Natrium Hypochlorosum

This unproved sodium salt has been used largely in cardiac cases by French

practitioners, and in rheumatism, pneumonia, asthma, chronic bronchitis, scrofula, tertiary

syphilis. It forms an important part of certain sprays for hay-asthma. Hansen mentions it as

indicated in cases of chronic pharyngitis; and coryza and chronic laryngitis.

Much distressed, laughs, cries, talks in sleep; keeps her husband awake.—Very low-

spirited and depressed, could cry all day.

Vertigo, with aching across forehead. Swimming feeling, as if top of head would float off. Bleeding of nose in clots.

Vertigo caduca; constant and characteristic; with aching across forehead.-Swimming

feeling as though top of cranium about to float off, < looking up.—Paralysed feeling in brain, in

all limbs, numb finger-tips, recurrent fainting —Feeling as though cranial bones were being

crossed over one another; as if she must fall forward; silly feeling.—Pain across forehead,

extending down nose and up over entire head, great tenderness of scalp; thumping in ears < lying

either side; puts back of head against pillow to gain sleep.—Pain darting from temple to temple,

coming and going suddenly.—Throbbing headache in |. temple, immediately after midday meal,

> after tea—Pain r. side of head, from behind mastoid process to upper part of orbit "across the

eye," causes eye to feel stiff and weak, < after sleep, but continuing day and night.

Pain under r. ear when swallowing, with much pain, tenderness, and swelling up side

of head, followed by a most painful gathering which broke and discharged strongly.

Influenza, much nasal discharge, sore places on inside of cheeks, beginning on

|.—Epistaxis, dark-coloured blood comes away in clots by day and night (produced in a pregnant

woman).

Pain |. side of face, shooting up from decayed tooth; < first thing in morning and last

thing at night; gumboils form one after another.—Neuralgia |. side of face, from lower jaw up,

and across eyes and nose to forehead.—Tugging |. side of face, < by warmth; coming every half-

hour.—Swelling affecting 1. upper and lower jaw, a swelling inside between gum and tongue;

throbbing and shooting in the part extending up to temple and down I. side of neck; > cold

applications, < by worry.

• ▸Sore irritable spots along sides of tongue and throat, gums sore, tongue swollen; aphthous ulceration.
• ▸Putrid taste.
• ▸Furred tongue, large, flabby, intended.
• ▸Cough with aphonia.

Teeth become loose, r. lower jaw swollen, sore, tongue swollen; cannot chew; pain <

night (in a phthisical patient, suppuration took place in two weeks).—Teeth become

brittle——Tongue white; shrivelled at sides; taste as after sucking alum; appetite for meat fell

off—Tongue furred in morning; putrid taste throughout day.—Aphthz.—Sore pimples inside lips.

Throat red and sore.—Sore irritable spot in throat and along both sides of

tongue.—Sore throat with difficult swallowing; flat ulcer on tongue far back towards root.

Drowsy after meals.

Nausea; sick feeling when lying down.—A weight seems to fall from pit of chest

to pit of abdomen, with aching, dull sensation on vertex (after each dose).

Swelling low, in abdomen going up to chest and causing dyspneea, < after

eating, with much flatus.—Bloated, tight feeling across upper abdomen, after eating and drinking,

not > by loosening clothes; with sick feeling —Aching I. side of waist preventing sitting

upright.—Fearful pain in lower abdomen which settled in r. hip-joint and spread over whole

abdomen (lasted a week and left her cured of the following: Tenderness of abdomen; a pain in r.

hip-joint with inability to flex hip or abdomen for the pain; voiding "white gravel" with great

pain. These she had had twelve months, and they followed on the cessation of a menorrhagia, the

primary cause being probably ovarian).

Cutting pain like knives in anus, comes between 6 and 7 p.m., and goes

away during the night.—Constipation for three days, then a large, hard, offensive motion is

passed.—Great exhaustion as if about to die before bowels act; sudden and forcible expulsion,

with consequent complete relief.

Within twenty-four hours, diffuse nephritis; urine scanty, smoke-

coloured, then black, containing blood, much albumen, and casts.—Vomiting, diarrhcea,

headaches; coma (died on fourth day; man, drank ten drachms).—Scalding when urinating, with

itching and smarting of vagina.—Excessive action of kidneys after each dose.—Red sand in

urine.—White gravel (cured).

Dark, with albumen and casts. Diffuse nephritis. Much pain across small of back.

