Natrum carbonicum
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
NATRIUM CARBONICUM
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Keynotes
Irritable weakness. Puffy, relaxed, easily exhausted. Easy dislocation. Oversensitive; to open air, music, noise, dietetic errors, etc. Pains cause tremor, cold sweat, anxiety, etc. .................... Cross and irritable. Gloomy. Lively, yet fearful; < thunder-storms. Averse to company. Vertigo, from wine. Hot weather headache. Head bent backward; pains out through eyes. Dazzling flashes or stars before vision. Swelled or peeling nose. Coryza, < least draft; < alternate days. Violent sneezing. Post-nasal discharge. Pale, wilted face. Mouth open. Must drink to swallow solids. Acidity, flatulence and rheumatism. Weak digestion. Averse to milk. Greedy, always nibbling. Gastric pain, > eating. Abdomen pouts here and there. Diarrhœa, from starches. Stools like orange pulp. Pollutions. Cough; loose; hollow; 9-11 A.M.; < entering warm room. Purulent, salty sputum. Cough from continuous tickle in throat, < going from a cold into a warm room. Boring at tip of l. scapula. Painful popliteæ. Heavy legs. Weak ankles. Cramps from ankles into toes. Sleepy after meals. Blisters on small joints; tips of toes or fingers. Milky, watery or dry, rough skin; pustular eruptions. Cold between scapulæ. Burning wrists and ankles. Sweats easily.
Worse
HEAT: Sun. Weather. (Head). Sultry air. Gas-light. Periodically; Winter (Body), 5. A.M. Music. Mental exertion. Onanism. Dietetic errors. Milk. Drafts. Thunder-storms.
Better
Motion. Rubbing. Eating. Sweating.
Region
DIGESTION. Nerves. Skin. Hands (Dorsæ). Heels.
Relationships
Complementary: Sep. Related: Lyc. Nat-m.
What the other books say about Natrum carbonicum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Natrum carbonicum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Natrum carbonicum in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Natrum carbonicum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Natrum carbonicum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Natrum carbonicum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/natrum-carbonicum. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.