Natrum Sulphuricum



Female Sexual Organs

Catamenia scanty, retarded, with colic, and suppressed stools, or hard feces. Headache, and epistaxis, during catamenia. The blood of the catamenia is acrid and corrosive, or coagulated, and flows only in morning. Leucorrhoea, acrid, corrosive, parts inflamed, swollen, covered with vesicles, size of lentils, filled with pus (after parturition).

Respiratory Organs

Short breath when walking, gradually better by rest. If he coughs while standing he feels a sharp stitch in left side of chest, with shortness of breath. Dry cough, excited by a tickling, with roughness of trachea, and sensation of excoriation in chest, worse at night, and better by rising up in bed and holding chest with both hands. Loose cough, with expectoration, shortness of breath, and shooting in left side of chest, when sitting, when yawning, during an inspiration.

Chest

Asthma: humid asthma of children, with every fresh cold an attack of asthma, attacks worse early morning hours, asthma with early morning diarrhoea. Shortness of breath, especially when walking. Oppression in chest. Pressure on chest as of a heavy load. Empty, all-gone, weak feeling in chest, must support it with both hands when coughing. Pressure in left side of chest, near lumbar region, worse from motion and pressure. Stitches in left side of chest. Shooting in chest and sides of chest, which are painful, especially when coughing.

Neck and Back

Stitches in nape of neck at night. Jerking tearings and tension in muscles, on left side of neck. Soreness up and down spine and neck. Contusive pains in sacrum, or pain as from ulceration, especially at night. Lancinations in loins, when seated. Tearing and gnawing pains along spine. Incisive shootings between the shoulder-blades. Lancinations in axillae.

Limbs

Painful sensibility of limbs, which feel as if bruised, or fatigued. Prostration, tired, weary, especially knees. Attacks come on suddenly.

Upper Limbs

Tearing in bones and muscles of arms, and forearms. Heaviness of arms. Sensation of fulness and rigidity in hands. Tearing and shootings in hands and fingers. Trembling and weakness of hands, which prevents the holding of anything heavy. Loss of strength of left hand, is unable to hold anything heavy. Burning and redness in back of hand, as from the stinging of nettles. Shooting pain of ulceration under nails. Panaritium. Tingling in the tips of the fingers.

Lower Limbs

Sharp pains in the hips (in morning on rising, and all day, particularly on making certain motions), on stooping, especially when rising from a seat, and, at night, in bed. Stabbing pain in left hip (after a fall). The pain in hip is better in certain positions, but compels one to move again after a short time, causing intense suffering. Heat and burning in legs, morning and evening. Tearing and drawing in legs, and especially in tendo- Achillis and calf. Legs and thighs feel weary and exhausted. In heels lancinating pain, tearing and ulcerating pain. Great lassitude and uneasiness in feet. Shooting tearing, and pain as from ulceration in feet. Violent itching of toes, and between toes, especially on taking off shoes and stockings at night.

Generalities

Tearing and shooting, or jerking, or jerking tearings in limbs, and other parts, especially during evening and night. Sore across abdomen, sides and back. Trembling in body, with spasmodic movements of muscles, and accompanied by anxious apprehension. Symptoms manifest themselves during repose, and are better by movement. The patient feels better in open air.

Skin

Itching, and itching pimples, which burn after being scratched. Eczema, moist and oozing profusely. Itching while undressing. Wart-like, raised, red lumps all over body.

Sleep

Great sleepiness during day, especially in forenoon, falling asleep while reading or writing. Sleeplessness caused by great agitation. Uneasy sleep, with anxious and disagreeable dreams. Jerking of limbs during sleep. Starting as if in a fright, soon after falling asleep. Dreams in which patient imagines himself to be flying. Dreams of an expanse of water, of one drowning in it, of things floating on river. Anxious, fright fill dreams disturb the sleep. Dreams of being insulted and fighting, of being involved in a mob-fight. Twitching of hands (and feet) during sleep (more so after midnight). Trembling of hands on waking, and also when writing.

Fever

Waking at night with chilliness, shaking and chattering of teeth, with anguish and thirst. Shiverings with coldness, especially in evening, or at night, sometimes with anguish, quaking, and chattering of teeth, generally without thirst. Coldness and shuddering with thirst. Internal coldness, with stretching and yawning. In morning, after a walk, shivering and shaking, and coldness, with heat in head, and yellowness of face. Perspiration in morning. During shivering fit, heat in forehead and hands. Dry general heat, in the afternoon. Sudden flashes of heat towards evening. Profuse sweat, at night.

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