Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

NATRIUM CARBONICUM [nat-c] [Kent’s]Proved by Hahnemann, Hering and others. Persons who are in the habit of taking carbonate ofsoda for sour stomach get a proving of this remedy. I have met some of these people and been able toconfirm many symptoms.Old dyspeptics who are always belching and have sour stomach and rheumatism; after twentyyears they are stoop-shouldered, pale, sensitive to cold, chilly, aggravated by the least draft; requiremuch clothing; unable to resist the cold or the heat; require a medium climate; are worse from thechanges of the weather; their digestive, rheumatic, and gouty troubles are all worse from the weatherchanges. A state of trepidation from the slightest noise, the slam of a door; nervous excitement andpalpitation with great prostration; nervous weakness with trepidation; weakness from slight exertion ofmind or body; internal and external trembling. The rattling of paper causes palpitation, irritability andmelancholy. Estrangement from family and friends. Aversion to mankind and to society; to relatives, tostrangers; feels a great division between himself and them; sensitive to certain persons. Music causes atendency to suicide, melancholy, weeping and trepidation; playing the piano is so exhausting that shemust lie down; music causes great sadness which increases to religious insanity. This is true of all the, but especially so of Natrum carb; aggravation from the slam of a door, a pistol shot, whichcauses headache and complaints in general, aggravated from music.The more soda these patients take, the more flatulent do they become; they are stoopshouldered;digestion is difficult, and finally milk will not digest at all, bringing on a diarrhea withundigested, lienteric stools; also, starch causes flatulence and looseness of the bowels. Many symptomsfrom drinking cold water when overheated.Urine offensive like that of a horse, from a vegetable or milk diet. This is not so marked as in, but resembles it.Natrum carb. throws out eruptions upon the knuckles and finger-tips; also the toes; vesiculareruptions open up and form ulcers on the joints or finger-tips. , and Natrum carb.are the remedies most inclined to produce ulceration of the tips and knuckles of the fingers, and alsothe toes.Vesicular eruptions on the body in patches and circles; the herpes family is especially related toNatr. carb.; zona, herpes labialis, herpes preputialis; patches as large as a dollar on the hips, thighs andback. Smaller patches show vesicles containing a white serum; burning, smarting and itching, betterfrom scratching. The eruption passes away with a crust, but will often ulcerate, it does not heal and anulcer forms. Circulation feeble; wounds suppurate. Feet and skin burn. Crusty eruptions on the skin thathave not been vesicular; but most Natr. carb. and eruptions are of the vesicular form.Tingling, biting, itching, changing place, now here and now there; cold skin; sweaty body.Nervous exhaustion, physical exhaustion, weakness of mind and body. Bookkeepers lose theability to add up figures. In reading a page, the one previous to it soon goes out of the mind. Thememory will not hold out from the beginning to the end of a sentence. Forgets what he reads. Confusion of mind follows and then he is unable to perform any mental labor. Men become so fatiguedfrom the details of business that a confusion of the mind comes over them, they get brain-fag.Oversensitive to heat, especially after sunstroke, even some years after; has to be well shadedwhen walking in the sun, must seek a cool or dark, place; the patient has not had the proper acuteremedy during the attack; the remedy is aggravated by both cold and heat, but this is a specialaggravation from the heat of the sun; head troubles are not worse from cold in Natr. carb. Old cases ofbrain-fag with weakness and trepidation. The body troubles are aggravated from cold and in the winter;as cold as if he had no blood in the body, extremities cold, and he cannot get them warm; cold as ice tothe knees and elbows. The body and extremities are worse in winter, the head in summer.Anxious trembling and sweating during pains.The senses are all disturbed; oversensitive to light; pain in the eyes from a bright light.Oversensitive hearing; little noises seem enormous, like thunder; the crumpling of paper seemslike the crashing of a waterfall.Taste perverted, too sensitive, so that the tasting of things ordinarily grateful becomes painful;sometimes loss of taste.Loss of smell. Hay fever, catarrhal fever; where catarrhal conditions are present there iscopious, thick, yellow, purulent discharge from the eyes, nose, vagina. The vesicles are filled with thin,white serum, but the pustule, when it ruptures, throws out a thick, yellow discharge. Leucorrhoea thick,yellow, ropy; gonorrhea of the same character; thick, yellow, ropy, purulent discharge from the bladderwhich clogs up the urethra when urinating.