{"id":18145,"remedy_name":"Natrum Muriaticum (HMT)","remedy_type":"Remedy","alternative_names":["Sodium Chloride"],"miasm":"Tubercular Miasm","temperament":"Neutral","aggravation_time":"Neutral\/Anytime","keynote_indications":"In homoeopathy, Natrum Muriaticum is a wide acting remedy, despite\nthe fact that it is simply the homoeopathic potency of the common\ntable salt we consume daily.  Sodium  Chloride is abundantly present\nin the human body.  It plays an important role in maintaining the\nnormal physiological functions of our  body.  Its deficiency results in\ndifferent kinds of diseases.  It is strange that a large variety of salts are\nalways present in our mouth, Sodi um Chloride being probably the\nmost abundant.  In spite of this, when even a minute dose of\nhomoeopathic potency of Sodium Ch loride is dropped into the mouth,\nit provokes an immediate body reaction.  The salt already present in\nthe mouth does not interfere with the body\u2019s response.\n\nOne of the diseases related to the excessive use of salt is high blood\npressure (hypertension).  Therefore,  it is generally thought that to\nprotect against high bl ood pressure a nd related heart problems, one\nshould not consume too much salt.  However, the research done by\nheart specialists in England and America does not support the general\nimpression that those who consume less salt will not develop high\nblood pressure, and those who c onsume more, must develop high\nblood pressure.  High blood pressure is an independent disease with its\nown specific causes.  However, if  someone is suffering from high\nblood pressure, it is better that he or she abstains from eating too much\nsalt.  A healthy person, however, may eat as much salt as he likes.\nThe excessive salt is automatically  excreted from the blood, through\nthe urine or sweat.  People who do not  sweat due to some problem or\nhave abnormal kidney function should abstain from consuming an\nexcessive amount of salt.  Excess sa lt in the blood increases the blood\nvolume by retaining water, which will naturally lead to rise in blood\npressure.\n\nSalt is an essential part of human body.  Its imbalance produces\ndiseases.  Excessive intake of salt will not produce any ill effects in\nthose who have the habit of exerci sing daily, sweat profusely and also\nexcrete the salt in their urine i.e. their kidneys are functioning\nnormally.\n\nNatrum Mur is a profoundly active, l ong-acting medicine.  No part of\nthe body is beyond its influence.  Generally, the skin of a Natrum Mur\npatient is very shiny.  Due to the increased content of water in the\nblood, the skin feels greasy as if oil has been rubbed over it.\nHowever, one should remember that every patient may not necessarily\nexhibit all the symptoms or that all the relevant symptoms must\nappear in each and every part of  the body.  For a remedy to be the\nexact match, the basic as well as distinctive symptoms must be present\nin a patient.  However, it is not essential for every symptom to be\nexpressed fully.\n\nA patient of Natrum Mur feels tired and weak .  Weakness, either\nphysical or mental, is always found in  Natrum Mur patients.  This is\ndue to the imbalance of Hydrochloric Acid, resulting in episodes of\nsudden severe weakness.\n\nNatrum Mur is deeply related to malaria.  In swampy areas, malaria\nspreads through mosquitoes.  Mala ria causes breakdown of red blood\ncells, resulting in anaemia and the resulting relative dilution of the\nblood (haemodilution).  These signs require the usage of Natrum Mur,\nwhich otherwise, has no special affinity to wet marshy areas.  The real\nconnection of malaria is with the mosquitoes.  Wherever mosquitoes\nare present, malaria must also exis t.  Generally, the mosquitoes are\nfound in swampy and coastal areas.  In such areas, naturally, Natrum\nMur would also be required to treat  malarial fever and is one of the\nbest remedies against it. However, it should never be given to the\npatient while the malarial fever is  still rising, because under these\ncircumstances, Natrum Mur may pr oduce serious ill effects or an\nimmediate severe reaction.  Seve ral different ways have been\ndescribed to use Natrum Mur.  One is that either one should wait for\nthe temperature to drop and then give the remedy, or  it should be\ngiven in high potency during the interval between the two bouts of\nfever.  