Natrum Carbonicum nat-c.

DIGESTION. Nerves. Skin. Hands (Dorsæ). Heels.

HEAT: Sun. Weather. (Head). Sultry air. Gas-light. Periodically; Winter (Body), 5. A.M. Music. Mental exertion. Onanism. Dietetic errors. Milk. Drafts. Thunder-storms.

Motion. Rubbing. Eating. Sweating.

Irritable weakness. Puffy, relaxed, easily exhausted. Easy dislocation. Oversensitive; to open air, music, noise, dietetic errors, etc. Pains cause tremor, cold sweat, anxiety, etc.

Cross and irritable. Gloomy. Lively, yet fearful; < thunder-storms. Averse to company. Vertigo, from wine. Hot weather headache. Head bent backward; pains out through eyes. Dazzling flashes or stars before vision. Swelled or peeling nose. Coryza, < least draft; < alternate days. Violent sneezing. Post-nasal discharge. Pale, wilted face. Mouth open. Must drink to swallow solids. Acidity, flatulence and rheumatism. Weak digestion. Averse to milk. Greedy, always nibbling. Gastric pain, > eating. Abdomen pouts here and there. Diarrhœa, from starches. Stools like orange pulp. Pollutions. Cough; loose; hollow; 9-11 A.M.; < entering warm room. Purulent, salty sputum. Cough from continuous tickle in throat, < going from a cold into a warm room. Boring at tip of l. scapula. Painful popliteæ. Heavy legs. Weak ankles. Cramps from ankles into toes. Sleepy after meals. Blisters on small joints; tips of toes or fingers. Milky, watery or dry, rough skin; pustular eruptions. Cold between scapulæ. Burning wrists and ankles. Sweats easily.

Complementary: Sep. Related: Lyc. Nat-m.

Constitutions with aversion to open air and dislike to exercise, mental or physical; imbecility. Great debility: caused by heat of summer (Ant. c.); exhaustion from least effort, mental or physical; ready to drop after a walk; chronic effects of sunstroke. Chronic effects of sunstroke; now, with the return of hot weather, suffers from headaches. Emaciation with pale face and blue rings around the eyes, dilated pupils; dark urine; anaemic; milky, watery skin and great debility. Inability to think or perform any mental labor, causes headache; feels stupefied if he tries to exert himself; comprehension slow, difficult. Intolerable melancholy and apprehension; is wholly occupied with sad thoughts. Attacks of anxiety and restlessness during a thunder storm (Phos.); < from music (Sab.). Headache: from slightest mental exertion; form sun or working under gaslight (Glon., Lach.); with tension in nape or occiput before menses; head feels too large, as it it would burst. Face pale, with blue rings around eyes; eyelids swollen; catarrh; mucus in throat and posterior nares; constantly hawking to clear throat; dropping into the throat from posterior nares. Catarrh: extends to posterior nares and throat; hawking much thick mucus from throat; profuse discharge during day, stopped at night (Nux). Thick, yellow, green, offensive, musty, hard discharge from nose; often ceasing after a meal. Aversion to milk; diarrhoea from it. Bearing down as if everything would come out (Agar., Lil., Mur., Sep.); heaviness, < sitting, > by moving. Discharge of mucus from vagina after an embrace, causing sterility. Easy dislocation and spraining of ankle (Led.); so weak that it give way; foot bends under (Carbo an., Nat m.).

Compare: Nat s., for yeast-like vomiting; Cal., Sep. Follows well: after, Sep., in bearing down.

From music; in the sun; excessive summer heat; mental exertion; a thunder storm.

Marked degree of gaiety; difficulty of comprehension, which is unnatural to him when in health; imbecility, or weakness of the intellect.

All troubles of the external nose, which may attain a morbid size; may have pimples on it, etc.; puffiness of nose. Bad smell of nasal secretion.

Waking too early in the morning. Dreams many; pleasant; amorous.

Diarrhœa which is marked by a sudden and obligatory call to stool, which escapes with great haste, noise and rushing, often producing considerable commotion in the abdomen; yellow fluid; discharge almost involuntary; often a yellow substance like the pulp of an orange in the discharge, which may sometimes be observed in women at change of life.

Toothache in the lower jaw. Mucus in the urine. Nocturnal erections; nocturnal pollutions. Bad smell of the expectoration. Troubles appearing in the back part of head; also heel. Aversion to the open air; Cutting pain in the outer parts. Hysterics. Old sprains; one who is easily sprained, i.e., a disposition to be sprained by any exertion. Exanthema purulent, or filled with pus. Falling out of the hair. Inclination to perspire, which may be caused by any exertion.

In the forenoon; before eating; from spraining the parts; from music; in the sun; from talking.

From boring with the fingers into the nose or ears (differing from Cina in this respect, that under Natr. carb., relief is afforded); after eating; pressure from without; rubbing; scratching; wiping with the hand.

Calc. carb., Pulsat., Nux vom., Sepia, Sulphur.

Camphor.

Headache, vertigo, melancholia, etc., occurring during hot weather in persons who have had a previous, sunstroke. Acid dyspepsia, especially after a vegetable diet, starchy food, with hypochondiasis and palpitation of the heart.

Carbonate of Sodium (NATRUM CARBONICUM)

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

Unable to think; difficult, slow comprehension. Mental weakness and depression; worries; very sensitive to noise; colds, change of weather. Anxious and restless during thunderstorm; worse from music (Ambra). Marked gayety. Sensitive to presence of certain individuals.

Aches from slightest mental exertion, worse from sun or working under gas-light (Glon) Feels too large. Oversensitive of hearing. Head aches with return of hot weather. Vertigo from exposure to sun.

All troubles of external nose which may attain a morbid size-pimples and puffiness. Constant coryza; obstruction of nose. Catarrh; bad smell of nasal secretion. Many troubles of external nose (Caust). Posterior nasal catarrh. Hawking much mucus from throat; worse, slightest draught.

Freckles, yellow spots, pimples. Swelling of upper lip. Pale, with blue rings around eyes and swollen lids.

Feels swollen and sensitive. Ill effects of drinking cold water when overheated. Water-brash. Hungry at 5 am. 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.

Sudden call to stool. Escapes with haste and noise. Yellow substance like pulp of orange in discharge. Diarrhœa from milk.

Induration of cervix. Pudenda sore. Bearing-down sensation (Sep; Murex). Heaviness; worse, sitting; better by moving. Menses late, scanty like meat-washings (Nitric ac). Leucorrhœal discharge, offensive, irritating preceded by colic.

Dry cough, when coming into warm room from out of doors. Cough with coldness of left side of breast.

Wakes too early in morning. Amorous dreams. Drowsy during day.

Old sprains. Great weakness of limbs, especially in morning. Easy dislocation and spraining of ankles. Foot bends under (Caust). Soreness between toes and fingers. Heel and tendo-Achilles affected. Capped hands. The hollow of the knee is painful on motion. Icy cold up to knees.

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.

Worse, sitting, from music, summer heat, mental exertion, thunderstorm. Least draught, changes of weather, sun. Better, by moving, by boring in ears and nose.

Compare: Sodii bicarbonas (in vomiting of pregnancy with acetonuria, 30 grains in water spread over twenty-four hours); Nat sulph; Caust; Natr cacodyl (Foul breath and mouth with bad odor. Dry dermatitis of the skin of abdomen. Malignant growths. In phthisis, 5 centigrammes hypodermically, daily. Increase number of red blood corpuscles to double. Also in malignant disease). Arsynal--(Disodium methylarsenate). 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 hæmoptysis ceasing.

Antidote: Ars. Camph.

Sixth potency.

