NATRUM CARBONICUM.
Sodium carbonate or Disodic carbonate, Na2CO310H2O.
Preparation
, Triturations of the crystals.
Authorities.
1,
Hahnemann, Chron. Krank-n.; 2,
Gross, ibid.; 3, Hering, ibid.; 4, Langhammer, ibid.; 5, Rl., ibid.; 6,
Hb., from Hartlaub and Trinks, R. A. M. L., 3, p. 290; 7, N—g., ibid.; 8,
Schreter, ibid.; 9, Berridge, N. A.
J., 1873, p. 503, effect in a patient (omitted); 10, Br. J. of Hom., 1857, p. 684, effects on
workmen.
MIND.
►
Emotional. ► Lively,
sociable mood, [1]. ► Excessively lively all day, with great
joyous talkativeness, [4]. ► Every event makes a strong impression
upon her; a wavy trembling in the nerves, with a sensation of faintness,
[1]. ►
So much excited by the slightest cause, that he continued to talk with
passionate vehemence, until exhausted, [1].
► Disinclination to talk (sixth day),
[7]. ►
Great inclination to sing, and singing to himself half aloud, for
several days (after twenty-four hours), [1].
► Joylessness, [1]. ►
Lachrymose, for several days, [1].
► Sad, depressed (twenty-ninth day), [1]. [10.]
► Sad, melancholy, tremulous, and
inclined to weep, with constant sighing, and physical prostration
(fourth day), [7]. ►► *Intolerable melancholy and apprehension;
she was wholly occupied with sad thoughts
(second day), [7]. ► Sorrowful mood (after six days), [1]. ►►
*Depressed, extremely despondent mood, [1]. ►
Anxious, solicitous about himself, [4].
► Anxiety in the evening, after a
foot-bath of three or four minutes, so that she could not fall asleep
for an hour and a half, [1]. ► Anxiety, with tremulous beating of the
whole body, [1]. ► Anxiety and restlessness; he thought he
could do nothing properly, [4]. ► Anxiety and hasty restlessness all day;
he could not keep the limbs still, especially the arms; obliged to
stretch them; it seemed as though they would be torn asunder, [7]. ►
Daily attacks of anxiety, with perspiration on the face, several times a
day, lasting a quarter of an hour, without pain, [1]. [20.] ► The weather causes less anxiety than
usual (curative action), [8]. ► Feeling of apprehension in the head
(after three days), [1]. ► His fancy is mostly busy with
apprehensions of the future; he often makes plans for half an hour at a
time, as if it would go wrong with him, wherewith he seeks to be alone,
for several days together (after twelve days), [8]. ► Great
apprehensiveness after dinner, lasting till evening (twenty-first day), [7]. ►
She does not know what to do, on account of apprehensiveness and ennui,
and thinks that she is quite lonely and forsaken, all day (sixth day), [7]. ►
Dread of the open air; she is averse to it, [1]. ► Dread
of taking cold (second day), [1]. ► Great timidity, [1]. ► He is
very timid, and starts at the slightest noise (twelfth day), [8]. ►
Anthropophobia and fearfulness (second day), [1]. [30.] ► He shuns mankind, [4]. ►
Ill-humored and solicitous, [1]. ► Ill-humor, discontented and almost
inconsolable, [4]. ► Very ill-humored after supper, especially
after copious drinking, with pressure in the pit of the stomach, right
and left hypochondrium (twentieth day), [8].
► Fretful mood, almost constantly
till the thirtieth day, [8]. ► Fretfulness without cause, [1]. ►
Fretfulness, in the evening (after ten hours), [1]. ►
Fretful, though with a desire to work, [4].
► Fretful and peevish; one can do
nothing right (fifth day), [7]. ► Fretful, peevish, and ill-humored, after
eating; towards evening he was more lively (fourth day), [8]. [40.] ► Very fretful for several days after
dinner, and still more after supper, [8].
