Ammonium carbonicum

Ammonium carbonicum
(carbonate of ammonia)
* 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 reactiongenerally, 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.
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 warmroom.
- 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.K Cannot breathe through nose. Snuffles of
children.
- Epistaxis after washing and after eating.
- Ozaena, 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.
- Leucorrhoea 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 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.
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
- Worse, evenings, from cold, wet weather, wet applications, washing, and during 3 to 4 a.m.
, during menses.
- Better, lying on painful side and on stomach; indry 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.