One of the most frequently corroborated symptoms of this remedy is the modality -aggravated by mental exertion. The patient is unable to think or perform any mental labor without headache (Argentum, nit., Sabadilla) vertigo or a sense of stupefaction. This symptom alone makes it an invaluable remedy, as we often come across that kind of patient. At least I have, and have frequently gained great credit by relieving them. I generally use the 30th potency here. Again this kind of headache is apt to be worse on exposure to the sun's rays or under gaslight. Persons suffering from over-heating from the sun may find relief from Natrum carb., Glonoine, Lachesis or Lyssin. Like the other Natrums, the carbonate is greatly depressed in spirits, wholly occupied with sad thoughts. It is one of our best remedies for chronic catarrh of the nose, which extends to the posterior nares and throat. There is violent hawking and splitting of thick mucus that constantly collects again, (Corallium). Although never produced in the proving, clinical use has proved it a great remedy for "bearing down" pains. Here the concomitant symptoms of mind, sadness, over-sensitiveness to noise, especially music, etc., will confirm its choice. Weakness of the ankles from childhood finds a good remedy in Natrum carb. I cured a very bad case in a young man who was very fleshy and walked on the inside of his ankles, feet bending outward, from such weakness, his ankles refusing to support him, especially when a little over-fatigued. Those are the only uses of Natrum Carb. that I know from personal experience or observation.

Restlessness, with attacks of anxiety, especially during a thunder-storm. Aversion to man and society. Hypochondriacal mood, tired of life. Mind much agitated, every event (music) causes trembling. Out of humor, peevish, irritable, angry.

Vertigo from drinking wine and from mental exertion. Inability to think and to perform any mental labor ; the head feels stupefied if he tries to exert himself. Difficulty in comprehending what one hears or reads and in connecting ideas. Dulness of the head, when at rest or when in the sun. Headache from the sun or when turning the head rapidly. Tension and obstruction in the head, as if the forehead would burst. Stupefying, pressing headache in the forehead, with nausea, eructations and dimness of sight, in the evening ; worse in the room. Stitches in the head and out of the eyes. Pulsating headache in the vertex every morning. Congestion of blood to the head, with heat in it. Tearing pain in the forehead, returning at certain hours of the day.

Heaviness of the upper eyelids. Stitches in the eyes from within outwards. Inflammatory swelling of the eyelids (right upper lid). Aversion to light. Ulcers on the cornea. Cannot read small print. Black spots (before the eyes when writing) or dazzling flashes before the eyes. Sensation as of feathers before the eyes. Dim eyes ; has to wipe them constantly.

Otalgia, with sharp-piercing stitches in the ears. Hard bearing, as if the ears were closed up. Over-sensitiveness of bearing, sensitiveness to noise.

Red nose with white pimples on it. Peeling off of the dorsum and tip of the nose ; painful when touched. Ulcerated nostrils, high up in the nose. Coryza with cough, from the least current of air, only going off by sweat. Obstruction of the nose ; hard, fetid clots come out of one nostril. Thick, yellow or green discharge from the nose. Coryza on alternate days.

Bloated face. Burning heat and redness of the face. Swelling of the cheeks, with redness. Pale face with blue rings around the eyes, swollen eyelids. Freckles in the face. Yellow blotches on the forehead and upper lip. Humid, herpetic eruptions and ulcers on the nose, around the mouth, on the lips. Swelling of the upper lip. Burning rhagades in the lower lip.

Flat ulcers and blisters inside of the mouth, burning and painful when touched. Digging, boring toothache, especially during or after eating sweatmeats or fruit. Great sensitiveness of the lower teeth. Nightly pressing toothache, with swelling of the lower lips and of the gums. Stuttering on account of heaviness of the tongue. Burning about the tip of the tongue, as if it were cracked. Throat and œsophagus feel rough, scraped and dry. Accumulation of mucus in the throat. Much nasal mucus passes through the posterior nares.

Incessant thirst : great desire for cold water a few hours after dinner. Increased and ravenous hunger in the forenoon, from sensation of emptiness in the stomach. Empty eructations (after eating). Aversion to milk, and diarrhœa from it. Very weak digestion ; after eating, hypochondriacal humor. The food tastes bitter. After every meal pressure in the stomach. Sensitiveness of the pit of the stomach to the touch, and when talking. Continuous qualmishness and nausea. Colic, with constriction around the stomach. Stitches in the left hypochondrium ; also after drinking very cold water. Stitches in the region of the liver and spleen (chronic inflammation of the liver). Hard, bloated, swollen abdomen. Tumors on the abdomen, as if the intestines were distended by wind here and there. Colic, with contraction of the navel and hardness of the integuments of the abdomen. Accumulation of flatulence, incarcerated flatulence, and loud rumbling of the flatulence. Passes much flatus, smelling sour or fetid.

Frequent ineffectual urging to stool, or too scanty, inefficient evacuations. Soft or watery discharges, with violent sudden pressure tenesmus. Diarrhœa ; stools yellow, or with colic, after taking cold. The stool is watery and is discharged in a gush. Stools bloody. Burning and cutting in the anus and rectum during and after stool. Itching and creeping at the anus. With the stools discharge of tape-worm.

Frequent strong desire to urinate, with profuse discharge. Involuntary micturition at night (wetting the bed). Urine dark-yellow, smelling fetid or sour, depositing a mucous sediment. Burning in the urethra during and after micturition.

Men. Increased sexual desire. (Priapism). Continuous painful erections. Inflammation, swelling, and easy excoriation of the prepuce and glans penis. Heaviness and drawing in the testicles. The testicles feel bruised. Discharge of prostatic fluid after micturition and after a difficult stool.

Dyspnœa and shortness of breathing, occasioned by tension of the chest. When breathing, tension in the chest. Stitches in the chest. Hoarseness, with roughness of the chest, coryza, chilliness, and scraping painful cough. Violent dry cough, when entering a warm room, while coming from the cold air. Cough, with expectoration of salty, purulent, greenish pus. Short cough, with rattling in the chest. Chilliness in one (left) side of the thorax. Violent, anxious palpitation of the heart, when ascending, and at night when lying on the left side. Painful cracking in the region of the heart.

Stitches in the small of the back, when sitting. Tingling (formication) in the back. Stiffness of the neck. Cracking in the cervical vertebra when moving the head. Swelling of the glands of the neck. Goitre ; pain, pressing.

Upper. Rheumatic pain of the shoulder, arms and elbows, with weakness of the arms. Twitches and twitching sensation in the arms and fingers on taking hold of any thing. Cutting pain in the hands. Trembling of the hands (morning). Burning-itching and burning blisters on the fingers. Contraction of the fingers. The skin of the hands is dry cracked and chapped. Warts or herpes on the hands. Swelling of the hands (in the afternoon). Lower. Heaviness of the legs and feet, with tension in them when sitting or walking. Tension in the bend of the knee ; the muscles are shortened. Cramps and tension in the calves, as if too short. Blotches (as in lepra) on the legs. The lower legs are swollen, inflamed, red and covered with ulcers. Cutting pain and cramps in the feet. Swelling of the feet and soles of the feet, with stinging in them when walking or stepping on them. Easy dislocation and spraining of the ankle ; the ankle is so weak that it gives way ; the foot bends under when stepping on it. Cold feet. Black, ulcerated pustule on the heel. Ulcer on the heel, arising from spreading blisters. Smarting and soreness between the toes. Swelling, tearing and soreness in the (big) toes, preventing sleep. Blisters on the points of the toes, as if scalded. Boring, drawing and stinging in the corns.

Involuntary twitching in the muscles and limbs. Tingling, stinging in the muscles. Contractions of the muscles (hands, bend of the knee, neck). The whole body is relaxed and limber. Great emaciation, with pale face, dilated pupils and dark urine. Great liability to take cold ; aversion to the open air. Great debility ; a short walk fatigues much ; playing on the piano causes trembling.

