NATRIUM SULPHURICUM
Sulphate of Sodium-Glauber’s Salt (NATRUM SULPHURICUM)
A liver remedy, specifically indicated for the so-called hydrogenoid constitution, the place the complaints are such as are due to dwelling in damp houses, basements, cellars. They are worse in wet weather, water in any form. Feels each exchange from dry to wet; cannot even devour vegetation developing close to water, nor fish. Always feels satisfactory in warm, dry air. Clinically, it has been determined a precious treatment for spinal meningitis, head signs from accidents to head, intellectual troubles therefrom. Every spring, return of pores and skin affections. Tendency to warts. Fingers and toes affected. Chronic gout (Lycop).
Mind.–Lively track saddens. Melancholy, with periodical assaults of mania. Suicidal tendency; should workout restraint. Inability to think. Dislikes to speak, or to be spoken to.
Head.–Occipital pain. Piercing stitches in ears. Vertigo; relieved via sweat on head. Bursting feeling on coughing. Hot feeling on pinnacle of head. Bursting feeling on coughing. Hot feeling on pinnacle of head. Boring in proper temple, preceded via burning in stomach. Ill-effects of falls and accidents to the head, and intellectual troubles bobbing up therefrom. Dreams of strolling water.
Ears.–Sticking pain, earache, lightning-like stitches in damp weather.
Nose.–Nasal catarrh, with thick, yellow discharge and salty mucus. Coryza. Epistaxis. Ethmoiditis.
Eyes.–Conjunctiva yellow. Granular lids. Photophobia (Graphites).
Mouth.–Slimy, thick, tenacious, white mucus. Bitter taste, blisters on palate.
Throat.–Thick, yellow mucus, drops from posterior nares.
Stomach.–Vomits sour. Brown, bitter coating on tongue. Yellow complexion. Thirst for some thing cold. Bilious vomiting, acid dyspepsia, with heartburn and flatulence.
Abdomen.–Duodenal catarrh; hepatitis; icterus and vomiting of bile; liver sore to touch, with sharp, stitching pains; can’t undergo tight apparel round waist, worse, mendacity on left side. Flatulency; wind colic in ascending colon; worse, earlier than breakfast. Burning in stomach and anus. Bruised ache and urging to stool. Diarrhoea yellow, watery stools. Loose morning stools, worse, after spell of moist weather. Stools involuntary, when passing flatus. Great dimension of the fecal mass.
Urine.–Loaded with bile. Brisk-dust sediment. Excessive secretion. Diabetes.
Female.–Nosebleed throughout menses, which are acrid and profuse. Burning in pharynx in the course of menstruation. Herpetic vulvitis. Leucorrhoea yellowish-green, following gonorrhoea in female. Leucorrhoea with hoarseness.
Male.–Condylomata; soft, fleshy excrescences; greenish discharges. Gonorrhoea; discharge thick, greenish; little pain.
Respiratory.–Dyspnoea, at some stage in damp weather. Must maintain chest when coughing. Humid asthma; rattling in chest, at four and 5 am. Cough, with thick ropy, greenish expectoration; chest feels all gone. Constant wish to take deep, lengthy breath. Asthma in children, as a constitutional remedy. Delayed decision in pneumonia. Springs up in mattress the cough hurts so; holds painful facet (Bry). Pain via decrease left chest. Every clean bloodless brings on assault of asthma.
Back.–Itching when undressing. Violent pains in lower back of neck, and at base of brain. Piercing ache between scapulae. Spinal meningitis; opisthotonos.
Extremities.–Swelling of axillary glands. Inflammation round root of nails. Burning in soles; oedema of feet; itching between toes. Gout. Pain in limbs, compels time-honored alternate in position. Run-arounds. Pain in hip-joints, worse left, worse, stooping. Stiffness of knees, cracking of joints. Rheumatism, worse in damp bloodless weather.
Skin.–Itching whilst undressing. Jaundiced, watery blisters. Sycotic excrescences; wart-like purple lumps all over body.
Modalities.–Worse, song (makes her sad); mendacity on left side; dampness of basement, damp weather. Better, dry weather, pressure, altering position.
Relationship.–Compare: Natrum succinate (5 gr each and every three hours. Catarrhal jaundice). Malaria officinalis-decomposed vegetable matter–(Has evident energy to purpose the disappearance of the plasmodium of malaria. Malarial cachexia. General experience of weariness. Spleen affections. Malaria and rheumatism. Functional hepatic diseases. Sixth efficiency and higher).Natrum choleinicum-Fel Tauri Depuratum–(constipation; persistent gastric and intestinal catarrh; cirrhotic liver; diabetes; nape of neck pains; tendency to sleep after eating; an awful lot flatus; ascites); Momordica-Balsam Apple–(Colic, dysmenorrhoea with gushes of blood). Pulmo vulpis-Wolf’s lung (persistent shortness of breath inflicting a paroxysm of allergies on the slightest motion. Strong, sonorous effervescent rales. 1x trit). Peumus Boldus-Boldo–(atonic states of belly and intestinal canal; liver states following malaria. Burning weight in location of liver and stomach, bitter taste, languor; abscess of liver; asthma, bronchitis, catarrh, oedema of lungs); Natrum iodat (Incipient rheumatic endocarditis; persistent bronchitis, rheumatism and tertiary syphilis. Chronic catarrhal affections, arteriosclerosis. Here a variety of symptoms, as angina pectoris, vertigo, dyspnoea end up much less marked after persevered use of 5-10 grs, three instances a day). Natrum hyposulph (liver-spots, regionally and internally); Sulp; Thuja; Merc.: stilling.
Complementary; Ars; Thuja.
Dose.–First to twelfth trituration.
