Ammonium Carbonicum



Drawing pain in the scrotum.

Occasional drawings in the scrotum, which are relieved by raising it.

Choking pain in the scrotum and spermatic cords; the scrotum is painful to the touch; it is excited by involuntary erections.

Vehement desire for coition, without any remarkably voluptuous thoughts, and almost without any erection (after five days).

Vehemently voluptuous desires, with trembling of the body, almost without any erection.

Lascivious fancies, and great liveliness and excitement (evening and night); (I cannot say if I should attribute them to the medicine).

Diminished sexual desire.

The sexual instinct is dormant for some time (after seven days).

(Total want of the sexual instinct).

Aversion to the other sex.

Pollutions, almost every night.

Pollution, two days after an embrace.

Nocturnal emissions (cannot say if I should attribute them to the medicine).

(After coition, excited circulation and palpitation of the heart). (Females).

Swelling, itching and burning of the pudendum (after twelve days).

Soreness of the pudendum and the anus, especially painful on urinating.

Violent itching of the pudendum.

Continual itching of the mons veneris; it constantly reappears after scratching the parts.

Violent leucorrhoea (after two, seven, eight and nine days).

Watery, burning leucorrhoea (thirteenth and fourteenth days).

The courses, which had always been regular, appear one day too soon.

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

The courses come on six days too soon.

The courses come on on the eighteenth day (after seven days).

The menses appear too late by three to five days, there occurs one complete interruption.

The menses are more copious (immediately).

The menstrual blood is blackish, often in clots, passing of with spasmodic pain in the belly, and hard stools, with tenesmus; the flow is abundant.

The menstrual blood is not much colored.

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

Pain in the belly and the small of the back, before the catamenia.

Paleness of the face, before and during the catamenia.

Invincible sadness during the catamenia.

Toothache during the catamenia.

Colic during the catamenia, with griping, pressure, and tension between the scapulae.

Violent tearing in the body during the catamenia, which appear one day too soon.

Violent pain in the small of the back, during the catamenia.

Violent cold during the catamenia (ninth day).

Great fatigue of the whole body during the catamenia, especially of the thighs, with yawning, toothache, pain in the small of the back, and chilliness.

Respiratory Apparatus.

Rattling in the larynx, as from mucus (for several days).

Constriction of the larynx from both sides of the neck.

Drawing, and stinging-itching in the larynx.

Soon after, a catarrhal irritation in the nose, and scraping and scratching in the throat, with pain, as from excoriation, and difficult hawking up of a little phlegm (after half an hour).

Hoarseness and roughness in the throat.

Rough throat; he can only speak with difficulty, as speaking increases the roughness (second day).

Violent and frequent hoarseness.

She is so hoarse that she cannot speak a loud word (after sixteen days).

His chest feels so oppressed that he can scarcely speak, with coryza, and expectoration of much mucus, especially early in the morning.

The chest feels rough; when calling aloud he is hoarse.

Immediately after taking, an irritation, causing cough, which did not, however, last long.

Cough from a scratching in throat.

The child coughs violently every morning, at three to four o’clock.

He is obliged to cough a quarter of an hours, when in bed in the evening.

Nightly cough.

At night, cough, with stuffed cold in the head, which kept him awake in bed from twelve to one o’clock, and yet, in the morning, felt quite well, except a little stomachache, which soon went off, but returned betwixt nine and ten o’clock.

Cough, with asthma (sixth day).

Cough, with asthma, for half an hour, in the evening when in bed.

Cough, from deep pin the chest, extremely violent.

Cough, which contracts the chest.

Cough, which makes the chest under the sternum feel sore, as from excoriation.

Cough, exciting a pain in the jaws, which is not felt upon touching them.

Cough, with pain at the lower part of the sternum.

Cough, with stitches in the sternum (first day).

Cough, every attack causes a stitch in the pit of the stomach.

Cough, with heat in the head.

