Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Ulceration of the heel from blisters. Icy cold feet. Weakness of the legs. Vesicles on tips offingers and toes. Spots and tubercles on the skin. Skin dry and cracked. Itching and crawling.NATRIUM MURIATICUM [nat-m] [Kent’s]Salt is so common an article of diet that it has been assumed that it could be of no use inmedicine. This is only the opinion of men who operate entirely on the tissues. There are noconstitutional effects from crude salt.One may find an individual growing thin with all the symptoms of salt he is taking salt in greatquantities, but digesting none of it. Salt will be found in the stool, for it does not enter into the life.There is a Natr-mur. inanition, a starving for salt. The same is true of lime. Children can get plenty oflime from their food and that is better when the salt or the lime is given in such shape that it cannot beresisted by the internal man---aimed not at the house he lives in, but at the individual himself---then thebone, salt inanition, the Natr-mur. inanition, will soon pass away. We do not with our small dosesupply the salt that the system needs, but we cure the internal disease, we turn into order the internalphysical man and then the tissues get salt enough from the food. Drugs must all be administered insuitable form. We may need to go higher and higher until the secret spring is touched.Natr-mur. is a deep acting, long acting remedy. It takes a wonderful hold of the economy,making changes that are lasting when given in potentized doses.A great deal is presented that can be seen by looking at the patient, so that we say: this lookslike a Natr. mur. patient.Experienced physicians learn to classify patients by appearance.The skin is shiny, pale, waxy, looks as if greased. There is a wonderful prostration of a peculiarkind. Emaciation, weakness, nervous prostration, nervous irritability.There is a long chain of mental symptoms; hysterical condition of the mind and body, weepingalternating with laughing; irresistible laughing at unsuitable times; prolonged, spasmodic laughter. Thiswill be followed by tearfulness, great sadness, joylessness. No matter how cheering the circumstancesare she cannot bring herself into the state of being joyful. She is benumbed to impressions, easily takeson grief, grieves over nothing. Unpleasant occurrences are recalled that she may grieve over them.Consolation aggravated the state of the mind---the melancholy, the tearfulness, sometimes brings onanger. She appears to bid for sympathy and is mad when it is given. Headache comes on with thismelancholy. She walks the floor in rage. She is extremely forgetful; cannot cast up accounts; is unableto meditate; forgets what she was going to say; loses the thread of what she is hearing or reading. Thereis a great prostration of the mind.Unrequited affection brings on complaints. She is unable to control her affections and falls inlove with a married man. She knows that it is foolish, but lies awake with love for him. She falls in lovewith a coachman. She knows that she is unwise, but cannot help it. In cases of this kind Natr. mur. willturn her mind into order, and she will look back and wonder why she was so silly. This remedy belongsto hysterical girls.In a mental state where temporarily benefits the symptoms but does not cure, its chronic,Natr. mur. should be given. It is as well to give Natr. mur. at once if there is an underlyingconstitutional state too deep for Aversion to bread, to fats and rich things.The Natr-mur. patient is greatly disturbed by excitement, is extremely emotional. The wholenervous economy is in a state of fret and irritation, < from noise, the slamming of a door, the ringing ofa bell, the firing of a pistol, < music.The pains are stitching, electric-like shocks, convulsive jerking of the limbs on falling asleep,twitchings, shooting pains. She is oversensitive to all sorts of influences, is excitable, emotional,intense.Complaints come on in the warm room, worse in the house, she wants the open air. The mentalcomplaints are > in the open air.She takes cold easily from sweating, but is generally > in the open air, though worse on gettingheated, < by sufficient exertion to heat up, but > by moderate exertion in the cold air.Both and Natr-mur. have the general nervous tension of , but one is achilly patient, the other warm blooded.The face is sickly looking, the skin greasy, shiny, sallow, yellow, often chlorotic, covered withvesicular eruptions around the edges of the hair, the ears and back of the neck. There are scaly andsquamous eruptions, With great itching, oozing a watery fluid, or sometimes dry. An exfoliation takesplace, a shining surface is left. In the meatus, scales form and peel off, leaving an oozing surface.Watery vesicles form about the lips and wings of the nose, about the genitals and anus. Vesiculareruptions, white oozing a watery fluid, come and go. Great itching of the skin is present.