- Source: Derived from sodium chloride (NaCl), common salt, prepared for homeopathic use through triturationGrinding raw substance into powderThe process of grinding an insoluble dry substance with milk sugar (lactose) in a mortar to prepare the base of a remedy. and serial dilutionPotentized liquid homeopathic medicineA solution prepared by repeatedly diluting and shaking (succussing) a substance to enhance healing power while removing toxicity. to enhance therapeutic action while eliminating material effects, in accordance with homeopathic pharmacopeia standards.
- Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for psychological, neurological,.
- Dermatological, gastrointestinal, and systemic disorders , particularly those involving emotional suppression, headaches, and fluid imbalance.
- It is noted for symptoms such as grief, migraines,.
- EczemaItchy, inflamed skin conditionAn inflammatory skin rash causing dry, red, itchy, and sometimes cracking or blistered skin patches., and thirst, often aggravated by heat, consolation, or emotional stress, and ameliorated by open air, solitude, or rest.
- Modern Context: Indicated for psychological conditions (e.g., major depressive disorder,.
- Generalized anxiety disorder), neurological conditions (e.g., migraine🩺 MigraineClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. with aura, tension-type headache), dermatological conditions (e.g., eczema, acne), gastrointestinal conditions (e.g.,.
- Constipation, dyspepsiaIndigestion or upper abdominal discomfortDiscomfort or pain in the upper abdomen, often associated with nausea, bloating, heartburn, or acid reflux.), and systemic conditions (e.g., chronic fatigue syndrome, dehydration-like states).
- It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by grief, headaches, eczema,.
- Thirst, or weakness, typically exacerbated by heat, consolation, or emotional stress, and often seen in individuals with reserved, sensitive constitutions.
- The remedy is particularly relevant for those with psychological or dermatological conditions, often presenting with symptoms like suppressed emotions or dry skin, commonly observed in patients with major depressive disorder🩺 Major Depressive DisorderClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., migraines, or eczema triggered by grief, stress, or heat exposure.
- COMMENTS-Can antidoteNeutralizing substance or remedyA remedy or substance that stops, counteracts, or neutralizes the action of a previously taken remedy. the effects of the crude salt, allows patients to cut down intake.
- Antidotes the effects of Arg-n.
- ScrofulousProne to swollen glands or tuberculosisRelating to scrofula, a constitutional tendency to tuberculous swelling of the lymph nodes. ophthalmiaSevere eye inflammationInflammation of the eye, especially conjunctivitis. which has been treated locally in vain with Arg-n., sore throats that have been cauterized, the effects local and remote of uterine injections of Arg-n or cauterizing of the os uterus.
- Symptoms are worse at the seaside or cannot stay by the sea.
- Constipation at seaside.
- Can also be better at seaside.
- Great desire for open air and washing in cold water🌿 WaterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- Sensitivity to the sun.
- Fluttering palpitationsSensation of rapid or irregular heartbeatA noticeably rapid, strong, or irregular heartbeat due to agitation, exertion, or physical conditions. with faint feeling, worse lying down.
- Characteristic sense of coldness at the heart of précordia, with trembling of the heart.
- In one case of hypertrophyAbnormal enlargement of an organThe increase in the volume of an organ or tissue due to the enlargement of its component cells. with degeneration of most of the valves, the patient told Clarke that nothing gave her so much relief as Nat-m.
- Periodic, intermittent fevers.
- Chilliness predominates.
- Chill from 10 to 11 a.m wit h thirst, drinks after a meal, fever blisters around mouth.
- Fever with violent headache, great thirst, nausea, vomiting, blueness, faint, averse to uncover.
- Fever may come on without chill 10 to 11 a.m.
- Fevers and chills from malaria🌿 MalariaMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. (Ars.).
- Antidotes quinine.
- Headaches from over study.
- Headache with partial blindness.
- Throbbing, beating as with little hammers, pain as if the head would burst.
- The throbbing headache has its analog in palpitation of the heart.
- Headache much worse by coughing.
- Migraines, worse during the day and better at night.
- Worse from the sun or light.
- Lambert recorded several cases of headache associated with errors of refraction and consequent eyestrain cured with Nat-m.
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- The headache was noticed on walking.
- In one case it was like a cloud over the brain with intense depression and lasted ten years.
- It disappeared before the vision was corrected.
- Indicated in some cases of multiple sclerosis🩺 Multiple SclerosisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. and lupusAutoimmune inflammatory diseaseA chronic autoimmune disease where the body's immune system attacks its own tissues and organs..
- Psoriasis🩺 PsoriasisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Hydroa.
- Eczema on hair margins, especially at back of head.
- Warts on palms of hands.
- Corns.
- Painful scars.
- Greasy skin, an excess of sebaceous secretion.
- Disorders due to loss of fluids.
