Natrium muriaticum Anhang
[Lectures
on Homeopathic Materia Medica
- James Tyler Kent]
Examine
every possible function to be sure you have all the symptoms. Examine every
organ, not by examining it physically, for results of diseases do not lead to
the remedy, but examine the symptoms.
Observe the
rapidity with which remedies affect the human system there are some that are
long acting, deep acting. Nat-m. is one of these. It operates very slowly,
bringing about its results after a long time,
as it
corresponds to complaints that are slow, that are long in action.
This does
not mean that it will not act rapidly; all remedies act rapidly, but not all
act slowly; the longest acting may act in acute diseases, but the short acting
cannot act long in chronic diseases. Get the pace,
the
periodicity of remedies.
Some
remedies have a continued fever, some a remittent, others an intermittent
fever. In Acon.,
so in Sulph., Graph., Nat-m., Carb-v..
a different form, a different development.
Some would
not hesitate in a continued fever to give Bell., but its complaints come on in
great haste, with great violence and have nothing in their nature like a
continued fever. This is not like typhoid.
Be sure
that the remedy has not only the group of symptoms, but also the nature of the
case. The typhoid case has a likeness in Bry. or Rhus-t, but not in
after we
are old enough to think for ourselves. We owe obedience to truth.
Remedies
only partly related to the case will change the character of the sickness so
that no one can cure the case. The homoeopathic remedy will cure intermittent
fever every time if you get the right remedy. If there is
a failure
the case is mixed up so that no one may be able to cure it. First of all a
master must realize the case and turn it into order so that it can then be
cured. There are few men who never spoil a case of ague, because
many cases
come from partly developed, marked cases, the symptoms not being all out,
especially in cases that have taken homoeopathic remedies. The homeopathic
failures are the worst failures on earth.
Nat-m. is a
long acting remedy; its symptoms continue for years; it conforms to
slow-coming, long-lasting, deep-seated symptoms. It requires a long time for a
man to be brought under the influence of it, even when moderately sensitive.
Generals
and aspect: Salt is so common an article of diet that it has been assumed that
it could be of no use in medicine.
This is
only the opinion of men who, operate entirely on the tissues. There are no
constitutional effects from crude salt.
One may
find an individual growing thin with all the symptoms of salt; he is taking
salt in great quantities, but digesting none of it. Salt will be found in the
stool, for it does not enter into the life. There is a Natr-m.
inanition,
a starving for salt. The same is true of lime. Children can get plenty of lime
from their food and that is better when the salt or the lime is given in such
shape that it cannot be resisted by the internal man – aimed
not at the
house he lives in, but at the individual himself-then the bone, salt inanition,
the Natr-m. inanition, will soon pass away.
We do not
with our small dose supply the salt that the system needs, but we cure the
internal disease, we turn into order the internal physical man, and then the
tissues get salt enough from the food. Drugs must all be
administered
in suitable form. We may need to go higher and higher until the secret spring
is touched.
Nat-m. is a
deep acting, long acting remedy. It takes a wonderful hold of the economy, making
changes that are lasting when given in potentized
doses.
A great
deal is presented that can be seen by looking at the patient, so that we say:
this looks like a Nat-m. patient. Experienced physicians learn to classify
patients by appearance.
The skin is
shiny, pale, waxy, looks as if greased. There is a wonderful prostration of a
peculiar kind. Emaciation, weakness, nervous prostration, nervous irritability.
Mind: A long chain of mental symptoms;
hysterical condition of the mind and body; weeping alternating with laughing;
irresistible laughing at unsuitable times; prolonged, spasmodic laughter.
Followed by tearfulness, great sadness, joylessness. No matter how cheering the
circumstances are she cannot bring herself into the state of being joyful. She
is benumbed to impressions, easily takes on grief, grieves over nothing.
Unpleasant
occurrences are recalled that she may grieve over them. Consolation aggravated
the state of the mind – the melancholy, the tearfulness, sometimes brings on
anger. She appears to bid for sympathy and is mad
when it is
given.
