Natrium sulphuricum
van E. B. Nash — Leaders in Respiratory Organs
Historical reference for practitioners and students.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.
CATARRH.
CHRONIC NASAL CATARRH.
Natrum sulphuricum. Chronic catarrh, both ante and post nasal, discharge yellow or green < in damp weather.
ASTHMA.
Natrum sulphuricum has served me well in a number of cases, when the paroxysms were < or brought on by damp weather, which is often the case. Here there is also great rattling and wheezing, and the chest hurts as badly as in the dry cough of Bryonia. The patient holds the chest with the hands, it hurts him so to cough. This remedy is oftenest useful in the chronic form, I generally give it in the 30th.
PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS.
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 state which so frequently predisposes to consumption. It is especially valuable in cases of old, intermittent fever, that has been abused with Quinine. The patient’s assimilation is so impaired that, while he eats well, he still emaciates all the time. There may be much thirst, and yet the bowels are constipated, with much rectal trouble, or the opposite; watery mucous discharges take place here as they do in all the mucous membranes. With the COUGH there is generally copious, transparent, watery or albuminous expectoration. This is a picture particularly in part at least of Natrum mur., while
Natrum sulph. has some symptoms and conditions peculiar to itself. This is Grauvogl’s great hydrogenoid remedy, i. e., always worse in wet rainy weather. They always feel better on a dry day, whether hot or cold. This is the constitution in which gonorrhœa works most perniciously. It is also an anti-sycotic remedy. Grauvogl ranks it with Thuja in this place. These things must be understood and recognized in our treatment of tuberculosis or any other chronic disease, if we obtain the best results; any of the three miasms of Hahnemann (Psora, Syphilis or Sycosis) once engrafted on the human organism weakens and not only predisposes to other diseases, but must be met and controlled in as great measure as possible by appropriate medication. Nat. sulph. has some very strong local symptoms calling for its use.
1st. There is an asthmatic condition which is < in wet weather, with great rattling and expectoration.
2d. There is much pain in the chest on coughing, especially in the lower left lung (right, Kali carb., Merc., Chelid.); the patient springs up in bed and holds the chest with the hands.
3d. There is this painful soreness with the loose cough so different from Bryonia, which is with the dry one. Such cases as these are often wonderfully relieved and sometimes cured with this remedy.
COUGH.
Natrum sulph.—Loose cough with great soreness in the chest, > from springing up and holding chest with hands.