In the case where Natrum Mur becomes effective, it will\nchange the timing of the fever.  The fever will either come on earlier\nor later than its usual time.  If only the timing of the fever alters, but\nthere is no decrease in the duration or the severity of the fever, it\nproves that the remedy has not been e ffective.  In this situation, one\nmust find another remedy without further delay.  The appropriate\nremedy should either result in immediate disappearance of fever with\nno return, or will alter the timing and decrease the duration of the\nfever.  The fever may not then retur n, or will be much milder.  If so,\nthe treatment should be repeated after the fever has subsided.\n\nThe mental signs of Natrum Mur ar e strange.  In the beginning, the\npatient feels victimized  and is always obsessed with the feeling of\nbeing a victim of some wrongdoings.  Despite this, the patient does\nnot like sympathy.  Furthermore, the patient gets captivated with\nimaginary love.  Even some old women get captivated with this kind\nof hypothetical love. If love could ever be cured with a medicine, then\nprobably Natrum Mur will be the most appropriate.\n\nIf the fever does not subside for a long time and affects the brain, then\nNatrum Mur should be tried. Natrum Mur has been found to be\nspecifically effective against the bad effects of grief and sadness on\nthe mind .  Ignatia and Ambra Grisea are the best and promptly\neffective remedies during the early stages of bereavement.  Ignatia is a\nfast acting remedy, but its effect is very short-lived, so it needs to be\ngiven repeatedly.  Once the deep grief becomes embedded into the\nmind of a patient, then he goes out  of the range of Ignatia.  Ambra\nGrisea works better in these patients.  Next, comes Natrum Mur.  It is\nmy personal experience that with Natrum Mur, even the totally\ninsane patient can be cured.  Natrum Mur patients are not aggressive;\nrather they either sit quietly or become indifferent to the world\naltogether and then gradually become physically weak.  They get very\nangry, yet do not show violence.  Their mind becomes slow and\nweak.   The patient, while talki ng, forgets and does not remember\nwhat he wanted to say. Concentration is lost.  Break in the continuity\nof thoughts in the midst of talking is the symptom of Natrum Mur.\nHowever, if while listening, someone fails to understand or there is a\ndelay in understanding, then, Plumbum will be more appropriate.\n\nOne symptom of the Natrum Mur patient is that reading causes\ntiredness.  He tends to cry like a ch ronic Pulsatilla patient. The\nPulsatilla patient tends to cry repeatedly, though me ntally he is\nabsolutely normal.  The hands and feet of the Natrum Mur patient\nremain cold, and he is also weak.  He is inclined to cry with or without\na reason.  If the ill effects of grief  on the patient are not cured with\nNatrum Mur and the disease appears deep-seated, then Silicea might\nbe helpful in such cases (Silicea is chronic of Natrum Mur).  Silicea is\nalso chronic of Pulsatilla. Natrum Mur should not be used repeatedly\nwithout good reason, because its excessive use can cause an\nimbalance of the salts in the blood.  There is no harm in the occasional\nrepetition of this remedy, but it should not be repeated too often in one\nday.  The Natrum Mur patient f eels very thirsty.  During the\nheadache, the patient feels as if bein g hit with a hammer over various\nparts of the head.  Light hurts th e eyes. Movement aggravates this\ncondition.  From this point of view, Natrum Mur resembles Bryonia.\nConstipation in Natrum Mur is more se vere than that in Bryonia.\nNatrum Mur is the chronic, as well as the antidote of Apis.\n\nThe Natrum Mur patient suffers from chronic backache .  He feels\nweakness in his arms, legs and particularly the knees.  The skin\naround the nails of the hands (cut icles) becomes fissured due to\ndryness and the legs become insensitive.\n\nThe Natrum Mur patient does not like to eat bread or oily food.  The\npatient feels very hungry but after eating food, he feels tired and weak.\nHe feels burning sensation in the chest, also hardness and a piercing\nsensation over the liver.  After taking food, the stomach becomes\nheavy and distended.  Hunger pangs cause a fainting sensation over\nthe stomach.