Natrum Muriaticum

General

NATRUM MURIATICUM. [Natr. mur.] Common Salt. Hahnemann. Na. Cl.

Mind

► Difficulty of thinking ; absence of mind ; memory and will weak. ► Distracted, knows not what to say. ► Awkward in talking, with absent-mindedness. ► Sad, weeping ; consolation aggravates, with palpitation and intermittent pulse. ► When trying to comfort him, he becomes enraged. ► Hurriedness, with anxiety ; with fluttering at the heart. ► Likes to dwell on past unpleasant occurrences. ► Hypochondriacal ; tired of life. ► Gets angry at trifles ; hateful, vindicative. ► Joyless, indifferent, taciturn. ► Religious melancholy.

Sensorium

► Weariness in the head. ► Empty feeling in the head, with anguish. ► Vertigo : when rising from bed in the morning ; periodical, with nausea, eructations, colic and trembling limbs ; nausea and headache ; sometimes as if a cold wind were blowing through head.

Inner Head

► Bursting headache ; beating or stitches through neck or chest ; face red ; nausea, vomiting. ► Violent jerks and shocks in the head. ► Throbbing, as from little hammers ; awakens with the headache every morning ; worse from reading or talking. ► Severe headache, maniacal paroxysms, blasphemous ; weak ; tongue dry ; very thirsty ; intermittent pulse ; caused by getting wet. ► Headache from sunrise till sunset, worse at midday ; right eye congested ; worse from light. ► Heaviness in back part of the head ; draws eyes together. ► Pain, like a nail driven into the left side of the head. ► Pressing headache from both sides, as if in vise. ► Rheumatic tearing from the root of the nose to the forehead ; nausea, vomiting ; vanishing of sight. ► Headache in school-girls. ► Headaches are worse in the morning on awaking, moving the head or the eyes ; mental exertion ; warmth ; better from sitting still or lying down, and from sweat.

Outer Head

► Cold sensation on the vertex ; scalp sensitive ; spasm of the eyelids. ► Hair falls out if touched ; mostly on forepart of head, temples and bread ; scalp very sensitive ; face shining as if greasy. ► Liability to take cold in the head. ► Scalp feels constricted : worse talking and in the open air ; better sitting or lying. ► Dandruff alternating with catarrh and loss of smell. ► Scabs on the head and in the axillae ; eczema raw, oozing a corroding fluid, destroying the hair. ► Impetigo, worse on boundaries of hairy scalp, especially about nape of neck ; eruption glutinous, with thin gummy scabs ; skin sore and red.

Eyes

► Fiery, zigzag appearance around all objects. ► Double vision ; or sees only one-half of an object. ► Retina images are retained too long. ► Asthenopia, particularly muscular : drawing, stiff sensation in muscles of eyes when moving them ; letters and stitches in sewing run together ; aching in eyes when looking intently ; often caused by general muscular weakness or spinal irritation. ► Lids heavy when using them. ► Amblyopia and amaurosis ; pupils contracted, dependent on menstrual disorders in the chlorotic. ► Blepharitis, ulcers or cornea when there is smarting, burning ; feeling of sand in eyes, mornings ; acrid excoriating tears ; photophobia marked with spasmodic closure of lids. ► Ciliary neuralgia, pain above (right) coming on and going off with the sun. ► Sharp pain over (right) eye on looking down, with throbbing headache ; worse in the evening. ► Morbus Basedowii, palpitation, short-breathed on least exertion. ► Internal recti weak. ► Stricture of lachrymal duct, fistula and blenorrhoea of lachrymal sac. ► Affections of the eyes maltreated with lunar caustic.

Ears

► Buzzing humming or ringing in the ears. ► Hardness of hearing. ► Painful cracking in the ear, when masticating. ► Pulsation and breathing ; or stitches in the ear. ► Discharge of pus from the ears. ► Itching behind the ears.

Nose

► Loss of smell and taste, especially with catarrh. ► Nosebleed when stooping, or when coughing at night. ► Liable to catch cold ; coryza fluent, alternately with stoppage of the nose ; posterior nares dry, with hawking in morning ; spasms of sneezing each morning, or ineffectual attempts. ► In catarrh, when the secretion is clear mucus. ► Nose sore, interior of wings swollen ; of scabs in the nose. ► Left-sided inflammation and swelling of nose ; painful to touch. ► Nose on one side feels numb.

Face

► Face : yellow ; pale ; livid ; swollen ; also wan, pasty. ► Heat in the face. ► Prosopalgia recurring periodically, especially after checked ague ; face sallow ; great thirst. ► Cheek-bones pain as if bruised, when chewing. ► One cheek (left) red (afternoon and night). ► Skin of face shining, as if greasy. ► Itching and eruption of the face (crusta lactea). ► Ulcer on the (left) cheek. ► Whiskers fall off.

