Natrum Carbonicum

Marked degree of gaiety

Joyous talkativeness

Inclination to sing

Sadness and discouragement, with tears, and inquietude respecting the future

Inquietude, with fits of anguish, esp. during a storm, and while engaged in intellectual labour

Mind much agitated, every event (music) causes trembling

Timidity

Estrangement from individuals and from society

Hypochondriacal humour and disgust of life

Dejection

Disposition to take alarm

Irritable

Spite and malevolence

Disposition to be angry, and violent fits of passion

Difficulty in conceiving and combining ideas when reading or listening

Makes mistakes in writing

Difficulty of comprehension, which is unnatural to him when in health; imbecility, or weakness of intellect

Unfitness for intellectual labour and meditation, which fatigue the head

Infirmity of purpose.

Dulness and confusion of the head

Confusion of head, esp. in a room, and during repose

Vertigo, esp. after drinking wine, and after intellectual labour

Headache, in the sun, or on turning head quickly

Sensation of pressive fulness in head, as if forehead were going to burst

Pressive headache, with nausea, risings, and cloudiness of eyes

Eructations and dimness of sight, in evening;

< in room

Cramp-like tearing in forehead, extending to eyes and point of nose

Headache, with shootings, sometimes across eyes (and stitches out of eyes)

Shocks across head

Pulsative headache in vertex, every morning

Congestion and heat in head

Tearing in exterior of sinciput, every day at a certain hour

Drawing and tension in r. side of occiput as if head would be drawn back

Profuse falling out of hair

Boil on occiput

Both occipital protuberances sore to touch.

Burning in eyes, esp. when reading and writing

Stitches in eyes, from within outwards

Lancinations across eyes

Inflammation of eyes and lids, with photophobia

Heaviness of upper lids

Inflammatory swelling of r. upper lid

Swelling of lids

Dim eyes; has to wipe them constantly

Ulcers on cornea

Abscess in lachrymal gland

Frequent closing of lids, and difficulty in opening them

Confused sight, with black dancing specks, or bright sparkling before eyes

Dazzling flashing before eyes on awaking

Inability to read small print, as in presbyopia

Down before eyes

Pupils dilated.

Shootings in ears

Otalgia, with sharp, piercing stitches in ears

Great sensibility to noise

Sensation of deafness, as from stoppage of ears

Hardness of hearing

Tinkling, music, buzzing, bursting of a bubble, roaring, and throbbing in ears

Dryness and heat.—[Old Otorrhoea and deafness that has come from typhoid fever

Deafness with ozaena, thick feeling in throat and amenorrhoea in light-haired girls

Deafness with acne punctata

Deafness with recurring earache—(cases cured by Cooper).]

Red nose with white pimples on it

Great sensitiveness of nose

Desquamation of bridge and point of nose; painful when touched

Ulceration in bottom of nostrils

Obstruction of nose, sometimes with discharge of hard and fetid pieces of mucus

Hard, fetid pieces from one nostril

Coryza every second day

Coryza, fluent; violent sneezing

Intermittent coryza, with burning in eyes

Much nasal mucus passes through mouth

Continued coryza and cough, excited by a chill and the least current of air, disappearing only after perspiration

Thick green, or yellow, mucus in nose

Bleeding of nose

Troubles of external nose, may attain a morbid size; puffiness of nose.

Heat of face

Bloatedness of face

Cheeks red and swollen

Redness and burning heat, or great paleness in face, with livid circle under eyes, swollen eyelids

Face alternately pale and red

Ephelis in face

Itching and humid eruption in nose and mouth

Yellow spots on forehead and upper lip

Yellowish colour of face

Swelling of lips

Swelling of upper lip

Burning rhagades in lower lip

Eruptions, tetters, and ulcers round mouth and lips

Engorgement of submaxillary glands.

Toothache, with digging, boring pain, esp. after and during a meal, and particularly after eating things sweetened with sugar or fruits

Pressive toothache at night, with swelling of lower lip and gums

Excessive sensitiveness of lower teeth.

Constant dryness of mouth and lips

Vesicles and smooth ulcers, with burning, in the mouth

Burning about tip of tongue, as if it were cracked

Pimples on tip of tongue

Tensive blisters on r. margin of tongue

Papular eruption beneath tongue, painful to touch

Pustule near fraenum

Ulcer on fraenum

Tongue not facile, speech difficult

Lisping

Stammering, from (dry tongue and) heaviness of tongue.

Roughness, scraping, and dryness of throat and palate

Throat and oesophagus feel rough, scraped, and dry

Spasmodic contraction of oesophagus and stomach

Accumulation of mucus in throat

Violent hawking up of thick mucus which constantly collects again

Much nasal mucus passes through the posterior nares

Swelling of submaxillary glands.

