Ammonium Carbonicum am-c.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

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.

General

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.

Particulars

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.

Related

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

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

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Keynote

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.).

Relations

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.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

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General

This remedy is especially suited to weak and nervous persons of a lymphatic temperament. Very applicable to the female organism generally; also to complaints from sedentary life.

Mental

Disposed to weep, particularly in the evening. Turns of anguish as if a crime had been committed. Utter dejection of mind. Listless and lethargic. Mistakes in writing and speaking.

Head

Oppressive fulness as if the forehead would burst. Heaviness and beating, or pulsating in forehead, as if it would burst, after eating, or whilst walking in open air, better from pressure or in the warm room. On moving the head sensation as if the brain fell to and fro towards the side which he stoops to.

Eyes

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. Sparks before, at night. Burning in all day.

Ears

Hard hearing, the ear itches and discharges pus. Hard swelling of right parotid gland. Illusion of hearing.

Nose

Water or an acrid fluid runs from; at night so obstructed, has to breathe through the mouth; fluid and dry coryza completely obstructing the nostrils; bleeding of; bloody mucus is frequently blown from; catarrh of; can't breathe through it--a key-note, even in diphtheria. "Snuffles" of children. Sensation in tip of the red nose as if blood were accumulating there, when stooping. Child's nose stopped, starts from sleep strangling and struggling for want of breath, because it must breathe through the mouth, Epistaxis after dinner, after breakfast, or after washing or wetting the face. When washing the hands or face in the morning, nose bleeds from the left nostril; also from right, several days in succession.

Face

Heat in, during mental exertion; also during and after dinner; white spots on, scale off continually; little boils on, discharging blood and water; pustules on, during menses. Burning vesicles on vermilion border of lips; dry, chapped, burning lips. Hard swelling of the cheek, also of the cervical and parotid glands.

Mouth

Violent toothache on going to bed at night; worse from warm liquids or cool air; teeth painful on biting them together; pressing teeth together sends shocks through head, ears, nose, and eyes. Teeth feel as if too long, as if deprived of the power to bite. Has to spit a good deal. Sourish and metallic taste of food. Swelling of inner mouth, inside of the cheeks especially. Cracking of the articulations of the jaws on chewing.

Throat

Enlarged tonsils, bluish, much offensive mucus there. Putrid sore throat, glands of the neck enlarged and engorged. Burning pain all down the throat, with roughness and scraping. In diphtheria when the nose is stopped so the child can breathe only through its mouth.

Stomach

Sensation as if the stomach were overloaded until three hours after a meal; painfulness of, when pressed upon. Nausea, with inclination to vomit; empty eructations; heartburn and sour eructations, or tasting of ingesta. Hunger and appetite, but a very little satisfies.

Abdomen

Much flatus, in the evening. Colic, with pain between the scapulæ. Hernia in left groin.

Stool and Anus

Costive on account of hardened feces, often with headache and hæmorrhoids; stools in balls, passes with difficulty one after another. Itching in the anus; can't sleep from pain in. Loose stool, preceded and followed by cutting in the abdomen. Discharge of blood during and after evacuation; also before and during menstruation. Bleeding hæmorrhoids; varices protrude during stool, which are very painful a long time after, hindering walking.

Urine

Involuntary urination during sleep, towards morning; urinates frequently at night. White sandy urine; bloody. Diabetes.

Sexual

Male: Seminal emissions very frequent; after coition. Erections without sexual desire; also great desire without power of erection. Female: Swelling, itching, and burning of the external sexual organs. Menses blackish, often in clots, painful, abundant, and hard stools with tenesmus; acrid, making the thighs sore with burning pain therein; much pain either in the small of the back or abdomen during the menses; too scanty and too early; attended with toothache, colic, pale face, very sad, great fatigue, yawning and chilliness; cholera-like symptoms at the ushering in of. Many complaints arise during the menstral flow; great weakness during; hæmorrhoids worse during; toothache during. Very acrid leucorrhœa.

Chest

Violent cough at night, especially at three or four in morning; with expectoration of bloody mucus; with asthmatic oppression of the chest and sometimes with stitches; as if from particles of dust in the throat; worse by ascending. Often there is much rattling as of large bubbles in the chest; chest feels faint, it is tiresome to breathe; when standing, sensation as if lungs were drawn down; many stitches in the chest, Sternum cracks on bending backward. Much oppression of breathing, worse on physical effort, and much worse still on entering a warm room. Bloody taste followed by cough and spitting bright red blood; with burning in the chest. Incipient pulmonary phthisis. Said to be one of the very best remedies in emphysema. Violent palpitation of the heart, followed by syncope. Angina pectoris.

Neck

Much swelling of the parotid and cervical glands. Some times cures goitre. Drawing pain all along the back, beginning at the nape.

Extremities

Upper: Hands look blue and veins distended after washing in cold water. The right arm becomes very heavy, seems to weigh 100 pounds and without strength. In the beginning of whitlow, with a red streak up to the axilla, also in deep-seated felons the finger much inflamed and the pain seemingly on the bone. Lower: The big toe becomes red, enlarged, painful when in bed and the whole foot swells. Legs are contracted; tendons feel too short, feel as if sprained. Violent cramps, made worse to rise, must lie down again; cramps in walking, must stand still; cramps in soles of feet; cracking of joints in walking.

Sleep

Violent starting out of sleep with great fear afterwards. Much disturbed by nightmare, nearly every night. Uneasy, unrefreshing sleep. The sooner one goes to bed, the better he sleeps; the later, the less able to sleep.

Skin

The whole upper part of the body is red, as if covered with scarlatina. Malignant scarlatina, dark red, sore throat, parotids and cervical glands much swollen, stertorous breathing, involuntary stools, vomiting, skin red with miliary rash, or faintly developed eruption. Skin desquamates easily; exanthema continually peels off, leaving raw skin, which sticks to the clothes. Red spots on the skin. In old people with erysipelas when cerebral symptoms are developed; tendency to gangrene. After scratching violently, itching and burning blisters appear. Stout women who lead a sedentary life, have various troubles in consequence, and readily catch cold in winter. Miliary rash, let it be ever so red, contraindicates Bellad., and under certain circumstances surely indicates Amm. carb.

Generalities

Tired and weary all day. Excessive sensitiveness to open air, dislikes to work in it. Great dislike to bathing, in children. Exhaustion with slow reaction. For women, suffering from the abuse of the "smelling bottle". Right side most affected.

Worse

In the evening; from eating; while chewing. Cold, wet weather; wet poultices; from washing. During menses. After scarlet fever (as swollen glands). Pressing or gnashing the teeth.

Better

Lying on the stomach; on right side; on painful side. In dry weather. By external pressure.

Remedies following

Bellad., Calc. carb., Lycop., Pulsat., Phosphor., Rhus tox., Sepia, Sulphur.

Antidote

Camphor.

Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica

J. W. Hutchison · Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica · rewritten from Hering's and other materia medicas

Red line symptom

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.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Carbonate of Ammonia (AMMONIUM CARB)

General

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

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 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.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

E. B. Nash · Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Nash d. 1917; public domain)

Leaders

Nose-bleed when washing the face in the morning.

Weak, anæmic, flabby women. Weak, no reaction. Addicted to the smelling bottle.

Tendency to gangrenous degeneration of glands, as in scarlatina; the parotids.

Guernsey says. This remedy seems particularly useful in constitutionally delicate women who faint easily and want some kind of smelling salts around them most of the time. They are weak, with deficient reaction and generally of the lymphatic temperament. Such patients want stimulants, especially such stimulants as act through the olfactory nerves, like spirits of Ammonia, Camphor, Musk, Alcohol, etc. In the first onset of such a suddenly prostrating disease as cerebro-spinal meningitis this has been found a good remedy to excite reaction and place the patient in a condition for the choice of the next remedy indicated by the now aroused vital force in conflict with the disease (so called). One thing Ammonium carb. is good for is dry or stuffed coryza, acute or chronic. The patient is worse at night, has to breathe with the mouth open. Sambucus, Lycopodium, Nux vomica, and Sticta pulmonaria may be compared with it.

Another frequently verified symptom of the nose is epistaxis while flashing the face. (Kali carbonicum). I don't know why it comes on then, but it does, and this remedy cures it. The only other affection in which I have found it very useful is scarlatina. The body is very red, almost bluish-red, and the throat seems to be the center where the force of the disease seems to be expended in malignant intensity. The eruption is faintly developed, or has seemed to disappear, from sheer inability from weakness of the patient's vitality to keep it on the surface (Zinc. has convulsions from the same cause). Erysipelas of old, debilitated persons comes under the same head. Cerebral symptoms, simulating a drunken stupor, are present in both cases. The whole system seems to be overpowered by the toxic effect of the disease poison. (See also Ailanthus). Ammonium carb. will sometimes help us out in such cases.

Text Book of Materia Medica

Adolph Lippe · Text Book of Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Lippe d. 1888; public domain)

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. Hæmorrhoidal tumors protruding before, during, and after stool. Discharge of blood from the rectum, daring and after stool. Bleeding hæmorrhoids. 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 dyspnœa. Cough, with stitches in the small of the back.

Chest

Dyspnœa, 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.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Sal volatile. Sesqui carbonate of Ammonia. 2 [(NH 4 ) 2 C0 3 CO 2 . 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

Mind

Very forgetful and absent-minded ; makes mistakes in writing and speaking.
Confusion and dulness of head.
Disposition to weep, particularly in evening.
Aversion to work, not disposed for anything.
Gloomy, depressed, with feeling of impending trouble, with sensation of coldness.
Anxious concern about one's sickness.
Anxiety, with inclination to weep.
Anguish as if a crime had been committed.
Listlessness and lethargy. θ Hysteria.
Utter dejection of mind. θ Chlorosis.
Ill humor : during wet, stormy weather ; after dinner, lasting whole day.
From thinking : pain in face.
Hearing others talk, or talking himself, affects him.
After vexation or fright, red spots in face.

Sensorium

Feeling of lightness in head.
Giddiness, especially in morning, when sitting and reading ; better when walking.
Frequent giddiness, as if surroundings were turning with him in a circle, in morning after rising, lasting whole day, worse in evening ; also at night, when moving head.
Congestion of blood to head at night and when awaking, heat of face.
Vertigo mostly in morning ; on moving his head sensation as if brain fell to and fro, towards the side where he stoops ; sometimes with stinging pain.

Inner head

Heaviness and beating in forehead after dinner.
Pressing fulness in forehead as from vapor of coal.
Sensation as if all was to be pressed out at forehead.
Sense of oppressive fulness, pushing as if forehead would burst.
Severe pain in forehead. θ Undeveloped measles.
Pulsating, beating and pressing in forehead, as if it would burst ; worse after eating ; while walking in open air ; better from pressure ; in warm room.
Headache, thrusts in forehead, as if it would burst.
Tearing : in whole head ; in temples ; back of left ear, ascending to vertex.
Boring, stitching headache at night.
Stitches in various parts of head.
Sensation of looseness of brain ; as if the brain fell to side towards which he leaned.
Congestive and menstrual headache.
When stooping, sensation as if blood was accumulating.
Headache : in morning in bed, with nausea and risings in throat, as if to vomit ; in morning, but < in afternoon.

Outer head

Pain on head resembling hammering or hacking with a flat instrument.
Drawing pain in periosteum of forehead, wakens from sleep in morning, passes off after rising.
Severe itching of scalp, especially on occiput.
Sensation as if hair would stand on end, with crawling and cold feeling on head, after coming into room from open air.
Scalp, even hair, painful to touch.

Sight and eyes

Double vision.
Aversion to light, with burning in eyes.
Optical illusions, particularly in white or bright colors.
Sparks before eyes at night. θ Headache.
Large black spot floats before eyes after sewing.
Eyes weak and watery, especially after reading ; muscular asthenopia ; affections from overstraining eyes.
Yellow spots on looking at white objects.
Cataract of right eye.
Burning in eyes all day.
Inflammation of eyes ; vision obscured.
Eyes bloodshot, with lachrymation.
Pressure on eyelids so that he cannot open them, even though internally awake.
Pressure with cutting or stitching in eyes.
Smarting in eyes and itching on margin of lids.
Stye on right upper eyelid, with tension.

Hearing and ears

Painful sensitiveness of dull ear to loud noise.
Dull sense of hearing.
Humming and buzzing before ears.
Hard hearing ; ear itches and discharges pus.
Indistinct hearing.
Itching above ears, spreads over whole body.
Hard swelling of right parotid gland. θ Scarlatina.

Smell and nose

Nosebleed ; dry coryza, especially at night, without slightest air passing through ; redness of tip of nose, when stooping.
Nosebleed ; severe pain as if brain was forcing itself out just above nose.
Nosebleed : when washing face or hands in morning nose bleeds from left nostril ; from right several days in succession, weakening boy. θ Undeveloped
measles.
When stooping, blood rushes to tip of nose.
Bloody mucus blown from nose frequently. θ Ozæna.
Burning water runs from nose ; < when stooping.
Stoppage, mostly at night ; must breathe through mouth, with long-lasting coryza. θ Scarlatina.
Child's nose stopped up, starts from sleep ; rattling of phlegm in trachea.
Coryza in hysterical females, in feeble or aged people.
Pustules on nose.

Upper face

Heat in face : during mental exertion ; during and after dinner.
Heat in face, with red cheeks.
Redness of left cheek.
Pale face, bloated.
Hard swelling of cheek, also of parotid and cervical glands.
Pustulous eruption on forehead, cheeks and chin.
Small boils and indurations, emitting water and blood on cheek, at corner of mouth and on chin.
Freckles.

Lower face

Herpetic eruption around mouth.
Itching eruption on lips.
Upper lip pains, as if cracked.
Lower lip cracked in middle, bleeding and burning.
Painful burning blister on inside of lower lip.
Blueness of lips.