Lower Face

► Lips dry, cracked, with rhagades or bleeding scabs ; humid sores in the commissures ; upper lip swollen. ► Crack in the middle of the lower lip. ► Blisters like pearls about the mouth ; especially in intermittent fevers. ► Lips tingle, feel numb. ► Eruptions and ulcers on the chin. ► Submaxillary glands swollen.

Teeth

► Sensitive to air on touch ; molars pain when chewing. ► Pain drawing, tearing from teeth to ears and throat, after eating and at night ; cheek swollen. ► Decayed teeth loose, burns, sting and pulsate. ► Gums sensitive to warm and cold things ; swollen, bleed easily ; are putrid. ► Epulis or a small tumor on the gums. ► Fistula dentalis.

Tongue, Etc

► Taste : saltish, with dry tongue and ; anorexia ; bitter ; putrid or sour, while fasting ; water tastes putrid. ► Loss of taste. θ Catarrh. ► Complains much of dryness of tongue, which is not very dry. ► Tongue heavy, difficult speech ; children slow in learning to talk. ► Mapped tongue ; looks like ringworm on the sides. ► Sensation of a hair on the tongue. ► Herpes on the tongue from sea-bathing. ► Burning at tip of tongue. ► One side of tongue numb and stiff. ► Ranula. ► Talking : 3, 4, 25.

Mouth

► Mouth, lips, and especially the tongue dry. ► Feels dry but is not. ► Blood-blisters on inside of upper lip. ► Sore places in mouth very sensitive, even to liquids. ► Vesicles and ulcers in mouth and on tongue, smarting and burning when touched by food. ► Saliva bloody ; salivation.

Throat

► Feels very dry yet he constantly hawks transparent mucus. ► Mucus membrane looks glazed, but is not granulated. ► Sensation of a splinter sticking in the throat. ► Feeling as of a plug in throat with chronic sore throat. ► Uvula elongated ; muscles so weak "food goes down the wrong way" ; also in post-diphtheritic paralysis. ► Only fluids can be swallowed ; solids reach a certain point and then are violently ejected.

Desires And Aversions

► Excessive hunger ; canine hunger, especially for supper with weak body and depressed mind. ► Longs for salt or bitter things ; wants oysters, fish, milk. ► Loss of appetite. ► Aversion : to bread, of which she was once fond ; to coffee.

Eating And Drinking

► Better on an empty stomach worse after breakfast ; feverish ; while eating, sweat on the face. ► After eating : empty eructations, nausea, acidity in the mouth, sleepiness, heart-burn, palpitation ; epigastric pressure and heat radiating upward to the chest. ► Bad effects from acid food, bread, fat and wine.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Acid eructations and malaise, after eating. ► Water-brash ; heart-burn with palpitation. ► Nausea in the morning ; weak after even agreeable food. ► Vomiting first of food, later of bile ; oppression of stomach.

Stomach

► Pit of stomach feels bruised when pressed, with swelling. ► Clawing in pit of stomach ; cramp, better from tightening clothes. ► Great weakness in stomach by spells. ► Red spots on pit of stomach.

Hypochondria

► Dull, heavy aching and distention about liver after eating, lessening as digestion advances. ► Stitches in liver ; tension ; liver inflamed, swollen ; skin yellow, earthy. ► Bending to left causes stiffness in liver. ► Stitches and pressure in region of spleen ; spleen swollen.

Abdomen

► Abdomen swollen ; rumbling and incarceration of flatus. ► Colic, with nausea, relieved by emission of flatus. ► Burning in the intestines.

Stool, Etc

► Wants to pass wind, but knows not whether flatus or feces escape. ► Diarrhoea : chronic, watery ; with fever, dry mouth, thirst ; worse as soon as he moves about ; much fetid flatus ; tendency to hang-nails ; green, bloody, watery or brownish, mostly during the day ; with infarcted scybala. ► Involuntary stools. ► Alternate constipation and papescent stool. ► Constipation from inactivity of the rectum. ► Stool hard, difficult or crumbling ; anus contracted ; anus torn, bleeding, smarting ; burning afterward ; stitches in rectum. ► Passes blood with stool. ► Dryness and smarting of rectum and anus. ► Hemorrhoids, with stinging pains ; moisture oozes from the anus ; herpetic eruption about the anus.

Urine

► Tension and heat in the renal region. ► Frequent or sudden desire to urinate, cannot retain urine ; copious flow. ► Polyuria, thirst for large quantities of water. ► Urine passed involuntary when walking, coughing or laughing. ► Has to wait long for urine to pass, especially if others are near him. ► Urinal sediment like brick-dust. ► Urine dark, like coffee. ► During urination, stitches in bladder, smarting, burning in urethra, smarting and soreness in vulva. ► After urination, burning and cutting in urethra. ► Haematuria.

Male Sexual Organs

► Excessive irritability of the sexual instinct, but with physical weakness. ► Shortly after coitus, pollution. ► After sexual excesses, paralysis. ► Erections in the morning, without sexual excitement. ► Gleet-like discharge of clear mucus. ► Scrotum relaxed, flabby ; buttocks emaciated in infants. ► Itching soreness and moisture between scrotum and thighs ; pus-like smegma on the glans. ► Itching and crawling sensation at the corona glands.

Female Sexual Organs

► Averse to coitus, which is painful from dryness of the vagina. ► Burning, smarting during coitus, anaemic women with dry mouth and dry skin. ► Sterility, with too early and too profuse menstruation. ► Uterine cramps, with burning and cutting in the groins. ► Every morning pressing and pushing toward the genitals, must sit down to prevent prolapsus. ► Prolapsus uteri, with aching in lumbar region, better lying on back ; also, with cutting in urethra after micturition. ► Menses too late and scanty, or too early and profuse. ► Before menses : anxious, sad, qualmish ; sweetish eructations in the morning ; headache ; eyes heavy ; palpitation. ► During menses : headache ; sadness ; colic. ► After menses : headache. ► Dysmenorrhoea, with convulsions (salt sitz-bath). ► First menses delayed ; amenorrhoea. ► Leucorrhoea, acrid, greenish ; in morning, transparent, after colicky pains ; causes itching ; with yellow complexion. ► Itching on the external parts, with falling off of the hair.

Pregnancy

► Labor progresses slowly, pains feeble, seemingly from sad feelings and forebodings.

Larynx

► Voice weak ; exhausted by talking. ► Hoarseness, throat sore, dryness in the larynx. ► Accumulation of mucus in the larynx (in the morning).

Breathing

► Breathing, anxious, oppressed ; short on walking fast ; better in open air and when exercising arms. ► Attacks of suffocation. ► Breath hot.

Cough

► Cough from tickling in the throat, or pit of stomach ; sputum in morning of yellow or blood-streaked mucus, with bursting pain in forehead, and shocks or beating as of hammers ; involuntary urination ; stitch in the liver ; tears stream down the cheeks. ► Cough worse from rapid motion, from deep inspiration ; lying in bed ; becoming warm in bed ; empty swallowing, drinking ; sour food. ► Catarrh, with clear, transparent mucus. ► Cough, with sputum of bloody mucus. ► Dry cough, with rattling on the chest ; also with long uvula, worse lying.

Lungs

► Sensation and pain in chest, as from tension. ► Stitches in chest and sides, short breathed, especially during a long inspiration. ► Pain like a cutting cramp through left chest to scapula.

Heart And Pulse

► The heart's pulsation shake the body ; also with aching as if a pressure came from abdomen and compressed heart. ► Palpitation : anxious, with morning headache ; when moving or exerting one's self ; when lying on the left side ; on going to sleep and on awaking. ► Fluttering of heart, with a weak faint feeling, worse lying down. ► Irregular intermission of beating of heart and of pulse ; worse lying on left side. ► Pulse : at times full and slow, at others weak and rapid ; intermits every third beat.

Neck And Back

► Stitches in neck and back part of head. ► Painful stiffness of neck. ► Throat and neck emaciate rapidly, especially during summer complaint. ► Cervical glands sore when coughing ; scabs in the axillae. ► Spine oversensitive ; tension and drawing ; pains better lying on something hard ; weak, nervous ; fluttering of the heart. ► In small of back pain as if bruised, as if lame ; stitches, cutting pulsation. ► Feeling in the sacral region as if beaten.

Upper Limbs

► Sensation of lameness and of a sprain in the shoulder-joint. ► The finger-joints move with difficulty. ► Involuntary movements of the hands. ► Trembling of the hands when writing. ► Skin of the hands, especially about nails, dry, cracked ; hang-nails. ► Warts in pains of hands. ► Sweaty hands.

Lower Limbs

► Pains in hip as if sprained, with stitches. ► Drawing pain in right thigh, extending to knee. ► Tension in bends of limbs, painful contraction of the hamstrings. ► Twitching of muscles of thighs. ► Drawing pain in knees when sitting. ► Stitches in left knee. ► Pain as if the knees and ankles were sprained. ► Tension in the calves. ► Restlessness in the legs, must move them constantly. ► Great heaviness : of the legs ; of the feet. ► Herpes (in the bend of the knee). ► Legs feel as if paralyzed, especially the ankles. ► Legs hurt after least exertion ; tarsal joints feel bruised. ► Lame feeling of ankle-joint, while sitting or walking. ► Veins of the feet distended. ► Cramp-like stitching pain in right foot. ► Feet emaciated. ► Big toe red, with tearing and stinging on walking or standing. ► Burning of the feet, or great coldness. ► Suppressed sweat of the feet. ► Stitching pains in the corns.

