Natrium carbonicum Anhang
[Lectures
on Homeopathic Materia Medica
- James Tyler Kent]
Proved by Hahnemann, Hering
and others.
Persons who
are in the habit of taking carbonate of soda for sour stomach get a proving of
this remedy. I have met some of these people and been able to confirm many Natrum symptoms.
Old
dyspeptics who are always belching and have sour stomach and rheuma; after 20 years they are stoop-shouldered, pale,
sensitive to cold, chilly, < least draft; require much clothing;
unable to
resist the cold or the heat; require a medium climate; < changes of the
weather (digestive, rheumatic, gouty troubles).
Mind: A state of trepidation from the
slightest noise, the slam of a door; nervous excitement and palpitation with
great prostration; nervous weakness with trepidation; weakness from slight
exertion
of mind or body; internal and external trembling.
The
rattling of paper causes palpitation, irritability and melancholy. Estrangement from family and friends. Aversion to mankind
and to society; to relatives, to strangers; feels a great division between
himself and them; sensitive to, certain persons.
Music:
tendency to suicide, melancholy, weeping and trepidation; playing the piano is
so exhausting that she must lie down; music causes great sadness which
increases to religious insanity.
< from the slam of a door, a pistol shot, which causes
headache and complaints in general, < from music.
Abdomen: Digestion: The more soda these
patients take, the more flatulent do they become/is difficult, and finally milk
will not digest at all, bringing on a diarrhoea with undigested, lienteric stools; also, starch causes flatulence and
looseness of the bowels, Many symptoms from drinking cold water when
overheated. stoop-shouldered;
Urine: offensive like that of a horse,
from a vegetable or milk diet. This is not so marked as in Nit-ac., but
resembles it.
Skin: throws out eruptions upon the
knuckles and fingertips; also the toes; vesicular eruptions open up and form
ulcers on the joints of finger-tips.
Vesicular
eruptions on the body in patches and circles; the herpes family is especially,
related to Nat-c.; zona, herpes labialis,
herpes preputialis; patches as large as a dollar on
the hips,
thighs
and back. Smaller patches show vesicles containing a white serum, burning,
smarting and itching, > scratching.
The
eruption passes away with a crust, but will often ulcerate, it does not heal
and an ulcer forms. Circulation feeble; wounds suppurate. Feet
and skin burn. Most eruptions are of the vesicular form. Tingling, biting, itching, changing place, now here and now there;
cold skin; sweaty body.
Mind: Nervous exhaustion, physical
exhaustion, weakness of mind and body.
Book-keepers
lose the ability to add up figures. In reading a page, the one previous to, it
soon goes out of the mind. The memory will not hold out from the beginning to
the end of a sentence.
Forgets
what he reads.
Confusion
of mind follows and then he is unable, to perform any mental labor. Men become so fatigued from the details of business
that a confusion of the mind comes over them (brain fag).
Old cases
of brain fag with weakness and trepidation.
Eyes: oversensitive to light pain in the
eyes from a bright light.
Ptosis or
spasms of the lids
Nose: Otalgia,
with sharp, darting, piercing pains when the mental state, the chilliness and
other generals are present.
Coryzas
trouble much; always has a cold in the head the watery discharge is of short
duration and is soon followed by a thick copious flow of yellow mucus.
Ulceration,
thick crusts; sleeps at night with the month open; dry, yellow crusts are blown
out with pain and bleeding. The catarrh increases with each fresh cold, until
it becomes foetid;
Bones affected;
almost a constant headache over the eyes, in the forehead, at the root of the
nose; congestive headaches, < change of weather/cold room/damp weather;
increased
by every storm.
Most foetid
ozoena, mucous membranes ulcerated and destroyed.
Hearing: Oversensitive; little noises seem
enormous, like thunder; the crumpling of paper seems like the crashing of a
waterfall.
Smell: Taste perverted, too sensitive, so
that the tasting of things ordinarily grateful becomes painful; sometimes loss
of taste.
Mouth:
Face: Pale with blue ring around the
eyes, yellow blotches on the forehead. Puffiness in general; the hands, feet,
face pit on pressure; infiltration of the cellular tissue; states of the heart
and kidneys that favor dropsies;
old malarial cases, flesh doughy;.
