Ammonium Carbonicum am-c.

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

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

PRESSURE. Eating. Lying on abdomen.

Low vitality. Lacks reaction. LIVID, WEAK AND DROWSY. Lies down. Collapse of nerves and heart. Averse to cold. Old age. Bruised, sore pain. Internal, raw burning. Acrid, hot, adherent secretions. Dark, thin hæmorrhage. Scorbutic states. Malignancy.

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

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

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.).

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Camphor.

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.

Carbonate of Ammonia (AMMONIUM CARB)

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Pain at pit of stomach, with heartburn, nausea, waterbrash, and chilliness. 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Sleepiness during the day. Starts from sleep strangling.

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.

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.

Inimical to Lachesis. Similar in action.

Antidotes: Arnica; Camphor.

Compare: Rhus; Muriatic acid; Tartar emet.

Of use in poisoning by charcoal fumes.

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

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.

Anxiety, with inclination to weep. Forgetfulness, mistakes in writing and speaking. Ill humor during wet, stormy weather.

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.

Burning of the eyes, with aversion to light. Double vision.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

He must drink while eating. Much thirst. Bitter taste in the morning. Longing for sugar.

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 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.

Frequent desire to urinate, with continued pressure on the bladder. Involuntary micturition at night, during sleep (morning). Urine pale, with sandy sediment.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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).

Sleepiness during the day. Sleeplessness till 4 A.M., and when falling asleep, perspiration.

Pulse hard, tense and frequent. Chilliness. Attacks of chilliness in the evening. Perspiration in the morning and during the day, mostly on the joints.

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).

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.

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

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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."

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."

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.

Forgetful, makes mistakes in writing and speaking.
Absent-minded.
Confusion and dulness of the head.
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.
Hearing others talk, or talking himself, affects him.

Frequent giddiness, as if the surroundings were turning with him in a circle, in the morning after rising, lasting the whole day, worse in evening; also at night, when moving the head.
Congestion of blood to the head at night and when awaking, heat of the face.

Headache: in the morning in bed with nausea and rising in throat, as if to vomit; in the morning, but worse in the afternoon.
Boring, stitches headache at night.
Headache, thrusts in the forehead, as if it would burst.
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.
Stitches in various parts of the head.
Tearing: in whole head; in temples; back of left ear, ascending to vertex.
Sensation of looseness of the brain; as if brain fell to the side toward which he leaned.

Drawing pain in periosteum of forehead, wakens from sleep in morning, passes off after rising.
Severe itching of the scalp, especially on the 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 the hair, painful to touch.

Double vision.
Aversion to light, with burning in eyes.
Optical illusions, particularly in white or bright colors.
Large black spot floats before eyes after sewing.
Cataract of the right eye.
Pressure on eyelids, that he cannot open them, even though internally awake.
Pressure, cutting and stitching in the eyes.
Smarting in the eyes and itching on the margin of lids.
Stye on the right upper eyelid, with tension.
Inflammation of the eyes; vision obscured.
Eyes bloodshot, with lachrymation.

Hardness of hearing; ear itches and discharges pus.
Humming before the ears.
Itching above the ears, spreads over the whole body.
Hard swelling of the right parotid gland.
Painful sensitiveness of the dull ear to loud noise.

When stooping, blood rushes to tip of nose.
Nosebleed: when washing face in morning; after dinner.
Bloody mucus blown from nose frequently.
Burning water runs from the nose.
Stoppage, mostly at night, must breathe through the mouth, with long-lasting coryza.

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

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

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, better from eating; worse from warm fluids.
Sensation as of an ulcer at the root of tooth.
Teeth fall out.
Gums very sensitive; bleed easily.

Taste: sweetish; of blood; offensive; bitter; of food sourish or metallic.
Painful vesicles on the tongue.
Talking difficult at times, like from weakness of the parts, also from pain.

Redness and inflammation of the inner mouth and gullet; pain as if raw.
Sensation as if the mouth were swollen.
Great dryness of mouth and throat.
Much saliva must be ejected.

Pain in throat, as if the right tonsil were swollen when swallowing.
Enlarged tonsils, bluish, much offensive mucus there.
Sensation as if something had lodged in throat, impeding deglutition.
Burning pain in throat.
Putrid sore throat.
Tendency to gangrenous ulceration of tonsils.

Continual thirst, no appetite.
Appetite: only for bread and cold food; for sweets.
Great hunger and appetite, yet a small quantity satiates.

Cannot ear (noon) without drinking.
Worse during eating; heat in face, headache, nausea and prostration.
Worse after eating; nausea, pressure in stomach and forehead; speech becomes difficult.

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

Feels full, trembling.
Empty feeling in stomach.
Pressure in stomach after eating, or at night the clothes feel oppressive.
Heat in stomach, spreading through the bowels.
Pain in stomach, with tendency to water-brash.

Pressure or sore feeling in right hypochondrium.
Stitches in left hypochondrium.
Splenic affections.

Pressure above the navel, like from a button.
Pressive pain in the left side of abdomen.
Sudden painful contraction of the bowels, extending to the epigastrium; better from pressure; on lying down it ceases.
Cutting pain, with retraction of abdominal walls.
Colic and pain between the scapulæ.
Stitches through the abdomen.
Elastic swelling (size of a first) in the lift groin, evenings; bruised pain therein; cannot lie on left side; on awaking, both swelling and pain gone.

Painful diarrhœa.
Stool of feces and mucus.
Stools at first retarded, later soft.
Costiveness on account of hardness of feces.
Discharge of blood before and after stool.
Discharge of prostatic fluid after stool.
Protrusion of hemorrhoids after stool, with long-lasting pains, cannot walk; protrude also independent of the stool.
Burning at anus, prevents sleep at night; must rise from bed on account of this and tenesmus.
Itching at anus.

Pressure of urine on the bladder, with cutting pain.
Frequent urination at night; involuntary, in sleep towards, morning.
Pale urine, with sandy sediment; whitish sediment.

Forcing (würgend) pain in the 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 emission almost every night.
Itching of the genitals.

Menses: premature, abundant, preceded by griping, colic, and want of appetite; too late, scanty and short; blackish, in clots, and passing off with pain in abdomen; acrid, makes the thighs sore; very slightly colored; copious at night, and when sitting and driving.
Cholera-like symptoms at the beginning of catamenia.
Leucorrhœa: watery, burning, from the uterus; acrid profuse from the vagina.
Violent tearing in abdomen and vagina.
Swelling, itching and burning of the pudendum; with leucorrhœa.

Hoarseness, cannot speak loud word; aggravation from speaking; great dryness.
Larynx as if drawn shut from both sides of the throat.

Great difficulty of breathing in going up even a few steps; less in the open air.
Dares not come into a warm room, in which he becomes deathly pale, and can do nothing but sit quiet.
Difficult breathing; causing short cough.
Asphyxia imminent in the course of a disease.
Shortness of breath and palpitation after every exertion.
Emphysema.

Cough: at night, about midnight violent, about 3 or 4 A.M.; dry, particularly at night, like from "feather down" in throat; short, asthmatic, from irritation in larynx, with painful sensation of spasmodic contraction of chest.
Cough: with asthma, evening in bed; each time with stitch in scrobiculum.

Burning in the chest.
Stitches in right chest: when stooping; when walking; when raising up in bed.
Stitches in left chest, prevent lying on left side.
Lower part of chest most affected.

Frequent palpitation, with contraction of epigastrium and weak feeling in the 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. θ Angina pectoris.
Pulse: hard, tense, frequent.

Right mamma painful to touch.
Small pimple on the sternum; when touched feels as if a splinter was therein.
Red rash on chest.

Lymphatic glands swollen.
Violent pain in small of back, with great coldness.
Pressive, drawing pain in small of back and loins, only when at rest, during the day; passing off when walking.
Stitches at the coccyx, where before there was itching.

