NATRUM MURIATICUM.
Sodium chloride, Nacl.
Common salt.
Preparation
, Triturations.
Authorities.
1,
Hahnemann, Chr. Krank-n.; 2,
Foissac, ibid.; 3, Röhl, ibid.; 4, Rummel, ibid.; 5,
Schreter, took 10 globules of the 30th dil. on the first, fourth, and
seventh days, symptoms observed for two weeks (from the daybooks of the
proving in Oest. Zeit. f. Hom., 4, 78); 5a, Schreter’s proving a girl of eighteen,
perfectly well, except pityriasis of the scalp; she took globules of the
30th dil. first, third, and fifth days (ibid.); 6,
“Gff.” (Symptom 434 in Hahnemann); 7,
“Ng.” (Symptom 735 in Hahnemann), Nos. 8 to 43,
from the Austrian provings, Oest. Zeit. f. Hom., vol. 4. [Not including
effects of the water and vapor on workers in the salt mines at Ischler
(vitialed by Bromine). The symptoms observed by Dr. Hartlaub (A. H. Z.,
81), after eating salt herring, and published as a proving of Nat. mur., cannot be admitted.] 8, Arneth, took for three weeks the dilutions
from the 30th to the 1st, then the crude drug, in doses of 10 grains to
1 ounce; 9, Boehm, took 1/20th
trit., repeated doses of 5 to 150 grains; 10,
Froelich, took daily for a week 3 drops of 6th dil. without effect, then
10 grains of 1st dec. trit. daily for ten days without effect, then 1
drachm of crude drug daily; 11,
Hampe (healthy, except a “herpetic affection”), took 6th dil.
daily at 10 A.M. for two weeks; 11a, same, took 2 scruples of crude, drug
daily for six days; 12, A. Huber,
took dilutions from 30th dec. to 1st, then 10 grains of crude drug,
during a period of one month; 13,
same, proving in a girl, aged seven, beginning with 27th dil. and going
gradually down to the 1st trit.; 14,
same, proving in a girl, aged twelve, 30th to 20th dec. dils.; 15, in a boy, aged twelve, scrofulous,
frequently suffering from colic and diarrhœa, took different dilutions;
16, in a girl, aged nineteen,
effects of 15th dil., 3d, 2d, and 1st trits.; 17,
W. Huber, took daily doses beginning with 30th dil. down to 1st trit.,
immediately followed by crude drug in doses of 10 to 40 grains, 1 and 1
1/2 drachms, proving extending over a month; 18,
W. Huber’s wife, took various doses, from 30th dil. to 40 grains of
crude drug, proving extended over two months (she became pregnant about
the time she commenced the proving); 19,
Huber’s son, aged nine, took dilutions and crude drug without effect,
but six months later had herpes; 20,
Huber’s daughter, aged five, took 12th dil., 4th trit., and crude drug; 21, Huber’s son, aged four, took 4th and 2d
trits.; 22, Dr. William Huber, took
dilutions from 30th to crude, of which last he took as much as half an
ounce; 22a,
same, subsequently took the dilutions from the 30th to the 3d dec.
trit., generally two doses a day; 22b, same, proving with the crude, 1 scruple
first and second mornings, 1/2 drachm third and fourth mornings, 1
drachm seventh morning, 1 1/2 drachm eighth morning (this proving
followed the last, beginning the day after 60 grains of the 3d dec.
trit.); 22c,
same, subsequent proving, 1/2 drachm first and second days, 1 drachm
third and fourth days, 2 drachms fifth day, 1/2 ounce sixth day; 23, Reisinger (failing to get effects from 3d
dec. trit., 1st trit., and 15th to 1st dilutions), took one dose of half
an ounce in water; 24, Reiss, took
dilutions, beginning with 30th down to 1st trit., on twenty-seventh day;
24a,
same, took crude drug (the day after last proving), repeated doses of 15
grains to 4 drachms (ten doses during a month); 24b, same, proving with 20 grains of 1st
trit. three times first day, 2d trit. three times second day, 3 drachms
of crude third day; 25, a girl, aged
twenty-four, took 1 drachm of crude first day, 2 drachms of crude the
second, sixth, eighth, ninth, twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth days; 26, Schwarz, general effects of 1st trit.; 26a,
same, effects of crude drug; 27,
same, proving in a woman, seven months pregnant; she took 10 grains of
1st trit. at one dose; 28, Dr.
