AMMONIUM
CARBONICUM
Common Name: Smelling Salts
Mental:
Obstinate. Irritable, unfriendly and
abusive.
Timid people who remain in the background. Closed
people, Sulky.
Usually talk in their sleep,
revealing their thoughts they would not express while
awake. Wakes up startled or in a fright.
Stupefaction as if intoxicated on
waking in the morning.
Sad, morose and miserable esp. cloudy
and wet weather.
Difficult retaining thoughts,
concentration
difficult.
Absent minded. Make mistakes in
calculating, speaking, writing, use wrong words.
Aversion to water or anything
wet on skin (Ant-c, Sulph).
Physical:
Flabby, obese appearance. Face is
pale, bloated and puffy, much like the cortizone
face.
Great weakness of cardiac/respiratory
system.
Heart- weakness, tumultous
palpitations from motion, must lie down to calm the
heart. all those
symptoms that fit in enlargement of the heart.
Patient feels prostrated; every
movement produces violent almost audible
palpitation.
Needs to rest all the time. Cardiac
dyspnea/asthma due to weak heart.
Asthmatic patients worse with every effort , need to make a tremendous effort to
climb just a few steps, agg by a warm room.
Loses breath when falling asleep,
must awaken to get breath.
Accumulation of mucus in the bronchii which is difficult to expectorate.
Rattling in chest, filling up of the chest with mucus.