Irresistible sleepiness during the day ; difficulty of going to sleep late in the night and difficulty of waking in the morning. Unrefreshing sleep, disturbed by vivid, voluptuous, disconnected dreams, violent erections and seminal emissions. During the night, great restlessness, ebullitions, palpitation of the heart and nightmare. During sleep, starts and twitches.

Pulse accelerated mostly at night, with ebullitions. Coldness and chilliness the whole day, more so in the forenoon, with cold hands and feet with hot head, or the reverse, hot hands and feet with cold cheeks. Heat with great debility and sleep. Heat with perspiration over the whole body. Violent, anxious perspiration from every slight exertion. Burning hot perspiration on the forehead when the bat presses him. Night-sweats, with alternate dryness of the skin. Perspiration while eating. Cold, anxious perspiration, with trembling from the pains.

Swelling and induration of the glands. Herpes, in yellow rings, or suppurating. Ulcers, with swelling and inflammatory redness of the affected parts. Formication under the skin. Skin, dry, rough and chapped. Red, hard blotches. Warts painful to the touch. Cutting pain, burning and stinging in wounded parts.

Most symptoms appear while sitting, and go off on motion, pressing and rubbing. Aggravation; in the forenoon ; during a thunder-storm ; after the slightest exertion ; in the rays of the sun (headache) ; before eating ; from talking.

Sodium carbonate. (The common "Soda" of the shops, purified; not the Bicarbonate of Soda, NaHCO 3 ). Na 2 CO 3 1O H 2 O. Trituration. Solution.

Albuminuria. Anidrosis . Ankles, weak. Burns. Cornea, ulcers on. Corns. Coryza. Deafness. Dysmenia. Dyspepsia. Goître. Hands, chapped . Headache. Heels, blisters on. Herpes: iris; circinatus. Hypochondriasis. Hysteria. Ichthyosis . Lisping. Moles. Nose, swollen; eruptions on; red. Ozæna. Post-nasal catarrh. Presbyopia. Priapism. Rheumatism. School-headache. Scrofula. Stammering. Sterility. Sunstroke, chronic effects of. Throat, mucus in . Toothache. Warts.

Nat. carb . is the typical salt of the Natrum group. It was proved by Hahnemann, and is one of the antipsoric remedies of the Chronic Diseases . In old-school practice its chief uses are as an external application in solution to burns and eczema, as a douche in nasal or vaginal catarrh. Nat. c . forms the alkaline basis in most soaps, and most persons know by experience the effect of using soap with an excess of alkali. It almost burns off the superficial layers of the epidermis, and leaves the skin dry and cracked. The provings, whilst developing in Nat. c . a remedy of polychrest importance, confirms its irritating action, and show Nat. c . to be a true remedy for chapped hands and faces, rough, dry skins, eczema, herpes, warts and scrofulous conditions of skin. On the mucous membranes the effects are no less irritating. The whole alimentary tract from mouth to anus is irritated — vesicles, ulcers, catarrh. In the eyes the irritation goes on to keratitis and ulceration of cornea. The nose is swollen and ulcerated, with a thick yellow or green offensive discharge. Thick, yellow, putrid leucorrhœa. The predominant mental condition of Nat. c . is one of profound sadness, depression, and melancholy; constantly occupied with sad thoughts; though there is also the opposite, great gaiety and talkativeness. The hypochondriacal mood is often an accompaniment of the condition of the digestive mucous membrane. The depression and irritability is < after a meal, the aggravation diminishing as digestion advances, "as the food passes through the duodenum ." Such patients, says Farrington, are decidedly averse to society, even that of their own family. The indigestion is < from vegetables and starchy foods. < From milk. The tongue has some characteristic symptoms, notably affection of the under surface and frænum, and it is so heavy and unwieldy that the patient has difficulty in speaking. The common practice of taking Bicarbonate of Soda for indigestion and heartburn is founded on a true relationship (though Nat. c . is the Carbonate and not the Bi -carbonate), but the indiscriminate and excessive use of it only intensifies the trouble. The nearest analogue of Nat. c . in this and in the female sexual sphere is Sepia . The nervous system is strongly affected, and symptoms of hysteria appear. A leading note is < from exertion, mental or bodily. Great debility from any exertion; unsteady walk, any little obstruction on pavement = falling; or he falls without any apparent cause. There are contractions of muscles and tendons, and also relaxation of tissues. Ankle-joints are weak and burn. Twitching in muscles and limbs. I have cured with Nat. c . "jerking of hands on going to sleep." Among the Peculiar Sensations are: As if head too large. As if forehead would burst. As if head would be drawn back. As if ears were closed up. As of a bubble bursting in ear. As if tip of tongue were cracked. Dryness of mouth as if caused by heat of breath. As if veins of right leg were bruised. Motion as from a fœtus in uterus. Blisters on points of toes as if scalded. Emaciation, anæmia, bloating are prominent effects of Nat. c .; as also is swelling and induration of glands. Nat. c . is suited to: Light-haired people; persons of leuco-phlegmatic constitution with aversion to open air, and to exercise, mental or physical. Stitches go from within out. Right upper and left lower are particularly affected. A peculiar symptom of Nat. c . is "discharge of mucus after an embrace" in the woman; and sterility as a result. In Med. Adv ., xviii. 248 and 370, are two cases in point, one cured by J. C. Guernsey and the other by W. Jefferson Guernsey. In both cases the woman complained that she "could not retain the semen" after the embrace. Some of the grand keynotes of the remedy are to be found in its modalities. Prominent among these are < from sun; heat; gaslight. < From mental exertion; from physical exertion or strain; from least effort. < From music. Nat. c . has great debility from heat of summer; from chronic effects of sunstroke, every spell of warm weather = headache. Headache from sun or working under gaslight. At the same time there is great aversion to cold air, < from draught of air, change of clothing, getting wet, drinking cold water, < damp weather, change of weather. < From storms. Nat. c . has extreme sensitiveness to electric changes. There is great thirst for cold water, but < on drinking it (stitches in spleen). < By rest; < lying on left side (palpitation; stitch in back to anus); < sitting. Moving > . Moving head = cracking in cervical vertebræ. Moving = profuse sweat. Most symptoms come on or are < in morning. "Sinking" 10 to 11 a.m. < On alternate days. < During full moon. Eating > sinking, < dyspepsia and hypochondriasis. < From milk; from vegetable diet; from cold drink when over-heated. > By pressure, rubbing, scratching, wiping with hand. > Boring into ears and nose with fingers.

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Inability to think or to perform any mental labor ; head feels stupefied if he tries to exert himself.
Memory gradually failing ; inaptitude for meditation or hard work ; difficulty of conception or combining ideas when listening or reading ; figures and diagrams were void of expression to him and seemed enveloped in mist. θ Effects
of overstudy.
Difficulty in grasping and connecting thoughts when reading or listening.
Aversion to mankind and society ; estrangement from individuals and society, even from her husband and family.
Sadness ; depression of spirits ; hypochondriacal mood.
Intolerable melancholy and apprehension ; she is wholly occupied with sad thoughts.
Irritable, excitable mood.
Avarice ; maliciousness.
Restlessness, with attacks of anxiety, especially during a thunderstorm ; < from music.
Anxiety ; trembling and sweat during pains.
In evening restlessness of body, unless he exerts himself mentally.
Affected by playing on piano a short time, with painful anxiety of chest, trembling of body and weariness ; must lie down.
Constant fear and forebodings.
Great timidity.
Indifference.

Vertigo : from mental exertion ; when working in sun ; < from rest, > on exercise in open air ; from exposure to sun ; from drinking wine.
Dulness of head when at rest or when in sun.
Dulness in occiput, as from pressure, in morning.

Head feels too large.
Tension in head, as if forehead would burst.
Frontal headache when suddenly turning head.
Shooting pain in left frontal eminence to left lower occiput.
Stitches in head and out of eyes.
Pulsating headache in vertex every morning.
Tearing pain in forehead, at certain hours of day.
Stupefying, pressing headache in forehead, nausea, eructations and dimness of sight in evening ; < in room.
Stitching, tearing, throbbing in forehead, temples and vertex, with vertigo, melancholy and great physical prostration.
Pain in left frontal eminence to left lower occiput.
Headache from slightest mental exertion.
Painful sense of emptiness in occiput, with weakness and hoarseness of voice.
Pain from occiput to vertex.
Drawing and tension in right side of occiput as if head would be drawn back.
Long continued pressure in right side of occiput.
Dull pressure from occiput to nape, with drawing pain, at last extending to forehead.
Headache at noon, < low down in occiput.
Headache and tension in nape before menses.
Headache : from sun ; from working under gaslight.

Pains in head at certain hours of day.
Falling out of hair.
An almost painless boil on occiput.

Dim eyes ; has to wipe them constantly.
Black spots floating before vision while writing.
Sensation as of feathers before eyes.
Dazzling flashes before eyes on awaking.
Flashes and streaks of light before closed eyes at night.
Cannot read small print.
Ulceration of cornea.
Small corneal ulcers or phlyctenules, with great photophobia and stinging pains, particularly in scrofulous children.
Needle-like stitches in both eyes after dinner.
Stitches in eyes from within outward.
Dermoid swelling of conjunctiva.
Inflammation of eyelids, with photophobia.
Dry eyes.
Heaviness of upper lids ; could hardly open them ; they close involuntarily.
Agglutination of eyes in morning ; lachrymation during forenoon.

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Proved by Hahnemann, Hering and others.

Persons who are in the habit of taking carbonate of soda for sour stomach get a proving of this remedy. I have met some of these people and been able to confirm many Natrum symptoms.

Old dyspeptics who are always belching and have sour stomach and rheumatism; after twenty years they are stoop-shouldered, pale, sensitive to cold, chilly, aggravated by the least draft; require much clothing; unable to resist the cold or the heat; require a medium climate; are worse from the changes of the weather; their digestive, rheumatic, and gouty troubles are all worse from the weather changes.

A state of trepidation from the slightest noise, the slam of a door; nervous excitement and palpitation with great prostration; nervous weakness with trepidation; weakness from slight exertion of mind or body; internal and external trembling.

The rattling of paper causes palpitation, irritability and melancholy. Estrangement from family and friends. Aversion to mankind and to society; to relatives, to strangers; feels a great division between himself and them; sensitive to, certain persons.

Music causes a tendency to suicide, melancholy, weeping and trepidation; playing the piano is so exhausting that she must lie down; music causes great sadness which increases to religious insanity.

This is true of all the Sodiums, but especially so of Natrum carb.; aggravation from the slam of a door, a pistol shot, which causes headache and complaints in general, aggravated from music.

Nervous exhaustion, physical exhaustion, weakness of mind and body.

Book-keepers lose the ability to add up figures. In reading a page, the one previous to, it soon goes out of the mind. The memory will not hold out from the beginning to the end of a sentence. Forgets what he reads.

Confusion of mind follows and then he is unable, to perform any mental labor. Men become so fatigued from the details of business that a confusion of the mind comes over them, they get brain fag.

Oversensitive to heat, especially after sunstroke, even some years after; has to be well shaded when walking in the sun, must seek a cool or dark place the patient has not had the proper acute remedy during the attack the remedy is aggravated by both cold and heat, but this is a special aggravation from the heat of the sun; head troubles are not worse from cold in Natr. carb.

Old cases of brain fag with weakness and trepidation. The body troubles are aggravated from cold and in the winter; as cold as if he had no blood in the body, extremities cold, and he cannot get them warm; cold as ice to, the knees and elbows.

The body and extremities are worse in winter, the head in summer.

Anxious trembling and sweating during pains.

The senses are all disturbed; oversensitive to light pain in the eyes from a bright light.

Oversensitive hearing; little noises seem enormous, like thunder; the crumpling of paper seems like the crashing of a waterfall.

Taste perverted, too sensitive, so that the tasting of things ordinarily grateful becomes painful; sometimes loss of taste.

Loss of smell. Hay fever, catarrhal fever; where catarrhal conditions are present there is copious, thick, yellow, purulent discharge from the eyes, nose, vagina.

The vesicles are filled with thin, white serum, but the pustule, when it ruptures, throws out a thick, yellow discharge. Leucorrhoea thick, yellow, ropy; gonorrhea of the same character; thick, yellow, ropy, purulent discharge from the bladder which clogs up the urethra when urinating.

Otalgia, with sharp, darting, piercing pains when the mental state, the chilliness and other generals are present. The discharges are commonly offensive.

Coryzas trouble much; always has a cold in the head the watery discharge is of short duration and is soon followed by a thick copious flow of yellow mucus.

Ulceration, thick crusts; sleeps at night with the month open; dry, yellow crusts are blown out with pain and bleeding. The catarrh increases with each fresh cold, until it becomes foetid; the bones of the nose are affected; almost a constant headache over the eyes, in the forehead, at the root of the nose; congestive headaches, worse from change of weather, cold room, damp weather; increased by every storm.

Most foetid ozoena, mucous membranes ulcerated and destroyed.

Pale face with blue ring around the eyes, yellow blotches on the forehead, puffiness. There is puffiness in general; the hands, feet, face pit on pressure; infiltration of the cellular tissue; those states of the heart and kidneys that favor dropsies; old malarial cases, flesh doughy; urine albuminous.

Enlargement of the glands with induration, axillary, inguinal, abdominal, salivary. Especially suitable for enlargement of the prostate in old men. Chronic enlargement of the parotids, slow and of long duration; of the tonsils.

Ulcerations of the mouth; nursing sore month in women; thrush in infants; little white aphthous patches, especially in nervous, withered infants who cannot stand any kind of milk, who have diarrhoea from milk; they thrive better on cereals; when asleep the child jumps, cries, springs up and grasps the mother; a nervous, cold baby, easily startled like the Borax baby.

So are the Natrum babies in general.

Accumulation of mucus in the throat and posterior nares, generally yellow in color, while with Natr. mur. it is white; the latter spits up copious, thick, white mouthfuls.

Natr. carb. is ameliorated by eating; when chilly, he eats and is able to keep warm; the pains are ameliorated after eating; he has an all gone feeling and pain in the stomach which drives him to eat; he gets hungry at 5 A.M. and 11 P.M. 5 A.M. is the favorite time for the Natr. carb. aggravation; he becomes so hungry at this time that he is forced out of bed to eat something, which also ameliorates the pain.

Headache, chilliness, and palpitation better from eating ( Ignat., Sepia, Sulph.).

Nervous hunger in pregnant women, who cannot sleep unless they get up at night and eat crackers, calls for Psorinum.

Locomotor ataxia with its fulgurating pains, amel. by eating; gnawing, all-gone, hungry feeling in the stomach. Soles numb, in males erections and priapism, sensitive thighs, hypersensitive spine; the results of too much excitement.

Emissions; ejaculation of semen premature.

Thirst in the afternoon, incessant; thirst between chill and heat great desire for cold water a few hours after dinner. Extreme aversion to milk.

Flatulency and accumulation of wind in the bowels; diarrhoea; stool yellow, soft with violent tenesmus and urging; a yellow substance like the pulp of an orange in the stool; diarrhoea from milk.

The most troublesome constipation; stool hard, dark, smooth and crumbling. All the Natrums take away the desire to go to stool; no ability to bear down; stool large and hard, great effort to pass it.

Prostatorrhoea after urinating and a difficult stool.

Sterility, a constitutional state in a woman where she is unable to, conceive; she is nervous, cold to the knees and elbows; cold body in winter, hot head in summer; always tired; relaxation of the sphincter vaginae causing the seminal fluid to gush out as soon as ejaculated by the male, thus causing sterility.

