Natrum sulphuricum

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Natrium sulfuricum

Common name: Sodium SulphateKingdom: Mineral(Allen, Keynotes (1910), p. 201)

Sulphate of Sodium Glauber's Salt 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; cannot even eat plants growing near water, nor fish. Always feels best in warm, dry air. Read on in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, General

These texts come from 5 classic Materia Medicas dating from 1899 to 1931, reproduced in full because they are 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 They record what their authors observed and taught, as historical reference for students and practitioners of homeopathy — not current clinical evidence.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.

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Relationships

Complementary:
Arnica montana (Boger),
Arsenicum album (Boericke, Boger),
Dulcamara (Boger),
Thuja occidentalis (Boericke, Boger)
Related:
Colocynthis (Boger),
Glonoinum (Boger),
Magnesia sulphurica (Boger),
Medorrhinum (Boger),
Pulsatilla (Boger)

As each book states it.

A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica

Cyrus Maxwell Boger · 1931

Words in capitals are Boger's highest grade.

Natrum sulphuricumKeynotes

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Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Natrum sulphuricum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/natrum-sulphuricum#s-13643921-b8d0-4031-a14f-3b1a3b831683.

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.

Natrum sulphuricumWorse

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Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Natrum sulphuricum — Worse. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/natrum-sulphuricum#s-60631956-67d7-427b-97bf-c024e28b7d2f.

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

Natrum sulphuricumBetter

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Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Natrum sulphuricum — Better. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/natrum-sulphuricum#s-fa2f18ed-e6a7-4b4e-afce-6dcc0c314c66.

Open air. Change of position.

Natrum sulphuricumRegion

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Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Natrum sulphuricum — Region. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/natrum-sulphuricum#s-d9eb7c1a-e879-4ec2-b35e-ca380e08d946.

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

Natrum sulphuricumRelationships

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Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Natrum sulphuricum — Relationships. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/natrum-sulphuricum#s-20b9cfdd-05f0-477b-a1ab-5d12d26674ad.

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

Allen's Keynotes

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

Natrum sulphuricumKeynotespp. 201–203

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H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Natrum sulphuricum — Keynotes, pp. 201–203. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/natrum-sulphuricum#s-9cdfcd4d-4b5a-49ce-b87c-4d9e7cf61366.

Natrum sulphuricum

Sodium Sulphate. Na OSO^ loAq.

Ailments which are < by, or which depend upon, dampness of zveather, damp houses or cellars (Aran.).

Patient feels every change from dry to wet; cannot tolerate sea air, nor eat plants that thrive near water; a constitution in which the gonorrhoeal poison is most pernicious; recovers slowly from every sickness.

Every spring, skin affections reappear (Psor.).

Inability to think (Nat. c.).

Sad, gloomy, irritable; worse in morning; dislikes to speak or be spoken to (lod.. Sib).

Depressed; lively music makes her sad; satiety of life; must use great self-control to prevent shooting himself.

Mental traumatism ; mental effects from injuries to head; chronic brain effects of blows, falls.

Granular lids: like small blisters (Thuja); green pus and terrible photophobia; gonorrhoeal or sycotic.

Nosebleed during menses (instead of menses, Bry., Puls.).

Toothache > by cold water, cool air (Coff., Puls.).

Dirty, greenish-gray or brown coating on tongue.

Diarrhoea: sudden, urging, gushing, much flatus; on first rising and standing on the feet; after a spell of wet weather; living or working in basements.

Gonorrhoea : greenish-yellozv, painless, thick discharge (Puls.); chronic or suppressed (thick, green. Kali iod.).

Dyspnoea ; desire to take a deep breath during damp, cloudy weather.

Humid asthma in children ; with every change to wet weather; with every fresh cold; always worse in damp, rainy weather; sputa green, greenish, copious (greenish grey. Cop.).

Sycotic pneumonia; lower lobe of left lung; great soreness of chest, during cough, has to sit up in bed and hold the chest with both hands (Nic. — r. lung, Bry.).

Spinal meningitis : violent crushing gnawing pains at base of brain; head drawn back; spasms with mental irritability and delirium; violent congestion of blood to head; delirium; opisthotonos.

NATRUM {Continued).

are very similar; Thuja and Merc, in syphilis and sycosis occurring in hydrogenoid constitutions.

— Damp basements or dwellings ;

damp weather (Aran., Ars. i., Dul.) ; rest; lying.

