The skin affections for which natrum sulphuricum is indicated are those that are moist, with profuse oozing discharge, such as eczema of the scalp, or moist eczema on on other parts of the body. The skin itches on undressing. Wart-like raised lumps may appear on any part of the body, vesicles and blisters occur here and there, yellow scales succeed the vesicles. It has cured psoriasis palmarum and panaritium.
The sleep of natrum sulphuricum patients is restless and disturbed by vivid, terrifying dreams of fighting, falling from a height, being thrown out of a carriage, of falling into, or of sailing on, water. The patient is apt to be sleepy in the forenoon.
Fever, &c.-In the intermittent and remittent fevers for which natrum sulphuricum is indicated chilliness predominates. The chill is felt up the back and causes shivering and chattering of the teeth, it usually comes on in the evening, increases till 8 or 9 p.m. and disappears after going to bed; there is no hot stage, but the patient wakes about 4 a.m. in perspiration but without thirst. Stretching and yawning occur during the chill. Natrum sulphuricum has a considerable reputation in chronic intermittents, gastric and periodic fevers of all kinds, especially if they have been brought on by exposure to damp.
LEADING INDICATIONS.
(1) “Hydrogenoid constitution.”
(2) Proclivity to gonorrhoea, and distant effects of it.
(3) Complaints brought on and aggravated by exposure to water and damp (dulc., rhus tox.).
(4) Early morning aggravation.
(5) Loose, spluttering stools after rising.
(6) Itching of skin on undressing.
(7) Catarrh of mucous membrane with yellow, green, thick discharge.
(8) Sudden pains in limbs, relieved by motion.
(9) Enlarged tender liver, vomiting of bile.
(10) Headaches, associated with stomach and liver complaints.
(11) Warts.
(12) Moist oozing eruptions on the skin.
(13) Inflammation or congestion of the lower lobe of the left lung.
(14) Asthma, from damp or exertion.
AGGRAVATION:
From wet weather, damp, in early morning, evening (chill), warm room, pressure, lying on left side (liver symptoms), cold drinks, undressing (itching).
AMELIORATION:
From motion (pains), open air, cold air and cold water (toothache), dry weather, sitting up (cough),.
Edwin Awdas Neatby founded the Missionary School of Homeopathy and the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1903, and run by the British Homeopathic Association. He died in East Grinstead, Sussex, on the 1st December 1933. Edwin Awdas Neatby wrote The place of operation in the treatment of uterine fibroids, Modern developments in medicine, Pleural effusions in children, Manual of Homoeo Therapeutics,