AMMONIUM CARBONICUM

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Clinical Keynotes Mind Head Eyes Ears Nose Face Mouth Throat Stomach Abdomen Urine Male Female Respiratory Heart Extremities Sleep Skin Modalities

Remedy Origin / Source

Natural

Clinical Applications

Inimical to Lachesis . Similar in action. Antidotes: Arnica; Camphor.

Related Remedies

Key Symptoms & Indications

The diseased conditions met by this remedy are such as we find often in rather stout women who are always tired and weary, take cold easily, suffer from cholera-like symptoms before menses, lead a sedentary life, have a slow reaction generally, and are disposed to frequent use of the smelling-bottle. Too frequent and profuse menses. Mucous membranes of the respiratory organs are especially affected. Fat patients with weak heart, wheezing, feel suffocated. Very sensitive to cold air. Great aversion to water; cannot bear to touch it. Malignant scarlatina, with somnolence, swollen glands, dark red sore throat, faintly developed eruption. Uræmia. Heaviness in all organs. Uncleanness in bodily habits. Swelling of parts, glands, etc. Acid secretions. Prostration from trifles.

Mental & Emotional Symptoms

Forgetful, ill-humored, gloomy during stormy weather. Uncleanliness . Talking and hearing others talk affects greatly. Sad, weepy, unreasonable.

Physical Symptoms

Head

Pulsating forehead; better, pressure and in warm room. Shocks through head.

Eyes

Burning of eyes with aversion to light. Eye-strain ( Nat mur ). Asthenopia. Sore canthi.

Ears

Hardness of hearing. Shocks through ears, eyes, and nose, when gnashing teeth.

Nose

Discharge of sharp, burning water. Stoppage at night, with long-continued coryza. Cannot breathe through nose. Snuffles of children. Epistaxis after washing and after eating . Ozæna, blows bloody mucus from nose. Tip of nose congested.

Face

Tetters around mouth. Boils and pustules, during menses. Corners of mouth sore, cracked, and burn.

Mouth

Great dryness of mouth and throat. Toothache. Pressing teeth together sends shocks through head, eyes, and ears . Vesicles on tongue. Taste sour; metallic. Cracking of jaw on chewing.

Throat

Enlarged tonsils and glands of neck. Burning pain all down throat. Tendency to gangrenous ulceration of tonsils. Diphtheria when nose is stopped up .

Stomach

Pain at pit of stomach, with heartburn, nausea, waterbrash, and chilliness. Great appetite, but easily satisfied. Flatulent dyspepsia.

Abdomen

Noise and pain in abdomen. Flatulent hernia. Stools difficult, hard, and knotty. Bleeding piles; worse during menses . Itching at anus. Protruding piles, worse after stool, better lying down.

Urine

Frequent desire; involuntary at night. Tenesmus of bladder. Urine white, sandy, bloody, copious, turbid and fetid.

Male

Itching and pain of scrotum and spermatic cords. Erection without desire. Seminal emissions.

Female

Itching, swelling and burning of pudendum. Leucorrha burning, acrid, watery. Aversion to the other sex. Menses too frequent, profuse , early, copious, clotted, black; colicky pains, and hard, difficult stool, with fatigue , especially of thighs; yawning and chilliness.

Respiratory

Hoarseness. Cough every morning about three o'clock, with dyspna, palpitation, burning in chest; worse ascending. Chest feels tired. Emphysema. Much oppression in breathing ; worse after any effort, and entering warm room , or ascending even a few steps. Asthenic Pneumonia . Slow labored, stertorous breathing; bubbling sound. Winter catarrh, with slimy sputum and specks of blood. Pulmonary dema.

Heart

Audible palpitation with fear, cold sweat, lachrymation, inability to speak, loud breathing and trembling hands. Heart weak , wakes with difficult breathing and palpitation.

Extremities

Tearing in joints relieved by heat of bed; inclination to stretch limbs. Hands cold and blue; distended veins. Fingers swell when arm is hanging down. Panaritium, deep-seated periosteal pain. Cramps in calves and soles. Big toe painful and swollen. Felons in the beginning. Heel painful on standing. Tearing in ankle and bones of feet, better when warm in bed.

Sleep

Sleepiness during the day. Starts from sleep strangling.

Skin

Violent itching and burning blisters. Scarlet rash. Miliary rash. Malignant scarlatina. Faintly developed eruptions from defective vitality. Erysipelas in the aged, with brain symptoms. Eczema in the bends of extremities, between legs, about anus and genitals.

Modalities (Better / Worse)

Worse (Aggravation)

, evenings, from cold, wet weather, wet applications, washing, and during 3 to 4 am, during menses

Better (Amelioration)

, lying on painful side and on stomach; in dry weather

Remedy Relationships

Follows Well

Bell, Bry., Calc., Lyc., Phos., Puls., Rhus-t., Sep., Sulph., Verat.

Inimicals (Incompatible)

Lach.

Antidotes

Arn., Campli., Hep.

Mentions in Classic Materia Medicas

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AMMONIUM CARBONICUM

Carbonate of Ammonia (AMMONIUM CARB)

The diseased conditions met by this remedy are such as we find often in rather stout women who are always tired and weary, take cold easily, suffer from cholera-like symptoms before menses, lead a sedentary life, have a slow reaction generally, and are disposed to frequent use of the smelling-bottle. Too frequent and profuse menses. Mucous membranes of the respiratory organs are especially affected. Fat patients with weak heart, wheezing, feel suffocated. Very sensitive to cold air. Great aversion to water; cannot bear to touch it. Malignant scarlatina, with somnolence, swollen glands, dark red sore throat, faintly developed eruption. Uræmia. Heaviness in all organs. Uncleanness in bodily habits. Swelling of parts, glands, etc. Acid secretions. Prostration from trifles.

Mind

Forgetful, ill-humored, gloomy during stormy weather. Uncleanliness. Talking and hearing others talk affects greatly. Sad, weepy, unreasonable.

Head

Pulsating forehead; better, pressure and in warm room. Shocks through head.

Eyes

Burning of eyes with aversion to light. Eye-strain (Nat mur). Asthenopia. Sore canthi.

Ears

Hardness of hearing. Shocks through ears, eyes, and nose, when gnashing teeth.

Nose

Discharge of sharp, burning water. Stoppage at night, with long-continued coryza. Cannot breathe through nose. Snuffles of children. Epistaxis after washing and after eating. Ozæna, blows bloody mucus from nose. Tip of nose congested.

Face

Tetters around mouth. Boils and pustules, during menses. Corners of mouth sore, cracked, and burn.

Mouth

Great dryness of mouth and throat. Toothache. Pressing teeth together sends shocks through head, eyes, and ears. Vesicles on tongue. Taste sour; metallic. Cracking of jaw on chewing.

Throat

Enlarged tonsils and glands of neck. Burning pain all down throat. Tendency to gangrenous ulceration of tonsils. Diphtheria when nose is stopped up.

Stomach

Pain at pit of stomach, with heartburn, nausea, waterbrash, and chilliness. Great appetite, but easily satisfied. Flatulent dyspepsia.

Abdomen

Noise and pain in abdomen. Flatulent hernia. Stools difficult, hard, and knotty. Bleeding piles; worse during menses. Itching at anus. Protruding piles, worse after stool, better lying down.