\n\nThe Natrum Mur patient is highly strung and does not tolerate even\nthe slightest noise.  A sudden sound cau ses a headache.  The patient is\nintolerant even to the rustling sound of paper.\n\nThe Natrum Mur patient is very cold.  However, his symptoms\naggravate in a heated room.  He likes  the open air. From this point of\nview, half of the constitution of Natrum Mur resembles that of\nPulsatilla.  Despite feeling cold, the patient likes to go in the open air.\nIn the open, physical ailments ame liorate but the mental ailments\naggravate.  One must keep in mind these subtleties in the nature of this\nremedy.  The constitution of a Natrum Mur patient changes frequently\nand rapidly.  When the patient sweats, he catches cold, which however\ngets better in the open.\n\nNatrum Mur affects the skin also.  Eczema, itching and\ninflammation are found mostly at the hair lines.  This is typical of\nNatrum Mur.  Both dry pimples as well as discharging boils form.\nThere is itching as well as a pins and needles sensation on the skin.\nPus exudes from the itchy spots.  Scabs also form, which then peel off\nin pieces.  One symptom of Natrum Mur that resembles Sarsaparilla is\nthat the patient starts ageing prematurely.\n\nIn Natrum Mur, the headache starts either after midnight or in the\nmorning after nine o\u2019 clock. Seve re morning headache is a symptom\nof Gelsemium. Usually in Natrum Mur, the ailments, which either\nstart due to heat stroke or during mala rial fever, continue from nine o\u2019\nclock in the morning till night.  The headache usually starts at the\nnape of the neck and spreads to the backbone. Natrum Mur is related\nto several back conditions.  Especia lly if there is a sudden attack of\n\u201clumbago\u201d, then Natrum Mur works very well in the early stages.  The\nsymptoms of a Natrum Mur patient usually become worse on lying\ndown in a soft bed.  The backbone b ecomes relatively very sensitive.\nThere is discomfort and pain along the nerves (sciatica).  The patient\nfeels comfort, when lying on a hard surface.\n\nSymptoms related to the prostate gland are also present in Natrum\nMur.  There is considerable delay in  the onset of urin ation.  The urine\ncomes in drops followed by the feeling of discomfort and\nunsatisfaction because of incomple te evacuation of the bladder.\nSometimes, the patient feels pain either at the end of urination or\nafterwards.  During walk ing, laughing or coughing, urine may be\npassed involuntarily (stress incontinence).  For bed-wetting at night,\nNatrum Mur with Kali Phos is very useful.  Usually this problem i.e.\nbedwetting is found in children during deep sleep.\n\nIn Natrum Mur, either there is severe constipation or diarrhoea.  In\nNatrum Mur, the patient, despite having an excellent appetite, remains\nslim and thin.  Along with a burning sensation in the stomach, there\nis palpitation.  While eating, the patient sweats.  The patient craves\nsalt.  He feels better on an empty stomach.   After eating food, there is\nheartburn and the acidity increases,  along with excessive salivation\nfrom the mouth.\n\nAs it has already been mentione d, Natrum Mur is an excellent\ntreatment for malaria.  Every type of malaria is included i.e. whether\nwith daily fever or with relapsing fe ver.  The most dangerous type of\nmalaria is the one in which the fever returns every third day.  This\ntype of fever does not easily leave the patient.  Natrum Mur is very\nbeneficial in this kind of fever.   Repeated use has proven that by\ngiving Natrum Mur, the fever starts coming on the second day instead\nof the third day, and then slowly di sappears completely in eight to ten\ndays.\n\nIf the diseases of Natrum Mur have  become very complicated or have\nbecome chronic due to the wrong treatment, then Sulphur 200 will be\nfound very effective in delineating the underlying symptoms of these\npatients clearly. Sulphur, being a profoundly active remedy, may also\ncure some of these diseases.  Natrum Mur also clearly brings out and\nclarifies the symptoms of the patients with complicated fevers that\nhave gone out of hand.  When the fevers become complicated, they\nmay adopt different forms.  When malaria deteriorates further , the\nsymptoms become very complicated.  Sometimes the symptoms\nappear as pain and at other times, they may appear in some other way.