COMMON NAMES:
COMMON SALT; CHLORIDE OF SODIUM.
Symptoms
Often of great benefit in the treatment of malarial disease and intermitting fevers.
Hard chill about 11 A.M., with great thirst which continues though all stages; the heat is characterized by the most violent headache (Roe.).
Continued chilliness and want of animal heat very marked (Nux vomica, Silicea).
Intermittent fever made inveterate by the use of quinine (Apis, Arsenicum, ign., Ipecac., Nux vomica, Pulsatilla, Sepia, Sulphur) (N).
Pulse intermitting (Digitalis, Ignatia).
Twitching in the muscles and limbs (Belladonna, Cuprum, Kali-P;, Mag-P, Stramonium).
Shortening of the muscles (Am-M.) Causticum, Silicea).
Painful contraction of the hamstrings (Hr.).
Great coldness of the body, with disposition to put on more clothing.
INTERMITTENT FEVER WITH splitting headache (Nux vomica).
The most weakness is felt in the morning in bed (Ambr., Carbo vegetabilis, Conium, Pulsatilla).
Continuous heat in the after-noon, with violent headache and unconsciousness
Intermission fever from living in damp regions (D.).
Great weakness and debility of mind and body after exertion.
Every movement accelerates the circulation (Bryonia, Digitalis).
GREAT EMACIATION (Abrotanum, Calc-p., Opium, Sarsaparilla, Sanicula, Silicea).
Great emaciation while living well; especially seen in the neck (N).
CHILL AT 10 TO 11 A.M. (Agaricus, Arsenicum, Carb-v., Lobelia, Nux vomica, Sulphur) 9N).
Continuous chilliness from morning till noon.
Any fever with violent headache, heat in the face and great thirst, if it is regularly aggravated at 10 to 11 A.M. (N.).
There is vomiting with the chill (Eup-P.) (D).
Complete relief during sweat (Arsenicum) (N).
Sallow complexion or very pale countenance (bt).
After great bodily exertion an itching nettle-rash appears (N.).
Hang-nails; skin around the nails dry and cracked (N.).
Congestion of blood to the head, chest and stomach, with coldness of the legs (Belladonna, STram.).
SPLITTING HEADACHE (Bryonia, Gloninum).
Hammering in the frontal region on the head (D.(.
Headache as if bursting; beating or sticking through to the neck and chest, with heat in the head red face, nausea and vomiting before, during or after the sweat (N).
School girls headache (Calcarea phos.) (N.).
Useful (in eye diseases) after all kinds of cauterizations with ARg-Nit. (n.).
Unsteadiness of vision: objects become confused, on looking at them; letters an stitches run together (N.).
Drawing, stiff sensation in the muscles of h eyes on moving them (N.).
Of value in bringing up power of vision after debilitating illness (China).
Excessively sore, red, disgusting eyelids (Ra.).
Asthenopia (Calcarea phos., Phosphorus, Ruta., Sepia) (D).
CILIARY NEURALGIA, WHICH COMES AND GOES WITH THE SUN (Spigelia) (D).
Blepharitis (Borax, Euphr., Graphites, Sulphur) *DO.
Lachrymation and scalding tears (D).
Bad effects from anger (Bryonia, Ignatia, Nux vomica, Staphysagria) and illness induced from much talking.
HYSTERICAL CONDITIONS (Ignatia, Nux-M., Pulsatilla, Sepia, Valer.).
CONGESTION AGGRAVATES (Calcarea phos., Chamomilla, Ignatia, sepia, Silicea, Thuja: consolation ameliorates-Puls) (N).
SAD AND WEEPING (Aurum, Ignatia, Sepia, Stann). N(.
Hypochondriacal mood (Natrum carbonicum) (D).
Hopeless about the feature (Bryonia, Calc-O., Chin-S., Cicuta, Digitalis, Ferrum, Gelsemium, Iodium, Lachesis, Mur-Ac., Nux vomica, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla) D.).
Cold sores or herpes (so-called fever blister on the lips, or on the wings of the nose (D).
Clear, watery discharge from coryza accompanied with loss of smell and taste (D.).
Vertigo, as if falling on closing the eyes (B.).
Brain-fag (Calcarea phos., Kali-P.) (D).
Pain in the stomach, ameliorated by bandaging the abdomen (Cuprum) (K).
Gastric complaints often beneficial affected by use of this remedy.
VIOLENT THIRST (Arsenicum, Bryonia, Phosphorus, Sulphur, Veratrum,) (D).
Bad effects from acids and bread.
Pressing in the stomach, with nausea and sudden sinking of strength.
Has always heart-burn after eating (Lycopodium) (G).
GREAT AVERSION TO BREAD, OF WHICH SHE WAS ONCE VERY FOUND (N).
Bad effects of using too much salt (Phos) (N).
Craves salt and salty things (N).