- Copious lachrymation.
- Burnett noted the characteristic “flow of tears with cough” in whooping cough.
- Schussler noted the specific relation to catarrhInflammation of mucous membranes with dischargeExcessive buildup of mucus in the nose or throat, associated with inflammation of the mucous membrane..
- Excessively fluent coryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge. with much sneezing, sore nose, especially the left wing.
- Tendency to loss of smell and taste.
- Allergies.
- Dry skin and lips.
- The lower lip has a crack down the middle.
- Cold sores on lips and nose.
- Herpes infection.
- Cold sores, canker sores, fever blisters and genital herpes that are worse from emotional stress or fatigue.
- Mapped tongue with red islands, or a clean, shining tongue with froth along each side.
- Sensation as if there is a hair on the tongue.
- Numbness and sti ffness of one side, heavy, embarrassing speech.
- The tongue is blistered, sticks to roof of mouth.
- Dryness of mouth and throat.
- Sinking sensation.
- Hypoglycemia🩺 HypoglycemiaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Great hunger with no appetite.
- Eats heartily, rav enous appetite, but emaciates, especially about the neck.
- Feels better when stomach is empty.
- Strong aversion to fats and slimy foods.
- Craves chocolate, sweets, fish.
- Craves salt.
- One patient, who said she could “eat the brine out of a mackerel kit,” was cured with a single dose of Nat-m.
- Unquenchable thirst.
- After eating there are empty belchings, nausea, acidity, sleepiness, heartburn, palpitation, epigastric pressure and heat radiating up to chest.
- Indigestion.
- Violent hiccough.
- Nausea.
- Vomiting.
- Constipation and diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day..
- Constipation often associated with anemiaLack of healthy red blood cells or hemoglobinA condition marked by a deficiency of red blood cells or of hemoglobin in the blood, resulting in pallor and weariness., chilliness, cold feet and chills down the back.
- Women can have an aversion to sex, an aversion to men.
- Delayed first menses may be early and profuse or scanty and delayed.
- Bearing down pain (Sep.).
- LeucorrheaWhitish or yellowish vaginal dischargeA whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina, often indicating congestion or mild infection., with backache th at is better pressure of from lying down on something hard.
- Characteristic dryness of the vagina with painful sex.
- Morning sickness during pregnancy.
- Infertility or amenorrhea🩺 AmenorrheaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. from grief.
- Useful for children who are late in talking.
- Autism.
- Learning or speech disabilities.
- Temperature-Coldness of the body.
- Morning chill with thirst, between 9 a.m and 11 a.m.
- ChillyHypersensitive to cold temperaturesA constitutional state of feeling exceptionally cold, lacking vital heat, and needing warmth or heavy blankets., but worse in sun.
- Chills beginning in feet or lumbar region.
- Chills predominates, mostly internal, hands and feet cold.
- Chills with yawning, chatter ing of teeth.
- Chill alternating with fever, at various times of day, without sweat.
- Heat, violent thirst increases with fever.
- Intermittent fever.
- Malaria🩺 MalariaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Hydremia in chronic malarial states with weakness, constipation, loss of appetite.
- Fever blisters.
- Sunstroke.
- Anxiety in abdomen.
- Cutting pain in abdomen.
- Much pain and sore ness in left hypochondrium.
- Pressure in upper abdomen.
- Pain in abdominal ring on coughing.
- Epigastric pulsation.
- Epigastrium swollen and painful.
- Tightness of skin across abdomen from hip to hip, must loosen clothes.
- Tension groins.
- Rigidity of the left side.
- Sudden distention.
- Abdomen swollen, rumbling and incarceration of flatus.
- Great fermentation, loud gurgling.
- ColicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants. with nausea, better flatus.
- Bilious colic.
- Burning in intestines.
- Abdominal viscera loose and dragging as if when walking.
- JaundiceYellowing of the skin and eyes from bile pigmentA medical condition with yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes, arising from excess of the pigment bilirubin. with drowsiness.
- Yellowish discharge from navel.
- Hungry, yet loses weight (lod.),with depression.
- Anorexia nervosa🩺 Anorexia NervosaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Hunger without relish.
- Hunger without appetite during pregnancy.
- Thirsty, drinks large quantity of water.
- Craving for salt and salty foods, especially during pregnancy.
- Eats more salt since a grief.
- Desires sour things, lemons.
- Desires bitter🌿 BitterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. things, beer.
- Desires chocolate, farinaceous food, oysters, fish, milk🌿 MilkMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- Averse to anything slimy like oysters, fats.
- Averse to meat, coffee, tobacco.
- Averse to bread, acidic foods.
- Aversion to rich food, chicken, salt, milk.
- Worse from bread, fat.
- Worse salt, acid food.
- Bad effects from eating salt and salty foods