There may be a spasm of the sphincter, producing the same effect, or a clot of blood or mucus shoots from the vagina with noisy flatus. Nervous, fidgety, excitable, lean, dyspeptic women, not hysterical. Menses too soon or too late; neuralgias, oversensitive to drafts and dampness, sensitive spine, legs numb; leucorrhea yellowish-green, copious.

Paralytic states; ptosis or spasms of the lids; difficult swallowing, must drink much water to wash the food down on account of paralysis of the pharynx; paralysis of the bowels, cannot bear down at stool; stool like sheep's dung; paralysis of the left lower extremity with tingling.

Palpitation at night when ascending and while lying on left side. Many spinal symptoms. Goitre.

Stiffness of the neck, violent backache after walking. Rheumatic pains in the extremities. Jerking in all the limbs. Stumbling while walking. Weak ankles in children. Heaviness of the legs. Pains in the hollow of the knees on motion. Tension in the bend of the knee. Easy dislocation of the ankle.

The soles burn while walking. Ulceration of the heel from blisters. Icy cold feet. Weakness of the legs. Vesicles on tips of fingers and toes. Spots and tubercles on the skin. Skin dry and cracked. Itching and crawling.

The more soda these patients take, the more flatulent do they become; they are stoop-shouldered; digestion is difficult, and finally milk will not digest at all, bringing on a diarrhoea with undigested, lienteric stools; also, starch causes flatulence and looseness of the bowels, Many symptoms from drinking cold water when overheated.

Urine offensive like that of a horse, from a vegetable or milk diet. This is not so marked as in Nitric ac., but resembles it.

Natrum carb. throws out eruptions upon the knuckles and fingertips; also the toes; vesicular eruptions open up and form ulcers on the joints of finger-tips.

Borax, Sepia, Ars., and Natrum carb. are the remedies most inclined to produce ulceration of the tips and knuckles of the fingers, and also the toes.

Vesicular eruptions on the body in patches and circles; the herpes family is especially, related to Natr. carb.; zona, herpes labialis, herpes preputialis; patches as large as a dollar on the hips, thighs and back. Smaller patches show vesicles containing a white serum, burning, smarting and itching, better from scratching.

The eruption passes away with a crust, but will often ulcerate, it does not heal and an ulcer forms. Circulation feeble; wounds suppurate. Feet and skin burn. Crusty eruptions on the skin that have not been vesicular; but most Natr. carb. and Natr. mur. eruptions are of the vesicular form. Tingling, biting, itching, changing place, now here and now there; cold skin; sweaty body.

Inability to think, or to perform any mental labor; the head feels stupefied if he tries to exert himself.
Difficulty in grasping and connecting thoughts, when reading or listening.
Aversion to man and society.
Sadness: depression of spirits; hypochondriacal mood.
Irritable, excitable mood.
Avarice.
Maliciousness.
Restlessness with attacks of anxiety, especially during a thunder storm.
Anxiety, trembling and sweat during the pains.
In the evening, restlessness of body, unless he exerts himself mentally.
Affected by playing on piano for short time with painful anxiety in chest, trembling of body and weariness; must lie down.

Vertigo: from drinking wine, or from mental exertion.
Dulness of the head when at rest or when in the sun.

Head feels too large.
Tension and obstruction in head as if forehead would burst.
Frontal headache when turning the head rapidly.
Shooting pain in left frontal eminence, to left lower occiput.
Stitches in the head and out of the eyes.
Pulsating headache in the vertex every morning.
Tearing pain in forehead, returning at certain hours of day.
Stupefying and pressing headache in forehead, with nausea, eruptions, and dimness of sight, in evening; worse in room.
Headache from the sun.

Pains on the head at certain hours of the day.

Black spots before the eyes when writing.
Dazzling flashes before the eyes, on awaking.
Sensation as of feathers before the eyes.
Dim eyes; has to wipe them constantly.
Cannot read small print.
Stitches in the eyes from within outward.
Ulcers on cornea.
Dermoid swelling on conjunctiva.
Inflammation of eyelids, with photophobia.
Heaviness of the upper eyelids.

Sensitive to noise.
Hard hearing, as if the ears were closed up.
Otalgia, with sharp, piercing stitches in ears.

Loss of smell and taste, with coryza.
Coryza fluent; violent sneezing; worse at night, when nose is obstructed; worse from least draught of air, or any change of clothing; worse on alternate days; better after sweat.
Thick, yellow, or green discharge; nose stopped at night.
Hard fetid clots, from one nostril; nostrils ulcerated, high up.
Humid herpetic eruptions and ulcers on nose, around mouth and on lips.
Peeling off of dorsum and tip of the nose, painful when touched.
Red nose, with white pimples on it.

Pale face, with blue rings around the eyes, swollen eyelids.
Burning heat and redness of face, cheeks swollen.
Bloated face.
Yellow blotches on forehead and upper lip.
Freckles in face.

Lips swollen and tettery; burning rhagades on lower lip.

Digging, boring toothache, especially during or after eating sweetmeats or fruit.
Great sensitiveness of the lower teeth.
Nightly pressing toothache, with swelling of lower lips and of gums.
Toothache lessened by smoking.

Bitter or metallic taste in mouth.
Dry tongue and dislike to talk.
Stuttering on account of heaviness of the tongue.
Burning about tip of tongue, as if it were cracked.

Saliva generally increased.
Flat ulcers and blisters inside of mouth, burning and painful when touched.
Slight redness of mucous membrane of mouth and fauces, with rawness and scraping; desire to hawk and hem; mucus collects at night, and is hawked up in morning.
Dry mouth and throat, inclination to drink.

Throat and œsophagus feel rough, scraped and dry.
Accumulation of mucus in throat, and in posterior nares.
Throat painful when swallowing and gaping.

Incessant thirst: great desire for cold water a few hours after dinner.
Increased and ravenous hunger in forenoon, from sensation of emptiness in stomach.
Aversion to milk, and diarrhœa from it.

Bad effects from a cold drink while overheated.
After milk, diarrhœa.
Cold drink: 18. Drink: 12. Milk: 20. Eating: 19, 20.
After eating: hypochondriacal; weak digestion; pressure in stomach; eructations; distress and tenderness, with palpitation (may also follow abuse of soda-crackers).

Continuous qualmishness and nausea.
Vomiting of bile, bitter.

Gnawing and pressure in stomach, better from eating.
Pit of stomach sensitive to touch and when talking.

Stitches in left hypochondrium; worse after drinking very cold water.
Stitches in hepatic and splenic regions (chronic hepatic inflammation).

Colic, with constriction around stomach; or, contraction of navel and hardness of integuments of abdomen.
Hard, bloated, swollen abdomen.
Accumulation of flatus; loud rumbling; swellings here and there as from incarcerated wind.
Flatus changing place and causing pain.

Passes much sour-smelling or fetid flatus; feces escape.
Yellow stools: soft or watery, with violent, sudden urging and tenesmus; watery, yellow, discharged with a gush; worse from milk or after eating, and from taking cold; spotted with blood.
Frequent ineffectual urging to stool alternately with liquid stools; weak digestion.
Burning and cutting in anus and rectum during and after stool; sexual excitement; costive.
Tape-warm with stool; itching creeping in anus.

Frequent, urgent, with scanty or profuse discharge.
Urine involuntary at night.
Urine dark yellow, fetid, sour or like horse's urine; deposits a mucous sediment.
Burning in urethra during and after micturition.

Increased sexual desire (priapism).
Inflammation, swelling and easy excoriation of prepuce and glans penis.
Heaviness and drawing in testicles.
The testicles feel bruised.
Prostatorrhœa after urinating and after difficult stool.

