Natrium muriaticum

Common names: common salt; chloride of sodium.

Often of great benefit in the treatment of malarial disease and intermitting fevers.

Hard chill about 11 A.M., with great thirst which continues through all stages; the heat is characterized by the most violent headache (Ra.).

Continued chilliness and want of animal heat very marked (Nux-V., Sil.).

Intermittent fever made inveterate by the use of quinine (Apis, Ars., Ign., Ipec., Nux-V., Puls., Sep., Sulph.) (N.).

Pulse intermitting (Dig., Ign.).

Twitching in the muscles and limbs (Bell., Cupr., Kali-P., Mag-P., Stram.).

Shortening of the muscles (Am-M., Caust., Sil.).

Painful contraction of the hamstrings (Hr.).

Great coldness of the body, with disposition to put on more clothing.

INTERMITTENT FEVER WITH SPLITTING HEADACHE (Nux-V.).

The most weakness is felt in the morning in bed (Ambr., Carb-V., Con., Puls.).

Continuous heat in the after-noon, with violent headache and unconsciousness.

Intermittent fever from living in damp regions (D.).

Great weakness and debility of mind and body after exertion.

Every movement accelerates the circulation (Bry., Dig.).

GREAT EMACIATION (Abrot., Calc-P., Op., Sars., Sanic., Sil.).

Great emaciation while living well; especially seen in the neck (N.)

CHILL AT 10 TO 11 A.M. (Agar., Ars., Carb-V., Lob., Nux-V., Sulph.) (N.).

Continuous chilliness from morning till noon.

Any fever with violent headache, heat in the face and great thirst, if it is regularly aggravated at 10 to 11 A.M. (N.).

There is vomiting with the chill (Eup-P.) (D.).

Complete relief during sweat (Ars.) (N.).

Sallow complexion or very pale countenance (Bt.).

After great bodily exertion an itching nettle-rash appears (N.).

Hang-nails: skin around the nails dry and cracked (N.).

Congestion of blood to the head, chest and stomach, with coldness of the legs (Bell., Stram.).

SPLITTING HEADACHE (Bry., Glon.).

Hammering in the frontal region on the head (D.).

Headache, accompanied by constipation (Bry.) (D.).

Headache as if bursting; beating or sticking through to the neck and chest, with heat in the head, red face, nausea and vomiting before, during or after the catamenia, or during the fever stage, decreasing gradually after the sweat (N.).

School girls' headache (Calc-P.) (N.).

Useful (in eye diseases) after all kinds of cauterizations with Arg-Nit. (N.).

Unsteadiness of vision; objects become confused, on looking at them; letters and stitches run together (N.).

Drawing, stiff sensation in the muscles of the eyes on moving them (N.).

Of value in bringing up power of vision after debilitating illness (Chin.).

Excessively sore, red, disgusting eyelids (Ra.).

Asthenopia (Calc-P., Phos., Ruta, Sep.) (D.).

CILIARY NEURALGIA, WHICH COMES AND GOES WITH THE SUN (Spig.) (D.).

Blepharitis (Bor., Euphr., Graph., Sulph.) (D.).

Lachrymation and scalding tears (D.).

Bad effects from anger (Bry., Ign., Nux-V., Staph.) and illness induced from much talking.

HYSTERICAL CONDITIONS (Ign., Nux-M., Puls., Sep., Valer.).

CONSOLATION AGGRAVATES (Calc-P., Cham., Ign., Sep., Sil., Thuj.; consolation ameliorates- Puls.) (N.).

SAD AND WEEPING (Aur., Ign., Sep., Stann.) (N.).

Hypochondriacal mood (Nat-C.) (D.).

Hopeless about the future (Bry., Calc-O., Chin-S., Cic., Dig., Ferr., Gels., Iod., Lach., Mur-Ac., Nux-V., Phos., Puls.) (D.).

Cold sores or herpes (so-called fever blisters) on the lips, or on the wings of the nose (D.).

Clear, watery discharge from coryza accompanied with loss of smell and taste (D.).

Vertigo, as if falling on closing the eyes (B.).

Brain-fag (Calc-P., Kali-P.) (D.).

Pain in the stomach, ameliorated by bandaging the abdomen (Cupr.) (K.).

Gastric complaints often beneficially affected by use of this remedy.

VIOLENT THIRST (Ars., Bry., Phos., Sulph., Verat.) (D.).

Bad effects from acids and bread.

Pressing in the stomach, with nausea and sudden sinking of strength.

Has always heart-burn after eating (Lyc.) (G.).

GREAT AVERSION TO BREAD, OF WHICH SHE WAS ONCE VERY FOND (N.).

Bad effects of using too much salt (Phos.) (N.).

Craves salt and salty things (N.).

