NATRUM MURIATICUM


An excellent compilation of symptoms of homeopathic medicine Natrum Muriaticum from the book Pearls of Homeopathy by M.E. Douglass, published in 1903….


Great emaciation; losing flesh even living well; throat and neck of children emaciate rapidly during summer complaint.

Great liability to take cold.

Headache: of school-girls; from sunrise to sunset; with left-sided clavus; as if bursting; with red face, nausea and vomiting before, during, and after catamenia; as if beaten with little hammers, during fever, better after sweat begins.

Squirming in the nostril as of a small worm, in hay asthma.

Lachrymation; tears stream down the face whenever he coughs.

Constipation: sensation as of contraction of anus; anus torn bleeding, smarting afterwards; stool hard, difficult, crumbling, stitches in rectum; involuntary, knows not whether flatus or feces escape.

Urine: involuntary, when walking, coughing, laughing, has to wait a long time if others are present.

Pressing and pushing towards genitals, every mornings; must sit down to prevent prolapsus.

The hair falls our when touched, in nursing women.

For the bad effects of: anger (caused by offense); acid food; bread; Quinine; cauterizations with Argentum nitricum of all kinds.

hangnails: skin around the nails dry and cracked; herpes about the anus.

Dreams of robbers in the house, and on waking will not believe to the contrary till search is made; of burning thirst.

Cannot often be repeated, in chronic cases, without an intercurrent remedy.

Sad, and enjoys the sadness.

Very much inclined to weep and to be excited.

Melancholy mood; the more he was consoled, the more he was affected.

When coughing, it seems as though the forehead would burst.

Redness of the whites of the eyes, with lachrymation.

The eyes give out on reading or writing.

Pressure in the eye on looking intently at anything.

Sensation as if sand were in the eyes, in the morning.

Unsteadiness of vision; objects become confused on looking at them.

Letters and stitches run together.

Redness of the left check.

Great swelling and some burning of the lower lip, followed by the appearance of a large vesicle, that next day formed a scab and desquamated.

Blisters on the tongue.

Mapped tongue.

Bitter taste in the mouth.

Loss of taste.

Aversion to bread.

Longing for salt, salt-fish, oysters, or bitter things.

Violent thirst, with dry, sticky mouth; worse in the evening.

Sensation of contraction in the rectum during a stool; hard feces at first evacuated with the greatest exertion, that causes tearing in the anus, so that it bleeds, and pains as if sore.

Stools: black, watery greenish, watery, like the white of an egg; gushing. An unusually hard, dry, crumbly stool.

Menses: too late, too scanty, and of too short duration.

Suppressed menses, especially in young girls.

Itching of the vulva.

Intermission in the beating of the heart.

Severe backache, relieved by pressure and by lying on the back.

Easily fatigued.

General emaciation, most conspicuous about the neck, which is very thin and shrunken.

Itching eruption on the margin of the hair at nape of the neck.

A small, painful, vesicle on the upper lip below the septum of the nose.

Fever without chill, 10 to 11 A.M.

Chill, with thirst; unconscious, with violent headache.

Long and severe chill from 10 to 11 A.M., beginning in the feet, fingers, and toes, or small of the back, with blue lips and nails.

Thirst, drinking often and much at a time.

Bursting headache; nausea and vomiting; and sometimes complete unconsciousness.

Chilliness, great thirst, tearing in the bones, blue nails, chattering of the teeth at 10 A.M.

Hear: with increased thirst; with intolerable hammering headache (as if beaten with thousands of little hammers); with stupefaction and unconsciousness.

Fever-blister cover the lips like pearls.

Sweat: profuse, gradually relieving all pains, except headache.

the heat’s pulsations shake the body.

Thirst continues, through all stages.

Melford Eugene Douglass
M.E.Douglass, MD, was a Lecturer of Dermatology in the Southern Homeopathic Medical College of Baltimore. He was the author of - Skin Diseases: Their Description, Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment; Repertory of Tongue Symptoms; Characteristics of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica.