(Sulphate of Sodium)
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. [Lyc.] | ||
| Mind. 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. | ||
| Head. Occipital
pain. Piercing stitches in ears. Vertigo; relieved by sweat on 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. | ||
| Ears. Sticking
pain, earache, lightning-like stitches in damp weather. | ||
| Nose. Nasal
catarrh, with thick, yellow discharge and salty mucus. Coryza. Epistaxis.
Ethmoiditis. | ||
| Eyes.
Conjunctiva yellow. Granular lids. Photophobia. [Graph.] | ||
| Mouth. Slimy,
thick, tenacious, white mucus. Bitter taste, blisters on
palate. | ||
| Throat. Thick,
yellow mucus, drops from posterior nares. | ||
| Stomach. Vomits
sour. Brown, bitter coating on tongue. Yellow complexion. Thirst for
something cold. Bilious vomiting, acid dyspepsia, with heartburn and
flatulence. | ||
| Abdomen.
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. Diarrhea yellow, watery stools. Loose
morning stools; worse, after spell of wet weather. Stools involuntary,
when passing flatus. Great size of the fecal mass. | ||
| Urine. Loaded
with bile. Brick-dust sediment. Excessive secretion. Diabetes. | ||
| Female.
Nosebleed during menses, which are acrid and profuse. Burning in pharynx
during menstruation. Herpetic vulvitis. Leucorrhea yellowish green,
following gonorrhoea in female. Leucorrhea with
hoarseness. | ||
| Male.
Condylomata; soft, fleshy excresences; greenish discharges. Gonorrhea;
discharge thick, greenish; little pain. | ||
| Respiratory.
Dyspnea, during damp weather. Must hold chest when coughing. Humid
asthma; rattling in chest, at 4 and 5 a.m. 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 the bed the cough hurts so; holds
painful side. [Bry.] Pain through lower left
chest. Every fresh cold brings on attack of asthma. | ||
| Back. Itching
when undressing. Violent pains in back of neck, and at base of
brain. Piercing pain between scapulae. Spinal meningitis;
opisthotonos. | ||
| Extremities.
Swelling of axillary glands. Inflammation around root of nails. Burning in
soles; edema 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. | ||
| Skin. Itching
while undressing. Jaundiced, watery blisters. Sycotic excrescences;
wart-like red lumps all over body. | ||
| Modalities.
Worse, music (makes her sad); lying on left side; dampness of
basement, damp weather. Better, dry weather, pressure, changing
position. | ||
| Relationship.
All the Natrums stimulate cellular activity and increase oxidation and
metabolism. Compare: Sulph.; Thuj.; Merc. Complementary: Ars.; Thuj. | ||
| Dose. First to
twelfth trituration. |