Natrum Sulfuricum

► Inability to think. ► Cheerfulness, happy mood ; after stool. ► Depressed ; tearful ; music makes her sad. ► Satiety of life ; must use all self-control to prevent shooting himself. ► Irritable, worse mornings.

► Vertigo after dinner ; then heat from body toward head, becoming more violent until sweat breaks out on forehead. ► Muddled feeling, dulness.

► Pressure in forehead, particularly after meals ; as if forehead would burst. ► Pressure in forehead and coronal region after sunset, with heat on top of head ; relieved by pressure of hand ; during quiet and while lying down ; worse when thinking. ► Heaviness in the head. ► Hot feeling on top of head. ► Irritation of brain after lesions of the head. ► Headache while reading, makes him feel hot, and sweat. ► Brain feels loose when stooping, as if it fell toward left temple. ► Jerk in head, throwing it toward the right.

► Creeping in scalp of vertex. ► Scalp sensitive ; hair is painful on combing it.

► Sight dim ; eyes weak ; watering. ► Sensitiveness of eyes to light, with headache. ► Large, blisters-like granulations, with burning tears. ► Burning in right eye, burning lachrymation, dim sight ; worse near the fire ; also morning and evening ; burning of edges of lids. ► Lids heavy, as if leaden, pressing in eyes while reading in evening. ► Itches on edges of lids in the morning.

► Ringing in ears, as of bells. ► Piercing pain in right ear inward ; sharp, lightning-like stitches in the ear ; worse going from cold air into warm room, worse in damp weather, living on wet ground, etc. ► Earache, as if something were forcing its way out. ► Heat in right ear, evening.

► Nosebleed during menses, stops and returns often. ► Nose stopped up ; sneezing and fluent coryza. ► Ozaena syphilitica beginning with ulcers in fauces ; no fetor. ► Itching of wings of nose, inducing rubbing.

► Pale, wan. ► Itching of face.

► Burning pain in corner of mouth at night ; lips burns as from pepper. ► Upper lips dry, skin peels off. ► Vesicles on the lips. ► Pimple on chin, burns when touched.

► Throbbing toothache, with great restlessness ; worse from warm, intolerable to hot drink. ► Toothache lessened by cool air, and holding cold water in mouth. ► Gums burns like fire.

► Taste unpleasant, slimy, and tongue coated with mucus. ► No taste, mornings ; mouth feels rough, numb. ► Blisters, with burning pain, on tip of tongue. ► Tongue red.

► Roof of mouth sore to touch. ► Burning in mouth, as from pepper ; mouth dry, thirst, gums red. ► Much saliva after meals.

► Palate burns as if skin was broken, during menses. ► Blisters on palate ; better from cold things. ► Dryness of throat, no thirst. ► Throat sore, feeling of contraction when swallowing saliva ; soreness is worse by talking or when swallowing solids. ► Tonsils and uvula inflamed and swollen ; ulcers on tonsils. ► Tearing down the throat. ► Mucus in throat, at night ; hawks salt mucus in morning.

► Loss of appetite and great thirst. ► Disgust for bread, of which she was formerly fond. ► Great desire for ice, or ice-cold water. ► Thirst in the evening.

► Hiccough in evening ; after eating bread butter. ► Constant rising of sour water. ► Nausea, vomiting first a sour, then a bitter fluid. ► Vomiting, with colic.

► Squeamishness in stomach before meals. ► Boring in stomach as if it would be perforated ; or, burning, pinching in the morning after rising ; better after breakfast. ► Beating pain in stomach, with slight nausea. ► Full feeling in stomach and into chest, difficult breathing, evening in bed.

► Cannot bear tight clothing about waist. ► Stitches in region of liver and sensitiveness when walking in open air. ► Region of liver sensitive to touch, stepping, deep breathing or sudden jar ; aching, piercing pain. ► Must lie on back, pain when twisting either way. ► Pain in left hypochondriac region or above, on last ribs, also with cough and purulent sputum. ► Stitches in left hypochondrium while walking in open air.

► Pain of a dead, heavy character going through from abdomen to back. ► Burning in abdomen ; bruised pain in bowels ; griping relieved by kneading the abdomen. ► Pinching in bowels, with pain in forehead off and on. ► Abdominal flatulency ; much rolling and rumbling ; incarcerated, especially on right side ; collects at night, causing a great pain. ► Inflammation at right groin ; typhlitis. ► Feeling of fulness. ► Piercing pain in right flank, with nausea. ► Pain as if distended.

► Stool : scanty, slimy, light red or bloody, forcibly and suddenly expelled ; half liquid, often painless, occasionally involuntarily while passing flatus, or urine ; or, during sleep ; yellow, fluid, soon after rising in the morning ; in a gush ; watery, with much flatus ; flatulent colic, wind incarcerated, right side. ► Diarrhoea worse in wet weather ; in morning ; after farinaceous food ; also in cold evening air. ► Hard, knotty stools, streaked with blood, accompanied and preceded by smarting in the anus ; often with scanty menses. ► Difficult expulsion of soft stool. ► Emission of fetid flatus in large quantities. ► Constant uneasiness in bowels and urging to stool. ► Knotty, wart-like eruption on the anus and between the thighs ; sycosis.

