Natrium salicylicum
Sodium salicylate · Human-made/chemical
Natrium Salicylicum is suited to debilitated, listless patients suffering from the after-effects of influenza, with prominent internal ear symptoms including tinnitus, deafness, and vertigo. There is a haemorrhagic tendency affecting the eyes and mucous membranes, with marked prostration, tremor, and incipient dementia in severe cases.
Key symptoms
- Tinnitus of a low tone with deafness and auditory vertigo; Meniere's disease
- Loss of bone conduction in the ear
- Prostrating lassitude, drowsiness, and listlessness after influenza
- Vertigo worse on raising the head; objects seem to move to the right
- Retinal haemorrhage and albuminuric retinitis
- Dyspnoea with noisy, shallow, panting breathing and irregular pulse; complete loss of voice
- Oedema, urticaria, tingling and itching; pemphigoid eruption
- Rational periods alternating with manifestations of insanity of a sombre character
Worse (aggravation)
- Raising the head (vertigo)
Salicylate of Sodium (NATRUM SALICYLICUM)
Has an extensive range of action affecting the head, ear, throat, kidneys and liver and on metabolism. Hæmorrhages, especially epistaxis. Produces marked effects upon the internal ear, with vertigo, deafness, noises in ears and loss of bone conduction, hence, its use in Meniere's disease. One of the best remedies for the prostrating after-effects of influenza. Lassitude, drowsiness, listlessness, tremor. Incipient dementia. Increases the quantity of bile. Follicular tonsillitis.
Head
Perfectly rational periods, alternate with manifestations of insanity of a somber character. Vertigo; worse, raising head. All objects seem to move to the right. Dull headache and confusion. Fibrositis of the scalp.
Eyes
Retinal hæmorrhage, albuminuric retinitis with hæmorrhage. Iridocychitis due to traumatism with infection, and in sympathetic disease secondary to it (Dr. Gradel).
Ears
Tinnitus of a low tone. Deafness. Auditory vertigo.
Chest
Dyspnœa; breathing noisy, shallow, panting; pulse irregular. Complete loss of voice.
Skin
Œdema, urticaria, red in circumscribed patches. Tingling and itching. Pemphigoid eruption.
Relationship
Compare: Lobelia purpurascens (drowsiness; dizzy headache between eyebrows; cannot keep eyes open; tongue-white-feels paralyzed as also do the heart and lungs intense prostration of all vital forces; deadly chill, without shivering; useful for the low, nervous prostration of grippe); Gaulth; China. Pyrus malus-Crab apple tree--(Labyrinthine vertigo. Dr. Cooper).
Dose
Third potency.
Non-Homeopathic Uses
In acute articular rheumatism, lumbago, sciatica, etc. Usual doses, ten to twenty grains every three hour. Must be used carefully, as it is often destructive of kidney tissue. Ordinary allopathic doses allay the pain of dysmenorrhœa and promote menstrual flow.
Salicylate of Sodium. (NaC7H5O3)2H2O. Trituration. Solution.
Clinical
Abscess. Boils. Debility. Depression. Ears, noises in. Fever. Ménière's disease. Noises in the head. Œdema. Periostitis. Rheumatism. Stammering. Strabismus divergens.
Characteristics
The introduction of Salicylic acid and Nat. sal. into general practice as remedies in rheumatism led to much overdosing, the records of which are found in Allen and C. D. P., and I have arranged them below in the Schema. The most marked and persistent of the symptoms produced by Nat. sal. is giddiness, < on rising from lying, and intense tinnitus aurium with deafness. This combination of symptoms has led to the successful homœopathic use of Nat. sal. in Ménière's disease and similar conditions. In some of the overdosings high fever with delirium was produced. Nat. sal. has been used freely in the manufacture of beer to prevent fermentation, and this has caused poisoning symptoms, notably sweating and tenderness of the feet with dark coloured and …
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