Natrium sulphurosum
Sodium sulfite · Human-made/chemical
Natrium Sulphurosum is indicated in chronic debilitating diarrhoea where the stools have a distinctive yeasty appearance. The patient is much debilitated with a pale, waxy face and scapular pain. The remedy has very limited proving data and is used primarily on the clinical keynote of yeasty stools.
Key symptoms
- Chronic diarrhoea with watery stools looking like yeast
- Great debilitation with whitish waxy complexion; cheeks freckle-coloured
- Pain in right scapula as if bathed in hot water
- Taking food immediately provokes a stool
Worse (aggravation)
- Eating (immediately provokes stool)
Sulphite of Sodium. Sodic Sulphite. Na2SO37H2O. Trituration. Solution.
Clinical
Diarrhœa.
Characteristics
Clarence Bartlett (H. W., xxi. 251) relates a case of chronic diarrhœa in which "the stools were watery and looked very much like yeast" cured with Nat. sulphuros. 3x given, after the failure of many other remedies, at the suggestion of Farrington on the indication "yeasty stools." The patient had pain in right scapula as if bathed in hot water; was much debilitated; taking food provoked a stool. The face was whitish waxy, except the cheeks, which were a "light freckle colour."
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