Natrum Carbonicum

• ▸Nat.
• ▸carb.
• ▸is the typical salt of the Natrum group.
• ▸It was proved by

Hahnemann, and is one of the antipsoric remedies of the Chronic Diseases. In old-school

practice its chief uses are as an external application in solution to burns and eczema, as a douche

• ▸in nasal or vaginal catarrh.
• ▸Nat.
• ▸c.
• ▸forms the alkaline basis in most soaps, and most persons know

by experience the effect of using soap with an excess of alkali. It almost burns off the superficial

layers of the epidermis, and leaves the skin dry and cracked. The provings, whilst developing in

• ▸Nat.
• ▸c.
• ▸a remedy of polychrest importance, confirms its irritating action, and show Nat.
• ▸c.
• ▸to be a

true remedy for chapped hands and faces, rough, dry skins, eczema, herpes, warts and scrofulous

conditions of skin. On the mucous membranes the effects are no less irritating. The whole

alimentary tract from mouth to anus is irritated—vesicles, ulcers, catarrh. In the eyes the irritation

goes on to keratitis and ulceration of cornea. The nose is swollen and ulcerated, with a thick

yellow or green offensive discharge. Thick, yellow, putrid leucorrhcea. The predominant mental

condition of Nat. c. is one of profound sadness, depression, and melancholy; constantly occupied

with sad thoughts; though there is also the opposite, great gaiety and talkativeness. The

hypochondriacal mood is often an accompaniment of the condition of the digestive mucous

membrane. The depression and irritability is < after a meal, the aggravation diminishing as

digestion advances, "as the food passes through the duodenum." Such patients, says Farrington,

are decidedly averse to society, even that of their own family. The indigestion is < from

vegetables and starchy foods. < From milk. The tongue has some characteristic symptoms,

notably affection of the under surface and freenum, and it is so heavy and unwieldy that the

patient has difficulty in speaking. The common practice of taking Bicarbonate of Soda for

indigestion and heartburn is founded on a true relationship (though Nat. c. is the Carbonate and

not the Bi-carbonate), but the indiscriminate and excessive use of it only intensifies the trouble.

• ▸The nearest analogue of Naz.
• ▸c.
• ▸in this and in the female sexual sphere is Sepia.
• ▸The nervous

system is strongly affected, and symptoms of hysteria appear. A leading note is < from exertion,

mental or bodily. Great debility from any exertion; unsteady walk, any little obstruction on

pavement = falling; or he falls without any apparent cause. There are contractions of muscles and

tendons, and also relaxation of tissues. Ankle-joints are weak and burn. Twitching in muscles

• ▸and limbs.
• ▸I have cured with Nat.
• ▸c.
• ▸"jerking of hands on going to sleep.
• ▸" Among the Peculiar

Sensations are: As if head too large. As if forehead would burst. As if head would be drawn

• ▸back.
• ▸As if ears were closed up.
• ▸As of a bubble bursting in ear.
• ▸As if tip of tongue were cracked.

Dryness of mouth as if caused by heat of breath. As if veins of right leg were bruised. Motion as

from a foetus in uterus. Blisters on points of toes as if scalded. Emaciation, anzemia, bloating are

• ▸prominent effects of Nat.
• ▸c.
• ▸; as also is swelling and induration of glands.
• ▸Nat.
• ▸c.
• ▸is suited to:

Light-haired people; persons of leuco-phlegmatic constitution with aversion to open air, and to

exercise, mental or physical. Stitches go from within out. Right upper and left lower are

• ▸particularly affected.
• ▸A peculiar symptom of Naz.
• ▸c.
• ▸is "discharge of mucus after an embrace" in

• ▸the woman; and sterility as a result.
• ▸In Med.
• ▸Adv.
• ▸, xviii.
• ▸248 and 370, are two cases in point, one

• ▸cured by J.
• ▸C.
• ▸Guernsey and the other by W.
• ▸Jefferson Guernsey.
• ▸In both cases the woman

complained that she "could not retain the semen" after the embrace. Some of the grand keynotes

of the remedy are to be found in its modalities. Prominent among these are < from sun; heat;

gaslight. < From mental exertion; from physical exertion or strain; from least effort. < From

• ▸music.
• ▸Nat.
• ▸c.
• ▸has great debility from heat of summer; from chronic effects of sunstroke, every

spell of warm weather = headache. Headache from sun or working under gaslight. At the same

time there is great aversion to cold air, < from draught of air, change of clothing, getting wet,

• ▸drinking cold water, < damp weather, change of weather.
• ▸< From storms.
• ▸Nat.
• ▸c.
• ▸has extreme

sensitiveness to electric changes. There is great thirst for cold water, but < on drinking it (stitches

in spleen). < By rest; < lying on left side (palpitation; stitch in back to anus); < sitting. Moving >.

