NATRUM SULFURICUM.
Sodium sulphate (NaOSO3 +
10aq.).Sal mirabile; Soda vitriolata; Glauber salts.
Preparation
, Triturations.
Authorities.
[The classical dissertation
of Hermann Wagner, “De Effectu Natri Sulphurici,” Dorpat,
1853, contains a number of experiments with the drug (simple and
combined with other drugs), a large number of analyses of urine and
fæces, and general conclusions concerning the elimination of the salt;
it is, however, needless to republish the tables of analyses entire, and
general observations derived from them relate solely to the elimination
of the drug and the variation in amount of urine, the latter varying
inversely to the amount of the watery alvine discharges.] 1, Schreter, Hartlaub and Trinks, Annalen, 3,
464; 2, Nenning, H. and T. Annalen.,
4, 487; 3, Lembke, N. Z. f. Kl.,
1866, vol. 11, p. 97, took 5th dil., 10 drops first, third, fourth,
fifth, seventh, and twelfth days; 3a, same, took (immediately after last
proving) 10 grains of 3d cent. trit., first and fifth days, 30 grains
seventh day, 10 grains of 20th trit. tenth day, 20 grains thirteenth
day, 10 grains 1st trit. twentieth day, 20 grains twenty-first day, 20
drops of a solution of 5 grains to an ounce thirtieth day, a teaspoonful
thirty-fourth day, three doses thirty-fifth day; 3b, same
(immediately after the last proving), took 5 drops of the 100th dil.,
and 10 drops on sixth day; 4, a
symptom by Dr. Raue, from Hering’s compilation, Mat. Med., I; 5, a symptom by Dr. Hering, from same.
MIND.
►
Taciturn, speaks but little, and is generally irritable (first day), [1]. ►
Cheerful, happy mood, which she notices herself; particularly after
loose stools, [2]. ► Music affects her very much; it makes her
melancholy, and feel like crying, although it was merry, dancing music
(fifth day), [2]. ► Lachrymose; thinks only of sad things
(after six days), [2]. ► Very much disheartened; tired of life;
despairs of getting well, [2]. ► Great fear, with dread of a misfortune, [1]. ►
Very irritable, depressed (fifth day); very irritable, ill-humored, [1]. ►
Great irritability; she dislikes to speak or be spoken to; particularly
in the morning, [2]. ► Out of humor and dull, in the morning
when rising, until breakfast-time (seventh day), [1]. [10.] ► Very much out of humor and fretful (fifth
day), [1]. ►
Very sensitive, even in the morning, and easily flying into a passion,
which disappears towards the afternoon (after eight days), [2]. ►
Nothing that she undertakes succeeds well, and she does not know why, [2]. ►
During forenoon of first day, he seems to be in a very good humor, is
cheerful; this first good humor changes into a cross, irritable mood,
the third or fourth day, [2].
HEAD.
►
Confusion and Vertigo. ►
Head confused, dull heavy (thirty-sixth day), [3a]. ►
Muddled feeling in the head, [1]. ► Vertigo, when rising, with dulness of the
head (third day), [1]. ► Vertigo, followed by vomiting of sour
mucus, at 6 P.M., [2]. ► Vertigo, with inclination to fall to the
right; with frequent yawning all day, [2].
► Dizzy after dinner, as if
everything had been spinning around with him, at the same time a buzzing
in the head (first day), [1]. ► General Head. [20.] ►
Stupid feeling in the head all day (fourth day), [1]. ► Dulness
in the head; with vertigo when rising (third day), [1]. ► Dulness
in the head, with feebleness, towards 9 A.M. (second day), [1]. ►
Feeling as though the brain were loose, and when stooping, as though it
fell towards the left temple, frequently in the forenoon, [2]. ►
Heaviness of the head; not relieved by subsequent nosebleed, [2]. ►
Pains in the head (eleventh day), [3a].
► Headache while reading, which made
him feel hot and perspire; when he stopped reading and walked about, the
heat and perspiration on his head ceased, but the pain continued (third
day), [1]. ►
Burning headache, and excessive feebleness, after vomiting, [2]. ►
Pressure deep in the head (tenth day), [3].