Throat: Chronic enlargement of the
parotids, slow and of long duration; of the tonsils. Goitre.
Accumulation of mucus in the throat and posterior nares,
generally yellow in color, while with Natr. mur. it is white; the latter spits up copious, thick, white
mouthfuls.
Locomotor
ataxia with its fulgurating pains, amel. by eating; gnawing, all-gone, hungry feeling in the stomach.
Soles numb,
Difficult swallowing, must drink much water to wash the food down on
account of paralysis of the pharynx;
Stomach: Incessant thirst in the afternoon;
thirst between chill and heat great; desires cold water a few hours after
dinner. Extreme aversion to milk.
> eating
(headache/chilliness/palpitation); when chilly, he eats and is able to keep
warm; pain > after eating; an all gone feeling and pain in the stomach which
drives him to eat; he gets hungry at 5 h. and 23 h. < 5 h.; becomes so
hungry at this time that he is forced out of bed to eat something, which > pain.
> from eating
Abdomen: Flatulency and accumulation of
wind in the bowels; diarrhoea; stool yellow, soft with violent tenesmus and urging; a yellow substance like the pulp of an
orange in the stool; diarrhoea from milk.
CONstipated;
Paralysis of the bowels, cannot bear down at stool;
Stool: hard, dark, smooth and crumbling. stool like sheep’s dung
Urin:
albuminous
Prostrate: enlarged in old men.
Male
organs: erections
and priapism, sensitive thighs, hypersensitive spine;
the results of too much excitement.
Emissions; ejaculation of semen premature.
gonorrhea of the same character; thick, yellow, ropy,
purulent discharge from the bladder which clogs up the urethra when urinating.
Prostatorrhoea after urinating
and a difficult stool.
Female
organs: Nervous
hunger in pregnant women, who cannot sleep unless they get up at night and eat
crackers,
Sterility;
she is nervous, cold to the knees and elbows; cold body in winter, hot head in
summer; always tired; relaxed sphincter vaginae
causing the seminal fluid to gush out as soon as ejaculated by the male, thus
causing sterility.
May be a spasm of the sphincter, producing the same effect, or a clot of
blood or mucus shoots from the vagina with noisy flatus. Nervous, fidgety,
excitable, lean, dyspeptic women, not
hysterical. Menses too soon or too late; neuralgias,
oversensitive to drafts and dampness, sensitive spine, legs numb; leucorrhea yellowish-green, copious.
Back: Stiffness of the neck.
Many spinal
symptoms/sensitive spine,
Extremities: The soles burn while walking. Ulceration of the heel from blisters. Icy
cold feet. Weakness of the legs. Vesicles on tips of fingers and toes. Spots
and tubercles on the skin. Skin dry and cracked.
Itching and crawling. legs numb; Paralysis of the left
lower extremity with tingling
Body and extremities < in winter, head < in summer. The body troubles < from cold/in
the winter; cold “As if he had no blood in the body”,
extremities
cold, and he cannot get them warm; cold as ice to, the knees and elbows.
Violent backache after walking. Rheumatic pains in the
extremities. Jerking in all the limbs. Stumbling while walking. Weak ankles in
children. Heaviness of the legs. Pains in the hollow of the knees on motion. Tension in the bend of the knee. Easy
dislocation of the ankle.
Generals: Anxious trembling and sweating
during pains.
Oversensitive
to heat (after sunstroke: even some years afterwards); has to be well shaded
when walking in the sun, must seek a cool or dark place when the patient has
not had
the
proper acute remedy during the attack. < both cold
and heat (heat of the sun); head troubles are not < from cold.
Vesicles
filled with thin, white serum, but the pustule, when it ruptures, throws out a
thick, yellow discharge. Leucorrhoea thick, yellow, ropy;
Discharges
are commonly offensive.
Enlarged glands with induration (axillary/inguinal/abdominal/salivary).
Paralytic
states (lids/pharynx/bowels/l. lower extremity with tingling);
Palpitation at night when ascending and lying on l. side.
[H.C.Allen]
Aversion to open air and disliks exercise (mental/physical);
imbecility.