Bitter taste in mouth

The food tastes bitter

Acid taste in mouth, while tongue is loaded with a thick coating

Incessant thirst; great desire for cold water a few hours after dinner

Violent thirst, and uneasiness after drinking anything cold

Extreme, voracious hunger, esp. in morning, arising out of a sensation of faintness and emptiness

Empty eructations (after eating)

Gluttony

Repugnance to milk and diarrhoea after partaking of it

Great weakness of digestion, with peevishness and hypochondriacal humour, after a meal, or the least departure from regimen

Distension, heaviness, and aching in stomach and epigastrium after a meal.

Stomach weak, easily disordered

Frequent risings during and after a meal

Waterbrash

Heartburn after fat food

Violent retching in morning, without actual vomiting

Painful eructations

Sensation of qualmishness in stomach, and continued nausea

Frequent hiccough, esp. after a meal

Pyrosis and scraping in throat, esp. after partaking of fat food

Pressure in stomach, esp. after a meal

Painful sensibility of region of stomach and epigastrium, on being touched and while speaking

Drawing, pressive, and incisive pains in stomach

Contractive cramps in stomach

Colic, with constriction around stomach

Sensation of emptiness in stomach, with nausea

Gnawing and pressure with gone feeling 10 or 11 a.m., > from eating

Distension of stomach and epigastrium.

Pains in hypochondria

Very weak digestion; after eating, hypochondriacal humour

Lancinations in the l. hypochondrium, sometimes after drinking anything cold

Lancinations in hepatic region (chronic inflammation of liver)

Violent stitches in hepatic and splenic regions

Pain in abdomen, after waking in morning

Abdomen (hard) enlarged and distended

Nocturnal pains in abdomen, with tension in upper part of abdomen, and diarrhoea

Colic, with retraction of navel, and hardness of integuments of abdomen

Swellings on abdomen, as if intestines distended by wind here and there

Shootings and diggings in abdomen

Shootings and drawings in sides of abdomen

Accumulation, incarceration, and painful movements of flatus in abdomen

Abundant expulsion of flatus of a sour or fetid smell

Swelling of glands of groin and axilla; generally painful.

Urgent want to evacuate, without result, or followed by a scanty and insufficient evacuation

Hard and difficult evacuation

Soft or liquid faeces, with strong and very urgent want to go to stool, and tenesmus ani

Loose, yellow evacuations

Diarrhoea which is marked by a sudden and obligatory call to stool, which escapes with great haste, noise, and rushing, often producing considerable commotion in abdomen; discharge almost involuntary; often a yellow substance like the pulp of an orange in the discharge, which may sometimes be observed in women at change of life

Diarrhoea, with cuttings, after a chill, or after partaking of milk

The stool is watery and is discharged in a gush

Sanguineous evacuations

Stool spotted with blood

Stool like sheep's dung, with great straining; balls of mucus like peas

Discharge of taenia during evacuation

Burning and incisive pains in anus and rectum during and after stool

Itching and tingling in anus

Lancinations in perinaeum.

Frequent and urgent want to urinate, day and night, with scanty, or excessive, discharge

Involuntary micturition at night

Wetting the bed

Urine of a bright (or dark) yellow colour, of a sourish smell, or fetid and turbid, with mucous sediment

Mucus in urine

Urine smells like horse urine

Burning in urethra during and after emission of urine

Jerks, acute pullings, and smarting in urethra

Deep-coloured urine.

Pain, as from a bruise, in testes

Heaviness and pressive drawings in testes

Excoriation of scrotum

Soreness between scrotum and thighs

Secretion behind glans, as in gonorrhoea balani

Inflammation, swelling, and tendency to excoriation, of glans and prepuce

Increased sexual desire, almost like priapism, with continued and painful pollutions and erections

Incomplete coition

Emissions without erections

Glans penis easily becomes sore

Discharge of prostatic fluid when urinating, and during a difficult evacuation

Great tendency to perspire after coition.

Pressure in hypogastrium as if everything were bearing down towards genital parts, and were about to protrude (and menses would come on)

Catamenia too early, with headache, sacral and abdominal pains

Deficient menstruation in adults

Metrorrhagia

Deformity of cervix uteri

Excoriation at vulva, between thighs

Discharge of mucus from vagina, after coition (causing sterility)

Profuse, thick, and yellowish, or fetid leucorrhoea, sometimes preceded by cuttings (ceasing after urination)

Motion as from foetus in uterus.—(Conception appears to be promoted by the action of Nat c.)

Expels moles, prevents false conception

Labour pains weak or accompanied by anguish and sweat, with desire to be rubbed.