Urine

Frequent desire; involuntary at night. Tenesmus of bladder. Urine white, sandy, bloody, copious, turbid and fetid.

Male

Itching and pain of scrotum and spermatic cords. Erection without desire. Seminal emissions.

Female

Itching, swelling and burning of pudendum. Leucorrhœa burning, acrid, watery. Aversion to the other sex. Menses too frequent, profuse, early, copious, clotted, black; colicky pains, and hard, difficult stool, with fatigue, especially of thighs; yawning and chilliness.

Respiratory

Hoarseness. Cough every morning about three o'clock, with dyspnœa, palpitation, burning in chest; worse ascending. Chest feels tired. Emphysema. Much oppression in breathing; worse after any effort, and entering warm room, or ascending even a few steps. Asthenic Pneumonia. Slow labored, stertorous breathing; bubbling sound. Winter catarrh, with slimy sputum and specks of blood. Pulmonary œdema.

Heart

Audible palpitation with fear, cold sweat, lachrymation, inability to speak, loud breathing and trembling hands. Heart weak, wakes with difficult breathing and palpitation.

Extremities

Sleep

Sleepiness during the day. Starts from sleep strangling.

Skin

Modalities

Worse, evenings, from cold, wet weather, wet applications, washing, and during 3 to 4 am, during menses. Better, lying on painful side and on stomach; in dry weather.

Relationship

Inimical to Lachesis. Similar in action.

Antidotes: Arnica; Camphor.

Compare: Rhus; Muriatic acid; Tartar emet.

Of use in poisoning by charcoal fumes.

Dose

Lower potencies deteriorate with age. Sixth potency best for general use.

Ammonium Carbonicum.

Sal volatile. Sesqui carbonate of Ammonia. 2[(NH4)2 C03 CO2. Solution in distilled water.

Clinical

Asthma Bronchitis. Cough. Dislocations, pains from. Emphysema. Enuresis. Erysipelas. Gums, sensitive. Hæmorrhoids. Hysteria. Lungs, œdema of. Measles. Miliary eruptions. Nose affections. Parotitis. Rickets. Scarlatina. Spotted fever. Sprains. Sternum, pain on. Toothache. Uræmia. Whitlow.

Characteristics

Ammon. carb. is a right-side medicine and a venous medicine. A condition of under-oxygenation underlies a large proportion of symptoms. Consequently it is a chilly medicine with great sensitiveness to cold open air, < in wet, stormy weather; from washing; from wet poultice; > by warmth. It is suited to stout women who readily take cold in winter. < At night: 3 a.m. It is also hæmorrhagic. There is the scorbutic condition of bleeding gums. Bleeding from the nose, especially in the morning on washing; after a meal. Bleeding piles; at every menstrual period bleeding from rectum. The menses are premature and copious, the blood being dark (colic and pains in loins, or toothache accompanying). Somnolence accompanies many conditions. Bloody expectoration accompanying the cough. Tickling cough. Asthma. Cough from 2 to 5 a.m. Anguish at heart: palpitation and faintness. Pain as from fatigue (hip-joint; legs, thighs). Pains as from dislocation or sprain (wrist, great toe). Pain as of contraction of tendons. Numbness and stiffness of arms and hands. The pains are ulcerative; shooting, digging. Miliary eruption. Swelling of glands. Headache < in morning; with nausea. Hammering, pressing, bursting; as if contents would start through forehead. Feeling of looseness of brain─as if it fell from side to side, whichever way the head was moved. Burning in eyes; dryness; black spots; sparks; myopia; cataract; catarrh. Muscular asthenopia from prolonged use of the eyes, with appearance of yellow spots on looking at white objects. Pterygium, A curious symptom is: Inability to blow the nose, in children. Dry, stuffed coryza, < at night, breathes with mouth open. Boil on the tip of the nose. Skin of face tight, as if swollen. Foul breath. Toothache, pulling or starting (during catamenia). Sore throat, as of something sticking in it; scraping; spasm; difficult swallowing. Nausea, vomiting, fulness, water-brash, < after eating. Flatulence. Slow, hard evacuations in small pieces. Piles during menstrual period. Miliary eruptions. Dry tetters; excoriations; ulcerations, phagedenic. Restlessness; paralytic weakness. Great prostration, with falling temperature. Gout in great toe. Heel painful on standing. The venous under-oxygenated condition of the medicine again appears in the excessive sleepiness produced in the daytime. In the night there are dreams of spectres of death and attacks of anguish. The mental faculties are slow; weak memory; heedlessness, absence of mind. Sadness, disposition to weep. Timidity. Apprehensive. Ill-humour. Desperate and unruly. Dr. Gallavardin has cured uncleanness in bodily habits with Ammon. carb. The remedy is suited to scrofulous children, stout and sedentary women (most of the carbonates are suited to states of corpulency), women who are always having recourse to the swelling-bottle. Among the ameliorations there are > lying on stomach (Nit. ac.). > Lying on right side; on painful side. > From external pressure; in warm room; in dry air. There is < on bending down. Nose-bleed comes on when washing the face.

Relations

Compare the Ammonias, Ant. t., Ars.; Aur. (crushing weight on sternum, but Aur. has less somnolence and less venous congestion) Lach. (to which Am. c. is inimical); Phos., Pul., Sul. It antidotes Rhus and stings of insects, poisoning from charcoal fumes. Is antidoted by: Arn., Camph., Hep., Vegetable acids, Fixed oils.

1. Mind

Sadness, with disposition to weep, apprehensions and anguish, which often disappear towards the evening.─Fretting in the evening.─Anxiety with weakness and nightmare.─Timidity of character.─Disgust with life.─Ill-humour in the morning, and when it is bad weather.─Morose and passionate humour.─Character disobedient and unruly.─Excessive gaiety.─Heedlessness.─Great absence of mind and weakness of memory.─Tendency to make mistakes in speaking, in writing, or in calculating.─Impairment of the intellectual faculties.

2. Head

Vertigo, on reading in a sitting posture, in the morning or in the evening; sometimes with nausea.─Obstinate headache.─Headache with nausea.─The headache often appears in the evening, after walking in the open air, or in the morning, or after a meal.─Pain, as of ulceration in the head, chiefly on moving the head, or on pressing it.─Hammering, pressure, and beatings in the head, with sensation as if its contents were going to start through the forehead, or the head were on the point of bursting; < after eating and while walking in the open air; > from external pressure and in the warm room; heaviness and beating in the forehead after dinner.─Shootings at the base of the brain.─Headache, as if from carbonic acid gas.─Sensation as if the brain moved loosely in the skull.─Soreness of the scalp and of the hair.─Itching in the head.─Falling off of the hair.

3. Eyes

Burning in the eyes, principally in the evening, or in the morning, with photophobia.─Sensation of cold in the eyes.─Hordeolum.─Nocturnal agglutination of the eyelids.─Dry excretion in the eyelids.─Affections from over-straining the eyes.─Muscæ volitantes.─Eyes weak and watery after reading or using them at fine work.─Yellow spots before the eyes on looking at white objects.─Inability to move the eyes.─Confused sight, with sparks before the eyes.─Double vision.─Myopia.─Cataract.─Black spots and bright bands before the eyes.─Weeping.

4. Ears

Buzzing in the ears, particularly at night.─Roaring and tingling in the ears.─Hardness of hearing, with suppuration and itching of the ears.─Hard swelling of the glands of the neck, and of the parotid glands.

