This is a profoundly effective medicine, which works on
blood circulation. Its effect resembles several kinds of snake venom. Ammonium Carb has been successfully used in
the Sindh province of Pakistan by eminent homoeopaths, for the treatment of
snakebites.
The resulting bleeding is thin and dark. The dark colour
signifies that the inner lining of the nose, mouth, pharynx, stomach and
intestines are no longer intact, they have either ulcerated or
ruptured. The same also happens following a snakebite. The blood that comes out
is dark and thin. Ammonium Carb is extremely useful in combating
such conditions. In some diseases, the lining of the blood
vessels becomes permeable and cannot retain the red cells. For such
diseases, there are other useful remedies described elsewhere in this book. Dark
blood is usually indicative of a severe illness, which may lead to
death, unless treated promptly. There are also other remedies for the dark
bloody discharge, as mentioned in other places of this book. The
dark bloody discharge occurs in in serious illnesses. This requires
urgent treatment otherwise the patient’s life will be in danger. To
distinguish between different remedies, one has to keep the differences of
different remedies in mind. Otherwise, only the mere presence of this
symptom will not help. For example, the dark blue bleeding of piles
is a result of failure of the portal venous system, rather than the
effect on the inner lining. This system of circulation is related to the
liver and the veins of the intestines draining into the liver. The veins
contain dark blood. Portal system dysfunction may be treated with Sulphur
or Hamamelis. However, if the dark blood is exuding from the
broken down lining of the kidneys or intestines, Ammonium Carb is the ideal remedy in this critically serious condition. In snakebites, the blood may either clot or
flow freely. Bleeding is from the junctional area (i.e. where the outer skin
and the inner lining meet), such as the roots of the nail, lips, and other
natural orifices. Whenever there is
such bleeding, this is a sign of snake venom and similarly that of Ammonium
Carb.
Female Ammonium Carb patients may become hysterical. Their
symptoms aggravate with sleep (as in Lachesis). Puerperal fever or venom is
Lachesis, rather than Natrum Mur. If the patient sleep walks, it indicates
Silicea. Such patients may walk long distances and then come back to their bed.
One such patient got up during her sleep and picked up the bedding and took it
to another house. Finding the door of that house locked, she dropped the bedding
there, returned home and lay back on the bed devoid of bedding. In the morning,
she did not remember anything about it at all!
Restlessness during sleep, or non-satisfying sleep should
be properly looked into, so that a diagnosis may be established and correct treatment
offered for natural relief. An offensive
discharge from the ear should lead the homoeopath towards Ammonium
Carb. Ammonium Carb is very useful in chronic illnesses of the ears associated
with putrid discharge. In a chronic illness, the patient may be on the verge of
death. The affected tissues start decaying and dying. The deadly odourous
discharge from the ear results from the destruction of the inner lining of the
ear. Ammonium Carb should be used in these patients on a permanent basis. Pulsatilla will offer immediate relief in
case of a sudden, severe earache
associated with restlessness, provided the patient is of mild nature
and has the sobbing tendency. Chamomilla would be the best remedy if the
patient suffering from earache is also irritable. Allium Cepa is good if the
earache is secondary to a nasal cold. If there is lots of blood congestion of
the ears associated with a reddish glow on the face, one should also add
Belladonna 30 to Pulsatilla.
Ammonium Carb is useful in diseases of the glands and chronic
diseases
of the lungs. Sometimes the lymph glands of the neck enlarge, become firm and then harden due to chronic
inflammation and may resemble cancerous glands. So Ammonium Carb is also useful in cancerous conditions of the lymph glands. When the
skin diseases are suppressed due to some kind of treatment, the
diseases settle in the lymph nodes making them hard and subject to
cancerous transformation. Even if cancerous, such lymph adenopathy is very amenable to Ammonium Carb