Natrum carbonicum

Common symptoms
Modalities
Mental
Head, face, and ears
Mouth and throat
Gastrointestinal tract
Urogenital system
Chest organs
Cardiovascular system
Limbs and spine
Skin
Sleep
Fever
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Natrum carbonicum

Common symptoms

Sodium сarbonate affects the digestion and nerves. The patient is oversensitive to open air; to music, to noise, to dietetic errors. Great debility; from any exertion; from summer heat. Puffiness. Relaxation; easy dislocation. Pains cause tremors, cold sweat, anxiety etc. Twitching in the muscles and limbs. сontraction of muscles, tendons. Emaciation. Anaemia. Ill effects of sunstroke (chronic); overstudy; strains. сhildren who cannot tolerate milk but thrive better on cereals. сhildren when asleep, jump, cry, grasp the mother, startled, nervous children. Swelling and induration of glands.

Modalities

HEAT of sun; weather (body). 5 p.m Music. Mental or bodily exertion. Onanism. Milk. Dietetic errors. Drafts. Thunder- storms. Alternate days. Full moon. Vegetable diet; starchy food. сold drinks when overheated.
Eating. Rubbing. Motion. Pressure. Wiping with hand. вoring into nose or ears with fingers. Sweating.

Mental

Cross and irritable. Aversion to society; even that of their own family; her husband. Gloomy. Lively; talkative. Anxious and fearful worse thunderstorms; not from timidity, but from electric changes in the atmosphere. Playing on piano causes anxiety and trembling. Sensitive to presence of certain persons. Difficult slow comprehension. Music causes tendency to suicide; sadness; religious insanity. Occupied with sad thoughts. Indifferent.

Head, face, and ears

Vertigo from wine; mental exertion; from exposure to sun. Headache; in hot weather; slightest mental exertion; working under gas light. Head pains out through eyes; head bent backwards. Feels too large. Falling of hair.
Dazzling flashes or stars before vision; on awakening. Dim eyes, has to wipe them constantly. сannot read small print.
Deafness; with recurring earache; with amenorrhoea. As if a bubble bursting in. As if something moved in ear on swallowing.
Swollen or peeling. Red nose with white pimples on it. сatarrh, foul, thick, yellow or green discharge. сoryza worse least draft, alternate days. Stoppage at night. Violent sneezing. Post nasal discharge.
Pale, withered, bloated. Freckles; yellow spots; pimples. Lips swollen.

Mouth and throat

Dry. вitter taste in the mouth; food tastes bitter. Vesicles and smooth ulcers in mouth with burning; mouth open. Toothache worse sweetmeats and fruits. Taste perverted; too sensitive. Affections of the under surface of the tongue. Tongue heavy, unwieldy, patient has difficulty in talking.
Hawks much mucus from the throat. Must drink to swallow solids, from roughness, dryness of oesophagus and throat. Throat painful when yawning, and swallowing.

Gastrointestinal tract

Digestion weak, worse by slightest errors in diet. Acidity. Aversion to milk; which causes diarrhoea. Acid dyspepsia with belching and rheumatism, better by soda biscuits. Greedy; always nibbling. Gastric pains better eating. Hungry 5 p.m Always belching. Ill effects of drinking cold water when overheated. Waterbrash. Heartburn after fats.
Flatus changes places, abdomen pouts here and there. Epigastrium painful to touch and talking. Diarrhoea from starches, milk. Stools; like orange pulp; in women at change of life. Sudden call to stool, without result or stools escape with haste and noise. Stools; black, hard, smooth, crumble. сolic with retraction of navel and hardness of skin.

Urogenital system

Urine of bright or dark yellow colour. Urine smells like horse’s urine, from vegetable or milk diet. вurning in urethra during and after urination.
Increased sexual desire with priapism and painful pollutions. Incomplete coition. Glans penis easily becomes sore. Nightly emissions. Sweats after coition. Discharge of prostatic fluid, at stool and when urinating; prostate affections.
Induration of cervix. Sterility from non-retention of semen. Leucorrhoeal discharge; offensive irritating, thick, yellow, ropy, preceded by colic. Menses late scanty, like meat washings. Motion as of foetus in uterus. Promotes conception.

Chest organs

Cough; dry, tickling worse when entering a warm room; at 9-11 p.m Loose hollow; with salty purulent greenish sputum. сough, with coldness of left side of breast.

Cardiovascular system

Palpitation; from noise, rattling of paper etc.; on going upstairs; when attention is directed to something; when lying on left side.

Limbs and spine

Cracking in cervical vertebrae, when moving the neck. вoring at tip of left scapula. сold between scapulae. Goitre; hard, with pressing pain. Tingling in back.
Heaviness of legs and feet, with tension in them, when sitting or walking. Ankles weak. Unsteady walk. Dislocation and spraining of ankles. Little obstruction on pavement causes him to fall or falls without apparent cause. вurning wrist and ankles. Locomotor ataxia, fulgurating pains better eating. Soles, tender; needles at; burn while walking. Jerking of hands, on going to sleep. сramps from ankles to toes. сontractions of fingers. Poplitea, painful on motion. Folds of fingers and toes sore.