5. Nose

Heaviness in the extremity of the nose on stooping, as if from congestion of blood.─Itching and purulent pimples in the nose.─Furunculus at the extremity of the nose.─Swelling, sensation of excoriation and painful sensibility of the nostrils.─Discharge of sharp, burning water from the nose.─Discharge of pus from the nose.─Excretion of sanguineous mucus.─Bleeding of the nose, particularly in the morning on washing, or after a meal.─Obstinate dryness of the nose.─Obstinate coryza.─Dry coryza and stoppage of the nose, chiefly at night, with danger of suffocation.─With long-continued coryza, he can only breathe through the mouth.

6. Face

Face pale and bloated, with nausea and fatigue of body and mind.─Sickly complexion.─Heat in the face during intellectual labour.─Tension and acute dragging pains, with shootings in the right side of the face.─Tightness in the skin of the face, as if the face were swollen.─Hard swelling of the (r.) parotid gland.─Distortion of the features.─Eruptions on the face, with itching.─Furunculi on the cheeks.─Ephelides.─Tetter-like eruptions, with desquamation of the skin, on the cheeks, round the mouth, and on the chin.─Lips dry, cracked, burning, and bleeding.─The corners of the mouth and lips are sore, cracked, and burn.─Painful swelling of the sub-maxillary glands.─Itching eruptions, with soreness of the sub-maxillary glands.

7. Teeth

Toothache on compressing the teeth, or after lying down in the evening, or when the air has penetrated to them, or during catamenia; the pains are, for the most part, drawing or starting, or shooting, or like those of ulceration, and they frequently extend into the cheeks and ears.─Aggravation from warm fluids, during the menses.─Pricking pain, esp. in the molar teeth; worse when masticating or touching the decayed tooth with the tongue.─Obstinate shooting pain in the teeth.─Caries, elongation, and chronic looseness of the teeth; rapid decay of the teeth.─The edges of the teeth feel dull.─Inflammatory swelling, suppuration, and easy bleeding of the gums.

8. Mouth

Redness, inflammation, pain as from excoriation, and sensation of swelling in the interior of the mouth; esp. the inside of the cheeks.─Eruption of vesicles in the mouth and on the tongue.─Vesicles on the tongue, at the tip, on the borders, burning, hindering eating and speaking.─Difficulty of speech, as if from weakness of the organs.─Great dryness of the mouth and throat, chiefly at night.─Accumulation of saliva in the mouth, and constant spitting.─Offensive smell from the mouth, perceptible to the patient.

9. Throat

When swallowing, sensation as of a foreign body in the throat.─Sore throat, as if something were sticking in it, principally in the morning and evening.─Pain, as from excoriation and scraping in the throat.─Swelling of the tonsils, with difficulty in swallowing (tonsils bluish, much offensive mucus there).─Spasmodic contraction of the anterior muscles of the neck after drinking.─Putrid sore throat.

10. Appetite

Taste of blood in the mouth.─Bitter taste, chiefly after eating, or after waking in the morning.─Acid taste of food and after having taken milk.─Metallic taste of food.─Much thirst.─Constant thirst.─Inability to eat without drinking.─Great craving and appetite.─Want of appetite in the morning.─When eating, one is soon satiated.─Repugnance to milk.─Excessive desire for sugar.─Dizzy vertigo, and heat in the face when eating.─After a meal, pyrosis, with scraping in the throat, and drowsiness.

11. Stomach

Sour, or empty, or abortive risings.─Risings, with taste of food taken.─Pyrosis.─Risings, and vomiting.─Pain as from constriction in the stomach, with nausea, water-brash and chilliness > by pressure and by lying down).─Nausea and vomiting after eating, with pressure in the pit of the stomach.─Sensitive painfulness of the stomach, even to the clothing.─Violent sanguineous vomiting.─Fulness in the stomach, chiefly after a meal, with nausea, and great tenderness at the pit of the stomach.─Gastralgia.─Contractive pain in the pit of the stomach, when stretching.─Heat and sensation of burning in the stomach.─Heartburn after eating.

12. Abdomen

Pressure, pain as from excoriation and burning in the hepatic region.─Piercing shootings in the liver, when seated in the evening.─Pain in the abdomen, with diarrhœa.─Contractive spasmodic colics, with nausea, and accumulation of water in the mouth.─Pain, as from commotion in the abdomen, when walking.─Noise in the abdomen.─Elastic swelling in the groin, like flatulent hernia.─Flatulent, painful colic.

13. Stool and Anus

Constipation.─Difficult evacuations.─Slow, hard evacuations, in small pieces.─Stool difficult, hard, knotty.─Soft or loose slimy evacuations, followed or preceded by cutting pains.─After and during an evacuation, discharge of blood from the anus. Hæmorrhoids in the anus, sometimes bleeding, with smarting pains.─Protrusion of hæmorrhoids from the rectum during the evacuation, with much pain afterwards.─Hæmorrhoidal tumours protruding before, during, and after stool.─Nocturnal burning and itching in the anus.─Excoriation between the legs and at the anus.

14. Urinary Organs

Constant inclination to make water, even at night, with scanty emission.─Frequent desire to urinate, with continued pressure on the bladder.─Frequent and copious micturition, esp. in the evening.─Passing water at night, during sleep (morning).─Wetting the bed.─White, sandy urine.─Reddish urine, like water mixed with blood.─Emission of blood from the urethra.

15. Male Sexual Organs

Excessive sexual desire, without lascivious ideas or erections; or want of sexual desire and repugnance to the other sex.─Frequent pollutions, and a sense of contracting, dragging, and heaviness in the testes.─Discharge of prostatic fluid, after a difficult evacuation.

16. Female Sexual Organs

Swelling, itching, and burning in the (external) genital parts of the female.─Excoriation of the skin in the parts, and in the anus.─Premature and too copious menses, with emission of black and acrid blood.─Before and during the catamenia, colic and pains in the loins.─During the catamenia, toothache, pressure on the matrix, cuttings, acute drawings in the back and in the genital parts, desire to lie down, paleness of the face, shivering, coryza, and sadness.─Discharge of serum from the matrix.─Great weakness during the menstrual flow; hæmorrhoids < during.─Acrid, corrosive, or burning leucorrhœa, or watery.

17. Respiratory Organs

Roughness and hoarseness, with difficulty of speech.─Inability to speak a loud word.─Catarrh, with hardness of hearing, and burning in the stomach.─Cough, with hoarseness.─Dry cough, as if from a feather in the throat.─Cough, with asthmatic oppression, particularly when in bed in the evening.─Tickling cough, with expectoration.─Cough only at night, or only by day, or in the evening, before going to sleep, or in the morning towards three or four o'clock; dry from tickling in the throat, as of dust.─Cough, with spitting of blood, with previous sweet taste and with great dyspnœa.─Cough, with stitches in the small of the back.─When coughing, shootings in the loins, in the sternum, or in the pit of the stomach.─Cough, with mucous and sanguineous expectoration, shortness of breath, and sensation of a weight in the chest.─Expectoration of pure blood, produced by coughing.

