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NATRUM CARBONICUM. – THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PURE MATERIA MEDICA By TIMOTHY F. ALLEN, A.M., M.D.

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NATRUM CARBONICUM.


ABDOMEN.

►
Hypochondria.
► He woke
after an hour with a stoppage in the region of the spleen, and
oppression across the chest and stomach, as from flatulence, [1]. ►
Burning in the left side, near the pit of the stomach, while walking,
lasting a quarter of an hour and not disappearing on rubbing, at 5 P.M.
(eighth day), [7]. ► Sudden burning in a small spot near the
right side of the pit of the stomach, in the afternoon (eleventh day), [17]. ►
Sticking and drawing in the right side of the abdomen, above the hip
(after twenty days), [1]. ► Some stitches in the left hypochondrium,
extending into the pit of the stomach, frequently during the day while
sitting, also painful to touch, [1].
► Stitches as with knives towards
each other and a screwing-together sensation in the right hypochondriac
region, with oppression of the breath (eleventh day), [7]. ► Violent
stitches in the region of the spleen
, in the afternoon, while
walking (fifteenth day), [7]. ► *Violent sharp stitches in the right
hypochondriac region, followed by griping in the lower abdomen, in the
forenoon
(tenth day), [7].
[470.] ►
Pain, on pressure with the hand, in the left hypochondrium (after seven
days), [1]. ►
Jerking from time to time in the right hypochondriac region, in the
evening (twelfth day), [7]. ► Umbilical and Sides. ► Tensive burning in a small spot to the
left of the navel, in the forenoon (seventeenth day), [7]. ► Griping
about the umbilicus, in the afternoon (eleventh day), [7]. ► Griping
in a small spot at the umbilicus, frequently intermitting, in the
forenoon (eleventh day), [7]. ► Pinching about the navel, followed by the
usual stool, with clawing in the anus (after one hour and a half), [7]. ►
Slow drawing from the umbilicus towards the small of the back, like an
urging to stool, with yawning, in the morning (tenth day), [7]. ►
Fine intermitting griping in the right flank, rather externally, after
dinner (first day), [7]. ► Coarse twitching in the right flank, like
a beating, frequently intermitting (fourth day), [7]. ► Sharp
stitches in the right flank, extending into the right rib, near the pit
of the stomach, and then on deep breathing into the sternum, above the
ensiform cartilage, less on inspiration, but returning during
expiration, and lasting a long time (first day), [7]. ► General
Abdomen.
[480.] ► *Distension of the abdomen, especially after
eating
, [1]. ► Great distension of the abdomen; relieved
by emission of flatus, in the afternoon (fifth day), [7]. ► Great
distension of the abdomen, with emission of flatus in the evening,
disappearing after lying down (seventh day), [7]. ► Great
distension of the abdomen in the afternoon, as if she had eaten very
much, without emission of flatus; in the night, as it still continued,
she rose, thinking to obtain relief by a stool, which, however, did not
follow; only towards morning the flatulence disappeared, without an
evacuation (tenth day), [7]. ► Excessive distension of the abdomen, as
if it would burst; only slightly relieved by the emission of flatus
(seventeenth day), [7]. ► Painful distension of the abdomen, as if
it would burst, in the morning after waking; after rising slight diarrhœa,
followed by disappearance of the distension, during menstruation
(twelfth day), [7]. ► Swellings on the abdomen, as if the
intestines were here and there distended by gas (after twenty days), [1]. ►
Movings about in the abdomen, even in the morning in bed, followed by
two thin stools without any difficulty (sixth day), [7]. ►
Rumbling noise in the abdomen (fifth day), [1]. ► Audible
rumbling in the abdomen, without pain, at 6.30 P.M. (second day), [7]. [490.]
► Rumbling and gurgling in the
abdomen, with distension in certain spots, [1]. ► Griping
rumbling in the upper abdomen, followed by emission of flatus with
