NATRIUM SULPHURICUM

NATRIUM SULPHURICUM

(Sulphate of Sodium, Glauber’s Salt)

Nat-s.

A liver remedy, particularly effective for those with a hydrogenoid constitution, whose ailments worsen in damp conditions like basements or cellars. Symptoms intensify during rainy weather or contact with water in any form. They feel every transition from dry to wet and cannot eat plants grown near water or fish. They feel best in warm, dry air. Clinically useful for spinal meningitis, head trauma symptoms, and related mental issues. Skin conditions and warts recur every spring, affecting fingers and toes. Also helps with chronic gout (Lyc.).

Mind: Lively music saddens. Periodical melancholic mania with suicidal tendencies, requiring restraint. Difficulty thinking, dislikes speaking or being spoken to.

Head: Occipital pain, ear stitches, vertigo relieved by sweating. Sensation of head bursting when coughing, hot top of head, right temple pain following stomach burning. Effects of head injuries include mental issues. Dreams of running water.

Eyes: Yellow conjunctiva (jaundice), granular lids, photophobia (Graph.).

Ears: Piercing pain, otalgia, lightning-like stitches in damp weather.

Nose: Nasal catarrh with thick yellow discharge, salty mucus, coryza, epistaxis, ethmoiditis.

Mouth: Thick, white mucus, bitter taste, palate blisters.

Throat: Thick yellow mucus from posterior nares.

Stomach: Sour vomit, brown bitter tongue coating, yellow complexion, thirst for cold drinks, bilious vomiting, acid dyspepsia with heartburn and flatulence.

Abdomen: Duodenal catarrh, hepatitis, icterus, bile vomiting, liver sore to touch with sharp stitching pains, worse lying on left side, cannot bear tight waist clothing. Flatulence and wind colic in ascending colon, worse before breakfast. Burning abdomen and anus, bruised pain, stool urging.

Stool: Yellow, watery diarrhea, loose morning stools worsening after wet weather, involuntary stools when passing flatus, large fecal mass.

Urinary: Bile-laden, brick-dust sediment, excessive secretion, diabetes.

Male: Soft, fleshy excrescences, greenish discharges, gonorrhea with thick green discharge, little pain.

Female: Epistaxis during menses, which is acrid and profuse. Burning pharynx during menstruation, herpetic vulvitis, yellowish-green leucorrhea post-gonorrhea, leucorrhea with hoarseness.

Respiratory: Dyspnea during damp weather, must hold chest when coughing. Humid asthma, chest rattling between 4-5 a.m., thick ropy green expectoration, sensation of emptiness in the chest. Constant desire for deep breaths, asthma in children as a constitutional remedy, delayed pneumonia resolution. Springs up in bed during painful coughing, holds painful side (Bry.), pain through lower left chest, asthma triggered by colds.

Back: Itching when undressing, violent neck and brain base pain, piercing pain between scapulae, spinal meningitis, opisthotonus.

Extremities: Swollen axillary glands (lymphadenopathy), nail root inflammation (paronychia), burning soles, feet edema (phlegmasia alba dolens), toe itching (tinea pedis), gout, limb pain (sciatica) necessitating frequent position changes, hip joint pain worse on left side and stooping, knee stiffness, joint cracking, rheumatism worsening in damp, cold weather.

Skin: Itching when undressing, jaundiced, watery blisters, sycotic excrescences, wart-like red lumps.

Modalities: Worse with music (causes sadness), lying on the left side, damp basements, damp weather. Better in dry weather, with pressure, changing positions.

Relationship: Compare with Natrium succinicum (for catarrhal jaundice), Malaria officinalis (malaria-related symptoms), Natrium choleinicum (chronic gastric issues, liver problems), Momordica balsamina (colic, dysmenorrhea), Pulmo vulpis (asthma), Peumus boldus (stomach and liver issues post-malaria), Natrium iodatum (rheumatism, chronic bronchitis), Natrium hyposulphurosum (liver spots), Sulph., Thuj., Merc., Still. Complementary to Ars., Thuj.

Dose: First to twelfth trituration.