Moving head = cracking in cervical vertebrae. Moving = profuse sweat. Most symptoms come on

• ▸or are < in morning.
• ▸"Sinking" 10 to 11 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸< On alternate days.
• ▸< During full moon.
• ▸Eating >

sinking, < dyspepsia and hypochondriasis. < From milk; from vegetable diet; from cold drink

when over-heated. > By pressure, rubbing, scratching, wiping with hand. > Boring into ears and

nose with fingers.

• ▸Cold drink when over-heated.
• ▸Milk.
• ▸Sun's rays (chronic effects).
• ▸Gaslight.
• ▸Heat.

• ▸Change of temperature.
• ▸Storms.
• ▸Electric states.
• ▸Over-study.
• ▸Strains.
• ▸Sweat, suppression of.

• ▸Unable to think; difficult, slow comprehension.
• ▸Mental weakness and depression; worries; very sensitive to noise; colds, change of weather.
• ▸Anxious and restless during thunderstorm; worse from music (Ambra).
• ▸Marked gayety.
• ▸Sensitive to presence of certain individuals.

• ▸Marked degree of gaiety.
• ▸—Joyous talkativeness.
• ▸—Inclination to sing.
• ▸—Sadness and

discouragement, with tears, and inquietude respecting the future —Inquietude, with fits of

anguish, esp. during a storm, and while engaged in intellectual labour.—Mind much agitated,

every event (music) causes trembling.—Timidity—Estrangement from individuals and from

society.—Hypochondriacal humour and disgust of life-—Dejection.—Disposition to take

• ▸alarm.
• ▸—Irritable.
• ▸-—Spite and malevolence.
• ▸—Disposition to be angry, and violent fits of

passion.—Difficulty in conceiving and combining ideas when reading or listening.—Makes

mistakes in writing. —Difficulty of comprehension, which is unnatural to him when in health;

imbecility, or weakness of intellect.—Unfitness for intellectual labour and meditation, which

fatigue the head.—Infirmity of purpose.

• ▸Aches from slightest mental exertion, worse from sun or working under gas-light (Glon) Feels too large.
• ▸Oversensitive of hearing.
• ▸Head aches with return of hot weather.
• ▸Vertigo from exposure to sun.

Dulness and confusion of the head.—Confusion of head, esp. in a room, and during

• ▸repose.
• ▸—Vertigo, esp.
• ▸after drinking wine, and after intellectual labour.
• ▸—Headache, in the sun, or

on turning head quickly.—Sensation of pressive fulness in head, as if forehead were going to

burst.—Pressive headache, with nausea, risings, and cloudiness of eyes.—Eructations and dimness

of sight, in evening; < in room.—Cramp-like tearing in forehead, extending to eyes and point of

nose.—Headache, with shootings, sometimes across eyes (and stitches out of eyes).—Shocks

across head.—Pulsative headache in vertex, every morning.—Congestion and heat in

• ▸head.
• ▸—Tearing in exterior of sinciput, every day at a certain hour.
• ▸—Drawing and tension in r.
• ▸side

of occiput as if head would be drawn back.—Profuse falling out of hair—Boil on occiput.—Both

occipital protuberances sore to touch.

Burning in eyes, esp. when reading and writing.—Stitches in eyes, from within

outwards.—Lancinations across eyes.—Inflammation of eyes and lids, with

• ▸photophobia.
• ▸—Heaviness of upper lids.
• ▸—Inflammatory swelling of r.
• ▸upper lid.
• ▸—Swelling of

• ▸lids.
• ▸—Dim eyes; has to wipe them constantly.
• ▸—Ulcers on cornea.
• ▸—Abscess in lachrymal

gland.—Frequent closing of lids, and difficulty in opening them.—Confused sight, with black

dancing specks, or bright sparkling before eyes —Dazzling flashing before eyes on

• ▸awaking.
• ▸—Inability to read small print, as in presbyopia.
• ▸—Down before eyes.
• ▸—Pupils dilated.

Shootings in ears —Otalgia, with sharp, piercing stitches in ears —Great sensibility to

• ▸noise.
• ▸—Sensation of deafness, as from stoppage of ears.
• ▸—Hardness of hearing.
• ▸—Tinkling, music,

buzzing, bursting of a bubble, roaring, and throbbing in ears—Dryness and heat.—[Old Otorrhcea

and deafness that has come from typhoid fever—Deafness with ozzena, thick feeling in throat and

amenorrheea in light-haired girls—Deafness with acne punctata—Deafness with recurring

earache—(cases cured by Cooper). |

• ▸All troubles of external nose which may attain a morbid size-pimples and puffiness.
• ▸Constant coryza; obstruction of nose.
• ▸Catarrh; bad smell of nasal secretion.
• ▸Many troubles of external nose (Caust).
• ▸Posterior nasal catarrh. Hawking much mucus from throat; worse, slightest draught.

Red nose with white pimples on it—Great sensitiveness of nose.—Desquamation of

bridge and point of nose; painful when touched.—Ulceration in bottom of nostrils.—Obstruction

of nose, sometimes with discharge of hard and fetid pieces of mucus.—Hard, fetid pieces from

one nostril—Coryza every second day.—Coryza, fluent; violent sneezing.—Intermittent coryza,

with burning in eyes—Much nasal mucus passes through mouth.—Continued coryza and cough,

excited by a chill and the least current of air, disappearing only after perspiration —Thick green,

or yellow, mucus in nose.—Bleeding of nose.—Troubles of external nose, may attain a morbid

size; puffiness of nose.

Freckles, yellow spots, pimples. Swelling of upper lip. Pale, with blue rings around eyes and swollen lids.

Heat of face.—Bloatedness of face—Cheeks red and swollen.—Redness and burning

heat, or great paleness in face, with livid circle under eyes, swollen eyelids.—Face alternately

• ▸pale and red.
• ▸—Ephelis in face.
• ▸—Itching and humid eruption in nose and mouth.
• ▸—Yellow spots on

• ▸forehead and upper lip.
• ▸—Yellowish colour of face.
• ▸—Swelling of lips.
• ▸—Swelling of upper

lip.—Burning rhagades in lower lip.—Eruptions, tetters, and ulcers round mouth and

lips.—Engorgement of submaxillary glands.

Constant dryness of mouth and lips.—Vesicles and smooth ulcers, with burning, in

the mouth.—Burning about tip of tongue, as if it were cracked.—Pimples on tip of

• ▸tongue.
• ▸—Tensive blisters on r.
• ▸margin of tongue.
• ▸—Papular eruption beneath tongue, painful to

• ▸touch.
• ▸—Pustule near freenum.
• ▸—Ulcer on freenum.
• ▸—Tongue not facile, speech

difficult.—Lisping. —Stammering, from (dry tongue and) heaviness of tongue.

Toothache, with digging, boring pain, esp. after and during a meal, and particularly

after eating things sweetened with sugar or fruits.—Pressive toothache at night, with swelling of

lower lip and gums.—Excessive sensitiveness of lower teeth.

Roughness, scraping, and dryness of throat and palate—Throat and oesophagus feel

rough, scraped, and dry.—Spasmodic contraction of cesophagus and stomach.—Accumulation of

mucus in throat.—Violent hawking up of thick mucus which constantly collects again ——Much

nasal mucus passes through the posterior nares.—Swelling of submaxillary glands.

• ▸Feels swollen and sensitive.
• ▸Ill effects of drinking cold water when overheated.
• ▸Water-brash.
• ▸Hungry at 5 am.
• ▸Very weak digestion, caused by slightest error of diet.
• ▸Averse to milk.
• ▸Depressed after eating.
• ▸Bitter taste.
• ▸Old dyspeptics, always belching, have sour stomach and rheumatism.
• ▸Dyspepsia relieved by soda biscuits.

Bitter taste in mouth—The food tastes bitter—Acid taste in mouth, while tongue

is loaded with a thick coating.—Incessant thirst; great desire for cold water a few hours after

dinner.—Violent thirst, and uneasiness after drinking anything cold.—Extreme, voracious hunger,

esp. In morning, arising out of a sensation of faintness and emptiness.—Empty eructations (after

eating).—Gluttony.—Repugnance to milk and diarrhoea after partaking of it—Great weakness of

digestion, with peevishness and hypochondriacal humour, after a meal, or the least departure

from regimen.—Distension, heaviness, and aching in stomach and epigastrium after a meal.

Stomach weak, easily disordered.—Frequent risings during and after a

meal.—Waterbrash.—Heartburm after fat food —Violent retching in morning, without actual

vomiting.—Painful eructations.—Sensation of qualmishness in stomach, and continued

• ▸nausea.
• ▸—Frequent hiccough, esp.
• ▸after a meal.
• ▸—Pyrosis and scraping in throat, esp.
• ▸after

• ▸partaking of fat food.
• ▸—Pressure in stomach, esp.
• ▸after a meal.
• ▸—Painful sensibility of region of

stomach and epigastrium, on being touched and while speaking. —Drawing, pressive, and incisive

pains in stomach.—Contractive cramps in stomach.—Colic, with constriction around

stomach.—Sensation of emptiness in stomach, with nausea——Gnawing and pressure with gone

• ▸feeling 10 or 11 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸, > from eating.
• ▸—Distension of stomach and epigastrium.