Teeth and gums

Pricking pain, especially in molars ; < when masticating or touching decayed teeth with tongue.
Pressing teeth together sends a shock through head, ears and nose.
Teeth feel too long, too dull.
Violent toothache, evenings, immediately on going to bed.
Stitching pain in molars when biting ; can use incisors only.
Drawing toothache during catamenia ; > from eating, < from warm fluids.
Sensation as of an ulcer at root of a tooth.
Looseness and rapid decay of teeth.
Gums swollen, easily bleeding.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste : sweetish ; of blood, offensive ; of food, sourish or metallic ; bitter in morning.
Talking difficult at times, like from weakness of parts ; also from pain.
Vesicles on tongue, at tip, on borders, burning, hindering eating and speaking.

Inner mouth

Redness and inflammation of inner mouth and gullet ; pain as if raw.
Sensation as if mouth was swollen.
Great dryness of mouth and throat. θ Scarlatina. θ Headache.
Swelling of internal mouth, especially inside of cheeks.
Has to spit a great deal.
Salivation with headache.

Palate and throat

Pain in throat, as if right tonsil was swollen when swallowing.
Enlarged tonsils, bluish, much offensive mucus there. θ Scarlatina.
Sensation as if something had lodged in throat, impeding deglutition.
Putrid sore throat ; glands engorged. θ Scarlatina.
Tendency to gangrenous ulceration of tonsils. θ Scarlatina.
Angina after checking an old ulcer on leg ; ceased when ulcer returned.
Dryness of throat.
Burning pain in throat and down œsophagus as from alcohol.
Roughness and scraping in throat.
Diphtheria, when nose is stopped up ; child starts from sleep, cannot get its breath.
Diphtheria ; nose stopped both sides, membrane extends to upper lip, which is excoriated from watery discharge.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Continual thirst ; no appetite, excepting for bread and cold food.
Great hunger and appetite, yet a small quantity satiates.
Unconquerable appetite for sugar.

Eating and drinking

Cannot eat (dinner) without drinking.
Worse during eating : heat in face ; headache, nausea and prostration ; dizziness.
Worse after eating : nausea ; pressure in stomach and forehead ; speech becomes difficult ; sweat increased.
After dinner : is ill-humored ; has headache ; face is hot.
Worse from warm diet.
When masticating, decayed tooth pains more.
After eating : heartburn ; drawing toothache during menses >.
Toothache during menses < from warm fluids.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Hiccough, morning after chill.
Eructations : empty ; imperfect ; taste of food ; sour.
Heartburn after eating.
Nausea and vomiting of all that has been eaten ; afterwards sour taste in mouth.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Stitches in pit of stomach, with cough.
Burning and heat in stomach.
Pain as from constriction in stomach, with nausea, waterbrash and chilliness, > by pressure and lying down.
Stomach feels full, trembling.
Empty feeling in stomach.
Pressure in stomach after eating or at night ; clothes feel oppressive.
Heat in stomach, spreading through bowels.
Pain in stomach, with tendency to waterbrash.

Hypochondria

Burning pain in liver.
Boring stitches in liver in evening while sitting.
Pressure or sore feeling in hypochondrium.
Numbness in right hypochondrium.
Stitches in hypochondrium.
Splenic affections.

Abdomen and loins

Pressure above navel, as from a button.
Pressive pain in left side of abdomen.
Sudden painful contraction of bowels, extending to epigastrium ; > from pressure ; on lying down it ceases.
Cutting pain, with retraction of abdominal walls.
Colic with pain between scapulæ. θ Amenorrhœa.
Stitches through abdomen.
Elastic swelling (size of a fist) in left groin, evenings ; bruised pain therein ; cannot lie on left side ; on awaking, both swelling and pain gone.
Painful concussion in lower part of abdomen when stepping.

Stools and rectum

Painful diarrhœa.
Stool of feces and mucus.
Stools at first retarded, later soft.
Costiveness on account of hardness of feces.
Constipation ; stool hard and dry, difficult to expel, with headache.
Constipation with hemorrhoids.
Protrusion of hemorrhoids after stool, with long lasting pains ; cannot walk.
Hemorrhoids protrude, independent of stool.
Burning at anus with tenesmus, prevents sleep at night ; must rise from bed on that account.
Itching at anus.

Urinary organs

Pressure of urine on bladder, with cutting pain.
Frequent urination at night.
Involuntary urination during sleep ; urine pale with red sediment.
Pale urine, with sandy sediment.
Whitish sediment.
(OBS :) Diabetes.
During micturition, vulva and anus, which are sore, become painful.

Male sexual organs

After coition, excited circulation and palpitation.
Forcing (wurgend) pain in testicles and seminal cords ; sensitiveness of testicles to touch, aggravated by erections.
Testicles and scrotum relaxed, necessitating a supporter.
Erections without sexual desire, mornings.
Violent sexual desire, almost without erections.
Seminal emissions almost every night.
Itching of genitals.

