COMMON NAMES:
GLAUBER’S SALT; SULPHATE OF SODA.
Symptoms
It corresponds to the hydrogenoid constitution and sycotic dyscrasia (D.).
Feels every change from dry to wet weather, and cannot eat even plants that grow near water (Bl.)
Chilly, can’t get warm, even in bed (B.).
Meningitis(Apis, bell., Cuprum, Glon). (B).
Crushing or gnawing in the occiput (B.,).
Chronic effects of blows, falls, etc. (Arnica) (N.)
Ill-effects of falls and injuries to the head, and mental troubles arising therefrom (D.).
Slow digestion Carbo vegetabilis,China, Hepar, Lycopodium, Nux vomica, Pulsatilla, Sepia) (B).
A dirty, brownish coating on the tongue Bryonia, Natrum phos._ (D.).
Bitter taste in the mouth (bry.,China, Natrum muriaticum, Nux vomica, Pulsatilla, sepia, Sulphur) (D).
Toothache relieved by cold wear, or cool air (Coffea, Pulsatilla, (N).
Diarrhoea, acute or chronic, with much flatulence (Aloe, Podophyllum) (N).
Rumbling in the abdomen, especially in the right ileocaecal region (N.).
Diarrhoea: Dark, bilious or greenish stools, accompanied with an irritable liver and flatulent colic (D.).
THIN YELLOW FLUID, GUSHING STOOLS IN THE MORNING AFTER RISING AND MOVING ABOUT (n.).
Lead colic (Alumina, Bryonia, Coloc., Dioscorea, Graphites, Mag-A., Nux vomica, Opium, Sepia, Sulphur, Veratrum) (N).
Pain in the abdomen ameliorated by lying on the side (K.). flatus becomes incarcerated here and there in the abdomen (R.).
Aching an cutting in the region of the liver (D.).
THE LIVER IS ENGORGED AND THE SYMPTOMS ARE WORSE FROM LYING ON THE LEFT SIDE (Arnica, Bryonia, Card-M., Mag-M., Ptelea trifoliata) (D.).
There is jaundice, bilious colic, a and vomiting of bile and bitter mucus (D.).
Painful sensitiveness of the hepatic region to touch, during a walk or to a sudden jar (R.).
Stitches, throbbing, tension and lancinations in the hepatic region (Chelidonium, Mercurius Podophyllum) (R).
Rheumatism, worse in damp, cold weather (Dulcamara, Rhus toxicodendron) (Br.).
Oedema of the feet (Apis, Bry, Kali carb., Lycopodium, Sepia) (Br.).
Is a useful remedy in bilious intermittent fevers, accompanied by liver affections, jaundice and bilious diarrhoea (D).
Thirst at start of fever only (B).
Heat with aversion to uncover (Arsenicum, Nux vomica, Rhus toxicodendron).(B).
Pain in the small of the back with scanty urine (R(>)O.
Nose-bleed during menses (Ambr., Bryonia, Pulsatilla, Sepia, Sulphur) (Br.,).
YELLOWISH-GREEN LEUCORRHOEA FOLLOWING GONORRHOEA (Pulsatilla. (Br.).
Menses too late and too scanty (Graphites, Sepia) (C).
Herpetic vulvitis (Graphites, Kreosotum, rhus toxicodendron, Sulphur) (Br.).
Nasal catarrh with thick, yellow discharge (Calcarea, Hyd., Kali-S (Br.).
Useful in asthma, worse upon change to damp weather, moist asthma, with a great deal of rattling on the chest. The shortness of breath is especially worse in damp weather (D.).
PAIN IN THE LOWER CHEST ON COUGHING, SPRINGS UP IN BED AND GRASPS THE CHEST WITH HANDS. LOOSE COUGH (dry cough-bry.) (N.).
The sputum is copious and of a greenish colour (Pulsatilla, Stann.) (Bl.).
Humid asthma, especially in children (Ant-T., Bromium, Hepar, Kali- S.) (Bl.).
Granular conjunctivitis with much redness of he lids (Sulphur) (R).
Pain in the eyes in the evening when reading by candle light (Merc) (R).
Agglutination of the lids in the morning with photophobia (Calcarea, Graphites) (R).
Delayed resolution in pneumonia (Hepar, Kali carb., Lycopodium, Sulphur) (Br.).
Every fresh cold brings on attack of asthma (Hepar) (Br.).
Diabetes (Acet-Ac., Kali-P., Lycopodium, Sulphur) (Br).).
Urine copious, and passed more frequently than normal so that she had to get up several times in the night (R).
it is one of the principal remedies in sycosis, especially where there are condylomata (D.,).
GONORRHOEA; YELLOWISH GREEN DISCHARGE; THICK CONSISTENCY; LITTLE PAIN ESPECIALLY IN HYDROGENOID CONSTITUTION (N).
Sexual desire excited in the evening (C.).
Burning in the urethra during micturition (Cantharis, merc., Sulphur) (R.).
Urine with brick-dust sediment (Berberis, Lycopodium,, Sarsaparilla) (R.).
Enlarged prostate causing retention or uterine (Conium, Digitalis, Hepar, Kali carb., Lycopodium, Pareir., Staphysagria, Thuja.) (R).
Tendency to warts (Acid nitricum, Thuja) (Br.)
Chronic gout (Benz-Ac., Calcarea, Lycopodium) (Br).
Music makes her sad (Aconite, Chamomilla, dig., Graphites, Kreos, lyc., Natrum carbonicum, Natrum phos., Nux vomica, Phosphorus, Sabin., Sepia, Tarent: Thuj’; sad music ameliorate-Mang.) (Br().
Very irritable, ill-humoured (bry., Nux vomica, Sulphur) (C).
Tearful (Chamomilla, Ignatia, medorrhinum, Pulsatilla, sepia) (C).
Melancholy, with periodical attacks of main a(Br.).
Suicidal tendency: must exercise restraint (Arsenicum, Aurum, Naja.) (Br.).
WANTS TO COMMIT SUICIDE BY SHOOTING (Anacardium, Ant-C., Aurum, Carb- V., hep., Medorrhinum, Nux vomica), PR BY HANGING (Arsenicum, Belladonna, Ter.) (Br.).
Dislike to speak, or to be spoken to (Arsenicum, Aurum, Cocc., Ferrum, Hyoscyamus, Kali carb., Mag-M., Natrum carbonicum, Acid nitricum, Nux vomica, Sepia) (Br.).
Inability to thin (Conium, Nux vomica, Pic-Ac.) (Br.).
AGGRAVATION:
In cold, wet weather; from living in damp cellars; lying on the back; from lying on the left side; from motion; and in the morning.
AMELIORATION:
From pressure; from changing position and in dry, hot weather.
RELATIONSHIP:
Compare: Arsenicum, Bryonia, Calcarea phos., Dulcamara, Euphr Ferrum, Graphites, Hepar, Ipecac., Kali carb., Lycopodium, Medorrhinum, Mercurius, Natrum muriaticum, Nit-Ac, Nux vomica, Pulse., Rhus toxicodendron, Silicea, Staphysagria, Sulphur and thuj.
Complementary: Arsenicum, and thuj.
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)