Natrum Sulphuricum nat-s.

OCCIPUT. Glands: LIVER. Bile. Pancreas. Intestinal. Descending colon. Chest: Left (lower). Lower. Left side.

DAMP: Weather. Night air. Cellars. Lying on left side. Injuries; head. Lifting. Touch. Pressure. Late evening. Wind. Light.

Open air. Change of position.

Sudden violent effects; in ailing patients. Piercing pains, at (l) short ribs; in (l) hip, < rising or sitting down; in heels. Yellow, watery secretions, stool, skin, vesicles, etc. Thick, yellow-green pus. Fulness. Sour, bilious and lithæmic. Rheumatic-hydrogenoid constitution. Sycosis.

Sensitive and suspicious. Sadness, < music or subdued light. Melancholia. Dire (suicidal) impulses. Vertigo; > head sweat. Crushing or gnawing in occiput. Meningitis. PHOTOPHOBIA. Nose run water at night. Epistaxis, during menses. Thick, tenacious, white slime in mouth. Dirty brown or greenish - yellow, thick, pasty tongue, < at base; tip feels burnt. Bitter taste. Thirst at start of fever only. Slow digestion. Concomitants to nausea. Green, bilious vomit. Sore, heavy liver; < lying on left side. As of a lump below liver. Crawling in gall-bladder. Colic, > rubbing abdomen. Cramp at umbilicus. FLATULENCE; painful; pushes here and there, < left abdomen. RUMBLING, GURGLING IN BOWELS, THEN SUDDEN GUSHING, NOISY, SPLUTTERING STOOL; after rising in A.M., or drives from bed. Foamy or yellow diarrhœa, mixed with green slime. White sand in urine. Dyspnœa. Sycotic asthma. Loose, but violent cough; must hold chest or sides. Run rounds. Hang nails. Retracted nipples. Sharp cutting back pains, spreading upward like a fan. Throbbing in heels. Vesicles on soles. Chilly, can't get warm, even in bed. Heat with aversion to uncover. Burning below knees. Foul axillary sweat. Warty nodules.

Complementary: Ars. Thu. Related: Colo. Glo. Med. Pul.

Ailments which are < by, or which depend upon, dampness of weather, damp houses or cellars (Aran.). Patient feets every change from dry to wet; cannot tolerate sea air, nor eat plants that thrive near water; a constitution in which gonorrhoeal poison is most pernicious; recovers slowly from every sickness. Every spring, skin affections reappear (Psor.). Inability to think (Nat. c.). Sad, gloomy, irritable; worse in mornings; dislikes to speak or be spoken to (Iod., Sil.). Depressed; lively music makes her sad; satiety of like; must use great self-control to prevent shooting himself. Mental traumatism; mental effects from injuries to head; chronic brain effects of blows, falls. Granular lids: like small blisters (Thuja); green pus and terrible photophobia; gonorrhoeal or sycotic. Nosebleed during menses (instead of menses, Bry., Puls.). Toothache > by cold water, cool air (Coff., Puls.). Dirty, greenish-gray or brown coating on tongue. Diarrhoea: sudden, urging, gushing, much flatus; on first rising and standing on the feet; after a spell of wet weather; living on working in basements. Gonorrhoea: greenish-yellow, painless, thick discharge (Puls.); chronic or suppressed (thick, green, Kali iod.). Dyspnoea; desire to take a deep breath during damp, cloudy weather. Humid asthma in children; with every change to wet weather; with every fresh cold; always worse in damp, rainy weather; sputa green, greenish, copious (greenish grey, Cop.). Sycotic pneumonia; lower lobe of left lung; great soreness of chest, during cough, has to sit up in bed and hold the chest with both hands (Nic. - right lung, Bry.). Spinal meningitis: violent crushing gnawing pains at base of brain; head drawn back; spasms with mental irritability and delirium; violent congestion of blood to head; delirium; opisthotonos.

Compare: Nat. m. and Sulph., which are very similar; Thuja and Merc., in syphillis and sycosis occurring in hydrogenoid constitutions.

Damp basements or dwellings; damp weather (Aran., Ars. i., Dul.); rest; lying.

Dry weather; pressure, sitting up (cough); changing position (but > in wet weather, Caust.); open air. Must change position frequently, but it is painful and gives little relief (Caust.).

Sulphate of Sodium-Glauber's Salt (NATRUM SULPHURICUM)

A liver remedy, especially indicated for the so-called hydrogenoid constitution, where the complaints are such as are due to living in damp houses, basements, cellars. They are worse in rainy weather, water in any form. Feels every change from dry to wet; cannot even eat plants growing near water, nor fish. Always feels best in warm, dry air. Clinically, it has been found a valuable remedy for spinal meningitis, head symptoms from injuries to head, mental troubles therefrom. Every spring, return of skin affections. Tendency to warts. Fingers and toes affected. Chronic gout (Lycop).

Lively music saddens. Melancholy, with periodical attacks of mania. Suicidal tendency; must exercise restraint. Inability to think. Dislikes to speak, or to be spoken to.

Occipital pain. Piercing stitches in ears. Vertigo; relieved by sweat on head. Bursting feeling on coughing. Hot feeling on top of head. Bursting feeling on coughing. Hot feeling on top of head. Boring in right temple, preceded by burning in stomach. Ill-effects of falls and injuries to the head, and mental troubles arising therefrom. Dreams of running water.

Sticking pain, earache, lightning-like stitches in damp weather.

Nasal catarrh, with thick, yellow discharge and salty mucus. Coryza. Epistaxis. Ethmoiditis.

Conjunctiva yellow. Granular lids. Photophobia (Graphites).

Slimy, thick, tenacious, white mucus. Bitter taste, blisters on palate.

Thick, yellow mucus, drops from posterior nares.

Vomits sour. Brown, bitter coating on tongue. Yellow complexion. Thirst for something cold. Bilious vomiting, acid dyspepsia, with heartburn and flatulence.

Duodenal catarrh; hepatitis; icterus and vomiting of bile; liver sore to touch, with sharp, stitching pains; cannot bear tight clothing around waist, worse, lying on left side. Flatulency; wind colic in ascending colon; worse, before breakfast. Burning in abdomen and anus. Bruised pain and urging to stool. Diarrhœa yellow, watery stools. Loose morning stools, worse, after spell of wet weather. Stools involuntary, when passing flatus. Great size of the fecal mass.

Loaded with bile. Brisk-dust sediment. Excessive secretion. Diabetes.

Nosebleed during menses, which are acrid and profuse. Burning in pharynx during menstruation. Herpetic vulvitis. Leucorrhœa yellowish-green, following gonorrhœa in female. Leucorrhœa with hoarseness.

Condylomata; soft, fleshy excrescences; greenish discharges. Gonorrhœa; discharge thick, greenish; little pain.

Dyspnœa, during damp weather. Must hold chest when coughing. Humid asthma; rattling in chest, at 4 and 5 am. Cough, with thick ropy, greenish expectoration; chest feels all gone. Constant desire to take deep, long breath. Asthma in children, as a constitutional remedy. Delayed resolution in pneumonia. Springs up in bed the cough hurts so; holds painful side (Bry). Pain through lower left chest. Every fresh cold brings on attack of asthma.

Itching when undressing. Violent pains in back of neck, and at base of brain. Piercing pain between scapulæ. Spinal meningitis; opisthotonos.

Swelling of axillary glands. Inflammation around root of nails. Burning in soles; œdema of feet; itching between toes. Gout. Pain in limbs, compels frequent change in position. Run-arounds. Pain in hip-joints, worse left, worse, stooping. Stiffness of knees, cracking of joints. Rheumatism, worse in damp cold weather.

Itching while undressing. Jaundiced, watery blisters. Sycotic excrescences; wart-like red lumps all over body.

Worse, music (makes her sad); lying on left side; dampness of basement, damp weather. Better, dry weather, pressure, changing position.

Compare: Natrum succinate (5 gr every 3 hours. Catarrhal jaundice). Malaria officinalis-decomposed vegetable matter--(Has evident power to cause the disappearance of the plasmodium of malaria. Malarial cachexia. General sense of weariness. Spleen affections. Malaria and rheumatism. Functional hepatic diseases. Sixth potency and higher).Natrum choleinicum-Fel Tauri Depuratum--(constipation; chronic gastric and intestinal catarrh; cirrhotic liver; diabetes; nape of neck pains; tendency to sleep after eating; much flatus; ascites); Momordica-Balsam Apple--(Colic, dysmenorrhœa with gushes of blood). Pulmo vulpis-Wolf's lung (persistent shortness of breath causing a paroxysm of asthma on the slightest motion. Strong, sonorous bubbling rales. 1x trit). Peumus Boldus-Boldo--(atonic states of stomach and intestinal canal; liver states following malaria. Burning weight in region of liver and stomach, bitter taste, languor; abscess of liver; asthma, bronchitis, catarrh, œdema of lungs); Natrum iodat (Incipient rheumatic endocarditis; chronic bronchitis, rheumatism and tertiary syphilis. Chronic catarrhal affections, arteriosclerosis. Here various symptoms, as angina pectoris, vertigo, dyspnœa become less marked after continued use of 5-10 grs, 3 times a day). Natrum hyposulph (liver-spots, locally and internally); Sulp; Thuja; Merc.: stilling.

Complementary; Ars; Thuja.

First to twelfth trituration.

Diarrhœa, acute or chronic < in the morning on beginning to move (Bry.), with much flatulence (Aloe and Calc. Phos.), and rumbling in abdomen, especially right ileo-cæcal region.

Loose cough, with great pain in the chest; < in lower left chest (right, Chel.).

