Materia Medica de A a Z

NATRUM MURIATICUM (nat-m)

Region

NUTRITION (Digestive tract. BRAIN. BLOOD. MUSCLES). MIND. HEART. GLANDS (MUCUS. Spleen. Liver). Skin.

Worse

PERIODICALLY (9-11 A.M. With the sun. After menses. Alternate days (Ars, Chin)). HEAT (Sun. Summer. Dampness). Exertion; eyes, mental. Violent emotions. Sympathy. Puberty. Quinine. Old malaria. Silver salts.

Better

Open air. Cool bathing. Sweating. Rest. Before breakfast. Deep breathing.

General

Thin, thirsty, hopeless and poorly nourished. Emaciation; descending; agg. neck or abdomen. Anæmia. DRYNESS; skin, mouth, throat, rectum, vagina, etc. Numbness; of one side; parts lain on; fingers. Tremulous. Easy exhaustion. Parts seem short, hamstrings, nape, etc. Not very sensitive to pain. Takes cold. Nervous erethism. Thick white or clear acrid discharges. Exact periodicity. Malarial cachexia..................... Hateful; detests consolation or a fuss. Inconsolable. Easily angered; agg. if consoled. Sad, reserved; company distresses. Hypochondria. Weeps bitterly. Boisterous grief. Scattered thoughts, or an idea clings, prevents sleep, inspires revenge, etc. Anxiety. Apprehension. Fears or dreams of robbers. Vertigo; as if falling, on closing eyes. Nodding motions. HEADACHES; hammering; heavy; bursting; maddening; over eyes; on vertex, on awaking; with partial numbness or disturbed vision; agg. reading; agg. motion, even of eyes; amel. pressure on eyes. Migraine. Falling hair. Eyes feel drawn together. Lachrymation on affected side ([Spi. Spig)]; on sneezing, coughing, etc. Ptosis, on lying down. Vision blurred, wavering. Letters run together. Hemiopia, then headache. Can't read by artificial light. Nose stopped, high up; sneezing early in A.M.; alternate fluent and dry coryza; gushes of fluid; little ulcers in. Face; pale, muddy or greasy. HERPES ABOUT LIPS; or at edge of hair; pearly. Throbbing in lower jaw, agg. biting, agg. heat and cold. Exophthalmic goitre. Hawks much mucus; bitter. TONGUE MAPPED; beaded or striped along edge. Blunted taste and smell. Uvula hangs to one side. Throat; a spot is dry, sore, tickles, causes cough, etc.; glistens. Thirst; drinks large quantities. Hunger great, yet emaciates; without appetite. CRAVES SALT. Averse to bread. Burning eructations; after eating. Waterbrash. Epigastric pulsation. Anxiety in stomach, rises to head. Tense abdomen; agg. groins. Dry, hard, crumbling stool, tears anus or causes burning; coated with glassy mucus; on alternate days. Chronic diarrhoa. Constricted rectum. Herpes ani. Red urinary sediment. Coition; painful; averse to; then backache, weak legs, depression, etc. Suppressed gonorrhoa. Debilitating leucorrhoa, replaces menses. Cough; from tickling in epigastrium; with asthma or palpitation; agg. winter. Respiratory catarrhs, after suppressed sweats. Heart; palpitation, shaking body or alternates with beating in head; fluttering; weak; sore; agg. emotions, lying on (l) side, or motion. Sore neck muscles. Bruised backache, early in A.M.; agg. coughing, amel. lying on back, or pressure. Cracked finger-tips. Catch in knees. Hamstrings seem short or drawing in. Sobs during sleep. Awakes feeling weak. Skin, oily; dry, harsh, dirty, unhealthy or yellow; chaps or herpetic eruptions, agg. flexures or about knuckles. Coldness of many parts; hands, feet; heart. Morning chill, with thirst. Chilly, but agg. in sun. Sweat, cold, scanty; at edge of hair; on nose, on face, while eating (Cham).

Complementary: Ign, Sep.

Related: Puls.