Headache
comes on with this melancholy. She walks the floor in rage. She is extremely
forgetful; cannot cast up accounts; is unable to meditate; forges what she was
going to say; loses the thread of what she is hearing or
reading.
There is a great prostration of the mind.
Unrequited
affection brings on complaints. She is unable to control her affections and
falls in love with a married man. She knows that it is foolish, but lies awake
with love for him. She falls in love with a coachman.
She knows
that she is unwise, but cannot help it. In cases of this kind Nat-m. will turn
her mind into order, and she will look back and wonder why she was so silly.
This remedy belongs to hysterical girls.
In a mental
state where Ign. temporarily benefits the symptoms, but does not cure, its
chronic Nat-m. should be given. It is as well to give Nat-m. at once if there
is an underlying constitutional state too deep for Ign.
Modalities:
Aversion to bread, to fats and rich things.
Greatly
disturbed by excitement, is extremely emotional. The whole nervous economy is
in a state of fret and irritation, < from noise, the slamming of a door, the
ringing of a bell, the firing of a pistol, < music.
The pains
are stitching, electric-like shocks, convulsive jerkings
of the limbs on falling asleep, twitchings, shooting
pains. She is oversensitive to all sorts of influences, is excitable,
emotional, intense.
Complaints
come on in the warm room, worse in the house, she wants the open air. The
mental complaints are > in the open air. She takes cold easily from
sweating, but is generally > in the open air, though worse on getting
heated; < by sufficient exertion to heat up, but > by moderate exertion
in the cold air.
Both Nat-c.
and Nat-m. have the general nervous tension of Natrum,
but one is a chilly patient, the other warm, blooded.
Face: The face is sickly looking, the
skin greasy, shiny, sallow, yellow, often chlorotic,
covered with vesicular eruptions around the edges of the hair, the ears and
back of the neck.
There are
scaly and squamous eruptions, with great itching,
oozing a watery fluid, or sometimes dry. An exfoliation takes place, a shining
surface is left. In the meatus, scales form, and peel
off, leaving an oozing surface.
Watery
vesicles form about the lips and wings of the nose, about the genitals and
anus. Vesicular eruptions, white, oozing a watery fluid, come and go. Great
itching of the skin is present,
The skin
looks waxy, dropsical. There is great emaciation, the
skin looking dry, withered, shrunken. An infant looks like a little old man.
There is a down on the face that passes away when improvement sets in.
Emaciation
takes place
from above downward.
The
collar-bones become prominent and the neck looks scrawny, but the hips and
lower limbs remain plump and round. Lyc. also has
emaciation from above downward. The directions of remedies will often enable us
to
distinguish
one from another.
Head: The headaches are awful; dreadful
pains; bursting, compressing, as if in a vise; the
head feels as if the skull would be crushed in. The pains are attended with
hammering and throbbing. Pain like little hammers in the
head on
beginning to move.
Hammering
pains in the head on waking in the morning.
The pain
comes on in the latter part of sleep. There is great nervousness during the
first part of the night; she falls asleep late and awakes with hammering in the
head. There are also headaches beginning at 10 to 11 h.,
lasting
until 15 h. or evening.
Headaches
periodical, every day, or third day, or fourth day. Headaches of those living
in malarial districts, > from sleep; the patient must go to bed and be
perfectly quiet, > from sweating, headaches + intermittent fever.
During the chill
it seemed as though the head would burst; he is delirious and drinks large
quantities of cold water. There is no relief to the head until after the sweat.
Sometimes all the symptoms are relieved by the sweat
except the
headache.
In another
form of headache; the greater the pain the more the sweat; sweating does not
relieve; the forehead is cold, covered with a cold sweat. When the head is
covered warmly he is > moving about in the open air.
Headache
due to disturbance of vision where there is inability to focus rapidly enough.
Headache < from noise.
Headache
involving the whole back of the head and even going down the spine in troubles
following the brain diseases, hydrocephalus.