relief, in the afternoon (fourth day), [7].
► Violent griping rumbling in the
whole abdomen; relieved in the open air (sixth day), [7]. ► Profuse
emission of offensive flatus in the afternoon (third day), [7]. ►
Sour-smelling flatus, [1]. ► Flatus having the odor of bad eggs, [1]. ►
Incarcerated flatus
, whereupon it mounted into his head, and
he had twitchings in the face (after twenty days), [1]. ►
Heaviness of the abdomen, [1]. ► Violent pain in the abdomen, disappearing
after eating soup, at 11 A.M. (third day), [7]. ► Feeling
of distension in the upper abdomen, [7].
[500.] ► Jerking contraction in the abdomen, with
an affection of the small of the back, [1].
► Griping in the abdomen, continuing
after the stool (sixteenth day), [8].
► *Griping in the abdomen, like colic,
immediately after eating
, [4].
► Cutting griping in the abdomen, in
every position, [4]. ► Griping colic in the morning, with
qualmishness, as if diarrhœa would occur, [1]. ►
Frequent attacks of griping and cutting in the abdomen, as if diarrhœa
would occur, the whole afternoon (seventh day), [7]. ►
Frequent violent griping in the abdomen at long intervals (the whole
tenth day), [7]. ► Cutting in the middle of the upper
abdomen, in the morning (third day), [7].
► Cutting in the abdomen and small of
the back precedes the somewhat hard stool (after ten days), [1]. ►
Cutting colic in the morning (third day), [1].
► Sticking and drawing in the left
side of the abdomen, as from incarceration of flatus (after eighteen
days), [1]. [510.] ►
Colic woke her from sleep, at night, [1].
► A kind of colic towards morning;
the navel became retracted, and the walls of the abdomen as hard as a
board, yet he fell asleep while it lasted (sixth day), [8]. ► He woke
with colic, that ceased after a stool, for three days (after ninth day),
[8]. ►
Colic preceding the evacuation of a soft stool, [1]. ► Colic,
that recurs twice daily, only relieved after vomiting, [1]. ► The
child complains of colic and nausea, looks very pale, and is obliged to
lie down; after an hour’s sleep it passes away, [1]. ► Violent
colic, at night, [1]. ► Tensive colic in the upper abdomen, with
cutting in the abdomen and diarrhœa, for several nights (after twelve
days), [1]. ►
Sore pain in the abdomen, with pressure downward, as before
menstruation; relieved only by external warmth, [1]. ► The
abdomen is painful to touch and on walking, [1]. [520.] ► Bruised pain in the intestines, with
stitches in the right side of the chest, while riding horseback
(twenty-eighth day), [8]. ► Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions. ► Pain in the lower abdomen above the left
groin on yawning and deep breathing, but not when touched, [1]. ►
Tension in the lower abdomen below the umbilicus, especially while
walking and on stooping, [1]. ► Paroxysmal violent griping in the lower
abdomen, frequently (sixth day), [7].
► Violent dragging in the hypogastric
and inguinal regions, [1]. ► *Pressure in the lower abdomen, extending to the
genitals, as if everything in the abdomen would fall out and the menses
would come on
, [1]. ► Pressive pain in the lower abdomen and
sides of the abdomen, with pain when touched, and still more on walking,
[1]. ►
Cutting in both sides of the lower abdomen, towards the navel, then in
the whole abdomen, as after taking cold, in the forenoon, while sitting
(third day), [7]. ► Cutting pain low down in the lower
abdomen at short intervals before menstruation, in the afternoon
(nineteenth day), [7]. ► Tearing in the lower abdomen, extending
through the genitals to the urethra (fifth day), [1]. [530.] ► Biting as from worms in the lower
abdomen, in the afternoon (twelfth day), [7].
► Swelling of the inguinal glands,
[1]. ►
*Swelling (generally painful) of the glands of the groin and axilla
,
[10]. ►
Terrible dull pressive sticking in the right inguinal region, so that
she was obliged to bend double, while hawking, after rising from a seat,
lasting a minute (tenth day), [7].
► Pain, as if beaten, in a small spot
on the right ilium, on pressure (third day), [7].
   

RECTUM AND ANUS.

