# Ammonium Carbonicum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
Source:  Derived  from  ammonium  carbonate  ((NH₄)₂CO₃),  a  chemical  compound  historically. known as smelling salts, prepared for homeopathic use. Traditional Context: Historically used in homeopathy for respiratory, circulatory, and systemic. conditions, particularly in individuals with weakness, fatigue, and cold sensitivity, often resembling. states  of  collapse  or  low  vitality.  It  is  noted  for  symptoms  like  nasal  congestion,  dyspnea,. palpitations, and mental dullness, aggravated by cold, wet weather or exertion. Modern Context: Indicated for chronic respiratory conditions (e.g., chronic rhinitis, bronchitis),. functional  circulatory  complaints (e.g.,  palpitations,  orthostatic  intolerance),  and  generalized. fatigue syndromes , often with  nasal obstruction  and  mild cognitive fog . It suits patients with. systemic debility, cold intolerance, and relapsing symptoms triggered by environmental or physical. stressors.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from: Cold, damp weather; night (especially 3–4 a.m.); exertion; warm rooms;. emotional stress.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- The mental faculties are slow, weak memory, heedlessness, absence of mind.
- Sadness, disposition to 
weep.
- Timidity.
- Ap prehensive.
- Ill humor.
- Heedless and unruly.
- Forgetful, gloomy during stormy weather.
- Vacant mind.
- Loss of memory, worse vexation.
- Talking and hearing others talk affects them 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 c rime has been committed.
- Uncleanliness 
 
 
(Sulph.).
- Great aversion to water, cannot bear to touch it.
- Timidity of character.
- Sadness, with dispo sition to weep.
- Apprehensions and anguish in the evening.
- Anxiety 
with weakness and nightmares.
- Disgust with life.
- 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.
- In the night there are dreams of specters of death 
and attacks of anguish.
- The mental faculties are slow, weak memory, heedlessness, absence of mind.
- Sadness, disposition to 
weep.
- Timidity.
- Ap prehensive.
- Ill humor.
- Heedless and unruly.
- Forgetful, gloomy during stormy weather.
- Vacant mind.
- Loss of memory, worse vexation.
- Talking and hearing others talk affects them 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 c rime has been committed.
- Uncleanliness 
 
 
(Sulph.).
- Great aversion to water, cannot bear to touch it.
- Timidity of character.
- Sadness, with dispo sition to weep.
- Apprehensions and anguish in the evening.
- Anxiety 
with weakness and nightmares.
- Disgust with life.
- 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.
- In the night there are dreams of specters of death 
and attacks of anguish.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo, on reading in a sitting posture, in the morning or in the evening, sometimes with nausea.
- COMMENTS - 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.
- 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.
- Gallavardinhascureduncleanness in bodily habits with Am-c.
- Swelling of glands.
- Headache worse in morning with nausea.
- Hammering, press ing, bursting, as if cont ents 
would start through forehead.
- Feeling of looseness of brain, as if it fell from side to side, which - 
ever way the head was moved.
- Burning in eyes, dryness, black spots, sparks, myopia, cataract, catarrh.
- Muscular asthenopia from prolonged use of the e yes 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, phagadenic.
- Restlessness, paralytic weakness.
- Great 
prostration with falling temperature.
- Gout in great toe.
- Heel painful on standing.
- Weak heart, palpitations from the least exertion, state of hypoxia.
- Heart weakness s ince congestive heart 
failure, peripheral edema, hypotension, low blood pressure.
- Great shortness of breath, fainting spells.
- Feel 
weak and have heavy sensations in body.
- Poor circulation.
- Flush and faint from odor or emotional upset.
- Severe weakness of the lungs since pneumonia (Phos., Kali-c.).

### 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.
- 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.

### Eyes
- Burning of eyes with aversion to light.
- Eye strain (Nat -m.).
- Burning and dry.
- Pro longed use of eyes 
cause asthenopia with appeara nce 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.