Back: In spinal troubles, when there is
great sensitiveness to pressure an irritable spine. The vertebrae are sensitive
and there is a great deal of aching along the spine. Coughing aggravates the
pain in the spine, also walking
makes it
worse, but it is > from lying on something hard, or pressing the back up
against something hard; they may sit with a pillow or the hand pressed against
the back. In menstrual troubles, you find the woman lying with
some hard
object under the spine.
Generals: A general nervous trembling
pervades the body. There is jerking of the muscles, trembling of the limbs,
inability to keep the limbs still (Zinc-met.)
Stomach
and liver: The
stomach and liver are closely related.
The stomach
is distended with flatus. After eating there is a lump in the stomach. It seems
to take a long time for food to digest. < from eating. Whitish, slimy mucus
is vomited attended with relief.
There is
great thirst for cold water, sometimes there is relief from drinking, sometimes
the thirst is unquenchable. We find fullness in the region of the liver with
stitching, tearing pains.
Abdomen: The bowels distended with gas.
There is slowing down of the action of the bowels, the stool being very
difficult, in hard, agglomerated lumps.
Bladder: There is slowing down of the
action of the bladder.
Must wait
before the urine will start, and then it comes slowly-dribbles; there is not
much force in the flow.
After
urination there is a sensation “As if more urine remained in the bladder”. If
anyone is present he cannot pass urine, cannot pass it in a public place.
There is
also continued urging, he must pass the urine often.
This remedy
and Nat-s. used by the homoeopaths to clear up chronic diarrhoea, the old army
diarrhoea.
Female
organs: Useful in
the complaints of women, in troublesome menstruation. There is a great variety
of menstrual complaints: menses too scanty or too free, too late or too soon.
We cannot individualize from the
menstrual
symptoms, we must do it from the constitutional state.
Pregnancy:
Conditions of pregnancy.
The mammary
glands waste, there is wasting of the upper parts of the body. The uterus is
intensely sore.
The
leucorrhoea, which is at first white, turns green. Women take cold in every
draft of air.
There is
pain during sexual congress with dryness of the vagina, a feeling as though
sticks pressed into the walls of the vagina; pricking pains.
Chill: comes in the morning at 10.30 h.;
every day, every other day, every third or fourth day. The chill begins in the
extremities which become blue; there is throbbing pain in the head, the face is
flushed; delirium,
talking of
everything, constant maniacal actions.
They grow
worse until a congestive attack comes. During the entire attack there is thirst
for cold water. During the coldness he is not > by heat, not > by piling
on the clothing, wants cold drinks.
We would
naturally suppose that a person freezing to death would want warm things, but
the Nat-m. patient cannot bear them.
The teeth
chatter, he tosses from side to side, the bones ache as if they would break,
and there is vomiting as in congestive conditions. In the fever he is so hot
that the fingers are almost scorched with the intense heat, and
he goes
into a congestive sleep or stupor. The sweat relieves him; the aching all over
is > by the sweat, and in time the headache passes away.
There is
intense chill, fever and sweat. Sometimes the attacks are in robust, strong
people, but usually in the anaemic, in emaciated people full of malaria;
lingering, chronic cases.
Complaints
do not always have this long prodrome. Its most
striking use is in cases that have been living a long time in malarial swamps;
saturated with the malarial atmosphere; they are anaemic, often dropsical; in old
cases that
have been mixed with arsenic and quinine, the crude drugs used by the Old
School to break the fever as long as the patient is under their sway, but the
patient is sick internally even more than before, and when
the
condition comes back, it is generally in its original form; the crude drug is
usually unable to change the type of an intermittent fever.
Nat-m. is
irregular enough in its nature to develop the chills into regularity. When it
has come into better order, wait: either the whole case will subside, or
another remedy will be clear. There are other remedies that can turn
cases into
order. Often cases spoiled by homoeopaths can be turned into order by Sep.
Marked cases with congestion of the head, aching in the back and nausea are
turned into order by Ipecac.
The cure is
permanent after homoeopathic prescribing; the chills do not return.
