Sal volatile. Sesqui carbonate of Ammonia. 2 ((NH4) 2 CO3) CO2. Solution in distilled water.
Clinical
Asthma. Bronchitis. *Cough. Dislocations, pains from. Emphysema. Enuresis. Erysipelas. Gums, sensitive. Haemorrhoids. Hysteria. Lungs, edema of. Measles. Military eruptions. Nose affections. Parotitis. Rickets. Scarlatina. Spotted fever. Sprains. Sternum, pain on. Toothache. Uremia. Whitlow.
Characteristics
*Ammonium 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, worse in wet, stormy weather, from washing, from wet poultice, better by warmth. It is suited to stout women who readily take cold in winter. worse at night: 3 a m. It is also haemorrhagic. 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 worse 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, worse 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, fullness, water-brash, worse 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-humor. Desperate and unruly. Dr. Gallavardin has cured *uncleanness in bodily habits with *Ammonium 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 smelling-bottle. Among the ameliorations there are better lying on stomach (*nitricum acidum). better lying on right side, on painful side. better from external pressure, in warm room, in dry air. There is worse on bending down. Nose-bleed comes on when washing the face.
Relations.
*Compare: the Ammonias, Antim tart., Arsenicum, Aurum (crushing weight on sternum, but Aurum has less somnolence and less venous
congestion), Lachesis (to which Ammonium carb. is *inimical), Phosphorus, Pulsatilla, Sulphur *It antidotes: Rhus and stings of insects, poisoning from charcoal fumes. *Is antidoted by: Arnica, Camph., Hepar, Vegetable acids, Fixed oils.
Mind
Sadness, with disposition to weep, apprehensions and anguish, which often disappear towards the evening. Fretting in the evening. Anxiety with weakness and nightmare. Timidity of character. Disgust with life. Ill-humor in the morning, and when it is bad weather. Morose and passionate humor. Character disobedient and unruly. Excessive gaiety. Heedlessness. Great absence of mind and weakness of memory. Tendency to make mistake 0in speaking, in writing, or in calculating. Impairment of the intellectual faculties.
Head
Vertigo, on reading in a sitting posture, in the morning or in the evening, sometimes with nausea. Obstinate headache. Headache with nausea. The headache often appears in the evening, after walking in the open air, or in the morning, or after a meal. Pain, as of ulceration in the head, chiefly on moving the head, or on pressing it. Hammering, pressure, and beatings in the head, with sensation as if its contents were going to start through the forehead, or the head were on the point of bursting, worse after eating and while walking in the open air, better from external pressure and in the warm room, heaviness and beating in the forehead after dinner. Shootings at the base of the brain. Headache, as if from carbonic acid gas. Sensation as if the brain moved loosely in the skull. Soreness of the scalp and of the hair. Itching in the head. Falling off of the hair.
Eyes
Burning in the eyes, principally in the evening, or in the morning, with photophobia. Sensation of cold in the eyes. Hordeolum. Nocturnal agglutination of the eyelids. Dry excretion in the eyelids. Affections from over-straining the eyes. Muscae volitantes. Eyes weak and watery after reading or using them at fine work. Yellow spots before the eyes on looking at white objects. Inability to move the eyes. Confused sight, with sparks before the eyes. Double vision. Myopia. Cataract. Black spots and bright bands before the eyes. Weeping.
Ears
Buzzing in the ears, particularly at night. Roaring and tingling in the ears. Hardness of hearing, with suppuration and itching of the ears. Hard swelling of the glands of the neck, and of the
parotid glands.
Nose
Heaviness in the extremity of the nose on stooping, as if from congestion of blood. Itching and purulent pimples in the nose. Furunculus at the extremity of the nose. Swelling, sensation of excoriation and painful sensibility of the nostrils. Discharge of sharp, burning water from the nose. Discharge of pus from the nose. Excretion of sanguineous mucus. Bleeding of the nose, particularly in the morning on washing, or after a meal. Obstinate dryness of the nose. Obstinate coryza. Dry coryza and stoppage of the nose, chiefly at night, with danger of suffocation. With long-continued coryza, he can only breathe through the mouth.
Face
Face pale and bloated, with nausea and fatigue of body and mind. Sickly complexion. Heat in the face during intellectual Labour. Tension and acute dragging pains, with shootings in the right side of the face. Tightness in the skin of the face, as if the face were swollen. Hard swelling of the (right) parotid gland. Distortion of the features. Eruptions on the face, with itching. Furunculi on the cheeks. Ephelides. Tetter-like eruptions, with desquamation of the skin, on the cheeks, round the mouth, and on the chin. Lips dry, cracked, burning, and bleeding. The corners of the mouth and lips are sore, cracked, and burn. Painful swelling of the sub-maxillary glands. Itching eruptions, with soreness of the sub-maxillary glands.
Teeth
Toothache on compressing the teeth, or after lying down in the evening, or when the air has penetrated to them, or during catamenia, the pains are, for the most part, drawing or starting, or shooting, or like those of ulceration, and they frequently extend into the cheeks and ears. Aggravation from warm fluids, during the menses. Prickling pain, especially in the molar teeth, worse when masticating or touching the decayed tooth with the tongue. Obstinate shooting pain in the teeth. Caries, elongation, and chronic looseness of the teeth, rapid decay of the teeth. The edges of the teeth feel dull. Inflammatory swelling, suppuration, and easy bleeding of the gums.
Mouth
Redness, inflammation, pain as from excoriation, and sensation of swelling in the interior of the mouth, especially the inside of the cheeks. Eruption of vesicles in the mouth and on the tongue. Vesicles on the tongue, at the tip, on the borders, burning, hindering eating and speaking. Difficulty of speech, as if from weakness of the organs. Great dryness of the mouth and throat, chiefly at night. Accumulation of saliva in the mouth, and constant spitting. Offensive smell from the mouth, perceptible to the patient.
Throat
When swallowing, sensation as of a foreign body in the throat. Sore throat, as if something were sticking in it, principally in the morning and evening. Pain, as from excoriation and scraping in the throat. Swelling of the tonsils, with difficulty in swallowing (tonsils bluish, much offensive mucus there). Spasmodic contraction of the anterior muscles of the neck after drinking. Putrid sore throat.
