NATRUM CARBONICUM
Source indications
Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica
- Old dyspeptics with sour stomach and rheumatism
- Stoop-shouldered
- Pale
- Sensitive to cold
- Chilly
- Aggravated by the least draft
- Require much clothing
- Unable to resist the cold or the heat
- Require a medium climate
- Worse from weather changes
- Digestive, rheumatic, and gouty troubles worse from weather changes
- Trepidation from the slightest noise
- 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
- Rattling of paper causes palpitation, irritability, and melancholy
- Estrangement from family and friends
- Aversion to mankind and society
- Aversion to relatives and strangers
- Feels a great division between himself and them
- Sensitive to certain persons
- Music causes a 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
- Aggravation from the slam of a door
- Aggravation from a pistol shot
- Aggravation from music
- Flatulent
- Digestion is difficult
- Milk will not digest
- Diarrhoea with undigested, lienteric stools
- Starch causes flatulence and looseness of the bowels
- Symptoms from drinking cold water when overheated
- Urine offensive like that of a horse, from a vegetable or milk diet
- Eruptions upon the knuckles and fingertips
- Eruptions on the toes
- Vesicular eruptions open up and form ulcers on the joints or finger-tips
- Vesicular eruptions on the body in patches and circles
- Herpes
- Zona
- Herpes labialis
- Herpes preputialis
- Patches on the hips, thighs and back
- Vesicles containing a white serum
- Burning, smarting and itching, better from scratching
- Eruption passes away with a crust, but will often ulcerate
- Wounds suppurate
- Feet and skin burn
- Crusty eruptions on the skin
- Tingling, biting, itching, changing place
- Cold skin
- Sweaty body
- Nervous exhaustion
- Physical exhaustion
- Weakness of mind and body
- Bookkeepers lose the ability to add up figures
- Forgets what he reads
- Confusion of mind
- Brain fag
- Oversensitive to heat
- Aggravation from the heat of the sun
- Head troubles are not worse from cold
- Old cases of brain-fag with weakness and trepidation
- Body troubles are aggravated from cold and in the winter
- Cold as if he had no blood in the body
- Extremities cold
- Cold as ice to the knees and elbows
- Body and extremities are worse in winter, the head in summer
- Anxious trembling and sweating during pains
- Oversensitive to light
- Pain in the eyes from a bright light
- Oversensitive hearing
- Little noises seem enormous, like thunder
- Crumpling of paper seems like the crashing of a water-fall
- Taste perverted, too sensitive
- Loss of taste
- Loss of smell
- Hay-fever
- Catarrhal fever
- Copious, thick, yellow, purulent discharge from the eyes, nose, vagina
- Vesicles are filled with thin, white serum
- Pustule throws out a thick, yellow discharge
- Leucorrhoea thick, yellow, ropy
- Gonorrhoea thick, yellow, ropy
- Thick, yellow, ropy, purulent discharge from the bladder which clogs up the urethra when urinating
- Otalgia, with sharp, darting piercing pains
- Discharges are commonly offensive
- Coryzas trouble much
- Cold in the head
- Watery discharge is of short duration
- Thick copious flow of yellow mucus
- Ulceration, thick crusts
- Sleeps at night with the mouth open
- Dry, yellow crusts are blown out with pain and bleeding
- Catarrh increases with each fresh cold, until it becomes foetid
- Bones of the nose are affected
- Almost a constant headache over the eyes, in the forehead, at the root of the nose
- Congestive headaches, worse from change of weather, cold room, damp weather
- Increased by every storm
- Most foetid ozaena, mucous membranes ulcerated and destroyed
- Pale face with blue ring around the eyes
- Yellow blotches on the forehead
- Puffiness
- Hands, feet, face pit on pressure
- Infiltration of the cellular tissue
- Dropsies
- Old malarial cases, flesh doughy
- Urine albuminous
- Enlargement of the glands with induration, axillary, inguinal, abdominal, salivary
- Enlargement of the prostate in old men
- Chronic enlargement of the parotids, slow and of long duration
- Enlargement of the tonsils
- Ulcerations of the mouth
- Nursing sore mouth in women
- Thrush in infants
- Little white aphthous patches
- Diarrhoea from milk in infants
- When asleep the child jumps, cries, springs up and grasps the mother
- A nervous, cold baby, easily startled
- Accumulation of mucus in the throat and posterior nares, generally yellow in color
- Ameliorated by eating
- Chilly, eats and is able to keep warm
- Pains are ameliorated after eating
- All-gone feeling and pain in the stomach which drives him to eat
- Gets hungry at 5 A. M. and 2 P. M.
- Headache, chilliness, and palpitation better from eating
- Nervous hunger in pregnant women, who cannot sleep unless they get up at night and eat crackers
- Locomotor ataxia with its fulgurating pains, amel. by eating
- Gnawing, all-gone, hungry feeling in the stomach
- Soles numb
- Erections and priapism in males
- Sensitive thighs
- Hypersensitive spine
- Emissions
- Ejaculation of semen premature
- Thirst in the afternoon, incessant
- Thirst between chill and heat
- Great desire for cold water a few hours after dinner
- Extreme aversion to milk
- Flatulency and accumulation of wind in the bowels
- Diarrhoea
- Stool yellow, soft with violent tenesmus and urging
- Yellow substance like the. pulp of an orange in the stool
- Diarrhoea from milk
- Most troublesome constipation
- Stool hard, dark, smooth and crumbling
- No ability to bear down
- Stool large and hard, great effort to pass it
- Prostatorrhoea after urinating and a difficult stool
- Sterility, a constitutional state in a woman where she is unable to conceive
- Relaxation of the sphincter vaginae causing the seminal fluid to gush out as soon as ejaculated by the male, thus causing sterility
- Spasm of the sphincter
- 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
- Leucorrhoea yellowish-green, copious
- Paralytic states
- Ptosis or spasms of the lids
- Difficult swallowing, must drink much water to wash the food down on account of paralysis of the pharynx
- Paralysis of the bowels, cannot bear down at stool
- Stool like sheep's dung
- Paralysis of the left lower extremity with tingling
- Palpitation at night when ascending and while lying on left side
- Many spinal symptoms
- Goitre
- Stiffness of the neck
- 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
- Pain in the hollow of the knees on motion
- Tension in the bend of the knee