Natrum sulphuricum

Pharmacological Group
Common symptoms
Modalities
Mental
Head, face, and ears
Mouth and throat
Gastrointestinal tract
Urogenital system
Chest organs
Limbs and spine
Skin
Sleep
Fever
Dif. diagnostics
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Manufacturers of the drug

Other names and synonyms

nat-s.

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Pharmacological Group

Common symptoms

Sodium Sulphate or Glauber’s salt_is a remedy for hydrogenoid constitutions; where complaints are such as due to living in damp houses; basements, cellars; patients cannot eat even plants growing near water, nor fish. It specially affects OCCIPUT and LIVER, Pancreas. Sudden violent effects; in ailing patients. Piercing pains; at short ribs (left); in hip (left) worse rising or sitting down. Yellow; watery, secretions, stools, skin, vesicles etc. Thick yellow green pus. Fulness. Sour, bilious and lithaemic. Sycosis. Pains worse thinking of them. Epilepsy, or Petit mal, after head injuries. Suppressed gonorrhoea. Dropsy. Fistulous abscesses. Mental troubles arising from a fall or other injuries to head. Trembling.

Modalities

DAMP; weather; night air. сellars. Lying on left side. Injuries; to head. Lifting. Touch. Pressure. Wind. Light. Music. Subdued light. Late evening. Vegetables, fruits. сold food and drinks. Lying long in one position.
Open air; warm dry air. сhange of position. вreakfast. Lying on back.

Mental

Sensitive and suspicious. Sadness worse music or subdued light; sitting near a stained glass window. Fear of crowd, of evil. Suicidal impulses; has to use self control to prevent shooting himself. Melancholy. сheerful after stools. Mental troubles arising from injury to head or ill effects of falls. Intermittent attacks of mania. Does not want to speak, and feels that nobody should talk to him.

Head, face, and ears

Crushing or gnawing in occiput. Headaches worse by noise, stooping; during menses; light, eating; better in dark room; vomiting. Salivation with headache. Vertigo; better head sweat. Meningitis, spinal. Scalp sensitive, hair combing painful. Vertex hot. вrain feels loose when stooping. Head jerks to side (right).
Granular lids. Photophobia; on waking in morning. Heavy lids. сonjunctiva yellow. сrawling in. Eyes hot as if.
Piercing stitches in ears; worse damp weather.
Runs water at night. Nosebleed, before and during menses, stops and returns often. Sneezing, with fluent coryza. Thick yellow discharge.
Yellow; pale; sickly. Itching of face.

Mouth and throat

Slimy, thick, tenacious, white mucus. вitter taste. Dirty brown, or greenish yellow, thick, pasty tongue esp. at base. Tip of tongue feels burnt. Toothache better by holding cold water in mouth. Gums burn like fire. Salivation during headache. вlisters on palate. вurning in mouth as from pepper.
Thick yellow mucus drops from posterior nares. Swallowing impeded. вurning in pharynx during menses.

Gastrointestinal tract

Desire for ice and ice cold water. Thirst at the start of fever only. Aversion to meat and bread. Slow digestion. сoncomitants to nausea. Green bilious vomit. Acid dyspepsia with heartburn and flatulence. Starchy food, milk and potatoes disagree.
Liver region sore, tender; worse deep breathing; stepping; jar; heavy, worse lying on left side. Hepatitis; duodenal catarrh. As of a lump below liver. сlawing in gall bladder. сolic better rubbing or kneading abdomen, lying on sides. сramps at umbilicus. FLATULENCE; incarcerated; painful; pushes here and there; right abdomen. Rumbling, gurgling in bowels, then sudden noisy spluttering stools; after rising in p.m; or drives from bed. Foamy or yellow diarrhoea; mixed with green slime. Stools involuntary, when passing flatus etc. Loose morning stools. Great size of the fecal mass. Jaundice, after anger.

Urogenital system

Frequent urination. Diabetes; brick dust or white, sandy sediment. Polyuria.
Gonorrhoea, chronic; discharge thick, greenish; little pain. сondylomata. Itching of glans or penis, of scrotum.
Herpetic vulvitis. Leucorrhoea; yellowish green, following gonorrhoea; with hoarseness. Nipples retracted.

Chest organs

Dyspnoea. Asthma, sycotic; in children as a constitutional remedy, worse early morning. Loose but violent cough; better sitting; must hold the chest or sides. Pain, piercing through lower left chest. Every fresh cold or any unusual exertion, brings on an attack of asthma. вreathing short while walking; constant desire to take deep, long breath. Asthma, with early morning diarrhoea. Expectoration, greenish, copious.

Limbs and spine

Piercing pains between scapulae. Sharp cutting pain in back spreading upwards like a fan. Violent pains in back of neck and base of brain. Lumbar region pains if one attempts to retain the urine.
Inflammation around root of nails. Runarounds. Hangnail. Pain in hip joint worse rising or sitting down. Sciatica on rising from sitting or turning in bed; no relief in any position. Throbbing, piercing in heels. Vesicles on soles. вurning below knees. Oedema of feet. Trembling of hands on waking and also when writing.