Natrum Muriaticum nat-m.

NUTRITION: Digestive tract. BRAIN. BLOOD. MUSCLES. MIND. HEART. GLANDS: MUCUS. Spleen. Liver. Skin.

PERIODICALLY: 9-11 A.M. With the sun. After menses. Alternate days (Ars. Chin.). HEAT: Sun. Summer. Dampness. Exertion; eyes, mental. Violent emotions. Sympathy. Puberty. Quinine. Old malaria. Silver salts.

Open air. Cool bathing. Sweating. Rest. Before breakfast. Deep breathing.

Thin, thirsty, hopeless and poorly nourished. Emaciation; descending; < neck or abdomen. Anæmia. DRYNESS; skin, mouth, throat, rectum, vagina, etc. Numbness; of one side; parts lain on; fingers. Tremulous. Easy exhaustion. Parts seem short, hamstrings, nape, etc. Not very sensitive to pain. Takes cold. Nervous erethism. Thick white or clear acrid discharges. Exact periodicity. Malarial cachexia.

Hateful; detests consolation or a fuss. Inconsolable. Easily angered; < if consoled. Sad, reserved; company distresses. Hypochondria. Weeps bitterly. Boisterous grief. Scattered thoughts, or an idea clings, prevents sleep, inspires revenge, etc. Anxiety. Apprehension. Fears or dreams of robbers. Vertigo; as if falling, on closing eyes. Nodding motions. HEADACHES; hammering; heavy; bursting; maddening; over eyes; on vertex, on awaking; with partial numbness or disturbed vision; < reading; < motion, even of eyes; > pressure on eyes. Migraine. Falling hair. Eyes feel drawn together. Lachrymation on affected side (Spi.); on sneezing, coughing, etc. Ptosis, on lying down. Vision blurred, wavering. Letters run together. Hemiopia, then headache. Can't read by artificial light. Nose stopped, high up; sneezing early in A.M.; alternate fluent and dry coryza; gushes of fluid; little ulcers in. Face; pale, muddy or greasy. HERPES ABOUT LIPS; or at edge of hair; pearly. Throbbing in lower jaw, < biting, < heat and cold. Exophthalmic goitre. Hawks much mucus; bitter. TONGUE MAPPED; beaded or striped along edge. Blunted taste and smell. Uvula hangs to one side. Throat; a spot is dry, sore, tickles, causes cough, etc.; glistens. Thirst; drinks large quantities. Hunger great, yet emaciates; without appetite. CRAVES SALT. Averse to bread. Burning eructations; after eating. Waterbrash. Epigastric pulsation. Anxiety in stomach, rises to head. Tense abdomen; < groins. Dry, hard, crumbling stool, tears anus or causes burning; coated with glassy mucus; on alternate days. Chronic diarrhœa. Constricted rectum. Herpes ani. Red urinary sediment. Coition; painful; averse to; then backache, weak legs, depression, etc. Suppressed gonorrhœa. Debilitating leucorrhœa, replaces menses. Cough; from tickling in epigastrium; with asthma or palpitation; < winter. Respiratory catarrhs, after suppressed sweats. Heart; palpitation, shaking body or alternates with beating in head; fluttering; weak; sore; < emotions, lying on (l) side, or motion. Sore neck muscles. Bruised backache, early in A.M.; < coughing, > lying on back, or pressure. Cracked finger-tips. Catch in knees. Hamstrings seem short or drawing in. Sobs during sleep. Awakes feeling weak. Skin, oily; dry, harsh, dirty, unhealthy or yellow; chaps or herpetic eruptions, < flexures or about knuckles. Coldness of many parts; hands, feet; heart. Morning chill, with thirst. Chilly, but < in sun. Sweat, cold, scanty; at edge of hair; on nose, on face, while eating (Cham.).

Complementary: Ign. Sep. Related: Pul.

For the anaemic and cachetic; whether from loss of vital fluids - profuse menses, seminal losses - or mental affections. Great emaciation; loosing flesh while living well (Abrot., Iod.); throat and neck of child emaciate rapidly during summer complaint (Sanic.). Great liability to take cold (Cal., Kali c.). Irritability: child cross when spoken to; crying from slightest cause; gets into a passion about trifles, especially when consoled with. Awkward, hasty, drops things from nervous weakness (Apis, Bov.). Marked disposition to weep; sad weeping mood without cause (Puls.), but consolation from others < her troubles. Headache: anaemic, of school girls (Cal. p.); from sunrise to sunset; left sided clavus; as if bursting; with red face, nausea and vomiting before, during and after menses; as though a thousand little hammers were knocking in the brain during fever; > by perspiration. Headache; beginning with blindness (Iris, Kali bi.); with zig-zag dazzling, like lightening in eyes, ushering in a throbbing headache; from eye strain. Lachrymation; tears stream down the face whenever he coughs (Euphr.). Hay fever: squirming sensation in the nostril, as of a small worm; brought on by exposure to hot sun or intense summer heat. Sensation as of a hair on the tongue (Sil.). Tongue: mapped, with red insular patches; like ringworm on sides (Ars., Lach., Mer., Nit. ac., tarax.); heavy, difficult speech, children slow in learning to walk. Constipation: sensation of contraction of anus; torn, bleeding, smarting afterwards; stool, dry, hard, difficult, crumbling (Am. c., Mag. m.); stitches in rectum (Nit. ac.); involuntary, knows not whether flatus or faeces escape (Aloe, Iod., Mur. ac., Olean., Pod.). Urine: involuntary when walking, coughing, laughing (Caust., Puls., Scilla); has to wait a long while or urine to pass, if others are present (Hep., Mur. ac.); cutting in urethra after (Sars.). Seminal emission: soon after coition, with increased desire; weakness of organs with retarted emission during an embrace; impotence, spinal irritation, paralysis, after sexual excesses. Pressing, pushing towards genitals every morning; must sit down to prevent prolapsus (Lil., Mur., Sep.). Fluttering of the heart; with a weak, faint feeling < lying down (Lach.). The heart's pulsations shake the body (Spig.). The hair falls out when touched, in nursing women (Sep.); face oily, shiny, as if greased (Plb., Thuja). For the bad effects: of anger (caused by offence); acid food, bread, quinine, excessive use of salt; of cauterization of all kinds with the silver nitrate; to grief, fright, vexation, mortification or reserved displeasure (Staph.). Hangnails: skin around the nails dry and cracked (Graph., Pet.); herpes about anus and on borders of hair at nape of neck (in bend of knees, Hep., Graph.). Warts on palms of hands (sore to touch, Nat. c.). Dreams: of robbers in the house, and on waking, will not believe to the contrary until search is made (Psor.); of burning thirst. Fever blisters, like pearls about the lips; lips dry, sore and cracked, ulcerated (Nit. ac.). Painful contractions of the hamstrings (Am. m., Caust., Guaiac.). Craving for salt (Cal., Caust.); great aversion to bread. Eczema; raw, red, inflamed, especially in edges of hair; < from eating too much salt, at sea shore, or from ocean voyage. Urticaria, acute or chronic; over whole body; especially after violent exercise (Apis, Cal., Hep., Sanic., Urt.). Intermittents: paroxysm at 10 or 11 a. m.; old, chronic, badly treated cased, especially after suppression by quinine; headache, with unconsciousness during chill and heat; sweat > pains.

Complementary: to, Apis, acts well before and after it. Natrum mur. is the chronic of Ignatia, which is its vegetable analogue. Is followed by Sepia and Thuja. Cannot often be repeated in chronic cases without an intercurrent, called for by the symptoms. Should never be given during fever paroxysm. If vertigo and headache be very persistent, or prostration be prolonged after Natrum, Nux will relieve.

At 10 or 11 a. m.; at the seashore or form sea air; heat of sun or stove; mental exertion, taling, writing, reading; lying down.

In the open air (Apis, Puls.); cold bathing; going without regular meals; lying on right side (on painful side, Bry., Ign., Puls.).

Great sadness.

Affections of the inner head; headache as though a thousand little hammers were knocking upon the brain; this pain may be felt in the forehead also; headache on awakening in the morning, whether it be early or late, lasting for two or three hours. Falling off of the hair; losing hair from the temples. Left side of the nose. Exanthema on the mouth; lips; in intermittent fever where there are large exanthematous spots, looking like large peas, on the lips (sore spots); lips look puffy. Affections of the right eye; angles of the eyes; momentary loss of sight; dimness of vision where the letters appear to run together.

Anxious dreams; of thieves in the house, making so strong an impression that the patient wakes up and cannot get to sleep again, until the room or house has been searched; fantastic dreams.

The most characteristic and reliable symptoms are: intermittent fever with the mentioned sores on the lips, the approach of the fever being heralded by an excessive thirst before the chill and during the chill, no thirst during the fever; during the fever, or at its close, the above hammering headache begins, which lasts for a long time after the fever and perspiration have passed away; the attack comes on in the forepart of the day; after it passes off, the patient wishes to retain a recumbent position, does not "feel able" to get up, or go about anything. Pulse intermitting, or irregular. Chilliness with thirst.

Cannot bear to eat or even think of bread; hunger without appetite, as may be very hungry, but no appetite to eat; frequent eructations.

Female: Menstruation too late, particularly if accompanied with great sadness; lasts too long. Concomitant complaints to leucorrhœa.

Affections of the heart and region of the heart; palpitation of; enlargement of, etc., pulsations of heart intermittent.

Joints of the leg in general; poplieteal space or hollow of the knee; ankle; contraction of the joints; tension, tightness, or stiffness of the joints.

Obstruction from inactivity of the bowels; insufficient feces. Affections of the pit of the stomach; rectum; external belly. Reddish urine; complaints after making water. Convulsions with jerkings. Jerking pain in outer parts; pain as if sprained, especially in outer parts. Muscles being shortened. Old sprains; fungus hæmatodes; polypus; hang-nails. Where the muscles or tendons are shortened, and the legs or arms are drawn up.

In the morning; periodically from mortification caused by offence; after eating; from working with the hands--which may cause pain in the chest, etc., from spraining the parts; from looking fixedly at an object; from abuse of Peruvian bark; from reading; from talking; after urinating; having leucorrhœa; from writing.

While fasting before breakfast; after lying down.

Bryon., Calc. carb., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sepia, Sulphur.

Camphor.

Headache as if bursting, beating and stitches through the neck and chest, with beat in head, red face, nausea and vomiting before, during and after menses, or during the fever stage. decreasing gradually after the .sweats. Lips dry, cracked, upper lip swollen, breaks out around the mouth. Blisters like pearls upon the lips, especially in intermittent fever. Great complaints about the dryness of the tongue, which is not very dry. Great aversion to bread of which she was once very fond. When the throat and neck of children emaciate rapidly during summer complaints. Constipation, with sensation of constriction of the anus; difficult expulsion of a stool fissuring the anus, with flow of blood, leaving a sensation of much soreness. Irregular intermission of the beating of the heart and pulse, especially when lying on the left side. Intermittent fever, especially, inveterate or badly treated cases, after quinine, in damp regions or newly turned ground, chill at 10 or 11 a.m.

Chloride of Sodium (NATRUM MURIATICUM)

The prolonged taking of excessive salt causes profound nutritive changes to take place in the system, and there arise not only the symptoms of salt retention as evidenced by dropsies and œdemas, but also an alteration in the blood causing a condition of anæmia and leucocytosis. There seems also to be a retention in the tissues of effecte materials giving rise to symptoms loosely described as gouty or rheumatic gout. The provings are full of such symptoms (Dr. Stonham) A great remedy for certain forms of intermittent fever, anæmia, chlorosis, many disturbances of the alimentary tract and skin. Great debility; most weakness felt in the morning in bed. Coldness. Emaciation most notable in neck. Great liability to take cold. Dry mucous membranes. Constrictive sensation throughout the body. Great weakness and weariness. Oversensitive to all sorts of influences. Hyperthyroidism. Goitre. Addison's disease. Diabetes.

Psychic causes of disease; ill effects of grief, fright, anger, etc. Depressed, particularly in chronic diseases. Consolation aggravates. Irritable; gets into a passion about trifles. Awkward, hasty. Wants to be alone to cry. Tears with laughter.

Throbs. Blinding headache. Aches as if a thousand little hammers were knocking on the brain, in the morning on awakening, after menstruation, from sunrise to sunset. Feels too large; cold. Anæmic headache of school-girls; nervous, discouraged, broken down. Chronic headache, semi-lateral, congestive, from sunrise to sunset, with pale face, nausea, vomiting; periodical; from eyestrain; menstrual. Before attack, numbness and tingling in lips, tongue and nose, relieved by sleep. Frontal sinus inflammation.