Pains in hypochondria.—Very weak digestion; after eating, hypochondriacal

humour.—Lancinations in the |. hypochondrium, sometimes after drinking anything

cold.—Lancinations in hepatic region (chronic inflammation of liver).—Violent stitches in hepatic

and splenic regions.—Pain in abdomen, after waking in morning.—Abdomen (hard) enlarged and

distended.—Nocturnal pains in abdomen, with tension in upper part of abdomen, and

diarrhoea.—Colic, with retraction of navel, and hardness of integuments of abdomen.—Swellings

on abdomen, as if intestines distended by wind here and there —Shootings and diggings in

abdomen.—Shootings and drawings in sides of abdomen.—Accumulation, incarceration, and

painful movements of flatus in abdomen.—Abundant expulsion of flatus of a sour or fetid

smell.—Swelling of glands of groin and axilla; generally painful.

Urgent want to evacuate, without result, or followed by a scanty and

insufficient evacuation.—Hard and difficult evacuation.—Soft or liquid feces, with strong and

very urgent want to go to stool, and tenesmus ani.—Loose, yellow evacuations.—Diarrhcea which

is marked by a sudden and obligatory call to stool, which escapes with great haste, noise, and

rushing, often producing considerable commotion in abdomen; discharge almost involuntary;

often a yellow substance like the pulp of an orange in the discharge, which may sometimes be

observed in women at change of life —Diarrhcea, with cuttings, after a chill, or after partaking of

• ▸milk.
• ▸—The stool is watery and is discharged in a gush.
• ▸—Sanguineous evacuations.
• ▸—Stool spotted

with blood.—Stool like sheep's dung, with great straining; balls of mucus like peas.—Discharge of

teenia during evacuation.—Burning and incisive pains in anus and rectum during and after

stool.—Itching and tingling in anus.—Lancinations in perinzeum.

Frequent and urgent want to urinate, day and night, with scanty, or

• ▸excessive, discharge.
• ▸—Involuntary micturition at night.
• ▸—Wetting the bed.
• ▸—Urine of a bright (or

dark) yellow colour, of a sourish smell, or fetid and turbid, with mucous sediment.—Mucus in

urine.—Urine smells like horse urine.—Burning in urethra during and after emission of

urine.—Jerks, acute pullings, and smarting in urethra——Deep-coloured urine.

• ▸Induration of cervix.
• ▸Pudenda sore.
• ▸Bearing-down sensation (Sep; Murex).
• ▸Heaviness; worse, sitting; better by moving.
• ▸Menses late, scanty like meat-washings (Nitric ac).
• ▸Leucorrhoeal discharge, offensive, irritating preceded by colic.

Pressure in hypogastrium as if everything were bearing down

towards genital parts, and were about to protrude (and menses would come on).—Catamenia too

early, with headache, sacral and abdominal pains.—Deficient menstruation in

adults.—Metrorrhagia——Deformity of cervix uteri—Excoriation at vulva, between

thighs.—Discharge of mucus from vagina, after coition (causing sterility).—Profuse, thick, and

yellowish, or fetid leucorrhcea, sometimes preceded by cuttings (ceasing after

urination).—Motion as from foetus in uterus —(Conception appears to be promoted by the action

• ▸of Nat c.
• ▸).
• ▸—Expels moles, prevents false conception.
• ▸—Labour pains weak or accompanied by

anguish and sweat, with desire to be rubbed.

Pain, as from a bruise, in testes —Heaviness and pressive drawings in

testes —Excoriation of scrotum.—Soreness between scrotum and thighs.—Secretion behind glans,

as in gonorrhcea balani.—Inflammation, swelling, and tendency to excoriation, of glans and

prepuce.—Increased sexual desire, almost like priapism, with continued and painful pollutions

• ▸and erections.
• ▸—Incomplete coition.
• ▸—Emissions without erections.
• ▸—Glans penis easily becomes

sore.—Discharge of prostatic fluid when urinating, and during a difficult evacuation. —Great

tendency to perspire after coition.

Dry cough, when coming into warm room from out of doors. Cough with coldness of left side of breast.

Short cough, with rattling in chest—Hoarseness and roughness in

chest, with coryza, febrile shivering, and scraping and painful cough.—Continual catarrh, with

coryza and cough, excited by least current of air or slightest chill, and disappearing only when

perspiration supervenes.—Cough excited by tickling in throat—Violent and dry cough on passing

from cold to hot temperature.—Cough, with expectoration which has a salt taste, or which

consists of greenish and fetid pus.—Expectoration of small substances, with rattling of mucus in

chest.—Cough, with expectoration of blood.

