Ammonium carbonicum
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
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Keynotes
Low vitality. Lacks reaction. LIVID, WEAK AND DROWSY. Lies down. Collapse of nerves and heart. Averse to cold. Old age. Bruised, sore pain. Internal, raw burning. Acrid, hot, adherent secretions. Dark, thin hæmorrhage. Scorbutic states. Malignancy. .................... Active, but soon exhausted. Sad. Peevish. Mind vacant. Depressed, with weakened intellect. Heedless, fretting and unruly. Loss of memory; < vexation. Brain seems loose. Shocks through head, on biting. Violent headache; full, bursting in forehead. Floods of tears. Nose stopped at night, or bleeds, if hands or face are washed or on waking. Continuous urging to sneeze. Profuse, watery coryza. Catarrhs, starting in nose. Cracked, burning lips. Tender, bleeding gums. Loose or blunt teeth. Dark, acrid diarrhœa. Persistent erections. Menses with choleraic symptoms (Sil.); dark, lumpy flow, < night; then dyspnœa or weakness. Copious leucorrhœa. Increasing shortness of breath; it wakes him; > cool air (Carb-v.). Rattling in chest, but gets up little. Aphonia. WEAK HEART; causing stasis, dyspnœa, etc. Palpitation; with cold sweat and lachrymation. Numb r. foot (Sep.). Asleep feeling of part lain on. Ganglion. Bones ache as weather changes. Red or mottled skin. Coldness. Burning heat with thirst. Scarlatina.
Worse
COLD: CLOUDY DAYS. DAMP. Locally. Raw, open air. Falling asleep. 3-4 A.M. DURING MENSES. Motion.
Better
PRESSURE. Eating. Lying on abdomen.
Region
HEART: Circulation. Blood. RESPIRATION. Lungs. Bronchiæ. Right side.
Relationships
Related: Ant-t. Carb-v. Glo. Lach. Mur-ac.
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 Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- 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.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Ammonium carbonicum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/ammonium-carbonicum. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.