Amelioration. — Dry weather; pressure; sitting up (cough) ; changing position (but > in wet weather, Caust.) ; open air.

Must change position frequently, but it is painful and gives little relief (Caust.).

Clinical Materia Medica

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

Natrum sulphuricumLecturepp. 694–695

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Ernest Albert Farrington. Clinical Materia Medica, being a course of lectures delivered at the Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia. 4th edition, revised and enlarged by Harvey Farrington (1908). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Natrum sulphuricum — Lecture, pp. 694–695. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/natrum-sulphuricum#s-049b9eb1-5795-41d2-ad29-732044364085.

Lecture LXVII — Preparations of Soda — Natrum carb. and Natrum sulph.

Natrum Sulphuricum.

Natrum sulphuricum would hardly have been used by members of our school had it not been alluded to by Grauvogl as the central remedy for his hydrogenoid constitution. Patients having this constitution feel every change from dry to wet; cannot tolerate sea air; nor can they eat plants that thrive near the water. They feel best on a dry day. It is this constitution in which, according to Grauvogl, the gonorrhceal poison is most pernicious. It finds here the richest soil in which it may grow rank. Therefore, he claims that if gonorrhoea occurs in such a constitution, to cure the patient not only of the local gonorrhceal discharge, but of the constitutional effects, the constitution must be altered. This he does with two remedies, Natrum sulph. and Thuja. The Natrum sulph. cures obstinate cases of gonorrhoea. In the chronic effects of injury, especially to the head, Natrum sulph. is almost indispensable.

You will find Natrum sulph. especially indicated for ailments which are either aggravated or dependent upon dampness of the weather or dwelling in damp houses. You may think of Natrum sulph. then in the sycotic constitution of Hahnemann or the hydrogenoid of Grauvogl. It may even be necessary to give this remedy when there is no bubo or urethral discharge to be seen.

There is a kind of phthisis, not a true tuberculosis, which appears in those who have this constitution. The cough is attended with muco-purulent expectoration, loud rdles are heard through the chest, and the seat of inflammation seems to be the lower lobe of the left lung. The patient complains of pain about the ninth and tenth ribs on the left side. The Natrum sulph. patient has a marked tendency to this catarrh of the chest. If it appears as the result of suppressing haemorrhoids or anal fistula, Natrum sulph. is even more strongly indicated.

Natrum sulph. is also indicated in asthma which is excited or made worse by every spell of damp weather.

Natrum sulph. also acts on the stomach and abdomen. It produces a great deal of flatulence, belching after eating, eructations being tasteless or sour. There is a great deal of rumbling of wind in the bowels, particularly in the right side of the abdomen, probably in the ascending colon. We find, too, a subacute pain in the ileo-csecal region, because it has some action on that portion of the intestinal tract. Associated with this there is diarrhoea, which comes on regularly in the morning after rising and returns quite regularly each day. Much wind is passed with the stools and is worse in damp weather. It is distinguished from Sulphur by this: with Natrum sulph. the diarrhoea comes on more in the forenoon after getting up, whereas, with Sulphur it hurries the patient out of bed.

It is distinguished from Bryonia which has diarrhoea on first rising in the morning by the fact that the latter has less flatus, and is aggravated by hot weather.

Natrum sulph. is also useful in affections of the left hip-joint in patients of this hydrogenoid constitution. The pains are worse at night, and arouse the patient from sleep. They cease when he turns over in bed.

Stillingia is useful for hip diseases in secondary or in inherited syphilis, with pains in and through the hip, worse at night and worse in wet weather.

Homoeopathic Materia Medica

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

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William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Natrum sulphuricum — Mind. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/natrum-sulphuricum#s-521dbf53-ca6f-4221-b481-6a3bc969ba60.

Lively music saddens. Melancholy, with periodical attacks of mania. Suicidal tendency; must exercise restraint. Inability to think. Dislikes to speak, or to be spoken to.

Natrum sulphuricumGeneral

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William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Natrum sulphuricum — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/natrum-sulphuricum#s-36bdd77d-427e-4d3b-86ec-195fe94e778d.

Sulphate of Sodium Glauber's Salt 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; cannot even eat plants growing near water, nor fish. Always 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. Chronic gout (Lycop).

Natrum sulphuricumModalities

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William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Natrum sulphuricum — Modalities. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/natrum-sulphuricum#s-7201feeb-8b11-48bb-9043-c93eaf42fb5b.