Pressure in hypogastrium as if everything would come out; also with indurated cervix uteri and ill-shaped os.
Menses too early and long-lasting; preceded by drawing in nape of neck and headache: accompanied by tearing headache, distended abdomen in morning, relieved by diarrhœa; nervous, cannot bear music; worse in a thunderstorm.
Leucorrhœa thick, yellow, putrid, ceasing after urinating.

Expels moles, prevents false conception.
Labor-pains weak or accompanied with anguish and sweat, with desire to be rubbed.

Hoarseness, with roughness of the chest, coryza, chilliness and scraping, painful cough.

Dyspnœa and shortness of breathing, from tension of the chest.

Violent, dry cough, worse when entering a warm room; short, with rattling on chest; with rumbling, incarcerated flatus; with salty, purulent, greenish sputum.

Stitches in the chest.
Burning, soreness in right chest; loose cough but no sputum; coldness between scapulæ.

Painful cracking in region of heart.
Violent, anxious palpitation of heart when ascending, and at night when lying on left side.
Burning and distress along the spine with palpitation; thinks he has heart disease.
Pulse excited at night with ebullitions.

Chilliness in one (left) side of thorax.

Cervical glands swollen; also goitre with pressing.
Stiffness of the neck.
Cracking in cervical vertebræ when moving head.
Stitches in small of back while sitting.
Tingling (formication) in back.

Rheumatic pain on shoulder, arms and elbows, with weakness of arms.
Twitches and twitching sensation in arms and fingers on taking hold of anything.
Cutting pain in hands.
Trembling of hands, morning.
Contraction of fingers.
Swelling of hands in afternoon.
Warts painful to touch.
Tetter on dorsa of hands; skin dry and chapped.

Tearing and bruised pain in right hip. θ Dysmenorrhœa.
Heaviness of legs and feet with tension in them when sitting or walking.
Tension in bend of knee; the muscles are shortened.
Cramp of the calves.
Blotches (as in lepra) on the legs.
The lower legs are swollen, inflamed, red and covered with ulcers.
Cutting pain and cramp in feet.
Swelling of feet and soles of feet, with stinging in them when walking or stepping on them.
Easy dislocation and spraining of ankle; the ankle is so weak that it gives way; foot bends under when stepping on it.
Black ulcerated pustule on the heel.
Ulcer on the heel, arising from spreading blisters.
Smarting and soreness between the toes.
Swelling, tearing and soreness in (big) toes, preventing sleep.
Blisters on the points of the toes, as if scalded.
Boring, drawing and stinging in the corns.
Cold feet.

Most symptoms appear while sitting and go off on motion, pressing and rubbing.
Moving head: 31. Turning head: 3. Playing on the piano: 1. Walking: 33. After exertion: 40. Rest: 2. Sitting: 31, 33. Must lie down: 1.

Great debility from an exertion.
Twitching in the muscles, and limbs.
Contractions of muscles, hands, bends of knees, neck, etc.

Sleepiness during the day.
Falls asleep late at night.
Awakes too early in the morning.
During sleep: starts, twitches; vivid dreams, violent erections and sexual excitement; restless, with ebullitions, palpitation and nightmare.
Anxious, confused dreams.

Remission before midnight.
Aggravation in the forenoon.
Morning: 3, 12, 23, 32, 37, 40. Forenoon: 14, 40. Afternoon: 32. Evening: 3, 40. Night: 7, 10, 12, 21, 29, 37, 40. Day: 37, 40.

Great liability to take cold; aversion to the open air and uncovering.
Thunder-storm: 1, 23. Draught: 7. Sun: 2, 3. Warm room: 3. Entering a warm room: 27.

Cold and chilly all day, worse in forenoon; hands and feet cold, head hot, or hands and feet hot, with cold cheeks.
Slight evening chilliness, dulness of head; then heat and sleep.
Heat, with general sweat.
Flushes of heat from the nose down the back; irritability; averse to uncovering.
Sweat profuse from every exertion; anxiety.
Burning sweat on the forehead where the hat presses.
Night-sweat, alternating with dry skin.
Morning sweat.
Cold, anxious sweat.

Worse during full moon.
Returning at certain hours: 3, 4. Alternate days: 7.

Right side, particularly upper right, lower left side.
Right: 33. Left: 3, 18, 29, 30. Within outward: 3, 5.

Emaciation, with pale face, dilated pupils; dark urine.
Swelling and induration of the gland.

Generally better from touch.
Cutting pain, burning and stinging in wounded parts.
Touch: 7, 12, 17, 32. Taking hold of anything: 32.

Ulcers, with swelling and inflammatory redness of affected parts.
Herpes, with yellow rings, or suppurating.
Formication under the skin.
Itching all over as from fleas.
Warts ulcerate.
Skin dry, tough and chapped.

Natr. Carb. follows Sepia well.
Natr. Carb. antidotes Cinchon.
Antidotes to Natr. Carb.: Camphor., Spir. nitr. dulc.
Soda Sulphite is preferable for yeast-like vomiting, when the tongue is pallid, dirty and broad.

Pure Sodium carbonate is triturated for use.

A "tissue" remedy of very general action, simulating a general lithæmic condition, with acid indigestion. ▶ In catarrh of the nose, throat, eyes, etc., it is similar to Nat. mur., by which it is usually supplanted as a remedy. ▶ The salts of Sodium are much less active than those of Potassium, and they do not paralyze the heart as Potassium salts do. ▶ The urate of Sodium is deposited in the joints of gouty patients.

Nat. m., Nat. sulf., Mag. m., Alumina, Calcarea c., Sepia, Puls ., Phos., Lyc.

Puffiness of whole body in morning, amel. afternoon. ▶ Emaciation, pallor, dilatation of pupils and dark urine. ▶ Awkward, things that he usually accomplishes easily he cannot do at all. ▶ Jerking in whole body, with beating and with sensitive mood; J. in one or another part, in scapulæ, calves, eyelids and arms; in lower limbs and agg. parts of lower portion of body. ▶ Sticking in diseased spots; S. here and there in whole body alternately with tearing, during menses. ▶ Cramplike tearing in whole body, agg. limbs. ▶ Paroxysm in evening, blackness before eyes, with paralytic tearing in head, eyes and jaws, weak consciousness, confused, distracted thoughts, then crawling pain in lips, right arm and agg. right hand and tips of fingers, agg. thumb, with timidity.

Pain on every tough. ▶ It hurts top lie on left side (Phos., Puls.). ▶ Everything hurts on rising from a seat, amel. walking. ▶ Drawing in lower limbs and jaws at night, with tension in them and with drawing in teeth. ▶ Painful tension of all nerves, head, with nausea. ▶ Affected by playing on the piano a short time, with anxiety in chest, general trembling and weakness so that she must lie down. ▶ Discomfort, she thinks that she is very sick. ▶ Takes easily cold and has therefrom colic and diarrhœa or coryza. ▶ Restlessness; in evening during mental work; and fretfulness.

▶ Heaviness; in morning; on rising, with indolence, when in bed awake she was bright. ▶ Dread of motion, which always aggravated symptoms. ▶ Indolence, amel. motion, with feeling as if everything on her were tense and with swelling of face and hands. ▶ Inclination to lie down. ▶ Weakness; during the day, with sleepiness; during the day, and she slept while sitting at work; during the day, with affection of head; in morning; during menses, with nausea; after toothache and fever; with pallor, walking is irksome. ▶ Stiffness of neck and left wrist on holding a glass, he must put it down and move the hand, which is painful. ▶ Most symptoms arise when sitting and disappear on motion, pressure or rubbing.

General debility during the summer, especially with headache, worse from heat (Phos.). ▶ Glands swollen and indurated.

