Ammonium Carbonicum

Smelling Salts. Ammonice Sesquicarbonas. 'INHj^O^ SOO^.

Much used and abused by the old school and the people. Introduced by Hahnemann in 1828. Classed among the antipsorics in 1835, in the second edition, with additions from the six later provers. In 1859 were published Professor Martin's provings on himself, and students under his direction. Buchner's proving was omitted by Allen.

^ Mind. Very forgetful and absent-minded ; makes mistakes in writing and speaking.

Confusion and dullness of the head.

Disposition to weep, particularly in the evening.

Aversion to work, not disposed for anything.

Gloomy, depressed, with feeling of impending trouble, with sen- sation of coldness.

Anxious concern about one's sickness.

Anxiety, with inclination to weep.

Anxiety ; anguish ; terms of anguish as if a crime had been committed.

iListlessness and lethargy. ^Hysteria.

I Utter dejection of mind, d Chlorosis.

Ill-humor : during wet, stormy weather ; after dinner, lasting

the whole day. From thinking : pain in face.

Hearing others talk, or talking himself, affects him. After vexation or fright, red spots in the face. ^ Sensorium. I l Feeling of lightness in the head.

Giddiness, especially in the morning, when sitting and reading ;

better when walking. 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. Vertigo mostly in morning ; on moving his head sensation as

if brain fell to and fro, towards the side where he stoops ;

sometimes with stinging pain. ^ Inner Head. ■ Heaviness and beating in forehead after dinner. Pressing fullness in the forehead as from vapor of coal. Sensation as if all were to be pressed out at forehead.

I I Sense of oppressive fullness, pushing as if forehead would burst.

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Severe pain in forehead. See 7. 6 Undeveloped measles.

■ Pulsating, beating, and pressing in forehead, as if it would

burst ; worse after eating ; while walking in open air ; bet- ter from pressure ; in warm room.

I Headache, thrusts in the forehead, as if it would burst.

Tearing : in the whole head ; in the temples ; back of left ear, ascending to vertex.

Boring, stitching headache at night.

Stitches in various parts of head.

Sensation of looseness of the brain ; as if the brain fell to the side toward which he leaned.

Congestive and menstrual headache.

When stooping, sensation as if blood were accumulating.

Headache : in the morning in bed, with nausea and risings in throat, as if to vomit ; in the morning, but worse in after- noon. ^ Outer Head. Pain on head resembling hammering or hacking with a flat instrument.

Drawing pain in periosteum of forehead, wakens from sleep in morning, passes ©fi" after rising.

Severe itching of scalp, especially on occiput.

Sensation as if the 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.

Hair falls out. ^ Sight and Eyes, Double vision.

Aversion to light, with burning in eyes.

Optical illusions, particularly in white or bright colors.

■ Sparks before eyes at night. ^Headache.

I I Large black spot floats before eyes after sewing.

I I Eyes weak and watery, especially after reading ; muscular

asthenopia; afi"ections from overstraining the eyes. I I Yellow spots on looking at white objects. I Cataract of the right eye. Burning in eyes all day. Inflammation of the eyes ; vision obscured. Eyes blood-shot, with lachrymation. Pressure on eyelids so that he cannot open them, even though

internally awake. Pressure with cutting or stitching ; in the eyes. Smarting in the -eyes and itching on the margin of lids. Stye on the right upper eyelid, with tension. ^ Hearing and Ears. Painful sensitiveness of the dull ear to loud noise. • Dull sense of hearing. Humming and buzzing before the ears. I Hard hearing ; ear itches and discharges pus. Indistinct hearing.

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Itching above the ears, spreads over the whole body. I I Hard swelling of the right parotid gland, d Scarlatina. ^ Smell and Nose. Nosebleed ; dry coryza, especially at night,

without the slightest air passing through ; redness of tip of

nose, when stooping. B Nosebleed; severe pain as if the brain was forcing itself out

just above the nose. uNosebleed: when washing the face or hands in the morning

nosebleeds from left nostril; I from the right several days

in succession, weakening the boy. d Undeveloped measles.

■ When stooping, blood rushes to tip of nose.

I Bloody mucus blown from nose frequently, d Ozsena. I Burning water runs from the nose; worse when stooping. I i Stoppage, mostly at night ; must breathe through the mouth, with long lasting coryza. d Scarlatina.

■ Child's nose stopped up, starts from sleep; rattling of phlegm

in the trachea. I Coryza in hysterical females, in feeble or aged people. Pustules on the nose. ^ Face. Heat in the face : during mental exertion ; during and

after dinner. ^ Heat in face, with red cheeks. Redness of left cheek. Pale face, bloated.

Hard swelling of cheek, also of the parotid and cervical glands. Pustulous eruption on forehead, cheeks and chin. Small boils and indurations, emitting water and blood on the

cheek, at the corner of the mouth, and on the chin. Freckles. ^ Lower Jaw. 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. ^" Teeth and Gums. Pricking pain, especially in the molars ;

worse when masticating or touching the decayed teeth with

the tongue. Pressing the teeth together, sends a shock through head, cars

and nose. Teeth feel too long, too dull.

Violent toothache, evenings, immediately on going to bed. Stitching pain in molars when biting; must use the incisors

only. Drawing toothache during catamenia ; better from eating,

worse froni warm fluids. Sensation as of an ulcer at the root of a tooth. Looseness and rapid decay of the teeth.

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Gums swollen, easily bleeding. '^ Taste, Speech, Tongue. Taste: sweetish; of blood; offen- sive ; of food, sourish or metallic ; bitter in the morning.

Talking difficult at times, like from weakness of the parts ; also from pain.

Vesicles on the tongue, at the tip, on the borders, burning, hindering eating and speaking. ^^ Mouth. Redness and inflammation of inner mouth and gullet ; pain as if raw.

Sensation as if the mouth was swollen.

Great dryness of mouth and throat, d Scarlatina, d Head- ache.

■ Swelling of the internal mouth, especially the inside of the

cheeks. Has to spit a great deal. Salivation with headache. 13 Throat. Pain in throat, as if right tonsil was swollen when

swallowing.

■ Enlarged tonsils, bluish, much oflensive mucus there. 6 Scar-

latina.

Sensation as if something had lodged in throat, impeding deglu- tition.

I Putrid sore throat ; glands engorged. ^Scarlatina.

■ Tendency to gangrenous ulceration of the tonsils. ^Scar-

latina. Angina after checking an old ulcer on the leg ; ceased when

ulcer returned. Dryness of throat.

■ Burning pain in the throat and down the oesophagus as from

alcohol.

■ Roughness and scraping in the throat.

■ Diphtheria, when the nose is stopped up; child starts from

sleep, cannot get its breath. '* Appetite and Thirst. Continual thirst ; no appetite, except- ing for bread and cold food.

Great hunger and appetite, yet a small ()[uantity satiates.

Unconquerable appetite for sugar. ^^ Eating and Drinking. Cannot eat (dinner) without drinking.

Worse during eating : heat in face ; headache, nausea and prostration ; dizziness.

Worse after eating : nausea ; pressure in stomach and fore- head ; speech becomes difficult ; sweat increased.

After dinner: is ill-humored; has headache ; face is hot.

Worse from warm diet.

When masticating, decayed tooth pains more.

After eating : heartburn ; drawing toothache during menses better.

Toothache during menses worse from warm fluids.

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^® Nausea and Vomiting. Hiccough, morning after the chill.

Eructations : I I empty ; imperfect ; taste of the food ; sour.

Heartburn after eating.

Nausea and vomiting of all that has been eaten ; afterwards sour taste in the mouth. ^^ Scrobiculum and Stomach. Stitches in pit of stomach, with cough.

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.

Stomach feels full, trembling.

Empty feeling in the stomach.

■ Pressure in stomach after eating or at night; the clothes feel

oppressive. Heat in stomach, spreading through bowels. Pain in stomach, with tendency to water-brash. ^^ Hypochondria. Burning pain in liver.

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

■ Splenic affections.

'* Abdomen, Groins. Pressure above the navel, as from a button.

Pressive pain in left side of abdomen.

Sudden painful contraction of the bowels, extending to the epi- gastrium ; better from pressure ; on lying down it ceases.

Cutting pain, with retraction of abdominal walls.

I Colic with pain between the scapulae. ^ Amenorrhoea.

Stitches through the abdomen.

Elastic swelling (size of a fist) in the left groin, evenings ; bruised pain therein ; cannot lie on left side ; on awaking, both swelling and pain gone.

Painful concussion in the lower part of the abdomen when stepping. ^^ Stool and Rectum. Painful diarrhoea.

Stool of feces and mucus.

Stools at first retarded, later soft.

iCostiveness on account of hardness of feces.

I I Constipation ; stool hard and dry, difficult to expel, with headache.

■ Constipation with hemorrhoids.

