NATRUM SULPHURICUM [Nat-s]

Suicidal. Discharges yellow green. Flatulence and rumbling. Spluttering, noisy stools. Chilly.

COMMON NAME
: Glauber's Salt

SOURCE
: Sulphate of sodium.

A/F
: -Anger - Injury to head (fall)
- Suppressed gonorrhoea - Abuse of quinine
- Ill effects of O.C.pills - Damp, rainy weather
- Ill effects of diuretics, anti-diabetic, anti-hypertensives, cortisones.

MODALITIES
: < Damp weather [Arn, Ars-i, Dulc] < Night air > Open air.
< Cellars < Lying on left side > Warm, dry air
< Injuries to head < Lifting > Change of position
< Touch < Pressure > Breakfast
< Every spring [Lach, Rhus tox, Psor] < Light, mellow light > Lying on back
< Music [Acon, Dig, Graph, Kreos] < Late evening > After dinner
< Vegetables, fruits < Cold food and drinks > Motion.
< Lying long in one position < Wind > After stool
< Warm, wet weather [Lach, Carb-v, Sil]

MIND
: -Mental changes from injuries to the head.

-Suicidal tendency but restrains himself because of his duties to his family.

-Wants to commit suicide by shooting or hanging.

-Closed, serious or overly responsible patients.

-Sadness < music or mellow light, sitting near a stained glass window.

-Cheerful after stools.

-Mental exertion exaggerates.

-Fear from noise at night.

-Averse to being spoken to.

-Weeping > open air.

-Objective; realistic, always adheres to matter of fact.

-Dreams of fighting [Allium-c, Ferr, Nat-m, Ran, Staph].

GUIDING INDICATIONS
: -Hydrogenoid constitution, feels every change from dry to wet.

-PERIODICITY of complaints - 4 to 5 a.m.

-Piercing pains; at short ribs left, in left hip < rising < sitting down.

-Worse - Warm wet weather

-Discharges-thick, mucoid, frothy, initially white later on green or greenish yellow.

-Dirty brown or greenish yellow thick pasty tongue especially at base, tip feels burnt.

-PHOTOPHOBIA [Graph] on waking in morning, often during headache.

-Toothache < warmth > cold water, cool air [Bism and Bry, Coff, Puls].

-Thirst for something cold, desire for ICE or COLD WATER.

-Desire for salty fish, beer, COLD DRINKS, ICE. Desire for or aversion to yogurt.

-Aversion to meat and bread which she was fond of.

-Starchy food, milk and potatoes aggravate.

-G.I.T.-Flatulence, incarcerated, painful wind colic, in ascending colon, wakes her at 2 a.m. eating.

-Rumbling, gurgling in bowels more in right ileo-caecal region, then sudden, noisy, spluttering stools, after rising in the morning (9 a.m.) or drives out of bed.

-Loose stools < after spell of wet weather.

-Great size of faecal mass.

-Diarrhoea from vegetables, farinaceous, fat food. Comes on regularly every morning and returns quite regularly each day. Diarrhoea with flatus.

-Pain in the liver region. Desire to lie on right side with legs curled up.

-Colic > rubbing abdomen > lying on sides.


-Female genitalia-Leucorrhoea yellowish green following gonorrhoea.

-Respiratory system-Asthma in children, asthma after grief.

< early morning (4-5 a.m.) < damp < exertion
-Dry cough; < morning after rising < night, on lying down
> sitting up and holding chest with both hands [Bry]
-Cough thick, ropy, greenish expectoration, chest feels all gone.

-Sycotic pneumonia, pain through lower left chest.

-Extremities-Arthritis of left hip < stooping < motion < rising from a seat [Willard Pierce]

-Skin-Warts on hands, head, trunk, about anus, plantar warts.

KEYNOTES
: -< Dampness of weather, damp houses, cellars, wet weather.

- Lively music makes her sad.

-Mental traumatism: mental effects from injuries to head.

CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
: -< Damp weather.

-Greenish yellow discharge and thick discharges.

-Dirty, greenish - gray or brown coating on tongue.

NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
: -Corresponding to the hydrogenoid constitution- < damp weather, sea air, damp cellars, fruits that thrive near water, Schussler's remedy for elimination of water from the body.

-Sycotic dyscrasia - asthma, acute or chronic diarrhoea, spinal meningitis etc.

-Effects of chronic gonorrhoea.

CLINICAL
: -Asthma, Colitis, Colorectal polyps or malignancies, Depression, Diabetes, Head injury, Hepatitis.

-BIOCHEMIC THUJA.

-Acute appendicitis with extreme pain in caecal region; apparently it is a retro caecal appendix. -Dr. D. M. Borland.

-Leukemia- Dr. Bellokossy
-Intense occipital pains due to emotional states - Dr. J. W. Waffensmith.

-Acute hip joint disease, particularly right hip -Dr. D. M. Borland.

REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
: -Compare-Nat-m, Aur, Med, Chin, Chel, Dulc, Kali-c, Kali-bi, Sulph.

-Complementary-Ars, Thuja, Med.

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