Mental effects from injuries to head.

Chronic effects of blows, falls.

Toothache > by cold water, cool air (Coff., Puls.).

Gonorrhœa; greenish-yellow, painless, thick discharge (Puls.).

Natrum sulphuricum is also one of our armamentarium for diarrhœa, both acute and chronic. Like Podophyllum, Sulphur, Nuphar and Rumex, the diarrhea is aggravated in the morning. Sulphur drives the patient out of bed, but Natrum sulph., like Bryonia, is worse only after beginning to move. Then again Natrum sulph. has, like Aloe, much rumbling in the bowels as of flatulence. This rumbling of flatus is often with Natrum sulph. located in the right side of the abdomen in the ileo-cæcal region.

Again the Natrum sulphuricum stool is, like China, Argentum nit., Calcarea phos., Agaricus and Aloe, accompanied by a profuse emission of flatus. This flatulence is not always present, but is often so. In chronic diarrhœa there is almost always some trouble with the liver, evidenced by soreness in right hypochondrium, which is sensitive to touch, and hurts on walking or any jar. One very strong characteristic for this remedy in this trouble is aggravation of the diarrhœa, pain, etc., in damp weather. In this it resembles Dulcamara and Rhododendron. The Dulcamara has the aggravation in change from warm to cold weather, weather damp or dry. This aggravation in damp weather is not confined to diarrhœa in Natrum sulph. but is especially present in cases of chronic asthma. I have seen very great benefit in such cases of this very troublesome and obstinate disease, and as aggravation in damp weather very commonly occurs in cases of old asthma this remedy is often indicated. I have not observed much benefit from this remedy in runarounds, for which it is highly recommended; but have seen nice results from it in very obstinate cases of gonorrhœa, when the discharges was thick and greenish and little pain. Loose cough, with soreness and pain through the left chest, is very characteristic. This is one of the chief diagnostic points of difference between Bryonia and Natrum sulphuricum, that while with both there is great soreness of the chest with the cough, with Bryonia the cough is dry, while with Natrum sulph. it is loose. The patient springs right up in bed, the cough hurts him so.

There is as much soreness as there is with Bryonia, and when the patient coughs he springs up in bed and holds the painful side in his hand to ease the hurt. This symptom may be found in chronic affections of the respiratory organs, such as asthma, phthisis, etc., and I have several times seen remarkably prompt relief and cure follow its administration in pneumonia when this symptom was present. This pain through the lower left chest is as characteristic for Natrum sulph., as is that of pain running through right lower chest for Kali carbonicum.

Modalities: < in cold, wet weather; damp cellars; hydrogenoid (diarrhœa, rheumatism, asthma).

Sadness ; inclined to weep. Lively music disposes one to weep.

Vertigo after a meal ; the heat extends from the abdomen to the head ; relieved after the forehead becomes moist. Heaviness in the head, with bleeding of the nose. Periodical attacks in the right side of the forehead. Pain, as if the forehead would burst, after a meal. Jerks in the head, tossing it to the right side (forenoon). Feeling of looseness of the brain, as if it were falling to the left temple (in the forenoon on stooping). Sensitiveness of the scalp ; the hair is painful on combing it.

Burning in the eyes, with discharge of burning water, with dimness of sight. Burning and dryness of the eyes. Dimness of sight, from weakness of the eyes.

Pressing in the ears as if the tympanum were pressed out. Itching of the wings of the nose, inducing rubbing. Bleeding of the nose during the menses (in the afternoon).

Pale complexion. Itching of the face. Vesicles on the lower lip. Dryness of the upper lip, the skin peels off. Pimples on the chin, they burn when touching them.

The gums bum like fire. Feeling of numbness and roughness in the mouth. Dryness, with redness of the gums and thirst. Burning of the tongue ; it feels as if covered with blisters. The tongue is covered with mucus ; slimy taste in the mouth. Burning blisters on the tip of the tongue. Burning of the palate as if sore and raw (during the menses). Blisters on the palate, with great sensitiveness ; relieved by cold. Frequent constriction of the throat when walking. Inflammation of the tonsils and uvula, with painful deglutition, and urging to swallow saliva. Dryness of the throat, extending to the œsophagus. Accumulation of mucus in the throat, particularly at night ; with hawking up of salt mucus in the morning.

Great thirst for cold things ; worse after exercise and in the forenoon. After eating, perspiration in the face. Gulping up of sour water. Hiccough in the evening ; after eating bread and butter. Vomiting of sour mucus, or of saltish sour water (preceded by giddiness). Qualmishness before eating. Boring in the stomach, as if it would be perforated, or burning and pinching, in the morning after rising ; better after breakfast. Beating in the stomach, with nausea. Stitches in the region of the liver, while walking in the open air. Great sensitiveness of the region of the liver while walking. Stitches in the left hypochondrium while walking in the open air. Colic, griping in the abdomen ; worse before breakfast ; relieved in the afternoon by the emission of flatulence. Painful digging in the abdomen during the menses, in the evening, followed by thirst. Contractive pain in the abdomen, extending to the chest, with tightness of breath, and subsequent diarrhœa. Pain, as if bruised, in the abdomen and small of the back. Pinching in the abdomen, with the sensation as if the bowels were distended. Pinching in the whole abdomen, with rumbling, shifting and subsequent diarrhœa. Flatulent colic ; accumulation and difficult emission of flatulence. Incarceration of flatulence. Emission of fetid flatulence (in the morning, after meals, and with the loose stools). Stitch from the (left) groin to the axilla.

Stool hard, with pressure ; streaked with blood. Looseness of the bowels. Half-liquid stools, with tenesmus. Diarrhœa, preceded by pain in the groins and hypogastrium. Yellow liquid stools after rising from bed in the morning. During stool profuse emission of flatulence. Constant uneasiness in the bowels and urging to stool. (Chronic diarrhœa ; tuberculosis abdominalis). After stool, burning at the anus. Itching of the anus.

Copious micturition, with brick-dust sediment. Burning during or after micturition, or with pain in the small of the back on retaining the urine. Gonorrhœa.

Men. Itching of the glans or penis, obliging one to rub. Itching of the scrotum, with burning after scratching. Itching of the perineum and mons veneris. Excited sexual desire (evening) ; erections (morning). Women. Retarded, scanty menses, with colic. Profuse menstruation, particularly when walking in the afternoon. Menstrual blood acrid, corrosive and flowing profusely the first days ; the last days (flowing longer than usual) discharge of lumps of coagulated blood. Leucorrhœa.

Dry cough (in the morning, after rising from bed). At night, with soreness of the chest and roughness of the throat ; has to sit up and hold the chest with both hands. Loose cough, with expectoration ; shortness of breathing ; stitches in the left side of the chest. Stitches in the left side of the chest, when sitting, when yawning, during an inspiration.

Pain in the small of the back, all night ; has to lie on the right side ; the back feels bruised when turning on it. Pain as if stabbed between the shoulders. Stitches in the nape of the neck (at night).

Upper. Twitchings of the hands (and feet), during sleep (more so after midnight). Trembling of the hands on waking and also when writing. Loss of strength of the (left) hand, is unable to hold any thing heavy. Tingling, ulcerative pain under the nail. Panaritium. Tingling in the tips of the fingers. Lower. Pain in the hips, in the morning on rising, and all day, particularly on making certain motions (on stooping), more violent when rising from a seat or on moving about in bed. Stabbing pain in the left hip (after a fall). The pain in the hip is better in certain positions, but compels one to move again after a short time, causing intense suffering. Legs and thighs feel weary and exhausted. In the heels, lancinating pain, tearing and ulcerating pain. Itching on or between the toes, in the evening on undressing.

Drowsiness in the forenoon, especially when reading or writing. Starting as if in a fright, soon after falling asleep. Anxious, frightful dreams disturb the sleep.

Internal coldness, with yawning and stretching. Coldness and shuddering with thirst. Waking at night with chilliness, shaking and chattering of teeth, with anguish and thirst. Chilliness, with warmth of the forehead and hands. Dry heat in the afternoon. Perspiration in the morning.

When lying long in one position, the restless desire to move compels a change which is very painful, and it is very difficult to find a new position which gives relief. Aggravation of many symptoms in the morning. Amelioration after breakfast and in the open air.

Sodium Sulphate. Sal Mirabile. Soda vitriolata. Glauber's Salt. Na 2 SO 4 . Trituration. Solution.

Asthma. Biliousness . Brain, injuries of. Condylomata. Debility; of drunkards. Diabetes . Dyspepsia; of drunkards. Enuresis. Epilepsy; traumatic. Epistaxis (menstrual). Fistulous abscesses. Gonorrhœa . Headache. Hydræmia. Influenza. Leucæmia. Liver, enlarged. Malaria. Migraine. Nephritic scarlatina. Ophthalmia. Panaritium. Phlegmasia alba dolens. Photophobia. Phthisis. Sciatica . Scrofulous ophthalmia. Spleen, affections of. Sycosis. Warts.

