Natrum Muriaticum

• ▸If Nat.
• ▸carb.
• ▸is the typical salt of the Natrum group (as Kali carb.
• ▸is of the

• ▸Kalis), Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸is the most important.
• ▸In power and range it stands in the first rank of

homeeopathic remedies, but it has an additional significance, in that it exemplifies the power of

• ▸attenuation in a remarkable way.
• ▸The problems involved in Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸may be regarded in a sense as

the pons asinorum of homeopathy. Those who are able to grasp in a practical way the

homeeopathic uses of this remedy are not likely to meet with any insuperable difficulties

• ▸elsewhere.
• ▸Those who can see nothing but "common salt" in Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸may conclude that they

have not "the root of the matter" in them. It may be inconceivable to some that the attenuations

of Nat. m. should act independently, as curative or pathogenetic, at the same time that crude salt

is being ingested in quantities; and it may seem that an infinitesimal amount of a substance

which is a necessary constituent of our tissues cannot possibly have any action at all; but this

problem is constantly before the homceopathist, and if he cannot master it in respect to Nat. m. he

• ▸need not trouble his brains to try elsewhere.
• ▸Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸has been extensively proved, both in the

lower triturations and in the 30th and higher attenuations, and the latter produced the most

marked effects. I have mentioned in the Preface an experience of my own, which I will give here

in more detail. For a common cold which had proved troublesome I took eight globules of Naz.

m. 200. The next day the cold was not better, but I felt ill, and presently a copious, gushing,

watery, light-coloured diarrhoea set in, and persisted for some days, draining all my tissues and

reducing my weight by half a stone before I could think of the cause. Then the dose of Nat. m.

flashed on my mind, and I at once began to smell at a bottle of Sweet Nitre, the antidote. The

diarrhoea and all other symptoms vanished in a way I have never forgotten; and the lesson was

well worth all the suffering I had undergone. My weight came back as rapidly as it had

• ▸disappeared.
• ▸In Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸is illustrated the antidotal action of a substance of high attenuation over

the effect of a lower. A large number of people are steadily poisoning themselves by taking

excessive quantities of salt with their food; and it is generally useful to ask patients if they are

• ▸fond of salt.
• ▸Without restricting the amount of salt taken, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸30 will antidote most of the

effects of the crude, and enable the patient to cut down the quantity taken afterwards. But the

• ▸effect of a high potency can also be antidoted by a higher.
• ▸A patient to whom I gave Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸1m

developed this new symptom: Aching pain deep in left shoulder and down the arm; < lying on

• ▸right side; no tenderness.
• ▸A single dose of Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸c.
• ▸m.
• ▸quickly removed it.
• ▸Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸is one of the

remedies adopted by Schiissler from homceopathy. Though arrived at by a different route, his

indications are for the most part identical with Hahnemann's, and a recital of them will serve to

emphasise some points; and there is no need to accept Schiissler's semi-material theories as an

all-sufficient explanation of the remedy's action, for they do not anything like cover the field.

Says Schiissler: "The water which is introduced into the digestive canal in drinking or with the

food enters into the blood through the epithelial cells of the mucous membrane by means of the

common salt contained in these cells and in the blood, for salt has the well-known property of

• ▸attracting water.
• ▸Water is intended to moisten all the tissues, i.
• ▸e.
• ▸, cells.
• ▸Every cell contains soda.

The nascent chlorine which is split off from the Nat. m. of the intercellular fluid combines with

• ▸this soda.
• ▸The Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸arising by this combination attracts water.
• ▸By this means the cell is

enlarged and divides up. Only in this way can cells divide so as to form additional cells. If there

is no common salt formed in the cells, then the water intended to moisten them remains in the

intercellular fluids, and hydreemia results. Such patients have a watery, bloated face; they are

tired and sleepy and inclined to weep. They are chilly, suffer from cold extremities, and have a

sensation of cold along the spine. At the same time they have a strong desire for common salt.

(The cells deficient in salt cry for salt.) The common salt, of which they consume comparatively

large quantities, does not heal their disease, because the cells can only receive the common salt

in very attenuated solutions. The redundant common salt present in the intercellular fluid may in

such cases cause the patients to have a salty taste in their mouth, and the pathological secretions

of the mucous membranes, as also of excoriations of the skin, may be corrosive (salt-rheum)."

Disturbances in the distribution of salt in the cells cause: Lachrymation; salivation; toothache

with salivation; watery diarrhoea; mucous diarrhoea; lack of mucus; catarrh of stomach with

vomiting of mucus; water-brash; vesicles clear as water on skin or conjunctiva;

constipation.—Thus far Schiissler. But whilst using his theory as a useful means of stringing

many characteristics of Nat. m. together, it is necessary to free oneself from them entirely in

order to see the remedy in all its range of action. A complete view of the symptom picture can

• ▸alone give that.
• ▸In old-school practice Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸is used chiefly in solution as a douche or spray in

nasal and other catarrhs, and in the mixture of "Brandy and Salt," in which large quantities of salt

are given for pulmonary hemorrhages. The relation to catarrh, which Schiissler brings out, is

specific. Excessively fluent coryza, with much sneezing; sore nose, especially the left wing; cold

sores on lips and nose; loss of smell and taste, are indications which I have verified repeatedly in

acute colds and the tendency to them. With the coryza there is copious lachrymation; and

whether or not Schtissler is right on the chemistry of the process, Nat. m. is indicated by tears.

• ▸("Flow of tears with cough" is Burnett's keynote of Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸in whooping-cough, H.
• ▸W.
• ▸, xviii.

• ▸179.
• ▸) The characteristic of the tearful Naz.
• ▸m.
• ▸patient is that she (or he) wants to be alone; any

attempt to console irritates beyond endurance. "Wants to be alone to cry." "Very much inclined

to weep and be excited." There are even tears with laughter. For in addition to the sadness there

is hysterical laughter; laughs till she weeps at things not at all ludicrous. The excitement of Nat.

• ▸m.
• ▸is always followed by melancholy.
• ▸The hypochondriasis and hysteria of Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸generally go

pari passu in the degree of constipation; and Naz. m. is one of the most commonly needed

remedies in that complaint. The most characteristic symptom in this connection is a sensation of

"contraction of the rectum during stool; hard feces at first evacuated with the greatest exertion,

which causes tearing in anus, bleeding and soreness; afterwards thin stools also passed;

constipated every other day." There is also retention of stool; and a feeling after stool as if there

• ▸were more to pass.
• ▸Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸answers equally well to constipation and diarrhoea when the collateral

symptoms correspond. The constipation is often found associated with anzemia; with chilliness,

cold feet and chills down the back; with indigestion such as is met with in victims of

• ▸masturbation: Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸is one of the most helpful of remedies in such cases.
• ▸The unclean

complexion of earthy line, "dirty face" in spite of any amount of washing, is a still further

• ▸indication.
• ▸The skin is greasy from excess of sebaceous secretion.
• ▸Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸corresponds to

affections due to loss of fluids. This recalls China, with which it has a very important antidotal

relation. Both correspond to the effects of masturbation, heemorrhages, and loss of fluids; both

are remedies for intermittent fever, and Naz. m. is the chief antidote to the effects of over-dosing

• ▸with China and Quinine.
• ▸Another important antidotal relation of Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸is to Arg.
• ▸n.
• ▸And here

another interesting fact appears-namely, the parallel between chemical and the dynamic action.

Salt is the best antidote to poisoning with nitrate of silver, as it changes the soluble nitrate of

• ▸silver into the insoluble harmless chloride.
• ▸Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸in the attenuations is also the best remedy for

• ▸the ill effects of Arg.
• ▸n.
• ▸whether used as a cautery or administered as a medicine.
• ▸Whenever there

• ▸is a history of cauterisation and Arg.
• ▸n.
• ▸has been used, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸will do great good.
• ▸Scrofulous

ophthalmia which has been treated locally in vain with Arg. n.; sore throats that have been

cauterised; the effects local and remote of uterine injections of Arg. n., or cauterisings of the os

• ▸uteri.
• ▸W.
• ▸J.
• ▸Guernsey (H.
• ▸P.
• ▸, vii.
• ▸127) relates a striking instance of the last.
• ▸Mrs.
• ▸P.
• ▸, 32,

complained of "lump" in the throat which could not be swallowed, and yet required constant

efforts to do so. < On empty swallowing; yet on swallowing food it seemed to pass over a sore

• ▸spot.
• ▸Bar.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Lach.
• ▸, Bell.
• ▸were given in succession in vain.
• ▸Remembering the injunction of the

Organon, § 207, to inquire as to what allopathic treatment a patient has been subjected to in

order to discover if there is anything to correct, Guernsey discovered that the patient had had a

severe ulceration of the womb which had been "burnt out" several times and was "now well."

She had had a very profuse discharge, but that had stopped, and on the same day she had

• ▸commenced to "choke" with the throat trouble.
• ▸Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸295m (F.
• ▸) was given.
• ▸In a few days the

throat was better and the discharge had returned, much to the patient's horror. Without further

• ▸treatment throat and vaginal discharge were both cured.
• ▸Lambert has recorded (L.
• ▸H.
• ▸H.
• ▸Rep.
• ▸, vii.