Resolute, persevering, self-possessed, courageous. ▶ Lively, sociable; L. all day, with joyous talkativeness. ▶ Inclination to sing and singing half aloud. ▶ Excited by a slight cause, so that he talked with passionate vehemence till exhausted. ▶ Every event makes a strong impression upon her, a wavy trembling in nerves, with faintness. ▶ Melancholy (Nat. m.); and apprehensive; alternating with joy; and trembling, inclination to weep, constant sighing and physical prostration. ▶ Lachrymose.

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Generally relaxed; an unsteadiness of the whole body.
Great weakness in all the limbs and body, < morning, or after taking a little exercise.
Great dread of the open air; takes cold easily.
Symptoms appear while sitting and disappear on moving about.
The weakness is < hot weather, especially the headache.

Great depression of spirits, with apprehension.
Attacks of anxiety, with uneasiness, especially during sultry weather.
Loss of power of collecting the ideas and of memory, very marked.

Headache caused by exerting the mind.
Headache in the sun.
Tearing or shooting pains in the head, in the forehead, passing out through the eyes.

Shooting pains from within outward; lids swollen.
Heaviness of the upper lids; the eyes close involuntarily.
Ulcers appear on the cornea, with shooting pains.
Photophobia.
Vision of black spots; sometimes blinding lightnings.

Deafness.
Sharp stitches in the ears; sensitiveness to noise.

Violent coryza, sneezing; discharge thin, very free, especially at night, < the least draft of air; mucus gets into the throat.
Discharge of yellow, offensive mucus from the nose.
Coryza, with burning in the eyes; obstruction at night.
Chronic nasal catarrh, with thick, offensive discharges.
General aggravation of the nasal symptoms by the slightest draft; discharge through the day and stoppage at night.

Yellow spots appear on the forehead and upper lip.
Paleness, with blue rings around the eyes and swollen lids.
Moist eruption appears on the nose and about the mouth.

Sensitiveness of the lower incisors, toothache, < eating sweets or fruit.
Blisters and ulcers in the mouth.
Pimples on the tip of the tongue, which burns as if full of cracks.
Tongue heavy, with difficult speech.
Ulcers on the inside of the mouth, with burning pain, often with dryness.

Accumulation of much mucus in the throat, which comes from the nose, with violent hawking.
Swelling of the submaxillary glands.

Extreme thirst; cold drinks cause distress.
Sour eructations.
Waterbrash, ineffectual efforts to eructate in the morning.
Region of the stomach painful to touch.
Heartburn, especially after fat food.

Clinical:
Great weakness of digestion caused by the slightest errors of diet, even after every meal, with general discomfort and ill humor, palpitation, distress about the heart.

Distention, < eating.
Many symptoms from incarcerated flatus; colic somewhat > eating and warmth.
Stitches in the right or left hypochondrium.

Urging, with sudden evacuation, forcibly discharged.
Burning in the rectum after a stool.
Stool often bloody or hard, with burning in the rectum.
Discharge of balls of mucus like peas.

Clinical:
Sometimes cures diarrhœa, aggravated by eating; gushing preceded by cutting in abdomen, followed by burning and soreness in anus, sinking in abdomen, etc.

Frequent need to urinate.
Urine offensive, containing mucus.
Burning in urethra during and after micturition.

Bruised pain in the testicles.
Soreness between the scrotum and thighs.
Sexual power weak.
Pressing and dragging in the female organs.
Thick, yellow leucorrhœa, offensive.
Menstruation too early, with pains in the small of the back and abdomen.
Leucorrhœal discharge is preceded by colic.

Dry cough, with stopped nasal catarrh.
Cough < coming into a warm room.
Cough, with expectoration of greenish mucus, at times, salt, with rawness in the chest, < morning.

Palpitation, < ascending stairs; waking at night when lying on the left side; a general accompaniment of attacks of indigestion.

Tearing pains in the shoulders, with weakness of the arms.
Heaviness in the lower extremities and feet.
Gout.
Cords under the knees seemed shortened.
Makes a false step and sprains the ankles easily.
Many symptoms in the tendo Achillis and on the heel, which seems to get sore easily.
Soreness between the toes and fingers.

Skin becomes dry, rough and cracked.
Itching as from fleas over the whole body.
Herpetic eruptions, sometimes suppurate; and leave yellow rings.
Ulcers form, with swelling and inflamed redness.

Cold feet and hands; with hot forehead.
Coldness of the lower extremities.
Chill, without thirst, with cold hands and hot cheeks, or the reverse.
Night sweat alternates with dryness of the skin.
During the pains, the patient breaks into a cold, anxious sweat, with dreams.

NATRUM CARBONICUM. CARBONATE OF SODA. WASHING SODA. [*].

[] In the first edition Hahnemann published a pathogenesis of Natrum carbonicum, containing 308 symptoms. The salt was then proved by Nenning and Schréter, and their results -making 625 symptoms in all-appeared in the third volume of the Arzneimittellehre of Hartlaub and Trinks. These two symptom lists, with (presumably) provings of the 30th by Langhammer, Hering and Gross, and some fresh observations on patients by Hahnemann himself, form the present pathogenesis. -Hughes*.

Dissolve the natrum of the shops (the basic part of common salt or of Glauber's salt) in two parts of its own weight of distilled water, boiling-hot, filter the solution through blotting-paper, and cause it to crystallize in a cellar. These crystals consist of rhombic-octædra and rhomboidal prisms. One grain of these crystals, dried on blotting-paper (before they fall into powder), is taken for the preparation of the various homœopathic potencies, being treated in the manner of the other dry medicinal substances. This medicine will be found indicated where the following ailments are also present : Sadness ; dejection ; hypochondriac mood ; dread of men and of company ; anxiety ; anxious palpitation ; anguish, trembling and sweat during the pains ; tendency to get startled ; despondency ; indignation ; malevolence ; difficulty in comprehending and combining thoughts, when reading and listening ; mental labor fatigues ; gloominess of the head ; vertigo ; headache, when in the sun ; headache, stitches outward from the eye ; tearing, externally on the head at certain hours of the day ; inflammation of the eyelids, with photophobia ; little feathers seem to be floating before the eyes ; inability to read small print ; hardness of hearing ; sensitiveness to noise ; heat in the face ; yellow spots on the forehead and on the upper lip ; freckles in the face ; swelling of the upper lip ; toothache, especially while eating ; bitter taste in the mouth ; taste in the mouth as after dissipating through the night ; thirst ; wild hunger from a feeling of emptiness causing nausea ; ailments from cold drinking, e. g., stitches in the left hypochondrium ; constant weakness of the digestive organs, with ill humor and discomfort after even slight errors in diet ; nausea ; constant qualmish nausea ; pressure in the stomach after meals ; pressive drawing and fine cutting stomachache ; contractive cramps in the stomach ; painfulness of the scrobiculus cordis when touched ; accumulation of the flatus in the abdomen ; inflation of the abdomen ; painful moving about of flatus in the abdomen ; incarceration of flatus ; distended abdomen ; shooting and burrowing in the abdomen ; insufficient stool ; urging to urinate ; burning in the urethra after micturition ; bearing down on the genital parts, as if everything was coming out ; bad shape of the os uteri ; pains with the menses ; metrorrhagia ; seems to promote conception ; after coitus, discharge of mucus from the vagina ; putrid leucorrhœa. Obstruction of the nose ; coryza, every other day ; constant coryza from a slight draught, only ceasing after perspiration ; constant coryza and cough ; cough ; shortness of breath ; asthma and shortness of breath ; difficult breathing ; salty purulent expectoration, when coughing ; pressive shooting in the chest ; constant chill on the left side ; sore pain in the sacrum ; stiffness in the nape ; pressive pain on the top of the shoulder ; cutting pains in the hands and the feet ; lumpy spots on the legs [Hg.] ; cramp in the thighs ; tendency to missteps and to spraining of the ankle ; pressive pain on the dorsum of the feet ; shooting in the soles of the feet on treading ; swelling of the feet ; coldness of the feet ; chronic ulcers on the heels, from erosive blisters [Hg.] ; itch on the abdomen [Hg.] ; erysipelatous lumps ; yellow rings from herpetic spots [Hg.] ; formicating shooting in the muscles of the thighs, below the scrobiculus cordis, etc. ; tendency to strains and sprains ; dislike of the open air ; tendency to take cold ; dryness of the skin ; warts ; herpes ; shooting, cutting and burning in wounded parts of the body ; unsteadiness of body and mind ; relaxed state of the whole body ; after a short walk, he is tired so that he is ready to drop down ; chronic weakness ; drowsiness by day ; late in falling asleep at night ; waking up too early ; dreams at night ; coldness of the hands and feet ; profuse sweat at the least labor ; constant, cold sweat of anguish ; night-sweat, alternating with dryness. - Camphor diminishes an excessive action of Natrum very efficiently. My fellow-observers are : Lgh., Dr. Langhammer ; Ng., the anonymous contributor in Hartlaub and Trinks' Reine Arzneimittellehre ; Sr., Dr. Schréter ; Hg., Dr. Hering ; Gr., Dr. Gross.