Protrusion of hemorrhoids after stool, with long lasting pains ;

cannot walk. Hemorrhoids protrude, independent of stool. Burning at anus with tenesmus, prevents sleep at night ; must

rise from bed on that account. Itching at anus.

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^^ Urinary Organs. Pressure of urine on the bladder, with cut- ting pain.

I I Frequent urination at night.

I Involuntary urination during sleep ; urine pale with red sedi- ■ ment.

Pale urine, with sandy sediment.

Whitish sediment.

I Diabetes.

During micturition, vulva and anus, which are sore, become painful. ^^ Male Sexual Organs. After coition, excited circulation and palpitation.

Forcing (wurgend) pain in the testicles and seminal cords ; sen- sitiveness of testicles to touch, aggravated by erections.

Testicles and scrotum relaxed, necessitating a supporter.

Erections without sexual desire, mornings.

Violent sexual desire, almost without erections.

Seminal emissions almost every night.

Itchincr of the genitals. ^^ Female Sexual Organs. I Great excitement of female sexual organs. 6 Hysteria.

Before catamenia : face pale ; pain in belly and small of back ; want of appetite.

I B Cholera-like symptoms at the commencement of the cata- menia.

During catamenia: toothache; colic; face pale; very sad; i great fatigue, especially of the thighs, with yawning, tooth- ache, pain in small of back and chilliness.

After a long drive in the open air, the courses come on four days too soon ; they are very copious, especially at night, and when sitting and driving previously ; she experienced griping colic, with want of appetite.

I The courses come on six days too soon.

sThe menstrual blood is blackish, often in clots, passing off with spasmodic pain in the belly and hard stools, with tenes- mus ; the flow is abundant.

SThe menstrual blood is acrid, it makes the thighs sore; this soreness causes a burning pain.

I Acrid leucorrhoea, with sensation of excoriation or ulceration in vulva, d Hysteria.

Leucorrhoea : watery, burning, from the uterus ; acrid, profuse, from the vagina.

■ Violent tearing in abdomen and vagina.

■ Irritation of clitoris, d Hysteria.

■ Swelling, itching and burning of the pudenda. I Vulvitis with tendency to gangrene.

Menses premature, abundant, blackish, often in clots, preceded by griping and colic.

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Menses scanty and too late, always accompanied by frontal

^* Pregnancy. During pregnancy : albuminuria ; yellow spots

exertion. Dyspnoea, with palpitation of heart.

■ Great difficulty of breathing in going up even a few steps;

less in the open air. I Dares not come into a warm room, in which he becomes deathly pale and can do nothing but sit quiet. 6 Asthma.

■ Difficult breathing ; causing short cough.

I Oppression of breathing.

■ Catarrh, dyspnoea, asthma.

I I One of the best remedies in emphysema. Chronic asthma, tendency to hydrothorax.

iCEdema pulmonum with somnolence from poisoning of the

1 1 Cough at night ; every morning, at 3 o'clock, dry cough from

tickling in the throat, as of dust. I Cough, with spitting of blood, previous sweet taste and great

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and sputum of light red blood, with burning and heaviness in

bubbles in the chest, d Bronchitis in the aged. ^^ Inner Chest and Lungs. Chronic weakness of the chest and

coryza. Cracking in the chest.

iBurning in the chest; also with hydrothorax. Stitches in right chest : when stooping ; when walking ; when

feeling in pit of stomach. Audible palpitation, with attacks of great anxiety, as if dying ;

cold sweat ; involuntary flow of tears ; unable to speak ; loud,

diflicult breathing and trembling of hands.

I I Pulse hard, tense, frequent.

Ebullition of blood at night ; seems as if heart and veins would burst.

I I Angina pectoris.

^" Outer Chest. ' l Small pimple on the sternum ; when touched

rhoea. Pressive drawing pain in small of back and loins, only when at

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Weight and lameness in right arm ; has no power in it, must let it hang ; hand swollen.

Cramp in right arm, drawing it backwards.

Rigidity of the arms and fingers as if dead, at night, early in the morning, and when grasping things.

Cracking of elbow-joint when moved.

Boring pain in the olecranon depression.

Itching eruption on inside of right forearm.

Pain in the wrist-joint which had been sprained some time ago.

Pain in wrist ; in back of hands ; in fingers and thumbs.

Trembling of hands.

Cracking of skin of hands.

Peeling of skin from the palms.

Hands look blue and veins distended, after washing in cold water.

Fingers swell when the hands hang down.

■ Whitlow, in the beginning: red streak up to the axilla.

1 1 Panaritium ; finger inflamed ; deep-seated periosteal pain.

