NATRUM CARBONICUM

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

  • Old dyspeptics with sour stomach and rheumatism
  • Stoop-shouldered
  • Pale
  • Sensitive to cold
  • Chilly
  • Aggravated by the least draft
  • Require much clothing
  • Unable to resist the cold or the heat
  • Require a medium climate
  • Worse from weather changes
  • Digestive, rheumatic, and gouty troubles worse from weather changes
  • Trepidation from the slightest noise
  • Slam of a door
  • Nervous excitement and palpitation with great prostration
  • Nervous weakness with trepidation
  • Weakness from slight exertion of mind or body
  • Internal and external trembling
  • Rattling of paper causes palpitation, irritability, and melancholy
  • Estrangement from family and friends
  • Aversion to mankind and society
  • Aversion to relatives and strangers
  • Feels a great division between himself and them
  • Sensitive to certain persons
  • Music causes a tendency to suicide, melancholy, weeping, and trepidation
  • Playing the piano is so exhausting that she must lie down
  • Music causes great sadness which increases to religious insanity
  • Aggravation from the slam of a door
  • Aggravation from a pistol shot
  • Aggravation from music
  • Flatulent
  • Digestion is difficult
  • Milk will not digest
  • Diarrhoea with undigested, lienteric stools
  • Starch causes flatulence and looseness of the bowels
  • Symptoms from drinking cold water when overheated
  • Urine offensive like that of a horse, from a vegetable or milk diet
  • Eruptions upon the knuckles and fingertips
  • Eruptions on the toes
  • Vesicular eruptions open up and form ulcers on the joints or finger-tips
  • Vesicular eruptions on the body in patches and circles
  • Herpes
  • Zona
  • Herpes labialis
  • Herpes preputialis
  • Patches on the hips, thighs and back
  • Vesicles containing a white serum
  • Burning, smarting and itching, better from scratching
  • Eruption passes away with a crust, but will often ulcerate
  • Wounds suppurate
  • Feet and skin burn
  • Crusty eruptions on the skin
  • Tingling, biting, itching, changing place
  • Cold skin
  • Sweaty body
  • Nervous exhaustion
  • Physical exhaustion
  • Weakness of mind and body
  • Bookkeepers lose the ability to add up figures
  • Forgets what he reads
  • Confusion of mind
  • Brain fag
  • Oversensitive to heat
  • Aggravation from the heat of the sun
  • Head troubles are not worse from cold
  • Old cases of brain-fag with weakness and trepidation
  • Body troubles are aggravated from cold and in the winter
  • Cold as if he had no blood in the body
  • Extremities cold
  • Cold as ice to the knees and elbows
  • Body and extremities are worse in winter, the head in summer
  • Anxious trembling and sweating during pains
  • Oversensitive to light
  • Pain in the eyes from a bright light
  • Oversensitive hearing
  • Little noises seem enormous, like thunder
  • Crumpling of paper seems like the crashing of a water-fall
  • Taste perverted, too sensitive
  • Loss of taste
  • Loss of smell
  • Hay-fever
  • Catarrhal fever
  • Copious, thick, yellow, purulent discharge from the eyes, nose, vagina
  • Vesicles are filled with thin, white serum
  • Pustule throws out a thick, yellow discharge
  • Leucorrhoea thick, yellow, ropy
  • Gonorrhoea thick, yellow, ropy
  • Thick, yellow, ropy, purulent discharge from the bladder which clogs up the urethra when urinating
  • Otalgia, with sharp, darting piercing pains
  • Discharges are commonly offensive
  • Coryzas trouble much
  • Cold in the head
  • Watery discharge is of short duration
  • Thick copious flow of yellow mucus
  • Ulceration, thick crusts
  • Sleeps at night with the mouth open
  • Dry, yellow crusts are blown out with pain and bleeding
  • Catarrh increases with each fresh cold, until it becomes foetid
  • Bones of the nose are affected
  • Almost a constant headache over the eyes, in the forehead, at the root of the nose
  • Congestive headaches, worse from change of weather, cold room, damp weather
  • Increased by every storm
  • Most foetid ozaena, mucous membranes ulcerated and destroyed
  • Pale face with blue ring around the eyes
  • Yellow blotches on the forehead
  • Puffiness
  • Hands, feet, face pit on pressure
  • Infiltration of the cellular tissue
  • Dropsies
  • Old malarial cases, flesh doughy
  • Urine albuminous
  • Enlargement of the glands with induration, axillary, inguinal, abdominal, salivary
  • Enlargement of the prostate in old men
  • Chronic enlargement of the parotids, slow and of long duration
  • Enlargement of the tonsils
  • Ulcerations of the mouth
  • Nursing sore mouth in women
  • Thrush in infants
  • Little white aphthous patches
  • Diarrhoea from milk in infants
  • When asleep the child jumps, cries, springs up and grasps the mother
  • A nervous, cold baby, easily startled
  • Accumulation of mucus in the throat and posterior nares, generally yellow in color
  • Ameliorated by eating
  • Chilly, eats and is able to keep warm
  • Pains are ameliorated after eating
  • All-gone feeling and pain in the stomach which drives him to eat
  • Gets hungry at 5 A. M. and 2 P. M.
  • Headache, chilliness, and palpitation better from eating
  • Nervous hunger in pregnant women, who cannot sleep unless they get up at night and eat crackers
  • Locomotor ataxia with its fulgurating pains, amel. by eating
  • Gnawing, all-gone, hungry feeling in the stomach
  • Soles numb
  • Erections and priapism in males
  • Sensitive thighs
  • Hypersensitive spine
  • Emissions
  • Ejaculation of semen premature
  • Thirst in the afternoon, incessant
  • Thirst between chill and heat
  • Great desire for cold water a few hours after dinner
  • Extreme aversion to milk
  • Flatulency and accumulation of wind in the bowels
  • Diarrhoea
  • Stool yellow, soft with violent tenesmus and urging
  • Yellow substance like the. pulp of an orange in the stool
  • Diarrhoea from milk
  • Most troublesome constipation
  • Stool hard, dark, smooth and crumbling
  • No ability to bear down
  • Stool large and hard, great effort to pass it
  • Prostatorrhoea after urinating and a difficult stool
  • Sterility, a constitutional state in a woman where she is unable to conceive
  • Relaxation of the sphincter vaginae causing the seminal fluid to gush out as soon as ejaculated by the male, thus causing sterility
  • Spasm of the sphincter
  • Clot of blood or mucus shoots from the vagina with noisy flatus
  • Nervous, fidgety, excitable, lean, dyspeptic women, not hysterical
  • Menses too soon or too late
  • Neuralgias, oversensitive to drafts and dampness
  • Sensitive spine
  • Legs numb
  • Leucorrhoea yellowish-green, copious
  • Paralytic states
  • Ptosis or spasms of the lids
  • Difficult swallowing, must drink much water to wash the food down on account of paralysis of the pharynx
  • Paralysis of the bowels, cannot bear down at stool
  • Stool like sheep's dung
  • Paralysis of the left lower extremity with tingling
  • Palpitation at night when ascending and while lying on left side
  • Many spinal symptoms
  • Goitre
  • Stiffness of the neck
  • Violent backache after walking
  • Rheumatic pains in the extremities
  • Jerking in all the limbs
  • Stumbling while walking
  • Weak ankles in children
  • Heaviness of the legs
  • Pain in the hollow of the knees on motion
  • Tension in the bend of the knee