144) several cases of headache associated with errors of refraction and consequent eye-strain

• ▸cured with Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸30.
• ▸The headaches were noticed on waking.
• ▸In one case it was like a cloud

over brain with intense depression and had lasted ten years. It disappeared before the vision was

corrected. The effect of living too exclusively on salt food in producing scurvy gives a key to the

use of Nat. m. in many conditions of blood degeneration, haemorrhage, and skin disorder and

ulceration. In aphthous and ulcerative conditions of the mouth it is a leading remedy. The

characteristic tongue of Nat. m. is either a mapped tongue, with red islands; or a clean shining

tongue with froth along each side. There are many characteristic symptoms in connection with

the tongue: hair sensation; numbness and stiffness of one side; heavy, embarrassing speech. Nat.

m. corresponds to children who are late in talking. The tongue is blistered; sticks to roof of

• ▸mouth.
• ▸Dryness of mouth and throat.
• ▸Unquenchable thirst.
• ▸Nausea.
• ▸Vomiting.
• ▸The drying-up

• ▸property of Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸is general.
• ▸One very characteristic effect is dryness of vagina, with painful

coitus; aversion to coitus (in the female); aversion to men. Menses may be early and profuse; or

• ▸scanty and delayed.
• ▸Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸corresponds to many cases of anzemia, and especially to delay in the

first appearance of the menses. Much bearing down and much leucorrhoea. Backache generally

accompanies these, and the backache has this peculiarity, that it is > by pressure; by lying down

with the back on something hard. There is also sensitiveness of the back and spinal irritation.

With the menses there is generally headache, both before, during, or after. The headaches of Nat.

m. are intermitting. They come on in the morning on first waking up and last throughout the day;

• ▸or else they come on at 10 or 11 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸They are < from mental exertion.
• ▸Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸is one of the first

remedies for headaches of schoolgirls. Headache with partial blindness. Headache much < by

coughing. Throbbing; beating as with little hammers; pain as if the head would burst. The

• ▸throbbing headache has its analogue in palpitation of the heart.
• ▸Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸is a great heart remedy.

Fluttering palpitation with faint feeling, < lying down. In one case of huge hypertrophy with

degeneration of most of the valves, the patient told me nothing gave her so much relief as Nat. m.

(which I had given for some incidental condition). Very characteristic is sense of coldness at

heart or precordia with trembling of heart. Constrictive sensations run throughout this remedy: in

heart; chest scalp; throat; rectum; of anus (sensation as if anus were closed) cramps in uterus;

vaginismus; contraction of hamstrings. Paralytic symptoms with numbness are the counterpart of

• ▸these.
• ▸Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸has the sinking sensation of the antipsorics.
• ▸Great hunger, with no appetite.
• ▸Eats

• ▸heartily but emaciates.
• ▸Heartburn after eating.
• ▸Emaciates whilst living well.
• ▸Ravenous appetite

but grows thin, especially about neck. There are some very characteristic desires and aversions:

Desires: bitter things; beer; farinaceous foot; sour things; salt; oysters; fish; milk. Aversion to:

• ▸bread; meat; coffee; tobacco.
• ▸While eating, sweat on face.
• ▸Is > when stomach is empty.
• ▸After

eating: empty eructations; nausea; acidity; sleepiness; heartburn; palpitation; epigastric pressure

• ▸and heat radiating up to chest.
• ▸Violent hiccough.
• ▸The nausea and vomiting of Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸have been

turned to account in the morning sickness of pregnancy. One patient, who said she could "eat the

• ▸brine out of a mackerel kit," was cured with a single dose of Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸(Amer.
• ▸Hom.
• ▸, xxiii.
• ▸385).

• ▸Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸is a great periodic remedy.
• ▸It not only antidotes Quinine, but it causes intermittents on its

• ▸own account.
• ▸Chilliness predominates.
• ▸Chill 10 to 11 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸with thirst, drinks after a meal; fever

blisters round mouth. Fever with violent headache; great thirst; nausea; vomiting; blueness; faint;

• ▸averse to uncover.
• ▸Fever may come on without chill 10 to 11 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸Sweat > headache and other

symptoms though it weakens; averse to uncover. There are many eruptions, herpes, hydroa,

• ▸eczema.
• ▸Eczema on hair margins, especially at back of head.
• ▸Warts on palms of hands.
• ▸Corns.

• ▸Painful scars.
• ▸Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸is suited to: Cachectic persons; old people; teething children; anzemic,

chlorotic people with catarrhal troubles; tuberculous; scrofulous; dropsical; emaciated persons.

Among Peculiar Sensations are: As if head too heavy and would fall forward; as if some

displacement in head had taken place; as if cold wind blowing through head; as though forehead

would burst on coughing; as if head in a vice; pain like a rope round head drawing tighter and

tighter; as if nail driven in left side of head. As if eyeballs too large; as if foreign body in eyes; as

• ▸if eye being torn open.
• ▸As if a small worm squirming in nose.
• ▸Of hair on tongue.
• ▸Splinter in

• ▸throat.
• ▸Plug in throat.
• ▸As if one had to swallow over a lump.
• ▸Difficulty of talking, as if organs of

speech weak. As if foreign body sticking in cardiac orifice behind sternum. When walking, as if

abdominal viscera loose, dragging. As if rough, hard, foreign substance in rectum. As if there

• ▸was a string between uterus and sacrum in hind part of fornix.
• ▸Back as if beaten; broken.
• ▸Nat.
• ▸m.

corresponds to effects of going to seaside; and if patients say they are always < at seaside or

• ▸cannot stay by the sea, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸will probably be the remedy.
• ▸Constipation at seaside.
• ▸But > at

seaside may also indicate it. There is great desire for open air and washing in cold water. < Heat

• ▸of stove; of room; of sun.
• ▸< In summer.
• ▸Warm food < toothache.
• ▸Drawing in air < toothache;

cold drink < toothache. Likes to be covered but it does not >. Lying down > vertigo, headache,

constriction of scalp; < cough; fluttering of heart. Lying on left side <. Moving, least exertion <.

Exercising arms > breathing. Walking <. In back troubles, can stoop readily but it hurts to

• ▸straighten.
• ▸< Mental exertion; talking; writing; reading.
• ▸< After sleep.
• ▸Coitus <.
• ▸Most symptoms

• ▸are < in morning; < after sleep.
• ▸< 10 to 11 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸< During full moon.
• ▸< By eating.
• ▸< From bread,

• ▸acid food, fat, wine.
• ▸< After breakfast.
• ▸> Going without regular meals.
• ▸< Touch and pressure.

Full sensation is > by tight clothes. Back > lying on something hard. > Rubbing.

• ▸Disappointment.
• ▸Fright.
• ▸Fit of passion.
• ▸Loss of fluids.
• ▸Masturbation.
• ▸Injury to head.

• ▸Quinine.
• ▸Lunar caustic.
• ▸Bread.
• ▸Fat.
• ▸Wine.
• ▸Acid food.
• ▸Salt.

• ▸Psychic causes of disease; ill effects of grief, fright, anger, etc.
• ▸Depressed, particularly in chronic diseases.
• ▸Consolation aggravates.
• ▸Irritable; gets into a passion about trifles.
• ▸Awkward, hasty.
• ▸Wants to be alone to cry.
• ▸Tears with laughter.

Melancholy sadness, which induces a constant recurrence to unpleasant recollections,

and much weeping; all attempts at consolation <.—Obliged to weep—Hypochondriacal, tired of

life —Joyless, taciturn.—Great tendency to start—Hurriedness, with anxiety and fluttering of

• ▸heart.
• ▸—Prefers to be alone.
• ▸—Anthropophobia.
• ▸—Anxiety respecting the future.
• ▸—Anguish,

sometimes during a storm, but esp. at night.—Indifference, laconic speech, moroseness, and

unfitness for labour.—Impatient precipitation and irritability—Timidity.—Hatred to persons who

have formerly given offence.—Irascibility and rage, easily provoked.—Inclination to

laugh.—Laughs so immoderately at something not ludicrous that tears come into her eyes and she

looks as if she had been weeping.—Alternate gaiety and ill-humour.—Laughs immoderately and

cannot be quieted.—Difficulty of thinking; absence of mind.—Weakness of memory and

excessive forgetfulness.—Heedlessness and distraction Tendency to make mistakes in speaking

and writing —Brain-fag, with sleeplessness, gloomy forebodings.—Exhaustion after talking,

embarrassment of brain.—Incapacity for reflection, and fatigue from intellectual

labour.—Distraction; does not know what he ought to say.—Awkwardness.

