Natrum Lacticum


Natrum Lacticum signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Natrum Lacticum is used…


      Sodium lactate. Na.C3H5O3. Solution.

Clinical

Gout. Gouty concretions. Rheumatism.

Characteristics

Allen has collected a few observation on the effects of large doses, which I have schematised below. Skinner has removed with it, in potencies, gouty or rheumatic concretions (“chalk stones”) in fingers.

Relations

*Compare: The Lacs, Lact-ac. In “chalk stones,” Lycopodium, Calcarea

SYMPTOMS.

Stomach

Unusual hunger and thirst. Vomiting (from very large doses).

Lower Limbs

Great weakness of lower limbs, analogous to anxietas tibiarum after great physical exertion.

Generalities

Rheumatoid pains- Abnormal sense of fatigue, yawning & sleepiness.

Sleep

Sleep more prolonged and sounder. Yawning and sleepiness.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica