cannot understand what one reads.
- Music causes weeping  and trembling.
- Sad.
- Despair, loathing of life.
- Fantastic illusions.
- Bashful, blushes 
easily.
- Loss of love of life.
- Restless, excited, very loquacious.
- Hearing others talk or talking himself affects him.
- Aversion to laughter.
- As if in a dream.
- Flitting, flighty talker, modem society girls.
- Jumping from one subject to an other, never waiting to hav e first 
question answered.
- Fixed disagreeable fancies.
- Imagines diabolic faces, sights.

### Vertigo
- Senile vertigo with weakness in head and stomach.
- Senile dizziness.
- COMMENTS - The pelvic organs are painfully influenced.
- There is voluptuous itching on the scrotum and some 
rawness below the thighs in the male.
- In the female, there is a discharge of blood between the periods at every 
little accident, as straining at stool or extra work.
- Severe itching on pudenda.
- During urination, itching, tickling, 
burning of vulva and urethra.Nymphomania with discharge of bluish white mucus.
- After childbirth, obstinate 
constipation and tenesmus with bashfulness, cannot make the attempt to stool if any one is present, even the 
nurse.
- There is a tickling, spasmodic cough.
- Cough excited by speaking.
- Night cough.
- Cough followed by copious 
belching.
- Itching in chest.
- The limbs go to sleep easily.
- Fingernails are brittle.
- Sweat on slightest exertion.
- Sleepless from worry, retires tired, wakeful as soon as touches pillows.

### Head
- Pressure on front part of head with mental depression.
- Tearing pain in upper half of brain.
- Brain, 
feels loose, falls to side lain on.
- Softening of brain.
- Rush of blood to head, when listening to music.
- Hearing 
impaired.
- Profuse bleeding from teeth.
- Hair falls out.
- Confusion in occiput, also sprained feeling in.
- Headache 
worse blowing nose.
- Pressure on front part of head with mental depression.
- Tearing pain in upper half of brain.
- Brain, 
feels loose, falls to side lain on.
- Softening of brain.
- Rush of blood to head, when listening to music.
- Hearing 
impaired.
- Profuse bleeding from teeth.
- Hair falls out.
- Confusion in occiput, also sprained feeling in.
- Headache 
worse blowing nose.

### Eyes
- Stitching in the eyelids as if a stye were being formed.
- Eyelids, heavy, cannot open them though awake.
- Spots float before the eyes after sewing.

### Ears
- Hardness of hearing with cold sensation in abdomen.
- Deaf in one, roaring and whistling in the other.

### Face
- Twitching of the facial muscles.
- Cramps in lips, lips hot.
- Left cheek red.
- Flushes of the face, jaundiced 
color.
- Embarrassed look.
- Tetanus, lockjaw in newborn.

### Mouth
- Profuse bleeding from the gums, offensive breath.
- Insipid or rancid taste.
- Sour mouth, worse after 
milk.
- Salivation with cough.
- Small growths under tongue.
- Ranula.
- Nose - Nosebleed, while washing face in the morning, during menses.
- Stoppage mostly at night, must breathe 
through the mouth, with chronic coryza.

### Throat
- Sensation as if a plug in throat with difficulty swallowing.
- Sore, raw from exposure to air, worse motion 
of tongue.

### Chest
- Functional palpitations or chest tightness, often stress-induced, worse in company.
- Sensation of flushing or heat during anxious episodes.
- Gastrointestinal:.
- Functional constipation, often with small, hard stools and straining, worse under.
- stress.
- Mild dyspepsia or bloating, linked to nervous tension or dietary irregularity.
- Systemic:.
- Fatigue or nervous exhaustion, particularly after social overload.
- Generalized sensitivity to warmth, with aggravation in hot, crowded spaces.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Distention of stomach and abdomen  after midnight.
- Sensation of coldness in abdomen.
- After 
eating, cough and gasping, and a feeling as if food did not go down into the stomach.
- Belching with a violent, 
convulsive cough.
- Acid belching like heartburn.
- Heartburn from drinking milk.
- Temperature - Frequent flushes of heat at short intervals.
- Sweat on slightest exertion especially on abdomen 
and thighs.
- Flatulence.
- Incarcerated flatus.
- Tension and inflation of the abdomen, principally after eating and drinking.
- Sensation of coldness in the 
 
 
abdomen.
- Sweat on a bdomen and thighs.
- Pressive pain in the epigastrium.
- Heaviness in the belly.
- Cutting 
pains with diarrhea.
- Pain in the spleen, as if something were tom off.
- Flatulent colic in the night.
- Thirstlessness.
- Want of appetite.

### Urinary & Genital
- Voluptuous excitement of and itching in genitals.
- Voluptuous itching of scrotum.
- Parts externally numb, 
burn internally.
- Violent erections without voluptuous sensations.
- Impotence.
- The sexual desire is increased.
- Nymphomania.
- Itching of pudendum with soreness and swelling.
- Menses too early and too profuse.
- Itching in labia.
- Profuse, bluish leucorrhea, worse at night.
- Discharge of 
blood between periods, at every little incident,  worse after hard stools, walking a little longer etc.
- Lying 
down aggravates uterine symptoms.

### Extremities
- Cramps in hands and fingers, worse grasping anything.
- Arms, numbness.
- Left leg becomes quite 
blue during menses.
- Twitching of limbs with coldness of body during sleep.
- Cramps in legs and calves.
- Limbs 
go to sleep easily.
- Finger nails brittle.
- Drops what one is carrying.
- Coldness of hand (left) with headache.
- Sore 
and raw between thighs.
- Liver - Aching in small spot in the region of the liver, better pressure.
- Liver pains, pressive.

### Neck & Back
- Pressive, drawing pain in the neck and back.
- Heaviness in the b ack, with pain in the belly, as if the 
intestines were compressed.
- Shooting pain in the loins.
- Stiffness in the loins after sitting long.
- Causations - Shock due to business failure or due to the deaths, one after another, in the family.
- Effects of 
domestic shock, business worry.
- Loss of near relatives.
- Imaginations.

### Skin
- Fatigue or nervous exhaustion, particularly after social overload.
- Generalized sensitivity to warmth, with aggravation in hot, crowded spaces.

### Sleep
- Retires tired, wakeful as soon as touches the pillow.
- Cannot sleep from worry, must get up.
- Anxious 
dreams.
- Coldness of body and twitching of limbs during sleep.

### Generalities
- Sensation of coldness, numb ness in spots or of single parts, fingers, arms etc.
- with twitching.
- Itching with trembling and flushing.
- General pulsation.