Natrum Muriaticum



Neck and Back

      Painful stiffness of neck. Bruised backache, early in a.m.; worse coughing; after coition; better lying on back, on something hard; or pressure.

Can stoop readily, but hurts to straighten. Buttocks emaciated in infants.

Extremities

      Trembling of the hands when writing. Cracked finger tips. Hangnails. Palms hot and sweaty. Hamstrings; seem short, painful, drawing in.

Numbness and tingling in fingers and lower extremities. Catch in knee. House maid’s knee. Cracking in joints on motion. Ankles weak and turn easily. Legs cold.

Convulsive jerking of the limbs on falling asleep. Scurfs, scales in axilla. Bending the joints of fingers, difficult. Children do not learn to walk. Soreness of toes or between toes.

Natrum muriaticum Skin

    Natrum muriaticum skin symptoms  Oily, dry, harsh, unhealthy or yellow. Chaps of herpetic eruptions and eczema, worse flexures, or about knuckles.

Dry eruptions on margins of hair. Warts of palms and hands. Hives, whitish, worse exertion. Corns. Scars; painful. Redness of old scars.

Sleep

      Sobs during sleep. Awakes feeling weak. Dreams of robbers. Somnambulism; rises and sits about room. Starts and talks in sleep.

Fever

      Coldness of many parts, hands, feet, heart. Morning chill with thirst. Chilly but worse in sun. Sweat, scanty, at edge of hair, on nose, on face while eating.

Complementary

      Ignatia; Sepia

Natrum muriaticum is Related to

      Pulsatilla

S.R. Phatak
A pioneer of Homoeopathy in Maharashtra, Dr Shankar Raghunath Phatak was born on 6th September, 1896. He did his MBBS from Grant Medical College, in 1924. Started his practice but somehow not satisfied with Allopathic Treatment.

He was convinced about Homoeopathy while going through Sir William Osler's writings on 'History of Medicine' so switched over to an entirely Homoeopathic Practice in 1932. He also started working on Homoeopathic literature along with his Practice.

He has contributed immensely to homoeopathic literature. He was an ardent follower of Dr Boger. His Repertory is based on Boger's ''A Synoptic key to Materia Medica'.