Ammonium Carbonicum


Ammonium Carbonicum homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


Introduction

The sesquicarbonate of Ammonium (smelling salts), formula 2( (NH4)2CO3). CO2.

Preparation: Solution in distilled water, one to ten.

Mind.

All day long, lively, excited.

Extremely exalted.

Occasionally excessive mirth.

He often laughs, without moderation, at a trifle (after thirty eight days).

The mood changes for the better, after supper; headache and pain at the stomach ceasing at the same time.

Earnest mood. Very weeping mood, with thoughts of death.

Sad, almost weeping mood, towards evening (second day).

Great depression of spirits (with the abdominal complaints).

Cloudy weather makes her very sad.

Sad, low-spirited, apprehensive of evil, accompanied by chilliness, in the forenoon.

The whole morning, striking gloomy humor.

Kind of sadness not usual with me; no inclination to go out; Very hypochondriacal.

Morose, and full of grief.

The recollection of past disagreeable occurrences torments him.

Sighing.

Gloomy and uneasy mood (second day).

She is anxious on account of her illness.

For many afternoons she is seized with a weakness and anxiety; she knows not how to comfort herself, what to do with herself; this state leaves her towards evening.

After 7 P.M., a sort of anxiety possessed me, which lasted about an hour, and then went off again.

At night, attack of great anxiety, as if she had to die, accompanied by cold sweat, audible palpitation of the heart, and involuntary lachrymation; she was unable to move her eyes or to speak, accompanied by audible heavy breathing, and trembling of the hands (after nineteenth day).

Every afternoon, between five and six o’clock, she is seized with anguish, as if she had committed the greatest crime; towards evening the anguish passes off.

Great oppression of the heart; he knows not how to quiet himself.

Very easily frightened.

After the fever, very ill-humored and irritable; felt better after a glass of “bishop”.

Very unamiable, irritated, peevish; she answers reluctantly (second day of her courses).

Peevishness early in the morning.

Ill-humor, peevishness, sometimes accompanied by headache, in the forenoon.

Peevish and angry.

Peevish, angry, scolding in the evening (sixth day).

Considerable ill-humor and dissatisfied feeling.

She found fault with everything.

She could not bear any noise.

The child is extremely obstinate.

Bears no contradiction.

She has rest nowhere, and succeeds in nothing (fourth day).

At night, low spirits, and sometimes considerable excitement.

He does not seem to be in his senses.

Head very thoughtless.

She finds it hard to arrange her ideas.

He speaks incorrectly; speaks wrong without wishing it; uses one word for another in speaking.

He easily uses wrong letters and figures in writing or ciphering (ninth day).

Very forgetful, and headache when reflecting.

Very forgetful; absent; cannot recollect (ninth day).

Very absent; when telling a story he easily loses his train of thoughts, and hits upon thoughts and expressions which he did not wish to employ (eighth day).

Absence of mind, accompanied by anxiety; when speaking, he is at a loss to finish his speech.

Head.

Confusion of head (in one-quarter hour).

Soon after taking, confusion, and weight of the head.

Emptiness and confusion of the head (after one-quarter hour).

Stupefaction of the head.

Headache as before, especially a sensation as after having been drunk (“Katzenjammer”).

Vertigo, as from intoxication, after sitting still for some (towards evening).

Vertigo.

Vertigo at night and early in the morning (after two days).

Vertigo at night; everything turned with her; she had to sit up in bed.

Frequent vertigo, early in the morning after rising; it continues the whole day, and is worse toward evening; he feels as if things turned with him in a circle, also at night on moving his head.

Vertigo, with nausea, early in the morning; in walking, it soon passes off (fourth day).

Early in the morning, vertigo, with flickering before the eyes; she has to sit down.

Vertigo and cold sweat, such as usually accompany a fainting fit.

Vertigo, and trembling of the feet, so that he has to hold himself in order not to fall, for several days (after three days).

Vertigo, with headache (one hour after taking).

Upon turning with the body the head immediately feels dizzy.

Giddiness, nausea, and want of appetite ever since the dawn of day.

Headache (in half hour).

Severe headache.

Slight headache, which did not last long.

