Natrum Muriaticum nat-m.

Difficulty of thinking; absence of mind; memory and will weak.
Distracted, knows not what to say.
Awkward in talking, with absent-mindedness.
Sad, weeping; consolation aggravates, with palpitation and intermittent pulse.
When trying to comfort him, he becomes enraged.
Hurriedness, with anxiety; with fluttering at the heart.
Likes to dwell on past unpleasant occurrences.
Hypochondriacal; tired of life.
Gets angry at trifles; hateful, vindicative.
Joyless, indifferent, taciturn.
Religious melancholy.

Weariness in the head.
Empty feeling in the head, with anguish.
Vertigo: when rising from bed in the morning; periodical, with nausea, eructations, colic and trembling limbs; nausea and headache; sometimes as if a cold wind were blowing through head.

Bursting headache; beating or stitches through neck or chest; face red; nausea, vomiting.
Violent jerks and shocks in the head.
Throbbing, as from little hammers; awakens with the headache every morning; worse from reading or talking.
Severe headache, maniacal paroxysms, blasphemous; weak; tongue dry; very thirsty; intermittent pulse; caused by getting wet.
Headache from sunrise till sunset, worse at midday; right eye congested; worse from light.
Heaviness in back part of the head; draws eyes together.
Pain, like a nail driven into the left side of the head.
Pressing headache from both sides, as if in vise.
Rheumatic tearing from the root of the nose to the forehead; nausea, vomiting; vanishing of sight.
Headache in school-girls.
Headaches are worse in the morning on awaking, moving the head or the eyes; mental exertion; warmth; better from sitting still or lying down, and from sweat.

Cold sensation on the vertex; scalp sensitive; spasm of the eyelids.
Hair falls out if touched; mostly on forepart of head, temples and bread; scalp very sensitive; face shining as if greasy.
Liability to take cold in the head.
Scalp feels constricted: worse talking and in the open air; better sitting or lying.
Dandruff alternating with catarrh and loss of smell.
Scabs on the head and in the axillæ; eczema raw, oozing a corroding fluid, destroying the hair.
Impetigo, worse on boundaries of hairy scalp, especially about nape of neck; eruption glutinous, with thin gummy scabs; skin sore and red.

Fiery, zigzag appearance around all objects.
Double vision; or sees only one-half of an object.
Retina images are retained too long.
Asthenopia, particularly muscular: drawing, stiff sensation in muscles of eyes when moving them; letters and stitches in sewing run together; aching in eyes when looking intently; often caused by general muscular weakness or spinal irritation.
Lids heavy when using them.
Amblyopia and amaurosis; pupils contracted, dependent on menstrual disorders in the chlorotic.
Blepharitis, ulcers or cornea when there is smarting, burning; feeling of sand in eyes, mornings; acrid excoriating tears; photophobia marked with spasmodic closure of lids.
Ciliary neuralgia, pain above (right) coming on and going off with the sun.
Sharp pain over (right) eye on looking down, with throbbing headache; worse in the evening.
Morbus Basedowii, palpitation, short-breathed on least exertion.
Internal recti weak.
Stricture of lachrymal duct, fistula and blenorrhœa of lachrymal sac.
Affections of the eyes maltreated with lunar caustic.

Buzzing humming or ringing in the ears.
Hardness of hearing.
Painful cracking in the ear, when masticating.
Pulsation and breathing; or stitches in the ear.
Discharge of pus from the ears.
Itching behind the ears.

Loss of smell and taste, especially with catarrh.
Nosebleed when stooping, or when coughing at night.
Liable to catch cold; coryza fluent, alternately with stoppage of the nose; posterior nares dry, with hawking in morning; spasms of sneezing each morning, or ineffectual attempts.
In catarrh, when the secretion is clear mucus.
Nose sore, interior of wings swollen; of scabs in the nose.
Left-sided inflammation and swelling of nose; painful to touch.
Nose on one side feels numb.

Face: yellow; pale; livid; swollen; also wan, pasty.
Heat in the face.
Prosopalgia recurring periodically, especially after checked ague; face sallow; great thirst.
Cheek-bones pain as if bruised, when chewing.
One cheek (left) red (afternoon and night).
Skin of face shining, as if greasy.
Itching and eruption of the face (crusta lactea).
Ulcer on the (left) cheek.
Whiskers fall off.