• ▸Feeling as if uterus were pushed up on sitting down (Ferr iod).
• ▸Feels as if it opened and shut.
• ▸Violent metrorrhagia.
• ▸Leucorrhoea and backache.
• ▸Passive, bearing-down from heavy condition of uterus.
• ▸Womb is heavy, sodden, with tendency to prolapse.
• ▸Subinvolution.

Opening and shutting sensation in womb.—Uterine bearing down;

severe backache and headache; lightheaded, sickish, < night.—Bearing down, uterus congested,

enlarged, sensitive; constant oozing of blood, < any exertion.—Violent metrorrhagia.—Menses

come on at once, a week before time.—Menses clotted, black.—Period a week over time; during

first day more than usual aching in back.—(Ovarian affection with pain in r. hip supervening on

• ▸suppressed metrorrhagia.
• ▸).
• ▸—Leucorrhoea.
• ▸—Water-logged uterus.
• ▸—Subinvolution.
• ▸—(Seemed to

cause prolapsed uterus to rise out of its place.).—Feels as if womb were pushed up when she sits

• ▸down (Farrington).
• ▸—Swelling in |.
• ▸ovarian region at time of menses.
• ▸—Pruritus.
• ▸—L.

inframammary pain.

Tightness with dyspncea; weight in front of chest.—(Feeling as if something gnawing

in front of chest.).—Pain across upper chest off and on, with pain across hypochondria and pains

extending down both sides of waist to womb causing phlegmy discharge.—Pain under I. axilla

and |. breast, < lying down, with sickish, giddy feeling; obliged to keep sitting down when

• ▸walking about.
• ▸—L.
• ▸inframammary pain, affects 1.
• ▸side chest, shoulders, and vertex.

Much pain across small of back, < morning on rising; with want of appetite for

breakfast, has fair appetite for supper.

Both hands swollen every morning (in three cases).—L. hand swollen one

morning, next morning only r—Small gatherings on fingers of both hands.

Pain in both hip-joints and calves of legs with tingling extending to

toes—Extreme weakness in ankles and knees.

• ▸24.
• ▸Generalities—Rapid emaciation.
• ▸—Seems quite overpowered.
• ▸—Very weak, shooting pains all

over body and in limbs, esp. between scapulz and at their inferior angles; < morning before

rising; shooting pains worse in anus and very bad in bed; < by day.—Drowsy and lazy.—Strange

lifeless feeling, with apprehension of fainting.—Exhaustion before bowels act, >

after—Symptoms < before menstrual period.—The nervous symptoms come on very irregularly.

Hands swollen every morning. Extreme weakness in ankles and knees.

Pimples come out on skin, smart when washed, on going into open air, on drinking

least drop of cold water.—Pimply irritating rash on face, < night.—Red, smarting rash on face and

neck; < after meals, after warm drinks; uniformly red with tendency to blister——Sores angry-

looking, moist, break out about mouth.—Small gatherings on fingers of both hands.

Drowsiness after meals——Drowsy by day, wakeful by night.—Cannot sit down

without falling asleep.—Disinclined to rise in morning.—Child looks ghastly, as if dead, when

asleep; his sleep is quiet.

Natrum Iodatum.

Iodide of Sodium. Nal. Solution.

Antidoted by: Puls. (rheumatic and myalgic symptoms); Guaiac.; (also, probably, the

• ▸antidotes to Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸).
• ▸Complementary: Sep.
• ▸Compare: Nat.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸, K.
• ▸chl.
• ▸, Chlor.
• ▸In uterine

• ▸bearing down, Heliot.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸Womb feels as if it opened and shut (Sep.
• ▸"clutching and relaxing").

• ▸Feels as if womb were pushed up when she sits down, Fe.
• ▸i.
• ▸Easily overpowered with heat, Sep.
• ▸,

• ▸Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸c.
• ▸Bloated feeling after meals; < by warm drinks, Lyc.
• ▸Uterine engorgement, Aur.

n.m.

Compare: Aur mur nat; Calc; Sepia; Heliotropium (uterine displacement, with active bearing-down sensation and loss of voice; membranous dysmenorrhoea).

Antidote: Pulsat; Guaiacum.

Fifteen to twenty drops of Labarraque's solution in water. Third attenuation made with dilute alcohol, lower with water.

Aching in all limbs, feels bereft of all power, as though would faint on slightest

movement.