In afternoon, violent headache.

In evening, slight headache.

Headache after dinner (fifth day).

Headache, early in bed, with nausea, which rises as high up as the throat; she feels an inclination to vomit; the symptom passes off after two or three hours.

Headache and pain at the stomach, accompanied by ill-humor, the whole day (after three days).

In the morning, noticed a slight headache, combined with nausea, which, however, as usual, went off as soon as I took my pipe in my mouth.

Headache, with heaviness of the forehead, early in the morning; worse in the afternoon (eighth day).

Tensive feeling in brain, especially on right side.

Head heavy and full.

Afternoon, after drinking coffee, congestion to head.

Towards evening, the rush of blood was greater.

Rush of blood to the head at night, and heat in the face of waking.

Feeling of lightness in head.

His head seems very heavy.

Pressure over the whole head after having got heated (after ten days).

Headache, now here, now there, in the brain; a pressure, with sticking over one eyebrow.

Boring and lancinating pain in the head at night.

Drawing and tearing in the whole head, early after rising, and during the whole day (twenty-third day).

Clawing pain in the head.

Sticking headache the whole day.

Headache, resembling a knocking or hacking with a sharp instrument; pain prevented her from moving, she had to lie still.

Pain, as from ulceration, in moving the head and in pressing upon it, especially in the occiput, at one of the glands of that region, for some time.

Headache, as if water or something else were in his head.

Sense of looseness of the brain.

The head easily gets cold.

Eruptions upon the forehead resembling little boils.

Pimples and vesicles on the forehead.

Pimples on the forehead, and the tip of the nose.

Headache in forehead.

Confusion and heaviness in forehead.

Burning pains in sinciput.

Heat and pressure in sinciput.

Pressive sense of fullness in the forehead, as from the vapor of coal.

Pressive fullness in the forehead and vertex, as if the head would burst there.

On stooping, there is tension in the nape of the neck; in front, the head threatens to burst with pain.

Headache, beating in the forehead as if it would burst.

Heaviness and beating in the forehead, after dinner.

For several mornings she is roused from her slumber by a drawing pain of the periosteum of the forehead; the pain passes off after rising.

Uproar behind the right frontal eminence, as if everything would come out there (second day).

Boring stitches behind the right frontal eminence, deep in the brain, during dinner (second day).

Throbbing headache in left frontal region.

Prickings over the right eye.

Stitches over the left eye, so violent that they often cause the eyes to contract, after dinner (fourth day).

Tearing in the temples, early, and in the evenings.

Painful throbbing and beating in the temple, in the left side of the head, and the left side of the occiput, sometimes with yawning.

Tearing in the right temple, during dinner.

Stitching in the left temple, as with a blunt instrument.

Stitches in the left temple, increased by chewing.

Headache in vertex.

Pressure at the top of the head, half an hour (after six days).

Feeling of coldness in the course of the longitudinal sinus (in half hour).

The right side of her head seems to be heavier than the left; the head feels as if it would fall over on that side (first day).

On moving his head, there is a sensation as of the brain falling to and fro, towards the side where he stoops, sometimes with stinging pains, a symptom which gives him no rest, even at night, for several weeks in succession.

Stitches here and there in the head, deep in the brain, especially in the right side; they pass off in the open air (fourth to forty_ second day).

Heaviness in the left side of the head, growing worse in bed (forty-sixth day).

Tearing behind the left ear, as far as the vertex, with a sensation as if the head were cleft.

Itching of the head, accompanied by great sensitiveness of the integuments of the head when scratching (tenth day).

Violent itching of the hairy scalp, especially of the occiput.

Sense as if the hairs would stand upon end, with crawling over the whole head, and a feeling of coldness there, after coming out of the open air and entering the room.

The hair is painful when touched.

The scalp and the hairs are intensely painful when the hand is moved along them; this movement made him shudder (first evening).

Eyes.

The eyes are weak; the child winks continually.

Burning of the eyes the whole day, especially early on waking, with intolerance of light, and in the evening on lying down.

The eyes are inflamed and dim.

The right eye is a little inflamed and dim.

Pressure in the eyes.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.