Nat-m. not
only removes the tendency to intermittents, but
restores the patient to health, and takes away the tendency to colds, the
susceptibility to colds, and to periodicity. It is the susceptibility that is
removed.
We know
that every attack predisposes to another attack.
Each attack
of ague is more destructive than the previous one. The drugs used increase the
susceptibility; the homeopathic remedy removes$ the susceptibility. Homeopathic
treatment tends to simplify the human economy
and to make
diseases more easily managed.
Unless this
susceptibility be eradicated, man goes down lower and lower into emaciation,
emaciation from above downwards.
Children
born in a malarial region are likely to go into, marasmus.
They have a voracious appetite, a wonderful hunger, eating much, but all the
time emaciating.
There is
dryness of all mucous membranes; everywhere the membranes are dry. The throat
is dry, red, patulous; a sensation of a fishbone jagging into it when
swallowing; there is inability to swallow without washing down the food with
liquids; there is sticking all the way down the oesophagus.
Discharges:
The characteristic discharge from the mucous membranes is watery or thick
whitish, like the white of an egg.
There is a
marked coryza with a watery discharge, but the
constitutional state has thick, white discharges. He hawks out a thick, white
discharge in the morning. There are gluey oozings
from die eyes. From the ears flows a thick, white, gluey discharge. The
leucorrhoea is white and thick.
With the
gonorrhoea the discharge has existed a long time and become gleety.
There is smarting m the urethra only after urination.
Nat-m. is
useful in old dropsies (cellular tissues). Sometimes
there is dropsy of sacs, dropsy of the brain following acute diseases. In acute
spinal meningitis with extreme nervous tension, where there is chronic drawing
back of the
head, chronic jerking of the head forward.
Acute
diseases that result in hydrocephalus, or in irritation of the spine. Sometimes
useful in abdominal dropsy, but more often in oedema of the lower
extremities-acute dropsies after scarlet fever; the
patient is oversensitive, starts in his sleep, rises up in the night with
confusion; there are albumen and casts in the urine,
In dropsy
after the malaria, Nat-m., when it acts curatively, generally brings back the
original chill. The only cure known to man is from above down, from within out,
and in the reverse order of coming. When it is otherwise,
there is
only improvement, not cure. When the symptoms return there is hope; that is the
road to cure and there is no other.
The skin
symptoms sometimes very striking. In old lingering cases where the skin looks
transparent as if the patient would become dropsical,
a waxy, greasy, shiny skin (Plb-met./Thuj./Selen.).
Useful
after labor when the mother does not progress well; she
is feeble and excitable; the lochia is prolonged,
copious and white; the hair falls out from the head and genitals; the milk
passes away, or the child does not thrive
on it.
Useful in
after pains where there is subinvolution of the
uterus, the uterus is in a state of prolonged congestion.
< noise,
music, the slamming of a door. She craves salt and has an aversion to bread,
wine and fat things. Sour wines disorder the stomach. Nat-m. will clear up the
case, restore the milk, turn the case into order.
Nat-m.; chlorotic girls who have a greasy skin, a greenish,
yellowish complexion; who menstruate only once in two or three months.
Menses
copious, or scanty and watery. Where the symptoms agree, this remedy can
eradicate this chlorosis and turn the countenance
into a picture of health, but not in a short time.
[H.C. Allen]
Natrium muriaticum
For the
anaemic and cachectic; whether from loss of vital
fluids – profuse menses, seminal losses – or mental affections.
Great
emaciation; loosing flesh while living well (Abrot./Iod.);
throat and neck of child emaciate rapidly during summer complaint (Sanic.).
Great
liability to take cold (Calc./Kali-c.).
Irritability:
child cross when spoken to; crying from slightest cause; gets into a passion
about trifles, especially when consoled with.
Awkward,
hasty, drops things from nervous weakness (Apis./Bov.).
Marked
disposition to weep; sad weeping mood without cause (Puls.),
but consolation from others < her troubles.
Headache:
anaemic, of school girls (Calc-p.); from sunrise to sunset; left sided clavus; as if bursting; with red face, nausea and vomiting
before, during and after menses; as though a thousand little hammers were
knocking
in the
brain during fever; > by perspiration.