Worse, music (makes her sad); lying on left side; dampness of basement, damp weather. Better, dry weather, pressure, changing position.

Natrum sulphuricumHead

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William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Natrum sulphuricum — Head. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/natrum-sulphuricum#s-d6367128-b849-4a26-aeed-c8eccfac4a9e.

Occipital pain. Piercing stitches in ears. Vertigo; relieved by sweat on head. Bursting feeling on coughing. Hot feeling on top of head. Bursting feeling on coughing. 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 troubles arising therefrom. Dreams of running water.

Natrum sulphuricumEyes

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William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Natrum sulphuricum — Eyes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/natrum-sulphuricum#s-c3f460b6-9361-4946-9d89-fbcbe52b9d92.

Conjunctiva yellow. Granular lids. Photophobia (Graphites).

Natrum sulphuricumEars

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William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Natrum sulphuricum — Ears. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/natrum-sulphuricum#s-f045580f-e542-4ec3-9f35-adeaca5251de.

Sticking pain, earache, lightning-like stitches in damp weather.

Natrum sulphuricumNose

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William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Natrum sulphuricum — Nose. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/natrum-sulphuricum#s-32a3e4bf-43d5-4f92-a77a-df2d347f44bf.

Nasal catarrh, with thick, yellow discharge and salty mucus. Coryza. Epistaxis. Ethmoiditis.

Natrum sulphuricumMouth

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William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Natrum sulphuricum — Mouth. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/natrum-sulphuricum#s-d2a6d79d-f115-4599-b676-7a2502ebb5b7.

Slimy, thick, tenacious, white mucus. Bitter taste, blisters on palate.

Natrum sulphuricumThroat

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William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Natrum sulphuricum — Throat. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/natrum-sulphuricum#s-19043c24-f9dd-49c2-b6c0-53a086aefed8.

Thick, yellow mucus, drops from posterior nares.

Natrum sulphuricumStomach

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William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Natrum sulphuricum — Stomach. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/natrum-sulphuricum#s-eb717e43-9d18-4e95-bde8-bcc7174c1808.

Vomits sour. Brown, bitter coating on tongue. Yellow complexion. Thirst for something cold. Bilious vomiting, acid dyspepsia, with heartburn and flatulence.

Natrum sulphuricumAbdomen

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William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Natrum sulphuricum — Abdomen. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/natrum-sulphuricum#s-754d65e2-7c3a-4e20-9d0c-8f8119e94f6c.

Duodenal catarrh; hepatitis; icterus and vomiting of bile; liver sore to touch, with sharp, stitching pains; cannot bear tight clothing around waist, worse, lying on left side. Flatulency; wind colic in ascending colon; worse, before breakfast. Burning in abdomen and anus. Bruised pain and urging to stool. Diarrhœa yellow, watery stools. Loose morning stools, worse, after spell of wet weather. Stools involuntary, when passing flatus. Great size of the fecal mass.

Natrum sulphuricumUrinary

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William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Natrum sulphuricum — Urinary. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/natrum-sulphuricum#s-a5ebc782-2a87-4523-a64d-8c03fabf9cf6.

Loaded with bile. Brisk-dust sediment. Excessive secretion. Diabetes.

Natrum sulphuricumMale

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William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Natrum sulphuricum — Male. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/natrum-sulphuricum#s-ca1319bd-49cc-49b8-a554-582b2e6e2e64.

Condylomata; soft, fleshy excrescences; greenish discharges. Gonorrhœa; discharge thick, greenish; little pain.

Natrum sulphuricumFemale

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William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Natrum sulphuricum — Female. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/natrum-sulphuricum#s-09b40dde-d2f4-4204-9b73-1d0a5610388a.

Nosebleed during menses, which are acrid and profuse. Burning in pharynx during menstruation. Herpetic vulvitis. Leucorrhœa yellowish-green, following gonorrhœa in female. Leucorrhœa with hoarseness.

Natrum sulphuricumRespiratory

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William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Natrum sulphuricum — Respiratory. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/natrum-sulphuricum#s-c737dfdf-b7c8-4470-991a-605ea073f786.

Dyspnœa, during damp weather. Must hold chest when coughing. Humid asthma; rattling in chest, at 4 and 5 am. Cough, with thick ropy, greenish expectoration; chest feels all gone. Constant desire to take deep, long breath. Asthma in children, as a constitutional remedy. Delayed resolution in pneumonia. Springs up in bed the cough hurts so; holds painful side (Bry). Pain through lower left chest. Every fresh cold brings on attack of asthma.