Axillary glands painful and swollen.
Tearing, also bruised pains in the 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.
Cracking of elbow-joint when moved.
Boring pain in the olecranon depression.
Itching eruption on inside of the right forearm.
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.
Inflammation of finger ends, whitlow.

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

Pain in all the limbs at night, with gnawing pain in small of back.
Inclination to stretch the limbs.

Dislike to move.
Rest: 31. Lying: 19, 33. Must sit quiet: 26. Sitting: 33. Standing: 33. Moving: 2, 32. Stooping: 7, 28. Raising up: 28. Rising: 4. Walking: 3 (in open air), 28, 31, 33. Ascending: 26. Exertion: 26.

Debility: must lie down; and soreness of the whole body.

Must sleep in the afternoon, or the eyes pain.
Restless, unrefreshing sleep; tosses about.
Frequent, violent starting out of sleep, with great fear afterward.
Nightmare every night, sometimes in a sweat when awaking. θ Heart disease.
Somnolence, with blood over-carbonized.
Dreams: vivid; romantic; lewd; anxious; of danger and want; of ghosts; of dying; of dead persons, offensive; of lice; of scolding.
Talks during sleep.

Morning: 2, 3, 4, 7, 16, 21, 22, 33, 40. Afternoon: 37. Evening: 2, 10, 27, 33, 40. Day: 31, 40. Night: 2, 7, 17, 20, 21, 22, 27, 33, 34, 37, 40. After midnight: 27.

In wet, stormy weather, ill humor, etc.
Very sensitive to cold air, out-doors.
Open air: 26, 40. Warm room: 3, 26, 40. Warm in bed: 33, 43. Coming in room from open air: 4. Washing: 7, 32.
Children dislike washing. Worse from wet poultices.

Chill evening; frequently alternating with heat, till toward midnight.
Chill increased in open air, lessened in warm room.
Heat, evening, particularly of the face; with cold feet.
Hectic fever. θ Scurvy.
Sweat in the morning, mostly at the joints.
Sweat on lower part of body.
Continuous day or night-sweat.

Worse during new moon.

Right: 5, 6, 13, 18, 28, 30, 32. Left: 3, 8, 18, 19, 28.

Drawing tension, as from shortening of the muscles.
Pain as if joints were sprained.
Tearing in joints, better in warmth of bed.
Pain as from festering under the skin.

Hemorrhage from nose, gums and bowels.
Muscles soft and flabby, emaciation. θ Scurvy.
Tendency to gangrenous degeneration of the parts. θ Inflammation of vulva.

Touch: 4, 30. Pressure: 3, 10, 19. Scratching: 46.

Violent itching; after scratching, burning blisters appear.
Itching lessened by scratching.
Upper half of body as red as scarlet.
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.
Erysipelas of old people hen cerebral symptoms are developed; while the eruption is still out, debility and soreness of the whole body; tendency to gangrenous destruction.
Sometimes relieves the nightly pains of felons.
Desquamation; receding scarlatina.

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

Similar to its relatives. Amm. mur., Amm. 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.

Carbonate of Ammonium (volatile salts) is prepared for use by dissolving one part in nine parts of pure water.

(Compare Ammon caust.).

Kali c., Ammon mur.

Emaciation. ▶ Marasmus. ▶ Spasms. ▶ Tetanus. ▶ A jerk in upper part of body and in arms at 3 A.M. with tearing, then faintness. ▶ Trembling of whole body when walking. ▶ Blackness before eyes, motion of letters and arrest of breathing, with previous lassitude, and upon rising quickly from a seat rigidity of whole body, arms and legs being stretched out, while the fingers were so clenched that he had to use force to stretch them, which made them again movable. ▶ Tearing in whole body, especially in thighs. ▶ Bruised feeling in whole body early after rising, with weakness and weeping mood. ▶ Pain in motion in bed. ▶ Pain in occiput, in chest and from scapulæ down along ribs. ▶ Rheumatic drawing pain through limbs, hands, feet, nape, head, etc. ▶ Indisposition in morning; sudden, towards evening, with faintness, amel. walking in open air, but still she felt stitches in right side.

