Natrum Sulphuricum
Sodium Sulphate, Glauber’s Salt
A liver remedy, suitable for the Hydrogenoid constitution. Complaints arise from living near dampness: damp houses, basements, cellars. Eating plants and fish which are water bound
It affects the Head, Liver and Pancreas
This remedy is suitable to the sycotic type. Given to persons with suppressed gonorrhea or where there is gonorrhea in the family.
Nat sul regulates water capacity of venous system, Nat Mur that of arterial system
NWS HEAD INJURY
MENTALS
Child
- closed and sensitive
- often have asthma
- want to get things right at school in class
- want to come first in class but cannot
- systematic with their work
- do work in neat order (D/D Nat Mur)
- irritable and seek revenge towards those who are better
- competitive
Adult
- more of a female remedy
- successful business man – does work systematically
- oversensitive
- suspicious
- closed personality
- hurt many times and life becomes a burden
- depression and loose interest and do not want to live anymore
- feelings of discontent and dissatisfaction
- suicidal and do not tell people of their feelings
- wants to commit suicide by shooting or by hanging
- do not commit suicide as committed to family especially towards those that depend on them
- do not want to cause grief to dependants (Rep. Must use utmost restraint to avoid suicide)
- estranged from family, from his wife
- inability to think
- peace maker, however they are indifferent and lack emotion, they do not get involved and can see both sides of a situation and bring them together
- good listeners and people seek advice from them
- fastidious and have a plan, an order and they stick to the plan
- very sensitive to music that aggravates and anger leads to jaundice
- suppress their anger and have an aversion to being spoken to
- hold grudges (D/D Nit Ac)
- Fear of crowds, of evil
- bitter taste in mouth, connected to gall bladder (resentment/anger)
Physical Characteristics
- SUDDEN VIOLENT SYMPTOMS
- PAINS are piercing. Left sided << sitting or rising << thinking of them (D/D Med, Calc Phos)
- DISCHARGES yellow, green thick or watery, sour
- PERIODICITY every 14 days
- PQRS – ITCHING – while undressing with soreness
- Violent itching of genitals with burning after scratching (D/D Sul)
- Liver while walking
- Between toes << taking socks off
- Acne << scratching = burning
Physical Generals
- << lying on left side, music, daytime, sea air, dampness, getting wet, bathing, living in damp places i.e. cellars, basements
- >> dry weather, pressure, open air, weeping > open air.
- PQRS after stool = cheerful. Confusion > after stool
Desires ice, ice water,
Averse meat, bread
Aggravated by starchy food, milk, potatoes (D/D Colo)
Causation
Anger, injury to head (fall) suppressed gonorrhoea
Clinical
Mental symptoms after head injury (NWS head injury), depression, asthma, migraines, diabetes, epilepsy, warts, sciatica, enlarged liver, warts, abscesses, boils rheumatism, excema, hepatitis
Complementary Remedies
Arsenicum album, Medorrhinum, Pulsatilla, Thuja
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