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Ammonium carbonicum

Carbonate of ammonia

17 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • Too frequent and profuse menses.
  • Mucous membranes of the respiratory organs are especially affected.
  • Fat patients with weak heart, wheezing, feel suffocated.
  • Very sensitive to cold air.
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  • Great aversion to water; cannot bear to touch it.
  • Malignant scarlatina, with somnolence, swollen glands, dark red sore throat, faintly developed rash.
  • Uraemia.
  • Heaviness in all organs.
  • Uncleanness in bodily habits.
  • Swelling of parts, glands, etc.
  • Acid secretions.
  • Extreme weakness from trifles.

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Mind & mood

  • Forgetful, ill-humored, gloomy during stormy weather. Uncleanliness.
  • Talking and hearing others talk affects greatly.
  • Sad, weepy, unreasonable.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

EveningsFrom coldWet weatherWet applicationsWashingDuring 3 to 4 a.m.During menses

Better

Lying on painful side and on stomachIn dry weather

Symptoms by body part

Head

Pulsating forehead; better, pressure and in warm room. Shocks through head.

Eyes

Burning of eyes with aversion to light. Eye-strain. Asthenopia. Sore canthi.

Ears

Hardness of hearing. Shocks through ears, eyes, and nose, when gnashing teeth.

Nose

Discharge of sharp, burning water. Stoppage at night, with long-continued runny nose (cold).K Cannot breathe through nose. Snuffles of children. Nosebleed after washing and after eating. Ozaena, blows bloody mucus from nose. Tip of nose congested.

Face

Tetters around mouth. Boils and pustules, during menses. Corners of mouth sore, cracked, and burn.

Mouth

Great dryness of mouth and throat. Toothache. Pressing teeth together sends shocks through head, eyes, and ears. Vesicles on tongue. Taste sour; metallic. Cracking of jaw on chewing.

Throat

Enlarged tonsils and glands of neck. Burning pain all down throat. Tendency to gangrenous ulceration of tonsils. Diphtheria when nose is stopped up.

Stomach

Pain at pit of stomach, with heartburn, nausea, waterbrash, and feeling cold. Great appetite, but easily satisfied. Flatulent indigestion.

Abdomen

Noise and pain in abdomen. Stools difficult, hard, and knotty. Itching at anus.

Urine

Frequent desire; involuntary at night. Constant urge to pass stool of bladder. Urine white, sandy, bloody, copious, turbid and fetid.

Male

Itching and pain of scrotum and spermatic cords. Erection without desire. Seminal emissions.

Female

Itching, swelling and burning of pudendum. White vaginal discharge burning, acrid, watery. Aversion to the other sex. Menses too frequent, profuse, early, copious, clotted, black; colicky pains, and hard, difficult stool, with fatigue, especially of thighs; yawning and feeling cold.

Respiratory

Hoarseness. Cough every morning about three o'clock, with dyspnoea, palpitation, burning in chest; worse ascending. Chest feels tired. Emphysema. Much oppression in breathing; worse after any effort, and entering warm room, or ascending even a few steps. Asthenic Pneumonia. Slow labored, stertorous breathing; bubbling sound. Winter mucus discharge, with slimy sputum and specks of blood. Pulmonary swelling.

Heart

Audible palpitation with fear, cold sweat, watering eyes, inability to speak, loud breathing and trembling hands. Heart weak, wakes with difficult breathing and palpitation.

Extremities

Tearing in joints relieved by heat of bed; inclination to stretch limbs. Hands cold and blue; distended veins. Fingers swell when arm is hanging down. Panaritium, deep-seated periosteal pain. Cramps in calves and soles. Big toe painful and swollen. Felons in the beginning. Heel painful on standing. Tearing in ankle and bones of feet, better when warm in bed.

Sleep

Sleepiness during the day. Starts from sleep strangling.

Skin

Violent itching and burning blisters. Scarlet rash. Miliary rash. Malignant scarlatina. Faintly developed rashes from defective vitality. Erysipelas in the aged, with brain symptoms. Eczema in the bends of extremities, between legs, about anus and genitals.

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