Allen's Keynotes

  • constitutions with aversion to open air and dislike to exercise, mental or physical
  • imbecility
  • great debility caused by heat of summer
  • exhaustion from least effort, mental or physical
  • ready to drop after a walk
  • chronic effects of sunstroke
  • suffers from headaches with the return of hot weather
  • emaciation with pale face and blue rings around the eyes, dilated pupils
  • dark urine
  • anaemic
  • milky, watery skin and great debility
  • inability to think or perform any mental labor, causes headache
  • feels stupefied if he tries to exert himself
  • comprehension slow, difficult
  • intolerable melancholy and apprehension
  • is wholly occupied with sad thoughts
  • attacks of anxiety and restlessness during a thunder storm
  • anxiety and restlessness worse from music
  • headache from slightest mental exertion
  • headache from sun or working under gaslight
  • headache with tension in nape or occiput before menses
  • head feels too large, as if it would burst
  • face pale, with blue rings around eyes
  • eyelids swollen
  • catarrh with mucus in throat and posterior nares
  • constantly hawking to clear throat
  • mucus dropping into the throat from posterior nares
  • profuse nasal discharge during day, stopped at night
  • thick, yellow, green, offensive, musty, hard discharge from nose
  • nasal discharge often ceasing after a meal
  • aversion to milk
  • diarrhoea from milk
  • bearing down as if everything would come out
  • heaviness, worse sitting, better by moving
  • discharge of mucus from vagina after an embrace, causing sterility
  • easy dislocation and spraining of ankle
  • ankle so weak that it gives way
  • foot bends under
  • worse from music
  • worse in the sun
  • worse from excessive summer heat
  • worse from mental exertion
  • worse during a thunder storm

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