Natrum Muriaticum



Face

Face yellowish, pale, livid, earthy. Face shining, as if greasy. Swelling of face. Itching and eruption of pimples on face and forehead. Heat in face. Pains in zygomatic process, during mastication, like those of ulceration. Lips dry, chapped, cracked, or excoriated and ulcerated, with scabs, and burning and smarting eruption. Fever blisters on the lips. Ulcer on (left) cheek. Tingling and numbness of lips. Tettery eruption round mouth. Swelling of lips. Sanguineous vesicles in internal surface of upper lip, with burning pain when touched. Granulated and ulcerated eruption on chin. Frequent swelling of submaxillary glands.

Teeth

Teeth very sensitive to air and touch. Drawing, like extraction, in teeth, extending into ear and throat, after a meal, and at night with swelling of cheek. Lancinations, boring, and pulsation in caries teeth. Looseness and caries of teeth. Fistula in gums. Gums swollen, easily bleeding, and very sensitive to cold or hot things. Putrid inflammation of gums. Ulcers in gums.

Mouth

Ulcers and vesicles on tongue and in mouth, with burning smarting, and pain from contact with food and drink. Blisters like pearls about the mouth, especially intermittent fever. Haemoptysis. Speech embarrassed in consequence of heaviness of tongue. One half of tongue numb and stiff. Tongue stiff and, with hard palate, unusually dry. Prolonged sensation, as of a hair on tongue. Dryness of mouth, lips, and especially of tongue. Burning at tip of tongue. Mapped tongue, red insular patches, ringworm on right side. Tongue: clean, shiny, bubbles of frothy saliva along sides, clean in front dirty at back, broad, pallid, puffy, with pasty coat. Swelling under in front, dirty at back, pallid, puffy, with pasty coat. Swelling under tongue, with stinging pain, ranula. Numbness on lips and one side of tongue (trifacial and glossopharyngeal paralysis.) _ Copious salivation, saliva salty.

Throat

A sensation during deglutition as of a plug in throat. Spasms in the throat. Swelling, sensation of constriction and stitches in throat. Long-continued sore throat, with sensation as if she had to swallow over lump. Inflammation of throat, with shooting pain and ulceration. Expectoration of mucus, on hawking, especially in morning. Frequent hawking of salty-tasting mucus. Swelling of cervical glands.

Appetite

Loss of taste (and smell). Bitter taste in mouth. Putrid or acid taste, as when fasting, Putrid taste of water. After-taste of food, especially of acids. Continual thirst, often with nausea, distension of abdomen, and other unpleasant symptoms after drinking. Loss of appetite, especially for bread, and repugnance to tobacco smoke. (Vomiting of pregnancy with aversion to bread.) _ Dislike to food, especially when fat. Sufferings from acid food, from bread, fat, and wine. Immoderate appetite in afternoon and evening. Bulimy, without appetite, with fulness and satiety, however little nay have been eaten. Desire for acids. Longing for bitter food and drink. Sweat on face during a meal. After a meal, empty risings, nausea, fulness and inflation of the abdomen a and stomach, somnolence, head confused, acidity in the mouth, and pyrosis, palpitation, and intermittent or accelerated pulse. Disagreeable risings after fat food or milk.

Stomach

Risings, with taste of food. Violent hiccough. Sensation as if a foreign body were sticking in the cardiac orifice and behind sternum. Acid and acrid risings, sometimes with taste of food. Pyrosis, which ascends from stomach. Nausea, esp., in morning. Water brash, with revolving sensation in stomach, sometimes followed by a sour vomiting of food. Vomiting of food and bile. Aching of stomach in morning, or during the day, with nausea, and sudden sinking. Pressure at epigastrium, as if there were a hard body in stomach., _ Epigastrium swollen and painful, when touched and pressed, as if it were ulcerated. Contractive cramps in stomach, sometimes, with nausea. Shocks and clawing in pit of stomach. Pulsation in epigastrium. Red spots on pit of stomach.

Abdomen

Drawing, tension, pressure, pinching, and shootings in hepatic region (chronic inflammation of liver). Pain, shootings and pressure in splenic region. (Reduces size of enlarged spleen). Cramp in diaphragm on stopping. Inflammation on abdomen. Swelling in abdomen. Tensive, pressive, and hypochondriacal uneasiness in abdomen. Pressive pain in abdomen. Drawing and contractive pains in abdomen in abdomen, like labour pains. Daily cuttings and pinchings in abdomen, sometimes in morning, and at night. Rigidity in left side of abdomen. Incarceration of flatus, sometimes at night. Colic with nausea better by discharge of flatulence. Loud grumbling and borborygmi in abdomen. Burning in intestines. Pain in ring when coughing, extending into testicles, as if spermatic cords would be torn to pieces. Protrusion of hernia.