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Nat. c. / Nancy

Natrum Carb., - For hawking goes,
Sneezing cold and watery nose.
With her, colds, with seizure bold,
Take persistent chronic hold.
Pricking, stitching pain patrols
Eyes, ears, abdomen and soles.
Yellow blotches mar the face,
Rings of blue the eyes embrace.
Constant hunger - gnawing pain,
Freight her Indigestion train.
Cough with sputum yellow- green -
Hers, where chest catarrh is seen.
Headache in the summer heats,
Toothache after eating meats,
Urging strong, as if its source
Were the kidney of a horse.
Worse before a thunder storm,
And the moon in full orb form.

Nancy, - Has blue rings around the eyes.

Nancy Ole Phos, the Greek, seeks to rob the jail, of Cim Hy-Chin, the Imp of Cina.

This Nancy, - Who is subject to hawking,- Is at the potters, and is the lass eloping with the Aurum Knight.

Blue Rings Around the Eyes: Nat. c., Ole., Pho., Cic., Sec., Rhus, Bell., Aco., Lyc., Cimi., Hyo., Chin., Ipe., Cina.

Hawking: Nat. c., Kal. c., Lyc., Sep., Lach., Pho., Arum, Arg. n.

Gloominess of head, with incapacity for thinking or any mental exertion, especially in room and when at rest. Great mental impressionability, everything (for instance music) excites trembling. Restlessness with attacks of anxiety, especially from the heavy air preceding a thunderstorm. Aversion to making and society. Hypochondriacal mood.

From small quantities of liquor or mental or physical exertion, in a room or walking in the sun.

Stupefying pressure in forehead followed by heat in head. Sticking ache in forehead and out thro' eyes, with heat in forehead and anxious sweat. Tearing in external forehead, recurring at certain hours of the day. Worse: Rest, in the sun, mental exertion. Better: Motion, in open air.

Crampy tearing in cranial muscles, especially of forehead, with trembling and cold sweat. Worse: Rest, stormy weather. Better: Motion, rubbing, pressure.

Black spots or dazzling flashes be fore. Inflammatory swelling of lids. Ulcers on cornea. Inability to read small print. Photophobia.

Difficult hearing. Sensitive to noises.

Sensitive. Exfoliation of skin of. Stopped by hard, foul - smelling mucus. Coryza, with hoarseness from the least draft or cold, from sweating only.

Head with redness of. Yellow spots on forehead and upper lip. Numerous freckles. Humid, herpetic eruption on nose and about mouth.

Excessive sensitiveness of lower (incisors), Ache when eating fruit or sweet things.

Burning, that ulcers or blisters n. Stuttering, from heaviness of tongue.

Taste: Bitter or sour, in mouth.

Extraordinary weakness of digestion, which causes ill - humor and general discomfort after the slightest dietetic errors or even after every meal. Pressure in, after every meal. Sensitiveness of pit to touch.

Hypochondia: Stitches in splenic or hepatic region.

Appetite: Ravenous hunger in forenoon. Inclined to nibble dainties. Violent, continuous thirst. Effects of cold drinks.

Nausea: Continuous, and sick stomach.

Distension of. Colic, with retracted navel.

Flatulence: Excessive generation of f., with painful movements in abdomen. Discharge of sour or fetid smelling f.

Frequent, ineffectual urging. Unsatisfactory. Bloody, soft, with tenesmus.

Stinking, with mucus deposit. Frequent, violent urging to urinate with excessive discharge. Burning in urethra during and after urination.

Greatly intensified sexual desire, like a sort of priapism. Crushing pain in testes. Excoriated scrotum. Pressure and urging toward female s. o., as though' everything would be forced out.

Menses: Too early with lumbar and abdominal pains. Profuse leucorrhoeal discharge preceded by colicky pains.

Short and tight from tightness of chest.

With purulent, salty expectoration. Violent dry c., when passing from a cold into a warm place.

Neck: Swelling of glands of. Hard swelling of thyroid glands.

Constant chilliness in left side. Nightly, anxious palpitation when lying upon left side.

Tearing in shoulder with weakness of arms Herpes or warts upon backs of hands. Burning blisters on fingers.

Heaviness in legs and feet. Uncertain gait. Shortened hamstrings. Herpes in popliteal spaces. Easy turning (wrenching) and dislocation of ankle. Cold feet. Chronic heel ulcers arising from spreading blisters. Excoriation between and blisters on tips of toes.

Involuntary twitching in muscles and limbs. Parts are easily sprained and dislocated. Relaxation and prostration of entire body. Great weakness and debility in all limbs, especially early in morning. Exhausted and ready to drop after a short walk. Easily takes cold. Aversion to open air. Great physical restlessness in evening unless he exerts himself mentally. Most complaints appear when sitting and disappear during motion, from pressure or rubbing. Anxiety, trembling and cold sweat during pain. The heavy air preceding a thunderstorm the symptoms.

Glands swollen and indurated.

Dry, but on the slightest exertion it immediately sweats profusely. Herpes which enlarge and suppurate, in yellow rings. Ulcers, with swelling and inflammatory redness of affected parts.

Irresistible day sleepiness, but late falling to sleep in evening. Nightly restlessness. Twitching and jerking during. Many vivid dreams.

Pulse, Excited, mostly at night, with ebullition of blood in body. Chill: And internal chilliness, with shuddering the whole day, most in forenoon, with cold hands and feet and hot head, or the reverse, with warm hands and cold cheeks. In evening, shivering, with dull confusion of head then heat with sleep. Heat: With weariness and sleep (without headache, which is very severe in Nat - m). Running from neck down back, with great ill - humor. With concomitant sweat over entire body. Sweat: Profuse, anxious, from least exertion. Burning on forehead where the hat touches. Profuse at night. Nightsweat alternating with a dry skin. Cold, anxious s., with trembling during pain.

Allied Remedies: CALC-C., Caust., Graph., Kali - c., LYC, Nat-m. Nat-s., PULS, SEP, Sil., Spig., Sul.,

Complementary: Sep.

Involuntary twitching of the muscles and limbs.

Instability of the whole body.

Great weakness in the limbs, especially in the morning.

Cramp-like tearing in the arms and legs.

After a short walk the patient is very weak.

Dry skin or violent perspiration after the latest exertion.

Aversion to the open air.

Dry cough when he comes from the open air into a warm room.

In the morning great restlessness in the body when not mentally occupied.

With the pain, anxiety, trembling and cold sweat.

Very weak digestion is complained of within the curative sphere.

Great flatulency.

Hypochondrical humor in evidence.

Affections of the mind with misanthropy.

Most symptoms appear whilst sitting and disappear during motion, pressing and rubbing.

It has aggravation during a thunder storm.