Natrium hypochlorosum
Sodium hypochlorite · Human-made/chemical
The Natrium Hypochlorosum patient is phlegmatic, depressed, and debilitated with a flabby constitution prone to uterine atony and hepatic sluggishness. There is marked morning swelling of the hands and general lack of vital tone. Passive bearing-down pelvic symptoms predominate, with the womb heavy and sodden.
Key symptoms
- Congested, heavy, sodden uterus tending to prolapse and subinvolution
- Feeling as if uterus pushed upward on sitting down
- Violent metrorrhagia with passive bearing-down sensation
- Both hands swollen every morning; extreme weakness in ankles and knees
- Vertigo with aching across forehead; swimming feeling as if top of head would float off
- Aphthous ulceration; large, flabby, indented tongue; putrid taste
- Dark urine with albumin and casts; diffuse nephritis with back pain
- Drowsiness after meals; faint and depressed
Worse (aggravation)
- Sitting down (uterine sensation)
- Morning (hand swelling)
Labarraque's Solution (NATRUM CHLORATUM)
In congested and atonic states of the uterus and its ligaments, with hepatic disorders. Chronic catarrhal diseases of the middle ear. Flabby, debilitated constitution. Both hands swollen in morning. Phlegmatic. Depressed, faint.
Head
Vertigo, with aching across forehead. Swimming feeling, as if top of head would float off. Bleeding of nose in clots.
Mouth
Sore irritable spots along sides of tongue and throat, gums sore, tongue swollen; aphthous ulceration. Putrid taste. Furred tongue, large, flabby, intended. Cough with aphonia.
Stomach
Drowsy after meals.
Urine
Dark, with albumen and casts. Diffuse nephritis. Much pain across small of back.
Female
Feeling as if uterus were pushed up on sitting down (Ferr iod). Feels as if it opened and shut. Violent metrorrhagia. Leucorrhœa and backache. Passive, bearing-down from heavy condition of uterus. Womb is heavy, sodden, with tendency to prolapse. Subinvolution.
Extremities
Hands swollen every morning. Extreme weakness in ankles and knees.
Relationship
Compare: Aur mur nat; Calc; Sepia; Heliotropium (uterine displacement, with active bearing-down sensation and loss of voice; membranous dysmenorrhœa).
Antidote: Pulsat; Guaiacum.
Dose
Fifteen to twenty drops of Labarraque's solution in water. Third attenuation made with dilute alcohol, lower with water.
Natrum chloratum. Liquor sodæ chloratæ. Labarraque's solution. Attenuations of the B. P. solution.
Clinical
Albuminuria. Chlorosis. Globus. Gravel (white and red). Hæmaturia. Headache. Hysteria. Infra-mammary pain. Metrorrhagia. Nephritis. Ovaries, affections of. Priapism. Scurvy. Smarting eruptions. Subinvolution. Tongue, shrivelled; swollen. Toothache. Uterus, sodden; waterlogged. Vertigo caduca.
Characteristics
Nat. hyp., the well-known disinfecting fluid, is one of Cooper's additions to the materia medica. His proving has brought out some very characteristic features, although there is a close general resemblance to Nat. mur. Cooper's grand characteristic indication is: Water-logged uterus. The womb is sodden, heavy, low down in pelvis; bearing down in pelvis, with tendency to prolapse. The state of subinvolution after confinement corresponds very closely to this, and I have frequently seen Nat. hyp. do good work in such cases. The drug affects profoundly the entire organism, and causes rapid …
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