Common Name: Carbonate of Ammonia
Source: Prepared from smelling salts (hartshorn)
Family: Inorganic (Salt)
Miasm: Psoric-syphilitic
Temperament: Torpid, sluggish
Thermal State: Markedly chilly
Prover: Dr. Hahnemann
KEYNOTES (Allen & Boericke Combined)
"Fat, flabby, sluggish patients with great sensitiveness to cold air, especially when menses are profuse and exhausting." – Allen
- The Faint, Fat, and Fretful Remedy
- "Chilly, sluggish, and easily exhausted—especially during menses or physical exertion."
MENTAL SYMPTOMS
- Anxiety, especially at night or during fever
- Irritable, fretful, and averse to work or conversation
- Forgetfulness, confusion, and dullness
- Fear of suffocation or death while sleeping
- Weeping mood, especially during menses
- Cannot bear contradiction
PHYSICAL GENERALS
- Great debility, especially in morning and during menses
- Faintness, especially on ascending stairs, in closed room, or with exertion
- Fat, flabby, anaemic patients, worse from cold
- Chilly, but cannot bear warm room—wants open air yet is sensitive to cold
- Dropsical affections, especially post-scarlatina
- Weakness with shortness of breath
- Involuntary micturition, especially at night or while coughing
RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
- Dry, hoarse cough, especially at night in bed
- Cough worse from cold, exertion, and lying on right side
- Asthmatic breathing, with palpitations and sense of suffocation
- Cough with bloody expectoration, esp. in old or feeble people
- Oppression of chest, worse at night or in a warm room
FEMALE SYSTEM
- Menses too early, too profuse, and exhausting
- Leucorrhoea like white of egg, preceded by colic
- Fainting during menses
- Cannot walk without suffering from profuse flow
SKIN & EXTREMITIES
- Bluish-red spots, especially after scratching
- Purpura, ecchymosis, or petechial eruptions
- Ulcers with burning, blue margins
- Chilblains, bluish, painful
- Swelling of feet with fatigue
- Rheumatic pains, worse from cold, better in warmth
SLEEP
- Sleepy during the day, yet sleepless at night
- Dreams of danger, death, or suffocation
- Wakes up with anxiety or fear
- Cannot lie on right side
MODALITIES
|
Worse From |
Better From |
|
Cold air, cold bathing |
Warmth (but not hot room) |
|
Physical exertion |
Rest |
|
During menses |
Lying on abdomen |
|
Ascending stairs |
Open but fresh air |
CLINICAL
CONDITIONS
- Anemia with weakness
- Epistaxis (nosebleed) in the morning
- Asthma and dyspnea in fat persons
- Chronic bronchitis, senile asthma
- Purpura hemorrhagica
- Menorrhagia with fainting
- Obesity in chilly women
MEMORY AID – “Amm Carb = Aged, Moist, Miserable Chilly Anemic Round Body”
- A – Asthmatic, anemic
- M – Menses profuse & weakening
- M – Mental dullness
- C – Cold air aggravates
- A – Asthenic (fainting on exertion)
- R – Round body (fat, flabby)
- B – Bronchial irritation in old people
COMPARE
WITH
|
Remedy |
Key Differences |
|
Arsenicum alb |
Chilly + anxiety, but more restlessness |
|
Calcarea carb |
Fat, chilly, but less asthmatic |
|
Phosphorus |
Tall, thin, hemorrhagic, sensitive to sound |
|
Lachesis |
Left-sided, loquacious, hot patient |
|
Pulsatilla |
Mild, yielding, chilly but < warmth |
POTENCY
& DOSAGE
- 6C–30C for general cases, especially respiratory and menses-related
- 200C or higher in chronic asthma and constitutional types
- Not generally used in mother tincture
- Repeat cautiously in weak, aged patients
CONCLUSION
Ammonium carbonicum is a vital polychrest remedy for individuals who are fat, feeble, and faint, especially when they are aggravated by cold, exertion, or menstrual disorders. Think of it in senile asthma, purpura, and fainting menses.
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