Ammonium carbonicum



Appetite

Taste of blood in the mouth. Bitter taste, chiefly after eating, or after waking in the morning. Acid taste of food and after having taken milk. Metallic taste of food. Much thirst. Constant thirst. Inability to eat without drinking. Great craving and appetite. Want of appetite in the morning. When eating, one is soon satiated. Repugnance to milk. Excessive desire for sugar. Dizzy vertigo, and heat in the face when eating. After a meal, pyrosis, with scraping in the throat, and drowsiness.

Stomach

Sour, or empty, or abortive risings. Risings, with taste of food taken. Pyrosis. Risings, and vomiting. Pain as from constriction in the stomach, with nausea, water-brash and chilliness ( better by pressure and by lying down). Nausea and vomiting after eating, with pressure in the pit of the stomach. Sensitive painfulness of the stomach, even to the clothing. Violent sanguineous vomiting. Fullness in the stomach, chiefly after a meal, with nausea, and great tenderness at the pit of the stomach. Gastralgia. Contractive pain in the pit of the stomach, when stretching. Heat and sensation of burning in the stomach. Heartburn after eating.

Abdomen

Pressure, pain as from excoriation and burning in the hepatic region. Piercing shootings in the liver, when seated in the evening. Pain in the abdomen, with diarrhoea. Contractive spasmodic colics, with nausea, and accumulation of water in the mouth. Pain, as from commotion in the abdomen, when walking. Noise in the abdomen. Elastic swelling in the groin, like flatulent hernia. Flatulent, painful colic.

Stool and Anus.

Constipation. Difficult evacuations. Slow, hard evacuations, in small pieces. Stool difficult, hard, knotty. Soft or loose slimy evacuations, followed or preceded by cutting pains. After and during an evacuation, discharge of blood from the anus. Haemorrhoids in the anus, sometimes bleeding, with smarting pains. Protrusion of Haemorrhoids from the rectum during the evacuation, with much pain afterwards. Haemorrhoidal tumors protruding before, during, and after stool. Nocturnal burning and itching in the anus. Excoriation between the legs and at the anus.

Urinary Organs

Constant inclination to make water, even at night, with scanty emission. Frequent desire to urinate, with continued pressure on the bladder. Frequent and copious micturition, especially in the evening. Passing water at night, during sleep (morning). Wetting the bed. White, sandy urine. Reddish urine, like water mixed with blood. Emission of blood from the urethra.

Male Sexual Organs

Excessive sexual desire, without lascivious ideas or erections, or want of sexual desire and repugnance to the other sex. Frequent pollutions, and a sense of contracting, dragging, and heaviness in the testes. Discharge of prostatic fluid, after a difficult evacuation.

Female Sexual Organs

Swelling, itching, and burning in the (external) genital parts of the female. Excoriation of the skin in the parts, and in the anus. Premature and too copious menses, with emission of black and acrid blood. Before and during the catamenia, colic and pains in the loins During the catamenia, toothache, pressure on the matrix, cuttings, acute drawings in the back and in the genital, desire to lie down, paleness of the face, shivering, coryza, and sadness. Discharge of serum from the matrix. Great weakness during the menstrual flow, Haemorrhoids worse during. Acrid, corrosive, or burning leucorrhoea, or watery.

Respiratory Organs

Roughness and hoarseness, with difficulty of speech. Inability to speak a loud word. Catarrh, with hardness of hearing, and burning in the stomach. Cough, with asthmatic oppression, particularly when in bed in the evening. Tickling cough, with expectoration. Cough only at night, or only by day, or in the evening, before going to sleep, or in the morning towards three or four o’clock, dry from tickling in the throat, as of dust. Cough, with stitches in the small of the back. When coughing, shootings in the loins, in the sternum, or in the pit of the stomach. Cough, with mucous and sanguineous expectoration, shortness of breath, and sensation of a weight in the chest. Expectoration of pure blood, produced by coughing.

