We have acid(178) and sour (178) eructations, heartburn (179) and especially waterbrash (179) and at times vomiting of food, There is often a feeling of great weakness and sinking in the stomach (179), especially in the morning as well as weakness of the abdominal walls and viscera, so that women have to sit down apparently to prevent prolapsus (203).
The Natrum mur. patient is often constipated; there is a sensation of constriction of the anus (158) and the hard, dry and crumbly stool is difficult to expel and causes fissures 9159), bleeding (158) and smarting.
If we have haemorrhoids (86) they are painful, stinging and smarting, and associated with oozing of glutinous moisture., We may have herpetic eruption about the anus, with itching (159), biting and burning and aggravation after washing the parts.
The diarrhoea for which Natrum mur, is useful is a chronic condition (58), found not alone in children, with aggravation during the forenoon, throughout the day. The stools are watery and profuse and case burning in the anus (61). Associated with the diarrhoea we find the sadness of Natrum mur. weakness, general emaciation, especially noticeable about the neck, and a greasy appearance of the skin.
natrum mur, is a remedy to be thought of for sweat worms (208) and hering says it “lessens predisposition to have worms.”
As regards the urine, there is an increase of pale, watery urine; it is one of the remedies useful in polyuria (199), and in involuntary maturation on coughing (52) or sneezing.
We must not forget the usefulness of Natrum mur, in gleet (83) especially after injections of silver nutria, with soreness of the whole urethra and cutting and burning (194) after micturition (197).
The menses in Natrum mur, may be too early and too profuse (135)m, or the intervals between wash period may be too long (136)and we are apt to have headache coming on with the menses 95), or preceding and accompanying the menstrual flow. At times menstruation is associated with colic (138) and diarrhea (138)m, and it must also be remembered for dysmenorrhoea from getting her feet wet (1340.
It is a valuable remedy for delay in the onset of menstruation (134) in young girls who are chlorotic (17) melancholy (135) and constipated; they are weak want to set, or lie down all the time, complain of backache and palpitation on the least exertion(111).
It is useful for prolapsus of the uterus (203), with need to sit down and cross the thighs (203), or, as we find in all uterine conditions requiring the remedy with relief from lying on he back, with a pillow under the small of the back.
The leucorrhoea is profuse (126), acrid (126) and greenish, causes itching and smarting and is usually accompanied by constipation, the stools hard and difficult to expel.
In the vagina there is dryness, great weakness, sensitiveness on action (205) and a mental aversion to it. It is useful in pruritus of the vulva 9156), that itching believed by running and worse “in cold and wet weather, in the morning, after drinking tea” (Dearborn) and after bathing.
The cough of Natrum mur. may be worse at night in bed and is apt to be caused by ticking that extends from the middle of the sternum up to the pit of the throat 944). The cough is dry and causes bursting headache (51) or shocks or hammering in the head, stitches in the chest (49), involuntary micturition (52), lachrymation (51) and palpitation (51).
It is one of value in exophthalmic goitre (83) and in hypertrophy of the heart (110), the attacks of palpitation being worse when lying down, especially when lying in the 1.side (111); the patient is weak, has faint-like sensation, numb extremities (146) and cold hands (71).
Hahnemann speaks of this remedy for; cold hands and feet which cannot get warm’ )Chr. Dis.), and Hughes speaks of a “morbid coldness. either of the body or of its lower half,” and comments on the calorific power of Natrum mur. when the system is depressed.
We can think of Natrum mur. where the skin of the gingers becomes dry and cracked (71); the head gets into these fissures and women think seeing a disagreeable task instead of a pastime (women are said to take to sewing as men do to smoking).
There is a backache that is better lying down, with a pillow under the back, there back feels broken; and it is to be remembered for a paralytic condition of the lower extremities after fevers diphtheria (62) or excesses.
We have already spoken of Natrum mur, in eruptions and eczema behind the ears and on the scalp down to the lower margin of the hair. It is also of value in eczema of the hands (65), bend of the elbows and knees (66), and scrotum (66), with itching, starting and burning, and aggravation from bathing. The skin becomes raw and sore, with oozing of an acrid serum, which forms crusts and cracks.
In intermittent fever Natrum mur, is an important remedy and the usual character of the paroxysm is as follows; Chill beginning at 10-11 a.M. preceded 9121) and accompanied by great thirst and severe hammering or bursting headache (104). the chill is pronounced and may last an hour.
The chill is followed by fever, with the same unquenchable thirst and headache; then profuse seat which relieves all the symptoms (121), including the headache.
We may have the chill beginning in the hands and feet, with blue lips and “blue nails(hering) (121); we may have urticaria 9121) during the paroxysm, or simply intense itching over the whole body at the onset. We may have profuse watery stools, coldness about the heart (109) and irregular pulse; pr backache, r stitches in the hepatic region during the apyrexia, or facial neuralgia that takes the place of the paroxysm.
Allen speaks of hydroa, or “fever blisters.” as a good symptom but not characteristic natrum mur, in intermittent fever (121).
We find in Hahnemann’s Chronic Diseases this statement: “If there is then any proof convincing even the most dimsighted, that the preparation of drugs, peculiar to homoeopathy, opens, as it were a new world of forces, which hitherto have been hidden by nature, this proof is surely afforded by the transformation of common salt, so indifferent in its crude state, into a heroic and mighty medicine.”
Natrum mur., is a well-proved remedy, and has had a though re-proving by the Austrian Society. it is a remedy that the majority of physicians use in higher dilutions.
Hughes, in his closing paragraph on Natrum mur., says,:” As regards dose, I may cite the observation of Dr. Watzke, under whose superintendence the re-proving was carried out” ‘I am compelled to declare myself for the higher dilutions. The physiological experiments made with Natrum muriaticum, as well as the great majority of the clinical results obtained therewith, speak decisively and distinctly for these preparations.’ All subsequent experience points in the same direction.”
I use Natrum mur., 30th or 200th.
