Text Book of Materia Medica.
By Adolph Lippe, M. D.
Professor of Materia Medica at the Homœopathic
College of Pennsylvania.
Presented by Médi-T.
Natrum carbonicum.
Mind and Disposition.
Restlessness, with attacks of anxiety, especially during a
thunder-storm.
Aversion to man and society.
Hypochondriacal mood, tired of life.
Mind much agitated, every event (music) causes trembling.
[5] Out of humor, peevish, irritable,
angry.
Head.
Vertigo from drinking wine and from mental exertion.
Inability to think and to perform any mental labor ; the head feels
stupefied if he tries to exert himself.
Difficulty in comprehending what one hears or reads and in connecting
ideas.
Dulness of the head, when at rest or when in the sun.
[10] Headache from the sun or when
turning the head rapidly.
Tension and obstruction in the head, as if the forehead would burst.
Stupefying, pressing headache in the forehead, with nausea, eructations
and dimness of sight, in the evening ; worse in the room.
Stitches in the head and out of the eyes.
Pulsating headache in the vertex every morning.
[15] Congestion of blood to the head,
with heat in it.
Tearing pain in the forehead, returning at certain hours of the day.
Eyes.
Heaviness of the upper eyelids.
Stitches in the eyes from within outwards.
Inflammatory swelling of the eyelids (right upper lid).
[20] Aversion to light.
Ulcers on the cornea.
Cannot read small print.
Black spots (before the eyes when writing) or dazzling flashes before
the eyes.
Sensation as of feathers before the eyes.
[25] Dim eyes ; has to wipe them
constantly.
Ears.
Otalgia, with sharp-piercing stitches in the ears.
Hard bearing, as if the ears were closed up.
Over-sensitiveness of bearing, sensitiveness to noise.
Nose.
Red nose with white pimples on it.
[30] Peeling off of the dorsum and tip
of the nose ; painful when touched.
Ulcerated nostrils, high up in the nose.
Coryza with cough, from the least current of air, only going off by
sweat.
Obstruction of the nose ; hard, fetid clots come out of one
nostril.
Thick, yellow or green discharge from the nose.
[35] Coryza on alternate days.
Face.
Bloated face.
Burning heat and redness of the face.
Swelling of the cheeks, with redness.
Pale face with blue rings around the eyes, swollen eyelids.
[40] Freckles in the face.
Yellow blotches on the forehead and upper lip.
Humid, herpetic eruptions and ulcers on the nose, around the mouth, on
the lips.
Swelling of the upper lip.
Burning rhagades in the lower lip.
Mouth and Throat.
[45] Flat ulcers and blisters inside of
the mouth, burning and painful when touched.
Digging, boring toothache, especially during or after eating sweatmeats
or fruit.
Great sensitiveness of the lower teeth.
Nightly pressing toothache, with swelling of the lower lips and of the
gums.
Stuttering on account of heaviness of the tongue.
[50] Burning about the tip of the
tongue, as if it were cracked.
Throat and œsophagus feel rough, scraped and dry.
Accumulation of mucus in the throat.
Much nasal mucus passes through the posterior nares.
Stomach and Abdomen.
Incessant thirst : great desire for cold water a few hours after
dinner.
[55] Increased and ravenous hunger in
the forenoon, from sensation of emptiness in the stomach.
Empty eructations (after eating).
Aversion to milk, and diarrhœa from it.
Very weak digestion ; after eating, hypochondriacal humor.
The food tastes bitter.
[60] After every meal pressure in the
stomach.
Sensitiveness of the pit of the stomach to the touch, and when talking.
Continuous qualmishness and nausea.
Colic, with constriction around the stomach.
Stitches in the left hypochondrium ; also after drinking very cold
water.
[65] Stitches in the region of the
liver and spleen (chronic inflammation of the liver).
Hard, bloated, swollen abdomen.
Tumors on the abdomen, as if the intestines were distended by wind here
and there.
Colic, with contraction of the navel and hardness of the integuments of
the abdomen.
Accumulation of flatulence, incarcerated flatulence, and loud rumbling
of the flatulence.
[70] Passes much flatus, smelling sour
or fetid.
Stool and Anus.
Frequent ineffectual urging to stool, or too scanty, inefficient
evacuations.
Soft or watery discharges, with violent sudden pressure tenesmus.
Diarrhœa ; stools yellow, or with colic, after taking cold.
The stool is watery and is discharged in a gush.
[75] Stools bloody.
Burning and cutting in the anus and rectum during and after stool.
Itching and creeping at the anus.
With the stools discharge of tape-worm.
Urinary Organs.
