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Where do we find data concerning the homoeopathic uses of Natrum muriaticum ?
In Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases and in the provings of the Austrian Society, Allen's Encyclopaedia ; Burnett on Natrum muriaticum , and considered as a tissue remedy in Boericke and Dewey's Twelve Tissue Remedies of Schüssler .
Give the general action of Natrum muriaticum.
It corresponds to malnutrition and emaciation, and to anaemia.
It also has an important action upon the blood ; is useful in intermittent fever, skin eruptions, etc.
Give six general characteristics of this drug.
The full Dewey text, by section
Eruptions On Margin Of Hairy Scalp
4. Backache, better from lying on something hard.
Aversion To Bread
What are the mental symptoms of Natrum muriaticum ?
The patient is hypochondriacal, sad and hopeless about the future. It is a useful remedy in brain fag.
Give the characteristic frontal headache of Natrum muriaticum.
It is a hammering headache, worse in morning, and is accompanied by constipation.
What are the characteristic eye symptoms of this drug ?
It is a remedy especially characteristic in muscular asthenopia and in ciliary neuralgia, which comes and goes with the sun. Also in blepharitis. There is lachrymation and scalding, and letters run together when reading.
What are the indications for Natrum muriaticum in catarrhal conditions ?
Clear, watery discharge from coryza accompanied with loss of smell and taste. Sneezing worse in evening while undressing and in morning on rising.
What is a special characteristic indication of Natrum muriaticum in colds ?
Where there are cold sores or herpes on the lips, or on the wings of the nose - fever blisters so-called.
What is the tongue of Natr. m muriaticum ?
It is a clean tongue covered with bubbles of frothy saliva.
What condition of the throat calls for this drug ?
A relaxed uvula with a feeling of a plug, or great dryness in the throat.
What are the stomach symptoms of Natrum muriaticum ?
There is a violent thirst ; aversion to bread ; water brash and feeling of weakness and sinking in the stomach.
Give the constipation of Natrum muriaticum.
The stools are dry, crumbly, hard and difficult to expel. There is great weakness of the intestines. The stools are so dry that they produce fissure in the rectum. Obstinate cases accompanied by hypochondriasis.
Give the diarrhoea of Natrum muriaticum.
It is a diarrhoea which is watery, and accompanied with great weakness of the abdominal muscles, and is sometimes involuntary.
Give the bladder symptoms of this drug.
Catarrh of the bladder, with burning on urinating.
Give the female symptoms.
There is a watery leucorrhoea, and especially is it useful in uterine troubles, accompanied by backache, which is relieved by lying on the back or on something hard.
In what affections of the chest is Natrum muriaticum useful ?
In chronic bronchial catarrhs, winter coughs and asthma, where there is a profuse secretion of mucus.
What is the fever of Natrum muriaticum ?
It is useful in intermittent fever from living in damp regions, especially after the abuse of Quinine ; the chill comes on in the morning at 10 o'clock, begins in back and feet, preceded by headache, thirst, backache, and accompanied by fever blisters on the lips ; there is also vomiting with the chill. The stages are unequal, the chill is usually continuous, heat moderate, with violent headache, perspiration either wholly wanting or excessive and relieving the headache.
Complexion is yellowish gray. During apyrexia dejected and apprehensive.
What are the skin symptoms of Natrum muriaticum ?
It is a dry, scaly eruption, or a herpetic eruption of little, watery blisters ; especially for herpes in the bends of the knees ; also it is a remedy for affections of the scalp accompanied by falling of the hair from the head and eyebrows. Eruptions on flexor surfaces.
What drug has eruptions on the extensor surfaces ?
Kreosote .
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