► Tearing in various parts of the
head (twentieth, twenty-first, and twenty-fourth days), [3a]. [30.] ► Tearing in the cranial bones (twelfth
day), [3a]. ►
Wandering tearing in the head (twenty-third day), [3a]. ►
Violent pulsating headache, continuing all day, only somewhat lessened
during the afternoon, [2]. ► A sudden jerk in the head, so that it
threw her towards the right, which frightened her very much, forenoon,
while sitting, [2]. ► Forehead. ►
Wandering pains in the forehead (third day), [3]. ►
Grasping pain in middle of forehead; while taking a cold foot-bath it
ceased, but returned more violently after an hour (second day), [1]. ►
Boring pain in the right side of the frontal bone (eighth day), [4]. ►
Boring in the left side of the forehead (thirteenth day), [3]. ► Boring
in the frontal bone (eighth day), [3a].
► Boring in the frontal bone, in the
evening while sitting (sixteenth day), [3].
[40.] ►
Boring pain in the forehead, so violent that he thought it would burst,
for an hour (ninth day), [1]. ► Violent boring pain in the left side of
forehead, which seemed to forcibly close his left eye (fourth day), [1]. ►
A breaking pain in the forehead, immediately after dinner, followed by
great sleepiness; his eyes involuntarily closed while he was standing at
his desk (third day), [1]. ► Drawing in the forehead (seventh day), [3a]; (thirteenth and fourteenth days), [3]. ►
Drawing in the left side of the forehead (sixth day), [3]. ►
Frequent drawing in the sinciput (twelfth day), [3a]. ► A
pressure in the region of the forehead, as of a hard substance, in the
forenoon, [2]. ► Pressure in the forehead, especially
after eating (first day), [1]. ► Pressure and heaviness in the forehead
(thirteenth day), [3]. ► Pressure and wandering pains in the
forehead (eleventh day), [3]. [50.] ►
Violent pressure in the right side of the forehead (thirteenth day), [3a]. ►
Drawing pressure in the forehead (second day), [3b]. ►
Pressing headache in the right side of forehead, returning periodically,
lasting each time from fifteen to thirty minutes (second day), [1]. ►
Fine sticking pain in left side of the forehead, near the protuberance,
in the forenoon, [2]. ► Tearing in the forehead (first, third,
fifth, and sixth days), [3a]. ► Frequent tearing in the forehead (sixth
day), [3b]. ►
Violent tearing in the forehead (twenty-fifth day), [3a]. ►
Violent tearing in the left side of the frontal bone (fifteenth day), [3]. ►
Temples. ► Boring in the
left temple (third and thirty-fifth days), [3a]. ►
Violent boring, as with a dull instrument, in the left temple, at 5 P.M.
(eighth day), [3]. [60.] ►
Frequent violent boring in the right temple, afterwards in the left
(eighth day), [3a]. ► Pressure as with a dull instrument, in
the right temple, in the evening (eighth day), [3]. ► Violent
pressure, as with a plug, in the left temple (twelfth day), [3]. ►
Tearing pain in the right temple upwards to top of head, at 4 P.M.;
continued all night till next morning; accompanied by a violent chill
running up the back, with chattering of teeth and shaking, without
external coldness; was not lessened by warmth of stove (ninth day), [2]. ►
Violent tearing pain in the right temple, towards the facial bones
(first day), [2]. ► Painful beating in both temples when
walking, with an indescribable pain on top of head, almost like
suppuration, as if the top of head would split; the same when touched;
continuing all day; not relieved by pressure; returned next day;
disappeared at night, when in bed; during catamenia, [2]. ► Vertex.
► Feeling like an electric shock on
the top of the head, towards the right side; once during the forenoon
and afternoon (fourth day), [1].
[Sensation of heat on the top the head. -Lippe.] ► Parietals. ►
Wandering pain about the left side of the head, especially behind the
ear (tenth day), [3]. ► Boring in the left side of the head
(tenth day), [3]. ► Drawing on the left side of the head and
in the right ankle (ninth day), [3].
[70.] ►
Pressure on the right side of the head (tenth day), [3a]. ►
Pressure in the left side of the head (eighth day), [3]. ► A
pressure inwards in right side of head, after lying down in the evening;
all night, [2]. ► Violent pressure in the right side of the
head, so that she held the head with both hands, [2]. ► When
exerting arms, sticking pain in left side of head, [2]. ► Violent
sticking pain from left side of the forehead to the occiput, at 10.30
A.M., while sitting, [2]. ► Tearing in the right side of the head
(ninth and sixteenth days), [3a];
(tenth day), [3b]. ► Tearing in the left side of the head
(ninth day), [3a]. ► Frequent tearing on the upper part of the
right side of the head (thirtieth day), [3a].