Feels bruised, with headache in school children. Eyelids heavy. Muscles weak and stiff. Letters run together. Sees sparks. Fiery, zigzag appearance around all objects. Burning in eyes. Give out on reading or writing. Stricture of lachrymal duct with suppuration. Escape of muco-pus when pressing upon sac. Lachrymation, burning and acrid. Lids swollen. Eyes appear wet with tears. Tears stream down face on coughing (Euph). Asthenopia due to insufficiency of internal recti muscles (Gels and Cup acet, when due to external muscles). Pain in eyes when looking down. Cataract incipient (Secale).

Noises; roaring and ringing.

Violent, fluent coryza, lasting from one to three days, then changing into stoppage of nose, making breathing difficult. Discharge thin and watery, like raw white of egg. Violent sneezing coryza. Infallible for stopping a cold commencing with sneezing. Use thirtieth potency. Loss of smell and taste. Internal soreness of nose. Dryness.

Oily, shiny, as if greased. Earthy complexion. Fevers-blisters.

Frothy coating on tongue, with bubbles on side. Sense of dryness. Scorbutic gums. Numbness, tingling of tongue, lips, and nose. Vesicles and burning on tongue, as if there was a hair on it. Eruptions around mouth and vesicles like pearls on lips. Lips and corners of mouth dry, ulcerated, and cracked. Deep crack in middle of lower lip. Tongue mapped (Ars; Rhus; Tarax). Loss of taste. Large vesicle on lower lip, which is swollen and burns. Immoderate thirst.

Hungry, yet loose flesh (Iod). Heartburn, with palpitation. Unquenchable thirst. Sweats while eating. Craving for salt. Aversion to bread, to anything slimy, like oysters, fats. Throbbing in pit. Sticking sensation in cardiac orifice.

Cutting pain in abdomen. Distended. Pain in abdominal ring on coughing.

Burning pains and stitching after stool. Anus contracted, torn, bleeding. Constipation; stool dry, crumbling (Am m; Mag m). Painless and copious diarrhœa, preceded by pinching pain in abdomen.

Pain just after urinating (Sars). Increased, involuntary when walking, coughing, etc. Has to wait a long time for it to pass if others are present (Hep; Mur ac).

Emission, even after coitus. Impotence with retarded emission.

Menses irregular; usually profuse. Vagina dry. Leucorrhœa acrid, watery. Bearing-down pains; worse in morning (Sep). Prolapsus uteri, with cutting in urethra. Ineffectual labor-pains. Suppressed menses (Follow with Kali carb). Hot during menses.

Cough from a tickling in the pit of stomach, accompanied by stitches in liver and spurting of urine (Caust; Squilla). Stitches all over chest. Cough, with bursting pain in head. Shortness of breath, especially on going upstairs (Calc). Whooping-cough with flow of tears with cough.

Tachycardia. Sensation of coldness of heart. Heart and chest feel constricted. Fluttering, palpitating; intermittent pulse. Heart's pulsations shake body. Intermits on lying down.

Pain in back, with desire for some firm support (Rhus; Sep). Every movement accelerates the circulation. Palms hot and perspiring. Arms and legs, but especially knees, feel weak. Hangnails. Dryness and cracking about finger-nails. Numbness and tingling in fingers and lower extremities. Ankles weak and turn easily. Painful contraction of hamstrings (Caust). Cracking in joints on motion. Coldness of legs with congestion to head, chest, and stomach.

Sleepy in forenoon. Nervous jerking during sleep. Dreams of robbers. Sleepless from grief.

Greasy, oily, especially on hairy parts. Dry eruptions, especially on margin of hairy scalp and bends of joints. Fever blisters. Urticaria; itch and burn. Crusty eruptions in bends of limbs, margin of scalp, behind ears (Caust). Warts on palms of hands. Eczema; raw, red, and inflamed; worse, eating salt, at seashore. Affects hair follicles. Alopecia. Hives, itching after exertion. Greasy skin.

Chill between 9 and 11 am. Heat; violent thirst, increases with fever. Fever-blisters. Coldness of the body, and continued chilliness very marked. Hydræmia in chronic malarial states with weakness, constipation, loss of appetite, etc. Sweats on every exertion.

Worse, noise, music, warm room, lying down about 10 a m;, at seashore, mental exertion, consolation, heat, talking. Better, open air, cold bathing, going without regular meals, lying on right side; pressure against back, tight clothing.

Complementary to Apis; Sepia; Ign.

Compare: Aqua marina-Isotonic plasma. Marine plasma is a sea water taken some miles from shore and some depth below surface, filtered and diluted with twice as much pure fresh water. It acts primarily on the blood, as in intoxications, scrofulous conditions, enteritis. It disintoxicates in cancer (administered subcutaneously in the treatment of diseases of skin, kidneys and intestines, gastro-enteritis, and tuberculosis). Scrofulous affection of children. Lymphadenitis. Lupus, eczema, varicose ulcers. A great "blood purifier and vitalizer. " Potentized sea-water in weakness, lack of reaction; symptoms worse seaside (Goitre). Sal marinum sea salt, (indicated in chronic enlargements of glands, especially cervical. Suppurating glands. It appears likely to become a most useful remedy as an auxiliary, if not as a principal, in the treatment of diseases in patients of a strumous diathesis. Also useful in constipation). Natrum selenicum (laryngeal phthisis with expectoration of small lumps of bloody mucus and slight hoarseness). Natrum silicum (hæmophilia; scrofulous bone affections; given intravenously every 3 days for senile pruritus); (Dolichos. Fagopyr). Ignat; Sep; Thuja; Graph; Alum.

Antidote: Ars; Phos; Spir nit dulc.

Twelfth to thirtieth and higher. The very highest potencies often yield most brilliant results. And in infrequent dosage.

Melancholy, depressed, sad and weeping; Consolation aggravates.

Great emaciation, even while living well, shows most in the neck.

Anæmia with bursting headaches, especially at the menses, also school girls' headache.

Great dryness of mucous membranes from lips to anus; lips dry and cracked, especially in the middle; anus dry, cracked, fissured; constipation.

Heart palpitates, flutters, intermits, pulsates violently, shaking the whole body; < lying on left side.

Itching eruptions, dry or moist; < at the margins of the hair.

Tongue; mapped with red insular patches.

For bad effects; of anger, nitrate of silver; too much salt; craves salt and salty things.

Hang nails; skin around the nails dry and cracked; herpes about the anus, in border of hair.

Warts on palms of hands (sore to touch, Nat.).

Now that we have introduced the Natrums, we will continue them. Common salt. A gentleman once said to me when I prescribed a dose of Sulphur 30th, "Pshaw, I get more sulphur than that in every egg I eat. How can that do me any good?" My answer was, wait and see. And he was cured of both doubts and disease. There is no remedy in the Materia Medica, I think, that so disgusts the advocates of the low potency, and, low only, as this one. The unquestionable cure of the most obstinate cases of intermittent fever with the 200th and higher potencies demoralizes them. That people eating salt in appreciable quantities right along and can't live without it, don't get well on it, and do get well on the same thing potentized, does not hold to reason, the microscope, molecular theory; spectrum analysis, or anything else scientific (so called) not being able to discover any material in the dose. But there stand the cures, like the blind man whom Jesus healed. It is a hard thing to be confronted by such facts against our prejudices. "Oh, well," said one of these doubters, "people sometimes get well without medicine." so they do with, I replied. Isn't it curious how some physicians will hoot at a potency and fly like a frightened crow from a bacillus varying in size from 0.004 millimeters to 0.006 m.m. They can hardly eat, drink or sleep for fear a little microbe of the fifteenth culture will light on them somewhere, but there is nothing in a potency above the 12th. Oh, consistency! When prejudice gives way to honest, earnest investigation for truth, the world may be better for it. Natrum mur. is one of our best remedies for anæmia. It does not seem to make much difference whether the anæmia is caused by loss of fluids (China, Kali carb.), menstrual irregularities (Puls.), loss of semen (Phos. acid, China), grief or other mental diseases. In these cases of anæmia, to which Natrum is adapted, we may, in addition to the general paleness, have emaciation, notwithstanding the patient eats well. Severe attacks of throbbing headache; shortness of breath, especially on going upstairs, or other physical exertion; scanty menstruation; more or less constipation and generally great depression of spirits. In fact, depression of spirits is characteristic of this drug; the patient weeps much, like Pulsatilla, the difference being that the Pulsatilla patient is soothed and comforted by consolation, while the Natrum mur. patient is aggravated.

Modalities: < 10 to 11 A. M. (many complaints), especially malarial affections; lying down, especially on left side; heat of sun or heat in general; abuse of Quinine, relieved by sweat.

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Melancholy, dejected, sad, weeping, aggravated by consolations from others, with palpitation of the heart. Apprehension for the future. Hypochondriacal, tired of life. Joyless, indifferent, taciturn. Great tendency to start. Hurriedness. Passionate vehemence ; gets angry at trifles. Difficulty of thinking ; absence of mind, weak memory.

Vertigo, when rising in bed in the morning, or when rising from bed and walking. Emptiness of the head, with anguish. Weariness in the head. Vertigo, periodically appearing with nausea, eructations, colic and trembling of the limbs. Pressing headache, from both sides, as if the head were in a vice, in the morning ; better when lying down. Beating and pulsation in the head, mostly in the forehead, with nausea and vomiting ; worse in the morning and when moving, better when lying with the head high ; relieved by perspiration. Rheumatic (tearing) pain in the head, from the root of the nose extending to the forehead, with nausea, vomiting, vanishing of sight ; worse in the morning when waking from sleep, from mental exertion and motion ; better when sitting still or when lying down. Heaviness in the back part of the head ; it draws the eyes together ; worse in the morning ; from warmth and motion ; better when sitting, lying, or perspiring. Violent headache, as if the head would burst. Sensation of congestion of blood to the head ; the head feels heavy. Stitches through the head, extending to the neck and chest. Heat in the head, with redness of the face, nausea and vomiting. Periodical headaches during, after or before the menses. Falling off of the hair as soon as it is touched, more on the forepart of the head, the temple, the whiskers, and on the genitals, especially during child-bed ; with great sensitiveness of the scalp ; with greasy, shining face, frequent headaches in the morning and from cold air. Liability to take cold in the head. Great sensitiveness of the scalp to the touch, especially on the temple, forehead and the borders of the hair ; worse in the warm room, better in the open air. Sensation as if the scalp were constricted ; worse from talking and in the open air, better when sitting or lying. The headache ceases on one side of the head ; it continues more violent on the other side. Burning on the vertex.

Itching in the eyes. Stinging-smarting and burning of the eyes. Spasmodic contraction of the eyelids (evening). Red, ulcerating eyelids. Inflammation of the eyes, with ulcerated eyelids and glutinous mucus in the (external) canthi. Acrid tears in the eyes (morning). Obscuration of sight when stooping and walking, when reading and writing. The letters run one into another when reading. Double vision. One half of the object is visible, the other half is dark. Black points or streaks of light before the eyes. Fiery, zigzag appearance around all things.

Stitches in the ears. Pulsation and beating in the ear. Swelling, burning and heat of the ears. Hardness of hearing. Discharge of pus from the ears. Humming, ringing and singing in the ears. Painful cracking in the ear when masticating. Itching behind the ears.

One-sided (left side) inflammation and swelling, and swelling of the nose with painfulness to the touch. The nose feels numb on one side. Soreness in the nose, with swelling of the interior wings. Scabs and scurf in the nose. Loss of smell (and taste). Bleeding of the nose (when coughing at night), (when stooping).

Face shining, as from grease. Complexion yellowish, pale, livid. Redness of one (the left) cheek (afternoon, night). Heat in the face. Swollen face. Itching and eruptions on the face crusta lactea). Pain in the cheek-bones, as if bruised when masticating. Lips dry, cracked, with rhagades, or sore and ulcerated, with burning-smarting eruptions and scabs, easily bleeding. Fever-blisters on the lips. Herpetic eruption around the mouth. Swelling of the upper lip. Ulcer on the (left) cheek. Blood-blisters on the inside of the upper lip. Eruptions and ulcers on the chin. Tingling and numbness of the lips. Swelling of the submaxillary glands.

Teeth very sensitive to the air and contact. Pain (drawing, tearing) in the teeth, extending to the ears and throat, after eating and at night, with swelling of the cheek. Decayed teeth feel lose, burn, sting and pulsate. Fistula dentalis. Gums very sensitive to warm and cold things, swollen, inflamed, putrid, easily bleeding. In the mouth and on the tongue blisters and ulcers, with smarting-burning pain when touched by the food. Hæmoptysis. Heaviness of the tongue with difficulty of speech. Numbness and stiffness of one side of the tongue. Sensation as of a hair on the tongue. Dryness of the mouth, lips, and especially of the tongue. Ptyalism. Burning at the tip of the tongue. Swelling ; sensation of constriction and stitches in the throat. Long-continued sore throat, with the sensation as if she had to swallow over a lump. Hawking up of mucus in the morning.

