Natrum carbonicum

Carbonate of Soda. NA^, COs, loH^O.

Keynotes

Constitutions with aversion to open air and dislike to exercise, mental or physical ; imbecility.

Great debility: caused by heat of summer (Ant. c.) ; exhaustion from least effort, mental or physical ; ready to drop after a walk ; chronic effects of sunstroke.

Chronic effects of sunstroke; now, with return of hot weather, suffers from headaches. '

Emaciation with pale face and blue rings around the eyes, dilated pupils; dark urine; anaemic; milky, watery skin and great debility.

Inability to think or to perform any mental labor, causes headache; feels stupefied if he tries to exert himself ; comprehension slow, difficult.

Intolerable melancholy and apprehension; is wholly occupied with sad thoughts.

Attacks of anxiety and restlessness during a thunder storm (Phos.) ; < from music (Sab.).

Headache : from slightest mental exertion ; from sun or working under gaslight (Glon., Lach.) ; with tension, in nape or occiput before menses; head feels too large, as if it would burst.

Face pale, with blue rings around the eyes; eyelids swollen ; catarrh ; mucus in throat and posterior nares ; constantly hawking to clear the throat; dropping into the throat from posterior nares.

Catarrh: extends to posterior nares and throat; hawking much thick mucus from throat; profuse discharge during day, stopped at night (Nux).

Thick, yellow, green, offensive, musty, hard discharge from nose; often ceasing after a meal.

Aversion to milk; diarrhoea from it.

Bearing down as if everything.^ would come out (Agar., Lil, Mur., Sep.); heaviness,- < sitting, > by moving.

Discharge of -mucus from vagina after an embrace, causing sterility. .

Easy dislocation and spraining of ankle^ (^^ffi) ; so weak\hat it gi9es way; foot bends under (Carbo an., Nat. m.).

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Compare: Nat. s., for yeast-like vomit , iting; Col., Sep. Follows well : after, Sep. in bearing down. Aggravations. — From music; in the sun; excessive summer heat; mental exertion; a thunder storm.