NATRIUM HYPOCHLOROSUM

(NATRUM CHLORATUM)

In congested and atonic states of the uterus and its ligaments, with hepatic disorders. Chronic catarrhal diseases of the middle ear. Flabby, debilitated constitution . Both hands swollen in morning. Phlegmatic. Depressed, faint.

Head

Vertigo, with aching across forehead. Swimming feeling, as if top of head would float off. Bleeding of nose in clots.

Mouth

Sore irritable spots along sides of tongue and throat, gums sore, tongue swollen; aphthous ulceration. Putrid taste. Furred tongue, large, flabby, intended. Cough with aphonia.

Stomach

Drowsy after meals .

Urine

Dark, with albumen and casts. Diffuse nephritis. Much pain across small of back.

Female

Feeling as if uterus were pushed up on sitting down ( Ferr iod ). Feels as if it opened and shut. Violent metrorrhagia. Leucorrhœa and backache. Passive, bearing-down from heavy condition of uterus. Womb is heavy, sodden, with tendency to prolapse. Subinvolution.

Extremities

Hands swollen every morning. Extreme weakness in ankles and knees.

Relationship

Compare: Aur mur nat; Calc; Sepia; Heliotropium (uterine displacement, with active bearing-down sensation and loss of voice; membranous dysmenorrhœa).

Antidote: Pulsat; Guaiacum .

Dose

Fifteen to twenty drops of Labarraque's solution in water. Third attenuation made with dilute alcohol, lower with water.