(Chloride of Sodium)
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 edemas,
but also an alteration in the blood causing a condition of anemia and
leucocytosis. There seems also to be a retention in the tissues of effete
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, anemia, 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. | ||
| Mind. 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. | ||
| Head. 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. Anemic headache of school girls; nervous, discouraged, broken down.
Chronic headache, semilateral, 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. | ||
| Eyes. Feel
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 mucopus
when pressing upon sac. Lachrymation, burning and acrid. Lids swollen. Eyes
appear wet with tears. Tears stream down face on coughing. [Euphr.] Asthenopia due to insufficiency of
internal recti muscles. [Gels. when due to
external muscles.] Pain in eyes when looking down. Cataract
incipient. | ||
| Ears. Noises;
roaring and ringing. | ||
| Nose.
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. | ||
| Face. Oily,
shiny, as if greased. Earthy complexion. Fever blisters. | ||
| Mouth. 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-t.]
Loss of taste. Large vesicle on lower lip, which is swollen and burns.
Immoderate thirst. | ||
| Stomach.
Hungry, yet lose flesh. 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. | ||
| Abdomen.
Cutting pain in abdomen. Distended. Pain in abdominal ring on
coughing. | ||
| Rectum. Burning
pains and stitching after stool. Anus contracted, torn, bleeding.
Constipation; stool dry, crumbling. [Mag-m.] Painless
and copious diarrhea, preceded by pinching pain in abdomen. | ||
| Urine. 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.] | ||
| Male. Emission,
even after coitus. Impotence with retarded emission. | ||
| Female. Menses
irregular; usually profuse. Vagina dry. Leucorrhea acrid, watery.
Bearing-down pains; worse in morning. [Sep.]
Prolapsus uteri, with cutting in urethra. Ineffectual labor pains.
Suppressed menses. [Follow with Kali-c.] Hot during
menses. | ||
| Respiratory.
Cough from a tickling in the pit of stomach, accompanied by stitches in
liver and spurting of urine. [Caust.] Stitches all
over chest. Cough, with bursting pain in head. Shortness of breath,
especially on going upstairs. [Calc.] Whooping cough
with flows of tears with cough. | ||
| Heart.
Tachycardia. Sensation of coldness of heart. Heart and chest feel
constricted. Fluttering, palpitating; intermittent pulse. Heart's
pulsations shake body. Intermits on lying down. | ||
| Extremities.
Pain in back, with desire for some firm support. [Rhus-t.; Sep.] Every movement
accelerates the circulation. Palms hot and perspiring. Arms and
legs, but especially knees, feel weak. Hangnails. Dryness and
cracking about fingernails. 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. | ||
| Sleep. Sleepy
in forenoon. Nervous jerking during sleep. Dreams of robbers. Sleepless
from grief. | ||
| Skin. 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. | ||
| Fever. Chill
between 9 and 11 a.m. Heat; violent thirst, increases with fever. Fever
blisters. Coldness of the body, and continued chilliness very
marked. Hydremia in chronic malarial states with weakness, constipation,
loss of appetite, etc. Sweats on every exertion. | ||
| Modalities.
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. | ||
| Relationship.
All the Natrums stimulate cellular activity and
increase oxidation and metabolism. Complementary to Apis; Sep.; Ign. Compare: Ign.; Sep.; Thuj.; Graph. Antidote: Ars.; Phos. | ||
| Dose. Twelfth
to thirtieth and higher. The very highest potencies often yield most
brilliant results. And in infrequent dosage. |