Wachtel, took 1st dec. trit., 10 grains, for five days, also on eighth,
ninth, sixteenth, seventeenth, twenty-third, and thirtieth days; 28a,
same, took 5 grains of crude drug daily for eleven days; 28b,
same, took 10 grains of 1st dec. trit., dose repeated after symptoms of
one dose disappeared; 28c, same, took again crude drug, 1/2 ounce
first day, 1 ounce fourth day, 1/2 ounce eighth day; 29, Dr. Wagner, took 2d trit. first and
second days, 1st trit. third and fourth days, 2d trit. fifth day; 29a,
same, five weeks later, took 5 grains of 2d trit. first day, 10 grains
second day; 30, Dr. Watzke, took
30th dil. daily for three days; 30a, same, effects of crude drug, 3 drachms
first day, and twice the second day; 30b, same, subsequent proving, 3 drachms of
crude first day, 1 drachm second and third days, 1 drachm twice fourth
day, 2 drachms fifth and sixth days, 3 drachms seventh and eighth days,
1 drachm ninth day; 30c, same, noticed but few symptoms while
taking either dilutions or crude drug, but after the proving a complete
symptomatology developed; 31,
Weinke, effects of 20-grain doses of 1st dec. trit. (10-grain doses
previously taken without result); 31a, same, effects of 6th cent. dil. first,
second, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and tenth days; 31b,
same, effects of crude drug, 2 drachms morning and 1 drachm afternoon,
first day; 2 drachms morning, 3 drachms evening, second day; four days
after, 1/2 ounce in morning; 32, Dr.
Würstl, took 9th dil., first, second, third, fourth, sixth, seventh,
ninth, thirteenth, fourteenth, and eighteenth days; 32a,
same, effects of 5th dil. daily for three days, and afterwards for four
days; 32b,
same, took 4th dil. several days in succession; 32c, same, took 2d dil. daily for seven
days, then, after two days, 1st dil. morning and evening for three days,
repeated after a week; 33, Dr.
Wurmb, effects of dilutions, 30th to 6th; 33a, same, effects of 1st trit. daily for
seven days; 33b,
effects of crude drug, 1 drachm daily for three days, 2 drachms for six
days, 3 drachms on eleventh day, 1/2 ounce on thirteenth, sixteenth,
seventeenth, eighteenth, and twentieth days, 6 drachms twenty-first day,
1 ounce twenty-second day; 34,
Zlatarovich, proving on Ab., aged twenty-two, took daily 10 grains of
1st dec. trit.; 35, Kr., took same
as last; 36, Kk., two provings as
last; 37, Mt., same as last; 38, Pd., same as last; 39, Pj., same as last; [Usually constipated,
but while proving the evacuations were quite regular, he felt stronger,
was not sleepy so early in the evening, and was much more lively than
usual.] 40, Ro., proving as last;
[Was well, except that before the proving he had a hard difficult stool
every three or four days.] 41, Sk.,
proving as last; 42, Sg., proving as
last; 43, Ss., proving as last; 44, Dr. Ed. G. Bartlett, N. Am. Journ. of
Hom., 1852, p. 132, effects of a mixture of two tablespoonfuls of salt
and half a pint of brandy, shaken when taken, on a dyspeptic; about two
tablespoonfuls were taken morning and evening for five days (dyspeptic
trouble relieved for a time); 45,
Dr. E. A. Farrington, Am. J. H. M. M., 4, 102, effect of the 5c. and 5m.
(Fincke) in two persons; 46, same,
effect of the 5 m.; 47, same, effect
of the 5 m.; 48, Prof. Abelin, Br.
Journ. of Hom., 31, p. 415, from Northern Med. Archive, 2, p. 17,
effects of an enema of a solution of salt for constipation in a girl,
aged six; 49, Berridge, N. Am.
Journ. of Hom., 1871, p. 58, a girl, aged twenty-three, took a globule
of the 1 m. (Jenichen), and at the same time discontinued the use of
salt; [Has been free from catarrh all the time of the proving, which is
very unusual.] 50, Berridge, P. C.,
effects on a woman of 1 m. (Jenichen); she had discontinued the use of
salt a few days before, but took a little the sixth, ninth, and tenth
days; 51, same, effects of same dose
and regimen on a girl of fifteen; 52,
same, N. Am. Journ. of Hom., 1873, p. 503, effects of a dose of 1 m.