Fingers "go to sleep." '^ Lower Limbs. 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 frequently "goes to sleep " when sitting or standing, also when lying on it at night.

Drawing pains in the legs when sitting.

Cramp in the leg ; also in the soles of the feet.

Severe pain in the heels when awaking in the morning, as if ulcerated to the bone.

I I Heel hurts when standing or walking much ; sometimes sup- puration.

Tearing in ankle and bones of feet ; ceases when warm in bed.

Cold feet, particularly when going to bed.

Trembling of the feet.

I Ball of the great toe painful and hot.

I The great toe becomes red, swollen and painful, particularly in bed, evenings.

The big toe is hot and burns ; < from pressure of boots.

Feet and I I toes swollen. ■ Crawling in the toes. ^* Limbs in General. Pain in all the limbs at night, with gnaw- ing pain in small of back.

Inclination to stretch the limbs.

Relieved lying on abdomen.

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Lying down : pain in stomach better ; pain in bowels ceases ;

forehead ; painful commotion in bowels ; stitches in chest ;

heaviness and tightness in chest ; improves pain in back or

loins ; pain in hip. Every exertion : heel hurls ; weakness in limbs ; palpitation

of nose ; stitches in chest. ^® Nerves. Tetanic or epileptic convulsions from violent cerebral

air. Great lassitude.

■ Nightmare every night, sometimes in a sweat when awaking.

6 Heart disease.

■ Somnolence, with blood over-carbonized. ^ CEdema pulmo-

num. Dreams : vivid; romantic ; lewd ; anxious ; of danger and

want : of ghosts ; of dying ; of dead persons ; offensive, of

lice ; of scolding. Talks during sleep.

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^ Time. Night : giddiness ; rush of blood to the head ; boring and stitching in head ; nosebleed ; stoppage of nose ; press- ure in stomach ; burning at anus and tenesmus ; frequent urination ; seminal emissions ; cough worse ; hawks much saltish mucus ; heaviness and oppression at the sternum ; ebullition of blood ; rigidity of hands and arms ; pain in all limbs ; continuous sweat.

3 A.M. : dry cough from tickling in throat.

Early morning : rigidity of arms and fingers.

Morning : vertigo ; headache with nausea, etc. ; nosebleed when washing face ; bitter taste ; hiccough ; erections with- out desire ; expectoration ; pain in heels on awaking ; sweat most about joints.

All day : burning in eyes ; continuous sweat.

During day : expectoration ; pains in back and loins.

Afternoon : must sleep to relieve pain in eyes.

Evening : disposed to weep ; giddiness worse ; violent tooth- ache ; boring stitches in liver ; swelling in left groin ; cough with asthma in bed ; great toe swollen and painful in bed ; chill alternating with heat till midnight ; much flatus.

7 P.M. : strange uneasiness arousing child from sleep. See 46.

10 P.M. : child falls asleep suddenly after previous uneasiness. ^^Temperature and Weather. 'In wet, stormy weather: ill- humor; <i headache.

Winter : stout women readily take cold.

I I Very sensitive to cold air out-doors.

Worse in cold air : menorrhagia.

Worse from wet poultices.

From washing: re- appearance of symptoms ; nosebleed; blue hands, swollen veins.

I Children dislike washing.

I In a warm room: headache better; get deathly pale. 6 Asthma.

Better in-doors, from warmth, in dry weather.

Worse while walking in the open air, evening.

■ Averse to walking in the open air.

After entering warm room from open air : sensation as if hair stood on end.

■ Aversion to walking in open air.

Open air : increases headache while walking ; difficult breathing better ; heaviness and tightness in chest when walking ; weakness of limbs when walking ; chill increased.

Warmth of bed : relieves tearing in ankle and feet.

In bed : great toe becomes red and painful.

Warm room : chill lessened. *" Fever. Chill evening ; frequently alternating with heat, till toward midnight.

Chill increased in open air, lessened in warm room.

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Great chilliness with headache.

Thirst before the chill.

In the afternoon a chill followed by heat.

Heat, evening, particularly of the face ; with cold feet.

I Hectic fever. ^Scurvy.

Sweat in the morning, mostly at the joints.

Sweat on lower part of body.

Continuous day or night-sweat.

I Cold, cyanotic, semi-conscious, pulseless. 6 Beginning of spot- ted fever. ^' Attacks. Worse during new moon.