Natrum sulph . is a much honoured drug. It was discovered by Glauber in 1658 and named by him Sal Mirabile . It has been named after him Sal Glauberi . It is the chief ingredient in many mineral Spas, notably those of Carlsbad. It was proved by Schreter, Hartlaub, Trinks, and others. It was studied by Grauvogl, who found in it the typical remedy for his "hydrogenoid constitution"; and it forms one of the tissue remedies of Schüssler. From whichever side it has been studied the indications arrived at are practically agreed upon by all, though the homœopathist has the widest field. Grauvogl described as the hydrogenoid constitution the state in which there is extreme sensitiveness to damp, wetting, bathing, watery foods, and residence near fresh water, especially standing water. Periodicity is also another feature of this state. This constitution he considered as providing the soil for gonorrhœal infection. It corresponds to Hahnemann's sycosis. Nat. sul . was Grauvogl's leading anti-hydrogenoid. It will be seen by the following quotation that Schüssler by another route reaches the same conclusion: "The action of the Sodium sulphate is contrary to that of the Sodium chloride . Both, indeed, have the faculty of attracting water, but the end is a contrary one; Nat. mur . attracts the water destined to be put to use in the organism, but Nat. sul . attracts the water formed during the retrogressive metamorphosis of the cells, and secures its elimination from the organism. Nat. mur . causes the splitting up of the cells necessary for their multiplication; Nat. sul . withdraws water from the superannuated leucocytes, and thus causes their destruction. The latter salt is, therefore, a remedy for leucæmia. Nat. sul . is a stimulant of the epithelial cells and of the nerves, as will appear in what follows. In consequence of the activity excited by Nat. sul . in the epithelial cells in the urinary canals, superfluous water with the products of the tissue changes, dissolved or suspended therein, flows into the kidneys, in order to leave the organism in the form of urine through the ureters and the bladder. While Nat. sul . stimulates the epithelial cells of the biliary ducts, the pancreatic ducts and of the intestines, it causes the secretion of the excretions of these organs. Nat. sul . is also intended to stimulate the functions of the nerves of the biliary apparatus, of the pancreas, and of the intestines. If the sensory nerves of the bladder are not stimulated by Nat. sul ., the impulse to void urine does not come to man's consciousness; thence there follows involuntary micturition (wetting the bed). If the motory nerves of the detrusor are not stimulated, there results retention of urine. In consequence of an irregular action of Nat. sul . on the epithelial cells and the nerves of the biliary apparatus, there arises either a diminution or an increase of the secretion and excretion of the bile. If the motory nerves of the colon are not sufficiently influenced through Nat. sul . there arise constipation and flatulent colic. If in consequence of a disturbance in the motion of the molecules of Nat. sul . the elimination of the superfluous water from the intercellular spaces takes place too slowly, there arises hydræmia, and functional disturbances in the apparatus for the secretion of bile cause the following diseases: Chills and fever, bilious fever, influenza, diabetes, bilious vomiting, bilious diarrhœa, œdema, œdematous erysipelas; on the skip, vesicles containing yellowish water, moist herpes, herpes circinatus, sycotic excrescences, catarrhs with yellowish green or green secretions. The state of health of persons suffering from hydræmia is always < in humid weather, near the water, and in damp, moist underground dwellings; it is improved by contrary conditions." Nat. sul . is Schüssler's specific for epidemic influenza. Homœopathy welcomes the keynotes provided by these two great observers, and incorporates them with the data furnished by her own provings and clinical observations, with which they entirely agree. Grauvogl and Schüssler used Nat. sul . in the lower triturations, but homœopaths need not confine themselves to any. When the correspondence is exact the highest attenuations will act better than the lower; when the likeness is more general the lower will give the best results. The provings bring out the cardinal symptoms of the sycotic constitution: Early morning aggravation (the syphilitic is < from sunset to sunrise); the periodicity and intermittent character of the symptoms, the predominant chilliness and sensitiveness to damp, clearly relates Nat. sul . to Thuja , the vaccinal nosodes and other sycotic remedies. But these uses of Nat. sul ., whilst guiding the homœopath (and if he is ignorant of them he will miss making many cures), do not limit or hamper him. Nat. sul . has a clear individuality independent of these relations. Nat. sul . has many strongly-marked symptoms of the mind and head. It has headache with drowsiness; basal headache, as if the bones at the base of the brain were crushed; pressure on both sides or on r. side of occiput. Mental troubles arising from injury to the head. Like other Natrums, it has mental symptoms < from music. Low spirits even to suicidal impulse. Irritability < morning. Such conditions arise in conditions of nervous exhaustion brought on by debilitating diseases. There is also "Cheerfulness; after loose stools." Nat. sul . has nose-bleed before and during menses (not vicarious like Bry ). Toothache is < by warm things, intolerable by hot things, and > by holding cold water in the mouth. In scrofulous ophthalmia, granular lids, &c., Nat. sul . has a great curative sphere. H. C. Allen says that with the possible exception of Graph ., no remedy has "such terrible sensitiveness to light." Nat. sul . has a decided relation to fingers and toes. A case of panaritium is reported ( N. A. J. H ., xiii. 265) in a young woman, 2l. Sticking ulcerative pain under nail of right index finger, and in phalanges of various fingers. Pulsation in tip of little finger. > Out of doors. Nat. sul . 30 in water, a teaspoonful every two hours. Pain ceased rapidly; well in two days. (Six months before patient had one on another finger which gave great pain, and went on to suppuration). S. M. Pease ( Med. Adv ., xxv. 28) cured a very chronic case of intermittent fever with Nat. sul ., to which he was led by this symptom: "When he took off his boots at night the ball of the right great toe invariably itched." Its counterpart may be found in the Schema. Asthma is very frequently a sycotic manifestation, and Nat. sul . corresponds to the breathing and skin symptoms often met with in asthma. Asthma of malarial districts. Humid asthma of children; with every fresh cold an attack of asthma. Attacks of asthma frequently occur in the early morning hours. Leonard ( H. W ., xxxiii. 465) has cured with Nat. sul . 200x a very violent asthma which was always induced by any unusual exertion. Bellairs ( H. W ., xxx. 407) cured with Nat. sul . 3x a chronic case in a man, 35, who had "looseness of the bowels at each attack." There were no evidences of the sycotic constitution in this case. W. J. Guernsey ( H. P ., vii. 129) has recorded a similar case: Mrs. S., 36. Violent attacked asthma; greenish, purulent sputa; a loose evacuation immediately after rising the last two days . Nat. sul . 500 was given in water, every two hours. Was enabled to lie down the same night, and all symptoms rapidly cleared up. Another case by the same observer is this: Mrs. C., 42. Subject to attacks for years. Expectoration greenish and remarkably copious. Nat. sul . in water every three hours. Improvement began after a few doses, expectoration became paler and less abundant. Felt better than for years previously. A case of megrim cured by Baltzer with Nat. sul . 30 is reported in Archiv. f. Hom ., ii. 317 ( H. W ., xxix. 408). One peculiar feature of it was that there was salivation with the headache . Miss P., 19, had had headache every fortnight for years. Shooting pain in right temple begins in morning after rising, increases till evening, and only ceases about 1 a.m., when she gets to sleep. > By cold compresses; in open air; in dark room; by vomiting. < By noise; light; eating (does not eat anything on the days when the pain is on, or it would be < ); stooping; during menstruation. During headache mouth always full of water, causing her to spit constantly. Puls . and Phos . relieved temporarily, but the megrim returned with vomiting and flushes of heat. After headache much thirst and craving for acids. Before headache, irritability. Nat. sul . cured. Traumatic epilepsy resulting from injury to the head has been cured with Nat. sul . ( H. W ., xxxv. 258). The dreams of Nat. sul . are remarkable. Heermann of Paris cured a young lady, a patient of mine, whose sleep was disturbed by dreams of fighting . — Mahlon Preston ( Med. Adv ., xviii. 533) has cured many cases of threatened consumption having "pains flying from the chest beginning with a dry cough." Gregg (to whom Preston refers) gives the symptoms: "All-gone, empty feeling in chest, a sense of weakness in chest, must hold chest with both hands when coughing for support to relieve the weakness" ( Repertory , p. 322). Gregg refers "must hold chest because of pain and soreness, feels as if it would fly to pieces," to Bry . and Phos. Nat. sul . has both. Peculiar sensations of Nat. Sul . are: As if forehead would burst. As if a screw being driven in. As if top of head would split. As if brain was loose and fell to left temple. As if brain crushed in a vice, or something gnawing there. As if bells ringing in ears. As if tympanum was pressed out. As if something forcing its way out of ears. Weight on chest. Lump or ball in throat. Burning: on top of head; right. eye; edges of lids; gums palate; anus; abdomen; soles to knees. Creeping in scalp to vertex. Crawling in eyes. Symptoms are < by touch (liver abdomen; scalp; pimples). < Pressure of tight clothing. Pressure (of hand) > pressure in head; and soreness of chest. Scratching = burning. Rest < most ailments (can hardly find a position where pain in hip is tolerable, and the > by changing does not last long). Turning or twisting body very painful. Obliged to lie on back. Lying down > pressure in head. Lying on side > violent colic. Lying on left side < (engorged liver). Motion, exercise, walking > . Fatiguing arm = pain in head. Exertion = asthma. Whilst walking, menses flow freely. Swallowing, talking, rising from seat < . Many symptoms < in morning, > after breakfast, and in open air. Colic 2 a.m. or 2 to 5 a.m. Asthma 4 to 5 a.m. After midnight: twitching of hands and feet during sleep. Ailments which arise or are < from damp weather, or dwelling in damp houses, damp soil, weather changing to damp, getting wet. Every Spring, eruption on chest. Open air < liver; left hypochondrium; piercing pain in groins with urging to urinate. Open air > pain; panaritium. < Warm room. > Cold air and cold water (toothache). Cold food or drink < diarrhœa. During storm, flatulent colic < . > Dry weather; sitting up (cough); changing position. Retaining urine = pain in back.