Chest

Short breath, with choking, principally on going upstairs. Asthmatic respiration, and dyspnoea, chiefly in the heat of a room, as well as after any exertion, sometimes with palpitation of the heat. Nocturnal dyspnoea. Painful sensation of spasmodic asthma, with short and dull cough. Shootings in the chest and in the sides, particularly when breathing, singing, stooping, walking, or at night, with inability to lie for any time on the side affected. Feeling of fatigue in the chest. Congestion towards the chest. Heaviness in the chest, as from congestion of blood to the chest. Burning in the chest. Stitch in the heart, frequently. Palpitation of the heart, chiefly after exertion, and sometimes with retraction of the epigastrium, and weakness in the pit of the stomach. Shootings in the integuments of the chest. Purple miliary eruptions and furunculi on the chest.

Neck and Back

Pains in the lumbar region, and pains in the nape of the neck, mostly of a dragging nature. Acute draggings from the side to the scapulary joint. Painful swelling of the glands of the neck and of the axillary glands. Goitre. Drawing tension in the back and in the loins.

Upper Limbs

Arms and fingers dead and stiff at night, as well as in the morning, and when grasping anything. Heaviness and paralytic weakness of the arms. Acute pulling in the joints of the arms, of the hands, and of the fingers, better by the heat of the bed. Pain, as from a sprain in the wrist. Attack of trembling in the hands. Swollen veins and bluish colour of the hands, after having washed them in cold water. Exfoliation of the skin of the hands. The skin of the hands becomes hard and cracked. Cramps in the fingers. Numbness of the fingers. Swelling of the hands when the arms are suffered to fall down. Swelling of the joints of the fingers.

Lower Limbs

Tightness in the legs, as if the tendons were too short. Jerking and contracting of the legs. Great fatigue in the legs. Pain, as from fatigue, in the coxofemoral joint, and the thighs, particularly in bed in the morning, better by walking. Pain, as if bruised in the thighs. Cramps in the feet, in the calves of the legs, and in the tibiae. Jerking of the knees and legs. Drawing pain in the legs, when seated. Acute dragging in the joints of the feet, better by the heat of the bed. Pain, as of ulceration, and shootings in the heels. Sensation of burning in the feet. Swelling of the feet. Sweating of the feet. Cold and shivering in the feet, chiefly on going to bed in the evening. Pain (as from dislocation) in the great toe, principally in bed at night, on moving it. Redness, heat, and swelling of the great toe, in the evening, as if from chilblains.

Generalities

Pain, as from subcutaneous ulceration. Pains, as of ulceration in different parts, or shootings and acute dragging, mitigated by the heat of the bed. Pains, as of dislocation, drawing and tension of he joints, as if from contraction of he tendons. The right side of the body appears to be more affected than the left side. The pains for the most part appear either in the evening or at the night, or in the morning. General restlessness in the body in the evening. Inclination to stretch out the arms and the legs. Great fatigue felt from speaking much and from listening to another. Weariness, bruise-like pain and great weakness in the limbs, chiefly when walking in the open air, or in the evening, sometimes with an inclination to lie down. Repugnance to exercise. Convulsions. Local inflammations. Tetanus. Scorbutic dyscrasia. Tendency of the blood to decomposition. Emaciation. Great sensibility to cold.

Skin

Violent itching here and there, with burning vesicles and pimples after scratching. Miliary, chronic eruptions. Redness like scarlatina on all the upper part of the body. Scarlatina (malignant), dark red, sore throat, parotids and cervical glands much swollen, stertorous breathing, involuntary stools, vomiting. Freckles. Burning, acute shootings and drawings in the corns. Excoriation of the skin (between the legs, and in the anus, and in the genital parts). Desquamation of the skin (palms of the hands). (Ganglia.) Swelling of the glands. Rachitis.

Sleep

Sleepiness in the daytime. Sleeplessness, and sleep delayed, especially after going late to bed. Sleeplessness till 4 a m., and when falling asleep, perspiration. Nightmare when falling asleep. Frequent waking, with fright (great fear afterwards), and difficulty in going to sleep again. Sleep full of dreams, both anxious and romantic, historical and lascivious. Dreams of spectres, of death, of vermin, and of quarrels. Disturbed and unrefreshing sleep. At night, attacks of anguish, vertigo, congestion of blood in the head, cephalalgia, toothache, nausea, gastralgia, colic, inclination to make water, spitting of slimy matter, pains in the great toes and in the ganglia, shocks in the body, pains in the limbs, itching and pricking in the skin, restlessness, ebullition of the blood, dry heat, sweat, especially in the legs, shivering and cold.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica