Natrium sulphuricum

Common names: glauber's salt; sulphate of soda.

It corresponds to the hydrogenoid constitution and sycotic dyscrasia (D.).

Feels every change from dry to wet weather, and cannot eat even plants that grow near water (Bl.).

Chilly, can't get warm, even in bed (B.).

Meningitis (Apis, Bell., Cupr., Glon.) (B.).

Crushing or gnawing in the occiput (B.).

Chronic effects of blows, falls, etc. (Arn.) (N.).

Ill-effects of falls and injuries to the head, and mental troubles arising therefrom (D.).

Slow digestion (Carb-V., Chin., Hep., Lyc., Nux-V., Puls., Sep.) (B.).

A dirty, brownish coating on the tongue (Bry., Nat-P.) (D.).

Bitter taste in the mouth (Bry., Chin., Nat-M., Nux-V., Puls., Sep., Sulph.) (D.).

Toothache relieved by cold water, or cool air (Coff., uls.) (N.).

Diarrhœa, acute or chronic, with much flatulence (Aloe, calc-P., Podo.) (N.).

Rumbling in the abdomen, especially in the right ileocæcal region (N.).

Diarrhœa: Dark, bilious or greenish stools, accompanied with an irritable liver and flatulent colic (D.).

THIN YELLOW FLUID, GUSHING STOOLS IN THE MORNING AFTER RISING AND MOVING ABOUT (N.).

Lead colic (Alum., Bry., Coloc., Dios., Graph., Mag-A., Nux-V., Op., Sep., Sulph., Verat.) (N.).

Pain in the abdomen ameliorated by lying on the side (K.).

Flatus becomes incarcerated here and there in the abdomen (R.).

Aching and cutting in the region of the liver (D.).

THE LIVER IS ENGORGED AND THE SYMPTOMS ARE WORSE FROM LYING ON THE LEFT SIDE (Arn., Bry., Card-M., Mag-M., Ptel.) (D.).

There is jaundice, bilious colic, and vomiting of bile and bitter mucus (D.).

Painful sensitiveness of the hepatic region to touch, during a walk or to a sudden jar (R.).

Stitches, throbbing, tension and lancinations in the hepatic region (Chel., Merc., Podo.) (R.).

Rheumatism, worse in damp, cold weather (Dulc., Rhus-T.) (Br.).

Oedema of the feet (Apis, Bry., Kali-C., Lyc., Sep.) (Br.).

Is a useful remedy in bilious intermittent fevers, accompanied by liver affections, jaundice and bilious diarrhœa (D.).

Thirst at start of fever only (B.).

Heat with aversion to uncover (Ars., Nux-V., Rhus-T.) (B.).

Pain in the small of the back with scanty urine (R.).

Nose-bleed during menses (Ambr., Bry., Puls., Sep., Sulph.) (Br.).

YELLOWISH-GREEN LEUCORRHOEA FOLLOWING GONORRHOEA (Puls.) (Br.).

Menses too late and too scanty (Graph., Sep.) (C.).

Herpetic vulvitis (Graph., Kreos., Rhus-T., Sulph.) (Br.).

Nasal catarrh with thick, yellow discharge (Calc., Hydr., Kali-S.) (Br.).

Constant desire to take deep, long breath (Bry., Ign., Phos.) (Br.).

Useful in asthma, worse upon change to damp weather. Moist asthma, with a great deal of rattling on the chest. The shortness of breath is especially worse in damp weather (D.).

PAIN IN THE LOWER CHEST ON COUGHING, SPRINGS UP IN BED AND GRASPS THE CHEST WITH HANDS. LOOSE COUGH (dry cough-Bry.) (N.).

The sputum is copious and of a greenish colour (Puls., Stann.) (Bl.).

Humid asthma, especially in children (Ant-T., Brom., Hep., Kali-S.) (Bl.).

Granular conjunctivitis with much redness of the lids (Sulph.) (R.).

Pain in the eyes in the evening when reading by candle light (Merc.) (R.).

Agglutination of the lids in the morning with photophobia (Calc., Graph.) (R.).

Delayed resolution in pneumonia (Hep., Kali-C., Lyc., Sulph.) (Br.).

Every fresh cold brings on attack of asthma (Hep.) (Br.).

Diabetes (Acet-Ac., Kali-P., Lyc., Sulph.) (Br.).

Urine copious, and passed more frequently than normal; so that she had to get up several times in the night (R.).

It is one of the principal remedies in sycosis, especially where there are condylomata (D.).

GONORRHOEA: YELLOWISH GREEN DISCHARGE; THICK CONSISTENCY; LITTLE PAIN; ESPECIALLY IN HYDROGENOID CONSTITUTION (N.).

Sexual desire excited in the evening (C.).

Burning in the urethra during micturition (Canth., Merc., Sulph.) (R.).

Urine with brick-dust sediment (Berb., Lyc., Sars.) (R.).

Enlarged prostate causing retention of urine (Con., Dig., Hep., Kali-C., Lyc., Pareir., Staph., Thuj.) (R.).

Tendency to warts (Nit-Ac., Thuj.) (Br.).

Chronic gout (Benz-Ac., Calc., Lyc.) (Br.).

Music makes her sad (Acon., Cham., Dig., Graph., Kreos., Lyc., Nat-C., Nat-P., Nux-V., Phos., Sabin., Sep., Tarent.; Thuj.; sad music ameliorate- Mang.) (Br.).

Very irritable, ill-humoured (Bry., Nux-V., Sulph.) (C.).

Tearful (Cham., Ign., Med., Puls., Sep.) (C.).

Melancholy, with periodical attacks of mania (Br.).

Suicidal tendency; must exercise restraint (Ars., Aur., Naj.) (Br.).

WANTS TO COMMIT SUICIDE BY SHOOTING (Anac., Ant-C., Aur., Carb-V., Hep., Med., Nux-V.), OR BY HANGING (Ars., Bell., Ter.) (Br.).

Dislike to speak, or to be spoken to (Ars., Aur., Cocc., Ferr., Hyos., Kali-C., Mag-M., Nat-C., Nit-Ac., Nux-V., Sep.) (Br.).

Inability to think (Con., Nux-V., Pic-Ac.) (Br.).

AGGRAVATION: In cold, wet weather; from living in damp cellars; lying on the back; from lying on the left side; from motion; and in the morning.

AMELIORATION: From pressure; from changing position; and in dry, hot weather.

RELATIONSHIP: Compare: Ars., Bry., Calc-P., Dulc., Euphr., Ferr., Graph., Hep., Ipec., Kali-C., Lyc., Med., Merc., Nat-M., Nit-Ac., Nux-V., Puls., Rhus-T., Sil., Staph., Sulph. and Thuj.

Complementary: Ars., and Thuj.