Loss of taste (and smell). The water tastes putrid. Putrid or sour taste while fasting. Bitter taste in the mouth. Continuous thirst (with nausea). Excessive appetite. Longing for bitter food and drink. During meals perspiration in the face. After eating, empty eructations nausea, acidity in the mouth, sleepiness, heartburn, palpitation of the heart. Soreness, as if bruised in the pit of the stomach, when pressing on it, with swelling. In the region of the liver, stitches and tension (chronic inflammation of the liver). In the region of the spleen, stitches and pressure. Swelling of the abdomen. Colic with nausea, relieved by discharge of flatulence. Red spots on the pit of the stomach. Burning in the intestines. Nausea in the morning vomiting, first of food, later of bile. Rumbling in the abdomen.

Constipation ; stools difficult to discharge, hard, dry, crumbling, like sheep's dung. Evacuations difficult, with stitches in the rectum. Diarrhœa like water, with colic. Involuntary stools. Passes blood with the stool. Alternate constipation and papescent stools. During and after stool, burning in the anus and rectum. Smarting and pulsations in the rectum. Hæmorrhoidal tumors with stinging pain. Soreness at the anus and around it when walking. Tetter at the anus.

Frequent and strong desire to urinate (day and night), with profuse discharge. Involuntary micturition, when coughing, walking and laughing. Pale urine with brick-dust sediment. Discharge of mucus from the urethra. During micturition stitches in the bladder, smarting, burning in the urethra ; smarting and soreness in the vulva. After micturition spasmodic contraction in the abdomen ; burning, drawing and cutting in the urethra, and a discharge of thin, glutinous substance. Urine dark, like coffee, or black.

Men. Excessive irritability of the sexual instinct or importance. After an embrace, seminal emissions. Itching soreness and herpes between the scrotum and the thighs. Itching and stinging on the glans penis and on the scrotum. Women. Pressing and bearing down in the genitals. Menstruation too early and too profuse, or too late and too scanty. Suppressed menstruation : difficulty in the appearance of the first menses. During the menstruation, melancholy, colic. Before, during and after the menstruation, headache. Itching on the genitals. Aversion to an embrace. Sterility, with too early and too profuse menstruation. Fluor albus, acrid, greenish ; increased discharge when walking ; with yellow complexion.

Hoarseness, with dryness in the larynx. Accumulation of mucus in the larynx (in the morning). Dry cough, from tickling in the throat or in the pit of the stomach, day and night, especially when walking and drawing a long breath. Morning cough. Hooping-cough, caused by tickling in the throat or pit of the stomach, with expectoration (only in the morning) of yellow or blood-streaked mucus, with violent pain in the head, as if the forehead would burst, or with shocks ; beating and hammering in the head ; involuntary micturition ; stitches in the liver. The cough is worse in the evening after lying down. Dry cough with rattling in the chest. Cough, with expectoration of bloody mucus. Shortness of breathing on walking fast ; relieved when exercising the arms and in the open air. Sensation and pain in the chest, as from tension. Stitches in the chest and sides, with shortness of breathing, especially when taking a long inspiration. Violent palpitation of the heart from every exertion, and especially when lying on the left side. Fluttering motion of the heart. Irregular, intermitting beats of the heart.

In the small of the back pain, as if bruised, as if lame ; stitches, cutting, pulsation. Tension and drawing in the back. Over-sensitiveness of the spine. Stitches in the neck and back part of the head. Painful stiffness of the neck. Scabs in the axilla ; painful soreness of the cervical glands when coughing. The pain in the back is relieved by lying on something hard.

Upper. Sensation of lameness and of a sprain in the shoulder-joint. Cramp in the arms, hands, finger and thumb. Weakness and paralytic heaviness of the arms. Stitches in the muscles and joints of the hands and fingers. Involuntary movement of the hands. Tingling in the hands (and feet), especially on the joints and tips of the fingers (and toes). Brown spots on the hands. The finger-joints move with difficulty. Dry, cracked skin of the hands, especially around the nails. Warts in the palms of the hands. Perspiration of the hands. Trembling of the hands when writing. Swelling of the right hand. Hang-nails. Pain in the hip, as if sprained, with stitches. Restlessness in the legs, compelling one to move them constantly. Sensation as if the legs were paralyzed, especially the ankles. Twitching of the muscles of the thighs. Tension in the bends of the limbs, and sensation as if the tendons were shortened ; painful contraction of the hamstrings. Pain as if the knees and ankles were sprained. Weakness in the knees and calves. Cramps in the lower legs and calves. Great heaviness of the legs and feet. Burning of the feet. Swelling of the feet. Cold feet. Sensation in the tarsal joint as if bruised when walking and when touching it. Suppressed perspiration of the feet. Redness of the big toe, with tearing and stinging on walking or standing. Sensation as if the limb bad gone to sleep (feet, fingers). Corns, with boring, stinging pains.

Great weakness and relaxation of all bodily and physical powers from the least exertion. Disinclination to move and walk after rising, with great heaviness and indolence in the morning. The limbs feel weak and as if they were bruised, especially in the morning after rising. Hysterical debility ; the debility is greatest in the morning in bed. Great emaciation. Stiffness of the joints ; they crack on moving them. Shortening, contraction of the muscles. Twitching in the muscles and limbs. Pulsations in the whole body from the least exertion. Restlessness in the limbs ; they have to be moved constantly. Paralysis.

Sleepiness during the day with sleeplessness at night ; is unable to go to sleep. In the morning he feels unrefreshed. Sleep with vivid, frightful dreams ; dreams of burning thirst ; starts and talks in the sleep and tosses about. Wakens with fright, violent headache and perspiration ; with erethism of the blood ; violent throbbing in the arteries.

Pulse very irregular, frequently intermitting, especially when lying on the left side. Pulse at one time rapid and weak, at another full and slow. The pulsations shake the whole body. Chill predominates ; chilliness internally, as from as want of natural heat, with icy coldness of the hands and feet (evening). Continuous chilliness from morning till noon. Flushes of heat with violent headache, chilliness over the back and perspiration in the axilla and soles of the feet. Continuous heat in the afternoon, with violent headache and unconsciousness ; they are gradually relieved during the perspiration which follows. During the heat generally violent thirst. Violent perspiration, relieving the painful symptoms present during the fever. Much perspiration during the day, and inclination to perspire from the least exertion. Debilitating, somewhat sour-smelling perspiration. Night and morning sweat. Intermittent fever. Chilliness with great thirst ; afterwards great heat with violent thirst and excessive headache ; at last profuse perspiration. Chilliness, with increasing headache in the forehead every day at 9 A.M. until noon ; afterwards heat with gradually appearing perspiration and thirst, the headache decreasing afterwards gradually. In the forenoon chilliness for three hours, with blue nails and chattering of teeth ; this is followed by heat, lasting as long, accompanied by obscuration of sight, stitches in the head, much thirst, pains in the back, followed by perspiration. Chilliness at 10 A.M., commencing at the feet, followed by heat with headache and, later, perspiration. Anticipating chilliness in the morning, with external coldness, great thirst, violent headache, stupefaction ; afterwards slight heat, with some perspiration, faintishness, and weakness of the eyes. Intermittent fevers after the abuse of Chininum sulph., or with yellow complexion, great debility, drawing pain in the limbs, headache (worse during the hot stage), pressure in the stomach, loss of appetite, excessive thirst, fever-blisters on the lips.

Nettle-rash after violent exercise (itching). Itching and pricking in the skin. Large red blotches, itching violently. Rash over the whole body, with stinging sensation in the skin. Pain and redness of an old cicatrix. Varices. Blood-boils. Herpes (in the bend of the knee). Warts in the palms of the hands.

Bad effects from anger (mortification caused by offence). Bad effects from acid food and bread. The nightly pains cause dyspnœa and a one-sided paralysis. Most of the complaints appear or are renewed while lying down, especially at night, or in the morning, and are relieved when sitting up. Aggravation at 10 A.M. ; every exertion increases the circulation ; on looking fixedly at an object ; from talking (the weakness), when writing or reading. Amelioration while fasting, while lying on the back or on the right side, after lying down. Natrum mur. is an antidote to Argentum nitricum (especially if it has been applied locally), and to Chininum sulph. It follows well and is well preceded by Apis mel.; to which it also stands in an antidotal relation.

Sodium chloride. Common Salt. NaCl. Trituration. Solution.

Addison's disease. Anæmia. Aphthæ. Atrophy . Brain-fag. Catarrh . Chorea. Constipation. Cough. Cracks in the skin. Debility. Depression . Diabetes. Disparunia. Dropsy. Dyspepsia . Epilepsy. Erysipelas. Eyes, affections of . Eye-strain. Face, complexion unhealthy . Gleet. Glossopharyngeal paralysis. Goître . Gonorrhœa. Gout. Headache. Heart, affections of . Hemiopia. Hernia. Herpes. Herpes circinatis. Hiccough. Hodgkin's disease . Hydroa. Hypochondriasis . Intermittent fever. Leucocythæmia. Leucorrhœa. Lips, eruption on . Lungs, œdema of. Menstruation, disorders of. Mouth, inflammation of. Nettlerash. Pediculosis . Ranula. Seborrhœa. Self-abuse . Somnambulism. Speech, embarrassed. Spermatorrhœa . Spinal irritation. Spleen, enlarged. Sterility . Stomatitis. Sunstroke. Taste, lost; disordered. Tongue, blistered; white coated; heavy . Trifacial-nerve paralysis. Ulcers. Varices. Vaginismus. Vertigo. Warts . Whooping-cough. Worms. Yawning .

