Pharmacy
Am-c. Ammon. carbon. Sal volatile. Sesqui carbonate of Ammonia. Solution in distilled water. Historical dose: Trituration and all potencies, lower potencies, sixth potency best for general use.
History
Am-c. is for those who lead a sedentary life, have a slow reaction generally and are disposed to frequent use of the smelling-bottle.
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Am-c. is adapted to stout women who are always tired and weary, take cold easily in winter and suffer from cholera-like symptoms before menses and who lead a sedentary life. Dr. Gallavardin has cured uncleanness in bodily habits with Am-c.
Homeopathic
Ammonium carb. has a condition of poor oxygenation that underlies a large proportion of its' symptoms. This remedy is found in rather stout women who are always tired and weary, catches colds easily, suffer from cholera-like symptoms before menses.
The venous under-oxygenated condition of the medicine again appears in the excessive sleepiness produced in the daytime. In the night there are dreams of spectres of death and attacks of anguish.
Mucous membranes of the respiratory organs are especially affected. Obese patients with weak heart, wheezing, feel suffocated. Very sensitive to cold air. Great aversion to water, cannot bear to touch it. Too frequent and profuse menses.
Lymphatic and parotid gland swollen and indurated. Hard swelling of parotid and cervical glands. Pains are bruised and sore. There is internal raw burning. Malignancy. Prostration from trifles. Lies down from debility or soreness of whole body.
Malignant scarlatina with somnolence, swollen glands, dark red sore throat, faintly developed eruption. Uremia. Heaviness in all the organs. Swelling of parts, glands, etc. Discharges are hot, acrid, adherent. Prostration from trifles.
Old age problems. Uncleanliness in bodily habits. Scorbutic condition, the muscles are soft and flabby, teeth drop out, hemorrhages, hectic.
Very sensitive to cold air. Erythema, then vesication. Finally gangrenous degeneration.
Clinical
Anxiety. Asthma. Bedwetting. Bronchitis. Colic. Cough. Dislocations, pains.
Emphysema. Erysipelas. Goiter. Gums, sensitive. Hemorrhoids. Hysteria. Lungs, edema. Measles. Military eruptions. Nose disorders. Parotiditis. Rickets. Scarlatina. Spotted fever. Sprains. Sternum, pain. Toothache. Uremia. Whitlow.
Causations
Ill effects of charcoal fumes. Nosebleed comes on when washing the face. Constitutions
It is adapted to overweight patients with weak hearts, wheezing and a suffocated feeling. The remedy is suited to scrofulous children, stout and sedentary women. Most of the carbonates are suited to states of obesity. Women who are always having recourse to the smelling-bottle. Planets: Jupiter, Mercury.
Modalities
Better lying on painful side and on stomach in dry weather. Better from pressure, eating, lying on abdomen. Dry weather. Lying on right side. Worse evenings from applications, washing and 3 to 4 a.m. during menses. Worse from cold, cloudy days, damp cold, wet weather, raw cold, open air. Worse falling asleep, motion, chewing, pressing teeth, bending down, new moon.
Symptoms
MIND
The mental faculties are slow, weak memory, heedlessness, absence of mind. Sadness, disposition to weep. Timidity. Apprehensive. Ill-humor. Heedless and unruly. Forgetful, gloomy during stormy weather. Vacant mind. Loss of memory, worse vexation. Talking and hearing others talk affects greatly. Sad, weepy, unreasonable. Tendency to make mistakes in speaking, writing and calculating. Depressed with weakness of intellect. Aversion to work. Peevish, fretting, as if crime has been committed. Uncleanliness. (Sulph.) Great aversion to water, cannot bear to touch it.
Timidity of character. Sadness, with disposition to weep. Apprehensions and anguish in the evening. Anxiety with weakness and nightmares. Disgust with life.
MIND
Ill-humor in the morning. Morose. Disobedient and unruly. Excessive gaiety. Heedlessness. Great absence of mind and weakness of memory.
Tendency to make mistake in speaking, in writing, or in calculating. Impairment of the intellectual faculties.
