Natrum sulphuricum

as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931

Natrium sulfuricum

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Keynotes

Sudden violent effects; in ailing patients. Piercing pains, at (l) short ribs; in (l) hip, < rising or sitting down; in heels. Yellow, watery secretions, stool, skin, vesicles, etc. Thick, yellow-green pus. Fulness. Sour, bilious and lithæmic. Rheumatic-hydrogenoid constitution. Sycosis. .................... Sensitive and suspicious. Sadness, < music or subdued light. Melancholia. Dire (suicidal) impulses. Vertigo; > head sweat. Crushing or gnawing in occiput. Meningitis. PHOTOPHOBIA. Nose run water at night. Epistaxis, during menses. Thick, tenacious, white slime in mouth. Dirty brown or greenish-yellow, thick, pasty tongue, < at base; tip feels burnt. Bitter taste. Thirst at start of fever only. Slow digestion. Concomitants to nausea. Green, bilious vomit. Sore, heavy liver; < lying on left side. As of a lump below liver. Crawling in gall- bladder. Colic, > rubbing abdomen. Cramp at umbilicus. FLATULENCE; painful; pushes here and there, < left abdomen. RUMBLING, GURGLING IN BOWELS, THEN SUDDEN GUSHING, NOISY, SPLUTTERING STOOL; after rising in A.M., or drives from bed. Foamy or yellow diarrhœa, mixed with green slime. White sand in urine. Dyspnœa. Sycotic asthma. Loose, but violent cough; must hold chest or sides. Run rounds. Hang nails. Retracted nipples. Sharp cutting back pains, spreading upward like a fan. Throbbing in heels. Vesicles on soles. Chilly, can't get warm, even in bed. Heat with aversion to uncover. Burning below knees. Foul axillary sweat. Warty nodules.

Worse

DAMP: Weather. Night air. Cellars. Lying on left side. Injuries; head. Lifting. Touch. Pressure. Late evening. Wind. Light.

Better

Open air. Change of position.

Region

OCCIPUT. Glands: LIVER. Bile. Pancreas. Intestinal. Descending colon. Chest: Left (lower). Lower. Left side.

Relationships

Complementary: Ars. Thu. Related: Colo. Glo. Med. Pul.

What the other books say about Natrum sulphuricum

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Natrum sulphuricum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Natrum sulphuricum in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
Natrum sulphuricum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Natrum sulphuricum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.

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Cite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Natrum sulphuricum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/natrum-sulphuricum. 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.