Natrum Muriaticum

by C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica

REGION

NUTRITION: Digestive tract. BRAIN. BLOOD. MUSCLES.
MIND.
HEART.
GLANDS: MUCUS. Spleen. Liver.
Skin.

WORSE

PERIODICALLY: 9-11 A.M. With the sun. After menses. Alternate days (Ars. Chin.).
HEAT: Sun. Summer. Dampness.
Exertion; eyes, mental.
Violent emotions.
Sympathy.
Puberty.
Quinine.
Old malaria.
Silver salts.

BETTER

Open air.
Cool bathing.
Sweating.
Rest.
Before breakfast.
Deep breathing.
Thin, thirsty, hopeless and poorly nourished.

Emaciation; descending; < neck or abdomen. Anæmia. DRYNESS; skin, mouth, throat, rectum, vagina, etc. Numbness; of one side; parts lain on; fingers. Tremulous. Easy exhaustion. Parts seem short, hamstrings, nape, etc. Not very sensitive to pain. Takes cold. Nervous erethism. Thick white or clear acrid discharges. Exact periodicity. Malarial cachexia. .................... Hateful; detests consolation or a fuss. Inconsolable. Easily angered; < if consoled. Sad, reserved; company distresses. Hypochondria. Weeps bitterly. Boisterous grief. Scattered thoughts, or an idea clings, prevents sleep, inspires revenge, etc. Anxiety. Apprehension. Fears or dreams of robbers. Vertigo; as if falling, on closing eyes. Nodding motions. HEADACHES; hammering; heavy; bursting; maddening; over eyes; on vertex, on awaking; with partial numbness or disturbed vision; < reading; < motion, even of eyes; > pressure on eyes. Migraine. Falling hair. Eyes feel drawn together. Lachrymation on affected side (Spi.); on sneezing, coughing, etc. Ptosis, on lying down. Vision blurred, wavering. Letters run together. Hemiopia, then headache. Can't read by artificial light. Nose stopped, high up; sneezing early in A.M.; alternate fluent and dry coryza; gushes of fluid; little ulcers in. Face; pale, muddy or greasy. HERPES ABOUT LIPS; or at edge of hair; pearly. Throbbing in lower jaw, < biting, < heat and cold. Exophthalmic goitre. Hawks much mucus; bitter. TONGUE MAPPED; beaded or striped along edge. Blunted taste and smell. Uvula hangs to one side. Throat; a spot is dry, sore, tickles, causes cough, etc.; glistens. Thirst; drinks large quantities. Hunger great, yet emaciates; without appetite. CRAVES SALT. Averse to bread. Burning eructations; after eating. Waterbrash. Epigastric pulsation. Anxiety in stomach, rises to head. Tense abdomen; < groins. Dry, hard, crumbling stool, tears anus or causes burning; coated with glassy mucus; on alternate days. Chronic diarrhœa. Constricted rectum. Herpes ani. Red urinary sediment. Coition; painful; averse to; then backache, weak legs, depression, etc. Suppressed gonorrhœa. Debilitating leucorrhœa, replaces menses. Cough; from tickling in epigastrium; with asthma or palpitation; < winter. Respiratory catarrhs, after suppressed sweats. Heart; palpitation, shaking body or alternates with beating in head; fluttering; weak; sore; < emotions, lying on (l) side, or motion. Sore neck muscles. Bruised backache, early in A.M.; < coughing, > lying on back, or pressure. Cracked finger-tips. Catch in knees. Hamstrings seem short or drawing in. Sobs during sleep. Awakes feeling weak. Skin, oily; dry, harsh, dirty, unhealthy or yellow; chaps or herpetic eruptions, < flexures or about knuckles. Coldness of many parts; hands, feet; heart. Morning chill, with thirst. Chilly, but < in sun. Sweat, cold, scanty; at edge of hair; on nose, on face, while eating (Cham.).

Complementary: Ign. Sep.

Related: Pul.