Restlessness everywhere and success in nothing; R., which becomes a convulsive trembling; in a child every day from 7 till 10 P.M., with waking, tossing about, screaming, bloated and burning feeling in head, then sound sleep till morning, when the face is covered with spots as if scarlatina would break out. ▶ Weakness all day; in morning; morning and forenoon, amel. walking in open air; morning and evening; in forenoon, with sleepiness; evening; after stool; W. on leaving her bed; when walking in open air, with trembling and discouragement; during menses, especially in thighs, with yawning, toothache, pain in small of back, and chilliness; during menses, with pain in thighs as if they would fall off, or as if tendons would tear off, alternating with pain in small of back; with lying down for several hours as if senseless and weary. ▶ Numbness of right side when lying on it.

Generally useful in great prostration with falling temperature. ▶ Hæmorrhages, especially under the skin, with general anæmia. ▶ Sometimes useful after hæmorrhage from the bowels, with very low temperature. ▶ It is use in poisoning by charcoal fumes; (Arnica is sometimes used in these cases, also Bovista.).

▶ Sensitiveness to open air; in evening. ▶ Lying on left side easier than on right.

▶ Aggravation on right side of body; in open air. ▶ Cannot bear evening air, with heaviness of feet and soreness of whole body; affected by talking much and hearing people talk, her hands and feet becoming cold in consequence of it; talking difficult after dinner; affected by walking in open air; all symptoms relieved after a good meal.

Does not seem to be in his senses. ▶ Dreams at night while awake. ▶ Thoughtless in his head. ▶ Arrangement of ideas difficult. ▶ Absence of mind, with anxiety, and when speaking he is at loss to finish his speech. ▶ Loss of train of thought when telling a story, and hitting upon wrong thoughts and expressions. ▶ Incorrect speech, using one word for another. ▶ Uses wrong letters and figures in writing and ciphering. ▶ Memory lost; with headache when reflecting. ▶ Tormented by disagreeable memories.

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Spirits of Ammonia and Carbonate of Ammonia are powerful but transient cardiac stimulants, very similar in action to Alcohol; they also increase the reflex activity of the spinal cord and even induce convulsions.
(The Muriate of Ammonia has, however, quite a different action).
When the secondary effects of Ammonium carb. are studied it will be observed that there is a well-defined tendency to disorganization of the blood and numerous indications of defective nutrition, similar to scurvy, dark fluid hæmorrhages, wasting of muscles, ulceration of the gums, looseness of the teeth and finally a low type of recurrent fever.

General emaciation with a hæmorrhagic tendency.
Hæmorrhages thin, dark.
A general scorbutic state.
Restlessness.
Weakness.
Extreme sensitiveness to cold.
Constant desire to stretch.
Bruised feeling of the flesh.
General right-sided character of symptoms.
Aggravated in evening at 3 A. M.
(Uræmic convulsions).

Listless, difficult to think.
Stupor (in scarlatina, diphtheria, etc.).

Fullness or throbbing, bursting headaches, especially in forehead and vertex.
The brain feels loose.
Chronic headache with nausea, aggravated by walking in the open air.
(In low types of meningitis, especially in eruptive diseases, with cyanosis; of temporary use).

Burning.
Vision dim, with flickerings.
Photophobia.
Muscular weakness.
Yellow spots before vision.

Hearing difficult but painfully sensitive.
Parotid gland swollen.

Tip seems full of blood on stooping.
Nose bleed, dark, thin.
Stoppage at night.
Sneezing.
Coryza dry, then fluent, with acrid liquid from nose, burning.
Nostrils raw.

Deathly pale; sometimes puffy.
Freckles easily.
Tetter around the mouth.
Lips cracked in the corners.

Gums swollen, bleeding easily.
Teeth loose, elongated.
Toothache, aggravated by biting on teeth, worse evening on first going to bed.
Swelling of inside of cheeks.
Blisters on mouth and tongue.
Increased saliva, sour, salt or foul tasting.

Sore throat, (right side worse), swelling dark and bluish, feeling of a foreign substance, tonsils swollen, sub-maxillary glands swollen.
(Frequently needed in low types of scarlatina, diphtheria, etc.)

Great desire for sugar.
Appetite quickly satiated.
Must drink while eating.
Constant thirst.
Heartburn after eating, with scraping.
Nausea and vomiting of food.
Stomach oppressed after eating, with tenderness of pit of stomach.
Cannot bear pressure of clothes after eating.

Symptoms accompanying the flatulent and acid dyspepsia, as above.
Cramps, contractive, cutting, tearing, largely from gas, accompanied by nausea, waterbrash, followed by loose stool.

Constipation, hard nodular stool, with bleeding.
Diarrhœa, preceded and followed by cutting in the abdomen.

Hæmorrhoids, bleeding with a hard stool.
Itching piles.

Urine copious, depositing a red sediment.
Micturition frequent, especially at night, even involuntary during sleep.

Sexual desire increased; involuntary emissions at night.

Pruritus vulvæ, with swelling and burning.
Leucorrhœa watery, excoriating.
Menses too frequent, profuse, preceded by colic (often by diarrhœa); blood dark or black, acrid, clotted, causes burning on the thighs.
Menses followed by bowel troubles, especially straining at stool, colic, constipation.

Laryngitis, with collection of mucus.
Hoarseness.
Dyspnœa, especially on ascending or in a warm room.
Dyspnœa at night, with palpitation, with dropsical symptoms, bloody expectoration, etc. (Emphysema.)
Cough dry, as from a feather in the throat, aggravated at 3 A. M., with asthmatic constriction in the chest; expectoration bloody or taste of blood in the mouth.
Cough from cardiac diseases; especially valuable in pneumonia with a weak heart.

Internal oppression, as if filled with blood.
Stitches in left side, aggravated by lying on it.

Weak, pulse quick.
Palpitation, with cough and dyspnœa. (Angina pectoris.)

Drawing pains from sacrum to nape.
Pain in back during menses.

Tearing in the joints, ameliorated by warmth of the bed.
Inclined to stretch.
"Falling asleep" when sitting.

Right arm very heavy and powerless, veins swollen, aggravated by washing in cold water. (The skin of the palms peels off.)
(Pains in old sprains of the wrist.)

Bruised pain in the hip joint and thighs.
Jerkings in the knees.
Restless legs.
The big toe is swollen and painful, aggravated in evening in bed with swelling of foot. (Compare symptoms of acid dyspepsia!)

A scarlatina-like rash over upper half of the body (see throat and glands!).
Itching and burning vesicles.

General tendency to sleep and even stupor, with febrile conditions as well as gastric disturbances.
Night-sleep restless from dreams and startings.

Chilliness, in evening, when going to bed.
Heat general with stupor; local in face, in great toe. (Low type of exanthemata, coldness with a cyanotic hue, fever with stupor, etc.)
Study Magnesia carb. and Apis.

AMMONIUM CARBONICUM. CARBONATE OF AMMONIA. Sal volatile.

(The salt obtained from equal parts of sal-ammoniac and crystalline carbonate of soda, triturated together and sublimated at a moderate heat.) [*].

[*] Instead of procuring this salt from chemical laboratories, as our druggists do of late, and then, in order to free it from any contents of lead which may be suspected, subliming it again, (G. Pharm. boruss. P. 134,) (what a round about course !) we need only to put an ounce of the above-mentioned mixture into a good sized medicine bottle which is loosely corked, place this bottle in an iron pan filled with sand, immersing the bottle as deeply as the mixture extends, sublimate the ammonia by fire into the upper part of the bottle and then break this off in order to secure the contents.