► Very fretful, peevish, and restless
after dinner; he is uncomfortable everywhere; the room seems too small
for him, and even in the open air he walks about without anything
seeming right to him; it diminished towards evening (first and fourth
days), [8]. ►
Very fretful and discontented with the whole world; he constantly felt
as though he could beat himself, his whole life angered him, and he
preferred to have no existence at all; he was solicitous about the
future, and inclined to despair, all day (second day), [8]. ► Peevish
(after twenty-four hours), [1]. ► *Peevish, irritable mood, [1]. ►
Inclined to anger, [1]. ► Easily provoked to anger; with a lively
mood, [1]. ►
She becomes vexed and angry about trifles, [8]. ► He is
angry, and inclined to fight and strike, and cannot tolerate
contradiction, in the forenoon (eleventh day), [7]. ► Very
sensitive, in the forenoon, as after a vexation (after two days), [1]. [50.]
► Alternately sad and joyous, [7]. ►
Indifference (after ten days), [1].
► Intellectual. ► Resolute, persevering, self-possessed,
courageous, [4]. ► Sensation of loss of will power, in the
morning on waking, [1]. ► Mood sluggish, phlegmatic, indolent
(fifth day), [1]. ► Dislike for business; he goes about idly,
but when once at work, it goes on as usual (after three days), [8]. ►
He has no desire to do anything, and can keep at nothing long, [1]. ►
Ennui; he is absorbed in himself, and does not even know how he is, in
the morning (fourth day), [15]. ► Weary of life, in the morning on waking
(eighteenth day), [1]. ► Weakness of thought, [1]. [60.] ► Inability to think acutely or
persistently, with vertigo, [1]. ► He cannot think easily; the power of
concentration fails him, [1]. ► Internal restlessness, [1]. ►
Distraction of mind, in the morning (sixteenth day), [8]. ►
Completely inattentive, [1]. ► Dulness of sense; he stares without
thought, as if stunned by a blow, [1].
► Very forgetful; he is obliged to
think a long time before anything comes to him (third and thirteenth
days), [8]. ►
He easily makes mistakes in writing (after fourteen days), [8]. ►
Stupefaction, in the morning on waking, that only gradually passes away,
[1]. ►
Almost unconscious of external objects; he reels while walking, [1].
HEAD.
►
Confusion and Vertigo. [70.]
► Confusion and pain in the head that
permit no mental work, [1]. ► Nightly attack of vertigo; with slow
violent beating of the heart, roaring in the ears, heat, anxiety as if
he would die; orgasm of blood; aggravated by the slightest motion, or
speaking a single word; at the end of the attack, chilliness and
trembling, [1]. ► Vertigo on turning the head, [1]. ►
Vertigo after mental labor, with dull pressing inward in the temples, [1]. ►
Vertigo almost constantly, while walking; she reeled while walking, [1]. ►
Vertigo very frequently during the day, like a whirling in the head,
even while lying down, [1]. ► Vertigo, threatening to fall to the left,
[7]. ►
Vertigo even to falling down, while walking about the room, followed by
great weakness of the hands and feet (first day), [7]. ► *Excessive
vertigo, like a faintness, after taking a spoonful of urine, [1]. ►
General Head. ► The head
is dull, dizzy, heavy, during fatiguing work, especially in the sun
(after ten days), [8]. [80.] ►
Headache constantly, like a reeling in the head, and very painful
confusion, followed by heat in the head; relieved by moving about in the
open air, aggravated during rest and while sitting, for two days in
succession (after ten days), [1]. ► Rush of blood to the head, [1]. ► Great
rush of blood to the head on stooping, as if everything would come out
at the forehead; if he then lifted and carried anything, a beating in
the head, disappearing on rising (thirteenth and fourteenth days), [7]. ►
Violent rush of blood and heat in the head while sitting in the house,
especially in the evening, for several days, even on the twentieth day;
it was not noticed in the open air nor in bed, [7]. ► Rushing
of blood in the head (third day), [1].
► Dulness of the head, as after too
long sleep, [7], [8]. ►
Heaviness of the head, and burning in the eyes, almost daily, after
dinner, [7]. ►
When awakened at night, the head seemed heavy, with dull pressive pain,
and flat taste in the mouth (twentieth day), [8]. ►
Headache at noon, mostly low down in the occiput, [1]. ► While
walking in the open air, he is attacked with headache and coryza, [1]. [90.]
