Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

Natrum Carbonicum nat-c.

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Mental

Marked degree of gaiety; difficulty of comprehension, which is unnatural to him when in health; imbecility, or weakness of the intellect.

Nose

All troubles of the external nose, which may attain a morbid size; may have pimples on it, etc.; puffiness of nose. Bad smell of nasal secretion.

Sleep

Waking too early in the morning. Dreams many; pleasant; amorous.

Stool

Diarrhœa which is marked by a sudden and obligatory call to stool, which escapes with great haste, noise and rushing, often producing considerable commotion in the abdomen; yellow fluid; discharge almost involuntary; often a yellow substance like the pulp of an orange in the discharge, which may sometimes be observed in women at change of life.

Generalities

Toothache in the lower jaw. Mucus in the urine. Nocturnal erections; nocturnal pollutions. Bad smell of the expectoration. Troubles appearing in the back part of head; also heel. Aversion to the open air; Cutting pain in the outer parts. Hysterics. Old sprains; one who is easily sprained, i.e., a disposition to be sprained by any exertion. Exanthema purulent, or filled with pus. Falling out of the hair. Inclination to perspire, which may be caused by any exertion.

Worse

In the forenoon; before eating; from spraining the parts; from music; in the sun; from talking.

Better

From boring with the fingers into the nose or ears (differing from Cina in this respect, that under Natr. carb., relief is afforded); after eating; pressure from without; rubbing; scratching; wiping with the hand.

Remedies following

Calc. carb., Pulsat., Nux vom., Sepia, Sulphur.

Antidote

Camphor.