Natrum Muriaticum
Sodium chloride (table salt) · Abbrev.: NAT-M
Abdomen
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Cutting pain in
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Distended. Pain in abdominal ring on coughing. Rec^m. — Burning pains and stitching after stool. Anto contracted, torn, bleeding. Constipation; stool crumbling. [Am. m.; Mag. m.]
Back
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Great liability to take cold. Dry mucous membranes. Great weakness ard weariness. Oversensitive to all sorts of influences. Hyperthyroidism.
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Relationship, — Complementary to Apis; Sepia; Ign,
Chest
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Cough, with bursting pain in
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Aqua marina — Isotonic plasma. Marine plasma is 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 m cancer (administered sul'- cutaneously 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. 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 sclenicum (laryngeal phthisis with expectoration of small lumps of bloody mucus and slight bo^eness. [Argent, met.]) t Natrum silicum (haemoscrofulous bone affections) ; Ignat.; Sep.; Thuj.; aph.; Alum. NATRUM MUR. — NATRUM NIT. — NATRUM PIIOS. 529 Antidoles: Ars.; Phos.
Dose
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200C single doses traditionally for chronic grief states; observe long before repeating.
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Twelfth to thirtieth and higher. The very highest potencies often yield most brilliant results.
Ears
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Noises ; roaring and ringing.
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[Caust.] Warts on palms of hands. Eczema ; raw, red, and inflamed ; worse, eating salt, at 528
Extremities
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Pain in back, zvith 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 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
Eyes
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Stricture of lachrymal duct with suppuration. Escape of muco-pus when pressing upon sac. Lachrymation, burning and acrid. Lids swollen. Tears stream doivn face on coughing, [Euph,] Asthenopia due to insufTicicncy of internal recti muscles. [Gels. and Clip, acet., when due to external muscles.] Pain in eyes when looking down. Cataract incipient. [^Vca/c.]
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Eyes weak from reading; letters run together; glistening sticky discharge; black spots floating before sight.
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Feel bruised, with headache in school children. Muscles weak and stiff. Letters run together. Sees sparks. Fiery, zigzag appearance around all objects. 526
Face
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Oily, shiny, as if greased. Earthy complexion. Fever-blisters. Mouth« — Frothy coating on tongue, with bubbles on side. Sense of dryness Scorbutic gums. Numbness, tingling of tongue, lips, and
Female
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Migraine at menstrual epochs; menses with backache improving as flow establishes; vaginal dryness with smarting.
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Menses irregular ; usually profuse. Vagina dry. Leucorrhoea acrid, watery. Bearing-down pains ; wdtse in morning. [Sep.] Prolapsus uteri, with cutting in urethra. Ineffectual labor-pains. Suppressed menses. [Follow with Kali carh.] Hot during menses.
Fever
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Chill between 9 and 11 a. m. Heat; violent thirst, increases .with
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Fever-blisters. Coldness of the body, and continued chilliness very marked. Hydremia in chronic malarial states with weakness, constipation, loss of appetite, etc.
Guiding symptoms
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A great remedy for certain forms of intermittent fever, anjemia, chlorosis, many disturbances of the alimentary tract and
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seashore. Affects hair follicles. Alopecia. Hives, itching after exertion.
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Urine. — Pain just after urinating, Increased, involuntary when walking, coughing, etc. Has to wait a long time for it to pass if others arc present. [Hep.; Mur. ac.]
Head
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Headaches like little hammers, worse mornings after sleep, from sun and eyestrain; forehead sinus pressure with loss of smell.
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Throbs. Blinding headache. [Kali bich.; Sil.; Gels.] 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. [Calc.; Laur.; Pod,] Anaemic headache of school-girls. [Calc, phos.] Chronic headache, from sunrise to sunset, with pale face, nausea, vomiting ; periodical ; from eyestrain; menstrual. Before attack, numbness and tingling in lips, tongue and
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Shortness of breath, especially on going upstairs. [Calc.]
Heart
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Fluttering, palpitating; intermittent
Introduction
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Guarded chronic grief: composed in company, crumbling alone; consolation offends, salt craves, and little hammers beat in the head.
Male
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Emission, even after coitus. Impotence with retarded emission.
Mind
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Depressed, particularly in chronic diseases. Consolation aggravates. Irritable; gets into a passion about trifles. Awkward, hasty. [Apis.]
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Dwells on past unpleasant memories; refuses consolation which feels intrusive; weeps only when nobody watches; irritability over small matters. Serious, responsible, closed books after hurt.
Modalities
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Worse: consolation, 10–11 a.m., seaside (paradoxically salt-craving), sunrise to sunset, mental exertion. Better: open air, sweating, skipping breakfast.
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Worse, noise, music, warm room, lying down; about 10 a. m., at seashore, mental exertion, heat, talking. Better, open air, cold bathing, going without regular meals, lying on right side ; pressure against
Nose
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Frontal sinus inflammation.
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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. [Nit. <7c.] Tongue mapped. [Ars.; Rhus; Tarax.] Loss of taste. [Gymmema.] Large vesicle on lower lip, which is swollen and burns.
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Violent, fluent coryaa, lasting from one to three days, then changing into stoppage of nose, making breathing difiicult. Discharge thin and watery, like razo zvliite of egg. Violent sneezing coryza. Loss of smell and taste. Internal soreness of
Pulse
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Heart’s pulsations shake body. Intermits on lying down.
Relationships
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Complementary Apis, Sepia, Ignatia; compare Causticum (sympathetic weeping) and Sepia (indifference without the salt signature).
Respiratory
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Cough from a tickling in the pit of stomach, accompanied by stitches in liver and spurting of urine. [Caust.; Squilla.] Stitches all over
Skin
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Great debility; most weakness felt ill the morning in bed. Emaciation most notable in
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Lupus. [Ars.; X-Ray.] Urticaria; itch and burn. Crusty eruptions' in bends of limbs, margin of scalp, behind
Sleep
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Dreams of robbers. Sleepless from grief, [Phos. ac.; Ignat,]
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Sleepy in forenoon. Nervous jerking during
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Sleep broken by thoughts of the day's worries; dreams of robbers; wakes unrefreshed before dawn.
Stomach
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Strong craving for salt; aversion to bread and fats; thirst prominent; sour taste.
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Hungry, yet loose flesh. [lod.] Heartburn, with palpitation. Unquenchable thir t. Sweats zAiile eating. Craving for salt. Aversion to bread. Throbbing in pit. Sticking sensation in cardiac orifice.
Throat
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Sense of a plug or fishbone sticking on swallowing; dry throat worse mornings.
References
This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:
- James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
- Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain
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