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A sensation of weight in the right hypochondrium, in the region of the liver; aching pains;sometimes cutting pains, and a great amount of distress in the region of the liver. Engorgement in theregion of the liver. He can only lie on his left side, his complaints are aggravated from lying on his leftside. When lying on the left side, the congested liver seems to pull and draw; the great weight increasesthe pain and uneasiness and he is compelled to turn back on the right side. Now, it is from thesesymptoms, whenever a patient comes into my office and says, "Doctor, my mouth is so slimy and tastesso bad, and I think I am bilious", that he always gets Natrum sulfuricum.Natrum sulfuricum produces great flatulence, distension of the abdomen, cutting pains in theabdomen, associated with congestion of the liver. In this tympanitic condition of the liver thatsometimes comes on in the inflammatory conditions in bilious fever, you will find Natrum sulfuricumyour remedy.I began the use of this remedy with Schussler's remedies some years ago, and find theindications well carried out by the higher and highest potencies. Bell says that if the thirtieth potency ofArsenic is equal to a complete knowledge of the drug, crude Arsenic would be equal to completeignorance.There is a condition of the chest that is characteristic, and that is in relation to the cough. It has acough with a sensation of "all-goneness" in the chest. In this it completes with Bryonia; both hold thechest when coughing. Bryonia holds the chest because he feels as if it would fly to pieces; there is sucha soreness that he fees the necessity of steadying his chest. The complaints of Bryonia are relieved bypressure.Natrum sulfuricum has this same desire to hold the chest; but in Natrum sulfuricum the mucopusthat is expectorated is thick, ropy and yellowish-green, looking like pus--purulent--and there is an"all-gone", empty feeling in the chest. He feels a sense of weakness there; that his lungs are all-gonethat he must die in a few days with consumption or some other failing like that, and that it is coming onin a short time.Bryonia corresponds more to the irritable states with the cough, where there is great rawness,great constriction, great sense of tearing in the chest; burning in the chest; while Natrum sulfuricumcorresponds to a case that has been going on for perhaps a week; every cough brings up a mouthful ofpurulent sputa with a desire to press upon the chest to relieve the weakness; Natrum sulfuricum is thenyour remedy.Another condition is that of humid asthma. If a child has asthma, give Natrum sulfuricum as thefirst remedy. Asthma, when hereditary, is one of the sycotic complaints of Hahnemann. You will notfind that in your text-books, so do not look for it, but it may be an observation worth knowing. I havecured a very large number of such cases of asthma although the text-books would discourage you ifyou should read them under asthma because they will tell you that cases of asthma are incurable. Foryears I was puzzled with the management of asthma. When a person came to me and asked: "Doctor,can you cure asthma?" I would say, "No". But now I am beginning to get quite liberal on asthma, sinceI have learned that asthma is a sycotic disease, and since I have made judicious application of antisycoticsI have been able to relieve or cure a great number of such cases. You will find in the history ofmedicine that wherever asthma was cured, it has been by anti-sycotic remedies. That is one of the firstthings I observed, that outside of sycotics you will seldom find a cure for asthma. There is thatpeculiarity that runs through sycosis which gives you a hereditary disease, and asthma corresponds tothat disease. Hence it is that Silicea is one of the greatest cures for asthma; it does not cure every case,but when Silicea corresponds to the symptoms, you will be surprised to note how quickly it willeradicate it. While Ipecac, Spongia, and Arsenicum will correspond just as clearly to the superveningsymptoms and to everything that you can find about the case, yet what do they do? They palliate; theyrepress the symptoms; but your asthma is no better off, your patient is not cured. Arsenic is one of themost frequently indicated remedies for the relief of asthma;so also are Bryonia, Ipecac, Spongia andCarbo veg., but they do not cure; though they relieve surprisingly at times.Where a patient is sitting up, covered with a cold sweat, wants to be fanned by somebody oneither side of the bed, dyspnoea is so distressing that it seems almost impossible for the patient to livelonger, to get another breath, then Carbo veg. comes in and gives immediate relief and the patient willlie down and get a very good night's rest. But what is the result? On comes the asthma again the verynext cold. Natrum sulfuricum goes down to the bottom of this kind of a case. If it is hereditary, that is,not long-lived, if it is in a growing subject, Natrum sulfuricum goes down to the bottom of such a caseand will cure when its symptoms are present; and the symptoms will so often be present.It is because of this deep-seated anti-sycotic nature, we find in the combination of Natrum andSulfur, that we have a new state and combination running into the life. When the chest in filling up