- 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 — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“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…”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“NUTRITION: Digestive tract. BRAIN. BLOOD. MUSCLES. MIND. HEART. GLANDS: MUCUS. Spleen. Liver. Skin. 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. Open air…”
- 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…”
- Dunham — The method — how symptoms are weighed before a remedy is differentiated.
“THIS remedy cannot often, in chronic cases, be repeated without an intercurrent. Head. Vertigo; when walking, everything goes round in a circle; when sitting quietly with a downward pressure of the head; when rising from the bed. Sensorium. Absence of mind; incapacity; confusion of ideas; does not know what to say…”
- Farrington — The differential diagnosis — remedy families narrowed through direct clinical comparison.
“NATRUM MURIATICUM. Natrum muriaticum: Bryonia, Rhus tox.; Caust., Kali c., Sepia, Lycopod.; Puls., China, Eupator. perf., Apis, Arsen.; Lach., Mercurius; Arg. nitr.; > Nitri sp. dulc.; > Arsenicum; > Phosphorus. Natrum muriaticum ↓ Apis. Natrum muriaticum ↓ Arg. nit. To-day we begin our study of Natrum muriaticum or…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“Mental.--Great sadness. Head and Face.--Affections of the inner head; headache as though a thousand little hammers were knocking upon the brain; this pain may be felt in the forehead also; headache on awakening in the morning, whether it be early or late, lasting for two or three hours. Falling off of the hair; losing…”
- Hahnemann (CD) — The antipsoric proving record — Hahnemann's later materia medica in its chronic-disease setting.
“CHLORIDE OF SODIUM, COMMON SALT.[]. [] Half an ounce of ordinary kitchen salt is dissolved in an ounce and a half of boiling, distilled water, in order to free it from its associated salts, it is filtered through printing paper, and left to crystallize by evaporation at a temperature of 122° Fahrenheit. The crystals…”
- 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)…”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“NATRUM CHLORATUM. The " Liquor Sodce Chlorats ' of the British Phannacopoeia, Labarraque! solution (of chlorinated Koda). I. /Vrw'w/. — I. Cooper. Parhogenetic effect observfd in persons taking the drug. — Very low-spirited and depressed, could cry all d. Rapid emaciation (in a girl of t«'enty-one). Aching in c\'ery…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“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…”
- Nash (Respiratory) — The respiratory picture — the cough, the breathing, and the expectoration that separate one remedy from another.
“Natrum muriaticum. Acute coryza with clear, profuse, watery, white discharge, like in hay fever; or chronic catarrh with sore wings and scabs in the nose. Natrum mur. and sulph., are important remedies in those cases which from an impoverished or disorganized condition of the blood, lead to the anæmic or chlorotic…”
- Nash (Testimony) — The outcome — what the remedy did once the characteristic symptoms were matched.
“Suppressed Intermittent Fever. (44) Case.—In the year 18—I was called on to visit a Mrs. D., aged 40, who had come some forty miles to place herself under my care for the treatment of an obstinate and grave inflammation of both eyes, supposed to have arisen from cold, and which had hitherto resisted all attempts at…”
- Tyler — The whole picture — temperament and leading symptoms drawn as one portrait.
“(Sodium Chloride: Common Salt, potentized) Natrum mur. is one of the drugs introduced and proved by Hahnemann and five of his provers: reproved by the Austrian provers, and by others: the provings being mostly made from the 1st to the 30th (centesimal) potencies. Hahnemann says in regard to Salt . . . “If it be true…”
