Natrium Hypochlorosum

Labarraque's Solution

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

(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.

Natrium Hypochlorosum across the other classic books

Natrium Hypochlorosum appears in 3 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“NATRUM HYPOCHLOROSUM. Authorities. Much distressed, laughs, cries, and talks in her sleep; keeps her husband awake, 1. (Lowness of spirits increased), 1. Very low-spirited and depressed, could cry all day, 1. Vertigo caduca; a very constant and a very characteristic symptom along with an aching across the forehead, 1…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Natrum chloratum. Liquor sodæ chloratæ. Labarraque's solution. Attenuations of the B. P. solution. Albuminuria / Chlorosis / Globus / Gravel / (white and red) / Hæmaturia / Headache / Hysteria / Infra-mammary pain / Metrorrhagia / Nephritis / Ovaries, affections of / Priapism / Scurvy / Smarting eruptions /…”

Natrium Hypochlorosum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Natrium Hypochlorosum in 76 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in FEMALE GENITALIA (16), FACE (13), GENERALITIES (7), EXTREMITIES (6), EAR (5).

FEMALE GENITALIA - PUSHES up when she sits down,the uterus
FEMALE GENITALIA - PAIN - bearing down - Uterus,and region of - walking - agg.
FEMALE GENITALIA - PAIN - bearing down - Uterus,and region of - come out,as if everything would
FEMALE GENITALIA - PAIN - bearing down - Uterus,and region of
ABDOMEN - PAIN - dragging,bearing down
GENERALITIES - WET - weather
FEMALE GENITALIA - PROLAPSUS - uterus
GENERALITIES - EMACIATION
GENERALITIES - WEAKNESS,enervation
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Hip - ovarian complaints
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - stitching - morning - bed,in
HEAD - PAIN, - shooting - morning - rising, - before,agg.
FEMALE GENITALIA - SWOLLEN - Ovaries - left
FEMALE GENITALIA - SUBINVOLUTION
MALE GENITALIA - SEXUAL PASSION - violent
EXTREMITIES - FELON (Onychia,Paronychia,Panaritium,etc.)beginning in nail - runaround
SLEEP - FALLING asleep - sitting
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES - black
EXTREMITIES - FELON (Onychia,Paronychia,Panaritium,etc.)beginning in nail - panaritium
SLEEP - SLEEPINESS - sitting,while

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