Great dryness of the mucous membranes from the lips to the anus; lips dry and cracked, especially in the middle; anus dry, cracked, fissured (N.).
Difficult expulsion of stool fissuring the anus, with flow of blood, leaving a sensation of much soreness in the anus (N.).
CONSTIPATION (Bryonia, Ignatia, Lycopodium, Nux vomica, Sepia).
Sensation of constriction of the anus (Belladonna, Lachesis) (N.).
Herpes about the anus (N.).
The stools are dry, crumbling, hard, and difficult to expel Mag- M.) (D.).
Alternate constipation and Diarrhoea a(Nux vomica) (Bl.).
The nightly pains cause shortness of breath and a kind of one- sided loss of lower.
Diarrhoea, accompanied with great weakness of the abdominal muscles (D.).
Chronic bronchial catarrh with profuse secretion of mucus (D.).
HEART PALPITATES, FLUTTERS, INTERMITS, PULSATES VIOLENTLY, SHAKING THE WHOLE BODY; WORSE FROM LYING ON THE LEFT SIDE (n(.
Cold feeling in the heart when exerting the mind, or from mental over-exertion (N.).
White-coated tongue (Ant-C., Bryonia, Kali-M.) (Ra.).
Mapped tongue, with red, singular patches (N.).
Excoriating Diarrhoea like water, only in the day-time (Petroleum) (Hr.).
Scorbutic, putrid inflammation of the gums (Kreosotum, Mercurius, Nit- ac., Phosphorus, Sulphur) (Ra.).
Difficulty of talking, as if the organs of speech were weak (Bar- C.) (Ra.).
Dryness of the vagina, which is painful during an embrace ( (Graphites, Lycopodium, Sepia) (G).
Very sad and gloomy during the menses, with much palpitation of he heart, and morning headache (G).
SCANTY AND DELAYING MENSTRUATION-IS A PROMINENT INDICATION FOR THE USE OF THE SALT (Bt.).
WATERY LEUCORRHOEA (Graphites, Acid nitricum, Pulsatilla) (D).
Especially useful in uterine troubles, accompanied by backache, which is relieved by laying on the back, or on something hard (D).
Every morning pressing and pushing towards the genitals; has to sit to prevent prolapse (Sepia) (N).
Cutting in the urethra after micturition (Berberis, Calcarea phos., Cantharis, Conium, Digitalis, Lycopodium, Petros., Rhus toxicodendron, Sulphur) (NO.
Catarrh of the bladder, with burning on urinating (Hydrastis, Kali- B., Lycopodium) (D).
Pain in the urethra just after urinating (Sarsaparilla).
Has to wait a long time for the urine to pass of others are present (Br.).
SEMINAL EMISSION, eVEN AFTER COITUS (Br.).
Gleet: Clear mucus: chronic after abuse of Argent-Nit. (or Nitrate of Silver) (N)(.
Averse to coition, or painful coition (B).
Hair falling off the pubes (N().
PAIN IN THE BACK AS IF BROKEN, RELIEVED BY LYING ON SOMETHING (N).
Chlorosis; Chronic cases; cachectic individuals, with dead, dirty skin; frequent palpitation and fluttering of the heart; oppression and anxiety in the chest (G).
Herpetic eruptions of little. watery blisters (Rhus toxicodendron) (D.)
Affections of the scalp accompanied by falling off of the hairs (D.).
Eruptions on the flexor surface; (eruptions on the extensor surfaces – Kreosotum) (D.).
Warts on the palms of hands (N.).
Itching eruptions, dry or moist; worse at the roots of the roots of the hairs (Rhus toxicodendron) (N).
Tormenting sleeplessness after gnawing grief (Ignatia, Kali-Br.) (N.).
Frequent dreams of robbers in the house, and on waking will not believe the contrary until; a search is made (N.).
AGGRAVATION:
In the morning; at night; from 10 to 11 A.M.; on lying down, especially on the left side; from the heat in general; from the heat of the sun; after abuse of quinine; during hot weather; at sea-shore;from mental exertion; and from noises.
AMELIORATION:
By sweat; in the open air; from cold breathing; from lying on the right side; from pressure; from tight clothing;land while fasting.
RELATIONSHIP:
complementary to:Apis, Ignatia, and Sepia
ANTIDOTES: Arsenicum, Phosphorus and nit-Spir-Dulcamara
Nat-Mur ANTIDOTES; Apis., Argentum nitricum and Quin.
Compare; Alumina, Apis, ARs., Bryonia, Calcarea, Carbo vegetabilis, China, Digitalis, Euphr., Ferrum, Graphites, Hydrastis, Ignatia, Ipecac., Kali-P., Lachesis, Lycopodium, Mercurius, Mur-ac., Acid nitricum, Nux vomica, Opium, Petroleum, Phosphorus, Plb., Pulsatilla, Rhus toxicodendron, Sepia, Silicea, Sulphur, Thuja, Urt., Veratrum and Zincum met.
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)