Natrum carbonicum

natr-car

NATRIUM CARBONICUM

Common name: Carbonate of SodaKingdom: Mineral(Allen, Keynotes (1910), p. 196)

Carbonate of Sodium All the Natrums stimulate cellular activity and increase oxidation and metabolish. Great debility caused by summer heat; chronic effects of sunstroke; exhaustion; anæmic; milky, watery skin; very weak ankles, are all peculiar Natrum carbonicum conditions. Read on in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, General →

These texts come from 5 classic Materia Medicas dating from 1908 to 1931, now in the public domain. They record what their authors observed and taught, as historical reference for students and practitioners of homeopathy — not current clinical evidence. Nothing on this page is medical advice: for any health problem, see a qualified doctor.

Where each author writes about Natrum carbonicum

A map of the books. Each number counts the sections, or the paragraphs the author labelled himself, that one book gives a topic, and opens the first of them in that book. Kent and Farrington wrote lectures, so only what they labelled is counted.

Topic	Boger	Allen	Boericke	Kent
Keynotes	1	1	none	none
Mind	none	none	1	2
General	none	none	1	none
Modalities	2	none	1	none
Head	none	1	1	none
Face	none	none	1	none
Nose	none	none	1	none
Stomach	none	none	1	1
Female	none	none	1	none
Respiratory	none	none	1	none
Extremities	none	none	1	none
Skin	none	none	1	1
Sleep	none	none	1	none

Relationships

Complementary:: Sepia (Boger)
Follows well after:: Sepia (Allen)
Antidoted by:: Arsenicum album (Boericke),; Camphora (Boericke)
Related:: Lycopodium clavatum (Boger),; Natrum muriaticum (Boger)

As each book states it.

Natrum carbonicum in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica

Cyrus Maxwell Boger · 1931

KeynotesIrritable 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.

Words in capitals are Boger's highest grade.

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Natrum carbonicum in Allen's Keynotes

H.C. Allen · 3rd edition (1910) · Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel

KeynotesNatrum carbonicum Carbonate of Soda. NA^, COs, loH^O. Constitutions with aversion to open air and dislike to exercise, mental or physical ; imbecility. Great debility: caused by heat of summer (Ant. c. ) ; exhaustion from least effort, mental or physical ; ready to drop after a walk ; chronic effects of sunstroke. Chronic effects of sunstroke; now, with return of hot weather, suffers from headaches.

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Natrum carbonicum in Clinical Materia Medica

Ernest Albert Farrington · 4th edition, revised and enlarged by Harvey Farrington (1908) · Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel

LectureLecture LXVII — Preparations of Soda — Natrum carb. and Natrum sulph. The preparations of soda are quite similar, both chemically and medicinally, to those of potash, yet this similarity is not such that they may not follow the potash salts. We will see that Kali carb. is complementary to Natrum mur. in some of its symptoms.

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Natrum carbonicum in Homoeopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927)

MindUnable to think; difficult, slow comprehension. Mental weakness and depression; worries; very sensitive to noise; colds, change of weather. Anxious and restless during thunderstorm; worse from music (Ambra). Marked gayety. Sensitive to presence of certain individuals.

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Natrum carbonicum in Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · 2nd edition (preface dated 1 September 1911)

LectureNatrum Carbonicum Proved by Hahnemann, Hering and others. Persons who are in the habit of taking carbonate of soda for sour stomach get a proving of this remedy. I have met some of these people and been able to confirm many Natrum symptoms. Old dyspeptics who are always belching and have sour stomach and rheumatism.

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Where the repertories grade Natrum carbonicum highest

Rubrics in which Natrum carbonicum has the top grade (Kent’s 3, Bönninghausen’s 4). Each page lists every remedy in the rubric with its grade.

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