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Inability to think.
Cheerfulness, happy mood ; after loose stools.
Depressed ; tearful ; lively music makes her sad.
Satiety of life ; must use all self-control to prevent shooting himself.
Irritable, < mornings ; dislikes to speak or to be spoken to.
Great anxiety caused by pressure of swelling of throat on windpipe.
Spirits low, extremely timid and anxious ; mind enfeebled.
Jaundice after anger.
Mental troubles arising from a fall or other injuries to head.
Melancholy with periodical attacks of mania.

Vertigo : after dinner ; then heat from body towards head, becoming more violent until sweat breaks out on forehead ; > after forehead becomes moist ; with dulness of head ; frequent yawning and vomiting of sour mucus ; from
gastric derangements, excess of bile, with bilious coating on tongue or bitter taste in mouth.
Muddled feeling, dulness.

Pressure in forehead, particularly after meals ; as if forehead would burst.
Periodical attacks in right side of forehead.
Pain as if forehead would burst after a meal.
Pressure in forehead and coronal region after sunset, with heat on top of head ; > by pressure of hand ; during quiet and while lying down ; < when thinking.
Beating pain in both temples when walking.
Periodically returning headaches ; pain concentrated in r. temple, of a boring nature, as if a screw was being driven in, preceded by burning sensation in pit of stomach, bitter taste and lassitude, only felt at night or in morning ; vomiting of bile follows.
Indescribable pain on top of head, as if it would split.
Pressure and heat in vertex during menses.
Hot feeling on top of head.
Heavy and dull in head, especially in morning ; looks pale and sickly.
Heaviness in head, with bleeding of nose, without relief.
Congestion of blood to head ; pulsating headache.
Headache while reading, made him feel hot, and sweat.
Brain feels loose, when stooping, as if it fell towards left temple.
Jerk in head, throwing it towards right side.
Headache : with giddiness ; bitter taste ; vomiting of bile ; bilious diarrhœa ; colicky pain.
Dull headache, with malarial symptoms.
Occipital headache.
Violent pains at base of brain, as if crushed in a vise, or something gnawing there.
Violent pains in head, especially at base of brain and back of neck. θ After injuries to head.
Irritation of brain after lesions of head.

Creeping in scalp of vertex.
Scalp is sensitive ; hair is painful on combing it.
Burning in top of head.
Chronic effects from injuries upon skull ; simple concussions that have resulted from a considerable shock, and injuries without organic affections.

Sight dim ; eyes weak ; watering.
Sensitiveness of eyes to light, with headache.
Yellowness of conjunctivæ.
Large, blisterlike granulations, with burning tears.
Burning in right eye, burning lachrymation, dim sight ; < near fire, also morning and evening ; burning of edges of lids.
Crawling sensation in eyes ; great dryness and burning of eyes ; < from afternoon to evening ; seemed as if her eyeballs were hot.
Granulous blisters on eyes.
Conjunctivitis granulosa, granulations appear like small blisters (Thuya).
Photophobia in scrofulous ophthalmia ; lids agglutinated.
Suffusion with burning of edges of lids.
Chronic conjunctivitis, with granular lids, green pus, terrible photophobia.
Lids heavy as if leaden, pressing in eyes while reading in evening.
Burning or itching of edges of lids in morning.

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This is one of our most frequently indicated constitutional remedies. The symptoms appear in the morning, evening apd during the night, especially before midnight.

Some symptoms are better after breakfast, during the daytime and after midnight, except the sweat. It is a very useful remedy for complaints following neglected gonorrhea. The symptoms and the constitutional state of the patient are worse in wet weather.

It is useful in patients who live near waterways and have suffered long from malarial influences. It is useful as an antidote to the abuse of quinine. It especially belongs to patients of the naturopathic and bilious constitution.

He is extremely sensitive to the night air. He suffers from universal catarrh and the discharges are generally greenish. It cures dropsically conditions. Sensitive to touch and pressure; oversensitive mentally and physically. Very sensitive to pain.

The pains are very numerous; dull pains, sharp pains, all better from motion. Bruised feeling:all over. Strong desire for open air and better while walking in the open air. Sensitive to a warm room, though he is sometimes sensitive to cold and must have warm loathing. The feeling of fullness or distension is found in many places; in the head, in the ear, in the abdomen, in the veins generally.

Complaints all worse in the spring and in warm weather. General, physical restlessness and anxiety. Marked weakness and trembling with internal pulsations and rapid heart. Twitching of muscles. Complaints from injuries of head and spine. The symptoms all worse during rest. Rheumatic complaints all over the body.

He is compelled to lie on the back. Convulsions from injuries of the head. Sycotic conditions with a history of warts and condylomata. Anxiety in the morning which passes off after breakfast; in the evening in bed; at night before midnight; during fever; about the future; anxiety and loathing of life with suicidal impulse, must use all self-control to prevent taking his life, A woman during gestation attempted several times to hang herself, after this remedy she was cheerful and there was no return of the suicidal disposition. Cheerful after stool. Music makes her sad. Sadness in the morning, which passes off after breakfast.

Extremely irritable in the morning.

Violent anger which is followed by jaundice. Aversion to company. Dislikes to speak or to be spoken to. Dullness of mind and excitability. Mental exertion brings on mental symptoms. Mental troubles come, on from injuries of the head.

A young man became very sad and subject to attacks of vertigo, and neglected his business after being hit on the side of the head by a base ball. He was entirely free from all symptoms after taking this remedy.

Fear of a crowd; of evil; of people. Forgetful, easily frightened, hysterical; indifferent; indolent; insanity. She is oversensitive and suspicious. Starting from fright or noise and in sleep.

Subject to vertigo, congestive headaches with fullness and heat.

Pressing outward in the head with pulsation. Periodical headaches with vomiting bile. The pains are worse when thinking of them and better by pressure, in the open air and when lying. Pulsation in the temples when walking. Splitting pain in the vertex. Heat of the vertex.

Headache in the morning on waking. Mental exertion brings on headaches. Sensation as of brain falling to side lain on. Headache with intermittent fever. Violent occipital headache with pain in the nape of the neck. Headache from injuries of the head. Itching of the scalp. Formication. Eczema of the scalp with much moisture.

Photophobia and head complaints from looking, into the light.

Lachrymation and dim vision, jaundiced eyes; inflamed eyes with many blisters. Burning in the eyes morning and evening. Greenish discharge from the eyes. Lids stuck together in the morning.

Granular lids. Scrofulous inflammation of the conjunctiva. Redness, swelling and burning of the margins of the lids. Heaviness of lids. Pressing in eyes when using eyes. Itching of the eyes in the morning.

Chirping in the ears in the evening; during chill and fever.

Flapping sensation in the ears. Ringing in the ears. Pressing out feeling in the ears. Earache as if something was forcing its way out. Stitching pains in ears, worse entering warm room from cold air; in damp weather.

Earache. Complaint worse on right side. Heat in right ear in evening. Catarrh of right ear. Stopped sensation in right ear. Purulent discharge from the ears.

catarrhal discharge from nose, yellowish green.

Epistaxis before and during menses; in afternoon and evening. Dryness and burning in the nose. Obstructed with mucus in the night. Mucus drawn from posterior nares tasting salty. Sneezing with fluent coryza and influenza. Epidemic influenza. Chunks of dried mucus blow. from high up in nose.

Itching of the face with eczema.

Sickly expression and jaundiced skin. Vesicles and pimples on the face. Vesicles on the lower lip and around the mouth. Pimples on the chin burning on touch.

The teeth become loose and fall out in sycotic constitution. The gums separate from the teeth, Pain in the teeth worse from warm things, better from cold drinks and the cold air.

Gums red, ulcerate and burn. Blisters on the gums. The mouth is always slimy. Much mucus forms in the mouth and throat. Taste is better and tongue is heavily coated a dirty greenish brown.

Blisters on the tongue and roof of the mouth. Burning in the roof of the mouth during menses. Numbness in the mouth. Salivation.

Throat and stomach: Chronic inflammation of the throat with copious viscid white MUCUS.

Dry sensation in throat. Pain in throat on swallowing food. Choking feeling in the throat when walking. It is often needed in goitre.

Great thirst in the evening; for very cold drinks; during chill and fever.

Aversion to bread and meat. Qualmishness after farinaceous foods; hiccough after bread in evening. Eructations of sour water of bitter fluid.

Nausea before breakfast. Constant nausea. Vomiting of sour or bitter fluid. Vomiting of green bile with colic. The stomach feels distended and heavy. Pulsation in the stomach after breakfast. Extreme cases of gastric weakness with acidity.

Can digest only the simple foods. Digestion very slow. This remedy has cured many complaints of the liver; congested, enlarged, sore liver.

Pain in the liver from Iying on the right side.

Dragging in the right hypochondrium when lying on the left. side (Mag. m., Card. m., Ptel .), soreness and itching in the liver when walking.

Sharp pains in the liver on deep inspiration. The liver is disturbed by mental exertion and anger. The liver seems to manufacture an excess of bile. Perverted viscid bile that readily forms gall stones. It causes the liver to make healthy bile which is the natural solvent of gall stones, when given in homoeopathic doses at long intervals. It has cured many cases of gall stone colic. It has removed gall stones in many cases. Sensitive to clothing over the hypochondria. The following three cases will testify:

Case I.

Woman, married, grown children. Aged 37. Headache followed by vomiting of bile for several years. Face purple. Heat ameliorates the pain.

Pain begins in right eye, spreads over the forehead with a dragging feeling in back of head. Pain in sacrum extends to thighs, aggravated on right side. Nervous, easily startled, apprehensive. Intensely fastidious. Had gall stone colic three months ago. Cold feet. Headache at menstrual period for sixteen years. Menstrual flow thick, clotted, dark, lasts one day, Stool, light color when sick, darker when in better health. Must restrain herself or she will commit suicide. Slow pulse at times. Tired, all the time. Condemned to an operation by the surgeon for gall stone. Fissured tongue. Natrum sulphuricum cured the gall stones disappeared.