Natrum sulphuricumBack

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William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Natrum sulphuricum — Back. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/natrum-sulphuricum#s-d552e1ee-b1a5-4388-8815-9f9c13b73158.

Itching when undressing. Violent pains in back of neck, and at base of brain. Piercing pain between scapulæ. Spinal meningitis; opisthotonos.

Natrum sulphuricumExtremities

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William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Natrum sulphuricum — Extremities. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/natrum-sulphuricum#s-89180b34-8d2d-45de-98e3-03bb935b821c.

Swelling of axillary glands. Inflammation around root of nails. Burning in soles; œdema of feet; itching between toes. Gout. Pain in limbs, compels frequent change in position. Run-arounds. Pain in hip-joints, worse left, worse, stooping. Stiffness of knees, cracking of joints. Rheumatism, worse in damp cold weather.

Natrum sulphuricumSkin

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William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Natrum sulphuricum — Skin. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/natrum-sulphuricum#s-fc2fc5e0-8fe1-4681-b6df-fac45e60f97d.

Itching while undressing. Jaundiced, watery blisters. Sycotic excrescences; wart-like red lumps all over body.

Natrum sulphuricumRelationships

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William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Natrum sulphuricum — Relationships. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/natrum-sulphuricum#s-a8f49d2b-2f75-41a1-8bab-50be238f9a0c.

Compare: Natrum succinate (5 gr every 3 hours. Catarrhal jaundice). Malaria officinalis-decomposed vegetable matter––(Has evident power to cause the disappearance of the plasmodium of malaria. Malarial cachexia. General sense of weariness. Spleen affections. Malaria and rheumatism. Functional hepatic diseases. Sixth potency and higher).Natrum choleinicum-Fel

Tauri Depuratum––(constipation; chronic gastric and intestinal catarrh; cirrhotic liver; diabetes; nape of neck pains; tendency to sleep after eating; much flatus; ascites); Momordica-Balsam Apple––(Colic, dysmenorrhœa with gushes of blood). Pulmo vulpis-Wolf's lung (persistent shortness of breath causing a paroxysm of asthma on the slightest motion. 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, œdema of lungs); Natrum iodat (Incipient rheumatic endocarditis; chronic bronchitis, rheumatism and tertiary syphilis. Chronic catarrhal affections, arteriosclerosis. Here various symptoms, as angina pectoris, vertigo, dyspnœa become less marked after continued use of 5-10 grs, 3 times a day). Natrum hyposulph (liver-spots, locally and internally); Sulp; Thuja; Merc.: stilling. Complementary; Ars; Thuja.

Natrum sulphuricumDose

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William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Natrum sulphuricum — Dose. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/natrum-sulphuricum#s-6b491225-e0cc-4ad7-8371-529594bc84b9.

First to twelfth trituration.

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

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

Natrum sulphuricumLecture

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James Tyler Kent. Lectures on Homœopathic Materia Medica. 2nd edition (preface dated 1 September 1911). Natrum sulphuricum — Lecture. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/natrum-sulphuricum#s-94a422cb-4942-4ecc-9ed6-8cd5a63b5c92.

Natrum sulfuricum

This is one of our most frequently indicated constitutional remedies. The symptoms appear in the morning, evening apd during the night, especially before midnight.

Some symptoms are better after breakfast, during the daytime and after midnight, except the sweat. It is a very useful remedy for complaints following neglected gonorrhea. The symptoms and the constitutional state of the patient are worse in wet weather.

It is useful in patients who live near waterways and have suffered long from malarial influences. It is useful as an antidote to the abuse of quinine. It especially belongs to patients of the naturopathic and bilious constitution. He is extremely sensitive to the night air. He suffers from universal catarrh and the discharges are generally greenish. It cures dropsically conditions. Sensitive to touch and pressure; oversensitive mentally and physically. Very sensitive to pain.

The pains are very numerous; dull pains, sharp pains, all better from motion. Bruised feeling:all over. Strong desire for open air and better while walking in the open air. Sensitive to a warm room, though he is sometimes sensitive to cold and must have warm loathing. The feeling of fullness or distension is found in many places; in the head, in the ear, in the abdomen, in the veins generally.