Pressive drawing in limbs.—Rigidity of all joints, which crack when

moved.—Contraction of tendons (muscles shortened).—Jerking in the muscles and

• ▸limbs.
• ▸—Jerking of r.
• ▸side and head.
• ▸—Tendency to dislocation, and to strain back.
• ▸—Old

• ▸sprains.
• ▸—Paralysis Swelling of glands.
• ▸—Fungus heematodes; polypus; hang-nails.
• ▸—Fits of

uneasiness, esp. in morning or evening, with nausea, weakness, deadly paleness in face,

headache, numbness of limbs, want to lie down, &c.—Bad effects of a disappointment.—A fter

fright, chorea.—A fter fit of passion, paralysis. The symptoms manifest themselves, are renewed,

or <, generally when lying down, and esp. at night, or in morning; and are > by rising up in

bed.—The nocturnal pains suspend respiration, and occasion a sort of semi-lateral

paralysis.—General ebullition of blood, with pulsation over whole body, on slightest

movement.—Trembling of whole body, caused by tobacco smoking.—Congestion in head, chest,

and stomach, with coldness of legs.—Obstruction from inactivity of the bowels.—Affections of

the pit of the stomach; rectum; external belly.—Reddish urine; complaints after making

water.—Uneasiness and inconvenience after prolonged speaking.—Great relaxation of all physical

and moral powers, after fatigue—Heaviness and indolence, esp. after having risen in morning,

with repugnance to movement and walking.—Excessive soreness and lassitude in limbs, esp. in

• ▸morning, and when seated.
• ▸—Hysterical debility; in morning in bed.
• ▸—Great weakness.
• ▸—Alternate

weakness and agility in limbs.—Great emaciation (more of body than face).—Tendency to take

cold.—Inquietude in body, with shivering.

• ▸Throbs.
• ▸Blinding headache.
• ▸Aches as if a thousand little hammers were knocking on the brain, in the morning on awakening, after menstruation, from sunrise to sunset.
• ▸Feels too large; cold.
• ▸Anaemic headache of school-girls; nervous, discouraged, broken down.
• ▸Chronic headache, semi-lateral, congestive, from sunrise to sunset, with pale face, nausea, vomiting; periodical; from eyestrain; menstrual.
• ▸Before attack, numbness and tingling in lips, tongue and nose, relieved by sleep.
• ▸Frontal sinus inflammation.

Painful confusion in head.—Emptiness of head with anguish.—Weariness in

head.—Vertigo, during which everything seems to turn round before eyes, with tendency to fall

forwards, esp. on walking and getting out of bed.—Vertigo: in forenoon; pressing head down

when sitting; on rising from bed and on waking; on stooping; on turning round (on turning in bed

from r. side to 1.); everything seems to turn in circle; with flickering before eyes and dulness of

head; and nausea woke her 5 a.m., > lying with head high; on crossing a stone bridge the stones

seemed to sink under feet; > lying down; keeping quiet; by cold applications.—Intermittent

reeling like vertigo; < moving head, like a thrust from vertex to forehead, for the moment

depriving him of his senses.—Burning on the vertex.—Vertigo, with shocks in head and

dizziness.—Violent headache, as if the head would burst.—Sensation of congestion of blood to

head; head feels heavy.—Stitches through head, extending to neck and chest.—Heat in head, with

redness of face, nausea and vomiting.—Periodical headaches during, after, or before

menses.—Headache in morning, on waking; on turning, and while moving body or head; when

running; or in cold air; or after being thwarted.—Heaviness of head, every day, esp. in occiput,

forcing eyes to close; < in the morning; from warmth and motion; > when sitting, lying, or

perspiring.—Headache, as if head were about to split; or as if it were tight and compressed, esp.

when writing.—Fits of headache, with nausea and vomiting (eructations, colic, and trembling of

limbs).—Aching and compression in head, esp. in temples and above eyes, < by

frowning.—Acute pullings and shootings in head, esp. above eyes, with want to lie down, and

clouded sight.—Lancinating shocks across head.—Throbbing, pulsation, and hammering in head,

esp. during movement, > when lying with head high; > by perspiration.—Rheumatic (tearing)

pain in head, from root of nose extending to forehead, with nausea, vomiting, vanishing of sight;

<in morning when waking from sleep, from mental exertion and motion; > sitting still or lying

down.—Throbbing and drawing pains in forehead.—Sensation on moving head as if brain

wavered.—Painful sensitiveness of scalp, as if excoriated.—Contraction and mobility of

• ▸scalp.
• ▸—Tendency of head to become easily chilled.
• ▸—Sweat on head, esp.
• ▸in morning and at

night.—Scurf on scalp.—Great sensitiveness of scalp; with greasy, shining face; sensitiveness of

forehead and the borders of hair; < in warm room, > in open air.—Itching eruption of margins of

hair at nape of neck.—Abundant falling off of hair (as soon as it is touched, more on forepart of

head and temple), even of whiskers; and on the genitals, esp. during child-bed.

• ▸Feels bruised, with headache in school children.
• ▸Eyelids heavy.
• ▸Muscles weak and stiff.
• ▸Letters run together.
• ▸Sees sparks.
• ▸Fiery, zigzag appearance around all objects.
• ▸Burning in eyes.
• ▸Give out on reading or writing.
• ▸Stricture of lachrymal duct with suppuration.
• ▸Escape of muco-pus when pressing upon sac.
• ▸Lachrymation, burning and acrid.
• ▸Lids swollen.
• ▸Eyes appear wet with tears.
• ▸Tears stream down face on coughing (Euph).
• ▸Asthenopia due to insufficiency of internal recti muscles (Gels and Cup acet, when due to external muscles).
• ▸Pain in eyes when looking down.
• ▸Cataract incipient (Secale).

Itching in eyes.—Shootings, smarting, and burning in eyes.—Inflammation of

• ▸eyes.
• ▸—Corrosive lachrymation (morning).
• ▸—Frequent lachrymation.
• ▸—Secretion of humour in

external canthi.—Nocturnal agglutination of eyes —Eyelids continually red and

ulcerated.—Inflammation of eyes with ulcerated lids and glutinous mucus in (external)

canthi—Spasmodic closing of lids, esp. in morning, in the evening (during twilight) and at

night—Eyes give out on using them.—(Headache associated with eye-strain; esp. headache on

• ▸waking.
• ▸).
• ▸—Feeling as if balls were too large and compressed.
• ▸—Pressure in eyes on looking

intently at anything.—Sensation of sand in eyes, mornings.—Cloudiness of sight when stooping

and walking, as well as on reading and writing.—Sight confused, as from down before eyes, or

looking through a veil—Letters appear confused, when reading.—Diplopia—Hemiopia

• ▸(perpendicular).
• ▸—Presbyopia.
• ▸—Weakness of sight, as from incipient amaurosis.
• ▸—Black specks,

luminous marks, and sparks before eyes.—Fiery, zigzag appearance around all

• ▸things.
• ▸—A ffections of r.
• ▸eye; angles of eyes; momentary loss of sight.
• ▸—Myopia.

Noises; roaring and ringing.

Shootings in ears —Pulsations and beatings in ears.—Swelling and heat of

• ▸ears.
• ▸—Discharge (of pus) from ears.
• ▸—Hardness of hearing.
• ▸—Tinkling, ringing, rumbling, and

humming in ears.—Painful cracking in ear when masticating.—Itching behind ears.

• ▸Violent, fluent coryza, lasting from one to three days, then changing into stoppage of nose, making breathing difficult.
• ▸Discharge thin and watery, like raw white of egg.
• ▸Violent sneezing coryza.
• ▸Infallible for stopping a cold commencing with sneezing.
• ▸Use thirtieth potency.
• ▸Loss of smell and taste.
• ▸Internal soreness of nose.
• ▸Dryness.

Numbness and insensibility of one side of nose.—Inflammation and swelling of nose,

• ▸on one side (1.
• ▸) only, with pain when touched.
• ▸—Boring in bones of nose.
• ▸Excoriation of interior

• ▸of nose, with swelling of interior wings.
• ▸—Scabs and scurf in nose.
• ▸—Scurf on the nose.
• ▸—Loss of

smell and taste—Abortive sneezing.—Obstruction and dryness of nose.—Dry coryza, sometimes

in morning only.—Violent coryza, fluent or dry, with loss of smell and taste, and

• ▸sneezing.
• ▸—Bleeding of nose (when coughing at night) when stooping.
• ▸—Blood clotted.
• ▸—Painful

burning pustules below septum of nose, afterwards confluent and covered with a scab.

Oily, shiny, as if greased. Earthy complexion. Fevers-blisters.

Face yellowish, pale, livid, earthy.—Face shining, as if greasy —Swelling of

• ▸face.
• ▸—Itching and eruption of pimples on face and forehead.
• ▸—Heat in face.
• ▸—Pains in zygomatic

process, during mastication, like those of ulceration.—Lips dry, chapped, cracked, or excoriated

and ulcerated, with scabs, and burning and smarting eruption.—Fever blisters on the lips —Ulcer

• ▸on (1.
• ▸) cheek.
• ▸—Tingling and numbness of lips.
• ▸—Tettery eruption round mouth.
• ▸—Swelling of

lips.—Sanguineous vesicles in internal surface of upper lip, with burning pain when

touched.—Granulated and ulcerated eruption on chin.—Frequent swelling of submaxillary glands.