### Ears
- Hardness of hearing.
- Shocks through ears, eyes and nose, when gnashing teeth.
- Itching above the 
ears, spreads over the whole body.

### Face
- Boils and pustules during menses.
- Corners of the mouth are sore, cracked and burn.
- Cracks an d 
burning in lip.
- Hard swelling of the cheek.

### Mouth
- Great dryness of mouth and throat.
- Vesicles on tongue.
- Taste sour, metallic.
- Cracking of jaws on 
chewing.
- Tender, bleeding gums.
- Mouth a nd throat dry.
- Vesicles on tongue.
- Burning, hinder ing 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.

### 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.

### Chest
- Chronic nasal obstruction with thick, tenacious mucus or postnasal drip, worse at.
- night (3–4 a.m.).
- Dyspnea or wheezing, resembling chronic bronchitis or mild asthma, aggravated by.
- cold air or exertion.
- Hoarseness or throat irritation, often linked to mucus accumulation.
- Circulatory:.
- Functional palpitations or irregular heartbeat, worse during rest or emotional stress.
- Orthostatic intolerance with dizziness or weakness on standing, particularly in warm.
- rooms.
- Facial flushing or heat sensations, often with cold extremities.
- Ammonium carbonicum (Ammonium carbonate) 73.
- Systemic:.
- Generalized fatigue or debility, with a heavy, “weighted-down” sensation.
- Cold intolerance, with aggravation of symptoms in cold, wet weather.
- Recurrent low-grade fevers or chills, suggestive of immune dysregulation.
- Psychological:.
- Mild irritability or impatience, often secondary to physical exhaustion or discomfort.
- Cognitive fog or difficulty concentrating, particularly during fatigue episodes.
- Gastrointestinal:.
- Mild functional dyspepsia, with bloating or sluggish digestion, worse after heavy.
- meals.
- Occasional nausea or aversion to rich foods, linked to systemic weakness.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- 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 dur ing menses.
- Pressing teeth together sends shocks through 
head, eyes and ears.
- Temperature - Coldness.
- Burning heat with thirst.
- Flatulent, painful colic.
- Flatu lent 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.
- Continual thirst, no appetite, excepting for bread and cold food.
- Great hunger and appetite, yet a small 
quantity satiates.
- Unconquerable appetite for sugar.

### Urinary & Genital
- Itching and pain of scrotum and spermatic cords.
- Persistent erections without desire or violent sexual 
desire without erection.
- Seminal emissions, frequent after sex.
- Itching, swelling and burning of pudendum.
- Copious leucorrhea, burning, acrid, watery.
- Aversion to 
the other sex.
- Irritation of clitoris.
- Menses toofrequent, profuse, early, copious, clotted, black, co licky 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.

### Extremities
- 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 and hands swell, when arms are hanging down.
- Whitlow.
- Panaritium, deep-seated periosteal pai n.
- Right arm heavy and weak.
- 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.
- 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.
- Pierc ing shootings in the liver, 
when seated in the evening.

### Neck & 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.
- Causations - Ill effects of charcoal fumes.
- Nosebleed comes on when washing the face.

### Skin
- Generalized fatigue or debility, with a heavy, “weighted-down” sensation.
- Cold intolerance, with aggravation of symptoms in cold, wet weather.
- Recurrent low-grade fevers or chills, suggestive of immune dysregulation.
- Psychological:.
- Mild irritability or impatience, often secondary to physical exhaustion or discomfort.
- Cognitive fog or difficulty concentrating, particularly during fatigue episodes.
- Gastrointestinal:.
- Mild functional dyspepsia, with bloating or sluggish digestion, worse after heavy.
- meals.
- Occasional nausea or aversion to rich foods, linked to systemic weakness.

### Sleep
- Sleepiness during the day.
- Starts from sleep, strangling.
- The sooner one goes to bed the better one 
sleeps.