Ammonium Carbonicum

▲   GENERAL

General

he diseased conditions met by Ammonium Carbonicum 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. UrAEmia. Heaviness in all organs. Uncleanness in bodily habits. Swelling of parts, glands, etc. Acid secretions. Prostration from trifles.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, evenings, from cold, wet weather, wet applications, washing, and during 3 to 4 a.m., during menses.

Better

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

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Rhus Tox ^Rhus; Muriaticum Acidum ^{Muriatic Acid}; Tartar emet. Of use in poisoning by Carbo Veg ^Charcoal fumes.

Antidotes

Antidotes: Arnica ^Arnica; Camphora ^Camphor.

Inimical

Inimical to Lachesis ^Lachesis. Similar in action.

▲   MIND

Mind

Forgetful, ill-humored, gloomy during Stormy weather

uncleanliness

Talking and hearing others talk affects greatly

Sad, weepy, unreasonable.

Aversions, dislikes; open air

▲   HEAD

Head

Pulsating forehead; better, pressure and in warm room

Shocks through head.

Headache

Pain, headache

pressure

in forehead

ulcerative

▲   EYES

Eyes

Burning of eyes with aversion to light

Eye-strain ( Nat Mur ^Nat-mur.) Asthenopia

Sore canthi.

▲   EARS

Ear

Hardness of hearing

Shocks through ears, eyes, and nose, when gnashing teeth.

▲   FACE

Face

Skin

discoloration; red; spots (see skin)

out-breaks on skin; pimples; nose

▲   NOSE

Nose

Discharge of sharp, burning water

cannot breathe through nose

snuffles of children

Epistaxis after washing and after eating

Ozaena, blows bloody mucus from nose

Tip of nose congested.

Nose bleed

Discharge from nose; blood

Discharge

Stoppage at night, with long-continued coryza

Running or blocked nose (coryza); blocked; night

running, wet

Sneezing

morning

morning; in bed

morning; on waking

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Cracking of jaws on chewing.

Gums and teeth

Toothache

Pressing teeth together sends shocks through head, eyes, and ears

Teeth

feel as if on edge

pain; upper teeth

pain; evening

in bed

pain; when biting; when biting teeth together

pain; pulling; during period

pain; tearing

when biting together

Saliva

Great dryness of mouth and throat

Salivation

Tongue

Vesicles on tongue

Growths, blisters, swellings; blisters; tongue

Taste

Taste sour; metallic

Taste

metallic; food tastes metallic

sour; food tastes sour

▲   THROAT

Throat

Enlarged tonsils and glands of neck

Burning pain all down throat

Tendency to gangrenous ulceration of tonsils

Diphtheria When nose is stopped up.

Pain; swallowing; on swallowing

Swallowing

difficult

impeded

▲   CHEST

Chest

Heart; angina pectoris

Lungs; emphysema

Oppressed feeling

Pain

stitching, sudden, sharp

sides; right

on stooping

Respiration

Heart; Audible palpitation with fear, cold sweat, lachrymation, inability to speak, loud breathing and trembling hands

Heart weak, wakes with difficult breathing and palpitation.

Hoarseness

Cough every morning about three o’clock, with dyspnoea, 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 oedema.

Difficult (dyspnea); accumulation of fluid in lung

Like deep snoring

▲   COUGH

Cough

Daytime

Night

Dry cough

night

night; after midnight; 3 a.m.

▲   EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

Bloody, spitting of blood (see chest haemorrhage)

Mucous; bloody

▲   SKIN

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.

Discoloration

red; spots

red; spots; scarlet

Out-breaks on skin

peeling in scales

rash (see granular)

receding in eruptive fevers; scarlet fever

red

scarlet fever

gangrenous

after scratching

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back

Pain; lumbar (lower half of back); during period

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Great appetite, but easily satisfied

Flatulent dyspepsia.

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.

Pain

before stool

pressing; before stool

pressing; after stool

pressing; lower part of abdomen; during period

Bladder

retention of urine (see urination delayed)

urination; frequent

Stomach

appetite; increased (hunger in general)

appetite; ravenous, excessive

burping, belching; burping, belching suppressed

burping, belching; empty

fullness; after eating

heartburn

pain; pressing; after eating

Nausea

Pain at pit of stomach, with heartburn, nausea, water brash, and chilliness

nausea; after eating

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Haemorrhage from anus

during stool

after stool

Itching

Pain

Stool

Hard

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Frequent desire; involuntary at night

Tenesmus of bladder

Urine white, sandy, bloody, copious, turbid and fetid.

Sediment; sand

Male

Male

Itching and pain of scrotum and spermatic cords

pain; constricting; testes

Female

Female; Itching, swelling and burning of pudendum

Genitals

Erection without desire

Seminal emissions.

Leucorrhoea burning, acrid, watery

Aversion to the other sex

Male; erections; troublesome; morning

Female

irritation; itching

irritation; itching; burning

Menses

Menses too Frequent, profuse, early, copious, clotted, black; colicky pains, and hard, difficult stool, with Fatigue, especially of thighs; yawning and chilliness.

Female

period; scanty

period; short duration

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

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.

Coldness; lower limbs; foot; evening; in bed

Cramps; upper limbs

Inflammation; fingers

Paralysis; upper limbs; right

Perspiration; joints

Restlessness; lower limbs; leg

Skin; felon (whitlow, onychia, paronychia, foot rot, etc.); whitlow, foot rot

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Evening

Shaking, shivering, rigors; evening

Fever with skin out-break; scarlet fever

▲   GENERALITIES

Fatigue

Lethargic, tired

Sleep and dreams

Sleepiness during the day

Starts from sleep strangling.

Dreams; anxious

Perspiration

Morning

Cold

Generalities

Evening

Aversion to open air

Dread of bathing

Bathing

Collapse

Eating and food; while eating

In women; symptoms during period

Lack of reaction

Rising

Temperature (felt and effects of temperature); cold, wet weather

From getting wet; wet applications

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness)

Wet weather

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