Case 2.

Man actively engaged in business, weight 180 pounds. Age 40.

Pain in region of gall bladder. Gall stone colic. Came on after indigestion. Dull aching in that region. Must walk about the room, not ameliorated in any position. Only once has stool become light colored. Pain in region of kidneys, also through pelvic region and legs with a cloudy condition of the urine; dribbling of few drops of urine after urination.

Dull heavy pain in right side behind the lower ribs, continuous pain; pain extends up right side as far as nipple; stabbing pains in breast. Pain in duodenum aggravated after eating. Natrum sulph. cured. The patient is in perfect health.

Case 3.

Woman. Age 64. Diarrhea; stool watery, sometimes chalky; enlarged liver; clawing feeling in gall bladder; gall stone colic.

Had been condemned by a surgeon to the operating table. Sinking spells after stool; cold spells; vertigo, stooping, lying or walking; spells of rapid beating of heart; mental depression; thirstless; temperature sub-normal; sensitive to jarring abdomen; flatulence and rumbling in abdomen; cold legs to knees; cold hands much belching, aggravated after meals; sensitive to weather changes nervous and sleepless before a storm; sore dragging feeling in the liver; bowels sluggish; slow digestion; heaviness of arms and legs; chilliness down the back; unable to he on right side with comfort; urine copious; strong; late going to sleep.

Natrum sulph. made a radical change in her condition and there are no more signs of gall stones.

Distress in the abdomen relieved by displacing flatus.

Emptiness relieved by passing flatus and by eructations. Cramps and many pains from obstructed flatus. Pain and distension in the ascending colon from flatus.

Pain in the region of the caecum. It has cured many cases resembling the first stage of appendicitis. Pain and tenderness in the whole abdomen. Dull heavy pain from abdomen to back. Burning in the abdomen. Feeling in the abdomen as it a diarrhea would come on, ameliorated by eructations and passing flatus.

Distress in the abdomen that hurries him to stool but only flatus passes. Pain in the abdomen during menses. Cramp in morning before breakfast. Pain in abdomen, 4 to 8 P.M., and in evening. Constant distress in bowels and urging to stool.

Fullness, rumbling, motions, gurgling with or without diarrhea. Pain in right ascending colon when lying on the. right side. Bilious colic with vomiting of bile. It has cured many cases of syphilis. It has cured enlarged abdominal glands. Morning diarrhea with copious flatus soon after rising or soon after standing on the feet. Diarrhea in wet weather.

Stools gushing; copious; greenish; thin; very offensive; slimy, bloody; cramps in the abdomen before stool. Smarting in the anus during stool. Sometimes cheerful after stool. Often the diarrhea is painless.

Diarrhea after farinaceous food; from vegetables; fruit; pastry; cold drinks; ice cream. Diarrhea alternating with constipation. Diarrhea with stools at any hour of the day or night, but especially morning and evening.

It has cured many cases of chronic diarrhea with stool involuntary and lienteric.

Itching and crawling in the anus. Condylomata at the anus. It cured an ulceration in the rectum with copious bleeding in a lawyer who had long struggled with suicidal impulses. It has often cured bleeding piles.

It has cured parenchymatic inflammation of the kidneys following scarlet fever and from malarial influences.

It has cured sugar in the urine and polyuria. It has cured brick dust sediment many times also where copious white sandy sediment was present. It has cured copious deposits of phosphates with copious jelly-like mucous sediment. Must rise often in the night to urinate. Burning during and after urination. Urine loaded with bile. Where these symptoms appear after neglected gonorrhea.

In the male strong sexual desire and troublesome erections.

Gonorrhea when the discharge has a greenish yellow color and there is burning during and after urination. It has cured enlarged prostate many times. Condylomata, soft fleshy with greenish discharge.

Oedema of the scrotum and prepuce. Itching of the penis and scrotum with burning after scratching.

The menstrual flow is copious, acrid and clotted.

Leucorrhoea acrid greenish, purulent, excoriating the parts. It has cured milk leg.

Much thick, viscid white mucus forms in the larynx and trachea.

Dyspnoea on exertion and while walking; with sharp pain in left chest. Stitching on deep breathing. Dyspnoea in damp weather. It is a most useful remedy in humid asthma in children of sycotic parents. Humid asthma with copious viscid mucus in every spell of hot weather. Chronic catarrh of the bronchial tubes.

Frequent attacks of paroxysmal cough from irritation in larynx ending in copious white, viscid expectorations.

Expectoration bloody; greenish yellow; purulent; white; viscid. Oppression of the chest from damp evening air and in the morning on waking.

Emptiness in the chest on inspiration. Soreness in the chest on coughing, better by holding the chest with the bands.

Bronchitis and pneumonia are sometimes hard to cure in sycotic patients until they have received this remedy. Muco-purulent expectoration in old people. Eruptions on the chest every spring in sycotic patients. Swelling and suppuration in the axillary glands.

It has been the epidemic remedy in this country in cerebro-spinal meningitis, where the pain in the back of the head and neck was marked, "as the gnawing of a dog" and the head was drawn backward.

Piercing pain between the scapulae in the evening while sitting.

Tenderness of the spine. Sore pain in the small of the back and sacrum. Pain in the small of the back during the night compelling her to lie on the right side; it passes away in the morning after rising. Pain in the small of the back from retaining the urine. Itching of the back when undressing. Pain in the sacrum, cannot lie on either side.

Trembling, twitching and weakness in the limbs, twitching in hands and feet during sleep. Pains in the limbs during rest. Rheumatic pains in the limbs in wet weather. Cracking in the joint. Warts on the arms and hands. Pains in the limbs during chill and fever, better by motion and walking. Worse in the lower than in the upper limbs.

Weakness in the hands; flexors pain on grasping anything. Trembling in the hands in the morning on waking and when writing. The tendency to suppuration around the nails is a marked symptom in this remedy. Palms raw and sore and exude a watery fluid. It has cured bad cases of psoriasis of the palms. Fingers swollen and stiff.

Panaritium, pain more bearable in the open air. Ulceration, pain under the nail and in the tips of the fingers.

Pain in the right hip joint on motion. Stitching in the left hip. Pain in the hip extending to the knee. Swelling in the left leg.

Sciatica better in motion. Dull, aching in the lower limbs during chill and fever, better when walking. Restlessness of the limbs at night in bed. Ulcers on outer side of thighs. Stiffness of knees. Weakness in lower limbs. Burning of feet and legs to the knees. Dry heat in feet at night. Oedema of the feet. Sharp pain in soles and heels.

Drowsiness in the forenoon when reading. Frightful dreams. Chill from 6 to 9 P.M., with fever, than dry heat until 1 A.M., sweat absent.

Chill with icy coldness and gooseflesh from 4 to 8 P.M. during menses. Shaking chills. Chilliness with fever in the evening from night air. Perspiration after midnight or toward morning. Fevers with vomiting bile. Remittent and intermittent fevers. It is a much neglected remedy in chronic intermittent fever.

Eczema with watery oozing. Water blisters. Yellow scales after breaking the vesicles. Jaundice. Intertrigo. Wart-like, red excrescences all over the body.

Red, knotty eruptions on head above the ears; on the forehead and left side of nape of neck; in the middle of chest. Itching when undressing.

Ailments which are < by, or which depend upon, dampness of weather, damp houses or cellars (Ant. t.,

Aran., Ter.).

Patient feels every change from dry to wet; cannot tolerate sea air, nor eat plants that thrive near water; a constitution in which the gon

Mental traumatism; mental effects from injuries to head; chronic effects of blows, falls.

Granular lids: like small blisters (Thuja); green pus and terrible photophobia; gonorrhœal or sycotic.

Nosebleed during menses (instead of menses, Bry., Phos., Puls.).

Toothache > by cold water, cool air (Coff., Puls.).

Dirty, greenish-gray or brown coating on tongue.

Diarrhœa: sudden, urging, gushing, much flatus; on first rising and standing on the feet; after a spell of wet weather; living or working in basements.

Gonorrhœa; greenish-yellow, painless, thick discharge (Puls.); chronic or suppressed (thick, green, Kali iod.).

Dyspnœa; desire to take a deep breath during damp, cloudy weather.

Humid asthma in children; with every change to wet weather; with every fresh cold; always worse in damp, rainy weather; sputa green, greenish, copious (greenish grey, Cop.).

Sycotic pneumonia; lower lobe of left lung; great soreness of chest, during cough, has to sit up in bed and hold the chest with both hands (Nic.—r. lung, Bry.).

Spinal meningitis: violent crushing gnawing pains at base of brain; head drawn back; spasms with mental irritability and delirium; violent congestion of blood to head; delirium; opisthotonos.

Damp basements or dwellings; damp weather (Aran., Ars. i., Dul.); rest; lying.

Dry weather; pressure; sitting up (cough); changing position (but > in wet weather, Caust.); open air.

Remittent, bilious, malarial, yellow; or yellow assumes a remittent or low continued form, instead of recovering.

4–8 P. M.

Exposure; living in damp houses, basements, cellars; wet weather; sea air; living near water; every change from dry to wet (Aran., Dul., Rhus).

Internal, with yawning and stretching. Chills; with icy coldness and goose-flesh, 4–8 P. M.; towards evening, without thirst; evening in bed, could not get warm all night; up the back, with shaking and chattering of the teeth, without internal coldness; waking at night with anguish and thirst.

Chilly in bed and shaking chills out of it, thirst, pulse very rapid. Chilly and feverish in evening.