► Sensation like an electric shock in
left side of head (eighth day), [1].
► Occiput. [80.] ►
Wandering pains in the occiput and head, afterwards in both zygomata
(thirteenth day), [3]. ► Boring pain in the occiput (second day), [1]. ►
Boring in the left side of the occiput (ninth day), [3]. ► Drawing
in the occiput (seventh day), [3b].
► Drawing in the left side of the
occiput (second day), [3b]. ► Drawing and pressive pain in the occiput,
with a feeling of heat and heaviness in it (seventh day), [3]. ►
Pressing or squeezing pain in the whole occiput, lasting for hours, [2]. ►
After a little strong coffee, violent pressure in the occiput, on
entering the room, [2]. ► Headache; pressing from both sides of the
occiput, at 6 P.M.; followed by a quiet night, but the pain returned
next morning for two hours, and then extended all over right side of
face; this was repeated for three consecutive mornings, [2]. ► Much
tearing and pressure in the right side of the occiput, lasting a long
time; also in the evening (twenty-first day), [3a]. [90.] ► Tearing in the occiput (fifth day), [3a]. ►
Tearing in the occiput; soon afterwards in the forehead (thirty-fifth
day), [3a]. ►
Tearing pain in the right side of the occiput when keeping quiet (first
day), [2]. ►
Frequent tearing in the occiput (sixth day), [3b]. ► External
Head. ► Two pimples on
both sides of back of head, sensitive only to the touch, [2]. ► In the
morning, while combing his hair, it seemed as though each single hair
pained him, and the scalp was very sensitive, so that he had to be very
careful while combing (third day), [1].
EYE.
►
Redness of eyes, with dryness and burning, [2]. ► Great
dryness and burning of the eyes; growing worse from afternoon till
evening; it seemed to her as though her eyeballs were hot, [2]. ►
Burning and watering of the right eye, in the morning, so that she could
not see plainly for awhile; lasted an hour, [2]. ► Burning
in right eye, with frequent efflux of burning water; in the afternoon,
outdoors, for half an hour, [2]. [100.] ►
The eyes burn, in the evening, for several hours, and in the morning
also, when near the fire, [2]. ► Sticking pain in the eyes, during the
nausea in stomach, [2]. ► Pressure in the left eye, as though a
lentil were in it (fifth day), [1].
► Pressing in the eyes, in the
evening while reading by lamplight; at the same time the eyelids were
heavy, as though lead were on them (third day), [1]. ►
Alternating pressure in the eyes, which induces him to rub them, after
which it ceases for a short time (third day), [1]. ► Several
stitches in the inner canthus of the left eye (first and second days), [3a]. ►
Violent stitches in the left inner canthus (twenty-sixth day), [3a]. ►
An often-returning sensation in left eye, as if a bug were crawling in
it; removed by rubbing (second day), [1].
► Itching, sometimes in the left,
then in the right eye; the same in right ear; he had to put his finger
into it to scratch it (fourth day); itching in right eye and left ear
(fifth day), [1]. ► Brow and Orbit. ►
A breaking pain around the eye, in the forenoon (tenth day), [1]. [110.]
► A pressure as of two fingers above
the left orbit at noon, [2]. ► On the lower edge of the left orbit a
tearing sensation at short intervals (the first forenoon), [2]. ►
Lids. ► *Both eyes
agglutinated in the morning, with photophobia (fourth day), [1]. ►
Left eye agglutinated; he had to wash it with water, at the same time
some photophobia (third day), [1].
► Vision. ► Eyes weak; objects appear dim to her, [2]. ►
Sees but dimly, with burning and tearing sensation in the eyes, as if
they gave out heat (tenth day), [2].
► Eyes seem blurred, in the morning,
and often water, without redness or pain, [2].
► Loss of clearness of vision for a
few moments, with necessity to leave the house and breathe fresh air,
followed by relief (thirty-second day), [3a].
► While eating his soup it grew dark
before his eyes, as though he would fall; with a muddled feeling in his
head, lasting a few minutes (second day), [2].
► Sensation in right eye as though a
small white leaf were before it, through which she could not see
plainly; disappearing for a while by washing, but always returning till
towards evening, [2]. [120.] ►
Photophobia during the provings, [2].
► The eyes can not bear the light, in
the morning, and burn, [2]. ► After blowing the nose hard, glittering,
small, yellow, pointed bodies appear before the eyes, [2].
EAR.
