AMMONIUM CARBONICUM

AMMONIUM CARBONICUM. [Amn. carb.] Smelling Salts. Hahnemann. 2NH4O, 3CO2.

► 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 scapulae. ► 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 diarrhoea. ► 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. ► Leucorrhoea : watery, burning, from the uterus ; acrid profuse from the vagina. ► Violent tearing in abdomen and vagina. ► Swelling, itching and burning of the pudendum ; with leucorrhoea.

► 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.