^^ Locality and Direction. Right : stye on upper lid ; cata- ract ; swelling of parotid gland ; tonsil feels swollen ; numb- ness in hypochondrium ; stitches in chest ; weight and lame- ness in arm ; cramp in arm.

Left : tearing behind ear ; cheek red ; stitches in hypochon- drium ; pressing pain in side of abdomen ; swelling in groin ; tearing from upper chest to scapula. ■'^ Sensations. Drawing tension, as from shortening of muscles.

Pain as if joints were sprained.

Tearing in joints ; better in warmth of bed.

I Pain as from festering under the skin.

■ Heaviness, especially of internal parts.

Sensation of a splinter in pimple on sternum.

As if hammering with a flat instrument on head.

As if hair would stand on end.

As of an ulcer : at root of a tooth ; in heels.

Stitches : in various parts of head ; in eyes ; in molars ; in scrobiculum, with cough ; in hypochondrium ; through abdo- men ; in small of back, with cough ; in chest ; at coccyx, preceded by itching.

Boring stitches : in head ; in liver ; boring pain in olecranon depression and in knees.

Stinging : in the head ; thrusts in forehead.

Pricking : in molars.

Cutting : in eyes ; in abdomen ; in bladder.

Tearing pain : in head ; temples ; back of left ear to vertex ; in abdomen and vagina ; from upper 1. chest to scapula ; in shoulder ; in ankle and bones of feet.

Burning : in eyes ; vesicles on tongue ; in throat and down oesophagus ; and heat in stomach ; in liver ; at anus ; leu- corrhoea ; of pudenda and heaviness in chest ; on throat ; of hands and feet ; in big toe ; and stinging in the warts ; vesicles and pustules.

Heat : in face and stomach.

Smarting : in eyes.

Painful constriction : in stomach ; in bowels ; of chest.

Cramp : in r. arm ; in leg and soles of feet.

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Painful concussion : in lower part of abdomen when stepping.

Bruised pain : in swelling in groin ; in shoulder.

Pressive drawing : in small of back and loins.

Forcing pain : in testicles and seminal cords.

Drawing : in periosteum of forehead ; in teeth during catame-

nia ; in legs when sitting. Gnawing pain : in small of back.

Pressure : outward in forehead : on eyelids ; in eyes ; in sto- mach ; in r. hypochondrium ; above the navel ; in 1. side of abdomen ; of urine on bladder. Pulsating : in forehead.

1 1 Outer pressure: headache better; constrictive pain in sto- mach better ; pain in bowels better.

Pressure of boot aggravates pain in big toe.

After a ride: menses come four days too soon; < at night and when sitting.

Touch : scalp painful ; testicles sensitive ; right mamma pain- ful ; sensation of splinter in pimple.

Scratching : burning blisters appear afterwards.

■ After a fall from a horse and sprain of the left great toe, fre- quent inflammation, joint red, hot and painful, and so sensi- tive to touch that he could not bear the bed covers ; contin- ual sensation as if the joint were dislocated. ^* Skin. Chronic miliary eruption.

• Violent itching; after scratching, burning blisters appear.

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Itching lessened by scratching.

1 Desquamation.

Itching and stinging of the skin keeps him awake.

Burning stinging, tearing in the warts.

Burning vesicles and pustules.

I Putrid flat ulcers with a pungent sensation, pain relieved by

keeping limb elevated and from outward pressure; pus white and putrid. Child becomes sore between the legs. ,

■ Brought out measles after three months' delay.

Strange uneasiness every evening, 7 o'clock, which arouses the child from sleep ; it tosses about in bed and screams until it falls soundly asleep, about 10 p.m. ; during the uneasiness, head feels bloated and burning ; next day rash on the face as if scarlatina would break out.

I I Body red as if covered with scarlatina.

1 1 Malignant scarlatina with somnolence, starting from sleep ; dark red or putrid sore throat ; sticky salivation ; parotitis ; external throat swollen ; stertorous breathing ; involuntary stools with excessive vomiting ; body red, with miliary rash, or faintly developed eruption ; threatened paralysis of brain.

■ Scarlatina receding.

■ Erysipelas of old people when cerebral symptoms are developed;

while the eruption is still out, debility and soreness of the whole body ; tendency to gangrenous destruction.

• Psoriasis.

I Lepra vulgaris. ^^ Stages of Life, Constitution. I Scrofulous children.

I Stout women, who lead a sedentary life, have various troubles in consequence, and readily catch cold in winter.

■ 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. Antidotedby : Arnic., Camphor, Hepar ; vegetable acids, fixed oils, as castor, linseed, almond and olive oils.

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