• ▸Frothy coating on tongue, with bubbles on side.
• ▸Sense of dryness.
• ▸Scorbutic gums.
• ▸Numbness, tingling of tongue, lips, and nose.
• ▸Vesicles and burning on tongue, as if there was a hair on it.
• ▸Eruptions around mouth and vesicles like pearls on lips.
• ▸Lips and corners of mouth dry, ulcerated, and cracked.
• ▸Deep crack in middle of lower lip.
• ▸Tongue mapped (Ars; Rhus; Tarax).
• ▸Loss of taste.
• ▸Large vesicle on lower lip, which is swollen and burns.
• ▸Immoderate thirst.

Ulcers and vesicles on tongue and in mouth, with burning smarting, and pain from

contact with food and drink.—Blisters like pearls about the mouth; esp. in intermittent

fever—Hzemoptysis.—Speech embarrassed in consequence of heaviness of tongue.—One half of

tongue numb and stiff.—Tongue stiff and, with hard palate, unusually dry. —Prolonged sensation,

as of a hair on tongue.—Dryness of mouth, lips, and esp. of tongue —Burning at tip of

• ▸tongue.
• ▸—Mapped tongue; red insular patches; ringworm on r.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Tongue: clean, shiny,

bubbles of frothy saliva along sides; clean in front, dirty at back; broad, pallid, puffy, with pasty

coat.—Swelling under tongue, with stinging pain; ranula—Numbness on lips and one side of

tongue (trifacial and glosso-pharyngeal paralysis.).—Copious salivation; saliva salty.

Teeth very sensitive to air and touch.—Drawing, like extraction, in teeth, extending

into ear and throat, after a meal, and at night, with swelling of cheek.—Lancinations, boring, and

pulsation in carious teeth—Looseness and caries of teeth.—Fistula in gums.—Gums swollen,

easily bleeding, and very sensitive to cold or hot things.—Putrid inflammation of gums.—Ulcers

in gums.

A sensation during deglutition as of a plug in throat.—Spasms in the

throat —Swelling; sensation of constriction and stitches in throat—Long-continued sore throat,

with sensation as if she had to swallow over a lump.—Inflammation of throat, with shooting pain

• ▸and ulceration.
• ▸—Expectoration of mucus, on hawking, esp.
• ▸in morning.
• ▸—Frequent hawking of

salty-tasting mucus.—Swelling of cervical glands.

• ▸Hungry, yet loose flesh (Iod).
• ▸Heartburn, with palpitation.
• ▸Unquenchable thirst.
• ▸Sweats while eating.
• ▸Craving for salt.
• ▸Aversion to bread, to anything slimy, like oysters, fats.
• ▸Throbbing in pit.
• ▸Sticking sensation in cardiac orifice.

Loss of taste (and smell).—Bitter taste in mouth.—Putrid or acid taste, as when

• ▸fasting.
• ▸—Putrid taste of water.
• ▸—After-taste of food, esp.
• ▸of acids.
• ▸—Continual thirst, often with

nausea, distension of abdomen, and other unpleasant symptoms after drinking.—Loss of appetite,

esp. for bread, and repugnance to tobacco smoke.—(Vomiting of pregnancy with aversion to

• ▸bread.
• ▸).
• ▸—Dislike to food, esp.
• ▸when fat.
• ▸—Sufferings from acid food, from bread, fat, and

wine.—Immoderate appetite in afternoon and evening.—Bulimy, without appetite, with fulness

and satiety, however little may have been eaten.—Desire for acids.—Longing for bitter food and

drink.—Sweat on face during a meal.—After a meal, empty risings, nausea, fulness and inflation

of the abdomen and stomach, somnolence, head confused, acidity in the mouth, and pyrosis,

palpitation, and intermittent or accelerated pulse.—Disagreeable risings after fat food or milk.

Risings, with taste of food.—Violent hiccough.—Sensation as if a foreign body

were sticking in the cardiac orifice and behind sternum.—Acid and acrid risings, sometimes with

• ▸taste of food —Pyrosis, which ascends from stomach.
• ▸—Nausea, esp.
• ▸in morning.
• ▸—Waterbrash,

with revolving sensation in stomach, sometimes followed by a sour vomiting of food.—Vomiting

of food and bile-—Aching of stomach in morning, or during the day, with nausea, and sudden

sinking.—Pressure at epigastrium, as if there were a hard body in stomach.—Epigastrium swollen

and painful, when touched and pressed, as if it were ulcerated.—Contractive cramps in stomach,

• ▸sometimes with nausea.
• ▸—Shocks and clawing in pit of stomach.
• ▸—Pulsation in epigastrium.
• ▸—Red

spots on pit of stomach.

Cutting pain in abdomen. Distended. Pain in abdominal ring on coughing.

Drawing, tension, pressure, pinching, and shootings in hepatic region (chronic

inflammation of liver).—Pain, shootings, and pressure in splenic region.—(Reduces size of

• ▸enlarged spleen.
• ▸).
• ▸—Cramp in diaphragm on stooping.
• ▸—Inflammation of abdomen.
• ▸—Swelling of

abdomen.—Tensive, pressive, and hypochondriacal uneasiness in abdomen.—Pressive pain in

abdomen.—Drawing and contractive pains in abdomen, like labour pains.—Daily cuttings and

pinchings in abdomen, sometimes in morning, and at night—Rigidity in 1. side of

abdomen.—Incarceration of flatus, sometimes at night.—Colic with nausea > by discharge of

flatulence—Loud grumbling and borborygmi in abdomen.—Burning in intestines.—Pain in ring

when coughing, extending into testicles, as if spermatic cords would be torn to

pieces.—Protrusion of hernia.

• ▸Burning pains and stitching after stool.
• ▸Anus contracted, torn, bleeding.
• ▸Constipation; stool dry, crumbling (Am m; Mag m).
• ▸Painless and copious diarrhoea, preceded by pinching pain in abdomen.

Constipation, sometimes prolonged, or every second day.—Frequent,

urging, and ineffectual effort to evacuate, or scanty evacuation.—Stools difficult to discharge,

hard, dry, crumbling, like sheep's dung.—Hard and broken evacuations.—Difficult evacuation of

feeces, often with tearing and shooting in rectum and anus.—Evacuations too

• ▸frequent.
• ▸—Prolonged relaxation of abdomen.
• ▸—Diarrheea like water, with colic.
• ▸—Alternate

constipation and diarrhcea, irregular unsatisfactory stools.—Diarrhcea, with colic, and evacuation

• ▸of mucous matter.
• ▸—Painless watery diarrhcea.
• ▸—Involuntary evacuations.
• ▸—Discharge of blood

during evacuations.—Burning in anus and rectum, during and after stools—Shootings,

excoriation, and pulsation in rectum.—Cramp-like constriction, and feeling of contraction in

rectum.—Prolapsus recti, and burning pain in anus, with oozing of sanguineous and sanious

matter.—Painful and shooting hemorrhoidal tumours in anus.—Excoriation in anus, and between

• ▸the buttocks, esp.
• ▸when walking.
• ▸—Tetters in anus.
• ▸—Lumbrici.

Frequent and urgent want to urinate, day and night, sometimes every

hour, with copious emission.—Involuntary emission of urine, sometimes on coughing, walking,

laughing, or sneezing.—Nocturnal emission of urine.—Clear urine, with red sediment, resembling

brick-dust.—Discharge of mucus from urethra, after the emission of urine —Discharge of mucus

from urethra during and after urination, causing itching and biting. —Discharge of mucus from

urethra, which is sometimes yellowish, as in gonorrhoea.—A fter micturition spasmodic

contraction in abdomen; burning, drawing, and cutting in urethra.—During micturition stitches in

bladder, smarting, burning in urethra; smarting and soreness in vulva.—Urine dark, like coffee, or

black.

Pain just after urinating (Sars). Increased, involuntary when walking, coughing, etc. Has to wait a long time for it to pass if others are present (Hep; Mur ac).

• ▸Menses irregular; usually profuse.
• ▸Vagina dry.
• ▸Leucorrhoea acrid, watery.
• ▸Bearing-down pains; worse in morning (Sep).
• ▸Prolapsus uteri, with cutting in urethra.
• ▸Ineffectual labor-pains.
• ▸Suppressed menses (Follow with Kali carb).
• ▸Hot during menses.