Female sexual organs

Great excitement of female sexual organs. θ Hysteria.
Before catamenia : face pale ; pain in belly and small of back ; want of appetite.
Cholera-like symptoms at commencement of catamenia.
During catamenia : toothache ; colic ; face pale ; very sad ; great fatigue, especially of thighs, with yawning, toothache, pain in small of back and chilliness.
After a long drive in open air, courses come on four days too soon ; they are very copious, especially at night, and when sitting and driving previously ; she experienced griping colic, with want of appetite.
The courses come on six days too soon.
The menstrual blood is blackish, often in clots, passing off with spasmodic pain in belly and hard stools, with tenesmus ; flow abundant.
Menstrual blood acrid, makes thighs sore ; soreness causes a burning pain.
Acrid leucorrhœa, with sensation of excoriation or ulceration in vulva. θ Hysteria.
Leucorrhœa : watery, burning, from uterus ; acrid, profuse, from vagina.
Violent tearing in abdomen and vagina.
Irritation of clitoris. θ Hysteria.
Swelling, itching and burning of pudenda.
(OBS :) Vulvitis with tendency to gangrene.
Menses premature, abundant, blackish, often in clots, preceded by griping and colic.
Menses scanty and too late, always accompanied by frontal headache.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

During pregnancy ; albuminuria ; yellow spots before eyes.
Right mamma painful to touch.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Slight difficulty in speech ; incipient paralysis of laryngeal nerves. θ Softening of brain.
Great dryness of throat and hoarseness.
Hoarseness : with roughness in throat ; cannot speak a loud word ; < from speaking.
Larynx as if drawn shut from both sides of throat.
Rattling in larynx as from mucus.
Accumulation of mucus in trachea. θ Softening of brain.
Catarrh.

Respiration

Shortness of breath and palpitation after every exertion.
Dyspnœa, with palpitation of heart.
Great difficulty of breathing in going up even a few steps ; less in open air.
Dares not come into a warm room, in which he becomes deathly pale and can do nothing but sit quiet. θ Asthma.
Difficult breathing ; causing short cough.
Oppression of breathing.
Catarrh, dyspnœa, asthma.
One of the best remedies in emphysema.
Chronic asthma, tendency to hydrothorax.
Œdema pulmonum with somnolence from poisoning of blood with carbonic acid.

Cough

Dry cough at night with tickling in larynx, headache.
Cough dry and worse at night, like from feather down in throat.
Cough at night ; every morning, at 3 o'clock, dry cough from tickling in throat, as of dust.
Cough : with spitting of blood, previous sweet taste and great dyspnœa, with stitches in small of back and pit of stomach ; short, asthmatic, from irritation in larynx, with painful sensation of spasmodic contraction of chest ; with asthma,
evening in bed ; with hoarseness, body being warm ; with spitting of bloody phlegm , heaviness on chest, short breath, especially on ascending a hill.
Coughs up dark blood.
Roughness and bloody taste in mouth, succeeded by cough and sputum of light-red blood, with burning and heaviness in chest, face red and hot, body trembling.
Much hawking of saltish mucus at night.
Expectoration seldom ; or morning and during day.
Sputa thin, foamy ; adynamic state, with rattling of large bubbles in chest. θ Bronchitis in the aged.

Inner chest and lungs

Chronic weakness of chest and coryza.
Cracking in chest.
Burning in chest ; also with hydrothorax.
Stitches in right chest : when stooping ; when walking ; when raising up in bed.
Stitches in left chest, prevents lying on left side.
Lower part of chest most affected.
Heaviness as from accumulation of blood in chest.
Rush of blood to chest (after writing).
Tearing from upper left chest to scapula.
Heaviness and oppression at sternum at night.
Heaviness and tightness when walking in open air.
(OBS :) Pneumonia with great weakness and suspected heart-clot.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Vehement palpitation of heart and great precordial distress, followed by syncope. θ Hysteria.
Palpitation of heart. θ Headache.
Palpitation and asthma after every exertion.
Frequent palpitation, with contraction of epigastrium and weak feeling in pit of stomach.
Audible palpitation, with attacks of great anxiety, as if dying ; cold sweat ; involuntary flow of tears ; unable to speak ; loud, difficult breathing and trembling of hands.
Pulse hard, tense, frequent.
Ebullition of blood at night ; seems as if heart and veins would burst.
Angina pectoris.

Outer chest

Small pimple on sternum ; when touched it feels as if it had a splinter in it.
Red rash on chest.

Neck and back

Burning on throat externally.
Lymphatic glands swollen. θ Scarlatina.
(OBS :) Goitre.
Pain in nape of neck.
Pain between scapulæ.
Violent pain in small of back, with great coldness. θ Amenorrhœa.
Pressive drawing pain in small of back and loins, only when at rest, during day ; passing off when walking.
Stitches at coccyx, where before there was itching.

