Ammonium carbonicum

Characteristic symptoms

Compare with Bell, and Lach. ; very useful in diseases of women, young people and children. — Ulcerative pains, or stinging and tearing, less in bed ; drawing in the joints as from shortening of the tendons; pains as if sprained in the joints, pains more on the right side than on the left, especially evenings and in the fresh air; great sensitiveness to cold and open air; extreme lassitude, cannot bear speaking or to be spoken to : burning pimples ; red suppurating swellings ; rash, scarlet redness of the skin ; freckles ; ganglia ; excoriations ; sleepiness in daytime, but cannot fall asleep at night, or restless sleep on account of frightful dreams about death and corpses ; chills in the evening ; sad, anxious mood ; great anguish, as if he had committed a crime ; excessive exaltation of the fancy ; loathing of life ; great forgetfulness and confusion of mind, easily makes mistakes in writing and cyphering and confounds his words ; vertigo in the morning, especially when reading ; headache with nausea ; fullness of the head and headache as if the forehead would split; drawing and lacerating in the whole head ; on moving the head sensation as of the brain falling to and fro, sometimes with stinging pains ; feeling of coldness or burning in the eyes, also with photophobia ; eyes run in daytime, but agglutinate during the night ; •lachrymation ; hardness of hearing, with itching and suppuration of the ears, bleeding of the nose ; stoppage of the nose, particularly at night, and discharge of burning water from the nose ; pale face and miserable look; freckles, pustules, boils and itching eruptions on the face, with swelling of the glands of the neck ; herpetic eruption around the mouth ; the lips are sore, dry and chapped ; the corners of the mouth ulcerate ; ulcerative pain of the roots of the teeth, or stitching, drawing and tearing pains in the teeth, especially when pressed agaust one another in biting, or during menstruation, or in the evening ; the teeth feel loose, dull and elongated, as after having eaten acids ; rapid decay of the teeth ; blisters and ulcers in the mouth, with ulcerative pain in mouth and on the tongue; collection of saltish or watery saliva in the mouth and salivation ; sense of scraping and soreness in the throat, or sensation as if some foreign substance were lodged in the throat; continual thirst, so that he cannot eat without drinking; great inclination for sugar; weak digestion; much waterbrash and sour eructations ; great pressure at the pit cf the stomach, with nausea, especially after eating ; feeling of coldness or burning in the stomach ; heartburn ; spasmo lie contractions in abdomen, with qualmishness and flow of water to the mouth ; costiveness ; retarded and hard stool ; itching of the anus and bleeding piles ; at night several copious emissions of urine ; wetting the bed ; urine with sandy sediment ; continuous erections ; frequent pollutions and shocking pain in scrotum ; swelling, itching and burning in pudenda ; acrid and blackish menstrual flow ; courses too soon and too copious, Aith toothache, backache and colic ; hoarseness and aphonia ; dry cough at night, as if from feather-dust in the throat ; bloody expectoration ; heaviness of the chest, as if from too much blood ; asthma, with palpitation of the heart and difficulty in ascending stairs ; increasing orthopnoea.