Great
debility: caused by heat of summer/chronic effects of sunstroke (with the
return of hot weather, suffers from headaches); exhaustion from least effort (mental/physical);
ready to drop
after a
walk;.
Emaciation with pale face and blue rings around the eyes, dilated
pupils; dark urine; anaemic; milky, watery skin and great debility.
Inable to
think or perform any mental labor, causes headache;
feels stupefied if he tries to exert himself; comprehension slow, difficult.
Intolerable
melancholy and apprehension; is wholly occupied with sad thoughts.
Attacks of anxiety and restlessness during a thunder storm; < from
music.
Head: pain from slightest mental
exertion; from sun or working under gaslight; with tension in nape or occiput before menses; head feels too large, “As if it
would burst”.
Face: pale, with blue rings around eyes;
eyelids swollen; catarrh; mucus in throat and posterior nares;
constantly hawking to clear throat; dropping into the throat from posterior nares.
Catarrh:
extends to posterior nares and throat; hawking much
thick mucus from throat; profuse discharge during day, stopped at night ( Nux ).
Nose: Thick, yellow, green, offensive,
musty, hard discharge from nose; often ceasing after a meal.
Stomach: Aversion to milk; diarrhoea from
it.
Female organs: Bearing down “As if everything
would come out; heaviness, < sitting, > by moving.
Discharge
of mucus from vagina after an embrace, causing sterility.
Extremities: Easy dislocation and spraining of
ankle; so weak that it give way; foot bends under.
<: music/in
the sun/excessive summer heat/mental exertion/thunder storm;
[William Boericke]
Carbonate
of Sodium
(NATRUM
CARBONICUM)
Great
debility caused by summer heat; chronic effects of sunstroke; exhaustion; anæmic; milky, watery skin; very weak ankles.
Mind: Unable to think; difficult, slow
comprehension. Mental weakness and depression; worries; very sensitive to
noise; colds, change of weather. Anxious and restless during thunderstorm;
< music. Marked gayety. Sensitive to presence of certain
individuals.
Head: Aches from slightest mental
exertion, < sun/working under gas-light Feels too large. Head aches with
return of hot weather. Vertigo from exposure to sun.
Hearing: Oversensitive.
Nose: All troubles of external nose
which may attain a morbid size-pimples and puffiness. Constant coryza; obstruction of nose. Catarrh; bad
smell of nasal secretion.
Many troubles of external nose. Posterior nasal catarrh. Hawking much mucus
from throat; worse, slightest draught.
Face: Freckles, yellow spots, pimples.
Swelling of upper lip. Pale, with blue rings around eyes and swollen lids.
Stomach: Feels swollen and sensitive. Ill
effects of drinking cold water when overheated. Water-brash. Hungry
at 5 h. Very weak digestion, caused by slightest error of diet. Averse
to milk. Depressed after eating. Bitter taste. Old dyspeptics, always belching,
have sour stomach and rheuma. Dyspepsia relieved by
soda biscuits.
Abdomen: Sudden call to stool. Escapes with
haste and noise. Yellow substance like pulp of orange in discharge. Diarrhœa from milk.
Female
organs: Induration of cervix. Pudenda sore. Bearing-down
sensation. Heaviness < sitting, > moving.
Menses late, scanty like meat-washings.
Leucorrhœal
discharge, offensive, irritating preceded by colic.
Respiratory
organs: Dry cough,
when coming into warm room from out of doors. Cough with coldness of left side
of breast.
Sleep: Wakes too early in morning.
Amorous dreams. Drowsy during day.
Extremities: Old sprains. Great
weakness of limbs (morning). Easy dislocation and spraining of ankles.
Foot bends under. Soreness between toes and fingers.
Heel and tendo-Achilles affected. Capped hands. The hollow of the
knee is painful on motion. Icy cold up to knees.
Skin: Inclination to perspire easily, or
dry, rough, cracked skin. Eruption on finger-tips, knuckles and toes. Vesicular
eruption in patches and circles. Veins full. Soles of feet raw and sore.
Modalities:
<: sitting/from music/summer heat/mental
exertion/thunderstorm/least draught/changes of weather/sun.
>: moving/boring in ears and nose.
Vorwort/Suchen Zeichen/Abkürzungen Impressum