NATRUM MURIATICUM
Source indications
Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica
- Growing thin with symptoms of salt
- Salt in stool
- Inanition, a starving for salt
- Shiny skin
- Pale, waxy skin
- Greased skin appearance
- Wonderful prostration
- Emaciation
- Weakness
- Nervous prostration
- Nervous irritability
- Hysterical condition of mind and body
- Weeping alternating with laughing
- Irresistible laughing at unsuitable times
- Prolonged, spasmodic laughter
- Tearfulness
- Great sadness
- Joylessness
- Benumbed to impressions
- Easily takes on grief
- Grieves over nothing
- Unpleasant occurrences recalled to grieve over
- Consolation aggravates melancholy
- Consolation aggravates tearfulness
- Consolation sometimes brings on anger
- Appears to bid for sympathy and is mad when it is given
- Headache comes on with melancholy
- Walks the floor in rage
- Extremely forgetful
- Cannot cast up accounts
- Unable to meditate
- Forgets what she was going to say
- Loses the thread of what she is hearing or reading
- Great prostration of the mind
- Unrequited affection brings on complaints
- Unable to control affections and falls in love with a married man
- Falls in love with a coachman
- Aversion to bread
- Aversion to fats
- Aversion to rich things
- Greatly disturbed by excitement
- Extremely emotional
- Nervous economy in a state of fret and irritation
- Worse from noise
- Worse from slamming of a door
- Worse from ringing of a bell
- Worse from firing of a pistol
- Worse from music
- Stitching pains
- Electric-like shocks
- Convulsive jerkings of the limbs on falling asleep
- Twitchings
- Shooting pains
- Oversensitive to all sorts of influences
- Exitable
- Emotional
- Intense
- Complaints come on in warm room
- Worse in the house
- Wants open air
- Mental complaints better in open air
- Takes cold easily from sweating
- Generally better in the open air
- Worse on getting heated
- Worse by sufficient exertion to heat up
- Better by moderate exertion in the cold air
- Face is sickly looking
- Skin greasy
- Skin shiny
- Skin sallow
- Skin yellow
- Often chlorotic
- Covered with vesicular eruptions around the edges of the hair
- Vesicular eruptions around the ears
- Vesicular eruptions around the back of the neck
- Scaly eruptions
- Squamous eruptions
- Great itching
- Oozing a watery fluid
- Sometimes dry skin
- Exfoliation takes place
- A shining surface is left in the meatus
- Scales form and peel off leaving an oozing surface
- Watery vesicles form about the lips
- Watery vesicles form about the wings of the nose
- Watery vesicles form about the genitals
- Watery vesicles form about the anus
- Vesicular eruptions, white, oozing a watery fluid, come and go
- Skin looks waxy
- Skin dropsical
- Great emaciation
- Skin looking dry
- Skin withered
- Skin shrunken
- Infant looks like a little old man
- Down on the face
- Emaciation takes place from above downward
- Collar-bones become prominent
- Neck looks scrawny
- Hips remain plump and round
- Lower limbs remain plump and round
- Watery discharge from mucous membranes
- Thick whitish discharge from mucous membranes
- Marked coryza with a watery discharge
- Thick, white discharges
- Hawks out a thick, white discharge in the morning
- Gluey oozings from the eyes
- Thick, white, gluey discharge from the ears
- Leucorrhoea is white and thick
- Gonorrhoea discharge has existed a long time and become gleety
- Smarting in urethra only after urination
- Awful headaches
- Dreadful pains
- Bursting headaches
- Compressing headaches, as if in a vise
- Head feels as if the skull would be crushed in
- Pains are attended with hammering
- Pains are attended with throbbing
- Pain like little hammers in the head on beginning to move
- Hammering pains in the head on waking in the morning
- Pain comes on in the latter part of sleep
- Great nervousness during the first part of the night
- Falls asleep late
- Awakes with hammering in the head
- Headaches beginning at to or II A. M., lasting until 3 P. M. or evening
- Headaches are periodical
- Headaches every day
- Headaches every third day
- Headaches every fourth day
- Headaches of those living in malarial districts, > from sleep
- Patient must go to bed and be perfectly quiet
- Headaches > from sweating
- Headaches associated with intermittent fever
- During the chill it seemed as though the head would burst
- Delirious and drinks large quantities of cold water
- No relief to the head until after the sweat
- Sweating does not relieve headache
- Forehead is cold
- Forehead covered with a cold sweat
- Head covered warmly is better
- Better moving about in the open air
- Headache due to disturbance of vision
- Inability to focus rapidly enough
- Headache < from noise
- Headache involving the whole back of the head
- Headache even going down the spine
- Troubles following brain diseases
- Hydrocephalus
- Spinal troubles
- Great sensitiveness to pressure
- Irritable spine
- Vertebrae are sensitive
- Aching along the spine
- Coughing aggravates the pain in the spine
- Walking makes pain in spine worse
- Pain in spine better from lying on something hard
- Pain in spine better from pressing the back up against something hard
- Sit with a pillow pressed against back
- Sit with hand pressed against back
- Menstrual troubles with hard object under the spine
- General nervous trembling pervades the body
- Jerking of the muscles
- Trembling of the limbs
- Inability to keep the limbs still
- Stomach distended with flatus
- After eating there is a lump in the stomach
- Food takes a long time to digest
- Worse from eating
- Whitish, slimy mucus is vomited attended with relief
- Great thirst for cold water
- Sometimes there is relief from drinking
- Sometimes the thirst is unquenchable
- Fullness in the region of the liver
- Stitching, tearing pains in liver
- Bowels are distended with gas
- Slowing down of the action of the bowels
- Stool being very difficult
- Stool in hard, agglomerated lumps
- Slowing down of the action of the bladder
- Must wait before the urine will start
- Urine comes slowly dribbles
- Not much force in the flow of urine
- After urination there is a sensation as if more urine remained in the bladder
- If anyone is present he cannot pass urine
- Cannot pass urine in a public place
- Continued urging to urinate
- Must pass the urine often
- Troublesome menstruation
- Menses too scanty
- Menses too free
- Menses too late
- Menses too soon