Materia Medica de A a Z

NATRUM SULPHURICUM (nat-s)

Region

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

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.

General

Sudden violent effects; in ailing patients. Piercing pains, at (l) short ribs; in (l) hip, agg. 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, agg. music or subdued light. Melancholia. Dire (suicidal) impulses. Vertigo; amel. 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, agg. at base; tip feels burnt. Bitter taste. Thirst at start of fever only. Slow digestion. Concomitants to nausea. Green, bilious vomit. Sore, heavy liver; agg. lying on left side. As of a lump below liver. Crawling in gall-bladder. Colic, amel. rubbing abdomen. Cramp at umbilicus. FLATULENCE; painful; pushes here and there, agg. left abdomen. RUMBLING, GURGLING IN BOWELS, THEN SUDDEN GUSHING, NOISY, SPLUTTERING STOOL; after rising in A.M., or drives from bed. Foamy or yellow diarrhoa, mixed with green slime. White sand in urine. Dyspnoa. 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.

Complementary: Ars, Thuj.

Related: Colo. (Coloc), Glo. Glon, Med, Puls.