Natrum Carbonicum



Eyes

Burning in eyes, especially when reading and writing. Stitches in eyes, from within outwards. Lancinations across eyes. Inflammation of eyes and lids, with photophobia. Heaviness lids of upper. Inflammatory swelling of right upper lid. Swelling of lids. Dim, eyes, has to wipe them constantly. Ulcers on cornea. Abscess in lachrymal gland. Frequent closing of lids, and difficulty in opening them. Confused sight, with black dancing specks, or bright sparkling before eyes. Dazzling flashing before eyes on awaking. Inability to read small print, as in presbyopia. Down before eyes.Pupils dilate:.

Ears

Shootings in ears. Otalgia, with sharp, piercing stitches in ears. Great sensibility to noise. Sensation of deafness, as from stoppage of ears. Hardness of hearing. Tinkling, music, buzzing, bursting of a bubble, roaring, and throbbing in ears. Dryness and heat. (Old otorrhoea and deafness that has come from typhoid fever. Deafness with ozaena, thick feeling in throat and amenorrhoea in light-haired girls. Deafness with acne punctate. Deafness with recurring earache _ (cases cured by Cooper).).

Nose

Red nose with white pimples on it. Great sensitiveness of nose. Desquamation of bridge and point of nose, painful when touched. Ulceration in bottom of nostrils. Obstruction of nose, sometimes with discharge of hard and fetid pieces of mucus. Hard, fetid pieces from one nostril. Coryza every second day. Coryza, fluent, violent sneezing. Intermittent coryza, with burning in eyes. Much nasal mucus passes through mouth. Continued coryza and cough, excited by a chill and the least current of air, disappearing only after perspiration. Thick green, or yellow, mucus in nose. Bleeding of nose. Troubles of external nose, which may attain a morbid size, puffiness of nose.

Face

Heat of face. Bloatedness of face. Cheeks red and swollen. Redness and burning heat, or great paleness in face, with livid circle under eyes, swollen eyelids. Face alternately pale and red. Ephelis in face. Itching and humid eruption in nose and mouth. Yellow spots on forehead and upper lip. Yellowish colour of face. Swelling of lips. Swelling of upper lip. Burning rhagades in lower lip. Eruptions, tetters, and ulcers round mouth and lips. Engorgement of submaxillary glands.

Teeth

Toothache, with digging, boring pain, especially after and during a meal, and particularly after eating things sweetened with sugar or fruits. Pressive toothache at night, with swelling of lower lip and gums. Excessive sensitiveness of lower teeth.

Mouth

Constant dryness of mouth and lips. Vesicles and smooth ulcers, with burning, in the mouth. Burning about tip of tongue, as if it were cracked. Pimples on tip of tongue. Tensive blisters on right margin of tongue. Papular eruption beneath tongue, painful to touch. Pustule near fraenum. Ulcer on fraenum. Tongue not facile, speech difficult. Lisping. Stammering, from (dry tongue and) heaviness of tongue.

Throat

Roughness, scraping, and dryness of throat and palate. Throat and oesophagus feel rough, scraped, and dry. Spasmodic contraction of oesophagus and stomach. Accumulation of mucus in throat. Violent hawking up of thick mucus which constantly collects again. Much nasal mucus passes through the posterior nares. Swelling of submaxillary glands.

Appetite

Bitter taste in mouth. The food tastes bitter. Acid taste in mouth, while tongue is loaded with a thick coating. Incessant thirst, great desire for cold water a few hours after dinner. Violent thirst, and uneasiness after drinking anything cold. Extreme, voracious hanger, especially in morning, arising out of a sensation of faintness and emptiness. Empty eructations (after eating). Gluttony. Repugnance to milk and diarrhoea after partaking of it. Great weakness of digestion, with peevishness and hypochondriacal humour, after a meal, or the least departure from regimen. Distension, heaviness, and aching in stomach and epigastrium after a meal.

Stomach

Stomach weak, easily disordered. Frequent risings during and after a meal. Water brash. Heartburn after fat food. Violent retching in morning, without actual vomiting. Painful eructations. Sensation of qualmishness in stomach, and continued nausea. Frequent hiccough, especially after a meal. Pyrosis and scraping in throat, esp., after partaking of fat food. Pressure in stomach, especially after a meal. Painful sensibility of region of stomach and epigastrium, on being touched and while speaking. Drawing, pressive, and incisive pains in stomach. Contractive cramps in stomach. Colic, with constriction around stomach. Sensation of emptiness in stomach, with nausea. Gnawing and pressure with gone feeling 10 or 11 a.m., better from eating. Distension of stomach and epigastrium.