Of this salt one grain is triturated for 1 hour with 100 grains of sugar of milk, as I have described in the first part, in the directions for preparing antipsoric remedies, and we thus get the first one hundredfold, potentized powder-attenuation (/100). One grain of this powder, again, is triturated with 100 grains of fresh sugar of milk in a similar manner to /10000, and one grain of this is triturated with another 100 grains of sugar of milk to the millionfold potentized powder-attenuation (I). One grain of this (as given in the directions) is dissolved in 100 drops of alcohol mixed with water, and shaken twice, forming a liquid (/100 I) which is then potentized through 27 additional vials, each containing 100 drops of good alcohol, up to the decillionth attenuation (X) by two strokes of the arm. With this 1, 2 or 3 of the finest pellets are moistened for a dose, which, when homœopathically selected, at times operates for more than 36 days. This medicine serves in its way very well for curative antipsoric purposes in chronic diseases, especially in cases where the following symptoms prevail or are present among others : Timidity ; disobedience ; obstinacy ; loathing of life ; uneasiness in the evening ; distress ; anxiety with weakness ; diminished faculty of thinking ; vertigo while sitting and reading ; long continued headache ; headache as if it would burst out at the forehead ; headache with nausea ; hammering headache ; falling out of the hair ; dry pus on the eyelids ; burning and sensation of cold in the eyes ; obscuration of vision, with a glimmer before the eyes ; black dots and streaks of light, hovering before the eyes ; cataract (aft. 32 d.) ; short-sightedness ; hardness of hearing, with suppuration and itching of the ear ; humming and ringing before the ears ; itching of the nose ; suppurating pustules in the nose ; bleeding of the nose, in the morning while washing freckles ; chaps from the left upper lip across the cheek to the ear ; cracking in the articulation of the jaw, while chewing ; long-continued looseness of the teeth ; sore throat as if raw ; pain as of soreness in the throat ; swelling of the interior of the mouth ; after eructations, taste of the food and drinks partaken of ; bitter taste in the mouth, especially after eating ; scraping and burning, up the œsophagus, after a meal ; headache, after a meal ; nausea after a meal ; during a meal, a dizzy vertigo ; irresistible inclination to eat sugar ; thirst ; lack of appetite in the morning ; sour eructations ; heartburn ; eructation and vomiting ; stomachache ; spasms of the stomach ; contractive pain in the scrobiculus cordis, while stretching ; burning pain in the liver ; boring stitches in the liver, in the evening while sitting ; restlessness in the abdomen ; concussive pain in the hypogastrium when setting the foot down ; constipation ; difficult evacuations ; colic with diarrhœa ; blood with the stools ; discharge of blood from the anus (flowing piles) ; itching of the anus ; varices of the anus ; nightly micturition ; (lack of sexual instinct ;) menses too scanty ; sterility with too scanty menses ; catamenia, pressure on the genitals, cutting in the abdomen, tearing in the back and in the genital organs, compelling her to lie down ; watery discharge from the uterus ; leucorrhœa ; copious, excoriating, acrid leucorrhœa ; long-continued dryness of the nose ; chronic coryza ; dry coryza ; dyspnœa ; asthma ; cough ; cough with hoarseness, while the body is warm ; cough from tickling in the throat, with expectoration ; cough during the day ; cough at night ; stitching in the small of the back, while coughing ; burning in the chest from below upward ; tearing from the upper left side of the chest to the shoulder-joint ; stitches in the fleshy part of the chest to the shoulder-joint ; stitching in the fleshy part of chest ; goitre ; swelling of the cervical glands, with an itching eruption of the face and body ; pain in nape of the neck ; rigidity of the arms and fingers and numbness of the same at night, in the morning and while grasping something ; pain in the wrist-joint, sprained some time previous ; swelling of the fingers, while the arms hang down ; the fingers go to sleep ; great weariness of the legs ; drawing pain in the legs, while sitting ; stitches in the heel ; perspiration of the feet ; swelling of the feet ; cramp in the some of the foot ; pain of a sprain in the ball of the big toe, at night in bed ; burning in the hands and feet ; feeling of weakness in the limbs, while walking in the open air ; dislike to taking walks ; drawing and tension in the small of the back and the joints ; curvature of the bones ; warts ; burning, stitches and tearing pains in the corns ; drowsiness during the day ; sleeplessness at night ; nightmare, when going to sleep ; fever-heat in the head, with cold feet ; chilliness in the evening ; perspiration. This medicine may be advantageously repeated after some intermediate remedies. Swelling of a solution of camphor moderates its excessive action. The abbreviations of my fellow provers are : Hb., Dr. Hartlaub ; Ng. [] ; Gr., Dr. Gross ; Stf., medical councillor Dr. Stapf ; Tr., Dr. Trinks ; S., Dr. Schréter. [*].