Day in afternoon; in sudden flashes towards evening; hot sensation on vertex; general heat and restlessness in evening.

Without thirst; on single parts, on face, on genitals; at night; in morning.

Dirty, greenish-grey, or greenish-brown coating on base of tongue; covered with mucus, slimy; taste bitter or lost.

Fevers, with icy coldness, no thirst in any stage; attacks come on suddenly; bilious vomiting; malarial, caused or < by wet weather or living near water or seashore, working in damp rooms or basements.

Inability to think.
Cheerfulness, happy mood; after stool.
Depressed; tearful; music makes her sad.
Satiety of life; must use all self-control to prevent shooting himself.
Irritable, worse mornings.

Vertigo after dinner; then heat from body toward head, becoming more violent until sweat breaks out on forehead.
Muddled feeling, dulness.

Pressure in forehead, particularly after meals; as if forehead would burst.
Pressure in forehead and coronal region after sunset, with heat on top of head; relieved by pressure of hand; during quiet and while lying down; worse when thinking.
Heaviness in the head.
Hot feeling on top of head.
Irritation of brain after lesions of the head.
Headache while reading, makes him feel hot, and sweat.
Brain feels loose when stooping, as if it fell toward left temple.
Jerk in head, throwing it toward the right.

Creeping in scalp of vertex.
Scalp sensitive; hair is painful on combing it.

Sight dim; eyes weak; watering.
Sensitiveness of eyes to light, with headache.
Large, blisters-like granulations, with burning tears.
Burning in right eye, burning lachrymation, dim sight; worse near the fire; also morning and evening; burning of edges of lids.
Lids heavy, as if leaden, pressing in eyes while reading in evening.
Itches on edges of lids in the morning.

Ringing in ears, as of bells.
Piercing pain in right ear inward; sharp, lightning-like stitches in the ear; worse going from cold air into warm room, worse in damp weather, living on wet ground, etc.
Earache, as if something were forcing its way out.
Heat in right ear, evening.

Nosebleed during menses, stops and returns often.
Nose stopped up; sneezing and fluent coryza.
Ozæna syphilitica beginning with ulcers in fauces; no fetor.
Itching of wings of nose, inducing rubbing.

Pale, wan.
Itching of face.

Burning pain in corner of mouth at night; lips burns as from pepper.
Upper lips dry, skin peels off.
Vesicles on the lips.
Pimple on chin, burns when touched.

Throbbing toothache, with great restlessness; worse from warm, intolerable to hot drink.
Toothache lessened by cool air, and holding cold water in mouth.
Gums burns like fire.

Taste unpleasant, slimy, and tongue coated with mucus.
No taste, mornings; mouth feels rough, numb.
Blisters, with burning pain, on tip of tongue.
Tongue red.

Roof of mouth sore to touch.
Burning in mouth, as from pepper; mouth dry, thirst, gums red.
Much saliva after meals.

Palate burns as if skin was broken, during menses.
Blisters on palate; better from cold things.
Dryness of throat, no thirst.
Throat sore, feeling of contraction when swallowing saliva; soreness is worse by talking or when swallowing solids.
Tonsils and uvula inflamed and swollen; ulcers on tonsils.
Tearing down the throat.
Mucus in throat, at night; hawks salt mucus in morning.

Loss of appetite and great thirst.
Disgust for bread, of which she was formerly fond.
Great desire for ice, or ice-cold water.
Thirst in the evening.

Vegetable, fruit, pastry, cold food or drink, and farinaceous food causes diarrhœa.
Hot drinks: 10. Cold things: 13, 14. Eating: 16. Before meals: 17. After meals: 3, 12.

Hiccough in evening; after eating bread butter.
Constant rising of sour water.
Nausea, vomiting first a sour, then a bitter fluid.
Vomiting, with colic.

Squeamishness in stomach before meals.
Boring in stomach as if it would be perforated; or, burning, pinching in the morning after rising; better after breakfast.
Beating pain in stomach, with slight nausea.
Full feeling in stomach and into chest, difficult breathing, evening in bed.

Cannot bear tight clothing about waist.
Stitches in region of liver and sensitiveness when walking in open air.
Region of liver sensitive to touch, stepping, deep breathing or sudden jar; aching, piercing pain.
Must lie on back, pain when twisting either way.
Pain in left hypochondriac region or above, on last ribs, also with cough and purulent sputum.
Stitches in left hypochondrium while walking in open air.

Pain of a dead, heavy character going through from abdomen to back.
Burning in abdomen; bruised pain in bowels; griping relieved by kneading the abdomen.
Pinching in bowels, with pain in forehead off and on.
Abdominal flatulency; much rolling and rumbling; incarcerated, especially on right side; collects at night, causing a great pain.
Inflammation at right groin; typhlitis.
Feeling of fulness.
Piercing pain in right flank, with nausea.
Pain as if distended.

Stool: scanty, slimy, light red or bloody, forcibly and suddenly expelled; half liquid, often painless, occasionally involuntarily while passing flatus, or urine; or, during sleep; yellow, fluid, soon after rising in the morning; in a gush; watery, with much flatus; flatulent colic, wind incarcerated, right side.
Diarrhœa worse in wet weather; in morning; after farinaceous food; also in cold evening air.
Hard, knotty stools, streaked with blood, accompanied and preceded by smarting in the anus; often with scanty menses.
Difficult expulsion of soft stool.
Emission of fetid flatus in large quantities.
Constant uneasiness in bowels and urging to stool.
Knotty, wart-like eruption on the anus and between the thighs; sycosis.

Piercing in both groins, with urging to urinate; afternoon while walking out-doors.
Pinching around navel while sitting, with urging to urinate, pain going into the groin.
Urine burns when passing; it passes in small quantity.
Sediment yellow-red; in morning, yellow-white.

Desire excited in evening; also morning with erections.
Gonorrhœa; sycosis.
Itching of genitals.

Inflamed, swollen and covered with vesicles of the size of lentils, filled with purulent matter.
Scanty menses; knotty stools.
Menses too late, blood acrid, making thighs sore; lumps of coagulated blood; flows freely when walking.
Before menses: nosebleed.

Six weeks after confinement, violent fever.

Hoarseness, with fluor albus.

Short breath when walking, gradually relieved by rest.
Great dyspnœa, desire to take deep breath during damp, cloudy weather.
After sunset, oppressed feeling in chest and feeling of a ball in throat, with tendency to cry; like hysteria.
Asthma with young people from a general bronchial catarrh; afterwards with every change to damp weather.

Frequent, with some sputum; stitch in left side of chest, with shortness of breath if coughing while standing; dry with soreness in chest, rough feeling in throat, particularly at night; had to sit up and hold chest with both hands; loose, from tickling in throat; morning; with purulent sputum and pain about last.

Stitching pain running up from abdomen to left side of chest.
Sycotic pneumonia, inexpressible agony; slowly coagulating blood.
Piercing pain in left chest.

Swelling of the ribs, near the sternum.
Spasmodic motion of muscles, worse left side.
Sycotic exanthema every Spring.

Throat and neck swollen, knotty lumps, distressing pressure on windpipe.
Soreness up and down spine and neck.
Piercing as from knives, between scapulæ, while sitting in the evening; also in middle of sacrum.
Bruised pain in small of back.
Violent suppurative pain in small of back at night, so that she can only lie on her right side; better in morning after getting up.
Itching on back when undressing.
Pain in sacrum, cannot lie on either side.

Swelling and suppuration of axillary glands.
Piercing in left axilla, on humerus, back of hand, palm of right hand, fingers under the nails.
Tingling in arms and hands; they feel as if paralyzed.
Furuncles on right forearm.
No strength in hands; flexors pain when grasping anything.
Hands tremble on awaking, later when writing.
Panaritium, especially if pain is better out-of-doors; patient pale, sickly, weary and dull head, worse mornings; caused by living in damp regions, damp walls, etc.

Piercing pain in left hip, belly and small of back only during rest.
Pain on right hip-joint; worse from stooping, rising from a seat, on moving in bed.
Suddenly, when walking, unbearable stitch in left hip, cannot walk on.
Left hip-joint pains as after lying a bad position; difficult to sit down or get up; awakes him at night; can bear any one position only for a short time.
Stabbing in left hip (after a fall).
Pain from hip to knee.
Ulcers on outer part of thigh.
Legs hot, burn to knees, evening and next morning.
Piercing in soles, in heels.
Itching on or between toes after undressing.
Œdema of feet.

Rest: 3, 26, 33. Motion: 18, 33. Writing: 32. Stepping: 18. Walking: 23, 26, 33; in open air: 18, 21. Rising: 33. After rising: 17, 20. Standing: 27. Stooping: 3, 33. Sitting: 21, 27, 31. Lying: 3; on right side: 31; on back: 18.
Has to sit up and lean forward with asthma.

Prostration; tired, weary, especially knees.
Exhaustion, with the colic.
Chorea, with retarded stools, tetanus of left side; trembling of right, gesticulating convulsively.

Drowsiness in forenoon, especially when reading or writing.
Soon after falling asleep, starting as in a fright.
Restless, sleepless.
Heavy anxious dreams; constant waking with unpleasant, fantastic dreams.
He may lie down earlier or later, after four of five hours he gets awake with an attack of asthma.

Morning: 1, 5, 11, 13, 17, 20, 22, 27, 31, 32, 33. Forenoon: 37. Afternoon: 2, 21. Evening: 3, 5, 6, 14, 16, 17, 20, 22, 26, 31, 33, 40. Night: 9, 13, 19, 27, 31, 33, 40.

