Natrium nitricum
Sodium nitrate · Mineral
The Natrium Nitricum patient presents with anaemia, hydraemia, and marked exhaustion, needing to rest frequently when walking. There is a haemorrhagic tendency alongside a uric acid diathesis. The remedy suits inflammatory and febrile states, including influenza and purpura haemorrhagica, in debilitated individuals.
Key symptoms
- Haemorrhages: haemoptysis, haematuria, epistaxis, purpura
- Influenza with exhaustion; must rest frequently when walking
- Uric acid diathesis; asthma with urine supersaturated with solids
- Flatulence with pressure in pit of stomach, worse motion, better eructation
- Dull head; pressing inward pain; indisposed to mental and bodily exertion
- Sour risings with aversion to coffee
- Difficult stool with sensation as if more remained to pass
- Anaemia and hydraemia with drowsiness
Worse (aggravation)
- Motion (flatulence and stomach pressure worse)
- Mental and bodily exertion
Better (amelioration)
- Eructation (stomach pressure)
- Rest
Nitrate of Sodium (NATRUM NITRICUM)
A Rademacherian remedy for inflammations. Hæmoptysis. Hæmaturia. Purpura hæmorrhagica. Hæmorrhagic Variola. Drowsiness. Pains of tabes. Influenza. Hemoglobinuria. Uric acid diathesis. Asthma with urine supersaturated with solids. Anæmia and hydræmia. Exhaustion, must rest frequently when walking.
Head
Dull. Indisposed to mental and bodily exertion. Pressing inward pain. Otalgia. Inward pressing in malar bones. Nosebleed.
Stomach
Sour risings. Aversions to coffee. Flatulence, with pressure in pit of stomach and pain in chest; worse motion, better eructation.
Abdomen
Abdominal muscles painfully contracted towards the spine. Distended. Difficult stool; feels as if more remained to pass.
Heart
Pain in region of heart. Pulse slower and softer.
Dose
Second trituration, also watery solution; 1 dram of salt to 8 oz water. Dram doses.
Nitrate of Sodium. Cubic Nitre. Chili Saltpetre. Sodic Nitrate. NaNO3, Trituration. Solution.
Clinical
Anæmia. Constipation. Debility. Distension. Flatulence. Otalgia. Otitis.
Characteristics
Na. n. has had a considerable proving, and among the peculiar symptoms were: Heat in left ear; coldness in right. Heat spreading left to right. Coldness streaming through upper part of body. Coldness of left foot. Pressing-inward pains: in temple and forehead; in malar bones. Flatulent troubles with weight in lower abdomen. Painful retraction of abdominal muscles. Painful constipation. Anæmia and excessive exhaustion. The symptoms were < by exertion; ascending stairs; sitting bent over; deep inspiration. Na. n. was Rademacher's Aconite. He used it in inflammations of all kinds, especially laryngo-tracheitis and croup, acute pneumonia, acute rheumatism and heart affections, purpura, hæmorrhages, inflammations of the eye, exophthalmic goître (Hansen).
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