Materia Medica de A a Z

AMMONIUM CARBONICUM (am-c)

Region

HEART (Circulation. Blood). RESPIRATION. Lungs. Bronchiæ. Right side.

Worse

COLD (CLOUDY DAYS. DAMP. Locally. Raw, open air). Falling asleep. 3-4 A.M. DURING MENSES. Motion.

Better

PRESSURE. Eating. Lying on abdomen.

General

Low vitality. Lacks reaction. LIVID, WEAK AND DROWSY. Lies down. Collapse of nerves and heart. Averse to cold. Old age. Bruised, sore pain. Internal, raw burning. Acrid, hot, adherent secretions. Dark, thin hæmorrhage. Scorbutic states. Malignancy..................... Active, but soon exhausted. Sad. Peevish. Mind vacant. Depressed, with weakened intellect. Heedless, fretting and unruly. Loss of memory; agg. vexation. Brain seems loose. Shocks through head, on biting. Violent headache; full, bursting in forehead. Floods of tears. Nose stopped at night, or bleeds, if hands or face are washed or on waking. Continuous urging to sneeze. Profuse, watery coryza. Catarrhs, starting in nose. Cracked, burning lips. Tender, bleeding gums. Loose or blunt teeth. Dark, acrid diarrhoa. Persistent erections. Menses with choleraic symptoms (Sil); dark, lumpy flow, agg. night; then dyspnoa or weakness. Copious leucorrhoa. Increasing shortness of breath; it wakes him; amel. cool air (Carb-v). Rattling in chest, but gets up little. Aphonia. WEAK HEART; causing stasis, dyspnoa, etc. Palpitation; with cold sweat and lachrymation. Numb r. foot (Sep). Asleep feeling of part lain on. Ganglion. Bones ache as weather changes. Red or mottled skin. Coldness. Burning heat with thirst. Scarlatina.

Related: Ant-t, Carb-v, Glon, Lach, Mur-ac.