Natrium Sulphuricum

Nectrianinum 1s a clear liquid of a yellowish-brown hue which was prepared

• ▸by Bra and Chaussé (Med.
• ▸Rev.
• ▸of Rev.
• ▸, April, 1900, quoted H.
• ▸M.
• ▸, xxxv.
• ▸533) as follows:

Cultures (of Nectria) of two months of age, on grape broth, are evaporated on a water bath until

reduced to one-third of their original volume. They are filtered through paper and again through

porcelain. The liquid is then taken to the autoclave at a temperature of 120° C. This assures that

• ▸all spores are killed.
• ▸Injected into healthy animals in 5 c.
• ▸c.
• ▸doses several times a week no result is

observed. In cancerous men and animals, on the contrary, the injections cause a rise of

temperature in from two to four hours of 1° to 3°. If the dose is increased the hyperthermia is

accompanied by chills, sensation of cold, accelerated pulse, palpitation, headache, thirst. The

crisis terminates after some hours in polyuria and profound sleep. In very advanced cancer

reaction may not occur. In a summary of the results the observers say that Nectrianinum has

caused: "Arrest or diminution of h¢morrhages; suppression of fetid discharges; a tendency at

times to epidermisation of the neoplasm with a corresponding well-defined arrest in its

evolution." The patients were < when treatment was discontinued and > when it was resumed. A

maximum of 4 c.c. per day was never exceeded.

• ▸Lively music saddens.
• ▸Melancholy, with periodical attacks of mania.
• ▸Suicidal tendency; must exercise restraint.
• ▸Inability to think.
• ▸Dislikes to speak, or to be spoken to.

Sadness; inclined to weep.—Melancholy with periodical attacks of mania —Timidity;

weak; enfeebled.—Satiety of life, suicidal; has to use all self-control to prevent shooting

himself.—Mental results of injury to head.—Jaundice after anger—Melancholy and lachrymation,

• ▸esp.
• ▸after hearing (lively) music.
• ▸—Cheerfulness, happy mood; after loose stools.
• ▸—II-humour,

with dislike to conversation, and laconic mode of speaking —Quarrelsome humour, with gloomy

aspect; < mornings.

Tearing and shooting, or jerking, or jerking tearings in limbs, and other parts,

• ▸esp.
• ▸during evening and night.
• ▸—Sore across abdomen sides and back.
• ▸—Trembling in body, with

spasmodic movements of muscles, and accompanied by anxious apprehension.—Symptoms

manifest themselves during repose, and are > by movement.—The patient feels > in open air.

• ▸Occipital pain.
• ▸Piercing stitches in ears.
• ▸Vertigo; relieved by sweat on head.
• ▸Bursting feeling on coughing.
• ▸Hot feeling on top of head.
• ▸Bursting feeling on coughing.
• ▸Hot feeling on top of head.
• ▸Boring in right temple, preceded by burning in stomach.
• ▸Ill-effects of falls and injuries to the head, and mental troubles arising therefrom.
• ▸Dreams of running water.

• ▸Vertigo in evening (at 6 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸), with vomiting of sour mucus.
• ▸—Turning vertigo after

dinner, with buzzing in head.—Vertigo after a meal; the heat extends from abdomen to the head;

> after forehead becomes moist.—Headache on reading, with heat and perspiration.—Aching and

compression in the occiput, and sides of head, even at night.—Pain in vertex, as if head were

• ▸about to split.
• ▸—Hot feeling on vertex.
• ▸—Heaviness in head, with bleeding of nose.
• ▸—Tearing pains

and clawing in forehead, sometimes immediately after dinner, with great drowsiness.—Periodical

• ▸attacks in r.
• ▸side of forehead.
• ▸—Pain as if forehead would burst, after a meal.
• ▸—Boring pains in

head.—Painful shocks in head, as from electric sparks.—Jerks in head, tossing it to right side

(forenoon).—Feeling of looseness of brain, as if it were falling to 1. temple (in forenoon on

stooping).—Irritation of brain after lesions of head.—Shootings in sides of head, on fatiguing

• ▸arms.
• ▸—Violent and throbbing headache, esp.
• ▸in temples.
• ▸—Headache in base of brain, gnawing; as

• ▸if in a vice; as if bones being crushed.
• ▸—Tearing pressure in occiput, both sides; r.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Painful

sensibility of scalp, when combed.—Tearing at exterior of vertex, at night, with shivering and

shaking, and chattering of teeth.

Conjunctiva yellow. Granular lids. Photophobia (Graphites).

