Mineral
Natrum Sulphuricum
Sulphate of Sodium -- Glauber's Salt
Repertory abbreviation: Nat-s.
A liver remedy, especially indicated for the so-called hydrogenoid constitution, where the complaints are such as are due to living in damp houses, basements, cellars. They are worse in rainy weather, water in any form. Feels every change from dry to wet; can- not even eat plants growing near water, nor fish. Al- ways feels best in warm, dry air. ( Clinically, it has been found a valuable remedy for spinal meningitis, head symptoms from injuries to head, mental troubles therefrom. Every spring, return of, skin affections. Tendency to warts. Fingers and toes affected.
Mind
Lively music saddens. Melancholy, with periodical attacks of mania Suicidal tendency; must exercise resiraint. Inability to think. Dislikes to speak, or to be spoken to.
Head
Occipital pain. Piercing stitches in ears. Vertigo; relieved by sweat on head. Bursting feeling oln coughing. 1 Hot feeling on top of head. Boring in right temple, preceded by burning in stomach. Ill- effects of falls and injuries to the head, and mental trou'loes arising therefrom.
Eyes
Conjunctiva yellow. Granular lids. Photo- phobia. [Graphites.]
Ears
Sticking pain, earache, lightning-like stitches in damp weather.
Nose
Nasal catarrh, with thick, yellow discharge and salty mucus. Coryza.
Mouth
Slimy, thick, tenacious, white mucus. Bitter taste, blisters on palate.
Throat
Thick, yellow mucus, drops from posterior nares.
Stomach
Vomits sour. Brown, bitter coating on tongue. Yellow complexion. Thirst for something cold. Bilious vomiting, acid dyspepsia, with heartburn and flatulence.
Abdomen
Liver sore to touch, with sharp, stitching pains; cannot bear tighit clothing around waist; worse, lying on left side. Flatulenry; wind colic in ascending colon; worse, before breakfast. Burning in abdomen and anus. Bruised pain and urging to stool. Loose morniny stools; worse, after spell of wet weather. Stools involuntary, when passing flatus. ( Great sis of the facal mass. Urine. - Loaded with bile. Brick-dust sediment. Ex- cessive secretion. Diabetes.
Male
Condylomata ; soft, fleshy excrescences; greenish discharges. Gonorrhoea ; discharge thick, green- ish; little pain.
Female
Nosebleed during menses, which are acrid and profuse. Burning in pharynx during menstruation. Herpetic vulvitis. Lcucorrhoa yellowish-green, follov- ing gonorrhαa in female. Jeucorrhcea with hoarseness.
Respiratory
Dyspncea, during damp weather. Must hold chest when coughing. Humid asthma; raitling in chest, at 4 and 5 A. M. Cough, with thick ropy, green- ish expectoration: chest feels all gone. Constant de- sire to take deep, long breath. Asthma in children, as a constitutional remedy. Springs up in bed the cough hurts so; holds painful side. [Bry.] Pain through lower left chest.
Back
Itching when undressing. Violent pains in back of neck, and at base of brain. Piercing pain be- tween scapula. Spinal meningitis; opisthotonos.
Extremities
Swelling of axillary glands. Inflam- mation around root of nails. Burning in soles; cedema of feet; itching between toes. Gout. . Pain in limbs, compels frequent change in position. Run-arounds. Pain in hip-joints; worse, stooping. Stiffness of knees, cracking of joints.
Skin
Itching while undressing. Jaundiced, watery blisters. Sycotic excrescences; wart-like red lumps all qirer body.
Modalities
W'orse, lying on left side; dampness of basement, damp weather. Better, dry weather, pres- sure, changing position.
Relationships
Compare: Malaria officinalis — de- composed vegetable matter —- Has evident power to cause the disappearance of the plasmodium of malaria and higher. (Malarial cachexia. General sense of weariness. Spleen affections. Malaria and rheumatism. Sixth potency.) Natrum cholcinicum -Fel Tauri Depuratum — (constipation; chronic gastric and in- testinal catarrh; cirrhotic liver; diabetes: nape of neck pains; tendency to sleep after eating; much flatus; as- cites) ; Momordica -- Balsam Apple -- (Colic, dysmenor- rhcea with gushes of blood.) Pulmo vulpis -- Wolf's lung (pei sistent shortness of breath causing a paroxysm of asthma on ihe slightest rotion. S Strong, sonorous bubbling rales. 1x trit.). Peumus Boldus —Boldo - (atonic states of stomach and intestinal canal; liver states following malaria. Burning weight in region of liver and stomach, bitter taste, languor; abscess of liver ; asthma, bronchitis, catarrh, edema of lungs) ; Natrum iodat. (chronic catarrhal affections, arteriosclerosis. Here various symptoms, as angina pectoris, vertigo, dyspncea become less marked after continued use of 5-10 grs., 3 times a day.) Natrum hyposulph. (liver-spots, locally and internally) ; Sulph.; Thuja; Merc.; Stilling. Complementary: Ars.; Thuja.
Dose
First to twelfth trituration.