NATRUM SULPHURICUM


Homeopathic remedy Natrum Sulphuricum drug symptoms and indications from Condensed Materia Medica by Constantine Hering, published in 1877….


      Glauber Salts. SCHRETER. Na2 SO Plus 10H2 O.

Mind

      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.

Sensorium

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

Muddled feeling, dulness.

Inner Head

      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.

Outer Head

      Creeping in scalp of vertex.

Scalp sensitive; hair is painful on combing it.

Eyes

      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.

Ears

      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.

Nose

      Nosebleed: during menses, stops and returns often. Nose stopped up; sneezing and fluent coryza.

Ozaena syphilitica beginning with ulcers in fauces; no fetor.

Itching of wings of nose, inducing rubbing.

Face

      Pale, wan.

Itching of face.

Lower 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.

Teeth

      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.

Tongue etc.

      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.

Mouth

      Roof of mouth sore to touch.

Burning in mouth, as from pepper; mouth dry, thirst, gums red.

Much saliva after meals.

Throat

      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.

Desires Aversions

      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.

Eating and Drinking

      Vegetable, fruit, pastry, cold food or drink, and farinaceous food causes diarrhoea.

Hot drinks: 0. Cold things:,. Eating:. Before meals:. after meals:.

Nausea and Vomiting

      Hiccough in evening; after eating bread butter.

Constant rising of sour water.

Nausea, vomiting first a sour, then a bitter fluid.

Vomiting, with colic.

Stomach

      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.

Hypochondria

      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.

Abdomen

      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.

Stools, etc.

      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.

Diarrhoea 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.

Urine

      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.

Male Sexual Organs

      Desire excited in evening; also morning with erections.

Gonorrhoea; sycosis.

Itching of genitals.

Female Sexual Organs

      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.

Pregnancy

      Six weeks after confinement, violent fever.

Larynx

      Hoarseness, with fluor albus.

Breathing

      Short breath when walking, gradually relieved by rest.

Great dyspnoea, 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.

Cough

      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.

Lungs

      Stitching pain running up from abdomen to left side of chest.

Sycotic pneumonia, inexpressible agony; slowly coagulating blood.

Piercing pain in left chest.

Outer Chest

      Swelling of the ribs, near the sternum.

Spasmodic motion of muscles, worse left side.

Sycotic exanthema every Spring.

Neck Back

      Throat and neck swollen, knotty lumps, distressing pressure on windpipe.

Soreness up and down spine and neck.

Piercing as from knives, between scapulae, 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.

Upper Limbs

      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.

Lower Limbs

      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.

Oedema of feet.

Position etc.

      Rest: Motion:, Reading or writing: Stepping:. Walking: in open air:, Out doors: Rising: After rising:, Standing: Stooping: Sitting: Lying: on right side: on back:.

Has to sit up and lean forward with asthma.

Nerves

      Prostration; tired, weary, especially knees.

C. Hering
Hering got the degree of M. D. from the University of Wuezburg with highest honours. The theme of his thesis was "De'Medicina Futura" (The medicine of future). Hering left Germany for West Indies and finally arrived at Philadelphia in Jan, 1833. He established a homeopathic school at Allentown, Pennsylvania, commonly known as "Allentown Academy". Soon he became very popular as a physician. He is known as the 'Father of Homeopathy' in America.