Heaviness of eyelids, as if weights were on them.—Itching on edges of lids

mornings.—Aching in eyes, esp. in evening, when reading by candle-light—Tearing pain round

eye.—Burning in eyes, sometimes morning and evening, with great dryness, or profuse

lachrymation (with discharge of burning water, with dimness of sight).—Dimness of sight, from

• ▸weakness of eyes.
• ▸—Burning in r.
• ▸eye, < near fire; burning of edges of eyelids.
• ▸—Nocturnal

• ▸agglutination of lids.
• ▸—Confused sight.
• ▸—Sparks before eyes, after blowing nose.
• ▸—Photophobia,

esp. on waking in morning.

Sticking pain, earache, lightning-like stitches in damp weather.

Otalgia, as if tympanum were propelled outwards.—Lancinations in ears.—Piercing

pain in r. ear inward; lightning-like stitches in ear; < going from cold air into warm room; < in

damp weather, living on wet ground, &c.—Ringing in ears, as of bells —Tinkling in ears.

• ▸Nasal catarrh, with thick, yellow discharge and salty mucus.
• ▸Coryza.
• ▸Epistaxis.
• ▸Ethmoiditis.

Coryza, with obstruction of nose, which scarcely permits respiration.—Nose-bleed:

before menses; during menses (in afternoon); stops and returns often.—Sneezing, with fluent

coryza.

Face pale and sickly, as after a nocturnal debauch, with gloomy aspect.—Tearing in

• ▸face, and esp.
• ▸in cheek-bones.
• ▸—Itching of face —Vesicles on lower lip.
• ▸—Pimples on chin, they

burn when touching them.—Dryness of lips, with burning and desquamation.—Inflamed and

burning blisters on upper lip.—Painful rigidity in maxillary joint, which prevents the mouth being

opened.

Slimy, thick, tenacious, white mucus. Bitter taste, blisters on palate.

Dryness with redness of gums and thirst.—Dryness of mouth, with thirst, esp. in

morning.—Burning in mouth, tongue, and palate (as from pepper, or highly-seasoned

food).—Tongue, dirty greenish grey or greenish brown coat at root; greenish coat with malarial

symptoms.—Tongue covered with mucus; slimy taste in mouth—Burning blisters on tip of

tongue.—Burning of palate as if sore and raw (during menses).—Blisters on palate, with great

sensitiveness; > by cold; can hardly eat; > from cold things.—Burning vesicles on

• ▸tongue.
• ▸—Accumulation of an acid water in mouth.
• ▸—Much saliva after meals.
• ▸—(Salivation during

headache. )

Drawing pains in teeth, with looseness, and a sensation as if elongated, > by cold air,

and by smoking tobacco.—Pulsative, throbbing toothache at night, with great agitation, < from

warm drinks.—Toothache, > from holding cold water in mouth.—Tearing in carious teeth, on

getting out of bed, at night —Burning in gums.—Shifting and painless swelling in

gums.—Purulent vesicles on gums.

Sore throat, with painful and obstructed deglutition (urging to swallow saliva) and

inflammatory swelling of uvula and amygdale.—Frequent constriction of throat when

walking.—Constriction and dryness in throat, extending to cesophagus.—Accumulation of mucus

in throat, < at night; with hawking up of salt mucus in morning.—Ulcers on tonsils.

• ▸10.
• ▸Appetite-—Mucous taste.
• ▸—Burning thirst for very cold drinks, esp.
• ▸in the evening; < after

violent exercise.—Want of appetite, and repugnance to food.—Head confused, and eyes clouded,

during a meal.—After a meal, sweat on face, oppression of chest, and accumulation of water in

mouth, with inclination to vomit.

Thick, yellow mucus, drops from posterior nares.

• ▸Vomits sour.
• ▸Brown, bitter coating on tongue.
• ▸Yellow complexion.
• ▸Thirst for something cold.
• ▸Bilious vomiting, acid dyspepsia, with heartburn and flatulence.

Sour regurgitation —Frequent hiccough; in evening; after eating bread-and-

butter.—Nausea, with lancination in eyes —Qualmishness before eating.—Water-brash, in

evening.—Vomiting of salt or acidulated water, or of acid mucus (preceded by giddiness),

followed by great dejection, and burning pains in head.—Fulness in stomach, descending to

chest, with obstructed respiration, in bed, in evening.—Boring pains in stomach, as if it would be

perforated, or burning and pinching in morning after rising; > after breakfast —Beating in

stomach, with nausea.

• ▸Duodenal catarrh; hepatitis; icterus and vomiting of bile; liver sore to touch, with sharp, stitching pains; cannot bear tight clothing around waist, worse, lying on left side.
• ▸Flatulency; wind colic in ascending colon; worse, before breakfast.
• ▸Burning in abdomen and anus.
• ▸Bruised pain and urging to stool.
• ▸Diarrhoea yellow, watery stools.
• ▸Loose morning stools, worse, after spell of wet weather.
• ▸Stools involuntary, when passing flatus.
• ▸Great size of the fecal mass.