Going from cold to warm place: 6. Cold air: 10. Open air: 32. Wet weather: 20, 26. Damp place: 32. Uncovering: 46.

Internal coldness, yawning and stretching.
Chills: with icy-coldness and goose-flesh, 4 to 8 P.M., during catamenia, towards evening without thirst; evening in bed, could not get warm all night; up the back, with chattering of teeth and shaking, without external coldness.
Chilly in bed and shaking chills out of it, thirst increased, pulse accelerated.
Hot feeling on top of head.
Sudden flashes toward evening.
Increased warmth of body and restlessness.
Violent fever after confinement.
Sweat: without thirst; at night; in face, on scrotum.

Attacks come on suddenly.
Every spring: 30.

Right: 3, 5, 6, 19, 20,32, 33, 36, 46. Left: 3, 18, 27, 28, 30, 32, 33, 36. Before backward: 19. Below upward: 28.

Sore across the bowels, sides and back.

Cracking of joints; knees stiff; pain in bones; sycosis.

Touch: 9, 12, 18. Combing hair: 4. Pressure: 3, 19, 27. Tight clothing: 18. Scratching: 46.

Eczema moist and oozing profusely; secretion more watery than viscid.
Itching while undressing.
Blisters here and there.
Jaundice.
Sycosis.
Leukæmia.
Wart-like, raised red lump all over the body.
Between scrotum and right thigh, small scabs, itching relieved by scratching; also on forehead, scalp, neck, chest; sycosis.

Old women, hereditarily inclined to looseness of bowels.
Sycosis.
Hydrogenoid constitution.

Pure Sodium sulphate (Glauber's salt) is triturated for use.

Like other alkaline sulphates, an active cathartic. ▶ In addition, however, it exhibits a marked similarity to the "uric acid diathesis" in general, and is certainly a valuable remedy for combating numerous phases of that polymorphous malady.

Nat. m., Puls., Bry., Kali c., etc.

Trembling, agg. left side of chest, with fear of misfortune. ▶ Sticking in places, with burning. ▶ Piercing pain as of knives, in abdomen, small of back and left hip after a fall, amel. moving and rubbing. ▶ Inclines to mental and physical activity. ▶ Weakness; at 9 A.M., with dullness of head; in afternoon, with sleepiness; after vomiting, with burning headache; agg. 3 P.M., amel. walking. ▶ Many symptoms appearing in morning cease after dinner. ▶ Amelioration in open air (Magn., Puls.). ▶ Aggravation from lying on left side (Nat. m., Phos., Puls.).

All conditions are agg. dampness. ▶ It corresponds, in a general way, to the "hydrogenoid" constitution. ▶ A great remedy for lithæmia. ▶ Aggravation from lying on left side, especially of the hepatic symptoms.

Taciturn; agg. morning. ▶ Melancholy from hearing music. ▶ Lachrymose. ▶ Disheartened, tired of life, despairs of getting well. ▶ Dreads a misfortune. ▶ Irritable; agg. morning. ▶ Succeeds in nothing that she undertakes and does not know why.

A sudden jerk in head throwing her to the right in forenoon when sitting. ▶ Tearing in various parts; wandering T. ▶ Aching; deep-seated; pulsating; wandering; when reading, causing heat and perspiration, the heat and perspiration amel. walking; burning, after vomiting, with weakness. ▶ Confusion; towards 9 A.M., with feebleness; when eating, with darkness before eyes. ▶ Stupid feeling. ▶ Heaviness. ▶ Brain feels loose in forenoon, and when stooping feeling as if it fell towards left temple. ▶ Vertigo at 6 P.M., then vomiting of sour mucus; V. when rising, with dullness of head; after dinner with buzzing in head; after dinner, then heat rising from body towards head, increasing till sweat broke out on forehead; with inclination to fall to the right.

Sticking in front of left protuberance; from left side to occiput at 10.30 A.M., when sitting. ▶ Tearing in right side; in left side of bone; in sinciput. ▶ Boring in left side; in bone; in right side of bone; in bone in evening when sitting; as if it would burst; in left side, which seemed to forcibly close left eye. ▶ Pain; in right side; agg. eating; wandering; periodical, in right side; grasping, in middle, amel. cold foot bath, but returning more violently after an hour; breaking, after dinner, then sleepiness; drawing. ▶ Drawing; in left side; frequently in sinciput. ▶ Pressure as of a hard substance in forenoon; P. as of two fingers above left orbit at noon. ▶ Heaviness.

Tearing on right towards facial bones; in right towards vertex from 4 P.M. till next morning, with chill running up back, chattering of teeth and shaking, without external coldness. ▶ Boring in left ; left at 5 P.M.; right, then left. ▶ Painful breathing when walking and on touch during menstruation, amel. night in bed, with pain as if top of head would split. ▶ Pressure as with a plug in left ; as with a dull instrument in right in evening.

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General aggravation from lying on the left side; from dampness.
Amelioration in the open air.

Vertigo (at 6 P. M.), followed by vomiting of sour mucus.

Burning in the eyes, with a feeling of roughness; photophobia; dryness.
Pain caused by reading by candlelight, with heaviness of the eyelids.
General intolerance of light, with roughness and dryness.

Sticking or shooting pains like lightning, extending from within outward (in right ear).
Pains in the ears lightning-like, always worse in damp weather.

Clinical:
Nasal catarrh, with thick, yellow discharge, sometimes scabby, bloody and offensive, with hawking of salty mucus from the throat; oppression of the chest.

Burning on the tongue and in the mouth.
Tongue coated with a discolored grayish or brownish coat.
Burning on the tip of the tongue, with blisters.
Blisters on the arch of the palate, so sensitive that she could scarcely eat, > anything cold.

Hawking of salt mucus, < morning.
Inflammation, with profuse, tenacious mucus.

Thirst, especially in the evening; desire for very cold drinks.
Nausea, not > vomiting salt, sour water.
Waterbrash.

Clinical:
Acid dyspepsia, with heartburn, flatulence; soreness in the region of the liver; aggravation from lying on the left side.

Flatulent symptoms; flatus becomes incarcerated on the right side; flatulent pains, < lying on the left side.
Tension in the right hypochondrium as if it would burst, worse in hepatic region; the region is sore on walking and on touch.

Diarrhœa; thin, yellow, liquid, even involuntary; < morning after moving about, accompanied by much flatulence, with soreness and pain over the liver.
Diarrhœa on rising in the morning, with desire for ice water.
Chronic diarrhœa; stools sudden, forcible, occasionally involuntary; < cold food and drink, < damp weather.

Burning during micturition.
Urine deposits a red sediment.
Micturition frequent, especially at night.

Clinical:
It has been used in various disturbances and diseases of the urinary organs, associated with uric acid deposits.

Clinical:
Chronic nephritis; urethral discharge yellowish green, burning during micturition.
Menses acrid, associated with abdominal troubles, colic, diarrhœa.
Leucorrhœa corrosive.

Cough, with stitches in the left side of the chest; shortness of breath.
Dry cough; < morning after rising; also worse at night, with soreness in the chest and roughness in the throat; on coughing must rise and hold the chest with both hands.
Short breath when walking.

Clinical:
Bronchial catarrh, with glairy expectoration, aggravated from 3 to 4 A. M., and in damp weather.
Asthma, cough at night; must sit up and hold the chest with the hands, aggravated in cold, damp weather.

Various pains, usually sharp, tearing or drawing, in the extremities; general amelioration from motion; he cannot lie long in one position on account of restlessness.
Tendency to panaritium.
Pain; > open air.

General coldness; internal; usually < towards evening and at night.

Nat. s. / Nason.

Natrum Sulph.,- The King of bile,
Makes a greenish tongue his style.
Green secretions all his go,
Green his every mucus flow.
Bitter vomit- Bitter taste,
With his biliousness is traced,
Flow of urine in excess,
Or a bloat oedematous,
- As a scarlet fever dreg-
Is emblazoned on his flag.

Nason, - Has Green secretions.

Nason DeKalb, the drover's Kid, seeks Ben Stani-Mer, the toper at Carbola.

This Nason,- Who is subject to a green coating on the tongue, - Is in Russia, with Nick and Maggie Plum.

Green Secretions and Discharges: Nat. s., Kal. b., Dros., Kali i., Sec., Ben. a., Stan. i., Mer., Thuj., Puls., Carbol. a., etc.

Green Tongue: Nat. s., Rhus, Nit. a., Mag. c., PB.

Depressed, irritable and taciturn Despair: of recovery. Passionate Sensitive. Music causes sadness.

On rising, then ascending. heat till sweat breaks out on forehead, with buzzing in head. Then vomits sour mucus. Inclines to fall to the right.

Dull, muddled feeling in, with darkness before eyes. Brain feels loose. Pain: As if to burst, as if top would split, like a hard substance in forehead, must hold it, like electric shocks, breaking in forehead, following by sleepiness, grasping in forehead, better cold foot bath: tearing from r. temple to vertex. with shaking chill, or towards facial bones, or in occiput, boring, in bones, burning, with excessive feebleness, violent beating in temples, aching when reading which causes heat and sweat, pressive squeezing in occiput. Suddenly jerked to one side. Worse: Walking, during menses, exerting arms, periodically, after vomiting.

Scalp: Sensitive, every hair pains when combed. Sensitive bunches of hair.

Rough, dry, red and burning. Balls feel as if they gave out heat. Lachrymation, running, burning water. Itching, crawling as of a bug. Sticking water. Itching, crawling as of bug. Sticking Piercing in, with nausea, Lids: Heavy agglutinated, with photophobia, worse lamplight. Vision: Bleared, better bathing them, glittering bodies before after blowing nose. Worse: Near fire. Better: Rubbing.

