Natrium carbonicum
Sodium carbonate · Sodium carbonate, soda ash, washing soda. · Mineral
People for whom Nat. carb. is most suited are very sensitive. They usually have an inability to assimilate things on both an emotional and a physical level. For example, there may be an emotional inability to tolerate noise, music, thunderstorms, hot weather, and even other people. Physically, this inability to assimilate things might, for example, manifest as digestive problems. These people tend to devote their lives to one person, sacrificing everything to this relationship. Prone to suppressing emotions, they tend to act cheerful even when sad, which compounds the mental strain, fatigue, and irritability they often feel.
People who respond to Nat. carb. may find that mental stress or physical exercise when tired aggravates their symptoms.
Key symptoms
- devoted to loved ones
- suppression of emotions
- weak ankles
- sensitivity to sunlight
- intolerance of milk
Worse (aggravation)
- Worse sitting
- Worse from music
- Worse in summer heat
- Worse from mental exertion
- Worse during thunderstorm
- Worse from least draught
- Worse from changes of weather
- Worse from sun
Better (amelioration)
- Better by moving
- Better by boring in ears and nose
Carbonate of Sodium (NATRUM CARBONICUM)
All the Natrums stimulate cellular activity and increase oxidation and metabolish. Great debility caused by summer heat; chronic effects of sunstroke; exhaustion; anæmic; milky, watery skin; very weak ankles, are all peculiar Natrum carbonicum conditions.
Mind
Unable to think; difficult, slow comprehension. Mental weakness and depression; worries; very sensitive to noise; colds, change of weather. Anxious and restless during thunderstorm; worse from music (Ambra). Marked gayety. Sensitive to presence of certain individuals.
Head
Aches from slightest mental exertion, worse from sun or working under gas-light (Glon) Feels too large. Oversensitive of hearing. Head aches with return of hot weather. Vertigo from exposure to sun.
Nose
All troubles of external nose which may attain a morbid size-pimples and puffiness. Constant coryza; obstruction of nose. Catarrh; bad smell of nasal secretion. Many troubles of external nose (Caust). Posterior nasal catarrh. Hawking much mucus from throat; worse, slightest draught.
Face
Freckles, yellow spots, pimples. Swelling of upper lip. Pale, with blue rings around eyes and swollen lids.
Stomach
Feels swollen and sensitive. Ill effects of drinking cold water when overheated. Water-brash. Hungry at 5 am. Very weak digestion, caused by slightest error of diet. Averse to milk. Depressed after eating. Bitter taste. Old dyspeptics, always belching, have sour stomach and rheumatism. Dyspepsia relieved by soda biscuits.
Bowels
Sudden call to stool. Escapes with haste and noise. Yellow substance like pulp of orange in discharge. Diarrhœa from milk.
Female
Induration of cervix. Pudenda sore. Bearing-down sensation (Sep; Murex). Heaviness; worse, sitting; better by moving. Menses late, scanty like meat-washings (Nitric ac). Leucorrhœal discharge, offensive, irritating preceded by colic.
Respiratory
Dry cough, when coming into warm room from out of doors. Cough with coldness of left side of breast.
Sleep
Wakes too early in morning. Amorous dreams. Drowsy during day.
Extremities
Old sprains. Great weakness of limbs, especially in morning. Easy dislocation and spraining of ankles. Foot bends under (Caust). Soreness between toes and fingers. Heel and tendo-Achilles affected. Capped hands. The hollow of the knee is painful on motion. Icy cold up to knees.
Skin
Inclination to perspire easily, or dry, rough, cracked skin. Eruption on finger-tips, knuckles and toes. Vesicular eruption in patches and circles. Veins full. Soles of feet raw and sore.
Modalities
Worse, sitting, from music, summer heat, mental exertion, thunderstorm. Least draught, changes of weather, sun. Better, by moving, by boring in ears and nose.
Relationship
Compare: Sodii bicarbonas (in vomiting of pregnancy with acetonuria, 30 grains in water spread over twenty-four hours); Nat sulph; Caust; Natr cacodyl (Foul breath and mouth with bad odor. Dry dermatitis of the skin of abdomen. Malignant growths. In phthisis, 5 centigrammes hypodermically, daily. Increase number of red blood corpuscles to double. Also in malignant disease). Arsynal--(Disodium methylarsenate). Introduced by M. A. Gautier, for phthisis in the second stage 4 to 6 centigrammes per day for one week followed by a week's intermission. But much smaller doses, i.e, 1x to 3x are followed by improvement, lessened fever, night sweat and hæmoptysis ceasing.
Antidote: Ars. Camph.
Dose
Sixth potency.
Proved by Hahnemann, Hering and others.
Persons who are in the habit of taking carbonate of soda for sour stomach get a proving of this remedy. I have met some of these people and been able to confirm many Natrumsymptoms.
Old dyspeptics who are always belching and have sour stomach and rheumatism; after twenty years they are 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; are worse from the changes of the weather; their digestive, rheumatic, and gouty troubles are all worse from the weather changes.
Mind
A state of trepidation from the slightest noise, the 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.
Sodium carbonate. (The common "Soda" of the shops, purified; not the Bicarbonate of Soda, NaHCO3). Na2CO31OH2O. Trituration. Solution.
Clinical
Albuminuria. Anidrosis. Ankles, weak. Burns. Cornea, ulcers on. Corns. Coryza. Deafness. Dysmenia. Dyspepsia. Goître. Hands, chapped. Headache. Heels, blisters on. Herpes: iris; circinatus. Hypochondriasis. Hysteria. Ichthyosis. Lisping. Moles. Nose, swollen; eruptions on; red. Ozæna. Post-nasal catarrh. Presbyopia. Priapism. Rheumatism. School-headache. Scrofula. Stammering. Sterility. Sunstroke, chronic effects of. Throat, mucus in. Toothache. Warts.
Characteristics
Nat. carb. is the typical salt of the Natrum group. It was proved by Hahnemann, and is one of the antipsoric remedies of the Chronic Diseases. In old-school practice its chief uses are as an external application in solution to burns and eczema, as a douche in nasal or vaginal catarrh. Nat. c. forms the alkaline basis in most soaps, and most persons know by experience the effect of using soap …
Carbonate of Soda (Na2CO3,10H2O.)
Constitutions with aversion to open air and dislike to exercise, mental or physical; imbecility. Great debility: caused by heat of summer (Ant. c.); exhaustion from least effort, mental or physical; ready to drop after a walk; chronic effects of sunstroke. Chronic effects of sunstroke; now, with the return of hot weather, suffers from headaches. 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 (Phos.); < from music (Sab.). Headache: from slightest mental exertion; form sun or working under gaslight (Glon., Lach.); with tension in nape or occiput before menses; head feels too large, as it it would burst. Face …
Head
Headache and vertigo from slightest mental exertion.
Head
Vertigo from drinking wine,or from mental exertion, from sun or working under gaslight.
Head
Chronic head and other troubles; the remove effects of sunstroke.
Nose
Much nasal mucus passes through the mouth; hawks and hawks.
Female Sexual Organs
Pressure in the hypogastrium toward the genital region, as if everything would issue from the abdomen.
Extremities
Weak ankles from childhood.
Generalities
Great debility, caused by heat of summer, exhaustion from least effort; chronic effects of sun stroke.
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Headache, vertigo, melancholia, etc., occurring during hot weather in persons who have had a previous, sunstroke.
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Acid dyspepsia, especially after a vegetable diet, starchy food, with hypochondiasis and palpitation of the heart.
Phatak's chapter on Natrium carbonicum is available in the app.
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