AMMONIUM CARBONICUM.
LOWER EXTREMITIES.
► Sudden
and great weakness in the lower extremities; she finds it difficult to move them along,
after dinner (second day), [3]. ►
Acute pain in the hip-joint when walking, [1]. ► Acute pain in the hip-joint every morning, in bed; the joint
feels as if beaten asunder, so that he cannot turn himself when lying down; the pain
decreases after rising; and still more when walking; in the afternoon, the pain disappears
entirely (for four weeks), [1]. ►
In evening, sudden, violent pulsation about right hip, which, however, soon goes off, [15]. ► Drawing pain
descending from the left hip, [1]. ► His legs seem contracted, [1].
► The tendons of the muscles of the legs feel too short, [1]. ► Twitches in the
legs, towards evening, [1]. [740.]
► Uneasiness in the legs, [1]. ► Heaviness in the legs, so
that he can scarcely lift them, in the evening (eighth day), [3].
► Pain in the left leg, as from a sprain, when walking, [1]. ► Sweat of the legs
at night, [1]. ►
Great lassitude in the thighs and legs, [3]. ► Jerk-like scraping upon the bones of the thighs and legs, so
that she is obliged to twitch up her leg every moment, and cannot remain lying down, but has
to walk about (evening), [1]. ►
Burning itching upon the nates, [1]. ► In the evening, on left nates, a painful boil, [15]. ► Great lassitude, with pain
in the thighs, as if they would fall off, or as if the tendons would tear off, alternating
with pain in the small of the back; she has so much pain that she knows not what to do with
herself (on the third day of menses), [3]. ► Bruised pain in the thighs, [1].
[750.] ► Stiffness in
the thighs when walking, [1]. ►
Itching on outer surface of thighs, on the same spot, and equally severe, in both thighs, [13]. ► Bruised pain in
the middle of both thighs, both when at rest and in motion (during the catamenia), [3]. ► Pain in the thigh,
as if she had been beaten blue, which prevents her from walking (only when walking and
taking much exercise), [1]. ►
Boil on right thigh, the size of a child’s fist, very painful, and not relieved by
poultices; the boil, cut open, discharged much pus and blood, [10].
► Acute pain in the right femur, as if the inmost marrow
were shaken, increased by lying and sitting, a quarter of an hour (after some hours), [1]. ► Pain, as of
contusion, in the right thigh, immediately over the knee; which passes off by rubbing
(eleventh day), [3]. ►
Pain, as from a sprain, in the left thigh, with a feeling of weakness and sudden bending of
the legs in walking, [1]. ►
Pain, as if the tendons were too short, at a place of the left thigh over the bend of the
knee; only when the parts are pressed upon, or when the person sits upon them, otherwise
there is no pain (third day), [3]. ► Blue spot, as large as a child’s hand, over the knee, with a
sensation of excessive burning there, [1]. [760.] ► A deep seated,
burning furunculus consequent upon itching, [3]. ► An induration over the right knee, deep under the skin,
painful only when pressed upon, [3]. ► Twitches in both knees and legs, [1]. ► Twitches in both patellæ,
in the evening, several times in succession (fifth day), [3].
► Tearing in the knees and knee-joints, [3]. ► Boring and drawing in the
knee, which causes such an uneasiness in the legs that she is obliged to move them
constantly; this motion, however, does not relieve the uneasiness, [1]. ► Cracking when moving the
knee, [1]. ► Pain
in the knee, as from a sprain; upon sitting down and turning the leg, [1]. ► Burning, redness, like
scarlatina, in the bend of the right knee and along the leg; the pain increases upon laying
the cold hand upon the part (twentieth and twenty-first days), [3]. ► Boring pain in and upon the
patella, [1]. [770.]
► Pain as from paralysis in the legs, as if they were
going to sleep, relieved by walking (seventh day), [3].
► The legs frequently go to sleep, when sitting and
standing, and at night, when he lies upon the limb, [3].