► Headache and tension in the nape of
the neck, before menstruation, [1].
► Constrictive pain in the head, [1]. ►
Dull headache after vomiting, no appetite, a white-coated tongue, and
flat nauseous taste (sixth and seventh days), [8]. ►
Confused and dull drawing pain in the head, after dinner (sixth day), [8]. ►
Pressive stitches through the head, during physical exertion
(twenty-second day), [8].
[Headache from walking in the sun. [°]
-Lippe.] ► Tearing in the whole head,
in the afternoon (thirteenth day), [7].
► Bruised headache, internally and
externally, [1]. ► Some very acute jerkings in the head, [1]. ►
Forehead. ► Sudden
sensation of warmth in a spot as large as a half dollar, in the left
side of the forehead above the orbit, as though a warm substance were
lying there, frequently intermitting, at 9 A.M. (third day), [7]. ►
Tensive pain in the right frontal sinuses (twentieth day), [8]. [100.] ►
Pain as if the forehead would burst, especially after moving about, with
a stopped sensation in the head, for several days, from 7 A.M. to 5
P.M., [1]. ►
Sensation of a cord tight about the forehead, spreading warmth (after
one hour), [7]. ► Headache in the forehead, on suddenly turning
the head, [1]. ► Dull headache, like a stupefying pressure
in the forehead, in all positions, [4].
► Pressure and heat for a short time
in the forehead, in the forenoon (ninth day), [7]. ►
Pressive pain in the left side of the forehead, in the morning on rising
(third day), [7]. ► Sharp sticking in the right frontal
region; on ceasing there, it appears in the right side of the occiput
(fourth day), [7]. ► Frightful sticking and burning in the
forehead, also sticking in the temple, in the evening, lasting till
lying down, and continuing for an hour in bed, together with a sensation
of external heat in the forehead (first day), [7]. ►
Stitches in the forehead, [7]. ► Stitch behind the right frontal eminence
(first day), [7]. [110.] ►
Violent cramplike tearing in the forehead, extending into the eyes and
tip of the nose, [1]. ► Sticking, transient throbbing in the
forepart of the forehead, at noon (fourth day), [7]. ►
Intermitting beating pain extending outward through the forehead, just
above the margin of the left orbit (after one hour), [7]. ► Temples.
► Pain pressing from within outward
in the right temple, in the afternoon (eleventh day), [7]. ► Violent
tearing in the right temple, and side of the forehead, relieved for a
short time by pressure, during menstruation (nineteenth day), [7]. ►
Vertex. ► Pressure and a
sensation of heat in the vertex and forehead (first day), [7]. ► Violent
stitch in the left side of the upper part of the head, in the forenoon
(third day), [7]. ► Throbbing headache in the top of the
head, daily, especially in the morning, [1].
► Beating in the vertex, that is very
sensitive to pressure, after dinner (sixth day), [7]. ► Painful
beating or throbbing over the whole top of the head, as if in the bone,
in the forenoon (fourth day), [7].
[120.] ►
Pressive shocks in the upper part of the head, in the evening on falling
asleep, [1]. ► Parietals. ►
A few sharp stitches in the upper part of the left parietal bone (after
three hours), [7]. ► Fine stitches in the left side of the
head (sixth day), [1]. ► Tearing and sticking, extending from the
left frontal eminence to behind the ear (first day), [7]. ► Painful
tearing and throbbing in the left side of the head, during menstruation
(nineteenth day), [7]. ► Occiput. ►
Sensation of painful emptiness in the occiput, with weakness and
hoarseness of the voice, [1]. ► Pain extending from the occiput to the
vertex (twelfth day), [7]. ► Tension in the occiput, [1]. ► Dull
pain in the occiput (fifteenth day), [8].
► Drawing and tension in the right
side of the occiput as if it would draw the head backward, [7]. [130.]
► Long-continuing pressure in the
right side of the occiput (third day), [7].