Complaints all worse in the spring and in warm weather. General, physical restlessness and anxiety. Marked weakness and trembling with internal pulsations and rapid heart. Twitching of muscles. Complaints from injuries of head and spine. The symptoms all worse during rest. Rheumatic complaints all over the body. He is compelled to lie on the back. Convulsions from injuries of the head. Sycotic conditions with a history of warts and condylomata. Anxiety in the morning which passes off after breakfast; in the evening in bed; at night before midnight; during fever; about the future; anxiety and loathing of life with suicidal impulse, must use all self-control to prevent taking his life, A woman during gestation attempted several times to hang herself, after this remedy she was cheerful and there was no return of the suicidal disposition. Cheerful after stool. Music makes her sad. Sadness in the morning, which passes off after breakfast.

Mind: Extremely irritable in the morning. Violent anger which is followed by jaundice. Aversion to company. Dislikes to speak or to be spoken to. Dullness of mind and excitability. Mental exertion brings on mental symptoms. Mental troubles come, on from injuries of the head.

A young man became very sad and subject to attacks of vertigo, and neglected his business after being hit on the side of the head by a base ball. He was entirely free from all symptoms after taking this remedy.

Fear of a crowd; of evil; of people. Forgetful, easily frightened, hysterical; indifferent; indolent; insanity. She is oversensitive and suspicious. Starting from fright or noise and in sleep.

Head: Subject to vertigo, congestive headaches with fullness and heat.

Pressing outward in the head with pulsation. Periodical headaches with vomiting bile. The pains are worse when thinking of them and better by pressure, in the open air and when lying. Pulsation in the temples when walking. Splitting pain in the vertex. Heat of the vertex. Headache in the morning on waking. Mental exertion brings on headaches. Sensation as of brain falling to side lain on. Headache with intermittent fever. Violent occipital headache with pain in the nape of the neck. Headache from injuries of the head. Itching of the scalp. Formication. Eczema of the scalp with much moisture.

Eyes: Photophobia and head complaints from looking, into the light.

Lachrymation and dim vision, jaundiced eyes; inflamed eyes with many blisters. Burning in the eyes morning and evening. Greenish discharge from the eyes. Lids stuck together in the morning.

Granular lids. Scrofulous inflammation of the conjunctiva. Redness, swelling and burning of the margins of the lids. Heaviness of lids. Pressing in eyes when using eyes. Itching of the eyes in the morning.

Ears: Chirping in the ears in the evening; during chill and fever.

Flapping sensation in the ears. Ringing in the ears. Pressing out feeling in the ears. Earache as if something was forcing its way out. Stitching pains in ears, worse entering warm room from cold air; in damp weather.

Earache. Complaint worse on right side. Heat in right ear in evening. Catarrh of right ear. Stopped sensation in right ear. Purulent discharge from the ears.

Nose: catarrhal discharge from nose, yellowish green.

Epistaxis before and during menses; in afternoon and evening. Dryness and burning in the nose. Obstructed with mucus in the night. Mucus drawn from posterior nares tasting salty. Sneezing with fluent coryza and influenza. Epidemic influenza. Chunks of dried mucus blow. from high up in nose.

Face and mouth: Itching of the face with eczema.

Sickly expression and jaundiced skin. Vesicles and pimples on the face. Vesicles on the lower lip and around the mouth. Pimples on the chin burning on touch.

The teeth become loose and fall out in sycotic constitution. The gums separate from the teeth, Pain in the teeth worse from warm things, better from cold drinks and the cold air.

Gums red, ulcerate and burn. Blisters on the gums. The mouth is always slimy. Much mucus forms in the mouth and throat. Taste is better and tongue is heavily coated a dirty greenish brown.

Blisters on the tongue and roof of the mouth. Burning in the roof of the mouth during menses. Numbness in the mouth. Salivation.

Throat and stomach: Chronic inflammation of the throat with copious viscid white MUCUS. Dry sensation in throat. Pain in throat on swallowing food. Choking feeling in the throat when walking. It is often needed in goitre. Great thirst in the evening; for very cold drinks; during chill and fever.

Aversion to bread and meat. Qualmishness after farinaceous foods; hiccough after bread in evening. Eructations of sour water of bitter fluid. Nausea before breakfast. Constant nausea. Vomiting of sour or bitter fluid. Vomiting of green bile with colic. The stomach feels distended and heavy. Pulsation in the stomach after breakfast. Extreme cases of gastric weakness with acidity. Can digest only the simple foods. Digestion very slow. This remedy has cured many complaints of the liver; congested, enlarged, sore liver.