18. Chest

Short breath, with choking, principally on going upstairs.─Asthmatic respiration, and dyspnœa, chiefly in the heat of a room, as well as after any exertion, sometimes with palpitation of the heart.─Nocturnal dyspnœa.─Painful sensation of spasmodic asthma, with short and dull cough.─Shootings in the chest and in the sides, particularly when breathing, singing, stooping, walking, or at night, with inability to lie for any time on the side affected.─Feeling of fatigue in the chest.─Congestion towards the chest.─Heaviness in the chest, as from congestion of blood to the chest.─Burning in the chest.─Stitch in the heart, frequently.─Palpitation of the heart, chiefly after exertion, and sometimes with retraction of the epigastrium, and weakness in the pit of the stomach.─Shootings in the integuments of the chest.─Purple miliary eruptions and furunculi on the chest.

20. Neck and Back

Pains in the lumbar region, and pains in the nape of the neck, mostly of a dragging nature.─Acute draggings from the side to the scapulary joint.─Painful swelling of the glands of the neck and of the axillary glands.─Goître.─Drawing tension in the back and in the loins.

22. Upper Limbs

Arms and fingers dead and stiff at night, as well as in the morning, and when grasping anything.─Heaviness and paralytic weakness of the arms.─Acute pulling in the joints of the arms, of the hands, and of the fingers, > by the heat of the bed.─Pain, as from a sprain in the wrist.─Attack of trembling in the hands.─Swollen veins and bluish colour of the hands, after having washed them in cold water.─Exfoliation of the skin of the hands.─The skin of the hands becomes hard and cracked.─Cramps in the fingers.─Numbness of the fingers.─Swelling of the hands when the arms are suffered to fall down.─Swelling of the joints of the fingers.

23. Lower Limbs

Tightness in the legs, as if the tendons were too short.─Jerking and contracting of the legs.─Great fatigue in the legs.─Pain, as from fatigue, in the coxo-femoral joint, and the thighs, particularly in bed in the morning; > by walking.─Pain, as if bruised in the thighs.─Cramps in the feet, in the calves of the legs, and in the tibiæ.─Jerking of the knees and legs.─Drawing pain in the legs, when seated.─Acute dragging in the joints of the feet, > by the heat of the bed.─Pain, as of ulceration, and shootings in the heels.─Sensation of burning in the feet.─Swelling of the feet.─Sweating of the feet.─Cold and shivering in the feet, chiefly on going to bed in the evening.─Pain (as from dislocation) in the great toe, principally in bed at night, on moving it.─Redness, heat, and swelling of the great toe, in the evening, as if from chilblains.

24. Generalities

Pain, as from subcutaneous ulceration.─Pains, as of ulceration in different parts, or shootings and acute dragging, mitigated by the heat of the bed.─Pains, as of dislocation, drawing and tension of the joints, as if from contraction of the tendons.─The right side of the body appears to be more affected than the left side.─The pains for the most part appear either in the evening or at night, or in the morning.─General restlessness in the body in the evening.─Inclination to stretch out the arms and the legs.─Great fatigue felt from speaking much and from listening to another.─Weariness, bruise-like pain and great weakness in the limbs, chiefly when walking in the open air, or in the evening, sometimes with an inclination to lie down.─Repugnance to exercise.─Convulsions.─Local inflammations.─Tetanus.─Scorbutic dyscrasia.─Tendency of the blood to decomposition.─Emaciation.─Great sensibility to cold.

25. Skin

Violent itching here and there, with burning vesicles and pimples after scratching.─Miliary, chronic eruptions.─Redness like scarlatina on all the upper part of the body.─Scarlatina (malignant), dark red, sore throat, parotids and cervical glands much swollen, stertorous breathing, involuntary stools, vomiting.─Freckles.─Burning, acute shootings and drawings in the corns.─Excoriation of the skin (between the legs, and in the anus, and in the genital parts).─Desquamation of the skin (palms of the hands).─(Ganglia.).─Swelling of the glands.─Rachitis.

26. Sleep

Sleepiness in the daytime.─Sleeplessness, and sleep delayed, esp. after going late to bed.─Sleeplessness till 4 a.m., and when falling asleep, perspiration.─Nightmare when falling asleep.─Frequent waking, with fright (great fear afterwards), and difficulty in going to sleep again.─Sleep full of dreams, both anxious and romantic, historical and lascivious.─Dreams of spectres, of death, of vermin, and of quarrels.─Disturbed and unrefreshing sleep.─At night, attacks of anguish, vertigo, congestion of blood in the head, cephalalgia, toothache, nausea, gastralgia, colic, inclination to make water, spitting of slimy matter, pains in the great toes and in the ganglia, shocks in the body, pains in the limbs, itching and pricking in the skin, restlessness, ebullition of the blood, dry heat, sweat, esp. in the legs, shivering and cold.

27. Fever

Pulse hard, tense, and frequent.─Attacks of shivering in the evening.─Violent shivering with trembling, before going to sleep.─Feverish heat in the head, with cold in the feet.─Sweats, every night and towards the morning.─Perspiration in the morning and during the day, mostly on the joints.

Ammonium carbonicum

Generalities

• It affects Heart; circulation and blood.

• Heart becomes weak, collapse.

• Circulation becomes sluggish and under-oxygenation of blood produce Lividity, Weakness and drowsiness.

• Vitality becomes low and there is lack of reaction.

• It is adapted to fat patients, with weak heart, with wheezing and suffocative feeling; to stout women who are always tired and weary, take cold easily and suffer from cholera-like symptoms before menses; and who lead a sedentary life.

• Very sensitive to cold air.

• Great aversion to water, can not bear to touch it.

• Heaviness in all organs.

• Uncleanliness in bodily habits.

• Pains are bruised and sore.

• There is internal raw burning.

• Discharges are hot., acrid, adherent.

• Haemorrhages, dark, thin.

• Malignancy.

• Prostration from trifles.

• Scorbutic states.

• Old age.

• Lies down, from debility or soreness of whole body.

• Ill effects of charcoal fumes.

Worse

• Cold; Cloudy days.

• Damp Cold.

• Raw cold open air.

• Falling asleep; 3-4 a.m.

• During menses.

• Motion.

• Chewing.

• Pressing teeth.

• Bending down.

• New moon.

Better

• Pressure; eating; lying on abdomen.

• Dry weather.

• Lying on right side.

Mind

• Active but soon exhausted.

• Forgetful, ill-humoured, gloomy; during stormy weather.

• Heedless and unruly.

• Depressed, with weakness of intellect.

• Vacant mind.

• Loss of memory agg. vexation.

• Hearing others talk or talking himself affects him.

• Aversion to work.

• Peevish, fretting, as if crime has been committed.

• Disposed to weep.

• Tendency to make mistakes in speaking, writing and calculating.

Head

• Shocks, through head, eyes, ears and nose, on biting.

• Violent headache; full, bursting in forehead.

• Brain seems-loose.

Eyes

• Burning and dry.

• Prolonged use of eyes cause asthenopia; with appearance of yellow spots on looking at white objects.

• Flood of tears.

• Large black spots float after sewing.

• Pain in the eyes amel. afternoon sleep.

Ears

• Hardness of hearing.

• Itching above the ears, spreads over the whole body.

• Hard swelling of parotid and cervical glands.

Nose

• Stoppage of nose, at night, with long continued coryza, must breathe through mouth.

• Snuffles of children.

• Nose bleeds; if hands or face are washed, after eating, or on waking.

• Continuous urging to sneeze.

• Profuse watery coryza.