Abdomen

Pains in hypochondria. Very weak digestion, after eating, hypochondriacal humour. Lancinations in the left hypochondrium, sometimes after drinking anything cold. Lancinations in hepatic region (chronic inflammation of liver). Violent stitches in hepatic and splenic regions. Pain in abdomen, after waking in morning. Abdomen (hard) enlarged and distended. Nocturnal pains in abdomen, with tension in upper part of abdomen, and diarrhoea. Colic, with retraction of navel, and hardness of integuments of abdomen. Swellings on abdomen, as if intestines distended by wind here and there. Shootings and diggings in abdomen. Shootings and drawings sides in sides of abdomen. Accumulation, incarceration, and painful movements of flatus in abdomen. Abundant expulsion of flatus of a sour or fetid smell. Swelling of glands of groin and axilla, generally painful.

Stool & Anus

Urgent want to evacuate, without result, or followed by a scanty and insufficient evacuation. Hard and difficult evacuation. Soft or liquid faeces, with strong and very urgent want to go to stool, and tenesmus ani. Loose, yellow evacuations. Diarrhoea which is marked by a sudden and obligatory call to stool, which escapes with great haste, noise, and rushing, often producing considerable commotion in abdomen, 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. Diarrhoea, with cuttings, after a chill, or after partaking of milk. The stool is watery and is discharged in a gush. Sanguineous evacuations. Stool spotted with blood. Stool like sheep’s dung, with great straining, balls of mucus like peas. Discharge of taenia during evacuation. Burning and incisive pains in anus and rectum during and after stool. Itching and tingling in anus. Lancinations in perinaeum.

Urinary Organs

Frequent and urgent want to urinate, day and night, with scanty, or excessive, discharge. Involuntary micturition at night. Wetting the bed. Urine of a bright (or dark) yellow colour, of a sourish smell, or fetid and turbid, with mucous sediment. Mucus in urine. Urine smells like horse urine. Burning in urethra during and after emission of urine. Jerks, acute pullings, and smarting in urethra. Deep-coloured urine.

Male Sexual Organs

Pain, as from a bruise, in testes. Heaviness and pressive drawings in testes. Excoriation of scrotum. Soreness between scrotum and thighs. Secretion behind glands, as in gonorrhoea balanic. Inflammation, swelling, and tendency to excoriation, of glans and prepuce. Increased sexual desire, almost like priapism, with continued and painful pollutions and erections. Incomplete coition. Emissions without erections. Glans penis easily becomes sore. Discharge of prostatic fluid when urinating, and during a difficult evacuation. Great tendency to perspire after coition.

Female Sexual Organs

Pressure in hypogastrium as if everything were bearing down towards genital parts, and were about to protrude (and menses would come on). Catamenia too early, with headache, sacral and abdominal pains. Deficient menstruation in adults. Metrorrhagia. Deformity of cervix uteri. Excoriation at vulva, between thighs. Discharge of mucus from vagina, after coition (causing sterility). Profuse, thick, and yellowish, or fetid leucorrhoea, sometimes preceded by cuttings (ceasing after urination). Motion as from foetus in uterus. (Conception appears to be promoted by the action of *Natrum carb.) _ Expels moles, prevents false conception. Labor pains weak or accompanied by anguish and sweat, with desire to be rubbed.

Respiratory Organs

Short cough, with rattling in chest. Hoarseness and roughness in chest, with coryza, febrile shivering, and scraping and painful cough. Continual catarrh, with coryza and cough, excited by least current of air or slightest chill, and disappearing only when perspiration supervenes. Cough excited by tickling in throat. Violent and dry cough on passing from cold to hot temperature. Cough, with expectoration which has a salt taste, or which consists of greenish and fetid pus. Expectoration of small substances, with rattling of mucus in chest. Cough, with expectoration of blood.

Chest

Shortness of breath, sometimes with difficult respiration. Dyspnoea. dyspnoea and shortness of breathing, occasioned by tension of chest. Tension in chest during inspiration. Pressure of chest. Shootings in chest and sides of chest. Continual coldness in left side.

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