Ammonium phosphoricum
Alias: Am-p.
Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, William Boericke
Phosphate of Ammonia
A remedy for chronic gouty patients uric acid diathesis, indicated in bronchitis and nodosities of the joints of the fingers and backs of the hands. Facial paralysis. Pain in shoulder-joint. Tightness around chest. Heaviness of limbs, unsteady, tottering gait. Coldness from least draft of air.
Head.--Sneezing with excessive running from nose and eyes, only in morning.
Respiratory.--Deep rough cough with greenish expectoration.
Urine.--Rose-colored sediment.
Dose.--Third decimal trituration.
A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, John Henry Clarke
Ammoniae phosphas. Hydro-diammonic phosphate (NH4)2 HPO4 Solution.
Clinical.─Facial paralysis. Gout. Joints, concretions on.
Characteristics.─This salt has been used in cases of chronic gout with nodes of urate of soda on the joints. C. Voigt took three grains of Am. Phos., with this result: In about an hour, attacked by a sense of tightness in the precordia and around the chest; nausea; thirst; a hard, small, frequent pulse; and a collapsed state of the circulation. Afterwards, fulness and tension in head; heaviness in limbs; unsteady, tottering gait. Allen says it has been used with success in some cases of facial paralysis.