Dr. Reckeweg Ammonium Carbonicum
Common Name: Carbonate of Ammonia, Sal volatile
Causes & Symptoms for Dr. Reckeweg Ammonium Carbonicum
- Ammonium carbonicum is a right-side medicine and a venous medicine.
- Ammonium carbonicum is a chilly medicine with great sensitiveness to cold open air, worse in wet, stormy weather, from washing, from wet poultice, better by warmth.
- It is suited to stout women who readily take cold in winter.
- Symptoms worse at night: 3:00am
- There is the scorbutic condition of bleeding gums.
- Bleeding from the nose, especially in the morning on washing, after a meal is relieved.
- There is bleeding piles, at every menstrual period bleeding from rectum.
- The menses are premature and copious, the blood being dark (colic and pains in loins, or toothache accompanying).
- Ammonium carbonicum relieves Numbness and stiffness of arms and hands.
- The pains are ulcerative, shooting, digging.
- Headache worse in morning, with nausea.
- Dry, stuffed coryza, worse at night, breathes with mouth open, Boil on the tip of the nose.
- Ammonium carbonicum checks bloody expectoration accompanying the cough, Tickling cough, Asthma, Cough from 2 to 5 a.m.
- Ammonium carbonicum is suited to scrofulous children, stout and sedentary women (most of the carbonates are suited to states of corpulency), women who are always having recourse to the smelling-bottle.
- Among the ameliorations there are better lying on stomach (Nit-ac.), better lying on right side, on painful side, better from external pressure, in warm room, in dry air, worse on bending down.
Action of Dr. Reckeweg Ammonium Carbonicum
Mind
- Sadness, with disposition to weep, apprehensions and anguish, which often disappear towards the evening.
- Anxiety with weakness and nightmare, Timidity of character, Disgust with life.
- Ill-humor in the morning, and when it is bad weather, Morose and passionate humor.
- Great absence of mind, weakness of memory and tendency to make mistake in speaking, in writing, or in calculating.
Head
- Vertigo, on reading in a sitting posture, in the morning or in the evening, sometimes with nausea.
- Obstinate headache, Headache with nauseais relieved.
- The headache often appears in the evening, after walking in the open air, or in the morning, or after a meal.
- Pain worse after eating and while walking in the open air, better from external pressure and in the warm room, heaviness and beating in the forehead after dinner.
- Soreness of the scalp and of the hair, Itching in the head, Falling off of the hair is relieved.
Eyes
- Burning in the eyes, principally in the evening, or in the morning, with photophobia.
- Sensation of cold in the eyes, Confused sight, with sparks before the eyes.
- Double vision, Myopia, Cataract, Black spots and bright bands before the eyes is relieved.
Ears
- Buzzing in the ears, particularly at night, Roaring and tingling in the ears and itching of the ears is relieved.
- Hard swelling of the glands of the neck, and of the parotid glands.
Nose
- Heaviness in the extremity of the nose on stooping, as if from congestion of blood.
- Itching and purulent pimples in the nose, Swelling, sensation of excoriation and painful sensibility of the nostrils.
- Discharge of sharp, burning water and pus from the nose.
- Bleeding of the nose, particularly in the morning on washing, or after a meal.
- Obstinate dryness of the nose, dry coryza and stoppage of the nose, chiefly at night, with danger of suffocation is relieved.
Teeth
- Toothache on compressing the teeth, or after lying down in the evening, aggravation from warm fluids, during the menses.
- Prickling pain, especially in the molar teeth, worse when masticating or touching the decayed tooth with the tongue.
- Inflammatory swelling, suppuration, and easy bleeding of the gums.
Mouth
- Redness, inflammation, pain as from excoriation, and sensation of swelling in the interior of the mouth, especially the inside of the cheeks.
- Eruption of vesicles in the mouth and on the tongue.
Throat
- When swallowing, sensation as of a foreign body in the throat, Sore throat, as if something were sticking in it, principally in the morning and evening.