• Catarrh starting in nose.

• Boil on tip.

• Inability to blow the nose in children.

Face

• Boils and pustules, during menses.

• Corners of the mouth are sore, cracked and burn.

• Cracks, and burning in lip.

• Hard swelling of the cheek.

Mouth

• Tender, bleeding gums.

• Pressing teeth together, sends a shock through head, eyes, ears and nose.

• Mouth and throat dry.

• Loose or blunt teeth.

• Vesicles on tongue.

• Burning, hindering eating and speech.

• Teeth ache, during menses.

• Swelling inside cheek.

Throat

• Enlarged tonsils, and glands of the neck.

• Gangrenous ulceration of the tonsils.

• Diphtheria, when nose is stopped up, membrane extends to upper lip.

Stomach

• Pain at the pit of stomach, with heartburn, nausea, water brash and chil liness.

• Flatulent dyspesia.

• Appetite, but easy satisfaction.

Abdomen

• Bleeding piles agg. during mennses.

• Discharge of blood before and after stools.

• Protruding piles agg. after stools or without stools, amel. lying, can not walk.

• Dark acrid diarrhoea.

• Colic, with pain between the scapulae.

• Constipation; stools hard, dry.

Urinary

• Frequent desire.

• Urine; white, bloody, sandy, copious, turbid and foetid.

• Involuntary urination, towards morning.

Male

• Persistent erections, without desire or violent sexual desire without erection.

• Seminal emissions frequent, after coition.

Female

• Cholera-like symptoms, with menses.

• Menses; too frequent, profuse, early, clotted, black with colicky pains and hard difficult stools, with fatigue esp. of thighs, yawning and chilliness.

• Menses flow more at night, then dyspnoea or weakness.

• Copious leucorrhoea, burning, acrid, watery.

• Irritation of clitoris.

Respiratory

• Increasing difficulty in breathing, it wakes him, amel. cool air.

• Much opression in breathing agg. every effort, entering a warm room.

• Emphysema.

• Rattling in chest but gets up little.

• Hoarseness.

• Pulmonary oedema.

• Cough, after influenza.

• Hypostatic congestion of lungs.

• Expectoration; of pure blood, after cough.

Heart

• Weak.

• Wakes with difficult breathing and palpitation.

• Palpitation; audible with fear, cold sweat and lachrymation, inability to speak and trembling hands.

• Angina Pectoris.

• Weak heart causes stasis.

Extremities

• Parts lain on becomes numb.

• Cramps, in calves and soles.

• Finger and hands swell, when arms are hanging down.

• inclination to stretch limbs.

• Whitlow.

• Tearing pain amel. by heat of bed.

• Right foot numb.

• Ganglion.

• Aching in bones amel. change of weather.

• Right arm heavy and weak.

Skin

• Red or mottled skin.

• Erysipelas; in aged.

• Malignant scarlatina.

Sleep

• Sleepiness during day.

• Wakes up with strangling.

• The sooner one goes to bed the better one sleeps.

Fever

• Coldness.

• Burning heat with thirst.

Related

• Ant-t; Carb-v; Glon; Lach; Mur-ac.

AMMONIUM CARBONICUM

Influenza: acrid, burning coryza, nose stopped up at night, must breathe through the mouth, hoarseness, dry cough, oppressed breathing.
Cholera-like symptoms at commencement of menses.

Ammonium carbonicum

Nose:

Stoppage of nose, mostly at night; must breathe through the mouth.

Nose:

Nose-bleed in the morning when washing the face.

Female Sexual Organs:

Cholera-like symptoms at the beginning of menstruation.

Female Sexual Organs:

At every menstrual period there is a discharge of blood from the bowels.

Skin:

Malignant scarlatina, dark red, sore throat, parotid and cervical glands much swollen; skin red, with miliary rash or faintly developed eruptions.

Extremities:

Panaritium, fingers inflamed, deep seated periosteal pain.

Constitution and Temperament:

Delicate women who must always have a smelling bottle at hand.

Ammonium Carbonicum

Generalities

: If we were practicing in the old-fashioned way and considered the wonderfully volatile nature of Ammonium carb. in some of its forms we would only look upon it as an agent to relieve fainting and simple affections and use it in the form of hartshorn to comfort old maids and some other women.

But Ammonium carb. is a deep-acting, constitutional medicine, an anti-psoric. It effects rapid blood changes, it disturbs the whole economy and it establishes a scorbutic constitution. Its fluids are all acrid.

The saliva becomes acrid and excoriates the lips, so that they crack in the corners and middle, and become raw and dry and scabby.

The eye-lids fester and become dry and cracked from the excoriating fluids from the eye.

The stool is acrid and excoriates.

The genitals of the female become raw and sore from the acrid menstrual discharge and leucorrhoea, and wherever there is an ulcer upon the skin the fluids that ooze from it excoriate the parts round about, this excoriating character belonging to all of the exuding fluids and discharges.

This remedy has bleeding of black blood, often fluid blood, that will not coagulate, flowing from the nose, the uterus, the bladder and bowels.

The blood is dark, showing that a great disturbance is taking place in the circulation.

The skin has a mottled appearance intermingled with great pallor.

It produces a violent action upon the heart, in which there is audible palpitation, and every motion aggravates the pulsation. With this is associated great prostration.

It is rather a strange coincidence that the ancients know that Amm. carb. would overcome difficult breathing from cardiac attacks and that aqua ammonia or hartshorn is used today to a certain extent in indications similar to those mentioned.

They use it as a stimulant, but when indicated the single dose very high is enough.

The ancients knew enough, also, to use hartshorn in the low forms of pneumonia, at the turning point in the advanced stage; that is an old allopathic practice, but it had a homoeopathic relation to some of the cases.

Once in a while they would cure a patient in the awful stage of prostration with heart failure at the end of pneumonia, and because they relieved such a one it was then established as a remedy for all future use.

Ammonium carb. has a state analogous to blood poisoning, such as we find in erysipelas and in the most malignant forms of scarlet fever, with prostration, great dyspnoea, so that it seems as if the heart were giving out.

With this there is an unusual patchy condition of the surface, due to the paralytic condition of the blood vessels, enlargement of the glands, duskiness and puffiness of the face.

Amm. carb. has been used allopathically in just such a state for centuries and it has demonstrated its homeopathic relations by its efficacy.

Heart

: It belongs to the simple enfeeblement, weak heart, emaciation. There is quite an absence of symptoms and a lack of response to remedies.

The patient must lie in bed because of the palpitation and difficult breathing on motion. It is a matter of mere weakness. Such a case furnished me much amusement for a year and a half.

There was a woman in this city who answered just such a description; her state was one of peculiar cardiac weakness with dyspnoea and palpitation on motion; I had been treating the case, but had not fully studied it, and as she did not progress under my management she was taken out of my hands and taken to one of our most able neurologists, who put her upon the "rest cure" and promised that in six weeks she would be perfectly well.

But at the end of six weeks she was worse than ever and a cardiac specialist was then brought to examine her.

He said it was true the heart was not vigorous, but there was no organic affection and consequently the case did not belong to his branch.

Then a lung specialist was brought in, and later she was examined by all kinds of specialists. All of her organs were fully investigated, and it was announced that nothing was the matter with them; but the poor woman could not walk because of her sufferings and palpitating heart.