(Jenichen) in Mrs. — (a patient); 53,
same, N. Y. Journ. of Hom., 1874, p. 312, effects of eating salt, in a
woman; 54, Robinson, Br. Journ. of
Hom., 25, p. 325, effects of 30th dil., night and morning, in a young
woman; 55, Poggiale, Am. Journ. of
Med. Sci., 1851, p. 199 (Comptes Rendus, 25), effects of 154 grains of
salt daily on the blood of a man; 56,
Dr. Hare, M. Hom. Rev., 3, 211, effects of eating large amounts of salt
(1 to 1 1/2 ounces daily) in a girl, aged twenty-eight; 57, Sherwen, Edin. Med. and Surg. Journ.,
1814, p. 46, effects of the inordinate use of salt on two men.
MIND.
►
Emotional. ► Lively,
good-humored, cheerful (second day), [1].
► Unusually lively; a consciousness
of physical and mental power, in the afternoon (eighth day), [31a]. ►
Very lively towards evening; she wished only to dance and sing (fifth
day), [5a]. ►
Overexcited, in the morning, after waking unusually early (after 20th
dil.), [22]. ►
Great excitement, followed by falling asleep and deadness of the limbs, [1]. ►
She talked more than usual, but did not like so much to be talked to;
when she had nothing to say, she became depressed and melancholy
(fourteenth day), [25]. ► Averse to talking, and fretful when
questioned (fourteenth day), [5]. ► Taciturn, [1].
► Not at all lively, yet is easily
made to laugh, [1]. [10.] ►
Remarkable inclination to laugh, in the evening, [1]. ►
Constant laughing; everything in the room looked so ridiculous
(sixteenth night), [49]. ► *She laughed so immoderately at something not
ludicrous, that she could not be quieted, and tears came into her eyes,
so that she looked as though she had been weeping
(twenty-third day), [5a]. ► Though out of humor all day, she was
constantly obliged to sing and hum to herself; she had scarcely stopped,
when she had to begin again (usually she never sings), (thirteenth day),
[25]. ►►
*Very much inclined to weep and to be excited, [1]. ► *Whenever
alone she wished to cry, she did not know why (seventeenth
day), [25]. ►
Anxious impulse to weep, [1]. ►► *She was involuntarily obliged to weep,
[1]. ►
*If one only looked at him, he was obliged to weep, [1]. ►
She weeps all night, after a slight vexation, and coughs very much, with
ineffectual efforts to vomit, [1].
[20.] ►
*Very much inclined to weep, with disinclination to work, [1]. ►
Mood more quiet and less solicitous than usual (curative effect), [1]. ►
Good-humored all day (twenty-first day), [25].
► Joyful mood (twenty-eighth day), [24]. ►
Joyous, good-humored (fourth day), [5a].
► Internal contentment, hope,
gentleness (curative effect), (fifth day), [2]. ► He
rejoiced over something, but his joy very speedily passed off (fifth
day), [5]. ►
He is happy, though only very transiently, [1]. ► *Sad and
depressed, [1].
[Following the eruption of urticaria. -Hahnemann.] ► Depressed mood, [1]. [30.] ►► *Depression of spirits, [40]. ►
Depressed mind, with the hunger, [47].
► Depressed and full of grief, [1]. ►
*Sad mood (eighteenth day), [25].
►► *Sad and weeping mood, without
cause, [27]. ► Sad, as if sick, in the afternoon
(twenty-third day), [25]. ► Great sadness, during the menses, [4]. ►
*Joylessness, [1]. ► *Melancholy mood (second day), [5]. ►►
*Melancholy mood, she has preferred to be alone for several days past
(twelfth day), [25]. [40.] ► *Very
melancholy, [1]. ► Sudden, though very short, attacks of
melancholy, [1]. ► *Melancholic depression, and sad apprehension,
and disheartened, all day, without definite cause, with constant
palpitation, without physical infirmity (ninth day), [1]. ►
His mind is very much affected by a conversation, [1]. ►► *The
more he was consoled, the more he was affected, [1]. ►
If she only thinks of a want long since past, tears come into her eyes, [1]. ►
Always in his thoughts he seemed to seek for past unpleasant
occurrences, in order to think them over, making himself morbid, [1]. ►
Full of grief; he tormented himself; he seemed to prefer disagreeable
thoughts, which prostrated him very much, [1].
► *He concluded, from the look of every
one, that he was pitied on account of his misfortune, and he wept,
[1]. ►
Lack of independence, [1]. [50.] ►
*Despondent (sixteenth day), [25].