- Swelling of the tonsils, with difficulty in swallowing (tonsils bluish, much offensive mucus there).
Appetite
- Bitter taste, chiefly after eating, or after waking in the morning.
- Acid and metallic taste of food.
- Much thirst, Great craving and appetite, Repugnance to milk, Excessive desire for sugar.
Stomach
- Sour, or empty, Risings, with taste of food taken.
- Pain as from constriction in the stomach, with nausea, water-brash and chilliness (better by pressure and by lying down).
- Nausea and vomiting after eating, with pressure in the pit of the stomach.
- Sensitive painfulness of the stomach, even to the clothing.
- Fullness in the stomach, chiefly after a meal, with nausea, and great tenderness at the pit of the stomach.
- Gastralgia, Contractive pain in the pit of the stomach, when stretching.
- Heat and sensation of burning in the stomach.
Abdomen
- Pressure, pain as from excoriation and burning in the hepatic region.
- Pain in the abdomen, with diarrhoea, Flatulent, painful colic.
Stool and Anus
- Constipation, Difficult evacuations, Slow, hard evacuations, in small pieces.
- Stool difficult, hard, knotty, Soft or loose slimy evacuations, followed or preceded by cutting pains.
- After and during an evacuation, discharge of blood from the anus, hemorrhoids in the anus, sometimes bleeding, with smarting pains.
Urinary Organs
- Frequent desire to urinate, with continued pressure on the bladder, White, sandy urine, Reddish urine, like water mixed with blood.
- Emission of blood from the urethra.
Male Sexual Organs
- Excessive sexual desire, without lascivious ideas or erections, or want of sexual desire and repugnance to the other sex.
- Discharge of prostatic fluid, after a difficult evacuation.
Female Sexual Organs
- Swelling, itching, and burning in the (external) genital parts of the female.
- Premature and too copious menses, with emission of black and acrid blood.
- Great weakness during the menstrual flow, hemorrhoids worse during, acrid, corrosive, or burning leucorrhoea, or watery.
Respiratory Organs
- Roughness and hoarseness, with difficulty of speech.
- Cough, with stitches in the small of the back.
- When coughing, shootings in the loins, in the sternum, or in the pit of the stomach.
- Cough, with mucous and sanguineous expectoration, shortness of breath, and sensation of a weight in the chest.
Chest
- Short breath, with choking, principally on going upstairs.
- Painful sensation of spasmodic asthma, with short and dull cough.
- Shootings in the chest and in the sides, particularly when breathing, singing, stooping, walking, or at night, with inability to lie for any time on the side affected.
- Heaviness and burning in the chest, as from congestion of blood to the chest.
Upper Limbs
- Arms and fingers dead and stiff at night, as well as in the morning, and when grasping anything.
- Heaviness and paralytic weakness of the arms.
- Numbness of the fingers, Swelling of the hands and Swelling of the joints of the fingers.
Lower Limbs
- Cramps in the feet, in the calves of the legs, and in the tibiae, Jerking of the knees and legs.
- Acute dragging in the joints of the feet, better by the heat of the bed.
- Pain, as of ulceration, and shootings in the heels, Sensation of burning in the feet.
- Redness, heat, and swelling of the great toe, in the evening, as if from chilblains.
Skin
- Violent itching here and there, with burning vesicles and pimples after scratching, Miliary, chronic eruptions.
- Redness like scarlatina on all the upper part of the body.
Fever
- Pulse hard, tense, and frequent, Attacks of shivering in the evening, Violent shivering with trembling, before going to sleep.
Generalities
- Pains, as of ulceration in different parts, or shootings and acute dragging, mitigated by the heat of the bed.
- General restlessness in the body in the evening.
- Weariness, bruise-like pain and great weakness in the limbs, chiefly when walking in the open air, or in the evening, sometimes with an inclination to lie down.
- Emaciation, Great sensibility to cold.
Side effects of Ammonium Carbonicum
There are no such side effects. But every medicine should be taken following the rules as given.