She had a little dry, backing cough that did not amount to anything, but her chest was examined and there was nothing wrong with it.

But after she bad been in this continual fire for about three months, and was steadily failing, the side of the family that were my adherents prevailed against the others and I went to see her again.

I continued to study the case, which was extremely vague, having nothing but those few symptoms, and finally I settled upon Ammonium carb., and she has been on this remedy for eighteen months.

She now climbs mountains, she does everything she wants to do and is about ready to go to housekeeping.

She has grown from a case of nervous prostration, brain fag and any other diagnosis that might have been heaped upon her to a well woman, and under that one remedy.

This shows you how deeply this remedy acts. One dose generally acts upon her for from six weeks to two months, steadily improving her each time.

Exhaustion coming at every menstrual period. An attack of cholera, or what one might mistake for cholera, coming the first day of the menses; a copious diarrhea.

Sometimes it is an exhaustion with vomiting, exhaustion as in Veratrum, with coldness, blueness, sinking, dyspnoea.

Asthma

: The kind of dyspnoea that I have been speaking of up to this time is not an asthmatic dyspnoea; it is a cardiac dyspnoea due to a weak heart; but this remedy has also asthma, and in the asthma there is this peculiarity: if the room is warm the dyspnoea increases until suffocation seems imminent; as if he would die for want of breath.

He is compelled to go out into the cold air for relief. While the warm room increases the dyspnoea in asthmatic complaints the bodily state of the patient is worse from cold.

The complaints of the body and the headaches are worse from cold.

Bones

: A common thing running through this remedy is aching in the bones. The bones ache as if they would break. The teeth ache violently from every change of weather or from change of the temperature in the mouth. The jaws ache or the roots of the teeth ache.

A prominent feature is falling out of the hair, the finger nails become yellowish, the gums settle away from the teeth and bleed, the teeth become loose, all in keeping with the scorbutic constitution.

Hysteria

: This remedy has hysteria, and it is not surprising that nervous women carry a bottle of ammonia hanging to their chain.

Many women do this because as soon as they go into a close place they faint and must use their hartshorn.

This condition in the woman, if in a mild degree, is not hysterical; it belongs to the sensitive nature of women; but if carried to a more marked state. It is hysterical.

The hysterical fainting will be averted by the use of the hartshorn. Amm. carb. will stimulate the action of the heart and relieve.

Depression

: The remedy is full of depression of spirits. She weeps much, has fainting fits, anxiety, uneasiness and exhaustion from motion. Over sensitive about what she hears other people saying.

Complaints from listening to others talking. Complaints, both mental and physical, are worse in the wet weather, and she is sensitive to cold, raw, wet weather.

The gouty complaints. nervous complaints, prostration, cardiac complaints, dyspnoea, headaches, etc., come on in raw weather.

Headache

: A congestive headache comes on in wet weather and from weather changes. Sensation as if the brain would ooze out through the forehead and eyes.

"Pulsating, beating in the forehead as if it would burst."

The headache is worse from stepping, especially the head aches that come at the menstrual period.

Headache worse in the morning. This medicine. in such headaches, with the symptoms I have described, shows its antidotal relation to Lachesis, because Lachesis produces all this state of prostration.

In the old text-books you will notice this expression, "Inimical to Lachesis."

This means when Lachesishas been given in high potency and has acted curatively, Ammonium carb. is not likely to act curatively after it, and is, some times capable of disturbing the case, confusing it and mixing up the symptoms.

But when Lach. has been given in too low potency, and the patient has been poisoned with the crude Medicine, this remedy then becomes an antidote, used in a high potency, because of the similarity in its action.

It will, overcome many of the poisonous symp toms of the case. If you will examine the appearance of people who have been bitten by snakes and then examine the pathogenesis of this remedy you will see a great similarity between them.

It is well known that this remedy has had repeated use in snake bites. Evidently it did not save all of them, but it must have done something, for these cases or it would not have established so great a reputation for itself.

Give it not as an antidote per se, but when indicated in blood-poisoning and animal bites with zymosis, with a tendency to black liquid bleeding, as in Elaps.

Running through the snake poisons there is a tendency to bleeding of black blood that will not coagulate.

Eyes

: It has many eye symptoms.

Sparks before the eyes in connection with headaches; double vision; aversion to light.

"Large black spot floats before the eyes after sewing."

When these symptoms have been present in such a constitutional state as I have, described the remedy has cured cataract; it has, cured the patient and finally the crystalline lens has cleared up.

Burning of the eyes, smarting eyes blood-shot eyes.

It disturbs the hearing, causing hardness of hearing and discharge of acrid fluid from the ears.

Nose

: We have had scorbutic, catarrhal condition of the nose, such as described.

Discharge from the nose acrid.

"Severe pain as if the brain were forcing itself out just above nose."

"Nose-bleed when washing face or hands in morning."

It has many complaints from bathing, and a prominent feature is that the skin is covered with red, mottled spots after bathing.

Bathing produces surging all over, here and there, as well as nose-bleed. Palpitation is worse from bathing.

In the throat we have an appearance like malignant scarlet fever, diphtheria and other zymotic state; purple, swollen, ulcerated and bleeding, and gangrenous, accompanied by great exhaustion, with enlarged tonsils and glands.

The glands outside of the throat and neck are enlarged and felt as lumps. In diphtheria, when the nose is stopped, the child starts from sleep gasping for breath. Here again we observe its relation to Lachesisand the ophidia, for soon after the patient drops to sleep he wakes up suffocating, in diphtheria, in chest troubles with great prostration, the patient is worse after sleep.

Menses

: Menses too soon.

"The menstrual blood is blackish, often in clots."

The leucorrhoea is acrid,

"Violent tearing in abdomen and vagina."

"Irritation of clitoris."

Swelling of the genitals. Now, let me tell you something not mentioned here, but important, and that is a sensation of soreness in the whole pelvic viscera; at times it seems as if all her inner parts were raw.

It is a sensation of soreness; not always sore to touch. This sensation of deep-seated soreness is especially felt during menstruation.

All through the menstrual period soreness and rawness.

"Menses premature, abundant, blackish, often in clots, preceded by griping and colic."

Chest

: The remedy is full of catarrhal symptoms and cough, with much rattling of mucus in the chest and air passages.

Oppression of breathing, a catarrhal dyspnoea. Especially is this a remedy, when the symptoms agree, in hypostatic congestion of the lungs, a filling up of the chest with mucus which it is difficult to expel; great rattling in the chest and great weakness.

It is a good palliative in the last stages of consumption. A dose of Ammonium carb. when there is great coldness, prostration and weakness in the chest.

It is not unlike that sensation of weakness in the chest which is like Stannum. He can hardly cough out loud and because of the weakness he cannot expel the mucus, like Ant. tart., Short asthmatic cough.

The complaints of this remedy come on especially at three o'clock in the morning. The cough comes on at that time. Old people who suffer from catarrh of the chest have an aggravation at three o'clock in the morning with the palpitation and prostration, waking up at that hour with cold sweat and dyspnoea.

Almost pulseless; weakness of the heart. Face pale and cold.

"Great lassitude." Defective reaction with, or at the close of severe zymotic troubles, typhoid, diphtheria, scarlet fever, erysipelas, etc.

In those complaints that should come to a crisis, if the patient goes into a state of great exhaustion under remedies fairly well selected, you have an instance where this medicine competes with Arsenicumfor the nervous prostration.