► *Attacks of complete hopelessness and
internal despair, that deprived him of all power, [1]. ►
Hypochondriac, even to loathing life (second day), [1]. ► Anxiety
before the menses, [1]. ► Before the appearance of the delayed
menses, she is anxious and qualmish for some hours in the morning;
something sweetish comes into the mouth, after which some blood is
expectorated with the saliva, [1].
► Anxious and faint during the
menses, with cold cheeks and internal heat, [1]. [Original, backen, not becken. -Hering.] ► She was much more anxious than usual
during a storm at night; anxious sweat at last compelled her to rise
from bed (second day), [5a]. ► Anxiety, with heat, at night; she was
obliged to uncover herself; vivid dreams on falling asleep (with profuse
flow of menses), (fifth day), [1].
► Feeling on anxiety, with heat over
the whole body and perspiration, lasting an hour and a half (eighteenth
day), [28c]. ►
Anxiety, as if she had done something wrong, with heat and nightsweat, [1]. [60.]
► Sudden anxiety and palpitation,
three forenoons, [1]. ► Very anxious, as if he would fall, while
walking, [1]. ► Woke at 2 A.M. in perspiration, and with
a distressing anxiety, as though he were shut up in a dark cellar; this
sensation only disappeared on perceiving light through a window (sixth
day), [31a]. ►
When alone, she becomes uneasy about herself, and must weep, [1]. ►
She often looks into the mirror, and imagines that she looks wretched, [1]. ►
Extremely solicitous about the future, [1].
► Lost for hours in thought as to
what would become of him, [1]. ► Feeling of apprehension in the chest
(second day), [5]. ► Apprehensiveness, anxiety in the chest,
with pressure in the pit of the stomach; worse after deep expiration
(seventh day), [5]. ► Very easily startled, [1]. [70.] ► In the evening, it seemed as though he
became paralyzed from a fright; afterwards he seemed horrified, and
apprehended some misfortune, [1]. ► Fear of insanity, [1]. ► Anxious
fear of dying, [1]. ► *Anthropophobia, [24a]. ►
Irritable mood, [26]. ► Temper irritable and peevish, not
preventing her, however, from occasionally taking a part in the games
and occupations belonging to her age, [48].
► Irritable, peevish, ill-humored,
and quarrelsome, [1]. ► *Great irritability (immediately), [1]. ►
Impatient scratching of his head, [1].
► Extremely sensitive and peevish all
day (twenty-eighth day), [25]. ► Easily vexed, pettish; he will not bear
opposition, for several evenings, [1].
[80.] ►
Fretful mood (first and following days), [9].
► Fretful humor, [31]. ►
Whatever she sees frets her (sixteenth day), [25]. ►
Fretful all day, especially in the evening; taciturn, sensitive, and
sleepy (seventeenth day), [25]. ► Fretful and morose, especially if spoken
to (sixteenth day), [25]. ► Fretful, despondent (twenty-third day), [25]. ►
Fretful, restless, and uncomfortable; could not stay long in any place, [24a]. ►
Very fretful, and inclined to weep, [21].
► Ill-humor, [9]; (twenty-fifth day), [25]. ► Woke
in the morning in a very bad humor, which gave place to a quarrelsome
irritability, lasting till he began his visits (third day), [31a]. [90.]
► Ill-humor in the forenoon
(twenty-second day), [25]. ► *Ill-humor and crying from the slightest cause,
[21]. ►
Unusual ill-humor, [30c]. ► Ill-humored; does not want to go into
society for fear of vexing others; feels that he could easily give
offense (second day), [5]. ► *Very ill-humored in the morning, usually,
[37]. ►
Extremely ill-humored, peevish, and taciturn, [1]. ► Out of
humor all day, and unwilling to work (eighth day), [5]. ► She
takes everything in bad part, and weeps and cries much, [1]. ►
Affronts that he had given and received were constantly in his mind, and
he could not free himself from them; this put him still more out of
humor, and he had no real interest in anything (second day), [5]. ►
Passionate temper (first day); towards evening (second day), [5]. [100.] ►
Very passionate mood (second day), [1].
► Becomes vehement, without special
cause, [1]. ►
When with any one, she was inclined to quarrel (seventeenth day), [25]. ►
Hatred of people who had insulted him (second day), [5]. ► He was very
easily made angry, [1].
► (Soon after taking a dose, he
became exceedingly angry, but suppressed his wrath; after this he had no
symptoms during the whole forenoon, though after a former and also after
a subsequent dose symptoms appeared within a short time), (fourth day), [5]. ►
Every trifle provokes him to anger, [1]. ► Became
violent and passionate at every trifle (eleventh day), [5]. ► He
became thoroughly aroused and angry from a slight occurrence, [1]. ►
Offended by a joke, [1]. [110.] ►
Scornful, ill-natured, excited, [1].
