Ammonium iodatum

Ammonium iodide · Mineral

Boericke

Ammonium Iodatum has a limited symptom picture and is chiefly used as a follow-on to iodine in respiratory inflammations that have not fully resolved. It is particularly indicated in young people with dull headache and vertigo accompanying respiratory catarrh.

Key symptoms

Laryngitis and bronchitis where iodine has only partially relieved
Catarrhal pneumonia and oedema of the lungs
Dull headache especially in young people with stupid, heavy face
Vertigo and Meniere's disease

William Boericke

Homoeopathic Materia Medica · 1901

Iodide of Ammonia (AMMONIUM JODATUM)

Indicated when iodine has but partially relieved its cases of laryngitis and bronchitis, catarrhal pneumonia, œdema of lungs.

Head

Dull headache, especially in young people, face stupid, heavy; vertigo, Meniere's disease.

Dose

Second and third trit.

Compare: Ammonium tartaricum (Dry hacking cough after every cold).

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