► Frequent cramps in the legs, especially in the muscles
of the tibiæ and the feet, [1]. ►
Cramp in the leg, when lying down, which became intolerable on rising, and obliged the
person to lie down again, [1]. ►
Tearing below the knee and at the left tibia (eleventh day), [3].
► Violent cramp in the calf, when walking in the open
air, so that he had to stand suddenly still, [1]. ► Straining in the calf (from a cold?), [1]. ► Violent stitches deep in
the calves (fourteenth day), [2]. ► (Stitches over the right heel), [1]. ► Tearing in the malleoli and
in the joints of the feet; it extends as far as the toes, and ceases when she gets warm in
bed, [1]. [780.] ► Drawing pain at the external malleolus (fourth day), [3]. ► Acute pain in the
heel, early on waking, as if the bone were perforated by ulceration, [1]. ► Tingling in the left heel;
when touching it with the hand, it feels as if it were ulcerated (after five days), [3]. ► Tearing twitches
in the right heel (thirty-seventh day), [3]. ► Cold feet, [1]. ► Chilliness of the feet, in the evening, especially when going to bed,
[1]. ► Rapid
swelling of the feet, extending as far as the calves, [1].
► Great lassitude in the feet, as if tired (second day), [3]. ► Trembling of both
feet (after nine hours), [1]. ►
Uncommon sensitiveness of both feet to wet and cold, [15].
[790.] ► Crawling on
the dorsum on the left foot, as from having gone to sleep (eleventh day), [3]. ► Tingling and itching in the
sole of the foot, which is almost unbearable, and so vehement that she would like to scratch
off the skin; after scratching, there is a burning sensation, in the evening (after lying
down), [3]. ►
Tearing in both soles (eleventh day), [3]. ► On rising in morning, though there had been no frost in the
night, ball of right foot swollen and tender as from frost, [15].
► Sharp stitches in the ball of the right foot, [1]. ► Ball of left foot
very painful, in evening, [15]. ►
In evening, the swelled ball of left foot burned, and was painful, [15]. ► In evening, tender, red
swelling of right toes, like chilblains, [15]. ► Tearing stitches and twitches of the big toes, [3]. ► Frequent and painful
twitches of the ball of the big toe (when a child, it had been frozen), [1]. [800.] ► Occasionally, acute stitches, and drawing of the balls of
both the big toes, as if they were frozen, for several days, especially in the evening, on
going to sleep, [1]. ►
Itching and crawling in the ball of the big toe of the right foot, as from a chilblain, [3]. ► Piercing pain in
the ball of the big toe, in the evening when in bed, [1].
► *The left big toe feels hot, and is painful, as if he had
burnt it, especially in damp weather, and when the boots press upon it; the pain
decreases on pulling off the boot, or on resting the foot firmly against the floor, or when
walking (fourteenth to thirty-sixth day), [1]. ► *The big toe becomes red, enlarged, and painful especially in the
evening, when in bed, and the whole foot swells, [1].
► During walking, the ball of the big toe is painful, as
if there were subcutaneous ulceration, [1].
GENERALITIES.
► Towards
noon, it became black before the eyes; the letters appeared to move; his breath was
arrested; with previous lassitude; upon quickly rising from sitting, his whole body felt
rigid, the arms and legs being stretched out, whilst the fingers were clenched; he had to
use force to stretch them; this made them again movable (fourth day), [1]. ► Spasms, [20]. ► Most severe muscular
contractions, [20]. ►
Tetanus, [20]. [810.]
► Great restlessness, which becomes a convulsive
trembling, [20]. ►
When walking, she trembles over the whole body, [1]. ► She staggers upon rising, [1].
► Excessively tired, [1].
► Very tired in the morning, [9]. ► Great fatigue in the
forenoon, which invites to sleep (one hour), [1]. ► In morning, exhaustion, [15].