Upper limbs

Axillary glands painful and swollen.
Tearing, also bruised pains in shoulder.
Weight and lameness in right arm ; has no power in it, must let it hang ; hand swollen.
Cramp in right arm, drawing it backward.
Rigidity of arms and fingers as if dead, at night, early in morning, and when grasping things.
Cracking of elbow joint when moved.
Boring pain in olecranon depression.
Itching eruption on inside of right forearm.
Pain in wrist joint which had been sprained some time ago.
Pain in wrist ; in back of hands ; in fingers and thumbs.
Trembling of hands.
Cracking of skin of hands.
Peeling of skin from palms.
Hands look blue and veins distended, after washing in cold water.
Fingers swell when hands hang down.
Whitlow, in beginning : red streak up to axilla.
Panaritium ; finger inflamed ; deep-seated periosteal pain.
Fingers "go to sleep."

Lower limbs

Restlessness in legs.
Great weakness and languor of lower limbs.
Soreness between limbs of children.
Violent pain in hip joint when walking.
Blue spot, with great burning, above knee.
Boring and drawing pains in knees.
Leg frequently "goes to sleep" when sitting or standing, also when lying on it at night.
Drawing pains in legs when sitting.
Cramp in leg ; also in soles of feet.
Severe pain in heels when awaking in morning, as if ulcerated to bone.
Heel hurts when standing or walking much ; sometimes suppuration.
Tearing in ankle and bones of feet ; ceases when warm in bed.
Cold feet, particularly when going to bed.
Trembling of feet.
Ball of great toe painful and hot.
Great toe becomes red, swollen and painful, particularly in bed, evenings.
The big toe is hot and burns ; < from pressure of boots.
Feet and toes swollen.
Crawling in toes.

Limbs in general

Pain in limbs at night, with gnawing pain in small of back.
Inclination to stretch limbs.
Burning of hands and feet.

Rest. position. motion

At rest : pain in back and loins <.
Relieved lying on abdomen.
Lying down : pain in stomach > ; pain in bowels ceases ; leg goes to sleep.
Must lie down from debility.
Cannot lie on left side : bruised pain in left groin ; stitches in l. side.
Raising up in bed : stitches in chest.
When sitting : dizziness ; boring stitches in liver ; leg goes to sleep ; drawing in legs.
Ascending steps : difficult breathing.
Ascending a hill : shortness of breath.
Stepping causes painful concussion in abdomen.
Standing : leg goes to sleep ; heel hurts.
Walking : dizziness better ; pulsating pressure and beating in forehead ; painful commotion in bowels ; stitches in chest ; heaviness and tightness in chest ; improves pain in back or loins ; pain in hip.
Every exertion : heel hurts ; weakness in limbs ; palpitation and asthma.
Moving head : giddiness ; sensation as if brain fell to and fro.
Stooping : brain seems to fall towards side leaned to ; nosebleed ; burning water runs from nose ; rush of blood to tip of nose ; stitches in chest.

Nerves

Tetanic or epileptic convulsions from violent cerebral irritation.
Debility, must lie down ; also with soreness of whole body.
Feeling of weakness in limbs > walking in open air.
Great lassitude.
Exhaustion with defective reaction.
Hysteria with symptoms simulating organic affections.
(OBS :) Epilepsy.

Sleep

Loses breath at moment when falling asleep ; wakens to get breath.
Must sleep in afternoon, or eyes pain.
Restless, unrefreshing sleep ; tosses about.
Frequent violent starting out of sleep, with great fear afterwards.
Nightmare every night, sometimes in a sweat when awaking. θ Heart disease.
Somnolence, with blood overcarbonized. θ Œdema pulmonum.
Dreams : vivid ; romantic ; lewd ; anxious ; of danger and want ; of ghosts ; of dying ; of dead persons ; offensive, of lice ; of scolding.
Talks during sleep.
Heart-beats disturb sleep ; stupor. θ Scarlatina.
Sleepless until 4 A. M.
Unrefreshing sleep.

Time

Night : giddiness ; rush of blood to head ; boring and stitching in head ; nosebleed ; stoppage of nose ; pressure in stomach ; burning at anus and tenesmus ; frequent urination ; seminal emissions ; cough < ; hawks much
saltish mucus ; heaviness and oppression at sternum ; ebullition of blood ; rigidity of hands and arms ; pain in all limbs ; continuous sweat.
At 3 A. M. : dry cough from tickling in throat.
Early morning : rigidity of arms and fingers.
Morning : vertigo ; headache with nausea, etc. ; nosebleed when washing face ; bitter taste ; hiccough ; erections without desire ; expectoration ; pain in heels on awaking ; sweat most about joints.
All day : burning in eyes ; continuous sweat.
During day : expectoration ; pains in back and loins.
Afternoon : must sleep to relieve pain in eyes.
Evening : disposed to weep ; giddiness < ; violent toothache ; boring stitches in liver ; swelling in left groin ; cough with asthma in bed ; great toe swollen and painful in bed ; chill alternating with heat till midnight ; much flatus.
At 7 P. M. : strange uneasiness arousing child from sleep.
At 10 P. M. : child falls asleep suddenly after previous uneasiness.