►
Rectum.
► Much
incarcerated flatus, in the rectum (seventh day), [1]. ►
Distressing sensation, as from an incomplete stool, with stitches in the
rectum, [1]. ►
Burning in the rectum, after a stool (after three days), [1]. ► Pain in
the rectum, as if hard lumps were in it, during the evacuation of stool
and flatus, [1]. ► Cramplike pain in the rectum and below
the umbilicus (after thirty-one days), [1].
[540.] ►
Pressure in the rectum, with itching, as if hæmorrhoids would occur
(twenty-eighth day), [8]. ► Itching in the rectum, [1]. ► Anus.
► Burning and biting in the anus,
after a stool (after eleven days), [1].
► Pressive twinging about the anus, [1]. ►
Stitches in the anus (first day), [1].
► Biting and burning itching in the
anus, [1]. ►
Crawling in the anus (eleventh day), [8].
► Violent crawling in the anus, as
from worms, for an hour (second day), [7].
► Itching in the anus (after
twenty-four hours), [1]. ► Urging. ►
Ineffectual desire for stool, with sticking in the anus (fourth day), [7]. [550.]
► Frequent ineffectual desire and
urging to stool, [1]. ► Urging to stool and urine, with colic;
after long pressure some urine passes, where with the penis becomes
erect, and this pressure with erection continues even after the
discharge, in the afternoon (twentieth day), [8]. ►
Constant urging to stool, with flatulent colic in the abdomen, [1]. ►
Pressure to stool, and desire, partly ineffectual, partly with a slight
discharge of a natural stool, with constant fulness in the abdomen,
frequently during the day (after fourteen days), [1].
   

STOOL.

►
Diarrhœa.
► Diarrhœa,
after drinking milk, [1]. ► Profuse diarrhœa, at first of thick
mucus, for four days, and at last it becomes more and more covered with
blood, without pain; but preceded by transient pain in the stomach, [2]. ►
Stool small, soft, thin-formed, with pressure, [1]. ► Stool
pasty, preceded by a quiet discharge of flatus, without pressure, with
burning hot cheeks, [4]. ► Stool with pressure, followed by pain in
the rectum, [1]. ► *Difficult evacuation of a stool that was not
hard; he was obliged to make great effort before it could be discharged
,
[1]. [560.]
► He is unable without much effort to
evacuate a stool that is not hard (first day), [1]. ► The
morning stool was harder than usual, especially very hard at first, so
that he was obliged to make a great effort; the last was tenacious, and
freed itself from the anus with difficulty; after dinner he was again
obliged to go to stool, but the evacuation was insignificant, and soon
followed by tenesmus in the rectum, that lasted some time (third day);
violent pressure and urging to stool; but only a little discharge
resulted, with a feeling as if much remained; the colic that had existed
previously, ceased after the evacuation (ninth day); stool, with a
straining, after dinner, followed by burning in the eyes and urethra,
with remarkable voluptuous irritation; the burning about he eyes
returned, with heat of the head and perspiration on the forehead, during
the approach of a storm (tenth day), [8].
► Hard stool, with burning in the
anus (eleventh day); very hard crumbly stool with pressure, preceded by
movements and griping in the abdomen (first three days); urgent desire
for stool, that was soft and of the usual amount, followed by rumbling
in the abdomen, cutting below the navel, and constant urging, only once,
however, resulting in a slight evacuation (second day); after an
interval of half an hour, during which the straining never entirely
ceased, excessive urging, and a thin yellow
stool with burning and tenesmus
in the anus, also with pain
about the navel (second day); stool hard, coated with some blood, with
stitches in the rectum, and followed by burning in the anus (second
day); stool first hard, then soft, mixed with bloody mucus, and followed
by burning in the anus (second day); urging to stool; a few small
pieces, like sheepdung, are passed only after great straining, with
burning (third day); she woke at 3 A.M., with desire for stool, that was
at first soft, then thin, with burning and tenesmus in the anus, and the
evacuation of a piece of tapeworm two inches long, followed somewhat
later by two thin stools (fourth day); stool with small balls of mucus
like peas (fourth day); cutting and movements in the whole abdomen,
followed by four thin stools, in half an hour (fifth day); stools very
hard, then soft, followed by burning (seventh and eighth days); stools
always very soft (after eight days); hard stool, with straining (ninth
day); violent pinching in the abdomen, followed by a very soft, and then
by a diarrhœa-like stool, with sore pain in the anus (eleventh day); *such violent urging to stool, that he had hardly time
to reach the closet; there resulted a thin stool
, that forcibly spurted from him (fifteenth
day); three thin stools, with burning like fire in the anus (fifteenth
day); stool two or three times a day; the last usually with pressure in
the rectum and tenesmus in the urethra, and evacuation of a little
crumbly mucous stool, at times only flatus, for several weeks; stool not
hard, but causing cutting during the evacuation (nineteenth and
twentieth days), [7]. ►► *Stool spotted with blood
(after twenty-one and thirty-six days), [1].
► *Discharge of blood during the stool
(after fourteenth days), [1]. ► Constipation. ►
Constipation or diarrhœa, [10]. ► Stool omits (fifth and eleventh days), [7].
   