\nA very eminent English doctor has sa id about malaria that with the\nexception of pregnancy, it can mimic a ny disease.  It complicates the\nsymptoms so much so that doctors ma y not arrive at the root cause of\nthe disease.  In this regard, both Natrum Mur and Sepia play a very\nimportant role. When given in hi gh potency to a healthy person,\nNatrum Mur sometimes proves to be very useful in protecting against\nthe general tendency towards mala ria.  Similarly, Arnica 1000 (or\nhigher potency) along with Arsenic 1000 (or higher potency) has often\nbeen found to be very effective when given as a precautionary\nmeasure against malaria.\n\nIn Natrum Mur, like Hepar Sulph, the patient feels as if something has\ngot stuck inside the throat .  The patient tries unsuccessfully, again\nand again to remove the entrapped th ing from the throat.  He feels as\nif a thorn is stuck inside.  However, if something like fishbone or\nsomething else is really stuck in th e throat, then Silicea has the ability\nto expel it.  Sometimes, in Natrum Mur, the throat becomes very dry\nand ulcers develop.\n\nSoft swellings, which pit on pressure, rese mbling those resulting from\na honeybee sting, are also found in and are treatable with Natrum Mur.\nThat is the reason why Natrum Mur is very effective in treating the\nsymptoms of bee-sting .  If Natrum Mur is used in combination with\nArsenic and Ledum, it benefits th e patient astonishingly fast.\nFurthermore, Carbolic Acid is very famous as the fast acting antidote\nof bee-sting venom.\n\nNatrum Mur is chronic of Apis.  Chronic means that if a remedy,\nwhich works for a short while and then stops working, then another\nremedy takes its benefits further.  The second remedy is called the\nchronic of the first.  The swelling of the Apis, if not fully cured with\nApis, will completely disappear when treated with Natrum Mur.\nSimilarly, some other diseases, whic h are not completely cured with\nApis, will also be cured when the patient is treated subsequently with\nNatrum Mur.  Therefore Natrum Mur is called the chronic of Apis.\n\nNatrum Mur is a good treatment for weakness following childbirth.\nIf a woman\u2019s general health weakens after delivery, apart from Kali\nCarb, Natrum Mur is also very effective. Natrum Mur restores the\nhealth of the woman.  If post-childbirth backache is not cured with\nKali Carb, then it can be cured with Natrum Mur.\n\nIf there is some kind of deficiency in the mother\u2019s milk, due to which\nthe child is not thriving normally or the milk dries up too soon,\nNatrum Mur should be used.  Natrum Mur rectifies the internal defect\ndue to which the child does not grow  properly, as well as increasing\nthe quantity of milk according to the need of the child.  Natrum Mur is\nthe best treatment of the emaciating, underfeeding and wasting\ndisease of the children  (Marasmus).  The emaciation process starts\nfrom the upper part of the body and then spreads downwards.\nSometimes, this disease is secondary  to some disease of the mother;\ntherefore the mother should also be treated.\n\nIrregularity of periods , excessive bleeding, leucorrhoea causing\nburning and itching, depression and sadness before the onset of\nperiods, heaviness in the lower part of the abdomen getting worse in\nthe morning, are all the symptoms of Natrum Mur.  The gums become\nswollen and bleed.  The teeth become loose and sensitive to cold\nand cold air .  Teeth hurt afte r eating food and at night, and the pain\nmay also spread to the ears.  A layer of dirty foam-like material\ndeposits over the tongue.  There is a f eeling of hissing, as  if a hair is\nstuck on the tongue.\n\nThe heart beats fast on going up the st airs or lying on the left side.\nFurthermore, there is a feeling of cold over the heart.  There is a\nfeeling of tightness and suffocation in the chest.\n\nWhooping cough with watering of  the eyes, severe headache and\nalso worsening of the cough on movement on taking deep breathing\nand upon getting warm in bed are common symptoms of Natrum Mur.\nThe symptoms of Natrum Mur aggravate in the coastal areas.\n\nAdjuvants: Apis, Sepia, Ignatia\nAntidotes: Arsenic, Phosphorus\nPotency: 6X to 30 or even to CM","modalities":"","symptoms_by_system":[],"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}