AMMONIUM CARBONICUM
Carbonate of Ammonia
(AMMONIUM CARB)
The diseased stipulations met by way of this treatment are such as we discover frequently in as an alternative stout ladies who are continually worn-out and weary, take bloodless easily, go through from cholera-like signs and symptoms earlier than menses, lead a sedentary life, have a sluggish response generally, and are disposed to widely wide-spread use of the smelling-bottle. Too established and profuse menses. Mucous membranes of the respiratory organs are specially affected. Fat sufferers with vulnerable heart, wheezing, sense suffocated. Very touchy to bloodless air. Great aversion to water; can’t undergo to contact it. Malignant scarlatina, with somnolence, swollen glands, darkish purple sore throat, faintly developed eruption. Uraemia. Heaviness in all organs. Uncleanness in bodily habits. Swelling of parts, glands, etc. Acid secretions. Prostration from trifles.
Mind.–Forgetful, ill-humored, gloomy in the course of stormy weather. Uncleanliness. Talking and listening to others speak influences greatly. Sad, weepy, unreasonable.
Head.–Pulsating forehead; better, strain and in heat room. Shocks via head.
Eyes.–Burning of eyes with aversion to light. Eye-strain (Nat mur). Asthenopia. Sore canthi.
Ears.–Hardness of hearing. Shocks via ears, eyes, and nose, when gnashing teeth.
Nose.–Discharge of sharp, burning water. Stoppage at night, with long-continued coryza. Cannot breathe via nose. Snuffles of children. Epistaxis after washing and after eating. Ozaena, blows bloody mucus from nose. Tip of nostril congested.
Face.–Tetters round mouth. Boils and pustules, for the duration of menses. Corners of mouth sore, cracked, and burn.
Mouth.–Great dryness of mouth and throat. Toothache. Pressing tooth collectively sends shocks via head, eyes, and ears. Vesicles on tongue. Taste sour; metallic. Cracking of jaw on chewing.
Throat.–Enlarged tonsils and glands of neck. Burning ache all down throat. Tendency to gangrenous ulceration of tonsils. Diphtheria when nostril is stopped up.
Stomach.–Pain at pit of stomach, with heartburn, nausea, waterbrash, and chilliness. Great appetite, however without difficulty satisfied. Flatulent dyspepsia.
Abdomen.–Noise and ache in abdomen. Flatulent hernia. Stools difficult, hard, and knotty. Bleeding piles; worse in the course of menses. Itching at anus. Protruding piles, worse after stool, higher mendacity down.
Urine.–Frequent desire; involuntary at night. Tenesmus of bladder. Urine white, sandy, bloody, copious, turbid and fetid.
Male.–Itching and ache of scrotum and spermatic cords. Erection except desire. Seminal emissions.
Female.–Itching, swelling and burning of pudendum. Leucorrhoea burning, acrid, watery. Aversion to the different sex. Menses too frequent, profuse, early, copious, clotted, black; colicky pains, and hard, hard stool, with fatigue, specifically of thighs; yawning and chilliness.
Respiratory.–Hoarseness. Cough each and every morning about three o’clock, with dyspnoea, palpitation, burning in chest; worse ascending. Chest feels tired. Emphysema. Much oppression in breathing; worse after any effort, and coming into heat room, or ascending even a few steps. Asthenic Pneumonia. Slow labored, stertorous breathing; effervescent sound. Winter catarrh, with slimy sputum and specks of blood. Pulmonary oedema.
Heart.–Audible palpitation with fear, bloodless sweat, lachrymation, incapability to speak, loud respiration and trembling hands. Heart weak, wakes with tough respiration and palpitation.
Extremities.–Tearing in joints relieved via warmness of bed; inclination to stretch limbs. Hands bloodless and blue; distended veins. Fingers swell when arm is striking 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, higher when heat in bed.
Sleep.–Sleepiness in the course of the day. Starts from sleep strangling.
Skin.–Violent itching and burning blisters. Scarlet rash. Miliary rash. Malignant scarlatina. Faintly developed eruptions from faulty vitality. Erysipelas in the aged, with Genius symptoms. Eczema in the bends of extremities, between legs, about anus and genitals.
Modalities.–Worse, evenings, from cold, moist weather, moist applications, washing, and in the course of three to four am, at some point of menses. Better, mendacity on painful facet and on stomach; in dry weather.
Relationship.–Inimical to Lachesis. Similar in action.
Antidotes: Arnica; Camphor.
Compare: Rhus; Muriatic acid; Tartar emet.
Of use in poisoning via charcoal fumes.
Dose.–Lower potencies deteriorate with age. Sixth efficiency fine for usual use.
