Natrum Carbonicum

► Inability to think, or to perform any mental labor ; the head feels stupefied if he tries to exert himself. ► Difficulty in grasping and connecting thoughts, when reading or listening. ► Aversion to man and society. ► Sadness : depression of spirits ; hypochondriacal mood. ► Irritable, excitable mood. ► Avarice. ► Maliciousness. ► Restlessness with attacks of anxiety, especially during a thunder storm. ► Anxiety, trembling and sweat during the pains. ► In the evening, restlessness of body, unless he exerts himself mentally. ► Affected by playing on piano for short time with painful anxiety in chest, trembling of body and weariness ; must lie down.

► Vertigo : from drinking wine, or from mental exertion. ► Dulness of the head when at rest or when in the sun.

► Head feels too large. ► Tension and obstruction in head as if forehead would burst. ► Frontal headache when turning the head rapidly. ► Shooting pain in left frontal eminence, to left lower occiput. ► Stitches in the head and out of the eyes. ► Pulsating headache in the vertex every morning. ► Tearing pain in forehead, returning at certain hours of day. ► Stupefying and pressing headache in forehead, with nausea, eruptions, and dimness of sight, in evening ; worse in room. ► Headache from the sun.

► Pains on the head at certain hours of the day.

► Black spots before the eyes when writing. ► Dazzling flashes before the eyes, on awaking. ► Sensation as of feathers before the eyes. ► Dim eyes ; has to wipe them constantly. ► Cannot read small print. ► Stitches in the eyes from within outward. ► Ulcers on cornea. ► Dermoid swelling on conjunctiva. ► Inflammation of eyelids, with photophobia. ► Heaviness of the upper eyelids.

► Sensitive to noise. ► Hard hearing, as if the ears were closed up. ► Otalgia, with sharp, piercing stitches in ears.

► Loss of smell and taste, with coryza. ► Coryza fluent ; violent sneezing ; worse at night, when nose is obstructed ; worse from least draught of air, or any change of clothing ; worse on alternate days ; better after sweat. ► Thick, yellow, or green discharge ; nose stopped at night. ► Hard fetid clots, from one nostril ; nostrils ulcerated, high up. ► Humid herpetic eruptions and ulcers on nose, around mouth and on lips. ► Peeling off of dorsum and tip of the nose, painful when touched. ► Red nose, with white pimples on it.

► Pale face, with blue rings around the eyes, swollen eyelids. ► Burning heat and redness of face, cheeks swollen. ► Bloated face. ► Yellow blotches on forehead and upper lip. ► Freckles in face.

► Lips swollen and tettery ; burning rhagades on lower lip.

► Digging, boring toothache, especially during or after eating sweetmeats or fruit. ► Great sensitiveness of the lower teeth. ► Nightly pressing toothache, with swelling of lower lips and of gums. ► Toothache lessened by smoking.

► Bitter or metallic taste in mouth. ► Dry tongue and dislike to talk. ► Stuttering on account of heaviness of the tongue. ► Burning about tip of tongue, as if it were cracked.

► Saliva generally increased. ► Flat ulcers and blisters inside of mouth, burning and painful when touched. ► Slight redness of mucous membrane of mouth and fauces, with rawness and scraping ; desire to hawk and hem ; mucus collects at night, and is hawked up in morning. ► Dry mouth and throat, inclination to drink.

► Throat and oesophagus feel rough, scraped and dry. ► Accumulation of mucus in throat, and in posterior nares. ► Throat painful when swallowing and gaping.

► Incessant thirst : great desire for cold water a few hours after dinner. ► Increased and ravenous hunger in forenoon, from sensation of emptiness in stomach. ► Aversion to milk, and diarrhoea from it.

► Continuous qualmishness and nausea. ► Vomiting of bile, bitter.

► Gnawing and pressure in stomach, better from eating. ► Pit of stomach sensitive to touch and when talking.

► Stitches in left hypochondrium ; worse after drinking very cold water. ► Stitches in hepatic and splenic regions (chronic hepatic inflammation).

► Colic, with constriction around stomach ; or, contraction of navel and hardness of integuments of abdomen. ► Hard, bloated, swollen abdomen. ► Accumulation of flatus ; loud rumbling ; swellings here and there as from incarcerated wind. ► Flatus changing place and causing pain.

► Passes much sour-smelling or fetid flatus ; feces escape. ► Yellow stools : soft or watery, with violent, sudden urging and tenesmus ; watery, yellow, discharged with a gush ; worse from milk or after eating, and from taking cold ; spotted with blood. ► Frequent ineffectual urging to stool alternately with liquid stools ; weak digestion. ► Burning and cutting in anus and rectum during and after stool ; sexual excitement ; costive. ► Tape-warm with stool ; itching creeping in anus.