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Am. c. / (Ammon.) / Amanda.

Ammonium carb. inclines to faint,
With burning as a marked complaint-
the chest and anus burn, while flows
A burning liquid from the nose.
Blue are the lips, oppressed the breath
When in a warm room as in death.
Whilst all the joints feel on a strain,
Especially at a time of rain.

Amanda,- Feels worse when warm.

Amanda Car seeks to aid her rich Aunt Ida in buying asample of tea.

This Amanda,- Who is subject to fainting,- Is at the hovel of St. Acon, with Laura the Nun, and her black cook, Asa Mos.

Worse from Warmth: Am. c., Carb. v., Sec., Dig., Aur., Ant. c., Iod., Bry., Apis, Sul., Mer., Pul., Lyc., Thuj. (In hot, damp weather, Alo., Carb. v., Gel.).

Fainting Spells, Habit of Fainting: Am. c., Hep., Ver. a., Ig., Aco., Laur., Nux m., Sep., Coc., Asa., Mos. (From pain, Aco., Cham., Coc., Hep., Ver. a)

Indicated in affections of children and elderly people, nervous, of lymphatic temperament; particularly useful in the treatment of catarrhal affections, coughs, bronchitis, etc.

Very sensitive to the open air.

Great aversion to water.

Stoppage of nose at night; cannot breathe through the nose.

Nose bleeds easily; when washing the face; in the morning; from eating.

Ozaena, with copious discharge of bloody mucus.

Tip of nose looks red.

Cough of elderly people, rattling loose, yet difficult to raise anything; after much effort raises mucous, at times slightly tinged with specks of blood.

Night cough, worse at 3 or 4 o'clock a. m.; from tickling in the throat, as though there were dust in it.

Breathing oppressed; aggravated by slightest exertion and by entering a warm room.

Thick, red rash all over the body, like scarlet fever rash.

Burning, acrid leucorrhoea, watery; aversion to sexual intercourse.

Menses copious, black, too early, clotted, with sense of great exhaustion and chilliness.

Worse from cold; from being washed; on the right sided; from 3 to 4 a. m.

Better from lying on the affected side or on the stomach; in dry weather; from external pressure.

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

With nausea, toward evening.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Taste: Bitter, in morning.

Eructations: Scratchy heartburn after eating.

Nausea: And vomiting after every meal.

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

Constipated. Retarded, hard, knotty.

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

Nightly, also involuntary urination.

Pollutions follow a forcing and drawing in testes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Day sleepiness. Nightly nausea and ebullitions of blood.

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

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

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

Stinging and tearing pains.

Drawing and tension as from the shortening of the muscles.

Inclination to stretch the limbs.

Pain as of dislocation in the joints.

Pain as from sub-cutaneous ulceration.

Debility which only permits to lie down.

Disinclination to walk in the open air, and from it aggravation of many complaints.

Restlessness of the body in the evening.

The right side of the body is mostly affected.

Dry cough, as from dust in the throat.

Cough only at night or only in day-time.

Exanthemata of a scarlet color.

Itching eruptions - desquamations of the skin.

Great sensitiveness to the cold.

Talking and hearing others talk affects him greatly.

Reappearance and aggravtion of some symptoms from washing (bleeding of the nose, swelling of the veins of the hands, and blue hands).

There is an evening aggravation and an aggravation during wet weather.