Natrum muriaticum

Characteristic symptoms

Aggravations on lying on the left side, on motion, on exertion of mind or body ; morning aggravations, relieved by perspiration and during rest and in the open air ; stiffness and cracking in the joints; spasmodic sensation in the limbs as if gone to sleep; muscular contractions, hysteric ailments ; dread of exercise ; pains, with dyspnoea and hemiplegia ; the circulation is excited by every motion of the body; full and undulating pulse in the whole body, even during rest ; pulse intermits a few beats ; great bodily weakness; emaciation; throat and neck of children emaciate rapidly, particularly during summer complaints ; children do not learn to talk ; painful sensitiveness of the skin ; large and red blotches, itching violently ; warts in the palms of the hands ; varices ; nettlerash after every motion ; drowsiness in day-time, sleeplessness or difficulty of falling asleep at night ; sleep full of fanciful ravings ; lewd dreams ; anxious dreams ; irregular and frequently intermittent pulse ; constant chilliness ; hypochondriac anxiety ; sweat during the least motion ; when trying to comfort him he goes into a violent rage ; great tendency to start ; profuse sweat, having a sour smell ; status gastricus ; protracted intermittent, with stitching headache, thirst, excessive dryness of the mouth, ulcerations around the corners of the mouth ; somnambidismus ; sensation as if the head would split ; falling off of the hair, even of the whiskers ; ulcerated eyelids ; acrid lachrymation : agglutination of the eyes in the morning; dryness and obscuration of sight ; a small fiery point before her eye, remaining wherever she looks ; painful swelling of one-half of the nose ; white pimples around the nose ; excessive fluid coryza, with loss of smell and taste ; livid face; twitchings of the muscles of the face ; pimples in the face ; bloody blisters on the inner side of the upper lip ; throbbing and boring in the teeth ; increase of the decay of the teeth ; scorbutic gums, with bleeding ; vesicles on the tongue ; sore throat, as if a plug were lodged in the throat ; spasms in the pharynx ; putrid taste and smell in the mouth; canine hunger, with feeling of repletion after eating but little ; sensation of pressure, or pinching cutting pains, or heartburn after eating or drinking; sour regurgitation of food ; hiccough ; throbbing in the pit of the stomach, resembling palpitation; stitches in the hypochondria; morning colic; frequent distension of the abdomen ; incarceration of flatulence ; protrusion of inguinal hernia ; constipation, with sensation of contraction of the anus ; difficult expulsion of the faeces, Assuring the anus ; with flow of blood, leaving a sensation of much soreness in the anus ; frequent micturition at night ; excessive sexual desire ; acrid leucorrhœa ; delaying menses, decreasing more and more ; cough from titillation in the throat-pit ; spasmodic suffocative cough ; oppressive anguish in the chest ; palpitation of the heart, with anguish ; irregularities of the beats of the heart ; languor and heaviness in the extremities.