► Frigidity of manner, [1]. ► Indifferent
and sad, [1]. ► Indifferent or sad mood, [28]. ►
Indifferent and anxious, [1]. ► *Unnatural indifference, [1]. ►
Immediately after coition she felt very light and happy, but soon became
irritable and peevish, [1]. ► Anxiety and restlessness, alternating
with indifference, [1]. ► Remarkable alternation of fretfulness,
peevishness, and extreme exhaustion, with cheerfulness and a feeling of
lightness in the limbs, [1]. ► The patient’s mind was much weakened by
disease and poison; her moral perceptions, her once keen sense of honor,
and of right and wrong, seemed blunted; she was in turns vehement and
passionate, and moody and silent, [56].
► Intellectual. [120.] ►
Disinclined to work, though disposed to think acutely, [1]. ►
Disinclined to work, especially study (after the crude), [17]. ►
*Disinclination for mental work, [33]; (second day), [31b]; in evening, [9].
► Mental indolence in the evening
(first day), [30b]. ► No desire to work (ninth day), [5]. ►
No desire to work; he only dawdles over everything, and can scarcely
apply himself in earnest (tenth day), [5].
► No disposed to do anything; he only
wanted to fold his hands in his lap, or to sleep, in the afternoon
(second day), [5]. ► Dread of work, [1]. ► He
began work eagerly, and with great desire, but this soon passed off; his
work vexed him (fifth day), [5]. ► Inability to perform mental labor (fifth
day), [22c]. [130.] ►
Lack of circumspection, [1]. ► Hastiness, [1].
► Irresolute at work; he could not
see his way clearly (fifth day), [5].
► He could not fix his thoughts;
however much he attempted to reflect upon anything, his thoughts
wandered to many other subjects (first day), [5]. ► Thought
is difficult (sixteenth day), [25].
► Thought difficult; she was obliged
to think a long time before clearly comprehending anything (second day),
[5a]. ►
Sluggish; slow in collecting his ideas and making up his mind, [1]. ►
Weakness of thought, dulness of mind, discouragement, [1]. ► Mind
confused, with pressive pain in the forehead, all day (after 20th dil.),
[12]. ►
Although evidently a well-educated and intelligent woman, her mind
seemed hopeless and confused, [56].
[140.] ►
Distraction of mind, [26]. ► Distraction of mind, dull, loss of ideas,
in the evening (first day), [22b].
► *Distraction of mind while talking,
[24a]. ►
*Distraction of mind; he does not know what he ought to say, [1]. ►
Distraction of mind; he goes twice to a place to find something, [1]. ►
Great distraction of mind (after 1st trit.), [22]. ► Absence of
thought, [1]. ► Absence of thought; she says what she
does not intend, [1]. ► Easily makes mistakes in talking, [1]. ►
Thoughtlessness; he went out of a door without intending it, and only
recollected himself when asked where he was going, [1]. [150.] ► He had no control over his thoughts, in
the evening (fourteenth day), [1].
► Easily makes mistakes in writing, [1]. ►
Loss of ideas, stupid (fifth day), [22c].
► Loss of ideas, with mental dulness
(sixth day), [22c]. ► Dulness and loss of thought, with
sleepiness; worse from 3 to 7 P.M., [1].
► If he follows an ideas, thought
suddenly leaves him, and only fragments of ideas remains, [1]. ►
Immediately inability to think after physical exertion, with apathy, [1]. ►
She felt almost, as if losing her reason (tenth night), [49]. ►
Anxious sensation in the head, in the evening, after lying down, as if
it were all over with him, and he should lose his reason, [1]. ►
Forgetfulness all day, [33]. [160.] ►
Forgetfulness; it was difficult to think of anything, in the evening
(second day), [5]. ► Remarkable forgetfulness during the last
part of the proving (thirty-sixth day), [25].
► Very forgetful, so that he did not
recall what he was just about to write (second day), [5]. ► *Weakness
of memory (after 1st trit.), [22].
► Very weak memory; everything
remains in his mind like a dream, [1].
► Want of memory, so that he thought
his mother (who was present every hour) had died, because he did not
remember seeing her, [1]. ► *Loss of memory; he remembers nothing of
yesterday; thinks he has lost his reason (fifth day), [1].® 2000
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