Natrum Carbonicum

▲   GENERAL

General

All the Natrums stimulate cellular activity and increase oxidation and metabolism. Great debility Caused by summer heat; chronic effects of sunstroke; exhaustion; anaemic; milky, watery skin; very weak ankles, are all peculiar Natrum Carbonicum conditions.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, sitting, from music, summer HEAT, mental exertion, Thunder storm. Least draft, changes of weather, sun.

Better

BETTER, by moving, by boring in ears and nose.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Sodii bicarbonas (in vomiting of pregnancy with acetonuria, 30 grains in water spread over twenty-four hours); Nat-sulph.; Causticum ^Caust.; Nat. cacodyl ( Foul breath and mouth with bad odor. Dry dermatitis of the skin of abdomen. Malignant growths ( In phthisis, 5 centigrams hypodermically, daily. Increase number of red blood corpuscles to double. Also in Malignant disease). arsenal - (Disodium methyl arsenate). Introduced by M.A. Gautier, for phthisis in the second stage 4 to 6 centigrammes Per day for one week followed by a week’s intermission. But much smaller doses, i.e., 1x to 3X are followed by improvement, lessened fever, night sweat and hemoptysis ceasing.

Antidotes

Antidote: Arsenicum Album ^Ars.; Camphora ^Camph.

▲   MIND

Mind

Unable to think; difficult, slow comprehension

Mental weakness and depression; worries; very sensitive to noise; colds, change of weather

Anxious and restless during thunder storms; worse from music ( Ambra Grisea ^Ambra.) Marked gayety

Sensitive to presence of certain individuals.

Aversions, dislikes

open air

certain persons

Mental exertion

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

cheerful, happy

indifference, apathy, etc.

irritability

during heat

mirth, hilarity, liveliness, etc.

sensitive, oversensitive; to certain persons

sensitive, oversensitive; to music

unhappy; sadness, mental depression

errors of diet

Intellectual faculties

impaired thinking; confusion; from mental exertion

impaired thinking; dull, sluggish

from mental exertion

impaired thinking; weakness of mind

Insecure, uncertain, scared

anxiety

fear

of people

of people; men

frightened easily

starting, startled; easily

starting, startled; from fright

starting, startled; from noise

timidity

Memory; weakness of memory; for mental labour (compare daze)

Restlessness, nervousness; anxious, etc.

Work; impossible to work

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Vertigo from exposure to sun.

Mental exertion

In a warm room

▲   HEAD

Head

Aches from Slight mental exertion, worse from Sun or working under gas-light ( Glonoin ^Glon.) Feels too large

Oversensitive of hearing

Head aches with return of hot weather

Headache

Heaviness (see pain; pressing); from mental exertion

Pain, headache

affected by certain foods and drinks (improved, brought on or aggravated); after eating

from exertion; mental exertion

from warmth; summer

from warmth; from exposure to sun

begins with the warm weather

in forehead

on movement; when turning head; quickly

pressing (see bursting, pulling); from mental exertion

Scalp

Skin and scalp; perspiration; forehead

▲   EYES

Eyes

Swellings; lids

▲   EARS

Hearing

Too sensitive

▲   FACE

Face

Freckles, Yellow spots, pimples

Swelling of upper lip

Pale, with blue rings around eyes and swollen lids.

Skin

discoloration; bluish; circles around eyes

discoloration; pale

itching (see skin); whiskers

Swelling; submaxillary gland (gland under jaw, by throat)

▲   NOSE

Nose

All troubles of external nose which may attain a morbid size - pimples and puffiness

Catarrh; bad smell of nasal secretion

Many troubles of external nose ( Causticum ^Caust.) Posterior nasal catarrh

hawking much mucus from throat; worse, slight draft.

Catarrh; post nasal (see discharge)

Discharge from nose

offensive smelling

behind nostrils (see catarrh)

Discharge

Constant coryza; obstruction of nose

Running or blocked nose (coryza); blocked

running, wet

▲   MOUTH

Gums and teeth

Teeth

decay, hollow

pain

lower teeth

Taste

Taste

metallic

sour

▲   THROAT

Throat

Hawks often

Mucus

pulled from behind nostrils

thick

▲   CHEST

Chest

Heart; palpitations

Respiration

Dry cough, when coming into warm room from out of doors

Cough with coldness of left side of breast.

▲   EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

Hard

Noticeable smell; offensive smell

▲   SKIN

Skin

Inclination to perspire easily, or dry, rough, cracked skin

Eruption on finger-tips, knuckles and toes

Vesicular eruption in patches and circles

Veins full

Soles of feet raw and sore.

Blisters

Pain; burning; from perspiration

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

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 rheumatism

Dyspepsia relieved by soda biscuits.

Stomach

indigestion

pain; touch

Eating

aversion to certain foods or drinks; milk

Nausea

nausea; in a warm room

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Bowels; Sudden call to stool

Escapes with haste and noise

Yellow substance like pulp of orange in discharge

Diarrhoea from milk.

Constipation; insufficient, incomplete, unsatisfactory stool

Diarrhoea; after certain foods or drinks; milk

Stool

Forcible, sudden, gushing

Mucous, slimy; bloody

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Albuminous (white, thick)

Burning (includes hot)

Copious

Urethra

Urethra (urinary part of genitals); pain; while urinating; at close of urination

pain

burning; during urination

at close of urination

pain; burning; after urination

Male

Male

excoriated (as if grazed, chaffed); between scrotum, and thighs

thick emission from penis

Genitals

Female; Induration of cervix

Pudenda sore

Bearing-down sensation ( Sepia ^Sep.; Murex ^Murex.) Heaviness; worse, sitting; better, by moving

Female; sterility

Menses

Menses late, scanty, like meat-washings ( Nitric-ac.) Leucorrhoeal discharge, offensive, irritating, preceded by colic.

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Old sprains

Great weakness of limbs, especially in morning

Easy dislocation and spraining of ankles

Foot bends under ( Causticum ^Caust.) Soreness between toes and fingers

Heel and tendo-achilles affected

Chapped hands

The hollow of the knee is painful on motion

Icy cold up to knees.

Coldness

upper limbs; hands

lower limbs; foot

mental exertion

Hands and feet; corns; stinging

Heat

hand

hand; back of hand

Heaviness; lower limbs

Pain

sore, bruised; foot; sole

tearing; upper limbs

Skin

itching; scratching

itching; elbow

out-break on skin; lower limbs; blisters

warts; upper limbs

Weakness

lower limbs

ankle

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Perspiration with heat

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Wakes too early in morning

Amorous dreams

Drowsy during day.

Dreams

amorous

anxious

pleasant

Sleeplessness, insomnia; night; from before midnight

Waking; early

Perspiration

Daytime

Night; alternating with dryness of skin

Burning

During slight exertion (see walking)

From pains

Generalities

Late morning

Aversion to open air

Physical exertion

Eating and food; before eating

Flabby feeling

Pain

cutting; externally

tearing; muscles; cramp-like in muscles

During storm

From sun; from exposure to sun

Trembling; with the pains

Twitching

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness); from slight exertion

from heat

of the sun

from heat; eat of summer

mental exertion

nervous weakness

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