Natrum sulfuricum appears in 11 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 HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Sodium Sulphate (NaOSO3,10Aq) Ailments which are by cold water, cool air (Coff., Puls.). Dirty, greenish-gray or brown coating on tongue. Diarrhoea: sudden, urging, gushing, much flatus; on first rising and standing on the feet ; after a spell of wet weather; living on working in basements. Gonorrhoea…”
- Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Sodium sulphate (NaOSO3 + 10aq.). Sal mirabile; Soda vitriolata; Glauber salts. Preparation , Triturations. Authorities. [The classical dissertation of Hermann Wagner, "De Effectu Natri Sulphurici," Dorpat, 1853, contains a number of experiments with the drug (simple and combined with other drugs), a large number of…”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Sulphate of Sodium-Glauber's Salt (NATRUM SULPHURICUM) A liver remedy, especially indicated for the so-called hydrogenoid constitution, where the complaints are such as are due to living in damp houses, basements, cellars. They are worse in rainy weather, water in any form. Feels every change from dry to wet ; cannot…”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“OCCIPUT. Glands: LIVER. Bile. Pancreas. Intestinal. Descending colon. Chest: Left (lower). Lower. Left side. DAMP: Weather. Night air. Cellars. Lying on left side. Injuries; head. Lifting. Touch. Pressure. Late evening. Wind. Light. Open air. Change of position. Sudden violent effects; in ailing patients. Piercing…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Sodium Sulphate. Sal Mirabile. Soda vitriolata. Glauber's Salt. Na 2 SO 4 . Trituration. Solution. Asthma / Biliousness / Brain, injuries of / Condylomata / Debility; of drunkards / Diabetes / Dyspepsia; of drunkards / Enuresis / Epilepsy; traumatic / Epistaxis (menstrual) / Fistulous abscesses / Gonorrhœa / Headache…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Sodium Sulphate ; Glauber Salts. Na OSO 3 +10aq. Since its discovery by Glauber, in 1658 ( de natura salium ), it was called Sal Mirabile by himself, and afterwards Sal Glauberi. It has been used as a laxative in so-called inflammatory affections, or employed as a purgative (Comp. Pereira, ed. by Carson). The Chinese…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — who the patient is, before what the remedy cures.
“This is one of our most frequently indicated constitutional remedies. The symptoms appear in the morning, evening apd during the night, especially before midnight. Some symptoms are better after breakfast, during the daytime and after midnight, except the sweat. It is a very useful remedy for complaints following…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Sadness; inclined to weep. Lively music disposes one to weep. Vertigo after a meal; the heat extends from the abdomen to the head; relieved after the forehead becomes moist. Heaviness in the head, with bleeding of the nose. Periodical attacks in the right side of the forehead. Pain, as if the forehead would burst…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common names: glauber's salt; sulphate of soda. 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., Cupr., Glon.) (B.). Crushing…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Diarrhœa, acute or chronic; < in the morning on beginning to move (Bry.), with much flatulence (Aloe and Calc. phos.), and rumbling in abdomen, especially right ileo-cæcal region. Loose cough, with great pain in the chest; < in lower left chest (right, Chel.). Modalities: < in cold, wet weather; damp cellars…”