If Nat. carb . is the typical salt of the Natrum group (as Kali carb . is of the Kalis), Nat. m . is the most important. In power and range it stands in the first rank of homœopathic remedies, but it has an additional significance, in that it exemplifies the power of attenuation in a remarkable way. The problems involved in Nat. m . may be regarded in a sense as the pons asinorum of homœopathy. Those who are able to grasp in a practical way the homœopathic uses of this remedy are not likely to meet with any insuperable difficulties elsewhere. Those who can see nothing but "common salt" in Nat. m . may conclude that they have not "the root of the matter" in them. It may be inconceivable to some that the attenuations of Nat. m . should act independently, as curative or pathogenetic, at the same time that crude salt is being ingested in quantities; and it may seem that an infinitesimal amount of a substance which is a necessary constituent of our tissues cannot possibly have any action at all; but this problem is constantly before the homœopathist, and if he cannot master it in respect to Nat. m . he need not trouble his brains to try elsewhere. Nat. m . has been extensively proved, both in the lower triturations and in the 30th and higher attenuations, and the latter produced the most marked effects. I have mentioned in the Preface an experience of my own, which I will give here in more detail. For a common cold which had proved troublesome I took eight globules of Nat. m . 200. The next day the cold was not better, but I felt ill, and presently a copious, gushing, watery, light-coloured diarrhœa set in, and persisted for some days, draining all my tissues and reducing my weight by half a stone before I could think of the cause. Then the dose of Nat. m . flashed on my mind, and I at once began to smell at a bottle of Sweet Nitre, the antidote. The diarrhœa and all other symptoms vanished in a way I have never forgotten; and the lesson was well worth all the suffering I had undergone. My weight came back as rapidly as it had disappeared. In Nat. m . is illustrated the antidotal action of a substance of high attenuation over the effect of a lower. A large number of people are steadily poisoning themselves by taking excessive quantities of salt with their food; and it is generally useful to ask patients if they are fond of salt. Without restricting the amount of salt taken, Nat. m . 30 will antidote most of the effects of the crude, and enable the patient to cut down the quantity taken afterwards. But the effect of a high potency can also be antidoted by a higher. A patient to whom I gave Nat. m . 1m developed this new symptom: Aching pain deep in left shoulder and down the arm; < lying on right side; no tenderness. A single dose of Nat. m . c.m. quickly removed it. Nat. m . is one of the remedies adopted by Schüssler from homœopathy. Though arrived at by a different route, his indications are for the most part identical with Hahnemann's, and a recital of them will serve to emphasise some points; and there is no need to accept Schüssler's semi-material theories as an all-sufficient explanation of the remedy's action, for they do not anything like cover the field. Says Schüssler: "The water which is introduced into the digestive canal in drinking or with the food enters into the blood through the epithelial cells of the mucous membrane by means of the common salt contained in these cells and in the blood, for salt has the well-known property of attracting water. Water is intended to moisten all the tissues, i.e ., cells. Every cell contains soda. The nascent chlorine which is split off from the Nat. m . of the intercellular fluid combines with this soda. The Nat. m . arising by this combination attracts water. By this means the cell is enlarged and divides up. Only in this way can cells divide so as to form additional cells. If there is no common salt formed in the cells, then the water intended to moisten them remains in the intercellular fluids, and hydræmia results. Such patients have a watery, bloated face; they are tired and sleepy and inclined to weep. They are chilly, suffer from cold extremities, and have a sensation of cold along the spine. At the same time they have a strong desire for common salt. (The cells deficient in salt cry for salt.) The common salt, of which they consume comparatively large quantities, does not heal their disease, because the cells can only receive the common salt in very attenuated solutions. The redundant common salt present in the intercellular fluid may in such cases cause the patients to have a salty taste in their mouth, and the pathological secretions of the mucous membranes, as also of excoriations of the skin, may be corrosive (salt-rheum)." Disturbances in the distribution of salt in the cells cause: Lachrymation; salivation; toothache with salivation; watery diarrhœa; mucous diarrhœa; lack of mucus; catarrh of stomach with vomiting of mucus; water-brash; vesicles clear as water on skin or conjunctiva; constipation. — Thus far Schüssler. But whilst using his theory as a useful means of stringing many characteristics of Nat. m . together, it is necessary to free oneself from them entirely in order to see the remedy in all its range of action. A complete view of the symptom picture can alone give that. In old-school practice Nat. m . is used chiefly in solution as a douche or spray in nasal and other catarrhs, and in the mixture of "Brandy and Salt," in which large quantities of salt are given for pulmonary hæmorrhages. The relation to catarrh, which Schüssler brings out, is specific. Excessively fluent coryza, with much sneezing; sore nose, especially the left wing; cold sores on lips and nose; loss of smell and taste, are indications which I have verified repeatedly in acute colds and the tendency to them. With the coryza there is copious lachrymation; and whether or not Schüssler is right on the chemistry of the process, Nat. m . is indicated by tears . ("Flow of tears with cough" is Burnett's keynote of Nat. m . in whooping-cough, H. W ., xviii. 179.) The characteristic of the tearful Nat. m . patient is that she (or he) wants to be alone; any attempt to console irritates beyond endurance. "Wants to be alone to cry." "Very much inclined to weep and be excited." There are even tears with laughter. For in addition to the sadness there is hysterical laughter; laughs till she weeps at things not at all ludicrous. The excitement of Nat. m . is always followed by melancholy. The hypochondriasis and hysteria of Nat. m . generally go pari passu in the degree of constipation; and Nat. m . is one of the most commonly needed remedies in that complaint. The most characteristic symptom in this connection is a sensation of "contraction of the rectum during stool; hard fæces at first evacuated with the greatest exertion, which causes tearing in anus, bleeding and soreness; afterwards thin stools also passed; constipated every other day." There is also retention of stool; and a feeling after stool as if there were more to pass. Nat. m . answers equally well to constipation and diarrhœa when the collateral symptoms correspond. The constipation is often found associated with anæmia; with chilliness, cold feet and chills down the back; with indigestion such as is met with in victims of masturbation: Nat. m . is one of the most helpful of remedies in such cases. The unclean complexion of earthy line, "dirty face" in spite of any amount of washing, is a still further indication. The skin is greasy from excess of sebaceous secretion. Nat. m . corresponds to affections due to loss of fluids. This recalls China , with which it has a very important antidotal relation. Both correspond to the effects of masturbation, hæmorrhages, and loss of fluids; both are remedies for intermittent fever, and Nat. m . is the chief antidote to the effects of over-dosing with China and Quinine . Another important antidotal relation of Nat. m . is to Arg. n . And here another interesting fact appears-namely, the parallel between chemical and the dynamic action. Salt is the best antidote to poisoning with nitrate of silver, as it changes the soluble nitrate of silver into the insoluble harmless chloride. Nat. m . in the attenuations is also the best remedy for the ill effects of Arg. n . whether used as a cautery or administered as a medicine. Whenever there is a history of cauterisation and Arg. n . has been used, Nat. m . will do great good. Scrofulous ophthalmia which has been treated locally in vain with Arg. n .; sore throats that have been cauterised; the effects local and remote of uterine injections of Arg. n ., or cauterisings of the os uteri. W. J. Guernsey ( H. P ., vii. 127) relates a striking instance of the last. Mrs. P., 32, complained of "lump" in the throat which could not be swallowed, and yet required constant efforts to do so. < On empty swallowing; yet on swallowing food it seemed to pass over a sore spot. Bar. c., Lach., Bell . were given in succession in vain. Remembering the injunction of the Organon , § 207, to inquire as to what allopathic treatment a patient has been subjected to in order to discover if there is anything to correct, Guernsey discovered that the patient had had a severe ulceration of the womb which had been "burnt out" several times and was "now well." She had had a very profuse discharge, but that had stopped, and on the same day she had commenced to "choke" with the throat trouble. Nat. m . 295m (F.) was given. In a few days the throat was better and the discharge had returned, much to the patient's horror. Without further treatment throat and vaginal discharge were both cured. Lambert has recorded ( L. H. H. Rep ., vii. 144) several cases of headache associated with errors of refraction and consequent eye-strain cured with Nat. m . 30. The headaches were noticed on waking. In one case it was like a cloud over brain with intense depression and had lasted ten years. It disappeared before the vision was corrected. The effect of living too exclusively on salt food in producing scurvy gives a key to the use of Nat. m . in many conditions of blood degeneration, hæmorrhage, and skin disorder and ulceration. In aphthous and ulcerative conditions of the mouth it is a leading remedy. The characteristic tongue of Nat. m . is either a mapped tongue, with red islands; or a clean shining tongue with froth along each side. There are many characteristic symptoms in connection with the tongue: hair sensation; numbness and stiffness of one side; heavy, embarrassing speech. Nat. m . corresponds to children who are late in talking. The tongue is blistered; sticks to roof of mouth. Dryness of mouth and throat. Unquenchable thirst. Nausea. Vomiting. The drying-up property of Nat. m . is general. One very characteristic effect is dryness of vagina, with painful coitus; aversion to coitus (in the female); aversion to men. Menses may be early and profuse; or scanty and delayed. Nat. m . corresponds to many cases of anæmia, and especially to delay in the first appearance of the menses. Much bearing down and much leucorrhœa. Backache generally accompanies these, and the backache has this peculiarity, that it is > by pressure; by lying down with the back on something hard. There is also sensitiveness of the back and spinal irritation. With the menses there is generally headache, both before, during, or after. The headaches of Nat. m . are intermitting. They come on in the morning on first waking up and last throughout the day; or else they come on at 10 or 11 a.m. They are < from mental exertion. Nat. m . is one of the first remedies for headaches of schoolgirls. Headache with partial blindness. Headache much < by coughing. Throbbing; beating as with little hammers; pain as if the head would burst. The throbbing headache has its analogue in palpitation of the heart. Nat. m . is a great heart remedy. Fluttering palpitation with faint feeling, < lying down. In one case of huge hypertrophy with degeneration of most of the valves, the patient told me nothing gave her so much relief as Nat. m . (which I had given for some incidental condition). Very characteristic is sense of coldness at heart or precordia with trembling of heart. Constrictive sensations run throughout this remedy: in heart; chest scalp; throat; rectum; of anus (sensation as if anus were closed) cramps in uterus; vaginismus; contraction of hamstrings. Paralytic symptoms with numbness are the counterpart of these. Nat. m . has the sinking sensation of the antipsorics. Great hunger, with no appetite. Eats heartily but emaciates. Heartburn after eating. Emaciates whilst living well. Ravenous appetite but grows thin, especially about neck. There are some very characteristic desires and aversions: Desires : bitter things; beer; farinaceous foot; sour things; salt; oysters; fish; milk. Aversion to: bread; meat; coffee; tobacco. While eating, sweat on face. Is > when stomach is empty. After eating: empty eructations; nausea; acidity; sleepiness; heartburn; palpitation; epigastric pressure and heat radiating up to chest. Violent hiccough. The nausea and vomiting of Nat. m . have been turned to account in the morning sickness of pregnancy. One patient, who said she could "eat the brine out of a mackerel kit," was cured with a single dose of Nat. m . ( Amer. Hom ., xxiii. 385). Nat. m . is a great periodic remedy. It not only antidotes Quinine , but it causes intermittents on its own account. Chilliness predominates. Chill 10 to 11 a.m. with thirst, drinks after a meal; fever blisters round mouth. Fever with violent headache; great thirst; nausea; vomiting; blueness; faint; averse to uncover. Fever may come on without chill 10 to 11 a.m. Sweat > headache and other symptoms though it weakens; averse to uncover. There are many eruptions, herpes, hydroa, eczema. Eczema on hair margins, especially at back of head. Warts on palms of hands. Corns. Painful scars. Nat. m . is suited to: Cachectic persons; old people; teething children; anæmic, chlorotic people with catarrhal troubles; tuberculous; scrofulous; dropsical; emaciated persons. Among Peculiar Sensations are: As if head too heavy and would fall forward; as if some displacement in head had taken place; as if cold wind blowing through head; as though forehead would burst on coughing; as if head in a vice; pain like a rope round head drawing tighter and tighter; as if nail driven in left side of head. As if eyeballs too large; as if foreign body in eyes; as if eye being torn open. As if a small worm squirming in nose. Of hair on tongue. Splinter in throat. Plug in throat. As if one had to swallow over a lump. Difficulty of talking, as if organs of speech weak. As if foreign body sticking in cardiac orifice behind sternum. When walking, as if abdominal viscera loose, dragging. As if rough, hard, foreign substance in rectum. As if there was a string between uterus and sacrum in hind part of fornix. Back as if beaten; broken. Nat. m . corresponds to effects of going to seaside; and if patients say they are always < at seaside or cannot stay by the sea, Nat. m . will probably be the remedy. Constipation at seaside. But > at seaside may also indicate it. There is great desire for open air and washing in cold water. < Heat of stove; of room; of sun. < In summer. Warm food < toothache. Drawing in air < toothache; cold drink < toothache. Likes to be covered but it does not > . Lying down > vertigo, headache, constriction of scalp; < cough; fluttering of heart. Lying on left side < . Moving, least exertion < . Exercising arms > breathing. Walking < . In back troubles, can stoop readily but it hurts to straighten. < Mental exertion; talking; writing; reading. < After sleep. Coitus < . Most symptoms are < in morning; < after sleep. < 10 to 11 a.m. < During full moon. < By eating. < From bread, acid food, fat, wine. < After breakfast. > Going without regular meals. < Touch and pressure. Full sensation is > by tight clothes. Back > lying on something hard. > Rubbing.

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Weakness or loss of memory ; remembers nothing of yesterday.
Absent minded or distracted while talking ; does not know what he ought to say ; awkward in talking ; easily makes mistakes.
Awkward ; hasty ; drops things from nervous weakness.
Dulness ; difficulty of thinking.
Haunted with thoughts that something unpleasant will happen.
Tries to recollect past disagreeable occurrences for the purpose of thinking on them and indulging the grief which it causes.
He concluded from the look of everyone, that he was pitied on account of his misfortune, and he wept.
Delirium, with starting of body, picking at bedclothes, wandering and muttering.
Delirium tremens.
Mania, especially when accompanied by paralytic debility.
After becoming thoroughly wet, severe headache with maniacal paroxysms, during which he uttered the most atrocious blasphemies, swore against God and the elements, and after raging for awhile became exhausted, and had to keep his bed from great
debility ; dryness of tongue ; unquenchable thirst ; pulse irregular and intermittent.
No desire to work, mental or physical.
Taciturnity ; offended at every word ; avoids company ; hates persons because they have offended him ; spleen.
Likes to be alone.
Whenever alone she wished to cry, she did not know why.
Very much inclined to weep and to be excited.
Laughed so immoderately at something not ludicrous that she could not be quieted, and tears came into her eyes, so that she looked as though she had been weeping.
Hurriedness, with anxiety and fluttering at heart.
Hastiness and impatience. θ Chlorosis.
Attacks of great cheerfulness and merry disposition, with great inclination to laugh, sing and dance.
Gloomy thoughts, recalls insults long since suffered ; likes to dwell upon past unpleasant occurrences.
Depression of spirits.
Prevailing depression of mind, with spells of irritableness and crossness. θ Addison's disease.
Lachrymose depression, < from being spoken to ; concern about the future.
Sad and weeping mood without cause.
Sad and weeping ; consolation aggravates, a fluttering of heart follows ; intermittent pulse.
Very sad, gloomy and foreboding. θ Dysmenorrhœa.
Excessive sadness during menses, with palpitation and morning headache.
Alternately sad and excessively merry ; hysteria.
Melancholic depression and sad apprehension, disheartened all day without definite cause ; palpitation.
Hypochondriacal mood, with constipation.
Apprehension, feels as if something was going to happen.
Brain fag, with sleeplessness, gloomy forebodings, exhaustion after talking, embarrassment of brain.
A pregnant woman saw a man who had a disfiguring nasal cancer ; this haunted her, and she was sure her child would be marked ; she was melancholy, avoided society, wept continually.
Fear of loss of reason.
Despairing, hopeless feeling about the future.
Hypochondriacal ; tired of life.
Joyless, indifferent, taciturn.
Weak will.
Great irritability ; child irritable and cross when spoken to ; crying from slightest cause.
Very ill humored in morning.
Quarrelsome fretfulness, gets into a passion about trifles ; passionate vehemence.
Hateful and vindictive natures.
When trying to comfort him he gets into a violent rage.
Anthropophobia.
Fearfulness ; very easily startled.
Bad effects from anger.
Consequences of fright, anger, vexation, mortification, or reserved displeasure.
After a fright, chorea.
After violent fits of passion, paralysis.

