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Note: Wherever it is found,
"<" denotes aggravation (worse by) and ">" denotes
amelioration (better by) |
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| COMMON NAME |
: | Chloride
of Sodium |
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| FAMILY |
: | Salt
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| Ailments from |
: | -Disappointment,
grief. -Anger, fright, vexation, mortification or reserved displeasure -Fit of passion -Loss of fluids, profuse menses, sexual excess -Masturbation -Injury to head -Quinine -Lunar caustic -Bread, fat, wine, acid food, salt -Cautery with silver nitrate. |
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| GUIDING INDICATIONS |
: | <
Exact periodicity < 9-11 a.m. < Cold bathing < With the sun < Open air < After menses < Alternate days < Heat of sun < Summer < Dampness < Exertion of eyes < Consolation < Mental exertion (talking, reading, writing) < Quinine < Puberty < Bread; fat; sour < Coition < Seashore < Chronic sprains < Noise; music < Touch < Pressure < Full moon < Warm room < Sunrise to sunset < Lying down especially in morning or evening < SUN > Rest > Sitting up > Tight clothing > Going without regular meals > Deep breathing > Before breakfast > Rubbing; against back > Talking > PERSPIRATION > FASTING > Lying on right side |
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| MIND |
: | -Ailments
from grief, cannot cry. -Psychic causes of disease; ill-effects of grief, fright, anger etc. -Consolation <; detests consolation or fuss. -Appears to bid for sympathy yet angry when consoled. -Easily angered, < consolation. -Irritable, gets into a passion about trifles. -Hateful, to people who offended him. -Aversion to presence of strangers during urination. -Aversion to men [in females]. -Dwells on past unpleasant memories. -An idea clings, preventing sleep, inspires revenge. -Prefers to be alone, to cry. -Weeps bitterly, involuntary; or can't weep. -Weeping when looked at; when thinking of past events. -Mistakes in speaking what he does not intend to. -Absentminded, scattered thoughts. -Awkward hasty; drops things from nervous weakness. -Fear or dreams of robbers, on waking will not believe the contrary until a search is made. -Fear of -dark -storms -claustrophobia -insects, germs -heights. -Young girls become lovelorn and fall in love with married men. -Laughing over serious matters. -Sadness before menses, in pregnancy, also during menses without cause. -Starting as if electric shocks, wakening her. -Sympathetic. -Slow learning to talk. -Haunted by unpleasant subjects. -Desire to use dirty words during sex. |
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| GUIDING INDICATIONS |
: | -Dry
mucous membranes. Dryness of mouth, throat,
rectum, vagina etc. or thick, white or clean, watery, albuminous and
acrid discharges. -Great emaciation; losing flesh while living well, especially throat and neck, of children. Abdomen emaciates rapidly during summer complaints. -Great debility, most weakness felt in the morning in bed. Great weakness and weariness. -Numbness of one side or parts lain on. Paralysis, fingers or parts seem too short. -Great liability to take cold. -Constrictive sensation throughout the body. -Oversensitive to all sorts of influences. -Trembling of the whole body from smoking tobacco. -Pulsation throughout the whole body, even during rest, < slightest motion. -Paralysis from emotions; sexual excess. -Pain at night, takes away the breath, and seem almost to cause paralysis. -Likes to be covered but does not >. -Dropsical-Cold dropsical cases. -Abdominal dropsy. -It has remarkable action when legs are oedematous. -Head-Blinding headache. -Aches as if thousand hammers were knocking on the brain, in the morning on awakening, after menstruation, from sunrise to sunset. -Left sided clavus (headache), as if bursting, with red face, nausea and vomiting, before during and after menses > perspiration. -Before attacks -numbness and tingling in lips, tongue and nose > sleep -Headache from eyestrain, from mental exertion. -Vertigo during pregnancy, after tea. -Eyes-Muscle of eye weak and stiff. -Fiery, zig zag appearance around all objects. -Tears stream down face on coughing. -Asthenopia due to insufficiency of internal recti muscles. -Pain in eyes when looking down. -Cataract incipient. -Eyelids so excessively sore, as to look like raw beef. They close spasmodically and it becomes difficult to force them open. -Lachrymation accompanies ailments. -Nose-Violent fluent coryza lasting for 1-3 days then changing into stoppage of nose, making breathing difficult. -Discharge thin, watery, like raw white of egg. -Infallible for stopping a cold commencing with sneezing. -Loss of smell and taste. -Mouth-Numbness, tingling of tongue, lips and nose. -Eruptions around mouth and vesicles like pearls on lips. -Tongue-mapped, with red insular patches, like ringworm on sides -Heavy difficult speech, children slow in learning to talk. -Lips dry and cracked especially middle. -Deep, painful fissure in the middle of upper lip is given in Nash, also present in lower lip. -G.I.T.