► *Tired and weary all day, without being either
sad or cheerful (after twenty-four hours), [1]. ► On leaving her bed, she is often unable to stand, on account
of weariness (after forty-eight hours), [1]. ► She is powerless; lies down for several hours, as if
senseless and weary, [1]. [820.]
► Weary and discouraged when walking in the open air; he
trembled with weakness, [1]. ►
Inability to stand upright well, [12]. ► The whole day, a slight perspiration, as from exhaustion, [1]. ► *Lassitude,
[14], [15]. ► Uncommon lassitude, [15].
► Great lassitude (in evening), [15]. ► Indescribably great
lassitude; often she cannot sit, and has to lie down for hours (after twenty-four hours), [1]. ► Evening and
morning of 19th, great lassitude; also, on following days, heaviness of limbs, [9]. ► Great lassitude
and fatigue of the body, early in the morning, and in the forenoon, as if he had worked too
much; relieved by walking in the open air, [3]. ► Sensation of being bruised in the whole body; lassitude
and weeping mood, early after rising, [1]. [830.] ► At three o’clock in
the night, he felt a jerk in the upper part of his body and in the arms, with a tearing
pain; in the full possession of his senses for at least ten minutes; afterwards he felt very
faint, [1]. ►
Toward evening, she became suddenly indisposed; she thought she would faint; walking up and
down in the open air gave her relief, although she still experienced a few stitches in the
right side (after ten days), [1]. ► She is much affected by talking much, and hearing people
talk; her hands and feet become cold in consequence of it, [1].
► *Excessive sensitiveness to open air, [1]. ► Sensitiveness to
open air (in evening), [15]. ►
She cannot bear the evening air; her feet become heavy; the external air is unpleasant to
her, and every part of her body feels sore, [1]. ► Unusual sensitiveness of the skin to cold, [1]. ► Feeling of numbness on the
right side, upon which she is lying when in bed; upon turning to the other side, this
feeling passes off (second day), [3]. ► Visible emaciation of the whole body, [3]. ► Pain in the occiput, in the
chest, and from both scapulæ, down along the ribs, [1].
[840.] ► Violent
rheumatic drawing pain through all the limbs, hands, feet, nape of the neck, head, etc., [5]. ► Tearing in the
whole body, especially in the thighs, [1]. ► Fine prickings in the head, in the tips of the fingers and
toes, [1]. ► A cold
affects her head, and makes her hoarse, [1]. ► Very sick the whole day, [12].
► In morning, felt ill, [9].
► Several symptoms appear to develop, or to become worse
in the open air, [1]. ►
He has to turn himself slowly in bed, because motion gives him pain, [3]. ► Much affected from walking
in the open air, [3]. ►
Walking in the open air tires him out, [1]. [850.] ► Walking in the open
air makes him feel hot, [5]. ►
He finds it more easy to lie upon the left side than upon the right, [3]. ► *The right side of the body
appears more affected than the left, [3].
SKIN.
► *The whole upper part
of the body is red, as if it were covered with scarlatina, [1]. ► Violent itching here and
there over the whole body; the scratching is followed by burning vesicles, or pimples, or
hard nodes, [3]. ►
Burning pimples, of the size of a millet grain, on the nape of the neck, and on the
forearms, [3]. ►
Strange uneasiness, every evening at seven o’clock which rouses the child from its slumber;
it tosses about in bed and screams, until it falls into a sound sleep, towards ten o’clock;
this sleep lasts the whole night; during the uneasiness, the head feels bloated and burning;
next morning, the face is covered with spots, as if scarlatina would break out, [4]. ► Rash on the right
side of the neck and the left lower arm, [1]. ► Around the elbow, small red tubercles, painfully cutting,
only a few of them ulcerating; the same upon the neck, but large, [1]. ► A herpetic eruption,
dormant, becomes red, itching and burning, and disappears in a few days, [1]. ► A pustule appears on the
right commissure of the mouth, with much boring pain; before this, several had appeared on
the left cheek and on the thighs, [15]. [860.] ► The warts become
inflamed, [1]. ►
The fluid in the ulcer becomes offensive, [1]. ► Eruptions upon the forehead resembling little boils, [1]. ► Pimples and
vesicles on the forehead, [1]. ►
Pimples on the forehead and the tip of the nose, [7]. ► Pustules upon the forehead, temple, cheek, and chin, [3]. ► Furunculus on the
tip of the nose, [1]. ►
Pustule upon the tip of the nose, [1]. ► Pustule on the side of the nose, [1]. ► On the septum of the nose,
a vesicle, in forepart, [3]. ►
Increased number of pimples on the face, [15]. ► White, herpes-like spots, of the size of a small pea, which
continually exfoliate (upon the cheek), [1]. ► Boils upon the cheek and around the ear, [1]. [870.] ►
Small boils and indurations, discharging water and blood, upon the cheek, at the corners of
the mouth, and on the chin, [3]. ►
Pimple on left cheek, near ear, not painful unless pressed, [16].
► Pustules upon the cheeks, during the menses, [3]. ► Eruption at the
mouth, [1]. ►
Herpes-like, scaly eruption about the mouth, [1]. ► Burning vesicles on the vermilion border of both lips, [3]. ► Vesicles at the
right corner of the mouth and on the upper lip, [3]. ► Pimple on the lower lip, with burning pain, [1]. ► On lower lip, two small,
hard swellings, [18]. ►
Miliary eruption around the chin, without sensation, [1].
[880.] ► Burning
vesicles on the inner side of the lower lip, [3]. ► On the inner side of the lower lip a painful white vesicle, [1]. ► The inside of the
cheeks is full of vesicles without sensation, [3]. ► Vesicles on the tongue, especially on its border, [1]. ► Vesicles at the
tip of the tongue, which hinder speaking and eating, with a burning pain, [1]. ► Pustules upon the tongue,
with a burning and stinging pain, especially on the border and under the tongue, [1]. ► Small ulcer at the
tip of the tongue, feeling sore whenever the tongue is moved, [7].
► More itching pimples on podex, [15]. ► Pimples on podex, painful
on lying down at night, [15]. ►
Red rash on the chest, [1]. [890.]
► A small, red furunculus above the right breast, which
is only painful when touched, [1]. ► A blister forms upon the left scapula, with sensation of
stinging, as from fleas, [3]. ►
Small furunculus upon the left shoulder, [3]. ► Itching of the inside of the right forearm, with a sensation
as of burning consequent upon scratching; at the same time, three are formed small red
pimples, spots and nodes, which do not cease to itch after being scratched; on the following
day, they become crimson (fourth to fifth day), [1]. ► Itching in back, arms, and shins, [10]. ► The skin of a child’s
hands becomes quite hard and chapped, the fissures being very deep, [1]. ► The skin of the palm of the
hand peels off (after four days), [1]. ► Many itching pimples on thighs and hands, [15]. ► Blue spot, as large as a
child’s hand, over the knee, with sensation of excessive burning there, [1]. ► A deepseated burning
furunculus consequent upon itching, [3]. ► Small furunculus in the left instep, painful only when
touched, [3]. [900.]
► Burning redness, like scarlatina, in the bend of the
right knee and along the leg; the pain increases upon laying the
cold hand upon the parts (twenty and twenty-first days), [3]. ► Eruption of pimples on the
legs, and inflammation, [17]. ►
Much itching upon the skin of the whole body, [1]. ► Itching over the whole body, early in the morning (for three
hours), [1]. ►
Itching, here and there, of many places of the body, usually passing off after scratching,
or painfully burning, [3]. ►
Much itching on the hands and the rest of the body, [15].
► Itching of the head, accompanied by great sensitiveness
of the integuments of the head when scratching (tenth day), [3].