Abdomen
Flatulent, painful colic. Flatulent hernia. Colic with pain between the scapulae. Pain in the abdomen, with diarrhea. Spasmodic colic with nausea, and accumulation of water in the mouth. Noise and pain in abdomen.
Back
Pains in the lumbar region and pains in the nape of the neck. Painful swelling of the glands of the neck and of the axillary glands. Goiter. Drawing tension in the back and in the loins.
Blood
Hemorrhages are dark and thin. Hemorrhagic diathesis from fluidity of blood and
dissolution of red blood corpuscles, tendency to gangrenous ulcerations. Hemorrhages are dark from nose, gums and bowels.
Chest
Shootings in the chest and in the sides. Feeling of fatigue in the chest. Congestion towards the chest. Heaviness in the chest, as from congestion of blood to the chest. Burning in the chest.
Ears
Hardness of hearing. Shocks through ears, eyes and nose, when gnashing teeth. Itching above the ears, spreads over the whole body.
Eyes
Burning of eyes with aversion to light. Eye-strain. (Nat-m.) Burning and dry. Prolonged use of eyes cause asthenopia with appearance of yellow spots on looking at white objects. Flood of tears. Large black spots float after sewing. Pain in the eyes better afternoon sleep. Sore canthi.
Face
Boils and pustules during menses. Corners of the mouth are sore, cracked and burn. Cracks and burning in lip. Hard swelling of the cheek.
Female
Itching, swelling and burning of pudendum. Copious leucorrhea, burning, acrid, watery. Aversion to the other sex. Irritation of clitoris.
Female
Menses too frequent, profuse, early, copious, clotted, black, colicky pains and hard, difficult stool with fatigue, especially of thighs, yawning and chilliness. Cholera-like symptoms with menses. Menses flow more at night, then dyspnea or weakness. Food
Continual thirst, no appetite, excepting for bread and cold food. Great hunger and appetite, yet a small quantity satiates. Unconquerable appetite for sugar.
Head
Obstinate headache. Headache with nausea. Pulsating forehead, better pressure and in a warm room. Shocks, through head, eyes, ears and nose, on biting. Violent headache. Full,
bursting pain in forehead. Brain seems loose. Hammering, pressure, and beatings in the head. Headache, as if from carbonic acid gas. Soreness of the scalp and of the hair. Itching in the head. Falling off of the hair.
Heart
Heart becomes weak, collapse. Heart weakness, wakes with difficult breathing and palpitations. Audible palpitation with fear, cold sweat, lachrymation inability to speak, loud breathing and trembling hands. Angina Pectoris. Circulation becomes sluggish and under-oxygenation of blood produces lividity, weakness and drowsiness. Vitality
becomes low and there is lack of reaction. Kidneys
Frequent desire involuntary at night. Tenesmus of bladder. Urine, white, bloody, sandy, copious, turbid and fetid. Involuntary urination towards morning.
Limbs
Parts lain on become numb. Tearing in joints relieved by heat of bed inclination to stretch limbs. Hands cold and blue, distended veins. Ganglion. Fingers swell when arm is hanging down. Fingers and hands swell, when arms are hanging down. Whitlow.
Panaritium, deep-seated periosteal pain. Right arm heavy and weak. Cramps in calves and soles. Big toe painful and swollen. Felons in the beginning.
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Heel painful on standing. Tearing in ankle and bones of feet, better when warm in bed. Inclination to stretch limbs. Tearing pain better by heat of bed. Right foot numb. Aching in bones better change of weather.
Liver
Pressure, pain as from excoriation and burning in the hepatic region. Piercing shootings in the liver, when seated in the evening.
Lungs
Increasing difficulty in breathing, it wakes him, better cool air. Hoarseness. 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 catarrh with slimy sputum and specks of blood.
Pulmonary edema. Rattling in chest but gets up little. Pulmonary edema. Cough every morning about three o'clock with dyspnea, palpitation, burning in chest, worse ascending. Cough after influenza. Congestion of lungs. Expectoration of pure blood after cough. Male
Itching and pain of scrotum and spermatic cords. Erection without desire. Seminal emissions. Persistent erections without desire or violent sexual desire without erection. Seminal emissions frequent after sex.