Headache;
beginning with blindness ([Iris]/Kali-bi.); with zig-zag
dazzling, like lightening in eyes, ushering in a throbbing headache; from eye
strain.
Lachrymation; tears stream down the face whenever he coughs (Euphr.).
Hay fever:
squirming sensation in the nostril, as of a small worm; brought on by exposure
to hot sun or intense summer heat.
Sensation
as of a hair on the tongue (Sil.).
Tongue:
mapped, with red insular patches; like ringworm on sides (Ars./Lach./Mer./Nit-ac./Tarax.);
heavy, difficult speech, children slow in learning to walk.
Constipation:
sensation of contraction of anus; torn, bleeding, smarting afterwards; stool,
dry, hard, difficult, crumbling (Am. c./Mag. m.);
stitches in rectum (Nit-ac.); involuntary, knows not whether flatus or
faeces
escape (Aloe/Iod./Mur-ac./Olean./Pod.).
Urine:
involuntary when walking, coughing, laughing (Caust./Puls./[Scilla.]); has to wait a long while or urine to pass, if
others are present (Hep./Mur-ac.); cutting in urethra after (Sars.).
Seminal
emission: soon after coition, with increased desire; weakness of organs with retarted emission during an embrace; impotence, spinal
irritation, paralysis, after sexual excesses.
Pressing,
pushing towards genitals every morning; must sit down to prevent prolapsus (Lil-t./Murx./Sep.).
Fluttering
of the heart; with a weak, faint feeling < lying down (Lach.).
The heart's
pulsations shake the body (Spig.).
The hair
falls out when touched, in nursing women (Sep.); face oily, shiny, as if
greased (Plb./Thuja).
For the bad
effects: of anger (caused by offence); acid food, bread, quinine, excessive use
of salt; of cauterization of all kinds with the silver nitrate; to grief,
fright, vexation, mortification or reserved displeasure (Staph.).
Hangnails:
skin around the nails dry and cracked (Graph./Petr.);
herpes about anus and on borders of hair at nape of neck (in bend of knees,
Hep./Graph.).
Warts on
palms of hands (sore to touch, Nat-c.).
Dreams: of
robbers in the house, and on waking, will not believe to the contrary until
search is made (Psor.); of burning thirst.
Fever
blisters, like pearls about the lips; lips dry, sore and cracked, ulcerated
(Nit-ac.).
Painful
contractions of the hamstrings (Am-m./Caust./Guai.).
Craving for
salt (Calc./Caust.); great aversion to bread.
Eczema;
raw, red, inflamed, especially in edges of hair; < from eating too much
salt, at sea shore, or from ocean voyage.
Urticaria,
acute or chronic; over whole body; especially after violent exercise (Apis/Calc./Hep./Sanic./[Urt.]).
Intermittents: paroxysm at 10 or 11 h.; old, chronic, badly treated cased (suppression
by quinine); headache, with unconsciousness during chill and heat; sweat >
pains.
Cannot
often be repeated in chronic cases without an intercurrent,
called for by the symptoms.
Should
never be given during fever paroxysm.
Krankheiten/Beschwerden:
Uterus-Ca.
M. Hodgkin. Drüsenschwellung an Hals und Nacken, hart, schmerzhaft.
Leukämie.
Lidtumore.
Hämangiom.
Ranula.
Warzen.
Polypen.
Struma, Basedow.
Skorbutartige Zustände mit Geschwüren im Mund.
Landkartenzunge.
Lippenrhagaden.
Afterrisse.
Diabetes.
M. Addison.
Gicht, Rheuma.
Gonorrhoe.
Epilepsie.
Folge von Malaria, Chininmissbrauch, Wechselfieber.
Leber- und Milzschwellung.
Urticaria, Psoriasis, Furunkulose, Seborrhoe.