Pressure and general bearing down towards genital organs every

morning; has to sit down to prevent prolapsus.—Prolapsus uteri with aching in loins, > lying on

back; cutting in urethra after micturition —Catamenia premature and profuse; or retarded and

scanty.—Sterility, with too early and too profuse menstruation.—Prolonged

• ▸catamenia.
• ▸—Suppression of catamenia.
• ▸—Difficulty in appearance of first menses.
• ▸—Headache

before, during, and after catamenia.—Before catamenia, moroseness and irritability. —At

commencement of catamenia, sadness.—During catamenia, cramps in abdomen.—Spitting blood

at menstrual nisus; bloody saliva.—Itching in genital organs.—Repugnance to coition—Coition:

painful from dryness of vagina; burning smarting during; in anaemic women with dry mouth and

dry skin.—Leucorrheea, with headache, disposition to diarrhoea, colic, and mucous

evacuations.—Acrid (greenish) leucorrhoea (increased discharge when walking), with yellow

colour of face ——Abundant discharge of transparent, whitish, and thick mucus from

vagina.—Vulvitis with falling off of hair.—Itching of external parts with falling off of

hair.—Pimples on mons veneris.—Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy; morning sickness with

vomiting of frothy, watery phlegm.—During pregnancy: dysuria; albuminuria; craves salt;

congestion to chest; palpitation; heemorrhoids; cough; escape of urine —Labour slow, pains

feeble, apparently from sad feelings and forebodings.—Loss of hair in children or during

• ▸lactation.
• ▸—Child refuses breast; nursing sore mouth.
• ▸—Lancinating pains in breasts.
• ▸—Stitches

• ▸beneath nipples.
• ▸—Dull stitch beneath r.
• ▸nipple, also in abdomen.
• ▸—Breasts sensitive to slightest

touch.

Emission, even after coitus. Impotence with retarded emission.

lItching, tetters, and excoriation between scrotum and thighs.—Itching

and stinging on glans and scrotum.—Secretion behind glans, like gonorrhoea

balani.—Phimosis.—Excessive excitement of genital organs, and of the amative feelings; or

dulness of sexual desire.—Want of energy during coition—Impotence.—Pollutions after

coition.—Strong fetid odour from genital organs——Hydrocele.—Loss of hair from pubes.

• ▸Cough from a tickling in the pit of stomach, accompanied by stitches in liver and spurting of urine (Caust; Squilla).
• ▸Stitches all over chest.
• ▸Cough, with bursting pain in head.
• ▸Shortness of breath, especially on going upstairs (Calc).
• ▸Whooping-cough with flow of tears with cough.

Hoarseness, and sensation of dryness in larynx.—Dry cough with

rattling in chest.—Accumulation of mucus in larynx in morning.—Chest embarrassed with catarrh

and cough.—Cough excited by a tickling in throat, or in epigastrium, day and night, esp. on

walking or taking a deep inspiration —Cough in morning.—Choking, spasmodic cough in bed, in

evening.—Short, chronic cough, with expectoration of mucus and swelling in chest—Cough, with

expectoration of bloody mucus.—Cough, with sanguineous expectoration, retching and

vomiting.—Pains in head, on coughing, as if forehead were about to burst.—Whooping-cough

caused by tickling in throat or pit of stomach, with expectoration (only in morning) of yellow or

blood-streaked mucus, with violent pain in head, or with shocks; beating and hammering in head;

involuntary micturition; stitches in liver.—Tears stream down his face whenever he coughs

• ▸(whooping-cough).
• ▸Breath: hot; offensive.
• ▸—Shortness of breath, esp.
• ▸when walking

quickly.—Obstructed respiration, esp. during manual labour, > when exercising arms and in the

open air.—Wheezing respiration in bed, in evening.

• ▸Tachycardia.
• ▸Sensation of coldness of heart.
• ▸Heart and chest feel constricted.
• ▸Fluttering, palpitating; intermittent pulse.
• ▸Heart's pulsations shake body.
• ▸Intermits on lying down.

Pains in chest (dyspnoea on ascending stairs and shortness of breathing), as if caused

by internal tension.—Stitches in the chest and sides with shortness of breathing, esp. when taking

a long inspiration.—Breath short and chest tight, and as if a dry stick of wood were down the

throat, with cough.—Lancinating pains in chest and sides of chest, with impeded respiration,

sometimes when taking a full inspiration, and when coughing.

Anxious and violent palpitation of heart at every movement of body, but principally

when lying on |. side.—After eating, breath impeded, with violent palpitation Jerking and

shooting pain in region of heart.—Fluttering motion of heart—Irregular and intermittent

palpitation of heart.—Jerking movement of heart—Enlargement of heart.

Aching, rigidity, and tension in nape.—Stitches in neck and back of

• ▸head.
• ▸—Painful stiffness of the neck.
• ▸—Throat and neck emaciate rapidly, esp.
• ▸during summer

complaint.—Goitre of a large size —Scurf under axillze—Scabs in axilla; painful soreness of

cervical glands when coughing.—Engorgement of axillary glands.—Contusive pain and feeling of

paralysis in sacrum, esp. in morning.—Paralytic weakness nearly all day, > from lying, < from

eating.—Shootings, incisive pains, and violent pulsation in sacral region.—Tearing across loins

• ▸and hips.
• ▸—Nocturnal pains in back.
• ▸—Over-sensitiveness of spine.
• ▸—Pain in back > by lying on

something hard.—Lassitude, pressive tension, and pulling in back.

Wrenching pains in joints of shoulders and fingers.—Lassitude and paralytic

heaviness of arms.—Contusive pain in arms and hands, but esp. in shoulder-joints (sensation of

lameness and of a sprain), which prevents arms from being elevated or moved.—Digging in

arms.—Shocks in elbow.—Lancinations in muscles and joints of hands and fingers —Brownish

• ▸spots on back of hand.
• ▸—Warts on palms.
• ▸—Skin of hands dry and cracked, esp.
• ▸round the

• ▸nails.
• ▸—Coldness of hands.
• ▸—Cramp in arms, hands, finger and thumb.
• ▸—Sweat on

hands.—Difficulty in bending the joints of the fingers Numbness and tingling in the

• ▸fingers.
• ▸—Tingling in the hands (and feet), esp.
• ▸on joints and tips of fingers and toes.
• ▸—Trembling

• ▸of hands when writing.
• ▸—Swelling of r.
• ▸hand.
• ▸—Numerous flaws in the nails.
• ▸—Hang-

nails.—Whitish hives on arms and hands.—Panaritium.

Wrenching pain in hips, with shootings.—Drawing pains in thighs, knees,

and legs.—Restlessness and jerking in limbs (in legs, compelling one to move them

• ▸constantly).
• ▸—Paralytic weakness of legs, and esp.
• ▸of joint of foot.
• ▸—Pain as if knees and ankles

were sprained.—Weakness and trembling of lower extremities, on rising from a seat, > from

continued walking.—Jerking of muscles of thighs.—Tension in bends of limbs and sensation as if

the tendons were shortened; painful contraction of tendons of ham.—Wrenching pain in joints of

• ▸knee and foot.
• ▸—Lassitude in knees and calves.
• ▸—Cramps in lower legs and calves.
• ▸—Tetters in

• ▸hams.
• ▸—Tension in legs and calves.
• ▸—Great heaviness in legs and feet —Burning in feet.
• ▸—Swelling

of feet.—Coldness of feet —Pain as from ulceration in malleoli, when putting down foot, and on

touching the parts.—Sensation as if limb had gone to sleep (feet, fingers).—Suppression of

perspiration of feet.—Redness of great toe, with acute pullings and shootings, when walking, and

after standing a long time.—Tetters on malleoli.—Corns on feet, with shooting and boring pains.

• ▸Pain in back, with desire for some firm support (Rhus; Sep).
• ▸Every movement accelerates the circulation.
• ▸Palms hot and perspiring.
• ▸Arms and legs, but especially knees, feel weak.
• ▸Hangnails.
• ▸Dryness and cracking about finger-nails.
• ▸Numbness and tingling in fingers and lower extremities.
• ▸Ankles weak and turn easily.
• ▸Painful contraction of hamstrings (Caust).
• ▸Cracking in joints on motion.
• ▸Coldness of legs with congestion to head, chest, and stomach.

• ▸Greasy, oily, especially on hairy parts.
• ▸Dry eruptions, especially on margin of hairy scalp and bends of joints.
• ▸Fever blisters.
• ▸Urticaria; itch and burn.
• ▸Crusty eruptions in bends of limbs, margin of scalp, behind ears (Caust).
• ▸Warts on palms of hands.
• ▸Eczema; raw, red, and inflamed; worse, eating salt, at seashore.
• ▸Affects hair follicles.
• ▸Alopecia.
• ▸Hives, itching after exertion.
• ▸Greasy skin.

Miliary eruption, with shooting pain.—Itching and pricking in skin.—Rash over whole

body, with stinging sensation in skin.—Red tetter in hollow of knees.—Pain and redness of an old

• ▸cicatrix.
• ▸—Skin of hands, esp.
• ▸about nails, dry, cracked; hang-nails.
• ▸—Whitish hives on arms and

hands.—Itching tubercles.—Nettle-rash after violent exercise

• ▸(itching).
• ▸—Tetters.
• ▸—Furunculi.
• ▸—Exanthema on mouth; lips; in intermittent fever where there are

large exanthematous spots looking like large peas, on lips (cold sores); lips look puffy.—Warts;

• ▸on palms of hands.
• ▸—Panaritium.
• ▸—Varices.
• ▸—Corns.

