AMMONIUM CARBONICUM uses [Am-c uses]
Note: Wherever it is found, "<" denotes aggravation (worse by), ">" denotes amelioration (better by), "<->" denotes alternation (alternates with) and A/F is an abbreviation of, "Ailments from"
Sluggish
and dull minded state. Weakness and exhaustion
Epistaxis on washing the face
Tired, oppressed feeling in the chest
COMMON NAME
Smelling salt
A/F
| - | Charcoal fumes |
| - | Snake bite, stings of insects |
| - | Exposure to cold, stormy, wet weather |
MODALITIES
| < | Evenings |
| < | Washing |
| < | From cold wet weather |
| < | Cloudy weather |
| < | Wet applications |
| < | During 3 to 4 a.m. |
| < | During menses |
| < | Wet poultices |
| < | During motion |
| < | Chewing |
| < | Pressing teeth |
| < | While or after eating |
| < | Right side |
| > | Pressure |
| > | Lying on painful side |
| > | Lying on stomach |
| > | Dry weather |
| > | New moon |
| > | Eating |
MIND
| - | Active,
but soon exhausted |
| - | Forgetful, ill-humoured, gloomy, during stormy weather |
| - | Headless and unruly, disobedience |
| - | Depressed with weakness of intellect |
| - | Vacant mind |
| - | Loss of memory < vexation |
| - | Hearing others talk or talking himself, affects him |
| - | Aversion to work |
| - | Peevish, fretting, as if crime has been committed |
| - | Disposed to weep, sadness |
| - | Tendency to make mistakes in speaking, writing and calculating |
| - | Timidity of character |
| - | Apprehensive |
| - | Great restlessness in the evening |
| - | Uncleanliness |
| - | Quarrelsome during menses |
| - | Talking in sleep about what he thought when awake, reveals secrets in sleep |
| - | Fear of misfortune in the morning |
| - | Aversion to women. Aversion to sea |
| - | Reserved during menses |
| - | Irritability after eating, during headache, during menses |
| - | Oversensitive to sensual impression |
GUIDING INDICATIONS
| - | It is adapted to stout, fleshy women, with
various troubles in consequence of leading a sedentary life. Delicate women,
who must have the smelling bottle constantly at hand |
| - | It is adapted to fat patients, with weak heart, with wheezing and
suffocative feeling |
| - | Very sensitive to cold air |
| - | Great aversion to water, cannot bear to touch it. Children dislike washing |
| - | Pains - bruised and sore, there is internal raw burning |
| - | Discharges - hot, acrid, adherent |
| - | It is right sided remedy |
| - | Haemorrhagic tendency - blood dark, degenerated, watery, offensive and
noncoagulable blood |
| - | Ulceration tends to gangrene |
| - | Heaviness in all organs |
| - | Head - Headache with sensation of fullness as if forehead, would burst, shocks
through head |
| - | Mouth - Toothache during menses |
| - | Pressing teeth together, sends shocks through head, eyes and ears |
| - | Tender, bleeding gums |
| - | Throat - Putrid sore throat |
| - | Tendency to gangrenous ulceration of tonsils, glands engorged |
| - | Diphtheria, when nose is stopped up, membrane extends to upper lip |
| - | Nose - Nosebleed when washing the face and hands in the morning, from left
nostril after eating |
| - | Stoppage of nose at night, with long continued coryza, must breathe through
mouth |
| - | Loses breath when falling asleep, must awaken to get dream |
| - | Snuffles of children. Inability to blow the nose in children |
| - | Ozaena, blowing bloody mucus from the nose frequently, blood rushes to tip
of nose when stooping |
| - | Respiratory system - Emphysema |
| - | Cough |
|
- |
dry, every morning from 3 to 4 a.m. |
|
- |
from tickling in throat as from dust |
|
- |
with dyspnoea, palpitation, burning in the chest |
|
- |
after influenza |
| - | Rattling in the chest but gets up little |
| - | Much oppression in breathing, worse after any effort |
| - | Asthenic pneumonia |
| - | Slow, laboured, stertorous breathing, bubbling sound |
| - | C.V.S. - Heart weak. Wakes with difficult breathing and palpitation |
| - | Palpitation audible, with fear, cold sweat, lachrymation, inability to
speak, loud breathing and trembling hands |
| - | Female genitalia - Cholera like symptoms at the beginning of menstruation |
| - | Menses |
|
- |
too frequent, profuse, early, copious, clotted, black |
|
- |
with colicky pains and hard, difficult stool |
|
- |
with fatigue, especially of thighs |
|
- |
with yawning and chilliness |
|
- |
with toothache, sadness |
| - | Menses flow more at night or when sitting, then dyspnoea, and
weakness |
| - | Leucorrhoea - copious, burning, acrid, watery from the vagina, with
excoriation of vulva |
| - | Bleeding piles during menses |
| - | Extremities - Panaritium, deep seated periosteal pain |
| - | Pain in wrist joints when sprained long ago |
| - | Drowsy by day, sleepless by night |
KEYNOTES
NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
| - | Weak,
nervous, persons of a lymphatic or nervous temperament; stout, sedentary
women who always have the smelling bottle at hand, unclean in body habit |
| - | Inflammation of mucous membranes tending to ulceration and gangrenous
states |
| - | Sluggish circulation causing lividity, weakness, drowsiness and low vitality, with lack of reaction |
CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
CLINICAL
| - | Allergy,
Bronchitis, Congestive cardiac failure, Epistaxis, Haemorrhoids, Pharyngitis,
Pulmonary oedema, Rhinitis, Sinusitis, Thyroiditis |
| - | Cough following influenza when Bryonia does not work, give Am-c - Dr. Tyler |
REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
Follows Well: Ars, Bell, Bry, Calc,
Graph, Hep, Kali-c, Lyc, Merc, Nux-v, Phos, Puls, Rhus-t, Sep, Sil, Sulph
Inimical: Lach
Compare: Am-br, Am-m, Am-p, Ant-t, Apis, Arn, Ars, Aur, Bell, Calc,
Cocc, Hep, Kali-bi, Kali-c, Lach, Laur, Nat-m, Phos, Puls, Rhus-t, Ruta,
Staph, Sulph, Verat
Antidoted By: Arn, Camph, Hep, Rhus-t
It Antidotes: Brom, Cench, Piloc, Rhus-t
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