- Source: Derived from sodium sulphate ( Na₂SO₄), also known as Glauber’s salt, a mineral 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 hepatic, respiratory,.
- Psychological, musculoskeletal, and dermatological disorders , particularly those involving liver dysfunction, respiratory congestion, and emotional despair.
- It is noted for symptoms such as 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., asthma🩺 AsthmaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., depression, and joint pains, often aggravated by damp weather, morning, or emotional stress, and ameliorated by dry weather, open air, or motion.
- Modern Context: Indicated for hepatic conditions (e.g., hepatitisInflammation of the liverAn inflammatory condition of the liver, commonly caused by viral infections, toxins, or drugs., cirrhosis), respiratory conditions (e.g., asthmaChronic respiratory disease causing difficulty breathingA condition characterized by spasms in the bronchi of the lungs, causing difficulty in breathing, typically from an allergic reaction or hypersensitivity., chronic bronchitis🩺 Chronic BronchitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.), psychological conditions (e.g., major depressive disorder🩺 Major Depressive DisorderClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., suicidal ideation), musculoskeletal conditions (e.g., osteoarthritis🩺 OsteoarthritisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., fibromyalgia🩺 FibromyalgiaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.), and dermatological conditions (e.g., eczemaItchy, inflamed skin conditionAn inflammatory skin rash causing dry, red, itchy, and sometimes cracking or blistered skin patches., psoriasis🩺 PsoriasisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.).
- It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by jaundice, respiratory congestion, depression, joint pains, or sensitivity to dampness, typically exacerbated by damp weather, morning, or emotional stress, and often seen in individuals with sycotic, water🌿 WaterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.-retentive constitutions.
- The remedy is particularly relevant for those with hepatic or respiratory conditions, often presenting with symptoms like yellowing skin or wheezing, commonly observed in patients with hepatitis, asthma, or major depressive disorder triggered by damp environments, grief, or metabolic imbalance.
- COMMENTS-Grauvogl and Schussler used Nat-s in the lower trituratio n.
- It was Schtlssler’s specific for epidemic influenza🩺 InfluenzaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., but homeopaths need not confine them selves.
- When the correspondence is exact, the highest potencies will act better than the lower <span style="color:#0d9488; font-weight:600; margin:0 6px;">➔</span> When the likeness is more general, the lower will give the best results.
- Headache, with drowsiness.
- Basal headache, as if the bones at the base of the brain were crushed, pressure on both sides or on right side of occiput.
- Sun headaches.
- Severe migraine🩺 MigraineClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., especially after a head injury or after grief.
- Nausea, vomiting, b ursting and splitting migraines.
- Worse mental effort.
- Spinal meningitis🩺 MeningitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. with violent, crushing pain in the occiput.
- Traumatic epilepsy🩺 EpilepsyClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. from injury to the head.
- Blindness after head injury, cortical blindness.
- Personality change after head injury.
- Injuries to the spine, although more specifically for the head.
- Mental troubles arising from injury to the head.
- Nervous exhaustion brought on by de bilitating diseases🌿 DiseasesMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- Chronic fatigue.
- Overly concerned with the future.
- Tend to project and plan a lot.
- Irritability , worse morning.
- The mind clears as the day goes on Mental symptoms worse from music.
- Sentimental.
- Worse from nursing loved ones, never been well since nursing a loved one.
- Overwhelming sense of being overbur dened.
- Very independent.
- Angry, verbally viole nt.
- Resentment about life, regretful.
- Holds grudges.
- Difficulty expressing emotions after a grief.
- Low spirits, even to suicidal impulse.
- Suicidal depression typified by a great con flict about whether to do it or not (Aurum🌿 AurumMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. has conflict over when they wil l do it).
- May act impulsively.
- Tendency to hanging or shooting themselves.
- Postpartum depression🩺 Postpartum DepressionClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., especially if the birth was traumatic (Sep first).
- Feeling overwhelmed and overworked with new baby.
- Depression worse in the morning.
- Despair over recovery.
- Hydremia, worse in humid weather, near the water and in moist, damp, underground dwellings.
- Ailments arise or are worse from dwelling in damp houses, from damp weather, damp soil, weather changing to damp, getting wet.
- Chest eruptions every spring.
- Warm-blooded, worse heat.🌿 Heat.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- Better from warm, dry weather, and being in the open air.
- Asthma, particularly found in malarial districts.
- Humid asthma after a cold.
- Attacks frequently occur in the early morning hours.
- Skin symptoms during or after asthma in children, with restless legs.
- Catarrhs with yellowish green🌿 GreenMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. or green se cretions.
- Discharges are thick, green, yellow🌿 YellowMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. and painless (Med.🌿 Med.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., pain and inflammation with the discharge).
- BronchitisInflammation of the bronchial tubesInflammation of the mucous membrane in the bronchial tubes, typically causing bronchospasm and coughing. and coughs with a lot of mucus.
- Gonorrhea🩺 GonorrheaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., sinusitis, and chronic urethritis🩺 UrethritisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- 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..