Lips dry, cracked, with rhagades or bleeding scabs; humid sores in the commissures; upper lip swollen.
Crack in the middle of the lower lip.
Blisters like pearls about the mouth; especially in intermittent fevers.
Lips tingle, feel numb.
Eruptions and ulcers on the chin.
Submaxillary glands swollen.

Sensitive to air on touch; molars pain when chewing.
Pain drawing, tearing from teeth to ears and throat, after eating and at night; cheek swollen.
Decayed teeth loose, burns, sting and pulsate.
Gums sensitive to warm and cold things; swollen, bleed easily; are putrid.
Epulis or a small tumor on the gums.
Fistula dentalis.

Taste: saltish, with dry tongue and; anorexia; bitter; putrid or sour, while fasting; water tastes putrid.
Loss of taste. θ Catarrh.
Complains much of dryness of tongue, which is not very dry.
Tongue heavy, difficult speech; children slow in learning to talk.
Mapped tongue; looks like ringworm on the sides.
Sensation of a hair on the tongue.
Herpes on the tongue from sea-bathing.
Burning at tip of tongue.
One side of tongue numb and stiff.
Ranula.
Talking: 3, 4, 25.

Mouth, lips, and especially the tongue dry.
Feels dry but is not.
Blood-blisters on inside of upper lip.
Sore places in mouth very sensitive, even to liquids.
Vesicles and ulcers in mouth and on tongue, smarting and burning when touched by food.
Saliva bloody; salivation.

Feels very dry yet he constantly hawks transparent mucus.
Mucus membrane looks glazed, but is not granulated.
Sensation of a splinter sticking in the throat.
Feeling as of a plug in throat with chronic sore throat.
Uvula elongated; muscles so weak "food goes down the wrong way"; also in post-diphtheritic paralysis.
Only fluids can be swallowed; solids reach a certain point and then are violently ejected.

Excessive hunger; canine hunger, especially for supper with weak body and depressed mind.
Longs for salt or bitter things; wants oysters, fish, milk.
Loss of appetite.
Aversion: to bread, of which she was once fond; to coffee.

Better on an empty stomach worse after breakfast; feverish; while eating, sweat on the face.
After eating: empty eructations, nausea, acidity in the mouth, sleepiness, heart-burn, palpitation; epigastric pressure and heat radiating upward to the chest.
Bad effects from acid food, bread, fat and wine.

Acid eructations and malaise, after eating.
Water-brash; heart-burn with palpitation.
Nausea in the morning; weak after even agreeable food.
Vomiting first of food, later of bile; oppression of stomach.

Pit of stomach feels bruised when pressed, with swelling.
Clawing in pit of stomach; cramp, better from tightening clothes.
Great weakness in stomach by spells.
Red spots on pit of stomach.

Dull, heavy aching and distention about liver after eating, lessening as digestion advances.
Stitches in liver; tension; liver inflamed, swollen; skin yellow, earthy.
Bending to left causes stiffness in liver.
Stitches and pressure in region of spleen; spleen swollen.

Abdomen swollen; rumbling and incarceration of flatus.
Colic, with nausea, relieved by emission of flatus.
Burning in the intestines.

Wants to pass wind, but knows not whether flatus or feces escape.
Diarrhœa: chronic, watery; with fever, dry mouth, thirst; worse as soon as he moves about; much fetid flatus; tendency to hang-nails; green, bloody, watery or brownish, mostly during the day; with infarcted scybala.
Involuntary stools.
Alternate constipation and papescent stool.
Constipation from inactivity of the rectum.
Stool hard, difficult or crumbling; anus contracted; anus torn, bleeding, smarting; burning afterward; stitches in rectum.
Passes blood with stool.
Dryness and smarting of rectum and anus.
Hemorrhoids, with stinging pains; moisture oozes from the anus; herpetic eruption about the anus.

Tension and heat in the renal region.
Frequent or sudden desire to urinate, cannot retain urine; copious flow.
Polyuria, thirst for large quantities of water.
Urine passed involuntary when walking, coughing or laughing.
Has to wait long for urine to pass, especially if others are near him.
Urinal sediment like brick-dust.
Urine dark, like coffee.
During urination, stitches in bladder, smarting, burning in urethra, smarting and soreness in vulva.
After urination, burning and cutting in urethra.
Hæmaturia.

Excessive irritability of the sexual instinct, but with physical weakness.
Shortly after coitus, pollution.
After sexual excesses, paralysis.
Erections in the morning, without sexual excitement.
Gleet-like discharge of clear mucus.
Scrotum relaxed, flabby; buttocks emaciated in infants.
Itching soreness and moisture between scrotum and thighs; pus-like smegma on the glans.
Itching and crawling sensation at the corona glands.

Averse to coitus, which is painful from dryness of the vagina.
Burning, smarting during coitus, anæmic women with dry mouth and dry skin.
Sterility, with too early and too profuse menstruation.
Uterine cramps, with burning and cutting in the groins.
Every morning pressing and pushing toward the genitals, must sit down to prevent prolapsus.
Prolapsus uteri, with aching in lumbar region, better lying on back; also, with cutting in urethra after micturition.
Menses too late and scanty, or too early and profuse.
Before menses: anxious, sad, qualmish; sweetish eructations in the morning; headache; eyes heavy; palpitation.
During menses: headache; sadness; colic.
After menses: headache.
Dysmenorrhœa, with convulsions (salt sitz-bath).
First menses delayed; amenorrhœa.
Leucorrhœa, acrid, greenish; in morning, transparent, after colicky pains; causes itching; with yellow complexion.
Itching on the external parts, with falling off of the hair.

Labor progresses slowly, pains feeble, seemingly from sad feelings and forebodings.

Voice weak; exhausted by talking.
Hoarseness, throat sore, dryness in the larynx.
Accumulation of mucus in the larynx (in the morning).

Breathing, anxious, oppressed; short on walking fast; better in open air and when exercising arms.
Attacks of suffocation.
Breath hot.

Cough from tickling in the throat, or pit of stomach; sputum in morning of yellow or blood-streaked mucus, with bursting pain in forehead, and shocks or beating as of hammers; involuntary urination; stitch in the liver; tears stream down the cheeks.
Cough worse from rapid motion, from deep inspiration; lying in bed; becoming warm in bed; empty swallowing, drinking; sour food.
Catarrh, with clear, transparent mucus.
Cough, with sputum of bloody mucus.
Dry cough, with rattling on the chest; also with long uvula, worse lying.

Sensation and pain in chest, as from tension.
Stitches in chest and sides, short breathed, especially during a long inspiration.
Pain like a cutting cramp through left chest to scapula.

The heart's pulsation shake the body; also with aching as if a pressure came from abdomen and compressed heart.
Palpitation: anxious, with morning headache; when moving or exerting one's self; when lying on the left side; on going to sleep and on awaking.
Fluttering of heart, with a weak faint feeling, worse lying down.
Irregular intermission of beating of heart and of pulse; worse lying on left side.
Pulse: at times full and slow, at others weak and rapid; intermits every third beat.

Stitches in neck and back part of head.
Painful stiffness of neck.
Throat and neck emaciate rapidly, especially during summer complaint.
Cervical glands sore when coughing; scabs in the axillæ.
Spine oversensitive; tension and drawing; pains better lying on something hard; weak, nervous; fluttering of the heart.
In small of back pain as if bruised, as if lame; stitches, cutting pulsation.
Feeling in the sacral region as if beaten.

Sensation of lameness and of a sprain in the shoulder-joint.
The finger-joints move with difficulty.
Involuntary movements of the hands.
Trembling of the hands when writing.
Skin of the hands, especially about nails, dry, cracked; hang-nails.
Warts in pains of hands.
Sweaty hands.

Pains in hip as if sprained, with stitches.
Drawing pain in right thigh, extending to knee.
Tension in bends of limbs, painful contraction of the hamstrings.
Twitching of muscles of thighs.
Drawing pain in knees when sitting.
Stitches in left knee.
Pain as if the knees and ankles were sprained.
Tension in the calves.
Restlessness in the legs, must move them constantly.
Great heaviness: of the legs; of the feet.
Herpes (in the bend of the knee).
Legs feel as if paralyzed, especially the ankles.
Legs hurt after least exertion; tarsal joints feel bruised.
Lame feeling of ankle-joint, while sitting or walking.
Veins of the feet distended.
Cramp-like stitching pain in right foot.
Feet emaciated.
Big toe red, with tearing and stinging on walking or standing.
Burning of the feet, or great coldness.
Suppressed sweat of the feet.
Stitching pains in the corns.