Painful sensitiveness of the hepatic region to the touch, during a walk, or to a

sudden jar.—Stitches in the region of the liver while walking in the open air—Throbbing, tension,

and lancinations in hepatic region.—Shootings in |. hypochondrium (while walking in the open

air).—Pains as from a bruise in abdomen, at night, with pains in loins; the patient is awakened by

pains, which are insupportable, except when lying on side.—Transient burning, passing over

different parts of abdomen, in evening.—Painful digging in abdomen during menses, in evening,

followed by thirst.—Contractive pain in abdomen, extending to chest, with tightness of breath,

and subsequent diarrhoea.—Distension, burning, and shootings in groins.—Stitch from the left

groin to the axilla—Inflammation of r. groin; typhlitis—Painful accumulation of

flatus.—Pinching in abdomen with sensation as if bowels were distended.—Pinching in whole

abdomen, with rumbling, shifting and subsequent diarrhoea.—Flatulent colic, with pinching in

abdomen; < before breakfast; > in afternoon by emission of flatulence.—Flatulent colic;

accumulation and difficult emission of flatulence.—Incarceration of flatulence —Rumbling

borborygmi, and movements in abdomen.—Frequent expulsion of offensive flatus (in the

morning, after meals, and with the loose stools).—Piercing pain in r. flank.

Hard and knotty feeces (with pressure), often mixed with blood and

• ▸mucus.
• ▸—Frequent soft and loose evacuations.
• ▸—Half-liquid stools, with tenesmus.
• ▸—Diarrheea,

preceded by pain in the groins and hypogastrium.—Y ellow liquid stools after rising from bed in

the morning.—During stool profuse emission of flatulence.—Constant uneasiness in the bowels

and urging to stool (chronic diarrhoea; tuberculosis abdominalis).—After stool, burning at the

anus.—Itching of the anus.—Diarrhoea; < in wet weather; in morning; after vegetables and

farinaceous food; also in cold evening air.—Knotty, wart-like eruptions on the anus and between

the thighs; sycosis.

Frequent emission of urine, with sediment of a yellow colour, or like

brick-dust.—Piercing in both groins, with urging to urinate, afternoon while walking

outdoors.—Burning in urethra, after and during emission of urine, or with pain in the small of

back on retaining urine.—Urine scanty; dark and passed more frequently, had to get up several

times at night.

• ▸Loaded with bile.
• ▸Brisk-dust sediment.
• ▸Excessive secretion.
• ▸Diabetes.

• ▸Nosebleed during menses, which are acrid and profuse.
• ▸Burning in pharynx during menstruation.
• ▸Herpetic vulvitis.
• ▸Leucorrhoea yellowish-green, following gonorrhoea in female.
• ▸Leucorrhoea with hoarseness.

Catamenia scanty, retarded, with colic, and suppressed stools, or

hard feeces.—Headache, and epistaxis, during catamenia.—The blood of the catamenia is acrid

and corrosive, or coagulated, and flows only in morning.—Leucorrhcea: acrid, corrosive; parts

inflamed, swollen, covered with vesicles, size of lentils, filled with pus (after parturition).

Condylomata; soft, fleshy excrescences; greenish discharges. Gonorrhoea; discharge thick, greenish; little pain.

Violent itching in genital organs (glans or penis, obliging one to

rub).—Gonorrheea: thick, yellowish-green discharge; painless; chronic; suppressed.—Itching of

scrotum, with burning after scratching.—Itching of perinzeum and mons veneris.—Excited sexual

desire (evening); erections (morning).—Sweat on scrotum, in evening.—Increased sexual desire.

• ▸Dyspnoea, during damp weather.
• ▸Must hold chest when coughing.
• ▸Humid asthma; rattling in chest, at 4 and 5 am.
• ▸Cough, with thick ropy, greenish expectoration; chest feels all gone.
• ▸Constant desire to take deep, long breath.
• ▸Asthma in children, as a constitutional remedy.
• ▸Delayed resolution in pneumonia.
• ▸Springs up in bed the cough hurts so; holds painful side (Bry).
• ▸Pain through lower left chest.
• ▸Every fresh cold brings on attack of asthma.

Short breath when walking; gradually > by rest.—If he coughs while

standing he feels a sharp stitch in 1. side of chest, with shortness of breath.—Dry cough, excited

by a tickling, with roughness of trachea, and sensation of excoriation in chest, < at night, and >

by rising up in bed and holding chest with both hands.—Loose cough, with expectoration,

shortness of breath, and shooting in I. side of chest, when sitting, when yawning, during an

inspiration.

Asthma: humid asthma of children; with every fresh cold an attack of asthma;

attacks < early morning hours; asthma with early morning diarrhcea.—Shortness of breath, esp.

• ▸when walking.
• ▸—Oppression in chest.
• ▸—Pressure on chest as of a heavy load.
• ▸—Empty, all-gone,

weak feeling in chest, must support it with both hands when coughing.—Pressure in |. side of

chest, near lumbar region; < from motion and pressure.—Stitches in |. side of chest—Shootings in

chest and sides of chest, which are painful, esp. when coughing.

Itching when undressing. Violent pains in back of neck,

and at base of brain. Piercing pain between scapulae. Spinal meningitis; opisthotonos.

Stitches in nape of neck at night.—Jerking tearings and tension in muscles,

• ▸on I.
• ▸side of neck.
• ▸—Soreness up and down spine and neck.
• ▸—Contusive pains in sacrum, or pain as

from ulceration, esp. at night——Lancinations in loins, when seated.—Tearing and gnawing pains

along spine.—Incisive shootings between the shoulder-blades.—Lancinations in axillz.

Tearing in bones and muscles of arms, and forearms.—Heaviness of

arms.—Sensation of fulness and rigidity in hands.—Tearing and shootings in hands and

fingers.—Trembling and weakness of hands, which prevents the holding of anything

• ▸heavy.
• ▸—Loss of strength of 1.
• ▸hand, is unable to hold anything heavy.
• ▸—Burning and redness in

back of hand, as from the stinging of nettles.—Shooting pain of ulceration under

nails.—Panaritium.—Tingling in the tips of the fingers.

Sharp pains in the hips (in morning on rising, and all day, particularly on

making certain motions), on stooping, esp. when rising from a seat, and, at night, in

• ▸bed.
• ▸—Stabbing pain in |.
• ▸hip (after a fall).
• ▸—The pain in hip is > in certain positions, but compels

one to move again after a short time, causing intense suffering —Heat and burning in legs,

morning and evening.—Tearing and drawing in legs, and esp. in tendo-Achillis and calf—Legs

and thighs feel weary and exhausted.—In heels lancinating pain, tearing and ulcerating

pain.—Great lassitude and uneasiness in feet.—Shooting tearing, and pain as from ulceration in

feet.—Violent itching of toes, and between toes, esp. on taking off shoes and stockings at night.

• ▸Swelling of axillary glands.
• ▸Inflammation around root of nails.
• ▸Burning in soles; oedema of feet; itching between toes.
• ▸Gout.
• ▸Pain in limbs, compels frequent change in position.
• ▸Run-arounds.
• ▸Pain in hip-joints, worse left, worse, stooping.
• ▸Stiffness of knees, cracking of joints.
• ▸Rheumatism, worse in damp cold weather.

Itching while undressing. Jaundiced, watery blisters. Sycotic excrescences; wart-like red lumps all over body.

Itching, and itching pimples, which burn after being scratched.—Eczema, moist and

oozing profusely.—Itching while undressing.—Wart-like, raised, red lumps all over body.

Great sleepiness during day, esp. in forenoon; failing asleep while reading or

writing.—Sleeplessness caused by great agitation.—Uneasy sleep, with anxious and disagreeable

dreams.—Jerking of limbs during sleep.—Starting as if in a fright, soon after falling

asleep.—Dreams in which patient imagines himself to be flying.—Dreams of an expanse of water,

of one drowning in it; of things floating on a river.—Anxious, frightful dreams disturb the

sleep.—Dreams of being insulted and fighting; of being involved in a mob-fight.—Twitching of

hands (and feet) during sleep (more so after midnight).—Trembling of hands on waking, and also

when writing.

Waking at night with chilliness, shaking and chattering of teeth, with anguish and

thirst—Shiverings with coldness, esp. in evening, or at night, sometimes with anguish, quaking,

and chattering of teeth, generally without thirst—Coldness and shuddering with thirst —Internal

coldness, with stretching and yawning.—In morning, after a walk, shivering and shaking, and

coldness, with heat in head, and yellowness of face.—Perspiration in morning.—During shivering

fit, heat in forehead and hands.—Dry, general heat, in the afternoon.—Sudden flashes of heat

towards evening.—Profuse sweat, at night.

Natrum Sulphurosum.

• ▸Sulphite of Sodium.
• ▸Sodic Sulphite.
• ▸NazSO37H20.
• ▸Trituration.
• ▸Solution.

• ▸Compare: Natrum succinate (5 gr every 3 hours.
• ▸Catarrhal jaundice).
• ▸Malaria officinalis-decomposed vegetable matter--(Has evident power to cause the disappearance of the plasmodium of malaria.
• ▸Malarial cachexia.
• ▸General sense of weariness.
• ▸Spleen affections.
• ▸Malaria and rheumatism.
• ▸Functional hepatic diseases.
• ▸Sixth potency and higher).
• ▸Natrum choleinicum-Fel Tauri Depuratum--(constipation; chronic gastric and intestinal catarrh; cirrhotic liver; diabetes;

• ▸nape of neck pains; tendency to sleep after eating; much flatus; ascites); Momordica-Balsam Apple--(Colic, dysmenorrhoea with gushes of blood).
• ▸Pulmo vulpis-Wolf's lung (persistent shortness of breath causing a paroxysm of asthma on the slightest motion.
• ▸Strong, sonorous bubbling rales.
• ▸1x trit).
• ▸Peumus Boldus-Boldo--(atonic states of stomach and intestinal canal; liver states following malaria.
• ▸Burning weight in region of liver and stomach, bitter taste, languor; abscess of liver; asthma, bronchitis, catarrh, oedema of lungs); Natrum iodat (Incipient rheumatic endocarditis; chronic bronchitis, rheumatism and tertiary syphilis.
• ▸Chronic catarrhal affections, arteriosclerosis.
• ▸Here various symptoms, as angina pectoris, vertigo, dyspnoea become less marked after continued use of 5-10 grs, 3 times a day).
• ▸Natrum hyposulph (liver-spots, locally and internally); Sulp; Thuja; Merc. : stilling.

Complementary; Ars; Thuja.

First to twelfth trituration.

blisters, Ixiiils, burning, desquamating, moist, dry, herpetic, painful,

• ▸phagedenic, pimples, golden yellow scales ; suppurating, urticaria, vesic^ar.
• ▸Eczema with honey colored discharge.
• ▸Erysipelas.
• ▸Excoriation.
• ▸Formication.
• ▸Freckles.
• ▸Gnawing pain in skin.
• ▸Inactivity of

the skin. Itching, biting, burning, crawling, creeping, stinging, ameliorated by scratching, aggravated by warmth of bed. Sensitive skin.

Sore feeling in the skin. Sticking in skin. Swelling of skin, of

• ▸^ected parts.
• ▸Dropsical skin.
• ▸Ulcerative pain.
• ▸Ulcers ; biting, burni®S’ crawling, deep ; discharge offensive and yellow ; fistulous, inflamed, red areola, sensitive, stinging, suppurating, swollen, unhealthy.

Unhealthy skin. Warts.

This is one of our most frequently indicated constitutional remedies.

The symptoms appear in the morning, evening and during the night,

especially before midnight. Some symptoms are better after breakfast, during the daytime and after midnight, except the sweat. It is a

very useful remedy for complaints following neglected gonorrhoea.

The symptoms and the constitutional state of the patient are worse in

wet weather. It is useful in patients who li ve near waterways and

h ave suffered long from malarial influences. It is useful as an antidote to the abuse of quinine. It t-especially belongs to patients of the

neuropathic and bilious constituti^. He is extremely sensitive to the

night air. He suffers from uniVcrsal patarrh and the discharges are

generally greenish . It cures dm^ical conditions. Sensitive to touch

and pressure ; oversensitive mentally and physically. Very sensitive to

pain. The pains are very numerous ; dull pains, sharp pains, all better

from motion. Bruised feeling all over. Strong desire for open air

and better while walking in the open air. Sensitive to a warm

room, though he is sometimes sensitive to cold and must have

warm clothing. The feeling of fulness or distension is found in many

places ; in the head, in the ear, in the abdomen, in the veins generally.

Complaints all worse in the spring and in warm weather . General

physical restlessness and anxiety. Marked weakness and trembling

• ▸wiA internal pulsations and rapid heart.
• ▸Twitching of muscles.
• ▸Complaints from injuries of head and spine.
• ▸The symptoms all worse during rest.
• ▸Rheumatic complaints all over the body.
• ▸He is compelled to

• ▸lie on the back.
• ▸Convulsions from injuries of the head.
• ▸Sycotic conditions with a history of warts and condylomata.
• ▸Anxiety in the

morning which passes off after breakfast ; in the evening in bed ; at

night before midnight ; during fever ; about the future : anxiety and

loathing of life with suicidal impulse, must use all self-control to prevent taking his life. A woman during gestation attempted several times

to hang herself, after this remedy she was cheerful and there was no

return of the suicidal disposition. Cheerful after stool. Music makes

her sad. Sadness in the morning, which passes off after breakfast.

Extremely irritable in the morning. Violent anger which is followed

by jaundice. Aversion to company. Dislikes to speak or to be spoken

to. Dullness of mind and excitability. Mental exertion brings on

mental symptoms. Mental troubles come on from injuries of the

head. A young man became very sad and subject to attacks of vertigo,

and neglected his business after being hit on the side of the head by a

base ball. He was entirely free from all symptoms after taking this

• ▸remedy.
• ▸Fear of a crowd ; of evil ; of people.
• ▸Forgetful, easily frightened, hysterical ; indifferent ; indolent ; insanity.
• ▸She is oversensitive

• ▸and suspicious.
• ▸Starting from fright or noise and in sleep.
• ▸Subject to vertigo, congestive headaches with fulness and heat.
• ▸Pressing

outward in the head with pulsation. Periodical headaches with vomiting bile. The pains are worse when thinking of them and better by

pressure, in the open air and when lying. Pulsation in the temples

when walking. Splitting pain in the vertex. Heat of the vertex.

• ▸Headache in the morning on waking.
• ▸Mental exertion brings on headaches.
• ▸Sensation as of brain falling to side lain on.
• ▸Headache with

intermittent fever. Violent occipital headache with pain in the nape

of the neck. Headache from injuries of the head. Itching of the

scalp. Formication. Eczema of the scalp with much moisture.

Photophobia and head complaints from looking into the light. Lachrymation and dim vision, jaundiced eyes ; inflamed eyes with many

• ▸blisters.
• ▸Burning in the eyes morning and evening.
• ▸Greenish discharge from the eyes.
• ▸Lids stuck together in the morning.
• ▸Granular

lids. Scrofulous inflammation of the conjunctiva. Redness, swelling

and burning of the margins of the lids. Heaviness of lids. Pressing in

eyes when using eyes. Itching of the eyes in the morning.

• ▸Chirping in the ears in the evening ; during chill and fever.
• ▸Flapping sensation in the ears.
• ▸Ringing in the cars.
• ▸Pressing out feeling

in the ears. Earache as if something was forcing its way out. Stitching pains in ears, worse entering warm room from cold air ; in damp

• ▸weather.
• ▸Earache.
• ▸Complaint worse on right side.
• ▸Heat in right ear

in evening. Catarrh of right ear. Stopped sensation in right ear.

Purulent discharge from the ears.

Catarrhal discharge from nose, yellowish green. Epistaxis before

and during menses ; in afternoon and evening. Dryness and burning

in the nose. Obstructed with mucus in the night. Mucus drawn from

posterior nares tasting salty. Sneezing with fluent coryza and influenza.

Epidemic influenza. Chunks of dried mucus blow from high up in

nose.

Itching of the face with eczema. Sickly expression and jaundiced

skin. Vesicles and pimples on the face. Vesicles on the lower lip and

around the mouth. Pimples on the chin burning on touch.

The teeth become loose and fall out in sycotic constitution. The

gums separate from the teeth. Pain in the teeth worse from warm

things, better from cold drinks and the cold air. Gums red, ulcerate

• ▸and burn.
• ▸Blisters on the gums.
• ▸The mouth is always slimy.
• ▸Much

mucus forms in the mouth and throat. Taste is better and tongue is

heavily coated a dirty greenish brown. Blisters on the tongue and roof

of the mouth. Burning in the roof of the mouth during menses.

Numbness in the mouth. Salivation.

Chronic inflammation of the throat with copious viscid white mucus.

• ▸Dry sensation in throat.
• ▸Pain in throat on swallowing food.
• ▸Choking feeling in the throat when walking.
• ▸It is often needed in goitre.

Great thirst in the evening ; for very cold drinks ; during chill and

fever. Aversion to bread and meat. Qualmishness after farinaceous

foods ; hiccough after bread in evening. Eructations of sour water :

• ▸of bitter fluid.
• ▸Nausea before breakfast.
• ▸Constant nausea.
• ▸Vomiting of sour or bitter fluid.
• ▸Vomiting of green bile with colic.
• ▸The

stomach feels distended and heavy. Pulsation in the stomach after

breakfast. Extreme cases of gastric weakness with acidity. Can

digest only the simple foods. IMgestion very slow. This remedy has

cured many complaints of the liver ; congested, enlarged, sore liver.

Pain in the liver from lying on tl|e right side. Dragging in the right

• ▸hypochondrium when lying on tlt«i left side {Mag.
• ▸m.
• ▸Card, ni.
• ▸, Ptel.
• ▸),

soreness and itching in the liver ?when walking. Sharp pains in the

liver on deep inspiration. The %ver is disturbed by mental exertion

• ▸and anger.
• ▸The liver seems to manufacture an excess of bile.
• ▸Perverted viscid bile that readily forms gall stones.
• ▸It causes the liver to

make healthy bile which is the natural solvent of gall stones, when

given in homoeopathic doses at long intervals. It has cured many

cases of gall stone colic. It has removed gall stones in many cases.