Natrum Muriaticum across the other classic books

Natrum Muriaticum appears in 12 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.
“Common Salt (NaCl) For the anaemic and cachetic; whether from loss of vital fluids - profuse menses, seminal losses - or mental affections. Great emaciation; loosing flesh while living well (Abrot., Iod.); throat and neck of child emaciate rapidly during summer complaint (Sanic.). Great liability to take cold (Cal…”
Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Sodium chloride, Nacl. Common salt. Preparation , Triturations. Authorities. 8 to 43 , from the Austrian provings, Oest. Zeit. f. Hom., vol. 4. [Not including effects of the water and vapor on workers in the salt mines at Ischler (vitialed by Bromine). The symptoms observed by Dr. Hartlaub (A. H. Z., 81), after eating…”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Chloride of Sodium (NATRUM MURIATICUM) The prolonged taking of excessive salt causes profound nutritive changes to take place in the system, and there arise not only the symptoms of salt retention as evidenced by dropsies and œdemas, but also an alteration in the blood causing a condition of anæmia and leucocytosis…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“ALBUMINOUS, GLAIRY DISCHARGES (COMP. GELATINOUS) ANGER, irritability fretfulness, bad temper, etc. (Comp. Emotions) APPETITE, Changed ASCENDING, Agg. BALL. BLOOD SEPSIS, etc. BLOOD VESSELS. BLOWS, shocks, thrusts, crash, explosions, etc. (Comp. Shattered): BREAKING, broken, brittle, etc. BURSTING, SPLITTING…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Sodium chloride. Common Salt. NaCl. Trituration. Solution. Addison's disease / Anæmia / Aphthæ / Atrophy / Brain-fag / Catarrh / Chorea / Constipation / Cough / Cracks in the skin / Debility / Depression / Diabetes / Disparunia / Dropsy / Dyspepsia / Epilepsy / Erysipelas / Eyes, affections of / Eye-strain / Face…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Common Salt. Na Cl. Introduced by Hahnemann, proved by himself, Foissac, Röhl, Rummel, Schreter and Nenning (Chronische Krankheiten), by the Austrian provers, Arneth, Boehm, Froelich, Hampe, A. and W. Huber, Reisinger, Reiss, Wachtel, Wagner, Watzke, Weinke, Würstl, Wurmb, Zlatarovich (Oest. Zeit. für Hom., vol. 4)…”
Kent — The mental and general picture — who the patient is, before what the remedy cures.
“Generals and aspect : Salt is so common an article of diet that it has been assumed that it could be of no use in medicine. This is only the opinion of men who, operate entirely on the tissues. There are no constitutional effects from crude salt. One may find an individual growing thin with all the symptoms of salt…”
Lippe (KN) — Only the symptoms Lippe considered reliable enough to prescribe on.
“Great weakness and debility of mind and body after exertion. Every movement accelerates the circulation. Great emaciation. Bad effects from anger and illness induced from much talking. Twitching in the muscles and limbs. Shortening of the muscles. Hysterical conditions bettered. The nightly pains cause shortness of…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Melancholy, dejected, sad, weeping, aggravated by consolations from others, with palpitation of the heart. Apprehension for the future. Hypochondriacal, tired of life. Joyless, indifferent, taciturn. Great tendency to start. Hurriedness. Passionate vehemence; gets angry at trifles. Difficulty of thinking; absence of…”
Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common names: common salt; chloride of sodium. Often of great benefit in the treatment of malarial disease and intermitting fevers. Hard chill about 11 A.M., with great thirst which continues through all stages; the heat is characterized by the most violent headache (Ra.). Continued chilliness and want of animal heat…”
Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Melancholy, depressed, sad and weeping; consolation aggravates. Great emaciation, even while living well; shows most in the neck. Anemia with bursting headaches, especially at the menses; also school girls’ headache. Great dryness of mucous membranes from lips to anus; lips dry and cracked, especially in the middle…”

Natrum Muriaticum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Natrum Muriaticum in 6,007 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (935), HEAD (597), MIND (432), GENERALITIES (423), ABDOMEN (320).

BACK - PAIN - stooping - prolonged - from
BLADDER - RETENTION of urine - unable to pass urine in presence of company
CHEST - FLUTTERING - lying,while
CHEST - PAIN - cutting (sudden sharp pain) - Sides - left - extending to scapula
CHEST - PAIN - cutting (sudden sharp pain) - extending - to - scapula
EXTREMITIES - CHAPPED hands - ingers
EXTREMITIES - CHAPPED hands - ingers - about the nails
EYE - ERUPTIONS, - eyebrows,about - itching
EYE - PAIN - drawing - stiff sensation,in muscles
GENERALITIES - PARALYSIS agitans - intermittent fever,after
HEAD - HEAVINESS - -Occiput - draws eyes together
HEAD - PAIN, - forenoon - 10 a.m.to 3 p.m.
HEAD - PAIN, - hammering - morning
HEAD - PAIN, - pressing - Temples - writing,while
HEAD - PAIN, - stitching - Temples - light,looking at a bright
MIND - COMPANY, - aversion to - presence of strangers,to - people intolerable to her - during - urination
MOUTH - DISCOLORATION - Tongue - white - patches - red insular,with
MOUTH - PAIN - burning,raw and smarting - Gums - eating,while
MOUTH - PAIN - sore - Gums - cold - and warmth agg.
THROAT - SWALLOWING, - impeded - liquids only,can swallow,least food gags - solids reach a certain point and are violently ejected

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