► Piercing in both groins, with urging to urinate ; afternoon while walking out-doors. ► Pinching around navel while sitting, with urging to urinate, pain going into the groin. ► Urine burns when passing ; it passes in small quantity. ► Sediment yellow-red ; in morning, yellow-white.

► Desire excited in evening ; also morning with erections. ► Gonorrhoea ; sycosis. ► Itching of genitals.

► Inflamed, swollen and covered with vesicles of the size of lentils, filled with purulent matter. ► Scanty menses ; knotty stools. ► Menses too late, blood acrid, making thighs sore ; lumps of coagulated blood ; flows freely when walking. ► Before menses : nosebleed.

► Six weeks after confinement, violent fever.

► Hoarseness, with fluor albus.

► Short breath when walking, gradually relieved by rest. ► Great dyspnoea, desire to take deep breath during damp, cloudy weather. ► After sunset, oppressed feeling in chest and feeling of a ball in throat, with tendency to cry ; like hysteria. ► Asthma with young people from a general bronchial catarrh ; afterwards with every change to damp weather.

► Frequent, with some sputum ; stitch in left side of chest, with shortness of breath if coughing while standing ; dry with soreness in chest, rough feeling in throat, particularly at night ; had to sit up and hold chest with both hands ; loose, from tickling in throat ; morning ; with purulent sputum and pain about last.

► Stitching pain running up from abdomen to left side of chest. ► Sycotic pneumonia, inexpressible agony ; slowly coagulating blood. ► Piercing pain in left chest.

► Swelling of the ribs, near the sternum. ► Spasmodic motion of muscles, worse left side. ► Sycotic exanthema every Spring.

► Throat and neck swollen, knotty lumps, distressing pressure on windpipe. ► Soreness up and down spine and neck. ► Piercing as from knives, between scapulae, while sitting in the evening ; also in middle of sacrum. ► Bruised pain in small of back. ► Violent suppurative pain in small of back at night, so that she can only lie on her right side ; better in morning after getting up. ► Itching on back when undressing. ► Pain in sacrum, cannot lie on either side.

► Swelling and suppuration of axillary glands. ► Piercing in left axilla, on humerus, back of hand, palm of right hand, fingers under the nails. ► Tingling in arms and hands ; they feel as if paralyzed. ► Furuncles on right forearm. ► No strength in hands ; flexors pain when grasping anything. ► Hands tremble on awaking, later when writing. ► Panaritium, especially if pain is better out-of-doors ; patient pale, sickly, weary and dull head, worse mornings ; caused by living in damp regions, damp walls, etc.

► Piercing pain in left hip, belly and small of back only during rest. ► Pain on right hip-joint ; worse from stooping, rising from a seat, on moving in bed. ► Suddenly, when walking, unbearable stitch in left hip, cannot walk on. ► Left hip-joint pains as after lying a bad position ; difficult to sit down or get up ; awakes him at night ; can bear any one position only for a short time. ► Stabbing in left hip (after a fall). ► Pain from hip to knee. ► Ulcers on outer part of thigh. ► Legs hot, burn to knees, evening and next morning. ► Piercing in soles, in heels. ► Itching on or between toes after undressing. ► Oedema of feet.

► Rest : 3, 26, 33.

► Prostration ; tired, weary, especially knees. ► Exhaustion, with the colic. ► Chorea, with retarded stools, tetanus of left side ; trembling of right, gesticulating convulsively.

► Drowsiness in forenoon, especially when reading or writing. ► Soon after falling asleep, starting as in a fright. ► Restless, sleepless. ► Heavy anxious dreams ; constant waking with unpleasant, fantastic dreams. ► He may lie down earlier or later, after four of five hours he gets awake with an attack of asthma.

► Internal coldness, yawning and stretching. ► Chills : with icy-coldness and goose-flesh, 4 to 8 P.M., during catamenia, towards evening without thirst ; evening in bed, could not get warm all night ; up the back, with chattering of teeth and shaking, without external coldness. ► Chilly in bed and shaking chills out of it, thirst increased, pulse accelerated. ► Hot feeling on top of head. ► Sudden flashes toward evening. ► Increased warmth of body and restlessness. ► Violent fever after confinement. ► Sweat : without thirst ; at night ; in face, on scrotum.

► Attacks come on suddenly. ► Every spring : 30.

► Sore across the bowels, sides and back.

► Cracking of joints ; knees stiff ; pain in bones ; sycosis.

► Eczema moist and oozing profusely ; secretion more watery than viscid. ► Itching while undressing. ► Blisters here and there. ► Jaundice. ► Sycosis. ► Leukaemia. ► Wart-like, raised red lump all over the body. ► Between scrotum and right thigh, small scabs, itching relieved by scratching ; also on forehead, scalp, neck, chest ; sycosis.

► Old women, hereditarily inclined to looseness of bowels. ► Sycosis. ► Hydrogenoid constitution.