Temperature and weather

In wet, stormy weather : ill humor ; < headache.
Winter : stout women readily take cold.
Very sensitive to cold air out-doors.
Worse in cold air ; menorrhagia.
Worse from wet poultices.
From washing : reappearance of symptoms ; nosebleed ; blue hands, swollen veins.
Children dislike washing.
In a warm room : headache > ; get deathly pale. θ Asthma.
Better in-doors, from warmth, in dry weather.
Worse while walking in open air, evening.
Averse to walking in open air.
After entering warm room from open air, sensation as if hair stood on end.
Aversion to walking in open air.
Open air : increases headache while walking ; difficult breathing > ; heaviness and tightness in chest when walking ; weakness of limbs when walking ; chill increased.
Warmth of bed : relieves tearing in ankle and feet.
In bed : great toe becomes red and painful.
Warm room : chill lessened.

Fever

Chill evening ; frequently alternating with heat, till towards midnight.
Chill increased in open air, lessened in warm room.
Great chilliness with headache.
Thirst before chill.
In afternoon a chill followed by heat.
Heat, evening, particularly of face ; with cold feet.
Hectic fever. θ Scurvy.
Sweat in morning, mostly at joints.
Sweat on lower part of body.
Continuous day or night-sweat.
Cold, cyanotic, semiconscious, pulseless. θ Beginning of spotted fever.

Attacks, periodicity

Worse during new moon.

Locality and direction

Right : stye on upper lid ; cataract ; swelling of parotid gland ; tonsil feels swollen ; numbness in hypochondrium ; stitches in chest ; weight and lameness in arm ; cramp in arm.
Left : tearing behind ear ; cheek red ; stitches in hypochondrium ; pressing pain in side of abdomen ; swelling in groin ; tearing from upper chest to scapula.

Sensations

Lightness in head ; as if surroundings were turning with him ; as if brain fell to and fro ; as from vapor of coal in forehead ; as if all were to be passed out at forehead ; as if forehead would burst ; of looseness of brain ; as if
hammering with a flat instrument on head ; as if hair would stand on end ; as if brain was forcing itself out above nose ; a shock through head, ears and nose on pressing teeth together ; as if mouth was swollen ; as if right tonsil was swollen ; as if something
had lodged in throat ; as from a button pressing above navel ; larynx as if drawn shut ; as of dust in throat ; spasmodic contraction of chest ; as of a splinter in pimple on sternum ; fingers and leg "go to sleep" ; as if ulcerated to bone, in
heels ; as if joints were sprained ; as from festering under skin.
Pain : in forehead ; between scapulæ, with colic ; in nape of neck ; in small of back ; in wrist ; in back of hands ; in fingers and thumbs ; in hip joint.
As of an ulcer : at root of a tooth ; in heels.
Thrusts : in forehead.
Stitches : in various parts of head ; in eyes ; in molars ; in scrobiculum, with cough ; in hypochondrium ; through abdomen ; in small of back and pit of stomach, with cough ; in chest ; at coccyx, preceded by itching.
Boring stitches : in head ; in liver.
Boring pain : in olecranon depression and in knees.
Stinging : in head ; thrusts in forehead ; in warts.
Pricking : in molars.
Cutting : in eyes ; in abdomen ; in bladder.
Tearing pain : in head ; temples ; back of left ear to vertex ; in abdomen and vagina ; from upper left chest to scapula ; in shoulder ; in ankle and bones of feet ; in joints ; in warts.
Burning : in eyes ; of lower lip ; vesicles on tongue ; in throat and down œsophagus ; and heat in stomach ; in liver ; at anus ; leucorrhœa ; of pudenda ; in chest ; on throat ; of hands and feet ; in spot above
knee ; in warts ; in vesicles and pustules.
Smarting : in eyes.
Rawness : of mouth and gullet.
Painful constriction : in stomach ; in bowels ; of chest.
Cramp : in right arm ; in leg ; in soles of feet.
Painful concussion : in lower part of abdomen when stepping.
Bruised pain : in swelling in groin ; in shoulder.
Pressive drawing : in small of back and loins.
Forcing pain : in testicles and seminal cords.
Drawing : in periosteum of forehead ; in teeth during catamenia ; in legs ; in knees.
Gnawing pain : in small of back.
Pressure : outward in forehead ; on eyelids ; in eyes ; in stomach : in right hypochondrium ; above navel ; in left side of abdomen ; of urine on bladder.
Pulsating : in forehead.
Itching : of scalp, especially on occiput ; on margin of lids ; in and above ear ; of genitals ; at anus ; at coccyx, followed by stitches ; and stinging in skin ; of eruption on inside of right forearm.
Tickling : as from feather in throat ; in larynx.
Crawling : on head ; in toes.
Heaviness : and beating in forehead ; in chest ; at sternum ; in right arm ; of internal parts.
Loose sensation : of brain.
Weak feeling : in pit of stomach ; of legs.
Roughness and scraping : in throat.
Tension : on right upper eyelid, as from shortness of muscles.
Swollen feeling : in mouth ; in right tonsil.
Lameness : in right arm.
Numbness : in right hypochondrium.
Coldness : on head ; with backache.
Dryness : of mouth and throat.