Short and suppressed hacking, from an irritation in the larynx, with painful sensation of spasmodic asthma.

Dry cough, especially at night, as from particles of dust in the throat.

Violent dry cough in the middle of the night.

Cough, with expectoration of phlegm, and soreness in the air passages.

Cough, during the whole day, and early in the morning, with expectoration of phlegm, affecting chest and head.

Cough, with expectoration of phlegm, intermixed with little points of blood (after eight days).

Cough, with expectoration of bloody phlegm, heaviness upon the chest, and short breath, especially in ascending a hill (sixth and eighteenth days).

Increased expectoration.

Bloody expectoration when clearing the throat.

Roughness, and bloody taste in the mouth, succeeded by cough and expectoration of light-red blood, with burning and heaviness in the chest, heat and redness in the face, and trembling of the whole body (fourth day).

Much hawking of saltish mucus at night.

Oppression of breathing.

Difficult breathing; it made him hack (short cough).

Difficult breathing at night; he cannot bear the cover of the bed to touch his mouth, for then he is afraid of choking (seventh day).

Asthma and palpitation of the heart after every effort.

Attack of asthma for eight days; he had immense trouble in ascending a few steps, and in breathing; this was only possible for him in the open air; he dared not venture into a warm room; he there turned as pale as a corpse, and was unable to do anything except sit still (after twenty-one days).

Short breathing, with stitches in the chest.

Short breathing, especially on going upstairs.

When breathing, frequent stitches in the hands and fingers.

Chest.

Red rash on the chest.

Pain in the chest.

Pains in the chest.

During an expiration it seems as if something drew downwards in the chest, and did not permit expiration (seventh day).

The chest feels weak.

Chronic weakness of the chest and coryza (after fourth week).

Heaviness on the chest, as from an accumulation of blood (fourth, fifth, seventh days).

Heaviness and tightness of the chest, when walking in the open air.

Painful oppression at the chest, as from a hundred-weight; she only desires to cough, in order to be relieved (seventh day).

Painful oppression on the chest, especially when lying on the bed.

Rush of blood to the chest (after writing).

Heat in the chest.

Compressive oppression on the chest.

Contraction of the middle of the chest, either when breathing or not; the place aches on pressing upon it, as after a blow.

Bruised pain in the middle of the chest, early in the morning (fourth day).

When standing, sensation in the chest as if the lungs were drawn down (sixth day).

Great distress in the chest.

Stitches in the chest, at the last true rib, when breathing and singing.

Stitches in the chest, when stooping, relieved by straightening up (sixteenth day).

Stitches upon the sternum, in the right side of the chest and under the left breast; upon touching the parts they feel bruised.

Stitches in the right breast, when stooping.

Twenty, thirty successive stitches, even when she does not breathe, under the right breast, close by the lowest ribs, early in the morning, when rising up in bed; likewise, at other periods of the day.

The right breast is painful to the touch (third day).

A small, red furunculus above the right breast, which is only painful when touched.

Pain, especially in left side of chest, as after sitting long in a bent position. Felt an uninterrupted aching in chest, more on left than right side.

Shooting at the side of the left nipple in breathing; especially troublesome when seated.

Violent stitches in the left side of the chest, commencing in the precordial region and then moving downwards towards the side, and afterwards towards the back (after eleven days).

Stitches in the left breast, during a great portion of the night, which do not permit her lying on the left side.

The parts of the sternum crack upon the chest being bent backward, with a pressure in the middle of the chest.

Heaviness and oppression at the sternum, at night.

Heart and Pulse.

Great palpitation.

Frequent palpitation of the heart, with retraction of the epigastrium and sense of weakness in the precordial region.

Audible palpitation of the heart and accelerated beating; upon the hand being pressed upon the heart the blood seems to rise to the neck, with breathing rendered difficult (at rest).

Pulse somewhat quickened.

Pulse seems to get quicker whenever the oppression came on.

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.