Shortness of breath, sometimes with difficult respiration —Dyspnoea.—Dyspncea and

shortness of breathing, occasioned by tension of chest.—Tension in chest during

• ▸inspiration.
• ▸—Pressure on chest.
• ▸—Shootings in chest and sides of chest.
• ▸—Continual coldness in 1.

side.

Violent and anxious palpitation of heart, esp. on going upstairs, or at night, when

lying on the 1. side.—Painful cracking in region of heart.

Rigidity of the nape.—Cracking of the cervical vertebrae when moving

head.—Swelling in glands of neck —Hard swelling of thyroid gland—Goitre; pain,

• ▸pressing.
• ▸—(Goitre decreased in size.
• ▸).
• ▸—Boring pain in tip of |.
• ▸scapula; extends to point of

ensiform cartilage —Pain, as from excoriation, in sacrum.—Lancinations in sacrum when

seated.—Backache; violent pain in small of back after walking.—Drawings and cramp-like

tension in back and nape of neck.—Tingling in back.

Aching in shoulders.—Drawing and tearing (rheumatic) in shoulders, arms,

and elbows, with lassitude in those parts.—Heaviness, rigidity, and pains in arms, which take

• ▸away the power to lift them.
• ▸—The r.
• ▸arm and r.
• ▸hand become numb and painful to move from

pain in muscles.—Jerking and thrilling sensation in arms, hands, and fingers, esp. on grasping an

• ▸object.
• ▸—Drawing tension in forearms and hands.
• ▸—Warts on arms.
• ▸—Incisive pains in

• ▸hands.
• ▸—Tearing and boring in metacarpal bones, esp.
• ▸in evening and morning in bed.
• ▸—Burning

in joints of hands in evening.—Swelling of hands (in afternoon).—Trembling of hands

• ▸(morning).
• ▸—(Hands become numb, painful, and prone to ulcerate—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Skin of hands dry,

rough, and cracked.—Warts (or herpes) on the back of hands.—Red spots and tetters on

hands.—Jerking in joints of fingers.—Distortion (contraction) of fingers —Burning, itching, and

burning blisters on fingers, as if stung by nettles.

Tension in bend of knee; the muscles are shortened.—Hollow of knees

painful on motion.—Great heaviness in legs and feet, with stiffness when seated and when

• ▸walking.
• ▸—Jerking in thighs.
• ▸—Tettery eruption on the buttocks.
• ▸—Contraction of tendons of

• ▸ham.
• ▸—Tetters on ham.
• ▸—Pressive and cramp-like drawing in legs.
• ▸—Cramp and pulling in calves of

legs, as if too short.—Legs swollen, red, inflamed, and covered with ulcers.—Blotches (as in

lepra) on legs.—Incisive pains and cramps in feet.—Burning in joints of foot in

evening.—Swelling of feet, or soles of the feet, with shootings, when planting foot on the

ground.—Tendency to dislocate and sprain joint of foot—The ankle is so weak that it gives way;

the foot bends under when stepping on it——Coldness of feet.—Chronic ulcers in heel, proceeding

from gnawing vesicles.—Black, ulcerated pustule on heel.—Throbbing and crawling in both

heels —Cracks and excoriation between toes.—Swelling of (big) toes, with tearing, and pain as

from excoriation, which banishes sleep.—Blisters on extremity of the toes, as from a

burn.—Boring, drawing, and shooting in corns.

24. Generalities—Mucus in urine —Nocturnal erections; nocturnal pollutions.—Bad smell of the

expectoration.—Troubles appearing in the back part of head; also heel.—Cutting pain in the outer

• ▸parts.
• ▸—Hysterics.
• ▸—Old sprains; one who is easily sprained, i.
• ▸e.
• ▸, a disposition to be sprained by

any exertion.—Exanthema purulent, or filled with pus.—Falling out of the hair—Inclination to

perspire, which may be caused by any exertion.—Cramp-like tearing, principally in arms and

legs.—Paralytic drawings and tearings in joints, esp. in evening and at night—Contractions of

muscles (hands, bend of the knee, neck).—Contraction of tendons.—Jerkings in limbs, joints, and

muscles.—Tingling, stinging in muscles.—Strong tendency to dislocations, and to strain

• ▸back.
• ▸—Swelling and induration of glands.
• ▸—Symptoms < during a storm.
• ▸—Most symptoms

manifest themselves when seated, and are > by movement, pressure, or rubbing.—Anguish,

trembling, and sweat, during pains.—Great agitation of whole body in evening. —Excessive

morbid sensibility; with trembling, also when playing the piano.—Relaxation and want of

• ▸stability in whole body (in morning).
• ▸—Unsteady gait.
• ▸—Heaviness and indolence, esp.
• ▸in morning,

• ▸with fear of movement.
• ▸—It hurts to lie on the |.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Paralytic, contusive pain in morning, and

great lassitude in limbs.—Lassitude, so great as to cause sinking down, after a moderate

walk.—Prolonged weakness.—Emaciation, with pale complexion, dilated pupils, and deep-

coloured urine.—Repugnance to open air.—Great tendency to chill, followed by coryza, or colic

with diarrhoea.