Tissues

Hemorrhagic diathesis, from fluidity of blood and dissolution of red blood corpuscles ; tendency to gangrenous ulcerations.
Hemorrhages : dark ; from nose, gums and bowels.
Lymphatic and parotid gland swollen and indurated.
Erythema, then vesication ; finally gangrenous degeneration.
Long used, it develops a scorbutic condition ; muscles soft and flabby ; teeth drop out ; hemorrhages ; hectic.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Worse from pressing teeth together.
Outer pressure : headache > ; constrictive pain in stomach > ; pain in bowels >.
Pressure of boot aggravates pain in big toe.
After a ride : menses come four days too soon ; < at night and when sitting.
Touch : scalp painful : testicles sensitive ; right mamma painful ; sensation of splinter in pimple.
Scratching : burning blisters appear afterwards.
After a fall from a horse and sprain of left great toe, frequent inflammation, joint red, hot and painful, and so sensitive to touch that he could not bear the bedcovers ; continual sensation as if joint was dislocated.

Skin

Chronic miliary eruption.
Violent itching ; after scratching, burning blisters appear.
Itching lessened by scratching.
Desquamation.
Itching and stinging of skin keep him awake.
Burning stinging, tearing in warts.
Burning vesicles and pustules.
Putrid flat ulcers with a pungent sensation, pain > by keeping limb elevated and from outward pressure ; pus white and putrid.
Child becomes sore between legs.
Brought out measles after three months' delay.
Strange uneasiness every evening, 7 o'clock, which arouses child from sleep ; it tosses about in bed and screams until it falls soundly asleep, about 10 P. M. ; during uneasiness head feels bloated and burning ; next day rash on face as if scarlatina would break
out.
Body red as if covered with scarlatina.
Malignant scarlatina with somnolence, starting from sleep ; dark red or putrid sore throat ; sticky salivation ; parotitis ; external throat swollen ; stertorous breathing ; involuntary stools with excessive vomiting ; body red, with miliary rash, or
faintly developed eruption ; threatened paralysis of brain.
Scarlatina receding.
Erysipelas of old people when cerebral symptoms are developed ; while eruption is still out, debility and soreness of whole body ; tendency to gangrenous destruction.
(OBS :) Psoriasis.
(OBS :) Lepra vulgaris.

Stage of life, constitution

Scrofulous children.
Stout women, who lead a sedentary life, have various troubles in consequence, and readily catch cold in winter.
Erysipelas of old people.

Relations

Similar to its relatives, Amm. mur., Am. phosph ., etc., and to Ant. tart . (emphysema, etc. ; blood poisoned with carbonic acid) ; Arnic. ; Arsen .
(inflammations) ; Aurum (heart) ; Apis (scarlatina, miliaria ; burning stinging) ; Bellad. ; Coccul . (muscular asthenopia) ; Calc.
ostr . (parotitis in scarlatina ; pale, flabby, etc.) ; Hepar ; Kali bichr. ; Kali carb. ; Laches . (erysipelas) ; Lauroc. ; Natr. mur . (muscular asthenopia) ; Phosphor. ;
Pulsat. ; Rhus tox . (rash, scarlatina with parotitis, etc.) ; Ruta (muscular asthenopia) ; Staphis. ; Sulphur ; Veratr . (cholera-like symptoms during menses).
The presence of miliary rash may distinguish it from the sometimes similar Bellad . in scarlatina.
Inimical to Laches .
Antidote to : poisoning with Rhus tox . ; stings of insects.
Antidoted by : Arnic., Camphor, Hepar ; vegetable acids, fixed oils, as castor, linseed, almond and olive oils.
The Chenopodium vulvaria exhales pure ammonia during its whole existence.

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Séror HTML text (Kent d. 1916; public domain)

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 Lachesis has 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 Lachesis and 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 Arsenicum for 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.