Great dryness of the mucous membranes from the lips to the anus; lips dry and cracked, especially in the middle; anus dry, cracked, fissured (N.).

Difficult expulsion of stool fissuring the anus, with flow of blood, leaving a sensation of much soreness in the anus (N.).

CONSTIPATION (Bry., Ign., Lyc., Nux-V., Sep.).

Sensation of constriction of the anus (Bell., Lach.) (N.).

Herpes about the anus (N.).

The stools are dry, crumbling, hard, and difficult to expel (Mag-M.) (D.).

Alternate constipation and diarrhœa (Nux-V.) (Bl.).

The nightly pains cause shortness of breath and a kind of one-sided loss of power.

Diarrhœa, accompanied with great weakness of the abdominal muscles (D.).

The stools are sometimes involuntary (Aloe, Nat-S., Podo., Sulph.) (D.).

Chronic bronchial catarrh with profuse secretion of mucus (D.).

HEART PALPITATES, FLUTTERS, INTERMITS, PULSATES VIOLENTLY, SHAKING THE WHOLE BODY; WORSE FROM LYING ON THE LEFT SIDE (N.).

Cold feeling in the heart when exerting the mind, or from mental over-exertion (N.).

White-coated tongue (Ant-C., Bry., Kali-M.) (Ra.).

Mapped tongue, with red, insular patches (N.).

Excoriating diarrhœa like water, only in the day-time (Petr.) (Hr.).

Scorbutic, putrid inflammation of the gums (Kreos., Merc., Nit-Ac., Phos., Sulph.) (Ra.).

Difficulty of talking, as if the organs of speech were weak (Bar-C.) (Ra.).

Dryness of the vagina, which is painful during an embrace (Graph., Lyc., Sep.) (G.).

Very sad and gloomy during the menses, with much palpitation of the heart, and morning headache (G.).

SCANTY AND DELAYING MENSTRUATION-IS A PROMINENT INDICATION FOR THE USE OF THIS SALT (Bt.).

WATERY LEUCORRHOEA (Graph., Nit-Ac., Puls.) (D.).

Especially useful in uterine troubles, accompanied by backache, which is relieved by laying on the back, or on something hard (D.).

Every morning pressing and pushing towards the genitals; has to sit to prevent prolapse (Sep.) (N.).

Cutting in the urethra after micturition (Berb., Calc-P., Canth., Con., Dig., Lyc., Petros., Rhus-T., Sulph.) (N.).

Catarrh of the bladder, with burning on urinating (Hydr., Kali-B., Lyc.) (D.).

Pain in the urethra just after urinating (Sars.).

Has to wait a long time for the urine to pass if others are present (Br.).

SEMINAL EMISSION, EVEN AFTER COITUS (Br.).

Gleet: Clear mucus; chronic after abuse of Argent-Nit. (or Nitrate of Silver) (N.).

Averse to coition, or painful coition (B.).

Hair falling off the pubes (N.).

PAIN IN THE BACK AS IF BROKEN, RELIEVED BY LYING ON SOMETHING (N.).

Chlorosis: Chronic cases; cachectic individuals, with dead, dirty skin; frequent palpitation and fluttering of the heart; oppression and anxiety in the chest (G.).

Herpetic eruptions of little, watery blisters (Rhus-T.) (D.).

Affections of the scalp accompanied by falling off of the hairs (D.).

Eruptions on the flexor surfaces; (eruptions on the extensor surfaces- Kreos.) (D.).

Warts on the palms of hands (N.).

Itching eruptions, dry or moist; worse at the roots of the hairs (Rhus-T.) (N.).

Tormenting sleeplessness after gnawing grief (Ign., Kali-Br.) (N.).

Frequent dreams of robbers in the house, and on waking will not believe the contrary until a search is made (N.).

AGGRAVATION: In the morning; at night; from 10 to 11 A.M.; on lying down, especially on the left side; from the heat in general; from the heat of the sun; after abuse of quinine; during hot weather; at sea-shore; from mental exertion; and from noises.

AMELIORATION: By sweat; in the open air; from cold bathing; from lying on the right side; from pressure; from tight clothing; and while fasting.

RELATIONSHIP: Complementary to: Apis, Ign., and Sep.

ANTIDOTES: Ars., Phos. and Nit-Spir-Dulc.

Nat-Mur. antidotes: Apis, Arg-N. and Quin.

Compare: Alum., Apis, Ars., Bry., Calc., Carb-V., Chin., Dig., Euphr., Ferr., Graph., Hydr., Ign., Ipec., Kali-P., Lach., Lyc., Merc., Mur-Ac., Nit-Ac., Nux-V., Op., Petr., Phos., Plb., Puls., Rhus-T., Sep., Sil., Sulph., Thuj., Urt., Verat. and Zinc.