►
External. ► Boring in the
bone behind the right ear (eighth, twelfth, and thirteenth days), [3a]. ►
Pressure behind the left ear (seventeenth day), [3a]. ►
Tearing above both ears (seventh day), [3a].
► Middle. ► Earache, as if the tympanum were being
pressed out of both ears (second day), [1].
► Pressure in right ear; worse
towards 9 A.M. (third day), [1]. ► Pressure from the ear outward, as if
something were pressing on the tympanum as far as the beginning of the
meatus externus; yet at the same time he hears well (after two hours), [1]. ►
Sticking pain in right ear (after one hour), [1]. [130.] ► Several sharp stitches fly like lightning
out of the right ear, [2]. ► Suddenly a violent stitch into the right
ear, which startled her so that she jumped up from her chair, 8 P.M., [2]. ►
Many fine stitches shoot into the right ear, at 3 P.M., [2]. ► Hearing.
► Hissing in left ear (fourth day), [1]. ►
Ringing in right ear, as if near a belfry (fifth day), [2]. ► Ringing
in ears, as of a small, tinkling bell (second day), [1]. ► Sound
in left ear as of distant bells, [2].
► Sounds as of a bell in right ear,
fulness of both ears for several minutes (fourth day), [2].
NOSE.
►
Objective. ► Coryza, with
stoppage of nose; he can hardly breathe through the nose, [2]. ► Nose
bleeding, at 2.30 P.M., while walking, often stopping for awhile and
then returning, light red; sometimes also while sitting, even at night
in bed; during catamenia, [2]. ► Subjective. [140.]
► Drawing near the right side of the
nose (second day), [3b]. ► Pressure near the nose at noon (third
day), [3]. ►
Tearing pain in right side of nose towards the forehead, [2]. ► Violent
tearing on the back of the nose (twenty-fourth day), [3a].
FACE.
►
Looking pale and wan in the face, as if he had been up and dancing for
several nights, immediately on awaking in the morning; at the same time
very cross and ill-humored; looked cross and was ready to quarrel with
every one (second day), [1]. ► Tearing in the left side of the face
(eighth day), [3b]. ► Tearing in the right side of the face;
after the tearing and throbbing in the neck, [2]. ► Cheeks.
► Drawing in the left cheek, as if
the skin were pulled up (thirtieth day), [3a].
► Sticking, and a sensation as if the
skin were pulled up in the left zygoma (thirteenth day), [3]. ►
Pressure on the right zygoma (seventeenth day), [3a]. [150.] ► Tearing on the right zygoma (twelfth
day), [3a]. ►
Tearing on the left zygoma (twentieth day), [3a]. ►
Tearing pain in the left zygoma, not relieved by either rubbing or
pressure, at 9 P.M., [2]. ► Painful tearing in the left zygoma,
afterwards grasping and raging pain in the root of an upper tooth, left
side, generally in the morning, particularly when exposed to cold air, [2]. ►
While having a pain in the nape of the neck and still more afterwards, a
painful tearing in the left zygoma, which is stopped by hard rubbing,
but soon returns, lasting ten minutes, [2].
► Lips. ►
Dryness of the upper lip, and the skin peels off, [2]. ► Her
lips burn in the evening, as though they had been rubbed with pepper, [2]. ►
Chin. ► In the morning
after rising, great pain in maxillary joint, which is stiff, so that she
could only open her mouth with difficulty; it seemed to her as though a
bone were lying there which made it hard for her to open her mouth;
after repeated and strong efforts it gradually disappeared, [2]. ►
Boring as with a dull instrument, in the right angle of the lower jaw,
afterwards in the right side of the forehead, then extending over the
forepart of the head (seventh day), [3].
► Drawing in the left side of the
lower jaw (thirty-first day), [3a].
[160.] ►
Pressure in the left angle of the lower jaw (second day), [3b]. ►
Pressure as with a plug, in the right angle of the lower jaw, in the
evening (eighth day), [3].
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► A tooth in the
right upper row becomes loose, seems longer, and there is a drawing
pain; cold air seems to make it feel better; tobacco-smoke also relieves
the pain, [2]. ► Grasping, raging pain in the root of an
upper left tooth, [2]. ► Drawing in the lower teeth (ninth day), [3]. ►
Frequent drawing pains in the right upper teeth (third day), [3a]. ►
Tearing pain in several decayed lower left teeth, at night, when out of
bed, [2]. ►
Beating toothache in the upper left side, in the evening, after lying
down; could not sleep all night; if she dozed awhile the pain would wake
her up again; the pain only ceased, so that she could sleep, in the
morning, [2]. ► Drawing pain in the lower incisors, in
the evening (tenth day), [3]. ► Tearing and sticking pain in the last
molar, left side, but only during the day, [2]. [170.] ► Raging, pulsating pain in an upper molar,
left side; wakes her at 2 A.M., at the same time heavy feeling in the
head, increased warmth of the whole body, and restlessness, so that she
did not know where to lay her head, [2].