• ▸Old sprains.
• ▸Great weakness of limbs, especially in morning.
• ▸Easy dislocation and spraining of ankles.
• ▸Foot bends under (Caust).
• ▸Soreness between toes and fingers.
• ▸Heel and tendo-Achilles affected.
• ▸Capped hands.
• ▸The hollow of the knee is painful on motion.
• ▸Icy cold up to knees.

• ▸Inclination to perspire easily, or dry, rough, cracked skin.
• ▸Eruption on finger-tips, knuckles and toes.
• ▸Vesicular eruption in patches and circles.
• ▸Veins full.
• ▸Soles of feet raw and sore.

Ulcers, with swelling and inflammatory redness of affected parts.—Skin dry, rough,

and chapped.—Red, hard blotches.—Dryness of skin, with profuse sweat from least exercise or

slightest labour.—Itching over whole body, as from fleas.—Tingling under the

• ▸skin.
• ▸—Scabies.
• ▸—Tettery eruption.
• ▸—Herpes: iris; circinatus.
• ▸—The tetters spread and

• ▸suppurate.
• ▸—Y ellow rings, like remains of tettery spots.
• ▸—Leprous tubercles.
• ▸—Warts; painful to

touch.—Shootings, incisive pains, and burning in injured parts.—Itch-like eruption in lower part

of abdomen.

Wakes too early in morning. Amorous dreams. Drowsy during day.

Irresistible disposition to sleep, with much yawning, by day, with deferred sleep in

evening, and difficulty to wake in morning.—Uneasy sleep, full of vivid dreams, sometimes

confused and lascivious, with violent erections and pollutions.—Dreams; pleasant;

amorous.—Anxious dreams, which, after waking, seem to be true.—Frightful dreams of deaths,

floods, quarrels, robbers, devils, thieves, &c.—Dreams about travelling.—At night, great

uneasiness in body, ebullition of blood, palpitation of heart, and nightmare, toothache, colic, and

vertigo with anguish.—Jerking and shocks during sleep.—Waking too early.

Pulse accelerated mostly at night, with ebullitions.—Febrile shuddering, with cold

hands and hot cheeks, or vice versa, but always without thirst.—(Shivering fits between 3 and 4

• ▸a.
• ▸m.
• ▸induced by overfatigue and anxiety—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Coldness of hands and feet —Coldness and

chilliness the whole day, more so in forenoon, with cold hands and feet with hot head; or the

reverse, hot hands and feet with cold cheeks.—Heat with great debility and sleep.—Heat with

perspiration over whole body.—Burning hot perspiration on forehead when the hat presses

• ▸him.
• ▸—Perspiration while eating —Burning in feet, esp.
• ▸soles, on walking.
• ▸—Sweats in

morning.—Nocturnal sweat, often alternating with dryness of skin.—Cold and constant sweat, as

from anguish, with trembling from the pains.—Profuse sweat from the least physical exertion.

• ▸Albuminuria.
• ▸Anidrosis.
• ▸Ankles, weak.
• ▸Burns.
• ▸Cornea, ulcers on.
• ▸Corns.
• ▸Coryza.

• ▸Deafness.
• ▸Dysmenia.
• ▸Dyspepsia.
• ▸Goitre.
• ▸Hands, chapped.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Heels, blisters on.
• ▸Herpes:

• ▸iris; circinatus.
• ▸Hypochondriasis.
• ▸Hysteria.
• ▸chthyosis.
• ▸Lisping.
• ▸Moles.
• ▸Nose, swollen; eruptions

• ▸on; red.
• ▸Ozeena.
• ▸Post-nasal catarrh.
• ▸Presbyopia.
• ▸Priapism.
• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸School-headache.

• ▸Scrofula.
• ▸Stammering.
• ▸Sterility.
• ▸Sunstroke, chronic effects of.
• ▸Throat, mucus in.
• ▸Toothache.

Warts.

