NATRUM MURIATICUM
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- for the anaemic and cachectic, whether from loss of vital fluids—profuse menses, seminal losses—or mental affections
- great emaciation
- losing flesh while living well
- throat and neck of child emaciate rapidly during summer complaint
- great liability to take cold
- child cross when spoken to
- crying from slightest cause
- gets into a passion about trifles, especially when consoled
- awkward, hasty, drops things from nervous weakness
- marked disposition to weep
- sad weeping mood without cause
- consolation from others aggravates her troubles
- anaemic headache of school girls
- headache from sunrise to sunset
- left-sided clavus headache
- headache as if bursting
- headache with red face, nausea, and vomiting before, during, and after menses
- headache as though a thousand little hammers were knocking in the brain during fever
- headache relieved by perspiration
- headache beginning with blindness
- headache with zig-zag dazzling, like lightning in eyes
- throbbing headache from eye strain
- lachrymation with tears streaming down the face whenever he coughs
- hay fever with squirming sensation in the nostril, as of a small worm
- hay fever brought on by exposure to hot sun or intense summer heat
- sensation as of a hair on the tongue
- mapped tongue, with red insular patches
- tongue like ringworm on sides
- heavy, difficult speech
- children slow in learning to walk
- constipation with sensation of contraction of anus
- anus torn, bleeding, smarting after stool
- stool dry, hard, difficult, crumbling
- stitches in rectum
- involuntary stool, knows not whether flatus or faeces escape
- involuntary urine when walking, coughing, laughing
- has to wait a long while for urine to pass if others are present
- cutting in urethra after urinating
- seminal emission soon after coition, with increased desire
- weakness of organs with retarded emission during an embrace
- impotence, spinal irritation, paralysis after sexual excesses
- pressing, pushing towards genitals every morning
- must sit down to prevent prolapsus
- hair falls out when touched in nursing women
- fluttering of the heart, with a weak, faint feeling, worse lying down
- heart pulsates shake the body
- face oily, shiny, as if greased
- hangnails: skin around the nails dry and cracked
- herpes about anus and on borders of hair at nape of neck
- herpes in bend of knees
- warts on palms of hands
- warts sore to touch
- raw, red, inflamed eczema, especially in edges of hair
- eczema worse from eating too much salt, at seashore, or from ocean voyage
- urticaria over whole body, especially after violent exercise
- painful contractions of the hamstrings
- dreams of robbers in the house
- on waking from dreams of robbers, will not believe to the contrary until search is made
- dreams of burning thirst
- fever blisters, like pearls about the lips
- lips dry, sore, and cracked, ulcerated
- intermittent fever paroxysm at 10 or 11 a.m
- headache with unconsciousness during chill and heat of fever
- sweat relieves fever pains
- bad effects of anger, acid food, bread, quinine, excessive use of salt, silver nitrate, grief, fright, vexation, mortification, or reserved displeasure
- craving for salt
- great aversion to bread
- worse at 10 or 11 a.m
- worse at the seashore or from sea air
- worse from heat of sun or stove
- worse from mental exertion, talking, writing, reading
- worse lying down
- better in the open air
- better from cold bathing
- better from going without regular meals
- better from lying on right side