Frequent strong desire to urinate, with profuse discharge.
[80] Involuntary micturition at night
(wetting the bed).
Urine dark-yellow, smelling fetid or sour, depositing a mucous sediment.
Burning in the urethra during and after micturition.
Sexual Organs.
Men. Increased sexual desire.
(Priapism).
Continuous painful erections.
[85] Inflammation, swelling, and easy
excoriation of the prepuce and glans penis.
Heaviness and drawing in the testicles.
The testicles feel bruised.
Discharge of prostatic fluid after micturition and after a difficult
stool.
Respiratory Organs.
Dyspnœa and shortness of breathing, occasioned by tension of the chest.
[90] When breathing, tension in the
chest.
Stitches in the chest.
Hoarseness, with roughness of the chest, coryza, chilliness, and
scraping painful cough.
Violent dry cough, when entering a warm room, while coming from the cold
air.
Cough, with expectoration of salty, purulent, greenish pus.
[95] Short cough, with rattling in the
chest.
Chilliness in one (left) side of the thorax.
Violent, anxious palpitation of the heart, when ascending, and at night
when lying on the left side.
Painful cracking in the region of the heart.
Back.
Stitches in the small of the back, when sitting.
[100] Tingling (formication) in the
back.
Stiffness of the neck.
Cracking in the cervical vertebra when moving the head.
Swelling of the glands of the neck.
Goitre ; pain, pressing.
Extremities.
[105] Upper.
Rheumatic pain of the shoulder, arms and elbows, with weakness of the
arms.
Twitches and twitching sensation in the arms and fingers on taking hold
of any thing.
Cutting pain in the hands.
Trembling of the hands (morning).
Burning-itching and burning blisters on the fingers.
[110] Contraction of the fingers.
The skin of the hands is dry cracked and chapped.
Warts or herpes on the hands.
Swelling of the hands (in the afternoon).
Lower. Heaviness of the legs and feet,
with tension in them when sitting or walking.
[115] Tension in the bend of the
knee ; the muscles are shortened.
Cramps and tension in the calves, as if too short.
Blotches (as in lepra) on the legs.
The lower legs are swollen, inflamed, red and covered with ulcers.
Cutting pain and cramps in the feet.
[120] Swelling of the feet and soles of
the feet, with stinging in them when walking or stepping on them.
Easy dislocation and spraining of the ankle ; the ankle is so weak
that it gives way ; the foot bends under when stepping on it.
Cold feet.
Black, ulcerated pustule on the heel.
Ulcer on the heel, arising from spreading blisters.
[125] Smarting and soreness between the
toes.
Swelling, tearing and soreness in the (big) toes, preventing sleep.
Blisters on the points of the toes, as if scalded.
Boring, drawing and stinging in the corns.
Generalities.
Involuntary twitching in the muscles and limbs.
[130] Tingling, stinging in the
muscles.
Contractions of the muscles (hands, bend of the knee, neck).
The whole body is relaxed and limber.
Great emaciation, with pale face, dilated pupils and dark urine.
Great liability to take cold ; aversion to the open air.
[135] Great debility ; a short
walk fatigues much ; playing on the piano causes trembling.
Sleep.
Irresistible sleepiness during the day ; difficulty of going to
sleep late in the night and difficulty of waking in the morning.
Unrefreshing sleep, disturbed by vivid, voluptuous, disconnected dreams,
violent erections and seminal emissions.
During the night, great restlessness, ebullitions, palpitation of the
heart and nightmare.
During sleep, starts and twitches.
Fever.
[140] Pulse accelerated mostly at
night, with ebullitions.
Coldness and chilliness the whole day, more so in the forenoon, with
cold hands and feet with hot head, or the reverse, hot hands and feet
with cold cheeks.
Heat with great debility and sleep.
Heat with perspiration over the whole body.
Violent, anxious perspiration from every slight exertion.
[145] Burning hot perspiration on the
forehead when the bat presses him.
Night-sweats, with alternate dryness of the skin.
Perspiration while eating.
Cold, anxious perspiration, with trembling from the pains.
Skin.
Swelling and induration of the glands.
[150] Herpes, in yellow rings, or
suppurating.
Ulcers, with swelling and inflammatory redness of the affected parts.
Formication under the skin.
Skin, dry, rough and chapped.
Red, hard blotches.
[155] Warts painful to the touch.
Cutting pain, burning and stinging in wounded parts.
Conditions.
Most symptoms appear while sitting, and go off on motion, pressing and
rubbing.
Aggravation ; in the
forenoon ; during a thunder-storm ; after the slightest
exertion ; in the rays of the sun (headache) ; before
eating ; from talking.
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