Sensitive to clothing over the hypochondria. The following three

cases will testify:

• ▸Case I.
• ▸— ^Woman, married, grown children.
• ▸Aged 37.
• ▸Headache

followed hy vomiting of bile for several years. Face purple. Heat

ameliorates the pain. Pain begins in right eye, spreads over the forehead with a dragging feeling in back of head. Pain in sacrum extends

• ▸to thighs, aggravated on right side.
• ▸Nervous, easily startled, apprehensive.
• ▸Intensely fastidious.
• ▸Had gall stone colic three months

ago. Cold feet. Headache at menstrual period for sixteen years.

Menstrual flow thick, clotted, dark, lasts one day. Stool, light color

when sick, darker when in better health. Must restrain herself or she

• ▸will commit suicide.
• ▸Slow pulse at times.
• ▸Tired all the time.
• ▸Condemned to an operation by the surgeon for gall s^one.
• ▸Fissured

KATRVM

m

tongue. Natrum sulphuricum cured ; the gall sttmes disappeai:^.

Case 2 . — ^Man actively engaged in business, weight i8o pounds. Age

• ▸40.
• ▸Pain in region of gall bladder.
• ▸Gall stone colic.
• ▸Came on after

indigestion. Dull aching in that region. Must walk about the room,

not ameliorated in any position. Only once has stool become light

colored. Pain in region of kidneys, also through pelvic region and

legs with a cloudy condition of the urine ; dribbling of few drops of

urine after urination. Dull heavy pain in right side behind the lower

ribs, continuous pain ; pain extend up right side as far as nipple ; stabbing pains in breast. Pain in duodenum aggravated after eating.

Natrum sulph. cured. The patient is in perfect health.

• ▸Case 3.
• ▸— Woman.
• ▸Age 64.
• ▸Diarrhoea ; stool watery, sometimes

chalky ; enlarged liver ; clawing feeling in gall bladder ; gall stone colic.

Had been condemned by a surgeon to the operating table. Sinking

spells after stool ; cold spells ; vertigo, stooping, lying or walking ; spells

of rapid beating of heart ; mental depression ; thirstless ; temperature

sub-normal ; sensitive to jarring abdomen ; flatulence and rumbling in

abdomen ; cold legs to knees ; cold hands ; much belching, aggravated

after meals ; sensitive to weather changes ; nervous and sleepless before a storm ; sore dragging feeling in the liver ; bowels sluggish ; slow:

digestion ; heaviness of arms and legs ; chilliness down the back ; unable to lie on right side with comfort ; urine copious ; strong ; late going

to sleep. Natrum sulph. made a radical change in her condition and

there are no more signs of gall stones.

Distress in the abdomen relieved by displacing flatus. Emptiness relieved by passing flatus and by eructations. Cramps and many pains

from obstructed flatus. Pain and distension in the ascending colon

from flatus. Pain in the region of the caecum. It has cured many

cases resembling the first stage of appendicitis. Pain and tenderness

in the whole abdomen. Dull heavy pain from abdomen to back.

Burning in the abdomen. Feeling in the abdomen as if a diarrhoea

would come on, ameliorated by eructations and passing flatus. Distress in the abdomen that hurries him to stool but only flatus passes.

• ▸Pain in die abdomen during menses.
• ▸Cramp in morning before breakfast.
• ▸Pain in abdomen, 4 to 8 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸, and in evening.
• ▸Constant distress

in bowels and urging to stool. Fulness, rumbling, motions, gurgling

with or without diarrhoea. Pain in right ascending colon when lying

on the right side. Bilious colic with vomiting of bile. It has cured

many cases of syphilis. It has cured enlarged abdominal glands.

Morning diarrhoea with copious flatus soon after rising or ‘soon after

standing on the feet. Diarrhoea in wet weather. Stools gushing ;

cc^ious ; greenish ; thin ; very offensive ; slimy, bloody ; cramps in the

abdomen b^ore stool. Smardng in the anus during stool. Sometimes

cheerful after stool. Often the diarrhoea is painless. Diarrhoea after

farinaceous food ; from vegetables ; fruit ; pastry ; cold drinks ; ice

cream. Diarrhoea alternating with constipation. Diarrhoea with stools

at any hour of the day or night, but especially morning and evening.

It has cured many cases of chronic diarrhoea with stool involuntary and

lienteric. Itching and crawling in the anus. Condylomata at the anus.

It cured an ulceration in the rectum with copious bleeding in a lawyer

who had long struggled with suicidal impulses. It has often cured

bleeding piles. !