Boring behind. Outward forcing pressure in. Stitches: Like lightning fly out of, sudden, violent, causing starting. Tinkling, as of distant bells in.

Wandering boring, in bones of root. Itching of wings. Much sneezing. Crawling, as of an insect on back of. Stuffed coryza. Bleeds during menses.

Looks pale, wan and cross. Skin of cheek feels drawn up. Tearing in cheek bones, worse cold air, better hard rubbing. Itching Painfully stiff maxillary joints. Lips: Dry, peeling. Burn as from pepper. Vesicles on.

Jerking, tearing, k pulsating in, with heavy head warm body and restlessness, then nose - bleed. Grasping, raging in. Better: Cold air, tobacco smoke. Movable, painless swelling on gums.

Covered with mucus. Grayish or brownish coat, at root. Boring in. Shooting in tip. Stitches thro' root of.

Rough and almost insensible in AM Burning: ON palate; like pepper on tip of tongue, like fire on gums, which are red. Blisters: On tip of tongue, sensitive on palate better cold thighs, on gums, which suppurate. Sour water collects in. Salivation.

And mouth very dry, without thirst, Sore. Glands, uvula and tonsils swell, swallowing difficult. Hawks up much, salty mucus in AM, p tenacious mucus Constriction.

Taste: Slimy.

Pressive pain in pit. Trembling in pit, with want of breath, feels faint. Burning and pinching in. Fullness, extending into chest, with difficult breathing. Breathing pain in. Better: Eating.

Hypochondria: Sticking, bursting or pulsating pain in right. Worse: Lying on left side walking, touch, deep breathing.

Appetite: Feeling of voracious hunger, with boring pain in stomach, better eating. Thirst for very cold things in evening.

Eructations: Disagreeable, with incarcerated flatus, nausea and flow of saliva.

Nausea: With sticking in right flank. And vomiting salty, sour water. On descending.

Bellyache: With bruised pain in small of back, better lying on l. side Grumbling and rolling, with sudden pinches, as after a purgative, then diarrhoea. Painful contraction extending into chest, oppressing the breathing. then diarrhoea Pinching: As if bowels were stretched, extending into genitals, then diarrhoea. Digging, during menses. Fullness, as if to burst, in right groin. Pains: Flatulent, now here, now there, more about navel. Worse: Walking, during menses.

Diarrhoeic: Forcibly expelled, with much flatus, in morning after rising, preceded by bellyache. Copious, watery, preceded by colicky pains and gurgling. Difficult, although' soft. Knotty. Worse: Pastry, cold food and drink.

Itching. Burning during and after stool (Iris)

Copious. Cutting in meatus or burning urethra during an after urination. Urging to urinate, with sticking in groins. Violent pinching around navel and pain i small of back when he retains urine because it is so burning. Sediment brick red, yellowish - red or yellowish - white.

Itching: On scrotum, scratching causes burning.

Menses: Late. Of acrid lumpy blood, excoriating thighs. Of white, bloody mucus. More when walking. With pinching bellyache. Chilly during.

Short: When walking, with a sharp stitch in l. chest if standing.

With many pains. Excited by tickling scraping in throat. Dry, with soreness or sticking in chest, must sit up and hold chest with bash hands for relief. Expectorates much mucus in on awaking in morning.

Trembling in, making her irritable. Pressure as of a load on. Sticking, as of a dull instrument. Itching about nipple. Heart: Anxiety at, with rapid beats, and dim vision, better in open air.

Piercing, like knives between shoulders. Gnawing in bones. Suppurative or bruised pain in small of. Distensive pain as of a soft body in right flank.

Neck: Tearing and tension in tendons of. Throbbing. Nape: Stiff, burning in, later coldness and prickling in, later coldness and prickling there, pains from nape, into occiput, extorting screams, better rubbing, piercing pain in, drawing in. Worse: Motion.

Many pains in joints of toes and fingers. Twitching: Here and there, of hands and feet after midnight. Hands and feet, weary and sore, pain in borders of. Compression, especially about joints. Feel too full. Pain: Sticking r ulcerative under nails, boring, in joints. Worse: Walking. Better: Open air, motion better temporarily only.

Heaviness of r. Stiff. Ulcerative pain in tendons of elbow. Transient burning above and below elbow, asleep feeling in. Hands: Weak drops things, pain in flexors when grasping things, tremble on waking, when writing, burn like nettles, with red backs, pain deep in palm. Fingers, Itching between, tearing and numbness from elbows into. Tips of: Pulsation in, stitches, fine piercing as if veins were pulled out, crawling as if becoming numb, boring in. Better, Out of doors.

Piercing as with knives or breaking, rending, excoriating hip joint pains, on motion stooping or rising from sitting, piercing rending from coccyx to middle of thigh. Bruised pain in anterior thigh. Burning in band of thighs. Digging in hollow of knee. Better motion. Leg: Swollen feeling, deep in, hot, up to knee. Cramp - like contraction in calves. Tearing, breaking pain in shin. Feet: Weary, she often changes their position, itching, on dorsal worse undressing and scratching, alternating between soles, of balls of they feel drawn together, particularly affects the borders or outer sides of the feet. Ankles feel sprained, better continued motion. Sensitive, Burning in soles at night. Piercing rending in heels, extorting screams, ulcerative pain in. Shooting, stitches or burning in tips of toes. Numbness in toes. Better: Stretching, rubbing.

Symptoms in other parts cause oppression o breathing (Puls.). Weariness of whole body, must like down, in knees, better walking. General trembling, with visible spasmodic muscular motions, anxiety and fear of misfortune. Pressure, as of a dull instrument (or plug.) forcing or boring into part. Wandering pains. Piercing, Compressive, needle - like, boring or tearing pain in almost any part. Worse: Wet weather and dampness, morning and evening during menses, lying on l. side, walking, motion, pressure of clothes, rest, touch. Better: Dry, open air, cloudy weather, momentarily, on changing position, after breakfast.

Vesicles on, during menses. Itching: On undressing, now here, now there. Gnawing and tearing in bones.

Restless at night violent headache awakes her. Starting up on falling to. Dreams, Of falling, terrifying, fighting, of flying, beautiful, heavy. Lazy and sleepy after breakfast.

Chill: In evening, without heat or sweat. up back, with shaking and chattering of teeth. With anxiety, followed by sleep, better lying down. With internal heat in head and a pale face. With icy coldness and gooseflesh. Then sweat without thirst. At four PM better Internal coldness, with stretching and yawning. Coldness, not better heat. Heat: Dry in flashes, toward evening. Sweat: Profuse, followed by dry mouth. On scrotum. No thirst in any stage.

Allied Remedies: Alo, Arg-n., Asclep., Bell., Bry., Coloc., Dros., Dulc., Gamb. Lyc., Nat-c., Nat-M., Pod., Puls., Rhod., Rhus-t. Rum., Scill., Sul.

Complementary: - Ars., Thuj.

As it, name indicates, it is the chemical combination of Natrum and Sulphur, Glauber's salts, Sulphate of soda. It partakes of the wonderful properties of both Sodium and Sulphur, and some day will become a very frequently indicated remedy It is a remedy which typically corresponds to many of the cornplaints of a bilious climate.

Natrum sulphuricum combines, in a measure, the wonderful effects of Natrum muriaticum and of Sulphur in the Western climate, as an active malarial agent. Malarial climates are all more or less bilious. Of course, I do not mean every man or every woman that comes to you and says: "Doctor, I am bilious."

We never know what that means. It means more or less liver ; it means more or less stomach ; a general derangement of the system. Any kind of sickness may be called biliousness, but where the liver and stomach combine to effect disorders, we have true biliousness.

It is a most wonderful combination in its symptoms, because it not only pertains to muscular debility and disturbance of the general structures of the body, but also combines that which gives it consideration mentally. Its complaints are those that are brought on from living in damp houses, living in basements, and in cellars.

They are generally worse in rainy, wet weather ; hence it was called, primarily, by Grauvogl, one of his hydrogenoid remedies. It produces a profound impression upon the system in a general way like sycosis and a deep-seated or suppressed sycotic disease.

Therefore, it is one of the grandest remedies underlying asthma, asthmatic and inherited complaints. In fact, Natrum Sulphuricum is one of the best, one of the clear-cut indicated remedies for those constitutional conditions in children that result in chest catarrhs and asthmatic complaints.

This shows you only one of its hereditary features. Now, if we take into consideration the sycotic nature, the hydrogenoid condition of the constitution-always worse in wet weather and this heredity, we have one of the grand features of this medicine.

Its next grand sphere is its action upon the liver and stomach, producing a bilious disturbance. We have, corresponding with this liver excitement a long list of mental ,symptoms marked with irritability, anxiety, desire to die, aversion to life and to things in life that would generally make people pleasant and comfortable. Now, if I begin on this mental state and go down through it, we will see more of it.

A good wife goes to her husband and says: "If you only knew what restraint I have to use to keep from shooting myself you would appreciate my condition!" It is attended with wildness and irritability.

No remedy has that symptom like Natrum sulphuricum. You may examine the various remedies in our drug pathogenesy and you will find almost every kind of mental symptom, but here is one that stands by itself ; this wonderful restraint to prevent doing herself bodily harm, is characteristic of Natrum sulphuricum.

The satiety of life, aversion to life ; the great sadness, the great despondency, coupled with the irritability and dread of music - music makes her weep, makes her sad, makes her melancholy - this symptom runs through the Natrums which it receives from the Natrum side of its family ; Natrum carbonate, Natrum muriaticum, Natrum sulphuricum, all have it.

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