Weakness of the arms, heaviness; also of the knees and feet.
Sensation as if the limbs had gone to sleep.
Tingling in limbs, especially on tips of fingers and toes.
Cramps in the arms, hands and calves.
Limbs feel weak and as if bruised, worse in morning after rising.
Swelling of the right hand; also of the feet.
Cracking of joints on moving them; stiffness; arthritic swellings.

Walking: 21, 26, 33. Must move legs: 33. Motion: 3, 5, 20, 26, 27, 29, 33, 34. Does not want to move: 36, 37. Exertion: 5, 29, 33, 40, 46; of arms: 26. Writing: 32. Rising: 2, 34. Standing: 33. Stooping: 7. Sitting: 3, 4, 23, 33. Lying: 3, 4, 23, 27, 29, 31; on left side: 29: on back: 23, 31.

Chorea, jumps up high, regardless of things around; jerks of the right side of head; after fright.
Hysterical debility; weakness in the morning in bed.
Prostrated, knows that he is weak and does not want to move.
Useful for congenital malformations caused by contractions of the muscles (externally with friction).
Pains make tears come into the eyes.

Frequent yawning and stretching; aversion to motion; sleepy but cannot sleep.
Sleepy by day sleepless at night.
Somnambulism.
Sleepless; from depressing events; from gnawing grief.
Awakens often: with pains causing dyspnœa and one-sided paralysis; with fright, violent headache, sweat erethism, throbbing of the arteries.
Dreams: vivid; of robbers in the house and will not believe the contrary, until search is made; of burning thirst; starts and talks in sleep, tosses about.
Unrefreshed in the morning.

Morning: 2, 3, 5, 7, 16, 22, 23, 25, 27, 29, 34, 36, 37. 10 to 11 A.M.: 40. Morning till noon: 40. Noon: 3. Afternoon: 8. Evening: 5, 14. Night: 7, 8, 10, 37. Day: 20, 37.

Warm in bed: 27.
Heat of stove unbearable.
Headache.
Ailments worse at the seaside.
Worse in heat of sun (feel exhausted); worse in Summer.
Indication for the open air, and to wash in cold water.
Sea-bathing: 11, 48. Warmth: 3, 10, 27. Cold: 10. Open air: 4, 10, 26. Dampness: 40. Getting wet: 3.

Chill predominates, mostly internal; hands and feet icy-cold.
Chill from morning until noon; ulcers around the mouth; nursing children.
Flushes of heat with violent headache; chilliness over the back, and sweat in the axillæ and on the soles of feet.
Chill 10 to 11 A.M., beginning in feet or small of back; blue nails; thirst; bursting headache; nausea and vomiting; sometimes stupefaction.
Heat, with increased headache and thirst, unconsciousness; or obscuration of sight and faintishness.
Sweat relieving headache and other pains; though it weakens.
Apyrexia: stitches about liver; great languor; emaciation; sallow complexion; urine muddy, with red, sandy sediment; loss of appetite; fever blisters.
Intermittents after: abuse of quinine; living in damp regions, or near newly turned ground.
Sweats easily from any exertion.
Sweat sour, weakening.

Periodical: 2. Sunrise to sunset: 3, 5. Summer: 31.

Right: 3, 5, 33, 34, 36. Left: 3, 7, 8, 18, 28, 29, 32.

Varices.
Tendency to dryness, or to erosions of mucus membrane; secretions acrid; smarting, burning at edges of mucous surfaces.
Emaciation even while living well.

Sprains (externally and internally).
Touch: 4, 7, 10, 12. Pressure: 17, 31.

Itching and pricking in the skin.
Skin suffused, but no rash; tongue burned as from continued use of salt; scarlatina.
Large red blotches, itching violently.
Stinging rash over whole body; nettle-rash after violent exercise.
Tetter in bends of joints, oozing of an acrid fluid; crusts with deep cracks; scaly eruption on flexor surfaces.
Skin dirty-looking, withered; chlorosis.
Blood-boils.

Natr. mur. antidotes: nitrate of silver, quinine, bee-stings.
Complementary to Apis followed by Sepia.
Antidoted by Spir. nitr. dulc., Phosphor. (abuse of salt in food); Arsen. (bad effects of sea-bathing).
In dry mucous membranes, similar to: Alum., Graphit.