Natrium Nitricum

Nitrate of Sodium

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

(NATRUM NITRICUM)

A Rademacherian remedy for inflammations . Hæmoptysis. Hæmaturia. Purpura hæmorrhagica. Hæmorrhagic Variola. Drowsiness. Pains of tabes. Influenza . Hemoglobinuria. Uric acid diathesis. Asthma with urine supersaturated with solids. Anæmia and hydræmia. Exhaustion, must rest frequently when walking.

Head

Dull. Indisposed to mental and bodily exertion. Pressing inward pain. Otalgia. Inward pressing in malar bones. Nosebleed .

Stomach

Sour risings. Aversions to coffee. Flatulence, with pressure in pit of stomach and pain in chest; worse motion, better eructation.

Abdomen

Abdominal muscles painfully contracted towards the spine. Distended. Difficult stool; feels as if more remained to pass.

Heart

Pain in region of heart. Pulse slower and softer.

Dose

Second trituration, also watery solution; 1 dram of salt to 8 oz water. Dram doses.

Natrium Nitricum across the other classic books

Natrium Nitricum appears in 4 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.
“Sodium nitrate, NaNO3. Cubic nitre, Chile saltpetre. Preparation , Solutions in water. Authorities. 3 to 8 , Loeffler's provings, B. and L. Zeit. 1848, Frank's Mag., 4, 244); 3 , Weidner, took 2 ounces and 6 drachms, during a period of a week; 4 , Löhr, took same as last; 5 , Gillmeister, took 5 ounces and 3 drachms…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Nitrate of Sodium. Cubic Nitre. Chili Saltpetre. Sodic Nitrate. NaNO 3 , Trituration. Solution. Anæmia / Constipation / Debility / Distension / Flatulence / Otalgia / Otitis Na. n. has had a considerable proving, and among the peculiar symptoms were: Heat in left ear; coldness in right. Heat spreading left to right…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Otalgia; the pain seems to be in the tympanum, in the evening; with warmth in the ear, coldness of the right concha, burning heat of the left, which extends beyond the temple. Sourish taste; sourish eructations. Distended abdomen, with a feeling of heaviness in it, followed by emission of a quantity of wind and…”

Natrium Nitricum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Natrium Nitricum in 27 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EAR (5), EXTREMITIES (5), CHEST (4), ABDOMEN (3), GENERALITIES (3).

VERTIGO - FALL,tendency to
ABDOMEN - PAIN - pressing
CHEST - PAIN - stitching
BLADDER - URGING to urinate (morbid desire) - pressure in rectum,with
EAR - COLDNESS - right - and burning of left
MIND - DELUSIONS, - objects, - appear different
URETHRA - ITCHING - meatus - walking
EAR - COLDNESS - burning hot yet cold to touch
EAR - COLDNESS - sensation of,in external ear
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Hand - jerking
EAR - HEAT - evening
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - burning - Joints
CHEST - PAIN - cutting (sudden sharp pain) - coughing
BLADDER - URINATION - frequent - perspiration,during
GENERALITIES - WEAKNESS,enervation - sleep - after
EXTREMITIES - WEAKNESS - Knee - walking,while
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS - Foot - evening
ABDOMEN - RETRACTION
CHEST - ITCHING
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - sore,bruised - Joints

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