• ▸Antidoted by: Camph.
• ▸, Sp.
• ▸nit.
• ▸dul.
• ▸/t antidotes: Chi.
• ▸Complementary: Sep.
• ▸, (Kali

• ▸salts).
• ▸Compatible: Calc.
• ▸, Nux, Pul.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸Compare: Nat.
• ▸sul.
• ▸(Nat.
• ▸sul.
• ▸is preferable for

• ▸yeast-like vomiting, with pallid, dirty, livid tongue).
• ▸Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸(hypochondriasis—that of Nat.
• ▸c.

keeps pace with indigestion, that of Nat. m. with degree of constipation; head and face >

uncovering; leucorrhcea). Sep. (indifferent to family; melancholy, apprehensive; < by music;

backache < by sitting; bearing down; boring through from tip of left scapula;—Sep. has more

• ▸empty feeling, and it does not "fill up" till after supper; Nat.
• ▸c.
• ▸sinking < 10 to 11 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸, > eating,

• ▸which = distension).
• ▸Pic.
• ▸ac.
• ▸(priapism towards morning, emission and no desire).
• ▸Nux

• ▸(hypochondriasis; morning retching—Nux, of pregnancy or after debauch).
• ▸Pho.
• ▸, Rho.
• ▸, Sil.
• ▸, Pet.
• ▸,

• ▸< from thunderstorm.
• ▸Sul.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸, Caust.
• ▸(falls easily).
• ▸Lyc.
• ▸(> uncovering; ulcer on heel—Lyc.

• ▸on instep; right upper, left lower).
• ▸Am.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Am.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Cep.
• ▸(sore heels).
• ▸Bry.
• ▸(cough in warm

• ▸room).
• ▸Sep.
• ▸(eruption on back of hands; Sep.
• ▸ulcers about joints of hands).
• ▸Calc.
• ▸(coldness in

• ▸abdomen;—icy coldness in stomach, Calc.
• ▸, Colch.
• ▸, Ars.
• ▸, Ambr.
• ▸;—burning heat in stomach, Ars.
• ▸,

• ▸Apis).
• ▸Sil.
• ▸(intolerance of draught; cough from draught of air;—< open air, Calc.
• ▸; < change of

• ▸temperature, Lach.
• ▸).
• ▸Agar.
• ▸, Naj.
• ▸(ulcer on freenum linguze).
• ▸Aco.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸, Glo.
• ▸(headache from

• ▸sun's rays).
• ▸Zn.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸, Indm.
• ▸(weakness and goneness at stomach 11 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸).
• ▸Calc.
• ▸(chapped hands).

• ▸K.
• ▸ca.
• ▸, chapped face.
• ▸Debility from heat of summer, Ant.
• ▸c.
• ▸Headache from sun or gaslight, Glo.
• ▸,

• ▸Lach.
• ▸< From music, Sabi.
• ▸Catarrh, profuse discharge by day, stopped at night, Nux.
• ▸Bearing

• ▸down as if everything would come out, Agar.
• ▸, Lil.
• ▸t.
• ▸, Murex.
• ▸Easily sprained ankles, Led.
• ▸Foot

• ▸bends under, Carb.
• ▸an.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸Boring fingers into nose, &c.
• ▸, Cina (the boring of Nat.
• ▸c.
• ▸>; that

of Cina does not).

• ▸Compare: Sodii bicarbonas (in vomiting of pregnancy with acetonuria, 30 grains in water spread over twenty-four hours); Nat sulph; Caust; Natr cacodyl (Foul breath and mouth with bad odor.
• ▸Dry dermatitis of the skin of abdomen.
• ▸Malignant growths.
• ▸In phthisis, 5 centigrammes hypodermically, daily.
• ▸Increase number of red blood corpuscles to double.
• ▸Also in malignant disease).
• ▸Arsynal--(Disodium methylarsenate).
• ▸Introduced by M.
• ▸A.
• ▸Gautier, for phthisis in the second stage 4 to 6 centigrammes per day for one week followed by a week's intermission.
• ▸But much smaller doses, i.
• ▸e, 1x to 3x are followed by improvement, lessened fever, night sweat and haemoptysis ceasing.

Antidote: Ars. Camph.

Sixth potency.

Vesicular eruptions on the body in patches and circles ; the herpes

family is especially related to Natr. carb. ; zona, herpes labialis, herpes

preputialis ; patches as large as a dollar on the hips, thighs and back.

•Smaller patches show vesicles ’containing a white serum ,* • burning.

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smarting and itching, better from scratching. The eruption passes

away with a crust, but will often ulcerate, it does not heal and an ulcer

forms. Circulation feeble ; wounds suppurate. Feet and skin burn.

Crusty eruptions on the skin that have not been vesicular ; but most

• ▸Natr.
• ▸carb.
• ▸and Natr, mur.
• ▸eruptions are of the vesicular form.
• ▸Tingling, biting, itching, changing place, now here and now there ; cold

skin ; sweaty body.