[Marion Wallsdorf]
Länger bestehender Kummer und Depressionen. Menschen, die konstitutionell Natrium muriaticum benötigen, halten an früher erlebten Enttäuschungen fest. Sie konservieren diese regelrecht.
Genauso wie Salz dafür verwendet wird, Nahrungsmittel haltbarer zu machen, hält Nat-m. fest, was sie erlebt haben. Die Enttäuschungen können schon Jahre oder Jahrzehnte her sein.
Dem Menschen, der Natrium muriaticum konstitutionell braucht, gelingt es nicht, über die erlebten Frustrationen hinweg zu kommen. Im Gegenteil - sie finden häufig sogar Trost darin, die schmerzhaften Gefühle immer
wieder zu erleben und verharren in einer Depression.
Häufig sind sie gerne allein und ziehen sich mit ihrem Kummer von der Außenwelt zurück. Wenn sie sich mit ihrem Kummer an jemand anderen wenden, mögen sie es nicht getröstet zu werden. Häufig finden sie eher
Trost in Büchern oder in klassischer Musik.
VERlangt Salz (nicht immer). Sie lieben es ihre Speisen nachzusalzen o. mag keine salzige Speisen.
Nat-m. ist auch häufig angezeigt bei jungen Mädchen die unter Anorexia nervosa leiden. Natrium muriaticum - Menschen können auch unter starken Migräneattacken leiden. Kopfschmerz hämmernd o. klopfend und
können von Übelkeit und Erbrechen begleitet sein.
Häufig auch Sehstörungen, zu den Kopfschmerz haben/<
morgens. Hitze und Sonne werden generell schlecht vertragen. Im Zuge einer
Depression kann es zu starken Einschlafproblemen kommen.
Wird selten als homöopathisches Akutmittel eingesetzt. In der Regel wird es in der Konstitutionsbehandlung eingesetzt, um Menschen zu helfen, die unter jahrelangem Kummer oder Depressionen leiden.
Manchmal wird ein Natrium-Zustand erst durch die Behandlung von akuten Beschwerden, wie beispielsweise starken Kopfschmerzen durch Sonneneinwirkung, erkannt. Dann kann die Behandlung der akuten Beschwerden
mit Nat-m. helfen, das richtige
Konstitutionsmittel zu finden.
Kind: ernst und verschlossen. Es lehnt Trost ab, wenn es Kummer hat oder enttäuscht ist und hat häufig sehr hohe moralische Ansprüche an sich und an andere. Bei Nat-m.-Mädchen ist oft der Vater die wichtigste Person
aus der Familie. Das Kind versucht um jeden Preis die
Anerkennung und die Liebe des Vaters zu erringen und martert sich selbst, wenn
dies nicht gelingt. Häufig sind Nat-m. Kinder
regelrechte Bücherwürmer.
In den Geschichten, die sie lesen, finden sie den Trost, den sie von anderen Menschen ablehnen. In der Pubertät besteht die Gefahr Essstörungen wie zu entwickeln und an Magersucht zu erkranken. Besonders wenn sich das
Kind sehr weit von seinen Familienmitgliedern zurückgezogen
hat und unter einem tief sitzenden Kummer leidet, den es mit niemanden teilen
kann.
Wenn ein Mensch, der sehr stark an altem Kummer festhält und darunter leidet, mit dem homöopathischen Mittel Nat-m. behandelt wird, gelingt es ihm besser die alten Gefühle und Erlebnisse endlich loszulassen.
Nat-m. wird immer ein eher
ernsthafter und introvertierter Typ bleiben.
Kommt er aber durch die homöopathische Behandlung in ein
besseres inneres Gleichgewicht, kann er sein hohes Verantwortungsbewusstsein
und sein anspruchsvolles moralisches Empfinden erleben und in seine Kontakte
einbringen, ohne sich aufgrund von erlebten Enttäuschungen immer wieder
zurückziehen zu müssen. Natrium muriaticum kann genau
wie das homöopathische Mittel Sepia helfen, aus einer lange bestehenden
Depression herauszukommen
Vorwort/Suchen Zeichen/Abkürzungen Impressum