Natrium carbonicum
Carbonate of sodium
Main symptoms
- All the Natrums stimulate cellular activity and increase oxidation and metabolish.
- Great debility caused by summer heat; chronic effects of sunstroke; exhaustion; anaemic; milky, watery skin; very weak ankles, are all peculiar Natrium carbonicum conditions.
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- Unable 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.
- Marked gayety.
- Sensitive to presence of certain individuals.
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Symptoms by body part
Head
Aches from slightest mental exertion, worse from sun or working under gas-light. Feels too large. Oversensitive of hearing. Head aches with return of hot weather. Dizziness from exposure to sun.
Nose
All troubles of external nose which may attain a morbid size-pimples and puffiness. Constant runny nose (cold); obstruction of nose. Mucus discharge; bad smell of nasal secretion. Many troubles of external nose. Posterior nasal mucus discharge. Hawking much mucus from throat; worse, slightest draught.
Face
Freckles, yellow spots, pimples. Swelling of upper lip. Pale, with blue rings around eyes and swollen lids.
Stomach
Feels swollen and sensitive. Ill effects of drinking cold water when overheated. Water-brash. Hungry at 5 a.m. Very weak digestion, caused by slightest error of diet. Averse to milk. Depressed after eating. Bitter taste. Old dyspeptics, always belching, have sour stomach and joint and muscle pain. Indigestion relieved by soda biscuits.
Bowels
Sudden call to stool. Escapes with haste and noise. Yellow substance like pulp of orange in discharge. Diarrhoea from milk.
Female
Induration of cervix. Pudenda sore. Bearing- down sensation. Heaviness; worse, sitting; better by moving. Menses late, scanty like meat-washings. Leucorrhoeal discharge, offensive, irritating preceded by colic.
Respiratory
Dry cough, when coming into warm room from out of doors. Cough with coldness of left side of breast.
Sleep
Wakes too early in morning. Amorous dreams. Drowsy during day.
Extremities
Old sprains. Great weakness of limbs, especially in morning. Easy dislocation and spraining of ankles. Foot bends under. Soreness between toes and fingers. Heel and tendo-Achilles affected. Capped hands. The hollow of the knee is painful on motion. Icy cold up to knees.
Skin
Inclination to perspire easily, or dry, rough, cracked skin. Rash on finger-tips, knuckles and toes. Vesicular rash in patches and circles. Veins full. Soles of feet raw and sore.
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