What are the gastric symptoms of Natrum carbonicum?
There are sour eructations and fetid flatulence; a weak, hungry feeling about 11 A.M.; the patient is worse from vegetable and starchy foods; it is especially useful for dyspepsia from eating soda biscuits; palpitation after eating.
What are the symptoms calling for Natrum carbonicum in the effects of summer weather?
Debility and headache from the sun; chronic effects of sunstroke; the Natrum carb. patient gets very nervous during thunder storms and hides in the cellar; this nervousness is said to be due to the electrical condition of the atmosphere acting on such patients.
NATRUM MURIATICUM.
Where do we find data concerning the homoeopathic uses of Natrum muriaticum?
In Hahnemann’s Chronic Diseases and in the provings of the Austrian Society, Allen’s Encyclopaedia; Burnett on Natrum muriaticum, and considered as a tissue remedy in the 4th edition of Boericke and Dewey’s Twelve Tissue Remedies of Schussler.
Give the general action of Natrum muriaticum.
It corresponds to mal-nutrition and emaciation, and to anaemia. It also has an important action upon the blood; is useful in intermittent fever, skin eruptions, etc.
Give six general characteristics of this drug
1. Mal-nutrition, emaciation and anaemia.
2. Hammering in frontal region of head.
3. Eruptions on margin of hairy scalp.
4. Backache, better from lying on something hard.
5. Violent thirst.
6. Aversion to bread.
What are the mental symptoms of Natrum muriaticum?
The patient is hypochondriacal, sad and hopeless about the future. It is a useful remedy in brain fag.
Give the characteristic frontal headache of Natrum muriaticum.
It is a hammering headache, worse in morning, and is accompanied by constipation.
What are the characteristic eye symptoms of this drug?
It is a remedy especially characteristic in muscular asthenopia and in ciliary neuralgia, which comes and goes with the sun. Also in blepharitis. There is lachrymation and scalding, and letters run together when reading.
What are the indications for Natrum muriaticum in catarrhal conditions?
Clear, watery discharge from coryza accompanied with loss of smell and taste. Sneezing worse in evening while undressing and in morning on rising.
What is a special characteristic indication of Natrum muriaticum in colds?
Where there are cold sores or herpes on the lips, or on the wings of the nose-fever blisters so-called.
What is the tongue of Natrum muriaticum?
It is clean tongue covered with bubbles of frothy saliva.
What condition of the throat calls for this drug?
A relaxed uvula with a feeling of a plug, or great dryness in the throat.
What are the stomach symptoms of Natrum muriaticum?
There is a violent thirst; aversion to bread; water brash and feeling of weakness and sinking in the stomach.
Give the constipation of Natrum muriaticum.
The stools are dry, crumbly, hard and difficulty to expel. There is great weakness of the intestines. the stools are so dry that they produce fissure in the rectum Obstinate cases accompanied by hypochondriasis.
Give the diarrhoea of Natrum muriaticum.
It is a diarrhoea which is watery, and accompanied with great weakness of the abdominal muscles, and is sometimes involuntary.
Give the bladder symptoms of this drug.
Catarrh of the bladder, with burning on urinating.
Give the female symptoms.
There is a water leucorrhoea, and especially is it useful in uterine troubles, accompanied by backache, which is relieved by lying on the back or on something hard.
In what affections of the chest is Natrum muriaticum useful? In chronic bronchial catarrhs, winter coughs and asthma, where there is a profuse secretion of mucus.
What is the fever of Natrum muriaticum?
It is useful in intermittent fever from living in damp regions, especially after the abuse of Quininie; the chill comes on in the morning at 10 o’clock, begins in back and feet, preceded by headache, thirst, backache, and accompanied by fever blisters on the lips; there is also vomiting with chill. The stages are unequal, the chill is usually continuous, heat moderate, with violent headache, perspiration either wholly wanting or excessive and relieving the headache. Complexion is yellowish gray. During apyrexia dejected and apprehensive.
What are the skin symptoms of Natrum muriaticum?
It is a dry, scaly eruption or a herpetic eruption of little, watery blisters; especially for herpes in the bends of the knees; also it is a remedy for affections of the scalp accompanied by falling of the hair from the head and the eyebrows. Eruption on flexor surfaces.
What drug has eruptions on the extensor surfaces?
Kreosote.
NATRUM PHOSPHORICUM.
Where are data concerning this remedy found?
In Boericke and Dewey’s Twelve Tissue Remedies of Schussler. Fourth edition.
What is the general physiological action of the Phosphate of soda?
It corresponds to an acid condition of the system as shown by the dyspepsia and diarrhoea, and is useful in many digestive ailments, marasmus, etc.
Give the stomach symptoms of this drug and indications as given by Schussler.
Great acidity, sour risings, vomiting of sour fluids with pain in the stomach and great flatulence. The sourness is the characteristic of the drug.
What is the indication of the tongue?
It has a thick, yellow coating on the back part.
What is the diarrhoea of Natrum phosphoricum?
It is a diarrhoea from excess of acidity. The stools are sour smelling, greenish, full of mucus, and excoriating as they pass.
In what intestinal condition in Natrum phosphoricum indicated?
In intestinal worms, either long or thread worms, with symptoms of acidity, picking at the nose, squinting and twitching of the facial muscles.
NATRUM SULPHURICUM.
Where is a complete study of this remedy to be found?
In the same source as the preceding remedy.
What is the general action of the drug?
It corresponds somewhat to the uric acid diathesis and gastro-bilious conditions; malarial troubles and complaints worse in wet weather. Corresponding to the hydrogenoid constitution and sycotic dyscrasia.
What are the special characteristic head symptoms or head indications of this drug?
It is a useful remedy for ill effects of fails and injuries to the head, and especially so if mental troubles arise therefrom.
What are the mouth and tongue symptoms of Natrum sulphuricum?
There is a bitter taste in the mouth and a dirty, brownish coating on the tongue.
Give the symptoms of Natrum sulphuricum in liver affections.
There is aching and cutting in the region of the liver. The liver is engorged, and the symptoms are worse lying on the left side. There is jaundice, bilious colic, vomiting of bile and bitter mucus.
Give the diarrhoea of Natrum sulphuricum.
The diarrhoea is of dark, bilious or greenish stools, accompanied with an irritable liver and flatulent colic, coming on in the morning after the patient gets up and moves about.
What are the sexual symptoms of Natrum sulphuricum?
It is one of the principal remedies in sycosis, especially where there are condylomata.
What is another sycotic remedy?
Thuja.
In what respiratory affections is Natrum sulphuricum useful?
In asthma. In asthma which is worse upon change to damp weather. Moist asthma, with a great deal of rattling on the chest. The shortness of breath is especially worse in damp weather.
What are the febrile symptoms of Natrum sulphuricum?
It is a useful remedy in bilious intermittent fevers, accompanied by liver affections, jaundice and bilious diarrhoea.
In what intestinal affection has Natrum sulphuricum also been found useful?
In lead colic.
What is a special sycotic symptom of Natrum sulphuricum?
Panaritium, inflammations and suppuration around roots of the nails, warts, etc.
How is Cadmium sulphate prepared?
By trituration of the pure Sulphate of Cadmium.
What is the sphere of action of Cadmium sulphate?
It is a cross between Arsenic and Bryonia and comes in between those two drugs in certain stomach conditions where we have the characteristic Arsenic symptoms, and a desire to keep perfectly quiet, as under Bryonia.
How is Cerium oxalate prepared?
By trituration.
Give some indication for the use of Cerium oxalate.
Vomiting of pregnancy or vomiting that is reflex from intestinal or cerebral irritation, spasmodic in character.
GLONOINE.
By whom was Glonoine introduced?
By Hering, who gave us its name. See British Journal of Homoeopathy, Vol. XI; New England Medical Gazette, 1874-5; Allen’s Encyclopaedia.
What is Glonoine and why was it so-called?
It is nitro-glycerine; the Gl is for glycerine, o for oxygen, n for nitrogen, and the termination in, making Glonoine.
How is it prepared?
One part, by weight, of pure nitro-glycerine dissolved in 9 parts, by weight, of 95 per cent. alcohol. Drug power, 1/10.
Give the general action of Glonoine.
Glonoine produces an active cerebral hyperaemia, palpitation of the heart, etc.; many of its symptoms resemble those of sunstroke; fever and inflammations are lacking; there is a tendency to violent and sudden irregularities of circulation; all symptoms worse from being in the sun.
What is an important mental symptom of Glonoine?
Professor of Materia Medica in the University of Michigan Homeopathic Medical College. Member of American Institute of Homeopathy. In addition to his editoral work he authored or collaborated on: Boericke and Dewey's Twelve Tissue Remedies, Essentials of Homeopathic Materia Medica, Essentials of Homeopathic Therapeutics and Practical Homeopathic Therapeutics.