SBL Ammonium Carbonicum Common Name: Carbonate of Ammonia, Sal volatile Causes Symptoms for SBL Ammonium Carbonicum Ammonium carbonicum is a right-side medicine and a venous medicine. Ammonium carbonicum is a chilly medicine with great sensitiveness to cold open air, worse in wet, stormy weather, from washing, from wet poultice, better by warmth. It is suited to stout women who readily take cold in winter. Symptoms worse at night: 3:00am There is the scorbutic condition of bleeding gums. Bleeding from the nose, especially in the morning on washing, after a meal is relieved. There is bleeding piles, at every menstrual period bleeding from rectum. The menses are premature and copious, the blood being dark (colic and pains in loins, or toothache accompanying). Ammonium carbonicum relieves Numbness and stiffness of arms and hands. The pains are ulcerative, shooting, digging. Headache worse in morning, with nausea. Dry, stuffed coryza, worse at night, breathes with mouth open, Boil on the tip of the nose. Ammonium carbonicum checks bloody expectoration accompanying the cough, Tickling cough, Asthma, Cough from 2 to 5 a.m. Ammonium carbonicum is suited to scrofulous children, stout and sedentary women (most of the carbonates are suited to states of corpulency), women who are always having recourse to the smelling-bottle. Among the ameliorations there are better lying on stomach (Nit-ac.), better lying on right side, on painful side, better from external pressure, in warm room, in dry air, worse on bending down. Action of SBL Ammonium Carbonicum Mind Sadness, with disposition to weep, apprehensions and anguish, which often disappear towards the evening. Anxiety with weakness and nightmare, Timidity of character, Disgust with life. Ill-humor in the morning, and when it is bad weather, Morose and passionate humor. Great absence of mind, weakness of memory and tendency to make mistake in speaking, in writing, or in calculating. Head Vertigo, on reading in a sitting posture, in the morning or in the evening, sometimes with nausea. Obstinate headache, Headache with nauseais relieved. The headache often appears in the evening, after walking in the open air, or in the morning, or after a meal. Pain worse after eating and while walking in the open air, better from external pressure and in the warm room, heaviness and beating in the forehead after dinner. Soreness of the scalp and of the hair, Itching in the head, Falling off of the hair is relieved. Eyes Burning in the eyes, principally in the evening, or in the morning, with photophobia. Sensation of cold in the eyes, Confused sight, with sparks before the eyes. Double vision, Myopia, Cataract, Black spots and bright bands before the eyes is relieved. Ears Buzzing in the ears, particularly at night, Roaring and tingling in the ears and itching of the ears is relieved. Hard swelling of the glands of the neck, and of the parotid glands. Nose (description exceeds maximum possible length)