AMMONIUM CARBONICUM
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- haemorrhagic diathesis, fluid blood and degeneration of red blood corpuscles
- ulcerations tend to gangrene
- stout, fleshy women with various troubles in consequence of leading a sedentary life
- delicate women who must have the \"smelling-bottle\" continually at hand
- readily catch cold in the winter
- children dislike washing
- loses breath when falling asleep, must awaken to get breath
- ill-humor during wet, stormy weather
- headache; sensation of fullness, as if forehead would burst
- nosebleed: when washing the face and hands in the morning, from left nostril
- nosebleed: after eating
- ozaena, blowing bloody mucus from the nose frequently
- blood rushes to tip of nose, when stooping
- stoppage of nose, mostly at night
- must breathe through the mouth, a keynote even in diphtheria
- long lasting coryza
- \"snuffles\" of infants
- putrid sore throat
- tendency to gangrenous ulceration of tonsils
- glands engorged
- in diphtheria or scarlatina when the nose is stopped up; child cannot sleep because it cannot get its breath
- cholera-like symptoms at the commencement of menstruation
- menses: too early, profuse, preceded by griping colic
- menses: acrid, makes the thighs sore
- menses: copious at night and when sitting
- menses: with toothache, colic, sadness
- menses: fatigue, especially of thighs
- menses: yawning and chilliness
- leucorrhoea: watery burning from the uterus
- leucorrhoea: acrid, profuse from the vagina
- leucorrhoea: excoriation of vulva
- dyspnoea with palpitation, worse by exertion or on ascending even a few steps
- dyspnoea: worse in a warm room
- one of the best remedies in emphysema
- cough: dry, from tickling in throat as from dust, every morning from 3 to 4 a. m
- panaritium: deep seated periosteal pain
- body red, as if from scarlatina
- malignant scarlatina with deep sleep
- stetorous breathing
- miliary rash or faintly developed eruption from defective vitality
- threatened paralysis of brain
- worse from cold, wet weather
- worse from wet poultices
- worse from washing
- worse during menses
- better lying on abdomen
- better on painful side
- better in dry weather