Mineral
Natrum Muriaticum
Chloride of Sodium
Repertory abbreviation: Nat-m.
A great remedy for certain forms of intermittent fever, anemia, chlorosis, many disturbances of the ali- mentary tract and skin. Great debility; most weakness felt in the morning in bed. Emaciation most notable in neck. Great liability to take cold. Dry mucous mem- Urancs. Grcut cakncss ard weariness. Oversensitive to all sorts of influences. Hyperthyroidism.
Mind
Depressed, particularly in chronic diseases. Consolation aggravates. Irritable; gets into a passion about trifes. Awkward, hasty. [Apis.]
Head
Throbs. Blinding headache. [Kali bich.; Sil.; Gels.] Aches as if a thousand little hammers were knocking on the brain, in the morning on awake- ing, after menstruation, frcin sunrise to sunset. Feels too large; cold. [Calc.; Laur.; Pod.] Anemic head- ache of school-girls. [Calc. phos.] Chronic headache, from sunrise to sunset, with pale face, nausea, vomit- ing; periodical; from eyestrain; menstrual. Before at- tack, numbness and tingling in lips, tongue and nose. Frontal sinus inflammation.
Eyes
Feel bruised, with headache in school chil- dren. Muscles weak and stiff. Letters run together. Sees sparks. Fiery, zigzag appearance around all objects. Burning in eyes. Stricture of lachrymal duct with sup- puration. Escape of muco-pus when pressing upon sac. Lachrymation, burning and acrid. Lids swollen. Tears stream don face on coughing. [Euph.] Asthenopia due to insufficiency of internal recti muscles. [Gels. and Cup. acct., when due to external muscles.] Pain m cyes suhicn looking dozen. Cataract incipient. [Sccale.]
Ears
Noises; roaring and ringing.
Nose
Violent, fluent coryza, lasting from one to three days, then changing into stoppage of nose, mak- ing breathing difficult. Discharge thin and watery, like razw zohite of egg. Violent sneezing coryza. Loss of sell and taste. Internal soreness of nose.
Face
Oily, shiny, as if grease. Earthy complex- ion. Fever-blisters.
Mouth
Frothy coating on tongue, with bubbles on side. Sense of dryness Scorbutic gums. Numbness, tingling of tongue, lips, and nose. Vesicles and burn- ing 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. [Nit. ac.] Tongue mapped. [Ars.; Rhus; Tarax.] Loss of taste. [Gymmcma.] Large vesicie on lower Jip, which is swollen and burns.
Stomach
Hungry, yet loose flesh. [Hod.]
Abdomen
Cutting pain in abdomen. Distended. Pain in abdominal ring on coughing.
Rectum
Burning pains and stitching after stool. Ants contracted, torn, bleeding. Constipation; stool d*y, crumbling. [Am. m.; Mag. m.] 527 Urine.— Pain just after urinating. [Sars.] Increased, involuntary when walking, coughing, etc. Has to wait a long time for it to pass if others arc present. [Hep.; Mur. ac.]
Male
Emission, even after coitus. Impotence with retarded emission.
Female
Menses irregular ; usually profuse. Vagina dry. Leucorrhcea acrid, watery. Bearing-down pains; worse in morning. [Scp.] Prolapsus uteri, with cut- ting in urethra. Ineffectual labor-pains. Suppressed menses. [Follow with Kali carb.] Hot during menses.
Respiratory
Cough from a tickling in the pit of stomach, accompanied by stitches in liver and spurt- ing of urine. [Caust.; Squilla.] Stitches all over chest. Cough, with bursting pain in head. Shortness of breath, especially on going upstairs. [Calc.]
Heart
burn, with palpitation. Unquenchabie thir t. Sweats while eating. Craving for salt. Aversion to bread. Throbbing in pit. Sticking sensation in cardiac orifice. Fluttering, palpitating; intermittent pulse. Heart's pulsations shake body. Intermits on lying down.
Extremities
Pain in back, with desire for some frm suprcrt. [Rhus; Sep.] Every movement accelerates the circulation. Palms hot and perspiring. Arms ard legs, but especially knees, feel weak. Hangnails. Dry- ness and cracking about finger-nails. Numbness and tingling in fingers and toes. 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.
Skin
Lupus. [Ars.; X-Ray.] 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, itch- ing after exertion.
Sleep
Sleepy in forenoon. Nervous jerking during Dreams of robbers. Sleepless from grief. [Phos. oc.; Ignat.]
Fever
Chill between 9 and 11 A. M. Heat; violent thirst, increases .with fever. Fever-blisters. Coldness of the body, and continued chilliness very marked. Hy- dremia in chronic malarial states with weakness, con- stipation, loss of appetite, etc.
Modalities
W'ors. noise, music, warm room, lying down; about 10 A. M., at seashore, mental exertion, heat, talking. Better, open air, cold bathing, going witli- out regular meals, lying on right side; pressure against
Relationships
Complementary to Apis; Sepia; Ign. Compare: Aqua marina -Isotonic plasma. Marine plasma is sea water taken some iles from shore and some depth below surface, fltered and diluted with twice as much pure fresh water. It acts primarily on the blood, as in intoxications, scrofulous conditions, en- teritis. It disintoxicates in cancer (administered sub- cutaneously in the treatment of diseases of skin, kid- neys and intestines, gastro-enteritis, and tuberculosis). Scrofulous affection ofchildren. Lymphadenitis. Lupus, eczema, varicose ulcers. A great "blood pur- fier and vitalizer." Potentized sea-water in weakness. lack of reaction; symptoms worse seaside. 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 pa- tients of a strumous diathesis. Also useful in consti- pation. Natrum selenicum (laryngeal phthisis with ex- pectoration of small lumps of bloody mucus and slight hoaseness. [Argent. met.]); Natrum silicum (ham- ilia; scrofulous bone affections) ; Ignat.; Sep.; Thuj.; raph.: Alum. Antidotes: Ars.; Phos.
Dose
Twelfth to thirtieth and higher. The very highest potencies often yield most brilliant results.