Nervous exhaustion, physical exhaustion, weakness of mind and

body. Book-keepers lose the ability to add up figures. In reading a

page, the one previous to it soon goes out of the mind. The memory

will not hold out from the beginning to the end of a sentence. Forgets what he reads. Confusion of mind follows and then he is unable

to perform any mental labor. Men become so fatigued from the details of business that a confusion of the mind comes over them, they

get brain fag.

Oversensitive to heat, especially after sunstroke, even some years

after ; has to be well shaded when walking in the sun, must seek a

cool or dark place ; the patient has not had the proper acute remedy

during the attack ; the remedy is aggravated by both cold and heat,

but this is a special aggravation from the heat of the sun ; head troubles

are not worse from cold in Natr. Carb. Old cases of brain fag with

weakness and trepidation. The body troubles are aggravated from

cold and in the winter ; as cold as ^ he had no blood in the body, extremities cold, and he cannot get twm warm ; cold as ice to the knees

and elbows. The body and extremities are worse in winter, the head

in summer. '

Anxious trembling and sweating during pains.

The senses are all disturbed ; oversensitive to light ; pain in the eyes

from a bright light.

Oversensitive hearing ; little noises seem enormous, like thunder ;

the crumpling of paper seems like the crashing of a waterfall.

Taste perverted, too sensitive, so that the tasting of things ordinarily grateful becomes painful ; sometimes loss of taste.

Loss of smell. Hay fever, catarrhal fever ; where catarrhal conditions are present there is copious, thick, yellow, purulent discharge

from the eyes, nose, vagina. The vesicles are filled with thin, white

serum, but the pustule, when it ruptures, throws out a thick, yellow

discharge. Leucorrhoea thick, yellow, ropy; gonorrhoea of the same

character; thick, yellow, ropy, purulent discharge from the bladder

which clogs up the urethra when urinating.

Otalgia, with sharp, darting, piercing pains ; when the mental state,

the chilliness and other generals are present.

The discharges are commonly offensive.

Coryzas trouble much ; always has a cold in the head ; the watery

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of lime. Children can get plenty of lime from their food and that is

better when the salt or the lime is given in such shape that it cannot be

resisted by the internal man — aimed not at the house he lives in, but

at the individual himself — then the bone, salt inanition, the Natr. mun

inanition, will soon pass away. We do not with our small dose supply the salt that the system needs, but we cure the internal disease, we

turn into order the internal physical man, and then the tissues get salt

enough from the food. Drugs must all be administered in suitable

form. We may need to go higher and higher until the secret spring

is touched.

• ▸Natr.
• ▸mur.
• ▸is a deep acting, long acting remedy.
• ▸It takes a wonderful hold of the economy, making changes that are lasting when given

in potentized doses.

A great deal is presented that can be seen by looking at the patient,

• ▸so that we say: this looks like a Natr.
• ▸mur.
• ▸patient.
• ▸Experienced

physicians learn to classify patients by appearance. The skin is shiny,

pale, waxy, looks as if greased. There is a wonderful prostration of

a peculiar kind. Emaciation, weakness, nervous prostration, nervous

irritability.

There is a long chain of mental symptoms ; hysterical condition of

the mind and body ; weeping alternating with laughing ; irresistible

laughing at unsuitable times ; prolonged, spasmodic laughter. This

will be followed by tearfulness, great sadness, joylessness. No matter how cheering the circumstances arc she cannot bring herself into

the state of being joyful. She is benumbed to impressions, easily takes

on grief, grieves over nothing. Unpleasant occurrences are recalled

that she may grieve over them. Consolation aggravated the state of

the mind — the melancholy, the tearfulness, sometimes brings on anger.

She appears to bid for sympathy and is mad when it is given. Headache comes on with this melancholy. She walks the floor in rage.

She is extremely forgetful ; cannot cast up accounts ; is unable to

meditate ; forgets what she was going to say ; loses the thread of what

she is hearing or reading. There is a great prostration of the mind.

Unrequited affection brings on complaints. She is unable to control her affections and falls in love with a married man. She knows

that it is foolish, but lies awake with love for him. She falls in love

with a coachman. She knows that she is unwise, but cannot help it.

In cases of this kind Natr. mur. will turn her mind into order, and she

will look back and wonder why she was so silly. This remedy belongs

to hysterical girls.

In a mental state where /gn. temporarily benefits the symptoms,

• ▸but does not cure, its chronic Natr.
• ▸mur.
• ▸should be given.
• ▸It is as

well to give Natr. mur. at once if there is an underlying constitutional

state too deep for Ign,

• ▸Sudden call to stool.
• ▸Escapes with haste and noise.
• ▸Yellow substance like pulp of orange in discharge.
• ▸Diarrhoea from milk.