Limbs In General

► Weakness of the arms, heaviness ; also of the knees and feet. ► Sensation as if the limbs had gone to sleep. ► Tingling in limbs, especially on tips of fingers and toes. ► Cramps in the arms, hands and calves. ► Limbs feel weak and as if bruised, worse in morning after rising. ► Swelling of the right hand ; also of the feet. ► Cracking of joints on moving them ; stiffness ; arthritic swellings.

Position, Etc

► Walking : 21, 26, 33. Must move legs : 33. Motion : 3, 5, 20, 26, 27, 29, 33, 34. Does not want to move : 36, 37. Exertion : 5, 29, 33, 40, 46 ; of arms : 26. Writing : 32. Rising : 2, 34. Standing : 33. Stooping : 7. Sitting : 3, 4, 23, 33. Lying : 3, 4, 23, 27, 29, 31 ; on left side : 29 : on back : 23, 31.

Nerves

► Chorea, jumps up high, regardless of things around ; jerks of the right side of head ; after fright. ► Hysterical debility ; weakness in the morning in bed. ► Prostrated, knows that he is weak and does not want to move. ► Useful for congenital malformations caused by contractions of the muscles (externally with friction). ► Pains make tears come into the eyes.

Sleep

► Frequent yawning and stretching ; aversion to motion ; sleepy but cannot sleep. ► Sleepy by day sleepless at night. ► Somnambulism. ► Sleepless ; from depressing events ; from gnawing grief. ► Awakens often : with pains causing dyspnoea and one-sided paralysis ; with fright, violent headache, sweat erethism, throbbing of the arteries. ► Dreams : vivid ; of robbers in the house and will not believe the contrary, until search is made ; of burning thirst ; starts and talks in sleep, tosses about. ► Unrefreshed in the morning.

Time

► Morning : 2, 3, 5, 7, 16, 22, 23, 25, 27, 29, 34, 36, 37. 10 to 11 A.M. : 40. Morning till noon : 40. Noon : 3. Afternoon : 8. Evening : 5, 14. Night : 7, 8, 10, 37. Day : 20, 37.

Temperature And Weather

► Warm in bed : 27. ► Heat of stove unbearable. ► Headache. ► Ailments worse at the seaside. ► Worse in heat of sun (feel exhausted) ; worse in Summer. ► Indication for the open air, and to wash in cold water. ► Sea-bathing : 11, 48. Warmth : 3, 10, 27. Cold : 10. Open air : 4, 10, 26. Dampness : 40. Getting wet : 3.

Chill, Fever And Sweat

► Chill predominates, mostly internal ; hands and feet icy-cold. ► Chill from morning until noon ; ulcers around the mouth ; nursing children. ► Flushes of heat with violent headache ; chilliness over the back, and sweat in the axillae and on the soles of feet. ► Chill 10 to 11 A.M., beginning in feet or small of back ; blue nails ; thirst ; bursting headache ; nausea and vomiting ; sometimes stupefaction. ► Heat, with increased headache and thirst, unconsciousness ; or obscuration of sight and faintishness. ► Sweat relieving headache and other pains ; though it weakens. ► Apyrexia : stitches about liver ; great languor ; emaciation ; sallow complexion ; urine muddy, with red, sandy sediment ; loss of appetite ; fever blisters. ► Intermittents after : abuse of quinine ; living in damp regions, or near newly turned ground. ► Sweats easily from any exertion. ► Sweat sour, weakening.

Attacks

► Periodical : 2. Sunrise to sunset : 3, 5. Summer : 31.

Sides

► Right : 3, 5, 33, 34, 36. Left : 3, 7, 8, 18, 28, 29, 32.

Tissues

► Varices. ► Tendency to dryness, or to erosions of mucus membrane ; secretions acrid ; smarting, burning at edges of mucous surfaces. ► Emaciation even while living well.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Sprains (externally and internally). ► Touch : 4, 7, 10, 12. Pressure : 17, 31.

Skin

► Itching and pricking in the skin. ► Skin suffused, but no rash ; tongue burned as from continued use of salt ; scarlatina. ► Large red blotches, itching violently. ► Stinging rash over whole body ; nettle-rash after violent exercise. ► Tetter in bends of joints, oozing of an acrid fluid ; crusts with deep cracks ; scaly eruption on flexor surfaces. ► Skin dirty-looking, withered ; chlorosis. ► Blood-boils.

Relationship

► Natr. mur. antidotes : nitrate of silver, quinine, bee-stings. ► Complementary to Apis followed by Sepia. ► Antidoted by Spir. nitr. dulc., Phosphor. (abuse of salt in food) ; Arsen. (bad effects of sea-bathing). ► In dry mucous membranes, similar to : Alum., Graphit.