Natrium lacticum
Sodium lactate · Human-made/chemical
Natrium Lacticum suits patients with gouty or rheumatic diathesis who develop concretions in the joints, especially the fingers. There is marked lassitude and weakness, particularly of the lower limbs, accompanied by excessive sleepiness. The remedy has limited proving data and is used chiefly on clinical indications.
Key symptoms
- Gouty and rheumatic chalk-stone concretions in the fingers
- Unusual hunger and thirst
- Rheumatoid pains throughout the body
- Great weakness of the lower limbs after physical exertion
- Abnormal fatigue with yawning and sleepiness
- Prolonged and sounder sleep
Worse (aggravation)
- Great physical exertion (weakness of lower limbs worse)
Better (amelioration)
- Sleep (more prolonged and sounder)
Sodium lactate. Na.C3H5O3, Solution.
Clinical
Gout. Gouty concretions. Rheumatism.
Characteristics
Allen has collected a few observations on the effects of large doses, which I have schematised below. Skinner has removed with it, in potencies, gouty or rheumatic concretions ("chalk stones") in fingers.
Relations
Compare: The Lacs, Lact. ac. In "chalk stones," Lyc., Calc.
11. Stomach
Unusual hunger and thirst.─Vomiting (from very large doses).
23. Lower Limbs
Great weakness of lower limbs, analogous to anxietas tibiarum after great physical exertion.
24. Generalities
Rheumatoid pains.─Abnormal sense of fatigue, yawning and sleepiness.
26. Sleep
Sleep more prolonged and sounder.─Yawning and sleepiness.
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