HomeoRemedyNatrium sulphuricum
Sulphate of sodium-glauber's salt
Main symptoms
- 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.
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- Every spring, return of skin affections.
- Tendency to warts.
- Fingers and toes affected.
- Chronic gout.
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- 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.
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Symptoms by body part
Head
Occipital pain. Piercing stitches in ears. Dizziness; 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.
Ears
Sticking pain, earache, lightning-like stitches in damp weather.
Nose
Nasal mucus discharge, with thick, yellow discharge and salty mucus. Runny nose (cold). Nosebleed. Ethmoiditis.
Eyes
Conjunctiva yellow. Granular lids. Sensitive to light.
Mouth
Slimy, thick, tenacious, white mucus. Bitter taste, blisters on palate.
Throat
Thick, yellow mucus, drops from posterior nares.
Stomach
Vomits sour. Brown, bitter coating on tongue. Yellow complexion. Thirst for something cold. Bilious vomiting, acid indigestion, with heartburn and gas.
Abdomen
Duodenal mucus discharge; 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. Diarrhoea yellow, watery stools. Loose morning stools, worse, after spell of wet weather. Stools involuntary, when passing flatus. Great size of the faecal mass.
Urine
Loaded with bile. Brisk-dust sediment. Excessive secretion.
Female
Nosebleed during menses, which are acrid and profuse. Burning in pharynx during menstruation. Herpetic vulvitis. White vaginal discharge with hoarseness.
Male
Condylomata; soft, fleshy excrescences; greenish discharges.
Respiratory
Dyspnoea, during damp weather. Must hold chest when coughing. Cough, with thick ropy, greenish phlegm coughed up; chest feels all gone. Constant desire to take deep, long breath. Delayed resolution in pneumonia. Springs up in bed the cough hurts so; holds painful side. Pain through lower left chest.
Back
Itching when undressing. Violent pains in back of neck, and at base o/ brain. Piercing pain between scapulae. Spinal meningitis; opisthotonos.
Extremities
Swelling of axillary glands. Inflammation around root of nails. Burning in soles; swelling 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. Joint and muscle pain, worse in damp cold weather.
Skin
Itching while undressing. Jaundiced, watery blisters. Sycotic excrescences; wart-like red lumps all over body.
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