It has cured parenchymatic inflammation of the kidneys following

scarlet fever and front malarial influences. It has cured sugar in the

urine and polyuria. It has cured brick dust sediment many times also

where copious white sandy sediment was present. It has cured copious

deposits of phosphates with copious jelly-like mucous sediment. Must

• ▸rise often in the night to urinate.
• ▸Burning during and after urination.
• ▸Urine loaded with bile.
• ▸Where these symptoms appear after

neglected gonorrhoea.

In the male strong sexual desire and troublesome erections. Gonorrhoea when the discharge has a greenish yellow color and there is burning during and after urination. It has cured enlarged prostate many

times. Condylomata, soft fleshy with greenish discharge. CEdema of

the scrotum and prepuce. Itching of the penis and scrotum with burning after scratching.

The menstrual flow is copious' acrid and clotted. Leucorrhoea acrid

greenish, purulent, excoriating tht! |)arts. It has cured milk leg.

Much thick, viscid white mh^us forms in the larynx and trachea.

Dyspnoea on exertion and while Wklking ; with sharp pain in left chest.

Stitching on deep breathing. Dyspnoea in damp weather. It is a most

useful remedy in humid asthma in children of sycotic parents. Humid

asthma with copious viscid mucus in every spell of hot weather.

Chronic catarrh of the bronchial tubes.

Frequent attacks of paroxysmal cough from irritation in larynx ending in copious white, viscid expectorations. Expectoration bloody ;

greenish yellow ; purulent ; white ; viscid. Oppression of the chest

from damp evening air and in the morning on waking. Emptiness in

the chest on inspiration. Soreness in the chest on coughing, better by

holding the chest with the hands. Bronchitis and pneumonia are*

sometimes hard to cure in sycotic patients until they have received this

remedy. Muco-purulent expectoration in old people. Eruptions on

the chest every spring in sycotic patients. Swelling and suppuration in

the axillary glands.

It has been the epidemic remedy in this country in cerebro-spinal

meningitis, where the pain in, the back of the head and neck was marked, "as the gnawing of a dog” and the head was drawn backward.

Piercing pain between the scapulae in the evening while sitting. Tennitric acid

dcrness of the spine. Sore pain in the small of the back and sacrum.

Pain in the small of the back during the night compelling her to lie on

the right side ; it passes away in the morning after rising. Pain in the

small of the back from retaining the urine. Itching of the back when

undressing. Pain in the sacrum, cannot lie on either side.

Trembling, twitching and weakness in the limbs, twitching in hands

and feet during sleep. Pains in the limbs during rest. Rheumatic

pains in the limbs in wet weather. Cracking in the joints. Warts on

the arms and hands. Pains in the limbs during chill and fever, better

by motion and walking. Worse in the lower than in the upper limbs.

Weakness in the hands ; flexors pain on grasping anything. Trembling in the hands in the morning on waking and when writing. The

tendency to suppuration around the nails is a marked symptom in this

remedy. Palms raw and sore and exude a watery fluid. It has cured

bad cases of psoriasis of the palms. Fingers swollen and stiff. Panaritium, pain more bearable in the open air.

Ulceration, pain under the nail and in the tips of the fingers.

Pain in the right hip joint on motion. Stitching in the left hip. Pain

in the hip extending to the knee. Swelling in the left leg. Sciatica

better in motion. Dull aching in the lower limbs during chill and

fever, better when walking. Restlessness of the limbs at night in bed.

Ulcers on outer side of thighs. Stiffness of knees. Weakness in lower

limbs. Burning of feet and legs to the knees. Dry heat in feet at

night. CEdema of flie feet. Sharp pain in soles and heels.

Drowsiness in the forenoon when reading. Frightful dreams. Chill

• ▸from 6 to 9 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸, with fever, than dry heat until i a.
• ▸m.
• ▸, sweat absent.

Chill with icy coldness and gooseflesh from 4 to 8 p. m. during menses.

Shaking chills. Chilliness with fever in the evening from night air.

• ▸Perspiration after midnight or toward morning.
• ▸Fevers with vomiting bile.
• ▸Remittent and intermittent fevers.
• ▸It is a much neglected

remedy in chronic intermittent fever.

Eczema with watery oozing. Water blisters. Yellow scales aftqr

• ▸breaking the vesicles.
• ▸Jaundice.
• ▸Intertrigo.
• ▸Wart-like, red excrescenses all over the body.
• ▸Red, knotty eruptions on head above the

cars ; on the forehead and left side of nape of neck ; in the middle of

chest. Itching when undressing.

Painful sensibility of limbs, which feel as if bruised, or fatigued.—Prostration; tired,

weary, esp. knees.—Attacks come on suddenly.