Mouth
Great dryness of mouth and throat. Vesicles on tongue. Taste sour, metallic. Cracking of jaws on chewing. Tender, bleeding gums. Mouth and throat dry. Vesicles on tongue. Burning, hindering eating and speech. Swelling inside cheek.
Nose
Profuse watery coryza. Discharge of sharp, burning water. Stoppage at night with long continued coryza. Continuous urging to sneeze. Cannot breathe through nose. Snuffles of
children. Inability to blow the nose in children. Nosebleeds if hands or face are washed after eating or on waking. Ozaena, blows bloody mucus from nose. Tip of nose
congested. Boil on tip. Rectum
Constipation with hard, dry stools. Stools difficult, hard and knotty. Bleeding
hemorrhoids, worse during menses. Itching at anus. Protruding hemorrhoids worse after stools or without stools, better lying, cannot walk. Discharge of blood before and after stools. Dark acrid diarrhea.
Skin
Red or mottled skin. Erysipelas in the elderly with brain symptoms. Malignant scarlatina. Violent itching and burning blisters. Scarlet rash. Miliary rash. Faintly developed
eruptions from defective vitality. Eczema in the bends of limbs, between legs, about anus and genitals.
Sleep
Sleepiness during the day. Starts from sleep strangling. The sooner one goes to bed the better one sleeps.
Stomach
Pain at the pit of stomach with heartburn, nausea, water brash and chilliness. Flatulent dyspepsia. Great appetite, but easy satisfaction.
Teeth
Loose or blunt teeth. Toothache during menses. Pressing teeth together sends shocks through head, eyes and ears.
Temperature
Coldness. Burning heat with thirst. Throat
Enlarged tonsils and glands of neck. Burning pain all down throat. Tendency to
gangrenous ulceration of tonsils. Diphtheria when nose is stopped up, membrane extends to upper lip.
Vertigo
Vertigo, on reading in a sitting posture, in the morning or in the evening, sometimes with nausea.
Comments
Am-c. is a chilly remedy with great sensitiveness to cold open air, worse in wet, stormy weather from washing from wet poultice, better by warmth. Am-c. is a right-side
medicine and a venous medicine. Worse at night: 3 a.m.
Am-c. is also hemorrhagic. There is the scorbutic condition of bleeding gums. Bleeding from the nose, especially in the morning on washing after a meal. Bleeding hemorrhoids, at every menstrual period bleeding from rectum.
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The menses are premature and copious, the blood being dark (colic and pains in loins or toothache accompanying).
Sleepiness with many conditions. Tickling cough. Bloody expectoration accompanying the cough. Asthma. Cough from 2 to 5 a.m. Anguish at heart: palpitation and faintness. Pain as from fatigue (hip-joint, legs, thighs). Pains as from dislocation or sprain (wrist, great toe). pain as of contraction of tendons. Numbness and stiffness of arms and hands. The pains are ulcerative, shooting, digging.
Miliary eruption. Swelling of glands. Headache worse in morning with nausea. Hammering, pressing, bursting, as if contents would start through forehead. Feeling of looseness of brainÑas if it fell from side to side, whichever way the head was moved. Burning in eyes, dryness, black spots, sparks, myopia, cataract, catarrh.
Muscular asthenopia from prolonged use of the eyes with appearance of yellow spots on looking at white objects. Pterygium.
Nausea, vomiting, fullness, water-brash, worse after eating. Flatulence. Slow, hard evacuations in small pieces. Hemorrhoids during menstrual period. Miliary eruptions. Dry tetters, excoriations, ulcerations, phagedenic. Restlessness, paralytic weakness. Great prostration with falling temperature. Gout in great toe. Heel painful on standing.
Compare
(1) Ant-t, Carb-v, Glon, Lach, Mur-ac. Rhus-t. (2) Ammonias, Ant-t., Ars.
(3) Aur. - crushing weight on sternum, but Aur. has less somnolence and less venous congestion.
(4) Lach. - to which Am-c. is inimical. (2) Phos., Puls., Sulph.
Relations
It antidotes: Rhus and stings of insects, poisoning from charcoal fumes. Is antidoted by: Arn., Camph., Hep., Vegetable acids, Fixed oils. Inimical to: Lach. similar in action.