Natrium muriaticum
Chloride of sodium
Main symptoms
- The prolonged taking of excessive salt causes profound nutritive changes to take place in the system, and there arise not only the symptoms of salt retention as evidenced by dropsies and oedemas, but also an alteration in the blood causing a condition of anaemia and leucocytosis.
- There seems also to be a retention in the tissues of effete materials giving rise to symptoms loosely described as gouty or rheumatic gout.
- The provings are full of such symptoms. (Dr. Stonham)
- Great debility; most weakness felt in the morning in bed.
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- Coldness.
- Emaciation most notable in neck.
- Great liability to take cold.
- Dry mucous membranes.
- Constrictive sensation throughout the body.
- Great weakness and weariness.
- Oversensitive to all sorts of influences.
- Hyperthyroidism.
- Addison's disease.
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- Psychic causes of disease; ill effects of grief, fright, anger, etc.
- Depressed, particularly in chronic diseases.
- Consolation aggravates.
- Irritable; gets into a passion about trifles.
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- Awkward, hasty.
- Wants to be alone to cry.
- Tears with laughter.
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Symptoms by body part
Head
Throbs. Blinding headache. Aches as if a thousand little hammers were knocking on the brain, in the morning on awakening, after menstruation, from surnise to sunset. Feels too large; cold. Anaemic headache of school-girls; nervous, discouraged, broken down. Chronic headache, semi-lateral, congestive, from sunrise to sunset, with pale face, nausea, vomiting; periodical; from eyestrain; menstrual. Before attack, numbness and tingling in lips, tongue and nose, relieved by sleep. Frontal sinus inflammation.
Eyes
Feels bruised, with headache in school children. Eyelids heavy. Muscles weak and stiff. Letters run together. Sees sparks. Fiery, zigzag appearance around all objects. Burning in eyes. Give out on reading or writing. Stricture of lachrymal duct with pus formation. Escape of muco-pus when pressing upon sac. Watering eyes, burning and acrid. Lids swollen. Eyes appear wet with tears. Tears stream down face on coughing. Asthenopia due to insufficiency of internal recti muscles. Pain in eyes when looking down.
Ears
Noises; roaring and ringing.
Nose
Violent, fluent runny nose (cold), lasting from one to three days, then changing into stoppage of nose, making breathing difficult. Discharge thin and watery, like raw white of egg. Violent sneezing runny nose (cold). Infallibe for stopping a cold commencing with sneezing. Use thirtieth potency. Loss of smell and taste. Internal soreness of nose. Dryness.
Face
Oily, shiny, as if greased. Earthy complexion. Fevers-blisters.
Mouth
Frothy coating on tongue, with bubbles on side. Sense of dryness. Scorbutic gums. Numbness, tingling of tongue, lips, and nose. Vesicles and burning on tongue, as if there was a hair on it. Rashes around mouth and vesicles like pearls on lips. Lips and corners of mouth dry, ulcerated, and cracked. Deep crack in middle of lower lip. Tongue mapped. Loss of taste. Large vesicle on lower lip, which is swollen and burns. Immoderate thirst.
Stomach
Hungry, yet loose flesh. Heartburn, with palpitation. Unquenchable thirst. Sweats while eating. Craving for salt. Aversion to bread, to anything slimy, like oysters, fats. Throbbing in pit. Sticking sensation in cardiac orifice.
Abdomen
Cutting pain in abdomen. Distended. Pain in abdominal ring on coughing.
Rectum
Burning pains and stitching after stool. Anus contracted, torn, bleeding. Constipation; stool dry, crumbling. Painless and copious diarrhoea, preceded by pinching pain in abdomen.
Urine
Pain just after urinating. Increased, involuntary when walking, coughing, etc. Has to wait a long time for it to pass if others are present.
Male
Emission, even after coitus.
Female
Menses irregular; usually profuse. Vagina dry. White vaginal discharge acrid, watery. Bearing-down pains; worse in morning. Prolapsus uteri, with cutting in urethra. Ineffectual labor-pains. Suppressed menses. Hot during menses.
Respiratory
Cough from a tickling in the pit of stomach, accompanied by stitches in liver and spurting of urine? Stitches all over chest. Cough, with bursting pain in head. Shortness of breath, especially on going upstairs. Whooping-cough with flow of tears with cough.
Heart
Tachycardia. Sensation of coldness of heart. Heart and chest feel constricted. Fluttering, palpitating; intermittent pulse. Heart's pulsations shake body. Intermits on lying down.
Extremities
Pain in back, with desire for some firm support. Every movement accelerates the circulation. Palms hot and perspiring. Arms and legs, but especially knees, feel weak. Hangnails. Dryness and cracking about finger-nails. Numbness and tingling in fingers and lower extremities. Ankles weak and turn easily. Painful contraction of hamstrings. Cracking in joints on motion. Coldness of legs with congestion to head, chest, and stomach.
Sleep
Sleepy in forenoon. Nervous jerking during sleep. Dreams of robbers. Sleepless from grief.
Skin
Greasy, oily, especially on hairy parts. Dry rashes, especially on margin of hairy scalp and bends of joints. Fever blisters. Hives; itch and burn. Crusty rashes in bends of limbs, margin of scalp, behind ears. Warts on palms of hands. Eczema; raw, red, and inflamed; worse, eating salt, at seashore. Affects hair follicles. Alopecia. Hives, itching after exertion. Greasy skin.
Fever
Chill between 9 and 11 a.m. Heat; violent thirst, increases with fever. Fever-blisters. Coldness of the body, and continued feeling cold very marked. Hydraemia in chronic malarial states with weakness, constipation, loss of appetite, etc. Sweats on every exertion.
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