• ▸Sleepy in forenoon.
• ▸Nervous jerking during sleep.
• ▸Dreams of robbers.
• ▸Sleepless from grief.

Great drowsiness during day, with frequent yawning.—Retarded sleep, and

sleeplessness at night, with ineffectual efforts to go to sleep.—Difficulty in falling asleep again,

at night, after awaking.—Difficulty in waking, and excessively drowsy lassitude early in

morning.—Agitated sleep, full of vivid and lascivious dreams, with prolonged erections and

pollutions.—Anxious, distressing dreams, with tears and talking during sleep.—Frightful dreams

of quarrels, murders, fire, thieves, &c.—Dreams of thieves in the house, making so strong an

impression that patient wakes up and cannot go to sleep again until the house has been searched;

fantastic dreams.—Dreams of burning thirst; starts and talks in sleep and tosses about.—Dreams

which still keep possession of the mind after waking, and which are believed to be

realities —Ebullition of blood at night, with anxious heat (perspiration, violent throbbing of the

arteries) and palpitation of heart—Nightmare.—-Somnambulism.—At night, pains in back,

quivering, apparently of the nerves, frequent emission of urine, headache, colic, asthmatic

sufferings, and great anguish of body.

• ▸Chill between 9 and 11 am.
• ▸Heat; violent thirst, increases with fever.
• ▸Fever-blisters.
• ▸Coldness of the body, and continued chilliness very marked.
• ▸Hydraemia in chronic malarial states with weakness, constipation, loss of appetite, etc.
• ▸Sweats on every exertion.

Frequent, internal, shudderings.—Continued shivering and want of vital heat.—Chill

predominates; chilliness internally, as from want of vital heat, with icy coldness of hands and

feet (evening).—Continued chilliness from morning till noon.—Shivering, with and without

thirst.—Shivering and shuddering, with drowsiness, followed by slight perspiration—Flushes of

heat and shivering alternately, with headache; chilliness over back and perspiration in axilla and

on soles of feet—Continuous heat in afternoon, with violent headache and unconsciousness; they

are gradually > during the perspiration which follows.—Violent perspiration > the painful

symptoms present during fever.—Debilitating, somewhat sour-smelling perspiration.—Chilliness

with increasing headache in forehead every day at 9 a.m. until noon; afterwards heat with

gradually increasing perspiration and thirst, the headache decreasing afterwards gradually.—Heat

with burning thirst.—Dejection before fever—Before shivering, headache; during shivering, short

breathing, yawning, and desire to sleep.—During heat, violent headache, dizziness, cloudiness of

eyes, vertigo, and redness of face.—Fever, with pains in bones, pains in back, yellowish

complexion, headache, weakness, bitter taste in mouth, ulceration at commissures of lips, want

of appetite, pressure at pit of stomach, with great sensitiveness of that part to touch; quotidian or

tertian fever, generally commencing in morning by shiverings, followed by heat and thirst —In

forenoon chilliness for three hours, with blue nails and chattering of teeth; this is followed by

heat, lasting as long, accompanied by obscuration of sight, stitches in head much thirst, pains in

back, followed by perspiration. —[Ague, fever at noon, generally 9 to 11 hard chill, great thirst for

large quantities of water, longing for salt food, headache during the heat, profuse sweat and

complete apyrexia leaving languor and debility.—Spleen and liver enlargement and obstinate

constipation.—Pernicious fever and fever with anemia often benefited by Nat. m.

(Majumdar)].—Typhus fever, with debility, dryness of tongue, and violent thirst.—Pulse irregular

• ▸and often intermittent (esp.
• ▸when lying on 1.
• ▸side).
• ▸—Pulse at one time rapid and weak, at another

full and slow.—The pulsations shake whole body.—Intermittent fever: chilliness with great thirst;

afterwards great heat with violent thirst and excessive headache; at last profuse

perspiration.—Intermittent fevers after the abuse of Chininum sulph. (< during hot

stage).—During apyrexia: stitches about the liver; languor; emaciation; fever blisters on

• ▸lips.
• ▸—Sweat in morning.
• ▸—Profuse sweat, too easily excited by movement.
• ▸—After the fever passes

off the patient wishes to retain a recumbent position, does not "feel able" to get up or go about

anything.

• ▸Addison's disease.
• ▸Aneemia.
• ▸Aphthe.
• ▸Atrophy.
• ▸Brain-fag.
• ▸Catarrh.
• ▸Chorea.

• ▸Constipation.
• ▸Cough.
• ▸Cracks in the skin.
• ▸Debility.
• ▸Depression.
• ▸Diabetes.
• ▸Disparunia.
• ▸Dropsy.

• ▸Dyspepsia.
• ▸Epilepsy.
• ▸Erysipelas.
• ▸Eyes, affections of.
• ▸Eye-strain.
• ▸Face, complexion unhealthy.

• ▸Gleet.
• ▸Glossopharyngeal paralysis.
• ▸Goitre.
• ▸Gonorrhoea.
• ▸Gout.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Heart, affections of.

• ▸Hemiopia.
• ▸Hernia.
• ▸Herpes.
• ▸Herpes circinatis.
• ▸Hiccough.
• ▸Hodgkin's disease.
• ▸Hydroa.

• ▸Hypochondriasis.
• ▸Intermittent fever.
• ▸Leucocythemia.
• ▸Leucorrhea.
• ▸Lips, eruption on.
• ▸Lungs,

• ▸cedema of.
• ▸Menstruation, disorders of.
• ▸Mouth, inflammation of.
• ▸Nettlerash.
• ▸Pediculosis.
• ▸Ranula.

• ▸Seborrheea.
• ▸Self-abuse.
• ▸Somnambulism.
• ▸Speech, embarrassed.
• ▸Spermatorrhea.
• ▸Spinal irritation.

• ▸Spleen, enlarged.
• ▸Sterility.
• ▸Stomatitis.
• ▸Sunstroke.
• ▸Taste, lost; disordered.
• ▸Tongue, blistered;

• ▸white coated; heavy.
• ▸Trifacial-nerve paralysis.
• ▸Ulcers.
• ▸Varices.
• ▸Vaginismus.
• ▸Vertigo.
• ▸Warts.

Whooping-cough. Worms. Yawning.

• ▸Antidoted by: Smelling Nit sp.
• ▸dulc.
• ▸; Phos.
• ▸(especially abuse of salt in food); Ars,

(bad effects of sea-bathing). Nux will relieve headache if persistent, or prostration if prolonged

• ▸after Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸Antidote to: Arg.
• ▸n.
• ▸(abuse of, as cautery); Quinine (when diseases continue

intermittent and patients suffer from headache, constipation, disturbed sleep); Apis (bee-stings).

• ▸Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸should not be given during the paroxysm of fever.
• ▸Complementary: Apis, Sep.
• ▸, Caps.

• ▸Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸is the Chronic of: Ign.
• ▸(its vegetable analogue); also of Apis and Caps.
• ▸Compatible:

• ▸Before—Sep.
• ▸, Thuja; after—Kali m.
• ▸, Kali p.
• ▸, Kali s.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸sul.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸ph.
• ▸, Fer.
• ▸p.
• ▸Compare: Borax,

• ▸Nat.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸hyp.
• ▸, K.
• ▸chl.
• ▸In mapped tongue, Ars.
• ▸, Rhus, K.
• ▸bi.
• ▸, Tarax.
• ▸, Ran.
• ▸s.
• ▸(acidity).

• ▸Hypochondriasis with indigestion, Nat.
• ▸s.
• ▸(Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸melancholy keeps step with the constipation;

• ▸Nat.
• ▸s.
• ▸melancholy with degree of indigestion).
• ▸Lachrymose, Puls.
• ▸(> consolation), Sep.
• ▸, Ign.

• ▸Schoolgirls' headache, Calc.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸p.
• ▸Headache coming and going with sun, Spi.
• ▸, Gels.
• ▸, Glo.
• ▸,

• ▸Sang.
• ▸Headache with partial blindness, K.
• ▸bi.
• ▸, Ir.
• ▸v.
• ▸Half sight, Aur.
• ▸, Lith.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Titan.

• ▸Headache with cough, Caps.
• ▸, Bry.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸(Sul.
• ▸occiput, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸forehead).
• ▸Spurting of urine with

• ▸cough, Fer.
• ▸, Scill.
• ▸, Caust.
• ▸, Pul.
• ▸Ravenous yet wastes, Iod.
• ▸(Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸, especially neck).
• ▸Distended

• ▸stomach > tight clothing, Fl.
• ▸ac.
• ▸(opp.
• ▸Lach.
• ▸, Hep.
• ▸).
• ▸Hydroa labialis, Hep.
• ▸, Rhus, Ars.
• ▸, Camph.

• ▸Herpes circinatus, Sep.
• ▸, Bar.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Tell.
• ▸Chill 10 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Stn.
• ▸(Stn.
• ▸hectic, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸intermittent).

• ▸Paralysed by emotion, Gels.
• ▸, Staph.
• ▸Amenorrheea, K.
• ▸ca.
• ▸(acts when Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸fails).
• ▸Backache,

• ▸spinal irritation, K.
• ▸ca.
• ▸Cold feeling about heart, Petrol.
• ▸Spinal irritation, Act.
• ▸r.
• ▸(Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸> lying

• ▸flat, Act.
• ▸r.
• ▸< from touch).
• ▸Oily sweat on face, Bry.
• ▸Intermittents, chill beginning in small of

• ▸back, Eup.
• ▸pf.
• ▸; Rhus (chill begins in one leg, or thigh, or between shoulders), Gels.
• ▸(runs up

• ▸spine).
• ▸Prolapsus uteri, Sep.
• ▸, Lil.
• ▸t.
• ▸Sensation of foreign body in anus, Sep.
• ▸(ball).
• ▸Constriction in

• ▸anus, Lach.
• ▸, Bell.
• ▸, Caust.
• ▸, Nit.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Ign.
• ▸, Op.
• ▸, Pho.
• ▸Sadness during menses, Lyc.
• ▸, Nit.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Sep.

• ▸(Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸< or > 10 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸).
• ▸Stitches in heart, Spi.
• ▸, Ars.
• ▸, K.
• ▸ca.
• ▸, Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸< After sleep, Lach.
• ▸, Sul.

• ▸Ripping-up sensation of anus after stool, Sep.
• ▸Stomatitis, Caps.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸ac.
• ▸Dreams persist after

• ▸waking, Chi.
• ▸Chilblains on feet only, Lyc.
• ▸Sinking 11 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸Breasts painful before menses,

• ▸Calc.
• ▸, Con.
• ▸Umbilical hernia with absence of urging, Bry.
• ▸, Ver.
• ▸(with urging, Nux, Cocc.
• ▸).

• ▸Laughs at serious things, Anac.
• ▸, Pho.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Plat.
• ▸Weeps if looked at, Kissingen.
• ▸Hair sensation

• ▸on tongue, Sil.
• ▸Head and face > uncovering, Nat.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸Headache from eye-strain, Onos.
• ▸(Teste

• ▸includes Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸in his Lycopod.
• ▸group, with Viol.
• ▸t.
• ▸and Ant.
• ▸c.
• ▸)

Complementary to Apis; Sepia; Ign.

• ▸Compare: Aqua marina-Isotonic plasma.
• ▸Marine plasma is a sea water taken some miles from shore and some depth below surface, filtered and diluted with twice as much pure fresh water.
• ▸It acts primarily on the blood, as in intoxications, scrofulous conditions, enteritis.
• ▸It disintoxicates in cancer (administered subcutaneously in the treatment of diseases of skin, kidneys and intestines, gastro-enteritis, and tuberculosis).
• ▸Scrofulous affection of children.
• ▸Lymphadenitis.
• ▸Lupus, eczema, varicose ulcers.
• ▸A great "blood purifier and vitalizer.
• ▸" Potentized sea-water in weakness, lack of reaction; symptoms worse seaside (Goitre).
• ▸Sal marinum sea salt, (indicated in chronic enlargements of glands, especially cervical.
• ▸Suppurating glands.
• ▸It appears likely to become a most useful remedy as an auxiliary, if not as a principal, in the treatment of diseases in patients of a strumous diathesis.
• ▸Also useful in constipation).
• ▸Natrum selenicum (laryngeal phthisis with expectoration of small lumps of bloody mucus and slight hoarseness).
• ▸Natrum silicum (haemophilia; scrofulous bone affections; given intravenously every 3 days for senile pruritus); (Dolichos. Fagopyr).
• ▸Ignat; Sep; Thuja; Graph; Alum.

Antidote: Ars; Phos; Spir nit dulc.

Twelfth to thirtieth and higher. The very highest potencies often yield most brilliant results. And in infrequent dosage.

The Natr, mur. patient is greatly disturbed by excitement, is extremely emotional. The whole nervous economy is in a state of fret

and irritation, < from noise, the slamming of a door, the ringing of

a bell, the firing of a pistol, < music.

The pains are stitching, electric-like shocks, convulsive jerkings of

the limbs on falling asleep, twitchings, shooting pains. She is oversensitive to all sorts of influences, is excitable, emotional, intense.

Complaints come on in the warm room, worse in the house, she

wants the open air. The mental complaints are > in the open air.

She takes cold easily from sweating, but is generally > in the open,

air, though worse on getting heated ; < by sufficient exertion to heat

up, but > by moderate exertion in the cold air.

• ▸Both Natr.
• ▸carh.
• ▸and Natr.
• ▸mur.
• ▸have the general nervous tension

of Natrum, but one is a chilly patient, the other warm blooded.

The face is sickly looking, the skin greasy, shiny, sallow, yellow,

often chlorotic, covered with vesicular eruptions around the edges of

the hair, the ears and back of the neck. There are scaly and squamous eruptions, with great itching, oozing a watery fluid, or sometimes

dry. An exfoliation takes place, a shining surface is left. In the

meatus, scales form and peel off, leaving an oozing surface. Watery

vesicles form about the lips and wings of the nose, about the genitals

and anus. Vesicular eruptions, white, oozing a watery fluid, come and

go. Great itching of the skin is prelent

The skin looks waxy, dropsical.; iThere is great emaciation, the skin

looking dry, withered, shrunken. An infant looks like a little old

• ▸man.
• ▸There is a down on the fate that passes away when improvement sets in.
• ▸Emaciation takes place from above downward.
• ▸The

collar-bones become prominent and the neck looks scrawny, but the

hips and lower limbs remain plump and round. Lyc, also has emaciation from above downward. The directions of remedies will often

enable us to distinguish one from another.

The characteristic discharge from the mucous membranes is watery

or thick whitish, like the white of an egg. There is a marked coryza

with a watery discharge, but the constitutional state has thick, white

discharges. He hawks out a thick, w^hite discharge in the morning.

There are gluey oozings from the eyes. From the cars flows a thick,

white, gluey discharge. The leucorrhoea is white and thick. With

the gonorrhoea the discharge has existed a long time and become

gleety. There is smarting in the urethra only after urination.

The headaches are awful ; dreadful pains ; bursting, compressing,

as if in a vise ; the head feels as if the skull would be crushed in. The

pains are attended with hammering and throbbing. Pain like little

hammers in the head on beginning to move. Hammering pains in the

head on waking in the morning. The pain comes on in the latter part

of sleep. There is great nervousness during the first part of the night ;

she falls asleep late and awakes with hammering in the head. There

• ▸are also headaches beginning at lo to ii a.
• ▸m.
• ▸, lasting until 3 p.
• ▸m,

or evening. The headaches are periodical, every day, or third day,

or fourth day. Headaches of those living in malarial districts, C>

from sleep ; the patient must go to bed and be perfectly quiet, > from

sweating, headaches associated with intermittent fever. During the

chill it seemed as though the head would burst ; he is delirious and

drinks large quantities of cold water. There is no relief to the head

until after the sweat. Sometimes all the symptoms are relieved by

the sweat except the headache.

In another form of headache ; the greater the pain the more the

sweat ; sweating does not relieve ; the forehead is cold, covered with

a cold sweat. When the head is covered warmly he is > moving

about in the open air.

Headache due to disturbance of vision where there is inability to

focus rapidly enough. Headache < from noise.

Headache involving the whole back of the head and even going

down the spine in troubles following the brain diseases, hydrocephalus.

In spinal troubles, when there is great sensitiveness to pressure —

an irritable spine. The vertebra? are sensitive and there is a great

deal of aching along the spine. Coughing aggravates the pain in the

spine, also walking makes it worse, but it is > from lying on something hard, or pressing the back up against something hard ; they may

sit with a pillow or the hand pressed against the back. In menstrual

troubles you find the woman lying with some hard object under the

spine.

A general nervous trembling pervades the body. There is jerking

of the muscles, trembling of the limbs, inability to keep the limbs still,

as in Zincum,

• ▸The stomach and liver are closely related.
• ▸The stomach is distended with flatus.
• ▸After eating there is a lump in the stomach.
• ▸It

• ▸seems to take a long time for food to digest.
• ▸< from eating.
• ▸Whitish, slimy mucus is vomited attended with relief.
• ▸There is great thirst

for cold water. Sometimes there is relief from drinking, sometimes the

thirst is unquenchable. We find fullness in the region of the liver

with stitching, tearing pains. The bowels are distended with gas.

There is slowing down of the action of the bowels, the stool being

very difficult, in hard, agglomerated lumps. There is slowing down of

the action of the bladder. Must wait before the urine will start, and

then it comes slowly — dribbles ; there is not much force in the flow.

After urination there is a sensation as if more urine remained in the

bladder. If anyone u present he cannot pass urine, cannot pass it in a

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public place. There is also continued urging, he must pass the urine

often.

This remedy and Natr, sulpha were used by the homoeopaths to clear

up chronic diarrhoea, the old army diarrhoea.