Liver: Pain in the liver from lying on the right side.

Dragging in the right hypochondrium when lying on the left. side (Mag. m., Card. m., Ptel.), soreness and itching in the liver when walking. Sharp pains in the liver on deep inspiration. The liver is disturbed by mental exertion and anger. The liver seems to manufacture an excess of bile. Perverted viscid bile that readily forms gall stones. It causes the liver to make healthy bile which is the natural solvent of gall stones, when given in homoeopathic doses at long intervals. It has cured many cases of gall stone colic. It has removed gall stones in many cases. Sensitive to clothing over the hypochondria. The following three cases will testify:

Case I.

Woman, married, grown children. Aged 37. Headache followed by vomiting of bile for several years. Face purple. Heat ameliorates the pain. Pain begins in right eye, spreads over the forehead with a dragging feeling in back of head. Pain in sacrum extends to thighs, aggravated on right side. Nervous, easily startled, apprehensive. Intensely fastidious. Had gall stone colic three months ago. Cold feet. Headache at menstrual period for sixteen years. Menstrual flow thick, clotted, dark, lasts one day, Stool, light color when sick, darker when in better health. Must restrain herself or she will commit suicide. Slow pulse at times. Tired, all the time. Condemned to an operation by the surgeon for gall stone. Fissured tongue. Natrum sulphuricum cured the gall stones disappeared. Case 2.

Man actively engaged in business, weight 180 pounds. Age 40.

Pain in region of gall bladder. Gall stone colic. Came on after indigestion. Dull aching in that region. Must walk about the room, not ameliorated in any position. Only once has stool become light colored. Pain in region of kidneys, also through pelvic region and legs with a cloudy condition of the urine; dribbling of few drops of urine after urination.

Dull heavy pain in right side behind the lower ribs, continuous pain; pain extends up right side as far as nipple; stabbing pains in breast. Pain in duodenum aggravated after eating. Natrum sulph. cured. The patient is in perfect health. Case 3.

Woman. Age 64. Diarrhea; stool watery, sometimes chalky; enlarged liver; clawing feeling in gall bladder; gall stone colic.

Had been condemned by a surgeon to the operating table. Sinking spells after stool; cold spells; vertigo, stooping, lying or walking; spells of rapid beating of heart; mental depression; thirstless; temperature sub-normal; sensitive to jarring abdomen; flatulence and rumbling in abdomen; cold legs to knees; cold hands much belching, aggravated after meals; sensitive to weather changes nervous and sleepless before a storm; sore dragging feeling in the liver; bowels sluggish; slow digestion; heaviness of arms and legs; chilliness down the back; unable to he on right side with comfort; urine copious; strong; late going to sleep.

Natrum sulph. made a radical change in her condition and there are no more signs of gall stones.

Abdomen: Distress in the abdomen relieved by displacing flatus.

Emptiness relieved by passing flatus and by eructations. Cramps and many pains from obstructed flatus. Pain and distension in the ascending colon from flatus.

Pain in the region of the caecum. It has cured many cases resembling the first stage of appendicitis. Pain and tenderness in the whole abdomen. Dull heavy pain from abdomen to back. Burning in the abdomen. Feeling in the abdomen as it a diarrhea would come on, ameliorated by eructations and passing flatus. Distress in the abdomen that hurries him to stool but only flatus passes. Pain in the abdomen during menses. Cramp in morning before breakfast. Pain in abdomen, 4 to 8 P.M., and in evening. Constant distress in bowels and urging to stool.

Fullness, rumbling, motions, gurgling with or without diarrhea. Pain in right ascending colon when lying on the. right side. Bilious colic with vomiting of bile. It has cured many cases of syphilis. It has cured enlarged abdominal glands. Morning diarrhea with copious flatus soon after rising or soon after standing on the feet. Diarrhea in wet weather.

Stools gushing; copious; greenish; thin; very offensive; slimy, bloody; cramps in the abdomen before stool. Smarting in the anus during stool. Sometimes cheerful after stool. Often the diarrhea is painless.

Diarrhea after farinaceous food; from vegetables; fruit; pastry; cold drinks; ice cream. Diarrhea alternating with constipation. Diarrhea with stools at any hour of the day or night, but especially morning and evening.

It has cured many cases of chronic diarrhea with stool involuntary and lienteric.