You see "heart failure" spoken of in old school literature. They say the patient got along very nicely, but finally died of heart failure.

In a great many instances if Ammonium carb. were given in time it would save life.

"Averse to walking in open air."

"Children dislike washing."

The warmth of the bed relieves the rheumatic pains, relieves the chill.

"In a warm room the headache is better."

"From washing reappearance of the symptoms; nose-bleed; blue hands; swollen veins."

"Worse in cold air."

Skin

: We come now to the appearance of the skin:

"Body red as if covered with scarlatina."

"Putrid flat ulcers with a pungent sensation."

"Malignant scarlatina with somnolence, starting from sleep."

"Erysipelas of old people when cerebral symptoms are developed."

Whenever treating a severe form of disease and an eruption comes to the surface, like a carbuncle or erysipelas, and does not give relief to the patient then there is danger.

A remedy must be found soon. When a patient is coming down with severe internal troubles it is not a very uncommon thing for unhealthy looking boils to come out, or carbuncles or erysipelas blotches.

It is always serious when these are not immediately followed by relief to the patient.

It shows a pernicious state that has been pent up and cannot be held any longer and this violence is going to destroy.

This is one of the remedies that you may look for to check the progress of such states.

Any remedy, of course, which corresponds to the totality of the symptoms is the remedy to administer.

Ammonium Carbonicum.

Smelling Salts. ((NH4O)2CO.)

Haemorrhagic diathesis, fluid blood and degeneration of red blood corpuscles; ulcerations tend to gangrene. Stout, fleshy women with various troubles in consequence of leading a sedentary life; delicate women who must have the "smelling-bottle" continually at hand; readily catch cold in the winter. Children dislike washing (Ant. c., Sulph.). Loses breath when falling asleep, must awaken to get breath (Grind., Lach.). Ill-humor during wet, stormy weather. Headache; sensation of fullness, as if forehead would burst (Bell., Glon.). Nosebleed: when washing the face (Arn., Mag. c.) and hands in the morning, from left nostril; after eating. Ozaena, blowing bloody mucus from the nose frequently; blood rushes to tip of nose, when stooping. Stoppage of nose, mostly at night; must breathe through the mouth, a keynote even in diphtheria; long lasting coryza; "snuffles" of infants (Hep., Nux, Samb., Sticta). Putrid sore throat; tendency to gangrenous ulceration of tonsils; glands engorged. In diphtheria or scarlatina when the nose is stopped up; child cannot sleep because it cannot get its breath. Cholera-like symptoms at the commencement of menstruation (Bov., Ver.). Menses: too early, profuse, preceded by griping colic; acrid, makes the thighs sore; copious at night and when sitting (Zinc.); with toothache, colic, sadness; fatigue, especially of thighs; yawning and chilliness; Leucorrhoea: watery burning from the uterus; acrid, profuse from the vagina; excoriation of vulva. Dyspnoea with palpitation, worse by exertion or on ascending even a few steps; worse in a warm room. One of the best remedies in emphysema. Cough: dry, from tickling in throat as from dust, every morning from 3 to 4 a. m. (Kali c.). Panaritium: deep seated periosteal pain (Dios., Sil.). Body red, as if from scarlatina (compare, Ailan.). Malignant scarlatina with deep sleep; stetorous breathing. Miliary rash or faintly developed eruption from defective vitality; threatened paralysis of brain (Tub., Zinc.).

Relationship

. - It antidotes, poisoning with Rhus and sting of insects. Affects the right side most. Inimical to Lachesis.

Aggravation

. - Cold, wet weather; wet poultices; from washing, during menses.

Amelioration

. - Lying on abdomen (Acet. ac.); on painful side (Puls.); in dry weather.

Ammonium Carbonicum.

Mind and Disposition.

Anxiety, with inclination to weep.

Forgetfulness, mistakes in writing and speaking.

Ill humor during wet, stormy weather.

Head.

Giddiness, especially in the morning, when sitting and reading ; better when walking.

Pulsations, beating and pressing in the forehead, as if the head would burst ; worse after eating and while walking in the open air ; better from external pressure and in the warm room.

Eyes.

Burning of the eyes, with aversion to light.

Double vision.

Ears.

Hardness of hearing, with itching and suppuration of the ear.

Nose.

Discharge of sharp, burning water from the nose.

Stoppage of the nose, especially at night ; he can only breathe through the mouth, with long-continued coryza.

Congestion of blood to the point of the nose, when stooping.

Face.

Pale, bloated face.

Itching eruptions, with soreness of the sub-maxillary glands.

Tetters around the mouth.

The corners of the mouth and lips are sore, cracked, and burn.

Hard swelling of the (right) parotid gland.

Teeth.

Pricking pain, especially in the molar teeth ; worse when masticating or touching the decayed tooth with the tongue.

The edges of the teeth feel dull.

Aggravation from warm fluids during the menses.

Looseness and rapid decay of the teeth.

Swollen, easily bleeding gums.

Mouth.

Vesicles on the tongue, at the tip, on the borders, burning, hindering eating and speaking.

Swelling of the internal mouth especially the inside of the cheeks.

Great dryness of the mouth and throat.

Throat.

When swallowing, sensation as of a foreign body in the throat.

Scraping and soreness in the throat.

Appetite and Taste.

He must drink while eating.

Much thirst.

Bitter taste in the morning.

Longing for sugar.

Stomach.

Nausea and vomiting after each meal.

Heartburn after eating.

Sensitive painfulness of the stomach, even to the clothing.

Pressure in the stomach, and soreness at the pit of the stomach, after eating.

Burning and heat in the stomach.

Pain, as from constriction in the stomach, with nausea, water-brash and chilliness (ameliorated by pressure and by lying down).

Stool and Anus.

Stool difficult, hard, knotty.

Haemorrhoidal tumors protruding before, during, and after stool.

Discharge of blood from the rectum, daring and after stool.

Bleeding haemorrhoids.

Itching at the anus.

Urinary Organs.

Frequent desire to urinate, with continued pressure on the bladder.

Involuntary micturition at night, during sleep (morning).

Urine pale, with sandy sediment.

Sexual Organs.

Men. Choking pains in the relaxed testicles.

Frequent involuntary seminal emissions.

Itching at the genitals, especially the scrotum.

Women. Itching, burning and swelling of the pudendum.

Menstruation too early, too scanty, and of too short duration.

Menstruation too profuse, blood clotted, black, with colicky pains and hard, difficult stool.

During the menses, pain in the abdomen, toothache, backache, chilliness.

Fluor albus burning, acrid, watery.

Larynx and Trachea.

Hoarseness and inability to speak a loud word.

Cough at night ; every morning, at 3 o'clock, dry from tickling in the throat, as of dust.

Cough, with spitting of blood, with previous sweet taste and with great dyspnoea.

Cough, with stitches in the small of the back.

Chest.

Dyspnoea, with palpitation of the heart, especially when moving.

Stitches in the left side of the chest ; worse when lying on it.

Heaviness on the chest, as from congestion of blood to the chest.

Burning and heat in the chest (hydrothorax).

Upper Extremities.

After washing in cold water, the hands look blue, and the veins are distended.

The fingers swell when the arm is hanging down.

Heaviness and loss of power of the right arm.

Pain in the wrist-joint, which had formerly been sprained.