URINARY ORGANS.

►
Urethra.
► Prostatic fluid
passes with a difficult stool, [1].
► Prostatic fluid passes with the
urine (after five days), [1]. ► Burning and smarting in the urethra, in
the evening (twenty-second day), [8].
[570.] ►
Burning in the urethra, when not urinating (fifth day), [8]. ► Burning
and sticking in the urethra, during micturition, at 3 P.M. (fourth day),
[7]. ►
Burning in the urethra, during and after micturition, [1]. ► Tearing
in the urethra, during micturition (second day), [1]. ► Tearing
in the urethra, with tearing in the testicles, periodic, lasting an
hour, [1]. ►
Smarting in the urethra during micturition (twenty-second and
twenty-third days), [8]. ► Jerking in the urethra, [1]. ►
Micturition.
► *Frequent
desire to urinate, with copious discharge
, [4]. ► Frequent
desire to urinate, with scanty discharge
, [4]. ►
Frequent desire to urinate, though there was never much urine passed at
once (first seven days), [8]. [580.] ►
Frequent urging continues after urinating, though there is always only a
spoonful passed (eleventh day), [7].
► Constant desire to urinate, and
during the last drops cutting in the bladder, and discharge of mucus
from the urethra, [1]. ► A sudden desire to urinate, with stitches
in the urethra, from behind forward (after three hours), [7]. ► *Nocturnal,
involuntary micturition
, [1].
► The child wets the bed, at night, [6]. ►
Frequent and profuse micturition, together with discharge of yellowish
leucorrhœa (eleventh day), [7]. ► She urinates frequently, but little at a
time (second and third days), [7].
► She urinates frequently and
profusely (after fifteen days), [7].
► Frequent discharge of watery urine,
without special thirst (after eleven days), [1]. ► He was
obliged to rise three times at night to urinate, without having drank
much (after six days), [1]. [590.] ►
She was obliged to urinate excessively at night, even every half hour
(after three days), [1]. ► She is obliged to rise three times at
night to urinate, with burning in the urethra (thirteenth day), [7]. ►
Discharge of urine very much increased (twelfth day), [7]. ► Profuse
emission of urine, as though she had passed none for several days (first
day), [7]. ►
Dribbling of urine immediately after micturition, [1]. ► Urine.
► Urine was very much increased; he
was even obliged to rise after midnight to urinate (thirteenth day), [7]. ►
Urine very much increased; the evacuation preceded and accompanied by
burning (fourth day), [7]. ► Two pounds of lemon-yellow urine passed
daily, in the morning, for ten days (after twenty days), [8]. ►
Offensive urine, [1]. ► Sour-smelling, bright yellow urine, [1]. [600.] ►
The urine became turbid, soon after passing (eleventh day), [7]. ►
The urine became turbid, and deposited yellow mucus, [1].
   

SEXUAL ORGANS.