Stool & Anus

Constipation, sometimes prolonged, or every second day. Frequent, urging, and ineffectual effort to evacuate, or scanty evacuation. Stools difficult to discharge, hard, dry, crumbling, like sheep’s dung. Hard and broken evacuations. Difficult evacuation of faeces, often with tearing and shooting in rectum and anus. Evacuations too frequent. Prolonged relaxation of abdomen. Diarrhoea like water, with colic. Alternate constipation and diarrhoea, irregular unsatisfactory stools. Diarrhoea, with colic, and evacuation of mucous matter. Painless watery diarrhoea. Involuntary evacuations. Discharge of blood during evacuations. Burning in anus and rectum, during and after stools. Shootings, excoriation, and pulsation in rectum. Cramp-like constriction, and feeling of contraction in rectum. Prolapsus recti, and burning pain in anus, with oozing of sanguineous and sanious matter. Painful and shooting haemorrhoidal tumours in anus. Excoriation in anus, and between the buttocks, especially when walking. Tetters in anus. Lumbrici.

Urinary Organs

Frequent and urgent want to urinate, day and night, sometimes every hour, with copious emission. Involuntary emission of urine sometimes on coughing, walking, laughing, or sneezing. Nocturnal emission of urine. Clear urine, with red sediment, resembling brick-dust. Discharge of mucus from urethra, after the emission of urine. Discharge of mucus from urethra during and after urination, causing itching and biting. Discharge of mucus from urethra, which is sometimes yellowish, as in gonorrhoea. After micturition spasmodic contraction in abdomen, burning, drawing, and cutting in urethra. During micturition stitches in bladder, smarting, burning in urethra, smarting and soreness in vulva. Urine dark, like coffee, or black.

Male Sexual Organs

Itching, tetters, and excoriation between scrotum and thighs. Itching and stinging on glans and scrotum. Secretion behind glands, like gonorrhoea balanic. Phimosis. Excessive excitement of genital organs, and of the amative feelings, or dulness of sexual desire. Want of energy during coition. Impotence. Pollutions after coition. Strong fetid odour from genital organs. Hydrocele. Loss of hair from pubes.

Female Sexual Organs

Pressure and general bearing down towards genital organs every morning, has to sit down to prevent prolapsus. Prolapsus uteri with aching in loins, better lying on back, cutting in urethra after micturition. Catamenia premature and profuse, or retarded and scanty. Sterility, with too early and too profuse menstruation. Prolonged catamenia.Suppression of catamenia. Difficulty in appearance of first menses. Headache before, during, and after catamenia. Before catamenia, moroseness and irritability. At commencement of catamenia, sadness. During catamenia, cramps in abdomen. Spitting blood at menstrual nisus, bloody saliva. Itching in genital organs. Repugnance to coition. Coition: painful from dryness of vagina, burning smarting during, in anaemic women with dry mouth and dry skin. Leucorrhoea, with headache, disposition to diarrhoea, colic, and mucous evacuations. Acrid (greenish) leucorrhoea (increased discharge when walking), with yellow colour of face. Abundant discharge of transparent, whitish, and thick mucus from vagina. Vulvitis with falling off of hair. Itching of external parts with falling off of hair. Pimples on mons veneries. Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, morning sickness with vomiting of frothy, watery phlegm. During pregnancy: dysuria, albuminuria, craves salt, congestion to chest, palpitation, haemorrhoids, cough, escape of urine. Labour slow, pains feeble, apparently from sad feelings and forebodings. Loss of hair in children or lactation. Child refuses breast, nursing sore mouth. Lancinating pains in breasts. Stitches beneath nipples. Dull stitch beneath right nipple, also in abdomen. Breasts sensitive to slightest touch.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness, and sensation of dryness in larynx. Dry cough with rattling in chest. Accumulation of mucus in larynx in morning. Chest embarrassed with catarrh and cough. Cough excited by a tickling in throat, or in epigastrium, day and night, especially on walking or taking a deep inspiration. Cough in morning. Choking, spasmodic cough in bed, in evening. Short, chronic cough, with expectoration of mucus and swelling in chest. Cough, with expectoration of bloody mucus. Cough, with sanguineous expectoration, retching and vomiting. Pains in head, on coughing, as if forehead were about to burst. Whooping-cough caused by tickling in throat or pit of stomach, with expectoration (only in morning) of yellow or blood-streaked mucus, with violent pain in head, or with shocks, beating and hammering in head, involuntary micturition, stitches in liver. Tears stream down his face whenever he coughs( whooping-cough). Breath, hot, offensive. Shortness of breath, especially when walking quickly. Obstructed respiration, especially during manual labour, better when exercising arms and in the open air. Wheezing respiration in bed, in evening.

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