-Desire for salt, sour, lemon, bitter, beer, chocolate, fish, burnt food, bread, milk. -Loathes fat, meat, bread, coffee, rich food, slimy food, chicken. -Thirst for cold drinks. -Sweats while eating. -Constipation-sensation of contraction of anus, torn, bleeding, smarting afterwards. -Stools dry, hard, difficult, crumbling, stitches in rectum, involuntary, knows not whether flatus or faeces escape. -C.N.S-Fluttering of the heart, with a weak faint feeling -Heart's pulsation shakes the body, intermits on lying down. -Palpitation alternates with beating in head. -Urine-Involuntary, when walking, coughing, laughing. -Has to wait long while for urine to pass if others are present. -Cutting in urethra after urination. -Male genitalia-Seminal emission soon after coition with increased desire. -Weakness of organs with retarded emission during an embrace. -Impotence, spinal irritation, paralysis after sexual excesses. -Female genitalia-Displacement of uterus. -Pressing pushing towards genitals every morning; must sit down to prevent prolapsus. -Painful coition from dryness of vagina. -Aversion to sex. -Back-Pain in back with desire for some support. -Extremities-Palms hot and perspiring. -Hang nails. -Numbness and tingling in fingers and lower extremities. -Coldness of legs with congestion to head, chest and stomach. -Skin-Crusty eruptions bends of limbs, margin of scalp, behind ears. -Warts on palms and hands. -Eczema, raw red, inflammed especially in edges of hair < eating too much salt, at sea shore or from ocean voyage. -Urticaria acute or chronic, over whole body, especially after violent exercise. -Skin oily, greasy. -Herpes about lips or at edge of hair, pearly. -Fever-Chill between 9-11 a.m. chronic, badly treated cases, especially after suppression by quinine. -Headache with unconsciousness during chill and heat. -Sweat > pains. -Fever blisters. -Coldness of body and continued chilliness very marked. -Chill begins in the extremities such as fingers and toes and spreads to the small of back. -Chill very severe that it turns lips and nails blue. |
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| KEYNOTES |
: | -Great
emaciation, losing flesh while living well.
Throat and neck of children emaciate rapidly during summer complaint. -Cannot pass urine in front of others. -Awkward, hasty drops thinks from nervous weakness. -Heart pulsations shake the body. -Sweats while eating. -Mapped tongue. -Urticaria after violent exercise. |
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| NUCLEUS OF REMEDY |
: | -The
patient is thin, thirsty, poorly nourished, on
account of digestive disturbances and he is hopeless and awkward in
nature. -Emaciation though eating well. Loses flesh from above downwards throat, neck. -Periodicity marked. -Dryness of mucous membranes. -Tongue mapped, with red insular patches like ringworm on sides. |
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| CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS |
: | -Disposition
to weep; consolation <. -Emaciation from above downwards especially of throat and neck. -Marked periodicity especially 10 - 11 a.m. -Dryness of mucous membranes with violent thirst. -Tongue mapped with red insular patches like ringworm on sides. -Intense craving for salt, bitter things, fish. Aversion to bread and coffee. -< SUN > PERSPIRATION. |
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| CLINICAL |
: | -Anaemia,
Aphthae, Arrhythmia, Asthma, Colitis,
Depression, Dyspareunia, Eczema, Fever, Gastritis, Goitre, Grave's
disease, Headache, Herpes, Hypertension, Irritable bowel syndrome,
Insomnia, Lumbago, Malignancy, Multiple sclerosis, Nephritis, Peptic
ulcer, Premenstrual syndrome, Psoriasis, Sciatica, Stomatitis, Suicidal
states, Tinea, Urticaria, Vaginitis. -Nat-m gives best result in cataract - Dr. Speis Alexander. -If Ferrum fails to cure an allergy to egg, don't forget Nat-m, it may not only cure the allergy but the whole case - Dr. Bellokossy. -Nat-m and a table spoon of brandy is said to produce conception from intercourse the following night - Dr. Hering. -Nat-m may be needed to cure the most terrible headache, but do not give it during a severe attack at risk of a fearful aggravation. Give its acute Bry for immediate pain and to palliate; and the curative later on when attack is over. |
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| REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS |
: | -Compare-Alumn,
Aur, Bor, Caust, Chin, Cocc, Graph,
Ign, Kali-c, Nat-c, Nat-s, Phos, Sep, Staph, Thuja. -Antidotes-Ars, Phos, Spirit-gly-nit-dul -Complementary-Apis, Caps, Ign, Sep. |
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