► Violent itching of the hairy
scalp, especially of the occiput, [1]. ► Sense as if the hairs would stand on end, with crawling over
the whole head, and a feeling of coldness there, after coming out of the open air and
entering the room, [3]. ►
The hair is painful when touched, [1]. [910.] ► The scalp and the
hairs are intensely painful when the hand is moved along them; this movement made him
shudder (first evening), [1]. ►
Early in the morning, itching over the ears, which spreads over the whole body (third day), [1]. ► Itching of the anus,
[1]. ► The child
becomes sore between the legs, [1]. ► Violent itching of the genital organs, [1]. ► Itching of the scrotum, [1]. ► Violent itching of
the pudendum, [1]. ►
Continual itching of the mons veneris; it constantly reappears after scratching the parts, [3]. ► Burning itching
upon the nates, [1]. ►
He cannot fall asleep on account of itching and stinging of the skin, [1]. [920.] ►
Towards evening, itching on the arms and still more on the feet, [18]. ► Itching, or rather a
burning, in left sole and calf, particularly in the former, where it was most persistent, [16].
FEVER.
► Chilliness, [15]. ► During day a good
deal of chilliness, [19]. ►
General shivering, [15]. ►
At night he often feels chilliness in his sleep; on waking, he is immediately warm again, [1]. ► At night
chilliness, so that he cannot get warm, least of all his feet, nor can he fall asleep, [3]. ► Frequent chilliness,
towards evening, and continuing until going to bed, [1].
► Frequently feverish chilliness, in the evening, [1]. ► Shivering before
falling asleep, [1]. [930.]
► Chilliness in the open air, or upon coming out of the
open air, and entering the room, [3]. ► Attacks of chilliness, in the evening, frequently
accompanied by the hairs standing upon end, blue hands, blue nails, chattering of teeth and
shaking; sometimes these symptoms are followed by nightly heat, and by sweat early in the
morning, [3]. ►
Chills when in bed, from nine to twelve o’clock in the evening, alternating with heat, and
much uneasiness (after tenth day), [1]. ► Chills and heat for several days, mostly shaking chills,
followed by general dry heat; a little sweat only early in the morning, [1]. ► Alternate chilliness and
heat, with sensitiveness to cold; nausea, thirst, pressure at the chest, with stitches in
the left side of the chest, tearing in the forehead, and confusion of the head, alternate
redness and paleness of the cheeks, pressure at the stomach, with disposition to
eructations, accompanied by a violent coryza and sleeplessness; for several days (during the
catamenia), [3]. ►
Rigor, [10]. ►
Rigor in walking across the street, [8]. ► Rigor alternating with heat, especially flying heat in face, [8]. ► Rigor with weak
feeling, then heat in the face, [15]. ► Feeling of coldness in chest and gastric region, [15]. [940.] ► Excessive orgasm of blood at night; he imagines that the
blood will burst his veins and his heart, [1]. ► At 9 A.M., feeling of warmth all over the body, [11]. ► Warmth,
especially in head and face; burning in lobe of left ear and around nostrils, [15]. ► Feverish heat for several
evenings in succession, one hour and a half, accompanied by headache, [1]. ► Heat at night (nineteenth
day), [3]. ► Heat
in the whole body, especially in the abdomen, in the forenoon (eleventh day), [3]. ► Always warm, and oppressed
with anxiety, in the forenoon, previous to the menses (forty-second day), [3]. ► Feverish heat in the head,
with cold feet, [1]. ►
About noon uncommon burning in hands and feet, [15]. ► Profuse perspiration, [12].
[950.] ► Very profuse
perspiration, of a fetid smell, [10]. ► Slight perspiration, not so fetid, [10]. ► Great perspiration,
especially the following night, [10]. ► Continual night-sweats, [1].
► He sweats every night, early in the morning, and is
then quite hot, [1]. ►
Sweat early in the morning, [1]. ► Sweat towards morning (first day), [3]. ► Sweat in the joints, early
in the morning (after sixteenth day), [1].® 2000
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