Homeopathy Remedy Natrum Sulfuricum


Natrum Sulfuricum homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Natrum Sulfuricum…


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

General Action

      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.

Allied. Natrum mur., Pulsatilla, Kali-c., etc.

Generalities

      Trembling, (<) l. side of chest, with fear of misfortune. Sticking in places, with burning. Piercing pains as of knives, in abdomen, small of back and l. hip after a fall, (>) moving an rubbing. Inclined to mental and physical activity. Weakness; at 9 A.M., with Dullness of head; in afternoon, with sleepiness; after vomiting, with burning headache; (<) 3 P.M., (>) walking. Many symptoms appearing in morning cease after dinner. Amelioration in open air (Magn., Pulsatilla). Aggravation from lying on l. side (Nat- m., Phosphorus, Puls).

Clinical All conditions are (<) dampness. It corresponds, in a general way, to the “hydrogenoid” constitution. A great remedy for lithaemia. Aggravation from lying on l. side, especially of the hepatic symptoms.

Mind

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

Head

      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 (>) 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 l. temple. Vertigo at 6 P.M., then vomiting of sour mucus; V. when rising, with Dullness of head; after dinner with bursting in head; after dinner, then heat rising from body towards head, increasing still sweat broke out on forehead; with inclination to fall to the right.

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

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

Sides. Sensation like an electric shock in l.; on vertex towards r., once during forenoon and afternoon. Sticking in l. on exerting arms. Tearing; in upper part of r. Boring in l. Pain; wandering, in l., (<) behind ear; in r., so that she held the head with both hands. Pressure inward in r. all night. Drawing in l.

Occiput. Tearing; then in forehead; in r. side when quiet; r. side, with pain, also in evening. Boring; in l. side. Pain on entering the room after coffee; squeezing P.; wandering. Pressing from both sides at 6 P.M., returned for two hours next morning, and extended over r. side of face, repeated three mornings. Drawing; in l.; with pain, head and heaviness.

Tearing in cranial bones. Pain in bones. Pimples on side of occiput, sensitive to touch. Scalp sensitive when combing.

Eyes

      Pain transiently (>) rubbing; P. in evening when reading by candle-light, with heaviness of lids (Natrum mur.); as if a lentil were in l. Burning in morning and evening when near the fire; in r. in morning, with watering; in r. in afternoon out of doors, with burning lachrymation; in evening, with intolerance of light; (<) afternoon, with dryness; with reddens and dryness (Natrum mur.); with tearing and dim vision. Sensation as if a bug were crawling in l. (>) rubbing. Itching sometimes in l., then in r.; in r. eye and l. ear. Agglutination in morning, with photophobia (Natrum mur.); A. of l. Stitches in l. inner canthus. Breaking pain around eye in forenoon. Intermittent tearing at lower edge of l. orbit in forenoon. Photophobia. Vision dim; as it a white leaf were before r. eye. transiently (>) washing, but always returning till towards evening. V. blurred in morning, with lachrymation. V. of yellow, glittering, pointed bodies after blowing nose hard.

Clinical Granular Conjunctivitis, with burning lachrymation, with maculae on the cornea. Granulations of the lids, with general sycotic constitution, tendency to warts (about anus, on scalp, forehead, chest, neck, etc.), stiffness of knees, cracking of joints, etc. (compare Thuja).

Ears

      Sticking in r.; into r. at 3 P.M.; suddenly into r. at 3 P.M.; like lightning out of r. Tearing above ears; twitching, in l. lobe in evening and night. Boring in bone behind r. Pain behind l.; in r., (<) towards 9 A.M.; as if tympanum were pressed out; near l., as if skin were pulled. Itching in r. Hissing in l. Ringing in r., with stoppage in both; sound in l. as of distant bells; in r. as if near a belfry; as of a tinkling bell.

Clinical Earache, lightning-like stitches, always (<) damp weather or from wet ground.

Nose

      Tearing on back; in r. side, extending to forehead. Wandering boring in bone at root. Pressure near it at noon. Drawing near. r. side. Sneezing. Stopped coryza. Bleeding, light red and fluid, during menstruation.

Clinical Nasal catarrh, with thick, yellow discharges, sometimes scabs and blood, and offensive odor, the patient always hawks up salty mucus, also symptoms of oppression of chest.

Face

      Flushed. Pale and wan in morning on waking, with gloomy expression and quarrelsome mood. Sticking in l. zygoma, with sensation as if skin were pulled. Tearing in side; in zygoma; in l. zygoma at 9 P.M.; in l. zygoma, generally in morning, (<) cold air, afterwards grasping and raging in root of a l. upper tooth; in l. zygoma, (>) rubbing, but returning; twitching, in evening and night. Pain in l. zygoma; wandering, in zygomata. Pressure on r. zygoma. Drawing, in zygomata. Pressure on r. zygoma. Drawing in l. cheek, as if skin were pulled. Boring in r. angle of lower jaw, then in r. side of forehead, then extending over forepart of head. Pain in joint, then extending over forepart of head. Pain in joint in morning, with stiffness. Pressure in l. angle of lower; as with a plug in r. angle of lower in evening. Drawing in l. side of lower jaw. Upper lip dry and peeling. Vesicles on upper lip; with inflamed edges and burning pain on l. side of upper. Lips burn in evening.

Mouth

      Teeth, A r. upper is loose, seems longer, with drawing pain, (>) cold air and tobacco-smoke. Sticking in last l. molar by day, with tearing. Tearing in decayed l. lower at night, when out of bed. Jerking pain in an upper l. molar. Grasping, raging pain in root of an upper l. Beating pain in l. upper in evening, preventing sleep till morning. Raging, pulsating pain in l. upper molar, waking her at 2 A.M., with heaviness in head, general heat and restlessness, so that she did not know where to lay her head. Drawing in lower; r. upper; lower incisors in evening.

Movable, painless swelling on outside of l. lower gum. Blister on upper gum. suppurating and then drying. Burning in gums, so that she cannot eat bread. Tongue furred. Shooting through root of tongue. Biting in tip of T. in evening. Burning on tongue; on tip; l. side; on tip, with sticking; on tip and margins, and (towards evening) on lower lip; on tip, as if covered with blisters, in afternoon. Burning pain on tip, with blisters. Blisters on palate, with sensitiveness so that that she could hardly eat, (>) anything cold, Burning as from highly-seasoned food; B. in palate as if sore or as if raw, during menstruation. Dryness in morning while perspiring, without thirst; D., with thirst and redness of gums. Salivation after eating; thin, after eating, with nausea and heaving in stomach, but no vomiting. Taste slimy in morning and afternoon, and tongue coated with mucus. Food does not taste well. Taste lost in morning, mouth feels rough, and almost insensible.

Clinical Toothache (>) holding cold water in the mouth (Puls, Coffea). Dirty grayish-green coat at root of tongue.

Throat

      Hawking of mucus in morning; salt mucus in morning (Calc-c., Lycopodium). Intermittent tearing in tendons of r. side when sitting, with tension; I tearing in veins of r. side, so that the pulsations in the arteries can be seen. Pain on swallowing in evening, with frequent necessity to swallow saliva. Soreness on l. side in morning before and during menstruation. Obstacle on swallowing, tonsils and uvula swollen and inflames, the inflammation (<) morning. Intermittent contraction when walking, Dryness; without thirst, it often extends into oesophagus.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.