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Salt is so common an article of diet that it has been assumed that it could be of no use in medicine.

This is only the opinion of men who, operate entirely on the tissues. There are no constitutional effects from crude salt.

One may find an individual growing thin with all the symptoms of salt; he is taking salt in great quantities, but digesting none of it. Salt will be found in the stool, for it does not enter into the life. There is a Natr. mur. inanition, a starving for salt. The same is true of lime. Children can get plenty of lime from their food and that is better when the salt or the lime is given in such shape that it cannot be resisted by the internal man - aimed not at the house he lives in, but at the individual himself-then the bone, salt inanition, the Natr. mur. inanition, will soon pass away.

We do not with our small dose supply the salt that the system needs, but we cure the internal disease, we turn into order the internal physical man, and then the tissues get salt enough from the food. Drugs must all be administered in suitable form. We may need to go higher and higher until the secret spring is touched.

Natr. mur. is a deep acting, long acting remedy. It takes a wonderful hold of the economy, making changes that are lasting when given in potentized doses.

A great deal is presented that can be seen by looking at the patient, so that we say: this looks like a Natr. mur. patient. Experienced physicians learn to classify patients by appearance. The skin is shiny, pale, waxy, looks as if greased. There is a wonderful prostration of a peculiar kind. Emaciation, weakness, nervous prostration, nervous irritability.

There is a long chain of mental symptoms; hysterical condition of the mind and body; weeping alternating with laughing; irresistible laughing at unsuitable times; prolonged, spasmodic laughter.

This will be followed by tearfulness, great sadness, joylessness. No matter how cheering the circumstances are she cannot bring herself into the state of being joyful. She is benumbed to impressions, easily takes on grief, grieves over nothing.

Unpleasant occurrences are recalled that she may grieve over them. Consolation aggravated the state of the mind - the melancholy, the tearfulness, sometimes brings on anger. She appears to bid for sympathy and is mad when it is given.

Headache comes on with this melancholy. She walks the floor in rage. She is extremely forgetful; cannot cast up accounts; is unable to meditate; forges what she was going to say; loses the thread of what she is hearing or reading. There is a great prostration of the mind.

Unrequited affection brings on complaints. She is unable to control her affections and falls in love with a married man. She knows that it is foolish, but lies awake with love for him. She falls in love with a coachman. She knows that she is unwise, but cannot help it. In cases of this kind Natr. mur. will turn her mind into order, and she will look back and wonder why she was so silly. This remedy belongs to hysterical girls.

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For the anæmic and cachectic; whether from loss of vital fluids—profuse menses, seminal losses—or mental affections. Great emaciation; losing flesh even while living well (Abrot., Iod.); throat and neck of children emaciate rapidly during summer complaint (Sanic.).

Great liability to take cold (Cal., Kali c.).

Irritability: child cross when spoken to; crying from slightest cause; gets into a passion about trifles, especially when consoled with.

Awkward, hasty, drops things from nervous weakness (Apis, Bov.).

Marked disposition to weep; sad weeping mood, without cause (Puls.), but consolation from others < her troubles.

Headache: of school-girls (Cal. p.); from sunrise to sunset; beginning with blindness (Iris, Kali bi.); from eye strain; with left-sided clavus; as if bursting; with red face, nausea and vomiting before, during, and after catamenia; as if beaten with little hammers in the brain; during fever, better after sweat begins.

Hay fever: squirming sensation of the nostril, as of a small worm; brought on by exposure to hot sun or intense summer heat.

Sensation as of a hair on the tongue (Sil.).

Tongue: mapped, with red insular patches; like ringworm on sides (Ars., Lach., Mer., Nit. ac., Tarax.); heavy, difficult speech, children slow in learning to walk.

Fever blisters, like pearls about the lips; lips dry, sore and cracked, ulcerated (Nit. ac.).

Lachrymation; tears stream down the face whenever he coughs.

Constipation: sensation as of contraction of anus, torn, bleeding, smarting afterwards; stool hard, difficult, crumbling; stitches in rectum (see Nit. ac.); involuntary, knows not whether flatus or fæces escape (Aloe, Mur. ac., Iod., Olean., Pod.).

Urine: involuntary, when walking, coughing, laughing; has to wait a long time if others are present; cutting after (Sars.).

Pressing, pushing torward genitals, every morning, must sit down to prevent prolapsus (Lil., Mur., Sep.).

The hair falls out when touched, in nursing women (Sep.—after fevers, Lyc.); face oily, shiny (Plb. Thuja).

For the bad effects: of anger (caused by offence); acid food; bread; quinine; cauterizations of all kinds with silver nitrate; too much salt.

Hangnails: skin around the nails dry and cracked (Petr.); herpes about the anus, in border of hair (in bend of knees, Graph., Hep.).

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

The heart's pulsations shake the body (Spig.).

Eczema: raw, red, inflamed, especially in edges of hair; < from eating too much salt, at sea-shore, from ocean voyage.

Warts on palms of hands (sore to touch, Nat. c.).

"Cannot often be repeated, in chronic cases, without an intercurrent."—DUNHAM.

Should not be given during paroxysm.

If vertigo and headache be very persistent or prostration prolonged, Nux vomica will relieve.

Complementary to Apis: acts well both before and after it.

Natrum mur. is the chronic of Ignatia, which is its vegetable analogue. Is followed by Sepia and Thuja.

At 10 or 11 A. M.; heat of sun or stove; in summer; at sea shore or from sea air; mental exertion; talking, writing, reading; lying down.

In open air (Puls.); cold washing; sitting up; fasting.

Every type of fever belongs to Natrum muriaticum: vernal, midsummer, autumnal, midwinter; quotidian; tertian; quartan. Simple type. Anticipating tertian. Malarial.

3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 A. M.—10 to 11 A. M. Like Nux vom. the characteristic paroxysm is in the morning or forenoon; the lesser paroxysm occurs in afternoon or evening. 4 to 7 P. M.; 6 to 7 P. M.; 5:30 to 7:30 P. M. Chilly all day, with fever all night.

Fever without chill, 10 to 11 A. M.

Exposure to emanations from salt or fresh water; living on, or in the vicinity of water, margins of streams, or ponds; in damp regions or near recently turned up soil, especially freshly plowed fields of virgin soil. When Quinine has perverted and temporarily suppressed the original or regular paroxysm.

Patient dreads the chill. Languor, headache, thirst; knows the paroxysm is coming because of headache and thirst; nausea and vomiting sometimes present; if vomiting, it is water recently drunk; tearing pains in hands, feet, and kidneys.

With thirst. Paroxysm at 8 A. M.; violent chill till noon; then heat till evening; without perspiration or thirst during the chill or heat; unconscious, with violent headache; sensation as if the head would fly into fragments, is stupefied, knows not where he is. Great chilliness every morning between 3 and 4 o'clock, with languor, headache, great dyspnœa, followed by great heat and thirst, and terminated by profuse perspiration. Long and severe chill from 10 to 11 A. M., beginning in the feet, fingers, and toes, or small of the back (Gels.), with blue lips and nails (Nux). Thirst, drinking often and much at a time (drinking often and large quantities, but it produces vomiting, Eup.—drinks little and often, Ars.). Bursting headache; nausea and vomiting; and sometimes complete unconsciousness. Frequent creeping chills about 5:30 P. M., followed by heat and perspiration that lasted till 7:30. Violent chill, especially in a warm room, from 4:30 to 7 P. M.; relieved in the open air. Chilliness over the whole body between 6 and 7 P. M., with great sleepiness; was able to keep awake only by a great effort. Chill over the whole body in a warm room, between 4 and 7 P. M., with frequent yawning, though warm to the touch, except in the face.

Internal shivering from 4 to 7 P. M.; she is generally chilly; each night suffers excessively from rigors, followed by heat and profuse perspiration; as rigors come on, and during continuance, excessive languor, with headache and dyspnœa "almost indescribable." Chill predominates mostly internal; hands and feet icy cold; could not be warmed. Chilliness, great thirst, tearing in the bones, blue nails, chattering of the teeth, at 10 A. M. Chilliness, with increasing headache in the forehead every day from 9 A. M. till noon; afterwards heat with thirst, and gradual appearance of sweat; the headache decreasing gradually as the sweat increases until 5 o'clock in the evening. Chill of right side (Bry.—left, Caust., Carbo v.).

"Icy coldness about the heart (Arn., Camph., Helod., Kali c., Olean., Petr.), continuing after the paroxysm; blindness and unconsciousness during the chill, with great prostration, worse after chill; slight fever (Ars.)."—LIPPE.

"Chill predominates; chilliness internally, as from want of natural heat, with icy coldness of hands and feet. Continuous chilliness from morning till noon."—LIPPE.

With increased thirst; intolerable hammering headache (as if beaten with a thousand hammers), with stupefaction and unconsciousness (Bell., Cac., Op.), or obscuration of sight and fainting.

Long severe heat, with excessive weakness, which compels him to lie down (weakness and prostration during chill, Lyc.—great prostration after paroxysm, Ars.) Great thirst for large quantities of water; drinks much and often, which refreshes (Bry.—drinks little and often, but it produces vomiting, Ars.). Nausea and vomiting (Ipec.).

"Fever blisters cover the lips like pearls."—RAUE.

Hydroa, especially on upper lip (Rhus—see Ign., Nux).

"Continuous heat in the afternoon, with violent headache and unconsciousness; they are gradually relieved during the perspiration which follows."—LIPPE.

With thirst; profuse, gradually relieving all pains, except headache, which may continue during and after sweating stage (Samb.—headache is increased, Eup.). Profuse sweat breaks out easily during motion, although he is very chilly (Bry., Psor.); over whole body at night and in the morning (over whole body, except legs, Lyc.); sour-smelling sweat.

Thin, yellowish-white coating on dry tongue; blisters on the mapped tongue or looks like ringworm (herpes) on the sides (Lach., Tarax.). Taste: water tastes putrid (water tastes bitter, Ars.); bitter, salt, sour; food has no taste at all. Longing for salt or bitter things. Aversion to bread.

Irregular intermission when lying on left side; at one time rapid and weak; at another full and slow; every third beat intermits (Mur. ac.). The heart's pulsations shake the body.

Never clear; emaciation, languor, debility; livid, sallow complexion; stitches about the liver and spleen; urine muddy, with red, sandy sediment (Lyc.); loss of appetite, loss of taste; aversion to bread (aversion to meat, Arn.); hiccup, after suppression by Quinine; hydroa, like beads on the lips (Ign.,

Nux, Rhus); ulceration of labial commissures; sensation of fulness of the stomach after eating ever so little (Bry., Lyc.); sexual desire diminished, or entirely lost, in men.

"Hard chill about 11 A. M., with great thirst, which continues through all stages; the heat is characterized by the most violent headache, relieved by perspiration."—RAUE.

Arsenicum. Natrum mur.

Advancing type. Receding type.

Worse afternoon and night. Worse forenoon and daytime.

Headache beginning with fever, Headache begins in chill, increased and continuing long after sweat. in fever, partially relieved by pro- fuse sweat.

Vomiting of bile with the chill; of Vomiting of bile between chill and water after drinking, in every stage. fever (Eup., Lyc.), or during heat.