►
Male.
► Inflammation of
the glans penis and prepuce, [1]. ► Inflammation of the prepuce, [1]. ►
In the morning, the prepuce was retracted and the glans uncovered, [1]. ►
Swelling of the glans penis, [1]. ► Much smegma behind the corona glandis
(third day), [8]. ► Erections occasionally during the day
(after two and three days), [1]. ► Frequent erections, during the day
(seventh day), [7]. ► Erections nearly every morning, though
without sexual desire, for three weeks together, [8]. [610.] ► Erections three times, the last time
painful, in the morning (fifth day), [7].
► Violent persistent erections, in
the morning on waking (after eight days), [1].
► Almost painful erections, lasting
ten minutes, in morning in bed (fourth day), [7]. ► A kind
of priapismus towards morning, followed by an emission without any
sexual desire, with tensive pain and cutting in the penis; this pain
lasted as long as the erection, over an hour; even on leaving the bed he
still felt a very disagreeable tension in the penis (seventh day), [8]. ►
*Incomplete coition, transient erection, and speedy emission

(second day), [1]. ► *Weak erections (fifth day), [1]. ►
Erections ceased in the latter part of the proving, and did not return, [7]. ►
Pain back of the glans penis, with erections after coition, [1]. ►
*The glans penis easily becomes sore
, [1]. ► Itching
on the glans penis (after three hours), [8].
[620.] ►
Itching on the glans penis, provoking scratching, [4]. ► Violent
itching, that provokes rubbing, on the glans penis, in the forenoon
(third day), [8]. ► *Soreness between the scrotum and thighs,
[1]. ►
Sticking beating in the scrotum, lasting an hour (eleventh day), [7]. ►
Itching on the scrotum, not relieved by scratching (fourth day), [7]. ►
Sensation of numbness in the testicles, [1].
► Pain in the left testicle (after
twenty-eight days), [1]. ► Painful tension in the testicle and
abdomen (after twenty-four hours), [1].
► Heavy pressive drawing in the
testicles and spermatic cords, more in the morning than in the evening
(after forty-two days), [1]. ► Pain as from a bruise, in the testicles, [1]. [630.]
► Great desire for an emission after
dinner, and also in the evening, without real sexual desire; after
dinner, this desire returned while the legs were crossed, but
disappeared on walking about, it returned in the evening, while lying
down (ninth and fourteenth days), [8].
► Sexual desire, in the morning after
drinking beer, followed by a flat, sweetish taste in the mouth
(twenty-fifth day), [8]. ► Excessive sexual desire on even touching
a girl (tenth day), [8]. ► Great sexual excitement while in a warm
bath, and on leaving it, burning in the palms of the hands (seventeenth
day), [8]. ►
Emission without lascivious dream, [4].
► *Emissions without erections,
[1]. ►
Emission at night, with pain, though the sleep was so sound that he
could not entirely wake; all next day he was extremely fretful and
ill-humored, discontented, and out of sorts with everything, and
persisting at nothing; he had scarcely commenced anything, when he
wished to leave it (after eighteen days), [8].
► Frequent emissions, in an
old man (nineteenth, twenty-second, twenty-ninth, and thirty-seventh
days), [1]. ► Female. ►
Movement in the uterus, like the motion of a fœtus, [1]. ►
*Leucorrhœa
, [1]. [640.] ► A
little thick leucorrhœa, after urinating, for four days (after two
days), [7]. ►
Profuse discharge of leucorrhœa, always after frequent paroxysms of
cutting colic and twisting about the umbilicus, day and night, in every
position, for five days, [1]. ► Pressure towards the genitals, before a
stool, [1]. ►
Tearing in one side of the pudenda (after six days), [1]. ►
Soreness of the pudenda between the thighs, [1]. ►
Pulsation in the genitals, after coition, [1].
► Menses seven days too early (after
seven days), [1]. ► Menses three days too early (after
forty-eight hours), [1]. ► Menses one day too early, [7]. ► Menses
three days too late (first day), [1].
[650.] ►
Nausea very scanty, and like water from meat, towards evening, and two
days too late, [7]. ► Menses more profuse and longer lasting
than usual, [7].

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