► Dulness in the occiput, like a dull
pressure, in forenoon (after eighteen days), [1]. ► Dull
pressure extending from the occiput to the nape of the neck, with
drawing pain, that at last also extended to the forehead, with vertigo,
eructations, and dimness of vision (first day), [8]. ► A sharp
stitch, followed by burning, in the right side of the occiput (first
day), [7]. ►
Several fine stitches in the right side of the occiput, in the evening
(first day), [7]. ► External Head. ►
Motion of the scalp from behind forward and back again, [1]. ► Profuse
falling of the hair, for several days (after three days), [8]. ► A boil on
the occiput, more towards the nape of the neck, lasting a
long time, [1]. ► An almost painless boil on the occiput,
as large as a hazelnut, [1]. ► Pain externally low down in the occiput, [1]. [140.]
► Transient external headache, here
and there, in the sides of the head, in the ear, etc. (after forty-eight
hours), [1]. ►
Pain to the touch in both occipital protuberances, [1].
EYE.
►
Objective. ► Swelling
beneath the left eye, so that he could scarcely see out of it, with
burning now in the right, now in the left eye, in the morning on rising
(fourth, fifth, and sixth days), [7].
► Inflammation of the eyes, with
sticking pain, [1]. ► It appears to dissolve the fibrin of the
blood, and causes an excessive fluidity of it, produces a kind of
leucoma, and finally ulceration of the cornea.
The workmen who have to pound the crude article are the most exposed to
its influence; all day long they are covered with soda suspended in the
atmosphere in the form of a fine powder; it is chiefly among them that
keratitis with ulceration occurs; the ulcerative keratitis is always
large and deep, and as often precedes as follows the other symptoms, [10]. ►
*Small ulcers about the cornea, with stinging pains in the eye, so that
she was obliged to shade it from every ray of light, [1]. ►
Subjective. ► Dryness, a
sensation of head, and a feeling of contraction in the eyes (after two
days), [1]. ►
Stickiness of the right eye, as if it were full of mucus, all day, [4]. ►
Pain in the eyes, in the morning (after seventeen days), [1]. ► Burning
in the eyes, only in the forenoon (third and fourth days), [7]. [150.]
► Burning in the eyes, in the
evening, lasting until after lying down (seventh day), [7]. ► Burning
in the eyes while at work, especially reading and writing, together with
a sensation of dryness in the eyes, as if he had wept much (tenth day), [8]. ►
Sudden burning in the right external canthus, immediately afterwards in
the middle of the eye, whence it extends into the inner canthus, and as
it ceases there a sticking in the left eye extending towards the outer
canthus, with a feeling as though a hair were in it, though it
immediately disappeared, at 2 P.M. (second day), [7]. ► Dull
stitches in the right eye, while sitting (fourth day), [8]. ► A fine
sharp stitch in the left inner canthus that forces out the tears, at 11
A.M. (third day), [7]. ► *Needlelike stitches in both eyes, after dinner
(eighteenth day), [7]. ► Itching in the right eye, disappearing on
rubbing, in the morning (second day), [7].
► Itching and biting in the right
eye; was obliged to rub it, which, however, relieved it but little; but
on moistening it with saliva, the itching and biting ceased (third day),
[8]. ►
Violent itching in the right eye, that waters on rubbing, at 11 A.M.
(tenth day), [7]. ► Orbit. ►
Pain in the bones of the orbit, [1].
► Lids. [160.] ►
Swelling of the upper lids (after fifteen days), [1]. ►
Inflammatory swelling of the right upper lid, without redness of the
conjunctiva, with pressure in it, feeble-looking face, and some mucus in
the canthi (after ten days), [1]. ► *He could hardly open the lids; they
involuntarily closed, [1].
► Frequent closure of the lids, like
an involuntary winking, with a burning sensation in the eyes, especially
in the afternoon, [1]. ► Constant closure of the lids, followed by
sleepiness, even while walking, [1].
► Eyes agglutinated, in the morning,
and watery all the forenoon (fourth day), [7].
► Eyes constantly agglutinated, which
he can only with difficulty prevent, in the afternoon (eleventh day), [7]. ►
*Heaviness of the upper lids (first and second days), [1]. ►
Tearing in the right lower lid, extending from the inner canthus toward
the outer, at 5 P.M. (first day), [7].
► Frequent itching of the lower lids,
especially of the left (sixth day), [7].
► Lachrymal Apparatus. [170.] ►
Violent inflammation of the inner canthus, and purulent swelling of the
lachrymal sac, which opened (after four days), [1]. ►
Lachrymation of the eyes, [1]. ► Ball. ►
Sensitiveness of the eyeballs to touch, with a sensation as if they
would be pulled out, [1]. ► Pupil. ►
Pupils contracted (after three hours), [4].
► Vision. ► Eyes dim (after forty-eight hours), [1]. ►
*Eyes dim; he was constantly obliged to wipe them, [1]. ►
Distant objects seem dim to one usually farsighted, [1]. ► He sees
people very indistinctly at twenty paces, and is unable to recognize
them (nineteenth day), [8]. ► He sees a picture very indistinctly, even
at the distance of a few steps, [8].
► Dimness of vision; vision vanishes
immediately on reading (second day), [7].
[180.] ►
It seems as though something were drawn before the axis of vision, [1]. ►
Eyes weak; at fine work everything runs together, yet she can read well,
[1]. ►
*Black floating spots before vision, while writing, [1]. ►
Flickering before the eyes like rain, [1].
► Sparks of light before the eyes
(eleventh day), [1]. ► Lightnings before the eyes, on falling
asleep, [1]. ► *Blinding lightnings before the eyes, on waking (after
twelve days), [1].
EAR.
►
External. ► Itching
sticking in the lobule of the left ear, disappearing on pressure and
rubbing, in the forenoon (third day), [7].
► Stitches in the left concha (third
day), [8]. ►
A sharp stitch behind the lobule of the right ear, always immediately
disappearing on pressure, but returning, at 1 P.M. (second day), [7]. [190.]
► Painful tearing and sticking behind
the right ear, at 1 P.M. (sixth day), [7].
► An ulcerative pain, with throbbing
behind the lobule of the left ear, as if within the bone; disappearing
on pressure, [7]. ► Middle. ►
Stopped sensation in the left ear, with diminished hearing, [4]. ►
Pain in the left ear (after fourteen days), [1]. ►
Pinching and cracking in the right ear, in the morning (sixth day), [7]. ►
Earache, with drawing pain in the right articulation of the jaw, that
extends into the inner mouth and right side of the tongue; the tongue is
at the same painful to the touch of the teeth, though motion of the jaw
causes no pain, in the evening, on walking in a cool wind (eighth day), [8]. ►
Pressure and tearing in the ear, [1].
► Sticking in the left ear, from
within outward, at 3 P.M. (second day), [7].
► Stitches in the ears at times,
ceasing on opening the mouth, and returning on closing it (tenth day), [8]. ►
A sharp stitch from within outward in the right ear (after
three-quarters of an hour), [7]. [200.] ► *Piercing stitches in both ears, frequently
(thirteenth day), [7]. ► A piercing stitch, as with an awl, in the
right ear, at 4 P.M. (fourth day), [7].
► Very fine intermitting tearing in
the right ear, while standing and sitting, at 8 A.M. (nineteenth day), [7]. ►
Tickling in the left external meatus, ceasing for awhile after
scratching, but returning, at 8 1/2 A.M. (fourth day), [7]. ► Hearing.
► Violent rushing in the ear (after
four days), [1]. ► Ringing in the ears on turning the head, [1]. ►
Roaring about the head, and throbbing in the left ear, [1]. ► Violent
roaring in the ears (after twenty-second day), [1]. ► Music
in the ears, as from the humming of a distant bagpipe, as when at times
one hears fine tones, while lying on the back in bed; on rising, it
ceases, but if he sits upright for a short time it returns, and
disappears on lying down, but soon returns while lying; together with
some earache (twenty-third day), [8].
[Oversensitiveness of hearing. -Lippe.]® 2000
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