Thirst, drinks little and often dur- Thirst in all stages; drinks large ing chill and heat; large quantities quantities and often, which refresh during perspiration. him.

Hungry. Loss of appetite.

Had been at seashore or summer Had been near freshly plowed or watering-resorts during hot weather newly turned grounds, swamps,

(Gels.). canals, or standing water.

Lips pale, dry and cracked. Lips covered with hydroa, like strings of pearls.

"It is taught by every writer, that the chill must come on about 11 A. M., for Natrum muriaticum to be curative. This is all bosh and nonsense. I have cured many, many cases of chronic and acute intermittents where the chill has come on late in the afternoon. If the rest of the symptoms indicate this remedy, it makes no difference when the chill commences. And let me say here, that Natrum will cure more cases of intermittent fever, both acute and chronic, especially the latter, than any known remedy.

With the thirtieth potency, I have cured several hundred cases with this drug alone. It is the best friend a physician has in a malarious district."—BURT.

While it is true that time is but one element in a case, for one symptom, however prominent, never overides the totality, and that we must always obtain the totality or majority of symptoms, it is also true that the morning paroxysm predominates, especially at 11 A. M.

"During my travels in Hungary, in the malarious plains of the

Theiss and Maros, as well as during a prolonged residence among the Guarosi Indians, of South America, I used a cheap remedy which radically cures every case of ague in twenty-four hours by taking one or, at the utmost, two doses of it. I order a good handful of fine, clean kitchen salt to be thoroughly roasted—if possible, in a new pan, or at least, in one thoroughly cleansed— over a slow fire, till it takes on a brown color, similar to that of lightly roasted coffee. From this roasted salt, a grown up man takes a full tablespoonful, rather more than less, dissolved in a glass of hot water, at once, on the morning following the paroxysm, on an empty stomach, and in quotidian fevers a few hours after the paroxysm is over. As the remedy is only sure of its action on an empty stomach, neither food nor drink must be taken. Though great thirst follow, the patient must only sip a little water through straws; and, when the patient becomes hungry, forty-eight hours after taking the salt, he might take a little chicken broth, or a little beef tea. Strict diet and great care not to catch cold are of the utmost importance. I have used this remedy for the last eighteen years, and it has never failed in a single case when rightly applied. Hundreds of cases in Hun- gary were cured by it; and, during my voyage to Buenos Ayres, the mate of the steamer Ibis was cured by a single dose in twenty- four hours from an ague which had troubled him periodically for years, and the cure remained permanent. In the tropics of

America every European immigrant, as soon as he goes inland, is attacked by intermittent fever, which, if neglected, is too fre- quently fatal. Thus, four hundred English people succumbed to it in the most paludal forests of Stape, in spite of the immense doses of Quinine and brandy taken; whereas the equally suffering

German colony in the adjacent department of Haqua and Para- guay took their roasted salt, and no death occurred among them."

Dr. Brooke, in N. A. J., 1878.

There is, probably, no remedy in our Materia Medica (Arsenic alone excepted) so often indicated in severe cases—acute or chronic, even those maltreated by Arsenic and Quinine—as Natrum muri- aticum. It will cure promptly when indicated; and much quicker and more permanently in the attenuations above than below the thirtieth. Like Lyc., Cal., Sep., Sul., and some of the metals, it is comparatively inert in the crude form. Hydroa on the lips is a guiding symptom, although Ign., Nux and Rhus all have it. If hydroa be present in first onset of the fever, although after fre- quent suppression by Quinine it may not be present in old cases,

Natrum muriaticum should be thought of. In nursing children, hydroa on the lips, and later the ulcers which succeed them with forenoon attack, are guiding.

The patient dreads the chill.

Chill; 10-11 A. M.; with thirst; long, severe; beginning in fingers, feet, toes, small of back, with blue lips and nails; head- ache, often unconscious; nausea and vomiting; bone pains.

Heat; more thirst; long, severe; headache, with stupefaction and unconsciousness.

Sweat; with thirst, profuse, sour, gradually > all pains except headache; thirst, drinking refreshes.

Hydroa on the lips.

Pulsations shake the body.

Difficulty of thinking; absence of mind; memory and will weak.
Distracted, knows not what to say.
Awkward in talking, with absent-mindedness.
Sad, weeping; consolation aggravates, with palpitation and intermittent pulse.
When trying to comfort him, he becomes enraged.
Hurriedness, with anxiety; with fluttering at the heart.
Likes to dwell on past unpleasant occurrences.
Hypochondriacal; tired of life.
Gets angry at trifles; hateful, vindicative.
Joyless, indifferent, taciturn.
Religious melancholy.

Weariness in the head.
Empty feeling in the head, with anguish.
Vertigo: when rising from bed in the morning; periodical, with nausea, eructations, colic and trembling limbs; nausea and headache; sometimes as if a cold wind were blowing through head.

Bursting headache; beating or stitches through neck or chest; face red; nausea, vomiting.
Violent jerks and shocks in the head.
Throbbing, as from little hammers; awakens with the headache every morning; worse from reading or talking.
Severe headache, maniacal paroxysms, blasphemous; weak; tongue dry; very thirsty; intermittent pulse; caused by getting wet.
Headache from sunrise till sunset, worse at midday; right eye congested; worse from light.
Heaviness in back part of the head; draws eyes together.
Pain, like a nail driven into the left side of the head.
Pressing headache from both sides, as if in vise.
Rheumatic tearing from the root of the nose to the forehead; nausea, vomiting; vanishing of sight.
Headache in school-girls.
Headaches are worse in the morning on awaking, moving the head or the eyes; mental exertion; warmth; better from sitting still or lying down, and from sweat.

Cold sensation on the vertex; scalp sensitive; spasm of the eyelids.
Hair falls out if touched; mostly on forepart of head, temples and bread; scalp very sensitive; face shining as if greasy.
Liability to take cold in the head.
Scalp feels constricted: worse talking and in the open air; better sitting or lying.
Dandruff alternating with catarrh and loss of smell.
Scabs on the head and in the axillæ; eczema raw, oozing a corroding fluid, destroying the hair.
Impetigo, worse on boundaries of hairy scalp, especially about nape of neck; eruption glutinous, with thin gummy scabs; skin sore and red.

Fiery, zigzag appearance around all objects.
Double vision; or sees only one-half of an object.
Retina images are retained too long.
Asthenopia, particularly muscular: drawing, stiff sensation in muscles of eyes when moving them; letters and stitches in sewing run together; aching in eyes when looking intently; often caused by general muscular weakness or spinal irritation.
Lids heavy when using them.
Amblyopia and amaurosis; pupils contracted, dependent on menstrual disorders in the chlorotic.
Blepharitis, ulcers or cornea when there is smarting, burning; feeling of sand in eyes, mornings; acrid excoriating tears; photophobia marked with spasmodic closure of lids.
Ciliary neuralgia, pain above (right) coming on and going off with the sun.
Sharp pain over (right) eye on looking down, with throbbing headache; worse in the evening.
Morbus Basedowii, palpitation, short-breathed on least exertion.
Internal recti weak.
Stricture of lachrymal duct, fistula and blenorrhœa of lachrymal sac.
Affections of the eyes maltreated with lunar caustic.

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Pure table salt is triturated for use.

In general a scorbutic cachexia, with marked tendency to an unhealthy skin and catarrh of mucous membranes. ▶ (Eruptions, ulcerations, altered secretions.). ▶ It produces constipation, but increases the secretion of urine. ▶ It causes delayed and scanty menstruation and in most cases produces a well-marked depression of spirits amounting. ▶ Even to melancholia. ▶ Its power to rid the system of malarial poisoning is abundantly verified, and in numerous cases of malnutrition presenting peculiarities similar to the drug it has restored the tone of the system.

Mur-ac., Sep., Nux v., Nit. ac., Puls., China, Ars., Ign.

Emaciation (Iod.); of body, but face was tolerably plump. ▶ Falling of hair of beard and mons veneris. ▶ Increase of blood-corpuscles, fibrin, fatty matters and of extractive and salts, in blood, with decrease of water and albumen. ▶ Circulation excited by every motion; impaired C. in arm when lying on table, and often in all parts. ▶ Awkward. ▶ Shivering when sitting, without chilliness. ▶ Trembling; in evening; caused by tobacco-smoking (Ars.), with sweat; agg. hands and feet. ▶ Motion of head and limbs greater than he wished. ▶ Vibrating motion of muscles of back, right upper arm and calves. ▶ Jerkings here and there; J. in upper part of body when lying awake in afternoon. ▶ Sudden shock on whole left side of body. ▶ Attack like epilepsy, it extended from left shoulder to head, then pressure in temples as if head would burst, sore pain in brain, drawing pain from shoulder to head, nausea, necessity to lie down, with chilliness and heat in face. ▶ Sensation of epileptic attack. ▶ Attack, it runs from the stiff nape into head, eyes hurt with nausea, chilliness and loss of senses.

Sticking here and there; agg. lips and along urethra; agg. tip of right thumb, in left umbilical region and in thighs; S. in shoulder-joint and from right mastoid process to forepart of neck in morning, agg. motion; S. outward in teeth side of head and about ear, all day. ▶ Paroxysmal gnawing in evening, now in pit of stomach, now in chest. ▶ Pain as if flesh were loose, agg. thighs and upper arms, on motion. ▶ Pain at night (for example, in boil on back), taking away the breath, even to suffocation and causing one-sided paralysis, so that arm and leg are powerless. ▶ Tickling, weary pain. ▶ Bruised pain on right zygoma and coccyx, agg. touch, lasting all day in coccyx; B. pain on touch, agg. about loins. ▶ Attack of pressure and burrowing beneath right ribs, with drawing in back extending to head, preventing sleep at night, and with sticking in head, all amel. continued talking, physical exertion, rumbling in abdomen and emission of flatus, or after eating. ▶ Sensitiveness to touch (Arn., Chin., Nux v.). ▶ Takes cold easily (Kali c., Nux v.). ▶ Dread of open air. ▶ Pulsation in whole body, even during rest; P. so that all parts moved frequently; violent, in bloodvessels at night on waking. ▶ Uneasiness.

▶ Weakness; all day (Ars., China, Ferr., Kali c., Nux v., Sep., Iod.); during the day, with sleepiness; the day after a restless night, with suffering expression and sadness; in morning, with ill humor; in morning on waking; in morning, amel. rising; all the forenoon; after midday nap, with trembling; in afternoon, also with dullness of head; in evening, also the longer she sits up the weaker she becomes; when standing, with heaviness of feet and sensitiveness to touch, agg. about loins; when sitting; when sitting after dinner; after walking, also with nausea; after eating, with necessity to lie down; during rigors; agg. rising from bed; amel. walking; with trembling of hands and feet; with yawning; so that she could not stand; of upper part of body. ▶ Weakness of mind and body; in evening; with increased appetite. ▶ Faint. ▶ Stiffness of scapulæ, hip-joints and small of back; of all joins. ▶ Riding horseback affected him more and more from time to time. ▶ Aggravation when lying, she must sit up in bed at night to get relief.

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Emaciation.
Great relaxation, not only physical, but mental, after slightest effort.
Tremblings, especially in the evening, < tobacco smoking.
Limbs feel weak and bruised in the morning.
Pain, as if the flesh were loosened from the bones, especially in the thighs and upper limbs, on motion.
Sensitiveness to air; takes cold easily, dreads open air.
Pulsation throughout the whole body, even during rest, < the slightest motion.
Weakness when standing, with a feeling of heaviness of the feet, especially after walking, or after eating.
Pains at night take away the breath and seem almost to cause paralysis.
Greatest weakness in the morning in bed.

Mental excitement; laughs or cries immoderately.
Weeping mood; the more one is consoled, the more he is affected.
Intense sadness, with apprehension and palpitation; prefers to be alone.
Complete despair.
Hatred of people.
Ill humor.
Indifference.
Disinclined to make any mental effort.
Persistent melancholia.

Weakness of the muscles of the neck, so that the head nods forward involuntarily.
Vertigo, with jerking in the head.
Heaviness in the head, especially in the occiput.
A feeling as if the head would burst; stupefying ache or throbbing pain, which seems to press out the eyes, and is > pressure on the eyes and forehead.
Dull frontal headache, recurring daily about 10 A. M., with mental weakness and heaviness of the head.
Painful shootings through the head, like a jerk.
Headache is < 10 A. M., motion and cold air, and if vexed.
The hair of the scalp and beard falls out profusely.
Eruption, particularly at the bottom of the hair and at the nape of the neck, with itching; with glutinous discharge, which mats the hair.

