Natrium bromatum
van Edwin M. Hale — Materia Medica and Special Therapeutics of the New Remedies
Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.
Volume I — Appendix
Officinal Preparations. — Triturations. Aqueous dilutions. Melancholy. Loss of will power. Mental indolence. Stupor on waking.
Vertigo ; the ground seems to waver under his feet. Lachrymation. Sneezing. Face pale.
Salivation, salty taste. Loss of sensibility in the throat. Thirst, Cough. Pulse small and rapid. Ataxia. Suppression of reflex sensibility. Great desire to sleep.
° Cerebral hypersemia, with nervousness and sleeplessness.
BROMIDE OF ZINC.
Preparation. — Triturations.
(No Provings.)
0 Pain in the nerves of face and head in teething children.
° Exhausted condition, due to teething, causing marked stupor,
alternating with wakefulness. ° Symptoms simulating hydrocephalus.
° Periodical violent pain in the head, during brain-fag in business men.
° Chronic congestion of the brain, with a tendency to dementia or melancholy.
Volume II — Special Therapeutics
I have already mentioned this salt. It is to be preferred in nearly all cases to the Bromide of potassium. It can be mixed
with the food of patients, with the milk of children, as its taste is almost identical with common salt.