Natrium iodatum
Sodium iodide · Mineral
Natrium Iodatum suits patients with scrofulous, syphilitic, or rheumatic constitutions requiring iodide therapy. It is indicated in those with chronic respiratory and upper-airway catarrhs, particularly when associated with cardiovascular weakness. The remedy has not been formally proved and its indications are largely clinical.
Key symptoms
- Chronic pharyngitis with persistent throat irritation
- Coryza and chronic laryngitis
- Hay-fever and hay-asthma requiring iodide sprays
- Cardiac affections with rheumatic or syphilitic background
Iodide of Sodium. NaI. Solution.
Clinical
Coryza. Hay-fever. Heart, affections of. Laryngitis. Pharyngitis.
Characteristics
This unproved sodium salt has been used largely in cardiac cases by French practitioners, and in rheumatism, pneumonia, asthma, chronic bronchitis, scrofula, tertiary syphilis. It forms an important part of certain sprays for hay-asthma. Hansen mentions it as indicated in cases of chronic pharyngitis; and coryza and chronic laryngitis.
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