Short cough, with rattling in chest

Hoarseness and roughness in chest, with coryza, febrile shivering, and scraping and painful cough

Continual catarrh, with coryza and cough, excited by least current of air or slightest chill, and disappearing only when perspiration supervenes

Cough excited by tickling in throat

Violent and dry cough on passing from cold to hot temperature

Cough, with expectoration which has a salt taste, or which consists of greenish and fetid pus

Expectoration of small substances, with rattling of mucus in chest

Cough, with expectoration of blood.

Shortness of breath, sometimes with difficult respiration

Dyspnoea

Dyspnoea and shortness of breathing, occasioned by tension of chest

Tension in chest during inspiration

Pressure on chest

Shootings in chest and sides of chest

Continual coldness in l. side.

Rigidity of the nape

Cracking of the cervical vertebrae when moving head

Swelling in glands of neck

Hard swelling of thyroid gland

Goître; pain, pressing.—(Goître decreased in size.)

Boring pain in tip of l. scapula; extends to point of ensiform cartilage

Pain, as from excoriation, in sacrum

Lancinations in sacrum when seated

Backache; violent pain in small of back after walking

Drawings and cramp-like tension in back and nape of neck

Tingling in back.

Aching in shoulders

Drawing and tearing (rheumatic) in shoulders, arms, and elbows, with lassitude in those parts

Heaviness, rigidity, and pains in arms, which take away the power to lift them

The r. arm and r. hand become numb and painful to move from pain in muscles

Jerking and thrilling sensation in arms, hands, and fingers, esp. on grasping an object

Drawing tension in forearms and hands

Warts on arms

Incisive pains in hands

Tearing and boring in metacarpal bones, esp. in evening and morning in bed

Burning in joints of hands in evening

Swelling of hands (in afternoon)

Trembling of hands (morning).—(Hands become numb, painful, and prone to ulcerate—R.

T.

C.)

Skin of hands dry, rough, and cracked

Warts (or herpes) on the back of hands

Red spots and tetters on hands

Jerking in joints of fingers

Distortion (contraction) of fingers

Burning, itching, and burning blisters on fingers, as if stung by nettles.

Tension in bend of knee; the muscles are shortened

Hollow of knees painful on motion

Great heaviness in legs and feet, with stiffness when seated and when walking

Jerking in thighs

Tettery eruption on the buttocks

Contraction of tendons of ham

Tetters on ham

Pressive and cramp-like drawing in legs

Cramp and pulling in calves of legs, as if too short

Legs swollen, red, inflamed, and covered with ulcers

Blotches (as in lepra) on legs

Incisive pains and cramps in feet

Burning in joints of foot in evening

Swelling of feet, or soles of the feet, with shootings, when planting foot on the ground

Tendency to dislocate and sprain joint of foot

The ankle is so weak that it gives way; the foot bends under when stepping on it

Coldness of feet

Chronic ulcers in heel, proceeding from gnawing vesicles

Black, ulcerated pustule on heel

Throbbing and crawling in both heels

Cracks and excoriation between toes

Swelling of (big) toes, with tearing, and pain as from excoriation, which banishes sleep

Blisters on extremity of the toes, as from a burn

Boring, drawing, and shooting in corns.

Ulcers, with swelling and inflammatory redness of affected parts

Skin dry, rough, and chapped

Red, hard blotches

Dryness of skin, with profuse sweat from least exercise or slightest labour

Itching over whole body, as from fleas

Tingling under the skin

Scabies

Tettery eruption

Herpes: iris; circinatus

The tetters spread and suppurate

Yellow rings, like remains of tettery spots

Leprous tubercles

Warts; painful to touch

Shootings, incisive pains, and burning in injured parts

Itch-like eruption in lower part of abdomen.

Irresistible disposition to sleep, with much yawning, by day, with deferred sleep in evening, and difficulty to wake in morning

Uneasy sleep, full of vivid dreams, sometimes confused and lascivious, with violent erections and pollutions

Dreams; pleasant; amorous

Anxious dreams, which, after waking, seem to be true

Frightful dreams of deaths, floods, quarrels, robbers, devils, thieves, &c

Dreams about travelling

At night, great uneasiness in body, ebullition of blood, palpitation of heart, and nightmare, toothache, colic, and vertigo with anguish

Jerking and shocks during sleep

Waking too early.

Pulse accelerated mostly at night, with ebullitions

Febrile shuddering, with cold hands and hot cheeks, or vice versâ, but always without thirst.—(Shivering fits between 3 and 4 a.m. induced by overfatigue and anxiety—R.

T.

C.)

Coldness of hands and feet

Coldness and chilliness the whole day, more so in 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 whole body

Burning hot perspiration on forehead when the hat presses him

Perspiration while eating

Burning in feet, esp. soles, on walking

Sweats in morning

Nocturnal sweat, often alternating with dryness of skin

Cold and constant sweat, as from anguish, with trembling from the pains

Profuse sweat from the least physical exertion.