Inflammation, with ulceration, and a feeling as if sand were in the eyes.
The eyeballs feel too large, and as if pressed outward.
Pain on looking intently, as if a foreign substance were in the eyes.
The margins of the lids inflamed and irritable, agglutinated in the morning.
Letters and stitches run together; great muscular weakness, giving rise to inflammation, with frontal headache, etc.

Swelling and heat of the outer ear.
Purulent discharge from the ears.
Roaring in the ears, with difficult hearing.

Dryness of the nose internally.
Painful swelling of the left half, with inflammation and pain, soreness to touch.
The nostrils seem stopped and dry.
Takes cold in the nose easily.
It is stopped at night.
Coryza, with loss of smell and taste.

Usually pale, earthy, yellowish; sometimes shining as if greasy.
The hair of the beard falls out.
Inflammation of the lower lip, with burning and the development of blisters, followed by desquamation.
Blisters around the mouth, with soreness and ulceration; with blisters on the tongue.
Painful crack in the middle of the upper lip.
Dryness of the lips, with burning and cracking.

Teeth very sensitive to the cold air and to touch.
Toothache drawing into the ears and throat.
Swelling of the gums; sensitive both to cold and to heat.
Gums spongy and bleed easily.
Burning blisters in the mouth and on the tongue.
Taste bitter or entirely lost.

Chronic inflammation, usually with dryness or with hawking of salty mucus.
Sensation of a plug in the throat on swallowing, or as if one swallowed over a lump.
Burning pain and rawness, with swelling and shooting pains.
Hawking of much mucus in the throat in the morning.

Appetite usually good at noon and in the evening.
General aversion to bread and fat food.
A desire for bitter things.
Persistent thirst, but drinking causes distress.
Sour eructations after eating.
Eructations of gas and heartburn after eating.
Rising of fluid into the mouth.
Sensation of a foreign body sticking at the cardiac orifice of the stomach.
Nausea in the morning.
Vomiting first of food, then bile.
Pressure as from a stone in the stomach, with nausea.
Constrictive pain, with cramp.

Flatulent rumblings and distention.
Great fermentation.
Cutting pains.
Shooting pains in the region of the liver.
Pain in the abdominal rings, extending into the testicles when coughing, as if the spermatic cord would be torn.
General weakness and relaxation, even of the abdominal walls.

Ineffectual urging to stool.
Constrictive sensation in the rectum and anus during stool, with hard, difficult evacuations, which seem to tear the anus so that it bleeds and is sore.
Hæmorrhoids which are painful and stinging, with glutinous moisture.
Stools dry and hard, causing fissures, or loose and profuse, with burning.

Profuse micturition day and night of pale, watery urine.
Micturition followed by cutting and burning in the urethra.
Involuntary micturition when walking and also at night.
Involuntary micturition when coughing or sneezing.

Dryness and soreness of the vagina, with itching.
Menstruation too early and profuse, or too late and scanty (irregular).
Suppressed menstruation.
Delayed appearance of menses in girls.
Menses preceded and followed by headache.
Acrid leucorrhœa, with yellowishness of the face, chlorosis, etc.

Persistent, dry, short cough day and night from irritation in the pit of the stomach.
Cough, with bloody expectoration.
Cough, with headache as if it would burst the forehead, and with stitches in the chest.
Dyspnœa on ascending stairs.
Stitches in the chest and sides.

Violent, anxious palpitation, < lying on the left side, with faintness, coldness, or a feeling of fluttering at the heart.
Sense of constriction, with an intermittent pulse and dyspnœa.
Heart's action irregular, pulse often intermits.

Pain as if the back were broken.
Backache and weakness, > lying down.

General weakness and paralytic heaviness of the arms and legs.
Hang-nails form on the fingers.
Tremulous weakness in the legs on rising from a seat, > walking.
A feeling of tightness in the calves and under the knees.

Itching eruption on the margin of the hair at the nape of the neck.
Eruption like nettle-rash after violent exertion.
Eruption like ringworm, with itching, < warmth.
Vesicular eruption around the mouth especially below the nose, with burning.
Warts become painful.
Skin around the nails becomes dry and cracked.
Moist eruption under knees, and itching and smarting, with acrid discharge.

Sleepy all day.
Sleepy, but cannot sleep at night, and in the morning feels unrefreshed.
Numerous, frightful dreams of robbers, etc.

Chilliness, especially about 10 A. M., followed by fever, then sweat.
Whole paroxysm associated with headache and thirst.
Persistent, frontal headache, which commences during the chill and gets worse during the fever, with thirst, is very characteristic of this drug.

NATRUM MURIATICUM. CHLORIDE OF SODIUM, COMMON SALT. [*].

[*] Half an ounce of ordinary kitchen salt is dissolved in an ounce and a half of boiling, distilled water, in order to free it from its associated salts, it is filtered through printing paper, and left to crystallize by evaporation at a temperature of 122° Fahrenheit. The crystals, which are allowed to dry off on blotting paper, are of cubical shape with pyramidal indentation on every side. One grain of these crystals is triturated to the one millionth attenuation, and then brought to the decillionth attenuation, as indicated in the first part of this work.

There is hardly any pure experience of the real medicinal effects of common salt in diseases. Where it has been given, indeed, with quick effects, e. g., in spitting of blood and in other hæmorrhages, the enormous quantity given (a tablespoonful swallowed at once) manifestly only acted as a violent, diverting counter irritant upon the stomach and the intestines, in the same way as a mustard plaster, applied on the calves or the arms, by the stronger pain it causes, serves at times to produce a sudden temporary cessation of toothache. If, furthermore, as experience teaches, all substances that should have the power of healing diseases, must, on the other hand, be able to affect injuriously the state of healthy men, it would be hard to see how all nations on earth, even those only half-civilized, should have daily used salt in not inconsiderable quantities, for so many thousands of years, without experiencing any deleterious effects on the human health (as indications of its healing powers), if it is really able to ultimate such effects openly and plainly. LIND, indeed, derives scurvy in long sea-voyages from the use of salt meats on board of ships ; but this is improbable, as many other morbific causes cooperate to develop this cachexy. If we then assume, that common salt in its natural condition, shows no injurious effects on the human health, when used daily in moderate[] quantity, we ought not to expect from it any curative effects in diseases. Nevertheless, the greatest medicinal virtues lie hidden* within it.

[] The fact that very salty food, when eaten in excess*, excites heat and thirst, while as much salt as will lie on the point of a knife, when taken by a healthy person, thirsty on account of the want of drink, relieved his thirst, -this single experience seems to give some hint of a certain injurious effect of crude cooking salt, and also to indicate some corresponding homœopathic healing virtue. But we must consider, that also other substances, seemingly indifferent, will, when taken in excess, become hurtful.

If there is then any proof convincing even the most dim-sighted, that the preparation of drugs, peculiar to Homœopathy, opens, as it were, a new world of forces, which hitherto have lain 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, which, after such preparation, can only be given to patients with the greatest care. What an incredible and yet actual transformation ! apparently a new creation ! Pure common salt (dynamized like other homœopathic material powers) is one of the most powerful antipsoric medicines, as may be seen by the peculiar effects on the human body, which are recorded below. This remedy has proved itself especially efficient, where the following were among the conditions presented : Sadness, solicitude and apprehension about the future ; anxieties ; tendency to be startled ; peevish irritability ; violence ; vertigo, in which all objects seems to whirl about, and the patient tends to fall forward ; vertigo with jerks in the head and difficulty in collecting oneself ; weakness of memory ; inability to think ; much feeling in the head ; headache with dizziness ; daily heaviness of the head, especially in the occiput, closing the eyelids ; headache in the morning ; pressure in the whole head and in the temples ; headache in the morning on awaking ; headache, as if the head would burst ; tearing, shooting headache, compelling one to lie down, stitches above the eyes ; pressive pain above the eyes ; stitches in the parietal bone ; throbbing and drawing in the forehead ; throbbing in the head ; hammering headache ; beating and throbbing in the head, on moving the body ; scurf on the head ; pimples on the forehead ; pain from excoriation in the eyes ; inflammation of the eyes ; gluey matter in the outer canthi ; nocturnal closing of the eyes by suppuration ; lachrymation ; acrid tears ; closing of the eyelids every evening ; everything becomes black before the eyes, when walking and stooping ; sudden obscuration of the eyes, when a tearing, shooting headache sets in ; dim-sightedness, like feathers before the eyes ; gauzy before the eyes, so that he cannot see at all ; long-sightedness ; double sight ; the letters in reading are blurred ; black dots and streaks of light before the eyes ; incipient amaurosis ; shooting in the ears ; beating and throbbing in the ears ; pus discharged from the ears ; tingling in the ears ; ringing of bells in the ears ; humming and roaring in the ears ; hardness of hearing ; lack of smell ; pain as of subcutaneous festering in the cheekbones, when chewing ; itching in the face ; pimples in the face ; herpes about the mouth ; swelling of the upper lip ; chapped, cracked upper lip ; blood-blisters on the inner side of the upper lip, painful when touched ; frequent swelling of the submaxillary glands ; dental fistula ; blister on the tongue ; chronic sore throat, feeling as if she had to swallow over a lump ; hawking of mucus ; expectoration of mucus, in the morning ; putrid taste in the mouth before breakfast ; sour taste in the mouth ; bitterness in the mouth ; eructations ; sour eructations ; offensive eructations, after partaking of fat or milk ; heartburn ; burning rising from the stomach ; lack of appetite ; loss of appetite for bread ; excessive appetite, morning and evening ; ravenous hunger, with fullness and satiety after but little eating ; intense desire for bitter things and for bitter beer ; loathing of fat viands ; constant thirst ; while eating, sweat in the face ; after eating, empty eructation ; after eating, heartburn ; after meals, nausea ; waterbrash, with writhing sensation about the stomach ; waterbrash, and then sour vomiting of food ; vomiting of food ; pressure in the stomach ; pressure in the stomach in the morning ; pressure in the stomach with nausea and sudden sinking of the strength ; pressure in the scrobiculus cordis ; cramp in the stomach ; pain of the scrobiculus cordis, when pressed upon ; pit of the stomach, swollen and painful as if festering beneath ; griping in the pit of the stomach ; jerks in the scrobiculus cordis ; cramp in the diaphragm when stooping ; stitches in the hepatic region ; stitches below the left ribs ; pain in the splenetic region ; pressive pain in the left hypogastrium ; inflation of the abdomen ; swelling of the abdomen ; rigidity in the left side of the abdomen ; daily colic ; incarceration of flatus ; rumbling in the abdomen ; loud growling in the abdomen ; constipation every other day ; chronic costiveness ; difficult evacuation, with tearing shooting pain in the anus and rectum ; too frequent stool ; chronic soft stools ; burning in the rectum during stool ; burning at the anus ; shooting pain in the rectum ; excoriation and throbbing in the rectum ; varices in the anus ; pain of the varices in the anus ; involuntary passage of urine, when walking, coughing and sneezing ; micturition at night ; discharge of mucus from the male urethra ; secondary gonorrhœa ; excessive excitation of the sexual parts ; excessive excitation of the fancy, tending to sexual intercourse ; impotence ; menses too long ; menses too copious ; menses too soon ; retarded menses ; menses too late and too scanty ; headache during, before and after the menses ; peevishness before the menses ; before the menses, melancholy ; at the appearance of the menses, sadness ; during the menses, spasmodic pains in the hypogastrium ; itching in the pudendum ; aversion to coitus, with woman ; leucorrhœa ; acridity of the leucorrhœa. Stoppage of the nose ; stuffed coryza ; dryness of the nose ; coryza and sneezing ; abortive sneezing ; hoarseness ; hawking ; mucus on the chest with coughing ; rattling on the chest ; morning-cough ; cough from tickling, when walking and taking a deep breath ; chronic, short cough ; spasmodic, suffocative cough, in the evening in bed ; during coughing, headache, as if it would split the forehead ; shortness of breath in walking fast ; asthma during manual labor ; wheezing, when respiring in the evening in bed ; tightness in the chest ; tensive pain in the chest ; shooting in the chest, when taking a deep breath ; shooting in the chest on coughing ; palpitation with anxiety ; palpitation at every movement of the body ; shooting in one of the breasts ; sharp drawing through the hips and the sacrum ; cutting in the sacrum ; paralytic bruised pain in the sacrum ; drawing pressure in the back ; tensive pain in the back ; weariness in the back ; pressure in the nape ; goitre ; crusts in the axilla ; paralytic heaviness of the arm ; weariness of the arms ; burrowing pain in the upper arm ; stitches in the wrist-joint ; the fingers are asleep and tingle ; pain in the hip as if dislocated ; drawing pain in the lower limbs ; painful shortening of the tendons in the houghs ; herpes in the houghs ; weariness in the knees and calves ; ulcerative pain in the ankles, when touched or when treading ; heaviness of the feet ; burning and swelling of the feet ; pressive drawing in the limbs ; ailments from much talking ; bad consequence of vexation ; ill effects of acid food ; ill effects from eating bread ; tendency to strains and sprains ; distended veins ; corns ; emaciation ; ready to take cold ; awkwardness of body ; laziness after rising, in the morning ; lassitude ; hysterical lassitude ; drowsiness by day ; sleep full of fancies ; anxious dreams, with weeping ; heavy dreams at night, waking for hours, or difficulty in falling asleep again ; nocturnal thirst ; nocturnal pains in the back ; nocturnal trembling in the nerves ; nocturnal, hourly micturition ; frequent internal chill ; restlessness with chill ; constant chilliness and lack of vital warmth ; coldness of the hands and feet ; perspiration on walking ; perspiration, too ready and profuse on moving about ; morning-perspiration, intermittent fevers mismanaged by abuse of quinine. Natrum muriaticum, when prepared as indicated above, can be advantageously repeated, after an intermediate remedy, if it continues to be homœopathically indicated. Camphor has little power in antidoting too excessive effects of this antipsoric ; the frequent smelling of sweet spirits of nitre has far more effect. Some contributions are by Dr. Rummel, Rl. ; others by the late Dr. Roehl, Rhl. ; but the greater number by Dr. Schréter, in Hungary, Sr. and Dr. Foissac, in Paris, Fc. [*].

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Nat. m. / (2nd N- Salt) / Nathan.

Natrum mur., - Without a doubt
Thou art China's equal,
When malaria is about,
Or its lurking sequel.
Blisters round thy mouth, and in
Itching blotch and tetter,
With a dry or shining skin,
Show thy scurvy fetter.
Violent thy fever thirst,
In the heat of ague,
When thy head would seem to burst,
Worse if cough assay, too.
Weak thy limbs, and muscles slack,
Heart beats intermitting,
Backache, better on the back
Lying - not when sitting.
Sore thy red and mattery eyes,
Giving out by using;
Fogs before thy sight arise,
Letters blend confusing.
'Neath thy lids are sandy grains,
Scraping in the morning;
In the morning ague trains
Due at 10 - give warning.
Flushed and pale thy urine pools,
Oft by coughing starting;
Constipated are thy stools,
Anus fissured smarting.
Yet in children thou wilt check
Diarrhoea -- dozy,
With emaciated neck,
And a left cheek rosy.
Melancholic is thy mind,
Worse by constipation;
Suffering when in heat confined,
Food gives aggravation.
Strong thy appetite for salt,
Bread and coffee fending;
Heartburn, gnaws thy gastric vault,
Water brash attending.

Nathan,- Has a craving for salt.

Nathan Craver is on his vacation.

This Nathan, - Who is subject to blisters around the mouth, - Is at his home in Russia.

Craving Salt: Nat. m., Carb. v., Verat. a., Calc. c.

Blisters Round the Mouth: Nat. m., Hep., Mer., Rhus.

Indicated chiefly in anaemic and chlorotic states and in chronic manifestations of malarial poisoning. In muscular affections of the eyes. Anaemic headaches of young girls at school.

Sad, weeping mood, without cause, worse from having consolation offered.

Great liability to take cold.

Eats heartily and good food, but gets thinner all the time.

Desire for salt; aversion to bread.

The throat and neck, especially of children sick with summer diarrhoea are so thin and scrawny as to attract attention.

Hang-nails; skin around nails is dry and cracked.

Tongue burning, tingling, mapped; feels as though a hair were on it.

Eyes feel sore and bruised; copious, burning, acrid lachrymation; eyes water freely when he coughs.

Headache as though a thousand little hammers were knocking upon the brain (fevers).

Headache from sunrise to sunset, left-sided, intense, bursting, with nausea and vomiting.

Constipation with sense of constriction at the anus; anal fissures; stools crumbling, difficult to expel because of the sense of constriction.

Involuntary escape of urine when laughing, coughing, walking.

Chill followed by heat with violent thirst.

Fever blisters, looking like pearls, on the lips and about mouth.

Backache, with feeling as though firm pressure would relieve it.

Menses irregular, profuse, with bearing-down pains, especially in the morning.

Leucorrhoea, acrid, watery, irritating.

Urticaria all over, especially after violent exercise; raw, red, burning eczema; eruptions on margin of scalp, behind ears, in the bend of the limbs.

Worse at 10 or 11 o'clock a. m. (chill); near the sea; from heat of the sun or stove; from lying down.

Better from bathing; in the open air.

Weakness of understanding and memory. Distraction and absence of ideas. Melancholiac sadness with aversion to exertion. Melancholy, with much weeping, aggravated into violent outbursts of anger by consolation. Awkwardness. Angry irritability, easily flies into a passion. Anxiousness, frightened easily. Hatred towards those that have injured him. Haste and impatience. Concern for the future.

With jerks in head and want of recollection. Painful dizziness in head.

Many kinds of headache. Throbbing and hammering, most in forehead, with nausea and vomiting. heaviness of, every day, especially in occiput, it draws the eye shut. Violent ache, as though' it would burst. Tearing from root of nose into forehead, with darkness of vision. Attacks of gout in, with nausea and vomiting. Painful stitches, which go through head like a jerk. Pain, as if compressed in a vise. Headache, often of an extraordinarily violent sort accompanies most other complaints. Worse: Awaking from sleep: early in morning: motion, cold air, anger, reading, writing, looking fixedly, mental exertion, talking. Better: Sitting or lying quietly, especially with head high, open air, after sweat.

Hair falls out when merely grasped, most on bregma and temples, but also on beard and genitals, especially frequent in child bed. Scalp smarts when touched, especially at edges of hair, on temples and forehead. Scalp feels contracted as if in a snare. Takes cold in. Worse: Night and morning, warmth of bed. Better: Sitting up.

Inflamed, with ulcerated lids and glutinous mucus in (external) canthi. Acrid tears. Spasmodic closure of lids in evening. Letters run together when reading. Progressive paralysis of optic nerve. Weak vision.

Swelling and heat of external. Purulent discharge from. Roaring in. Difficult hearing.

Dryness of internal. Numbness of one side. Painful swelling of one side. Lost smell. Early in morning stuffed (or fluent) coryza, with loss of smell and taste. Ineffectual attempts to sneeze. First right side is affected then the left.

Glistens as if greasy. Yellowish, earthy complexion. Sweat on, when eating. Lips are cracked and ulcerated. Herpetic eruption about mouth. Swelling of the submaxillary glands.

Very sensitive to air and touch. Drawing ache extending into ears and throat. Swollen gums, with sensitiveness to warmth or cold. Putrescent, easily bleeding gums. Dental fistula.

Burning blisters in mouth and on tongue. Chronic sore throat, with sensation of being compelled to swallow over a lump. Gurgling in throat. Inflamed throat with sticking pains. Hawks up mucus, early in the morning. Numbness of half of tongue. Dry tongue. Numbness of half of tongue. Dry tongue, with constant thirst. Difficulty speech from heaviness of tongue. Sense of a hair on tongue. Salivation

Taste: Lost. Putrid or sour, in mouth. Persistent after taste of sour food.

Pressure, as of a stone in, with qualmishness. Contractive spasm in, with qualmishness. Griping in pit. Sensitiveness of pit, which is swollen. Red spots on pit. Jerks and thrusts in pit.

Hypochondria: Chronic inflammation of liver, with sticking pains.

Appetite: Extraordinary, at noon and in evening. Aversion to bread and fatty food. Desire for bitter food. After effects of sour food or bread. Continuous thirst. Complaints appear after drinking.

Eructations: Sour, after eating. After eating, heartburn and many empty eructations. Water collects in mouth.

Nausea: Qualmishness early in morning. Vomiting, at first food, then bile.

Distension of. Hypochondriacal discomfort in. Daily cutting and pinching in. Pressure in. Jerks and thrusts in. Disagreeable feeling in.

Flatulence: Incarcerated, with cutting and pinching. Loud grumbling and rumbling in abdomen.

Ineffectual urging to. Involuntary. Difficult, with stitches in rectum. Constipation.

Burning in, and in rectum during and after stool. Sticking anal hemorrhoids. Herpes at.

Violent urging to urinate (day and night), with profuse discharge of urine. Involuntary discharge of, when coughing, sneezing and walking.

Gonorrhea of glans. Gleet. Itching in pudendum. Excessive sexual desire with impotency.

Menses too early and too profuse (or too late and too scanty) with sterility. Irregular. Suppressed. Delayed appearance of first, in young woman. Headache before, during and after menses. Acrid leucorrhoea with a yellow face.

Tightness of chest when walking rapidly and during manual labor. Suffocative attacks. His breath seems hot to himself.

Soreness and dry feeling in, and in trachea.

Long continued, dry c., with rattling in chest. Early in morning. From tickling in throat and epigastrium during day and night. Dry in evening, in morning expectoration of yellow, often blood streaked mucus, generally of a flat, sometimes sourish or more rarely a salty taste. With retching up of bloody mucus. During cough sticking in chest and headache which threatens to burst forehead.

Tension and cutting in. Stitches in, and in sides thereof. Violent anxious palpitation, most violent anxious palpitation, most violent when lying upon left side. Snoring and rattling in. Heart beat irregular or frequently intermittent. Fluttering feeling at heart.

Neck: Pains in cervical glands.

Back: Lame, bruised feeling in and in sacral region. Drawing in.

Weakness and paralytic heaviness of arms. Warts on palms of hands. Sweaty hands. Asleep sensation and crawling in fingers. Numerous hangnails.

Dislocative pain in hip joint. Drawing pain in legs. Painful shortening of hamstrings. Heaviness of lower leg and foot. Stitches in corns.

Great relaxation of all mental and physical powers after exertion. Agg. on 5th day. Every movement excites the circulation exceedingly. Early in morning the limbs feel very weak and as if severely bruised. Extraordinary emaciation. Easily takes cold. Complaints from too much speaking. Bad effects of anger. Shortened tendons. Twitching of muscles and limbs. Paralysis. Hysterical complaints. The nightly pains take away the breath and cause a sort of unilateral paralysis. He is weakest early in the morning when in bed. Symptoms recur at 10 - eleven AM

Hives after violent exertion. Boils. Warts. Panaritia and hang - nails.

Insufficient and unrefreshing in morning. Full of vivid fancies. Day sleepiness. Nightly sleeplessness, with ineffectual desire for. Anxious dreams.

Pulse: Extremely irregular, often intermittent, especially when lying on left side, with throbbing and distension of blood vessels. Now quick and weak, then full and slow. Pulse - beat shakes the entire body perceptibly. Chill: At eleven AM. Predomination, mostly internal, as if from want of natural vital heat, with icy - cold hands and feet, most in evening. Long continued, from morning to noon. Heat: Overrunning, with the most intolerably violent head pains, often with shuddering over the back, and sweat in arm - pits and on soles of feet. Long continued, in afternoon, with the most extraordinary head pains and insensibility, which gradually disappear during the subsequent sweat. Mostly with violent thirst. Intermittent fever with violent headache, m especially during the heat. Sweat: Profuse, wherein the symptoms cease which appeared during the fever. much during day, and great inclination thereto from every movement. Night and early morning s. Debilitating, somewhat sour smelling s.

Allied Remedies: Ag-c., Alum, Anac., Ars., Bro., Conn., Carb-v., Chin., Gel., Kali-c., Kre., Nat-c., Nat-s. Nux-v., Petr., PULS., Ruta. Spig.

Great weakness and debility of mind and body after exertion.

Every movement accelerates the circulation.

Great emaciation.

Bad effects from anger and illness induced from much talking.

Twitching in the muscles and limbs.

Shortening of the muscles.

Hysterical conditions bettered.

The nightly pains cause shortness of breath and a kind of one-sided loss of power.

The most weakness is felt in the morning in bed.

Gastric complaints often beneficially affected by use of the remedy.

Bad effects of acids and bread.

Congestion of blood to the head, chest, and stomach with coldness of the legs.

Great coldness of the body, with disposition to put on more clothing a very marked indication when the remedy is of curative influence.

Splitting headache.

Of value in bringing up power of vision after debilitating illness.

Pressing in the stomach with nausea and sudden sinking of strength.

Continued chilliness and want of animal heat very marked.

Often of great benefit in the treatment of malarial diseases and intermitting fevers.

Chronic hepatitis.

Palms of the hands hot and perspiring.

Pulse intermitting.

Constipation.

Intermittent fever with splitting headache.

Aggravation in the morning and at night.