AMMONIUM CARBONICUM



FACE

Violent pain in the face on the right side. Drawing pain in the cheek-bones. Heat in the face, during mental exertion, with red cheeks. Paleness of the face, with nausea and moral and physical weariness. Pale face, accompanied by headache, pain at the stomach, and ill-humor. Pale, bloated face, for along time. Hard swelling of the cheek, of the parotids and the glands of the neck. Freckles. White herpetic spots of the size of a small pea, which scale off continually (upon the cheek). Boils upon the cheek and around the ear. Small boils and indurations, emitting water and blood, upon the cheek, at the corners of the mouth, and on the chin. Eruptions upon the forehead, resembling little boils. Pimples and vesicles on the forehead, and the tip of the nose. Miliary eruption around the chin, without sensation. Pustules upon the forehead, temple, cheek, and chin. Burning vesicles on the vermilion border of both lips. Herpetic scaly eruption around the mouth. Scaliness of the skin of the chin. The lips are sore, dry, and chapped, and bleed easily. Pain and swelling of the submaxillary glands.

JAWS AND TEETH

Under the gums, upon the jaw, a swelling of the size of a pigeon’s egg, very painful in chewing. Gums tender and inclined to bleed; scorbutic affections. Cracking of the articulation of the jaws when chewing. Swelling and inflammation of the gums, with swelling of the cheek; abscess of the gums, with discharge of pus; violent toothache, with heat of the same side of the head; violent toothache, as soon as one enters the bed in the evening, the whole night. Warm liquid or air passing into the mouth aggravates the pain; cannot speak without pain. The teeth are painful when pressed against one another, in biting; toothache during the catamenia, day and night, especially during and after dinner, relieved by warm cloths, and by pressing upon the teeth. Drawing toothache during the catamenia; it passes off by eating. Lacerating pain in the upper teeth. Sensation at the roots of the teeth as of ulceration; shooting toothache, shooting pains in the molar teeth, upon pressing their edges against one another; on touching the tooth with the tongue. Throbbing and pressure in the teeth. Toothache in the evening, as if the teeth were pressed in; they feel loose, dull, and elongated, as after having eaten acids. The decay of the teeth progresses rapidly; even the sound ones fall out.

MOUTH

Burning vesicles on the inner side of the cheeks, lips, and on the tongue; small ulcer at the tip of the tongue; pain in the palate, as from an ulcer; burning at the tip of the tongue, made worse by touching it; redness and inflammation in the mouth and throat; these parts are painful, as if sore and excoriated. Swelling in the mouth; the buccal cavity feels so narrow that she scarcely dares to open her mouth or to move her tongue, lest she should hurt some part by touching it with the tongue; difficulty in talking, as if the organs of speech were paralyzed.

THROAT AND OESOPHAGUS.

Sore throat towards evening. Pain in the throat during deglutition, as if the right tonsil were swollen; swelling of the amygdalae, with difficult deglutition, especially early in the morning and in the evening; sensation as if something were in her throat. Sore throat, sense as of scraping (rawness); burning sensation in the throat, down the oesophagus, as from alcohol; bad sore throat, a sort of stinging and drawing, or tearing, more painful when speaking; pressure in the throat, with swelling on both sides externally; dryness of the mouth in the evening, which cannot be relieved by drinking; the mouth feels parched early in the morning; great dryness and heat of the mouth at night.

TASTE, APPETITE, AND GASTRIC SYMPTOMS

Collection of saltish or watery saliva in the mouth; bad smell from the mouth; sweet taste, with bloody saliva. Bitter taste in the mouth early in the morning, and attacks of nausea the whole day; foul and acid taste in the mouth; sourish and metallic taste of food; constant eructations; eructations tasting of the ingesta. Eructations tasting of the ingesta, during and after supper. Sour eructations. Frequent heartburn. Feverish chilliness early in the morning, succeeded by hiccough, sometimes with nausea and coated tongue. Continual thirst, and no appetite. Want of appetite early in the morning; milk becomes offensive to her; no desire for milk, meat, or boiled things; a good deal of hunger and appetite; rabid hunger; increased appetite at dinner; satiated after having eaten a little; heat in the face during and after dinner; sense of nausea and lassitude during and after dinner (during the catamenia); pain in the stomach, and loathing of supper, while eating it; stitches in the chest after supper. Qualmishness after dinner. Qualmishness and inclination to vomit, every day, immediately after dinner, for a whole hour; uneasiness, with pressure at the stomach and forehead, immediately after dinner, for several hours. Eructations and vomiting. Haematemesis.

STOMACH

Great pressure at the pit of the stomach after eating, succeeded by nausea and vomiting of the ingesta; afterwards, sour taste in the mouth. The stomach appears full, trembling (during the catamenia); sense of emptiness at the stomach; pain at the stomach, with disposition to watery rising; painfulness of the stomach, when pressed upon; the clothes press upon the stomach; oppression at the stomach after dinner and supper; oppressive weight at the pit; pressure at the stomach, with nausea and sensitiveness in the pit; oppression at the stomach, with sensation of contraction (also in the chest, accompanied by loathing and nausea; oppression at the stomach, early in the morning, changing to nausea and inclination to vomit; pinching and rumbling in the stomach. Feeling of coldness in the region of the stomach; heat at the stomach, which extends to the bowels, as from drinking strong wine.

ABDOMEN

Burning; boring stitches in the liver; aching pain under the right ribs, in the region of the liver. Soreness of the liver; aching pain in the left side of the abdomen, early in the morning. Painful compression on both sides of the abdomen, only when sitting, relieved by motion and extension of the limbs. Sudden painful contraction of the bowels, as far as the region of the stomach, relieved by compression. Violent pinching, contraction, and rumbling in the abdomen in the forenoon, coming on while walking in the open air, relieved by lying on it and applying warm cloths. Cutting pain in the abdomen; biting sensation in the belly, with contractive pain at the stomach, and chilliness and sweat. Stitches in the abdomen, which render waking difficult. Weight in the abdomen. Pain in the abdomen, as from concussion, when treading. Distention of the abdomen, with retention of stool. Rumbling and shifting of flatulence in the abdomen. Rumbling in the abdomen with colic. Griping, with a good deal of flatulence; disposition to colic, with flatulence.

STOOL

Retention of stool during the first days, succeeded by loose stool; constipation during the first four days. Retarded and hard stool. Hard, painful stool, with pricking in the anus; hard stool, surrounded with streaks of blood; loose stool, twice a day. Diarrhoea, with colic early in the morning; diarrhoea, composed of faeces and slime, with cutting in the abdomen, before and during stool; evacuations, with constant tenesmus; violent cutting in the rectum. Colic before and after the loose stool. After the evacuation, sense as of scraping, then burning, at the anus; discharge of blood during and after the evacuation; the varices of the rectum protrude during the evacuation, and are painful a long time afterwards, so that she finds it impossible to walk. The varices of the rectum protrude, even when there is no evacuation; they recede when lying down. Varices of the rectum moist, accompanied with pain as from excoriation. He cannot sleep at night, on account of a burning pain at the rectum; itching of the anus.

URINARY ORGANS

Violent pressure of the urine upon the bladder, with cutting; constant urging to urinate, even at night, with diminished emission of urine, with burning. At night, several emissions of urine; some of them seem copious; involuntary emission of urine while asleep; frequent and copious emissions of urine; increased and turbid urine; the urine looks pale-yellow; white sandy urine for several days; the urine looks reddish after dinner, as if it were mixed with blood; haematuria.

MALE SEXUAL ORGANS

Violent itching of the genital organs; increased weight of the scrotum. Choking pain in the scrotum and spermatic cords; the scrotum is painful to the touch; total absence of the sexual instinct; disinclination for the other sex; vehement desire for coition, with trembling of the body, almost without erection. Involuntary emissions almost every night. The child becomes sore between the legs.

FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS

Violent itching of the pudendum; soreness of the pudendum and the anus; the parts are especially painful during an emission of urine. Swelling, itching, and burning of the pudendum. The menses appear too late by three or five days; there occurs one complete interruption. The courses come on six days too soon. Premature and copious catamenia, with spasmodic pain, and blackish or light-colored blood; acrid, it makes the thighs sore; this soreness causes a burning pain. Paleness of the face, before and during the catamenia; unconquerable sadness; toothache; colic, with griping, pressure, and tension between the scapulae; violent tearing in the abdomen and vagina; violent pain in the small of the back, and great coldness. Great debility and soreness of the whole body, especially of the thighs, with yawning, toothache, pain in the small of the back, and chilliness. Violent acrid leucorrhoea, causing a soreness. Watery, burning leucorrhoea; watery discharge from the uterus. The right mamma feels painful to the touch.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.