- Granular lids.
- Photophobia (Nat-c., Nat-m.).
- Sensitivity in the eyes.
- Nosebleed before and during menses (not vicarious like Bry).
- Toothache is worse by warm things, intolerable by hot things, and better by holding cold water in the mouth.
- EdemaSwelling caused by excess fluid in tissuesA condition characterized by an excess of watery fluid collecting in the cavities or tissues of the body., edematous erysipelas🩺 ErysipelasClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Vesicles on the skin containing yellowish water, moist herpes, ringworm, sycotic excrescences.
- Burning of the feet (Sulph.) and stiffness of the joints (Rhus-t.🌿 Rhus-T.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Limbs feel bruised and weary, especially with migraines.
- Drowsy, weak, weary and heavy feeling.
- Functional disturbances in the secretion of bile.
- Chills and fever, bilious fever, in fluenza, diabetes, bilious vomiting, bilious diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day..
- History of hepatitis.
- Gallstones with severe right-sided pain and cramps.
- Bad taste in the mouth in morning.
- Tongue is coated yellow or white🌿 WhiteMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- Diarrhea in the morning (Sulph.), especially after eating fruits, pastries or ice cream.
- Diarrhea driving one out of bed.
- “Cheerfulness after loose stools.” Craves yog urt.🌿 Urt.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- Likes dairy and cheese, but not as strong.
- Desires sweets, but aggravate.
- Worse from fruits or pastries.
- Generally right-sided (Thuj.🌿 Thuj.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., left sided).
- Hydrogenoid and sycotic miasmUnderlying chronic disease predispositionAn inherited or acquired constitutional weakness (Psora, Sycosis, Syphilis, or Tubercular) that makes one prone to certain diseases. (Thuj.).
- Pain in the right colon, the right shoulder.
- Headaches over the right eye.🌿 Eye.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- Warts on the right foot and right hand (Thuj.).
- H. C. Allen said that with the possible exception of Graph., no remedy has “such terrible sensitiveness to light.” Hermann of Paris🌿 ParisMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. cured a young woman, a patient whose sleep was disturbed by dream s of fighting.
- Leonard cured a case of violent asthma induced by unusual exertion with Nat-s.
- 200x.
- W. J. Guernsey recorded a similar case.
- Natrum sulphuricum Mrs. S., 36. had violent attacks of asthma, with greenish, purulent sputa, and a loose evacuation immediately after rising the last two days.
- Nat-s.
- 500c was given in water, every two hours.
- She was able to lie down the same night and all her symptoms rapidly cleared up.
- Guernsey also had the case of Mrs. C., 42. who had been subject to attacks for years.
- Copious expectoration of greenish mucus.
- She was given Nat-s in water every three hours.
- Improvement began after a few doses, expectoration became paler and less abundant.
- She felt better than she had for years previously.
- Mahlon Preston cured many c ases of threatened tuberculosis🩺 TuberculosisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. having “pains fly ing from the chest beginning with a dry cough.” Gregg gave the symptoms “all-gone, empty feeling in chest, a sense of weakness in chest, must hold chest with both hands when coughing for support to relieve the weakness.” “Must hold chest because of pain and soreness, feels as if it would fly to pieces” (Bry.🌿 Bry.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., Phos.🌿 Phos.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Temperature-Chills up back, with icy cold ness, gooseflesh, shaking and chattering of teeth, with anguish and thirst.
- Cannot get warm even in bed.
- Internal chills with stretching and yawning.
- Sudden flashes of heat towards evening🌿 EveningMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- Increased warmth of body, with restlessness.
- Fever with aversion to uncover.
- Foul axillary sweat, profuse at night.
- Perspiration in morning.
- Burning pain in abdomen and anus.
- Duodenal catarrhInflammation of mucous membranes with dischargeExcessive buildup of mucus in the nose or throat, associated with inflammation of the mucous membrane..
- Cramps at um bilicus.
- Cramps with flatulenceGas accumulation in stomach or intestinesThe presence of excessive air or gas in the digestive tract, causing bloating and wind., before breakfast, better eating.
- Incarcerated flatulence, painful, pushes here and there, right abdomen.
- Flatulency, wind colicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants. in ascending colon, worse before breakfast.
- Colic better rubbing or kneading abdomen, lying on sides.
- Lead colic.
- Bruised pain with urging to stool.
- Abdominal flatulence after confinement.
- Tension in right hypochondrium as if it would burst.
- Inflammation of right groin, typhlitis.
- Tymp anites in bilious fevers.
- Tuberculosis abdominalis.
- Want of appetite and repugnance to food.
- Desire for ice and ice-cold water.
- Thirst at the start of fever only.
- Desire for salty fish, beer and cold drinks.
- Desire for or aversion to yogurt.
- Aversion to meat and bread.
- Starchy food, milk🌿 MilkMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. and potatoes disagree.
- Beer is distasteful.
- Vegetables, fruit, pastry, cold food or drink and farinaceous food causes diarrhea