► Frequent, urgent, with scanty or profuse discharge. ► Urine involuntary at night. ► Urine dark yellow, fetid, sour or like horse's urine ; deposits a mucous sediment. ► Burning in urethra during and after micturition.

► Increased sexual desire (priapism). ► Inflammation, swelling and easy excoriation of prepuce and glans penis. ► Heaviness and drawing in testicles. ► The testicles feel bruised. ► Prostatorrhoea after urinating and after difficult stool.

► Pressure in hypogastrium as if everything would come out ; also with indurated cervix uteri and ill-shaped os. ► Menses too early and long-lasting ; preceded by drawing in nape of neck and headache : accompanied by tearing headache, distended abdomen in morning, relieved by diarrhoea ; nervous, cannot bear music ; worse in a thunderstorm. ► Leucorrhoea thick, yellow, putrid, ceasing after urinating.

► Expels moles, prevents false conception. ► Labor-pains weak or accompanied with anguish and sweat, with desire to be rubbed.

► Hoarseness, with roughness of the chest, coryza, chilliness and scraping, painful cough.

► Dyspnoea and shortness of breathing, from tension of the chest.

► Violent, dry cough, worse when entering a warm room ; short, with rattling on chest ; with rumbling, incarcerated flatus ; with salty, purulent, greenish sputum.

► Stitches in the chest. ► Burning, soreness in right chest ; loose cough but no sputum ; coldness between scapulae.

► Painful cracking in region of heart. ► Violent, anxious palpitation of heart when ascending, and at night when lying on left side. ► Burning and distress along the spine with palpitation ; thinks he has heart disease. ► Pulse excited at night with ebullitions.

► Chilliness in one (left) side of thorax.

► Cervical glands swollen ; also goitre with pressing. ► Stiffness of the neck. ► Cracking in cervical vertebrae when moving head. ► Stitches in small of back while sitting. ► Tingling (formication) in back.

► Rheumatic pain on shoulder, arms and elbows, with weakness of arms. ► Twitches and twitching sensation in arms and fingers on taking hold of anything. ► Cutting pain in hands. ► Trembling of hands, morning. ► Contraction of fingers. ► Swelling of hands in afternoon. ► Warts painful to touch. ► Tetter on dorsa of hands ; skin dry and chapped.

► Tearing and bruised pain in right hip. θ Dysmenorrhoea. ► Heaviness of legs and feet with tension in them when sitting or walking. ► Tension in bend of knee ; the muscles are shortened. ► Cramp of the calves. ► Blotches (as in lepra) on the legs. ► The lower legs are swollen, inflamed, red and covered with ulcers. ► Cutting pain and cramp in feet. ► Swelling of feet and soles of feet, with stinging in them when walking or stepping on them. ► Easy dislocation and spraining of ankle ; the ankle is so weak that it gives way ; foot bends under when stepping on it. ► Black ulcerated pustule on the heel. ► Ulcer on the heel, arising from spreading blisters. ► Smarting and soreness between the toes. ► Swelling, tearing and soreness in (big) toes, preventing sleep. ► Blisters on the points of the toes, as if scalded. ► Boring, drawing and stinging in the corns. ► Cold feet.

► Great debility from an exertion. ► Twitching in the muscles, and limbs. ► Contractions of muscles, hands, bends of knees, neck, etc.

► Sleepiness during the day. ► Falls asleep late at night. ► Awakes too early in the morning. ► During sleep : starts, twitches ; vivid dreams, violent erections and sexual excitement ; restless, with ebullitions, palpitation and nightmare. ► Anxious, confused dreams.

► Cold and chilly all day, worse in forenoon ; hands and feet cold, head hot, or hands and feet hot, with cold cheeks. ► Slight evening chilliness, dulness of head ; then heat and sleep. ► Heat, with general sweat. ► Flushes of heat from the nose down the back ; irritability ; averse to uncovering. ► Sweat profuse from every exertion ; anxiety. ► Burning sweat on the forehead where the hat presses. ► Night-sweat, alternating with dry skin. ► Morning sweat. ► Cold, anxious sweat.

► Worse during full moon. ► Returning at certain hours : 3, 4. Alternate days : 7.

► Emaciation, with pale face, dilated pupils ; dark urine. ► Swelling and induration of the gland.

► Generally better from touch. ► Cutting pain, burning and stinging in wounded parts. ► Touch : 7, 12, 17, 32. Taking hold of anything : 32.

► Ulcers, with swelling and inflammatory redness of affected parts. ► Herpes, with yellow rings, or suppurating. ► Formication under the skin. ► Itching all over as from fleas. ► Warts ulcerate. ► Skin dry, tough and chapped.

► Natr. Carb. follows Sepia well. ► Natr. Carb. antidotes Cinchon. ► Antidotes to Natr. Carb. : Camphor., Spir. nitr. dulc. ► Soda Sulphite is preferable for yeast-like vomiting, when the tongue is pallid, dirty and broad.