Natrum sulphuricum

Sodium Sulphate. Na OSO^ load.

Keynotes

Ailments which are < by, or which depend upon, dampness of weather, damp houses or cellars (Aran.).

Patient feels every change from dry to wet; cannot tolerate sea air, nor eat plants that thrive near water; a constitution in which the gonorrhoeal poison is most pernicious; recovers slowly from every sickness. Every spring, skin affections reappear (Psor.). Inability to think (Nat. c.).

Sad, gloomy, irritable; worse in morning; dislikes to speak or be spoken to (lod.. Sib).

Depressed; lively music makes her sad; satiety of life; must use great self-control to prevent shooting himself.

Mental traumatism ; mental effects from injuries to head; chronic brain effects of blows, falls.

Granular lids: like small blisters (Thuja); green pus and terrible photophobia; gonorrhoeal or sycotic.

Nosebleed during menses (instead of menses, Bry., Puls.). Toothache > by cold water, cool air (Coff., Puls.). Dirty, greenish-gray or brown coating on tongue. Diarrhoea: sudden, urging, gushing, much flatus; on first rising and standing on the feet; after a spell of wet weather; living or working in basements.

Gonorrhoea : greenish-yellow, painless, thick discharge (Puls.); chronic or suppressed (thick, green. Kali iod.).

Dyspnoea ; desire to take a deep breath during damp, cloudy weather.

Humid asthma in children ; with every change to wet weather; with every fresh cold; always worse in damp, rainy weather; sputa green, greenish, copious (greenish grey. Cop.).

Sycotic pneumonia; lower lobe of left lung; great soreness of chest, during cough, has to sit up in bed and hold the chest with both hands (Nic. — r. lung, Bry.).

Spinal meningitis : violent crushing gnawing pains at base of brain; head drawn back; spasms with mental irritability and delirium; violent congestion of blood to head; delirium; opisthotonos.

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Compare: Nat. m. and Sulph., which are very similar; Thuja and Merc, in syphilis and sycosis occurring in hydrogenoid constitutions.

— Damp basements or dwellings ; damp weather (Aran., Ars. i., Dul.) ; rest; lying.

Amelioration. — Dry weather; pressure; sitting up (cough) ; changing position (but > in wet weather, Caust.) ; open air.

Must change position frequently, but it is painful and gives little relief (Caust.).