Ambra Grisea is a useful homoeopathic remedy for thin,
lean, shorttempered, irritable and easily provoked children as well as adults. Over-sensitivity is its peculiar feature.
Vertigo and loss of balance can manifest in early age, which normally happen in
old age. So this remedy can also be very useful in common old age ailments. The Ambra Grisea patient is usually very sad, even if there is no specific
underlying cause. Ambra Grisea is the correct treatment of the patients who
remain sad, like to sit aloof in the dark, become depressed over trivial
matters, lose all zeal to live, show total indifference to their surroundings
and start showing physical signs of ageing prematurely. They feel dizzy. The head and the
stomach feel weak. The forehead feels heavy and the head hurts with variable intensity.
There is drowsiness too. The memory
is weak. The hairs on the scalp fall easily. When bleeding from the
nose and gums occurs, it is copious. Gas accumulates in the stomach. Belching
is sour, but the feeling it produces in the stomach is that of soothing, rather
than burning.
In Ambra Grisea, a lack
of concentration is natural. The head feels numb and this feeling
spreads over the whole body. Ambra
Grisea ailments tend to remain localized only on one side like in Bryonia,
Belladona and Spigelia. They are present and remain strictly either on right or
left side.
Typically, the Ambra Grisea patient cannot tolerate music. The
music intensifies the headaches, mental anguish as well as the physical
symptoms. In other words, instead of comforting the person, the music provokes
mental and physical commotion. In Ambra
Grisea, symptoms of old age, such as numbness
of the hands and feet, palpitation and flabby muscles creep in
rapidly.
Ambra Grisea is very useful in minimizing the effects of
sudden shock. I have often used Ambra Grisea on women who have been deeply grieved due to
sudden emotional shock. In transient emotional shock, however, Ignatia is the
best.