For the anaemic and cachectic; whether from loss of
vital fluids - profuse menses, seminal losses - or mental affections.
Great emaciation; loosing flesh while living well ( Abrot. , Iod.
); throat and neck of child emaciate rapidly during summer complaint
( Sanic. ).
Great liability to take cold ( Cal. , Kali c. ).
Irritability: child cross when spoken to; crying from slightest
cause; gets into a passion about trifles, especially when consoled
with.
Awkward, hasty, drops things from nervous weakness ( Apis , Bov.
).
Marked disposition to weep; sad weeping mood without cause ( Puls.
), but consolation from others < her troubles.
Headache: anaemic, of school girls ( Cal. p. ); from sunrise to
sunset; left sided clavus; as if bursting; with red face, nausea
and vomiting before, during and after menses; as though a thousand
little hammers were knocking in the brain during fever; > by
perspiration.
Headache; beginning with blindness ([Iris], Kali bi. ); with zig-zag
dazzling, like lightening in eyes, ushering in a throbbing headache;
from eye strain.
Lachrymation; tears stream down the face whenever he coughs ( Euphr.
).
Hay fever: squirming sensation in the nostril, as of a small worm;
brought on by exposure to hot sun or intense summer heat.
Sensation as of a hair on the tongue ( Sil. ).
Tongue: mapped, with red insular patches; like ringworm on sides
( Ars. , Lach. , Mer. , Nit. ac. , Tarax. ); heavy, difficult speech,
children slow in learning to walk.
Constipation: sensation of contraction of anus; torn, bleeding,
smarting afterwards; stool, dry, hard, difficult, crumbling ( Am.
c. , Mag. m. ); stitches in rectum ( Nit. ac. ); involuntary, knows
not whether flatus or faeces escape ( Aloe , Iod. , Mur. ac. , Olean.
, Pod. ).
Urine: involuntary when walking, coughing, laughing ( Caust. ,
Puls. , [Scilla.]); has to wait a long while or urine to pass, if
others are present ( Hep. , Mur. ac. ); cutting in urethra after
( Sars. ).
Seminal emission: soon after coition, with increased desire; weakness
of organs with retarted emission during an embrace; impotence, spinal
irritation, paralysis, after sexual excesses.
Pressing, pushing towards genitals every morning; must sit down
to prevent prolapsus ( Lil. , Mur. , Sep. ).
Fluttering of the heart; with a weak, faint feeling < lying
down ( Lach. ).
The heart's pulsations shake the body ( Spig. ).
The hair falls out when touched, in nursing women ( Sep. ); face
oily, shiny, as if greased ( Plb. , Thuja ).
For the bad effects: of anger (caused by offence); acid food, bread,
quinine, excessive use of salt; of cauterization of all kinds with
the silver nitrate; to grief, fright, vexation, mortification or
reserved displeasure ( Staph. ).
Hangnails: skin around the nails dry and cracked ( Graph. , Pet.
); herpes about anus and on borders of hair at nape of neck (in
bend of knees, Hep. , Graph. ).
Warts on palms of hands (sore to touch, Nat. c. ).
Dreams: of robbers in the house, and on waking, will not believe
to the contrary until search is made ( Psor. ); of burning thirst.
Fever blisters, like pearls about the lips; lips dry, sore and
cracked, ulcerated ( Nit. ac. ).
Painful contractions of the hamstrings ( Am. m. , Caust. , Guaiac.
).
Craving for salt ( Cal. , Caust. ); great aversion to bread.
Eczema; raw, red, inflamed, especially in edges of hair; < from
eating too much salt, at sea shore, or from ocean voyage.
Urticaria, acute or chronic; over whole body; especially after
violent exercise ( Apis , Cal. , Hep. , Sanic. , [Urt.]).
Intermittents: paroxysm at 10 or 11 a. m.; old, chronic, badly
treated cased, especially after suppression by quinine; headache,
with unconsciousness during chill and heat; sweat > pains.
Relations. - Complementary: to, Apis , acts well before and after
it.
Natrum mur. is the chronic of Ignatia , which is its vegetable
analogue.
Is followed by Sepia and Thuja.
Cannot often be repeated in chronic cases without an intercurrent,
called for by the symptoms.
Should never be given during fever paroxysm.
If vertigo and headache be very persistent, or prostration be prolonged
after Natrum, Nux will relieve.
Aggravation. - At 10 or 11 a. m.; at the seashore or form sea air;
heat of sun or stove; mental exertion, taling, writing, reading;
lying down.
Amelioration. - In the open air ( Apis , Puls. ); cold bathing;
going without regular meals; lying on right side (on painful side,
Bry. , Ign. , Puls. ).
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