The skin peels off from the palms of the hands.

Lower Extremities.

Pain, as if bruised in the thighs.

Swelling and pain of the big toe in the evening.

Cramp in the calf of the leg, when walking.

Cramps in the soles of the feet.

Generalities.

Debility, which compels one to lie down.

Great sensitiveness to cold, open air.

Drawing and tension, as from shortening of the muscles.

Inclination to stretch the limbs.

Pain, as from dislocation in the joints.

Tearing in the joints relieved by the heat of the bed.

Pain, as from subcutaneous ulceration.

Burning (chest).

Sleep.

Sleepiness during the day.

Sleeplessness till 4 A.M., and when falling asleep, perspiration.

Fever.

Pulse hard, tense and frequent.

Chilliness. Attacks of chilliness in the evening.

Perspiration in the morning and during the day, mostly on the joints.

Skin.

Violent itching, and burning blisters after scratching.

The upper part of the body is red, and covered with scarlet rash.

Scarlet fever, with parotitis.

Desquamation of the skin (palms of the hands).

Conditions.

Aversion to moving about.

The right side of the body is more affected.

Speaking, and bearing others speak, affects him much.

Aggravation in the evening, on bending down ; from wet poultices ; during wet weather ; from pressing the teeth together ; and re-appearance of some symptoms from washing (bleeding of the nose, blue hands, and swelling of the veins of the hands).

Amelioration.

when lying on the stomach ; the right side ; the painful side ; from external pressure ; in the room ; from warmth ; in dry weather.

AMMONIUM CARBONICUM

REGION:
HEART: Circulation. Blood.
RESPIRATION.
Lungs.
Bronchiæ.
Right side.

WORSE:
COLD: CLOUDY DAYS. DAMP. Locally. Raw, open air.
Falling asleep.
3-4 A.M.
DURING MENSES.
Motion.

BETTER:
PRESSURE.
Eating.
Lying on abdomen.

Low vitality. Lacks reaction. LIVID, WEAK AND DROWSY. Lies down. Collapse of nerves and heart. Averse to cold. Old age. Bruised, sore pain. Internal, raw burning. Acrid, hot, adherent secretions. Dark, thin hæmorrhage. Scorbutic states. Malignancy. .................... Active, but soon exhausted. Sad. Peevish. Mind vacant. Depressed, with weakened intellect. Heedless, fretting and unruly. Loss of memory; < vexation. Brain seems loose. Shocks through head, on biting. Violent headache; full, bursting in forehead. Floods of tears. Nose stopped at night, or bleeds, if hands or face are washed or on waking. Continuous urging to sneeze. Profuse, watery coryza. Catarrhs, starting in nose. Cracked, burning lips. Tender, bleeding gums. Loose or blunt teeth. Dark, acrid diarrhœa. Persistent erections. Menses with choleraic symptoms (Sil.); dark, lumpy flow, < night; then dyspnœa or weakness. Copious leucorrhœa. Increasing shortness of breath; it wakes him; > cool air (Carb-v.). Rattling in chest, but gets up little. Aphonia. WEAK HEART; causing stasis, dyspnœa, etc. Palpitation; with cold sweat and lachrymation. Numb r. foot (Sep.). Asleep feeling of part lain on. Ganglion. Bones ache as weather changes. Red or mottled skin. Coldness. Burning heat with thirst. Scarlatina.

REMEDY RELATION

Related: Ant-t. Carb-v. Glo. Lach. Mur-ac.

Ammonium carb

[Am-c.]

Mind.-- Difficult thinking. Easily makes mistakes in talking and writing. Forgetful and distracted. Sadness and weeping with fears and presentiments of impending evil. Very peevish and ill - humored during cloudy weather. Satiety of life. Disobedient.

Vertigo.-- With nausea, toward evening.

Head.-- Chronic headache with nausea. Feeling as if brain were loose. Beating and pressing in forehead, as if head would burst. Heaviness and fullness in forehead. Worse: Evening: after eating, after motion in open air, Better: Half - reclining position, external pressure, warmth.

Eyes.-- Burning in with photophobia. Dim vision with glimmering. Nearsighted. Catarrh.

Ears.-- Difficult hearing with suppuration and itching of. Hard swelling of parotid gland.

Nose.-- Congestion of blood to tip, when stooping. Nosebleed, Chronic coryza, can breathe through mouth only. Stopped coryza at night.

Face.-- Deathly pale, bloated. Itchy eruption with swollen cervical glands. Herpes about mouth. Many freckles. Dry, cracked lips, with burning pains.

Teeth.-- Jerking, tearing ache, by biting teeth together. Sticking ache. Loose. Swollen gums, which bleed easily.

Mouth.-- Swelling of inner surface of cheek, Blisters in, also on tongue. Throat, sore, as if a foreign body had lodged there.

Stomach.-- Pressure in with nausea and sensitiveness of pit after eating. Intolerant of pressure of clothes on.

Appetite: He cannot eat without also drinking. Great desire for sugar. Continual thirst.

Taste: Bitter, in morning.

Eructations: Scratchy heartburn after eating.

Nausea: And vomiting after every meal.

Abdomen.-- Spasm in, with contractive sensation, nausea and collection of water in mouth.

Stool.-- Constipated. Retarded, hard, knotty.

Anus.-- Hemorrhage from, during and independently of stool. Moist hemorrhoids. Itching of.

Urine.-- Nightly, also involuntary urination.

Sexual Organs.-- Pollutions follow a forcing and drawing in testes.

Female.-- Menses: Too scant and too short, of blackish acrid blood. Too early and too profuse. Many complaints during. Burning, acrid, watery leucorrhoea.

Respiration.-- Tightness of chest with palpitation, particularly during exercise and when ascending steps. Asthmatic symptoms of dropsical persons.

Cough.-- Dry, as from feather down in throat, with hoarseness. Night cough. With bloody expectoration after previous sweetish (blood) taste in throat, with violent respiratory symptoms.

Chest.-- Congestion to. Sticking in left side of, lying thereon. Hydrothorax Palpitation.

Back.-- Drawing through entire length of, from lumbar region to nape.

Upper Extremities.-- Distended blood vessels and blue hands after washing, with cold water or letting them hang down. Deadened sensation in arms and fingers. Pain in wrist which had been formerly sprained. Skin peels from palms.

Lower Extremities.-- Bruised pain in hip joints and thighs. Twitching in knees. Cramp in soles of feet. Painful redness and swelling of great toe, in evening.

Generalities.-- Wrenching, tearing in joints by warmth of bed. Restlessness of body in evening. Inclination to stretch limbs. Aversion and unusual sensitiveness to open or cold air. Emaciation. Aversion to motion. Symptoms are intensified in evening. Right side of body is mostly affected. Worse: Washing. Mucous membranes first then circulatory apparatus.

Skin.-- Violent itching and burning vesicles after scratching. Freckles. Ganglion chafed skin in children.

Sleep.-- Day sleepiness. Nightly nausea and ebullitions of blood.

Fever.-- Pulse: Hard, tense and rapid. Chill: Attacks of in evening, often alternating with heat, till toward midnight. In open air. Heat: Most in evening, especially on face, with cold feet. Sweet: In early morning, most on joints. Persistent, day or night sweats.

Relationship.-- Allied Remedies: Bro., Calc - c, flu - ac., Hep., Phos., Sec-c.