► Jerking pain in an upper left
molar, beginning while outdoors, but continuing afterwards in the house,
[2]. ►
Gums. ► A movable,
painless swelling on the outside of the gum of the left lower row, [2]. ►
A blister on the upper gum, which suppurated and then dried, [2]. ►
Her gums burn like fire, so that she cannot eat bread, [2]. ► Tongue.
► *Blisters, with a burning pain on the
tip of the tongue; disappear soon, [2]. ► Burning
on the left side of the tongue (eighth day), [3a]. ► *The
tongue burns, as if covered with blisters, on the tip, in the
afternoon, [2]. ► Constant burning on the margin and tip of
the tongue, and, towards evening, with burning on the lower lip (second
day), [3b]. ► *Burning on the tip of the tongue
(seventh, fourteenth, and twentieth days, etc.), [3a]. [180.] ► Violent burning in the tip of the tongue
(twenty-fourth day), [3a]. ► Violent burning and sticking in the tip
ot the tongue (thirtieth day), [3a].
► Burning, as from pepper, on the tip
of the tongue (eleventh and twelfth days), [3a]. ►
Violent burning, like pepper, on the tongue (first day), [3a]. ►
Stitches shooting through the root of the tongue (fourteenth day), [3a]. ►
Violent biting in the tip of the tongue, in the evening (eighth day), [3]. ►
General Mouth. ► *Blisters on
the palate, which increased daily; her palate became so sensitive that
she could hardly eat; anything cold taken into her mouth relieved it,
[2]. ►
Dryness of the mouth, with thirst, and redness of the gums, [2]. ►
In the morning, after perspiring, very dry in the mouth, without thirst,
[2]. ►
*Burning in the mouth, as if from highly seasoned food (fifth
day), [2]. [190.] ►
The whole palate burns, as if sore, or the skin broken, during
catamenia, [2]. ► Saliva. ►
A great flow of saliva after a meal (fourth day), [1]. ►
*Accumulation of very thin saliva in the mouth, after eating,
with inclination to vomit; a heaving in the stomach, without being
followed by vomiting (fourth day), [1].
► Taste. ►
In the morning and all the forenoon slimy taste, and tongue coated with
mucus, [2]. ►
In the morning no taste; the mouth feels rough, and almost insensible, [2]. ►
Food does not taste well; thirst in the afternoon; hard stool; great
sleepiness (fourteenth day), [2].
THROAT.
►
Objective. ► In the
morning she had to clear her throat several times, irritated by a
collection of mucus there, [2]. ► Much hawking of mucus in the morning
(fourth day), [1]. ► In the morning, after clearing her
throat, she expectorated mucus of a salty taste, which had collected
during the night, [2]. ► Subjective. ►
Dryness of the throat, as if she did not have enough saliva (after seven
days), [2]. [200.] ►
Dryness in the throat, without thirst; often extends into œsophagus
(third day), [2]. ► A feeling of contraction in the throat,
often intermitting, while walking all day, [2]. ► Sore
throat; an obstacle when swallowing, which causes pain; he had to
swallow saliva often, evening (second day), [1]. ► Sore
throat; an obstacle when swallowing; the tonsils and uvula swollen and
inflamed for three days; the inflammation was worse on the morning of
the second day (third day), [1]. ► Sore throat when swallowing and when not
swallowing, left side, in the morning on awaking until after breakfast,
a few hours before and during catamenia, [2].
► External Throat. ► Painful burning and stiffness in the left
cervical muscles (third day), [3a].
► Pressure in the left cervical
muscles, extending behind the left ear, with stiffness and painfulness
on moving the head (first, second, and fifth days), [3a]. ► A
tearing sensation in the veins of the right side of throat, so that one
can see the pulsation in the arteries, frequently intermitting for a
quarter of an hour at a time, also returning in a few days, [2]. ►
Intermitting tearing pain and tension in the tendons on the right side
of throat, while sitting, [2].® 2000
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