Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica
Ammonium Carbonicum am-c.
Region
HEART: Circulation. Blood. RESPIRATION. Lungs. Bronchiæ. Right side.
Worse
COLD: CLOUDY DAYS. DAMP. Locally . Raw, open air. Falling asleep. 3-4 A.M. DURING MENSES. Motion.
Better
PRESSURE. Eating. Lying on abdomen.
General
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.
Particulars
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.
Related
Related: Ant-t. Carb-v. Glo. Lach. Mur-ac.