Itching and crawling in the anus. Condylomata at the anus. It cured an ulceration in the rectum with copious bleeding in a lawyer who had long struggled with suicidal impulses. It has often cured bleeding piles.

Kidneys and urines: It has cured parenchymatic inflammation of the kidneys following scarlet fever and from malarial influences.

It has cured sugar in the urine and polyuria. It has cured brick dust sediment many times also where copious white sandy sediment was present. It has cured copious deposits of phosphates with copious jelly-like mucous sediment. Must rise often in the night to urinate. Burning during and after urination. Urine loaded with bile. Where these symptoms appear after neglected gonorrhea.

Male: In the male strong sexual desire and troublesome erections.

Gonorrhea when the discharge has a greenish yellow color and there is burning during and after urination. It has cured enlarged prostate many times. Condylomata, soft fleshy with greenish discharge.

Oedema of the scrotum and prepuce. Itching of the penis and scrotum with burning after scratching.

Female: The menstrual flow is copious, acrid and clotted.

Leucorrhoea acrid greenish, purulent, excoriating the parts. It has cured milk leg.

Larynx, trachea and chest: Much thick, viscid white mucus forms in the larynx and trachea. Dyspnoea on exertion and while walking; with sharp pain in left chest. Stitching on deep breathing. Dyspnoea in damp weather. It is a most useful remedy in humid asthma in children of sycotic parents. Humid asthma with copious viscid mucus in every spell of hot weather. Chronic catarrh of the bronchial tubes. Frequent attacks of paroxysmal cough from irritation in larynx ending in copious white, viscid expectorations.

Expectoration bloody; greenish yellow; purulent; white; viscid. Oppression of the chest from damp evening air and in the morning on waking. Emptiness in the chest on inspiration. Soreness in the chest on coughing, better by holding the chest with the bands.

Bronchitis and pneumonia are sometimes hard to cure in sycotic patients until they have received this remedy. Muco-purulent expectoration in old people. Eruptions on the chest every spring in sycotic patients. Swelling and suppuration in the axillary glands.

It has been the epidemic remedy in this country in cerebro-spinal meningitis, where the pain in the back of the head and neck was marked, "as the gnawing of a dog" and the head was drawn backward.

Back and limbs: Piercing pain between the scapulae in the evening while sitting. Tenderness of the spine. Sore pain in the small of the back and sacrum. Pain in the small of the back during the night compelling her to lie on the right side; it passes away in the morning after rising. Pain in the small of the back from retaining the urine. Itching of the back when undressing. Pain in the sacrum, cannot lie on either side.

Trembling, twitching and weakness in the limbs, twitching in hands and feet during sleep. Pains in the limbs during rest. Rheumatic pains in the limbs in wet weather. Cracking in the joint. Warts on the arms and hands. Pains in the limbs during chill and fever, better by motion and walking. Worse in the lower than in the upper limbs. Weakness in the hands; flexors pain on grasping anything. Trembling in the hands in the morning on waking and when writing. The tendency to suppuration around the nails is a marked symptom in this remedy. Palms raw and sore and exude a watery fluid. It has cured bad cases of psoriasis of the palms. Fingers swollen and stiff. Panaritium, pain more bearable in the open air. Ulceration, pain under the nail and in the tips of the fingers.

Pain in the right hip joint on motion. Stitching in the left hip. Pain in the hip extending to the knee. Swelling in the left leg.

Sciatica better in motion. Dull, aching in the lower limbs during chill and fever, better when walking. Restlessness of the limbs at night in bed. Ulcers on outer side of thighs. Stiffness of knees. Weakness in lower limbs. Burning of feet and legs to the knees. Dry heat in feet at night. Oedema of the feet. Sharp pain in soles and heels.

Drowsiness in the forenoon when reading. Frightful dreams. Chill from 6 to 9 P.M., with fever, than dry heat until 1 A.M., sweat absent. Chill with icy coldness and gooseflesh from 4 to 8 P.M. during menses. Shaking chills. Chilliness with fever in the evening from night air. Perspiration after midnight or toward morning. Fevers with vomiting bile. Remittent and intermittent fevers. It is a much neglected remedy in chronic intermittent fever. Eczema with watery oozing. Water blisters. Yellow scales after breaking the vesicles. Jaundice. Intertrigo. Wart-like, red excrescences all over the body.

Red, knotty eruptions on head above the ears; on the forehead and left side of nape of neck; in the middle of chest. Itching when undressing.

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