Ammonium carbonicum
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
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Keynotes
Ammonium carbonicum
Smelling Salts.
Hsemorrhagic 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 winter.
Children dislike washing (Ant. c., Sulph.).
Loses breath when falling asleep, must awaken to get breath (Grind., Lach.).
Ill-humor during wet, stormy weather.
Headache; sensation of fullness, as if forehead would burst (Bell., Glon.).
Nosebleed: when washing the face (Arn., Mag. c.) and hands in the morning, from left nostril ; after eating.
Ozsena, 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 (Hep., Nux, Samb., Sticta).
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 (Bov., Ver.).
Menses : too early, profuse, preceded by griping colic; acrid, makes the thighs sore; copious at night and when sitting (Zinc.) ; with toothache, colic, sadness ; fatigue, especially of thighs ; yawning and chilliness.
Leucorrhoea: watery, burning from the uterus;
acrid, profuse from the vagina; excoriation of vulva.
Dyspnoea with palpitation, worse by exertion or on ascending even a few steps ; 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. (Kali c.).
Panaritium; deep-seated periosteal pain (Dios., Sib).
Body red, as if from scarlatina (compare, Ailan.).
Malignant scarlatina with deep sleep ; stertorous breathing. Miliary rash or faintly developed eruption from defective vitality; threatened paralysis of brain (Tub., Zinc.).
Relations.' — It antidotes, poisoning with Rhus and stings of insects.
Affects the right side most.
Inimical : to, Lachesis.
from washing; during menses.
Amelioration.- — Lying on abdomen (Acet. ac.) ; on painful side (Puls.) ; in dry weather.
What the other books say about Ammonium carbonicum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Ammonium carbonicum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Ammonium carbonicum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Ammonium carbonicum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Ammonium carbonicum in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Ammonium carbonicum — Keynotes, pp. 27–29. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/ammonium-carbonicum. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.