Natr. mur. is useful in the complaints of women, in troublesome

menstruation. There is a great variety of menstrual complaints :

menses too scanty or too free, too late or too soon. We cannot individualize from the menstrual symptoms, we must do it from the constitutional state. Examine every possible function to be sure you have

all the symptoms. Examine every organ, not by examining it physically, for results of diseases do not lead to the remedy, but examine

the symptoms.

Observe the rapidity with which remedies affect the human system :

• ▸there are some that are long acting, deep acting.
• ▸Natr.
• ▸mur.
• ▸is one

of these. It operates very slowly, bringing about its results after a

long time, as it corresponds to complaints that arc slow, that are long

in action. This does nor mean that it will not act rapidly ; all remedies

act rapidly, but not all act slowly ; the longest acting may act in

acute diseases, but the short acting cannot act long in chronic diseases.

Get the pace, the periodicity of remedies. Some remedies have a continued fever, some a remittent, Others an intermittent fever. In

Aeon., Bell, and Bry. we have thwee different paces, three different

motions, three different forms of velocity ; so in Stdph., Graph., Natr.

• ▸mur.
• ▸, Carbo veg .
• ▸— a different form; a different development.
• ▸Some

would not hesitate in a continued ^fever to give Bell, but its complaints come on in great haste, with great violence and have nothing

in their nature like a continued feter. This is not like typhoid. Bell.

and Aeon, have no manifestations of typhoid, even if the symptoms

are present. Be sure that the remedy has not only the group of

symptoms, but also the nature of the case. The typhoid case has a

likeness in Bry. or Rhus, but not in Bell. We owe no obedience to

man, not even to our parents, after we arc old enough to think for

ourselves. We owe obedience to truth.

Natr, mur. is a long acting remedy; its symptoms continue for years;

it conforms to slow-coming, long lasting, deep-seated symptoms. It

requires a long time for a man to be brought under the influence of

it, even when moderately sensitive.

The chill comes in the morning at 10-30 ; every day, every other

day, every third or fourth day. The chill begins in the extremities

which become blue ; there is throbbing pain in the head, the face is

flushed ; delirium, talking of everything, constant, maniacal actions.

They grow worse until a congestive attack comes. During the entire

attack there is thirst for cold water. During the coldness he is not

> by heat, not > by piling on the clothings but wants cold drinks.

Wc would naturally suppose that a person freezing to dcatli would

• ▸want warm things, but the Natr.
• ▸mur.
• ▸patient cannot bear them.
• ▸The

teeth chatter, he tosses from side to side, the bones ache as if they

would break, and there is vomiting as in congestive conditions. In

the fever he is so hot that the fingers are almost scorched with the

intense heat, and he goes into a congestive sleep or stupor. The

sweat relieves him ; the aching all over is > by the sweat, and in time

the headache passes away. There is intense chill, fever and sweat.

Sometimes the attacks are in robust, strong people, but usually in the

anaemic, in emaciated people full of malaria ; lingering, chronic cases.

Complaints do not always have this long prodrome. Its most striking

use is in cases that have been living a long time in malarial swamps ;

saturated with the malarial atmosphere ; they are anaemic, often dropsical ; in old cases that have been mixed with arsenic and quinine, the

crude drugs used by the Old School to break the fever as long as the

patient is under their sway, but the patient is sick internally even

more than before, and when the condition comes back it is generally

in its original form ; the crude drug is usually unable to change the

type of an intermittent fever. Remedies only partly related to the

case will change the character of the sickness so that no one can cure

the case. The homoeopathic remedy will cure intermittent fever

every time if you get the right remedy. If there is a failure the case

is mixed up so that no one may be able to cure it. First of all a

master must realize the case and turn it into order so that it can then

be cured. There are few men who never spoil a case of ague, because

many cases come from partly developed, marked cases, the symptoms not being all out, especially in cases that have taken homoeopathic remedies. The homoeopathic failures are the worst failures

on earth,

Natr. mur. is irregular enough in its nature to develop the chills

into regularity. When it has come into better order, wait: either the

whole case will subside, or another remedy will be clear. There are

other remedies that can turn cases into order. Often cases spoiled

by homoeopaths can be turned into order by Sep, Marked cases with

congestion of the head, aching in the back and nausea arc turned into

order by Ipecac, The cure is permanent after homoeopathic prescribing ; the chills do not return.

Natr. mur. not only removes the tendency to intermittents, but

restores the patient to health, and takes away the tendency to colds —

the susceptibility to colds, and to periodicity. It is the susceptibility

that is removed. We know that every attack predisposes to another

attack. Each attack of ague is more destructive than the previous

one. The drugs used increase the susceptibility; the homoeopathic

remedy removes the susceptibility. Homoeopathic treatment tends to

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simplify the human economy and to make diseases more easily managed. Unless this susceptibility be eradicated, man goes down lower

and lower into emaciation — emaciation from above downwards.

Children born in a malarial region are likely to go into marasmus.

They have a voracious appetite, a wonderful hunger, eating much,

but all the time emaciating.

Conditions of pregnancy. The mammary glands waste, there is

wasting of the upper parts of the body. The uterus is intensely sore.

The leucorrhoea, which is at first white, turns green. Women take

cold in every draft of air. There is pain during sexual congress with

dryness of the vagina, a feeling as though sticks pressed into the walls

of the vagina ; pricking pains. There is dryness of all mucous membranes ; everywhere the membranes are dry. The throat is dry, red,

patulous ; a sensation of a fishbone jagging into it when swallowing ;

there is inability to swallow without washing down the food with

liquids ; there is sticking all the way down tlie oesophagus.

Most prescribers give Hep. for every sticking or fishbone sensation

• ▸in the throat ; this is the old keynote, the old routine.
• ▸Nitr.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Argent,

• ▸nit.
• ▸, Alum, and Natr.
• ▸mur.
• ▸all have it, but all differently.

Hep. — The tonsils are swollen, full, purple — quinsy. The patient

is sensitive to the slightest draught, there is pain in the throat even

on putting the hand out of bed ; sweats in the night with no relief ;

he is sensitive to every impressioii; feels everything ten times amplified. I

Nitr, ac, — ^There are yellow paitches in the throat ; ragged, jagged

ulcers in the throat, or it is inflUmed and purple. The urine smells

like horses’ urine.

Argent, nit. — ^There is much hoarseness, the vocal cords being disturbed. The throat is swollen, patulous ; the patient wants cold things,

cold water, cold air. Adapted to those cases that have had ulceration

of the os uteri with cauterization.

Natr. mur, — There is extreme dryness of the mucous membranes,

as if they would break ; chronic dryness without ulceration. There

is much catarrhal discharge like the white of an egg, with dryness

of the mucous membranes when not covered by this mucus. The

patient is extremely sensitive, sensitive to a change of weather.

Every remedy has its own pace, its order or succession. We must

bear in mind the order of succession.

Natr. mur, is useful in old dropsies, especially dropsy of cellular,

tissues. Sometimes there is dropsy of sacs, dropsy of the brain following acute diseases. In acute spinal meningitis with extreme nervous tension, where there is chronic drawing back of the head, chronic

jerking of the head forward. Acute diseases that result in hydrocephalus, or in irritation of the spine. Sometimes useful in abdominal

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dropsy, but more often in oedema of the lower extremities. Acute

dropsies after scarlet fever ; the patient is oversensitive, starts in his

sleep, rises up in the night with confusion; there are albumen and

casts in the urine.

In dropsy after the malaria Natr. mur., when it acts curatively,

generally brings back the original chill. The only cure known to

man is from above down, from within out, and in the reverse order

of coming. When it is otherwise, there is only improvement, not

cure. When the symptoms return there is hope ; that is the road to

cure and there is no other.

The skin symptoms are sometimes very striking. In old lingering

cases where the sldn looks transparent as if the patient would become

dropsical, a waxy, greasy, shiny skin ; other remedies with greasy,

shiny skin are Plumb,, Thuja, Selen. These remedies go deep into

the life. Any remedy that can produce such wonderful changes is

long-acting.

Useful after labor when the mother does not progress well ; she

is feeble and excitable ; the lochia is prolonged, copious and white ;

the hair falls out from the head and genitals ; the milk passes away,

or the child docs not thrive on it. Useful in afterpains where there

is subinvolution of the uterus, the uterus is in a state of prolonged

congestion. She is < noise, music, the slamming of a door. She

craves salt and has an aversion to bread, wine and fat things. Sour

• ▸wines disorder the stomach.
• ▸Natr.
• ▸mur.
• ▸will clear up the case, restore

the milk, trun the case into order.

Natr. mur. is needed by those chlorotic giils who have a greasy

skin, a greenish, yellowish complexion ; who menstruate only once in

two or three months. The menses are copious, or scanty and watery.

Where the symptoms agree, this remedy can eradicate this chlorosis

and turn the countenance into a picture of health, but not in a short

time. It takes years to establish health in a typical chlorosis ; the cut

finger bleeds only water ; the menstrual flow is only a leucorrhcea ;

• ▸there is pernicious anaemia.
• ▸Natr.
• ▸mur.
• ▸, goes deep enough into the

life to restore the pink complexion.