Natrum-ars
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 1999 Jul / Aug VOL VIII NO 4.
Dr P I Tarkas
Dr Ajit Kulkarni
' Nat-ars

Make-Up: Susceptible to cold, taking cold easily, from air pollution, oversensitive externally as well as internally. Easily fatigued, feels tired and desires rest. Yet so nervous that one needs great effort to keep still. Weak; nervous tremulous (severe than in Ars.) Marked emaciation, after previous embonpoint. Adolescence troubles (Thyr) Chilly, must stay well covered, hugs fire.
Subacute or chronic catarrhal conditions in: eyes, nose, pharynx, alimentary tract, bladder, respiratory tract. Irritation, congestion, inflammation (catarrhal), with blood from M.M.
Typifies a respiratory influenza.
Thickening: Nasal M.M. uvula, tonsils, pharynx; corns.
Drops: oedema, about eyes esp. above (Kali-c), face, throat, limbs, leg (after heavy food), feet.
Malignancy, sarcoidosis of lungs (Beryl)
Mind: Combines the features of Natrum element and Ars.
Anger, < contradiction; loquacious: conscientious. A kill joy Note these D's and I's

Anxious. Nervous. Restless. Easily frightened. Memory weak. Fear of impending evil or disease. Confused feeling; with headache.

Select Particulars
Head: Vertigo, levitating, on turning head suddenly. Headache, catarrhal, periodical; esp. frontal supraorbital < night, noise, warmth, pressure, motion, smoking. Congestive fullness in Numbness. Emptiness Dullness.
Alopecia with accrual to legs and upper lip. Lady (Thyr. Med.)

Eyes: Dry, painful burning; soon tired, must keep closed; > warm appln. Conjunctivitis; with redness and small rugae over it. Granular lids with morning agglutination. Smarting (as from smoke) Lachrymation; in open air. While reading. Stiffness in Photophobia. Avoids opening them fully.
Heaviness of lids.
Vision weak; objects blur; dim; foggy.

Ears: Hearing acute for noises; or dull hearing. Tinnitus, humming etc, Rushing, synchronous with pulse (Pul)

Nose: Stuffy colds < night, morning, and open air. Or alternately dry and flowing. Rhino-sinusitis; pressing pain over root of nose, discharge mostly P.N. watery or thick yellowish, tough, bloody crusts. Purulent offensive; has to hawk up, Violent sneezing. Worse cold, dust, smoke. Hay fever. Influenza (Lob-s.) Nasal catarrhs with supraorbital pain, dry (and burning) eyes and throat and anosmia.

Face: Flushed, hot, red or purplish, puffy (morning). Commissurs cracked, indurated, ulcerated (as from a cold). Herpes on lips. Stiff jaw. Mouth: Teeth sensitive, loose. Gums tender, bleed Salivation: also dry burnt feeling not > drinking. Aphthae. Ulcer

Tongue: deep red, white (black). Yellow; furred; cracked (front); corrugated; flabby; large (feels).
Throat: Dry (or stiff), on inspiring or swallowing, on taking cold, < morning. Empty swallowing only pains. Glossy, red. All parts (purplish) red. Thickened, oedematous; (uvula baggy). Burning-constricting in oesophagus. Globus. Clavus (pin-like).
Sore throat: at dissecting room; painless. Diphtheria; membrane gray, while or purple (Naj); neck and body cold, clammy; precordial oppression (Naj); pulse weak, intermittent, irregular.

Stomach: Bulimia; or anorexia. Thirst like Ars. Averse to (cooked) food, fat, milk, and even odor of food. Desires sweets, mucilaginous food, salty, spicy. Worse from: butter, cold food or drink (nausea), fruits, fats, milk, pork, tobacco, wine, vinegar. Warm drink. Vomiting: (and eructations) sour; bloody; of gastric cancer; in subacute gastritis, with cutting pains after eating (or tenderness). Sinking sensation. Hiccough.

Abdomen: Nervous (uneasy) feeling in Flatulence: < after stool; pain, in transverse colon; Pouparts ligaments, groins, > Deflation, stool, then bruised pain in I. Testes. Inflammation of spleen, liver (stitching pains).

Rectum: Constipation alternating with diarrhea D: after milk nightly; after taking cold; painless, or colic before, tenesmus during and colic > but burning after stool; with flatulence.

Urinary: Nephralgia, with frequent urine; with digestive complaints. Sore bladder while urinating.

Urine: albuminous phosphates; epithelial scales; fat globules casts.

Female: Menses scanty but protracted Leucorrhea copious thick, offensive, yellow.

Respiratory: Dyspnea from (coal) dust, smoke even air inspired (miner's asthma); with oppression along sternum, about epigastrium or behind sternum; chest feels clogged full or stuffed and oppressed; all > urination.
Roughness in bronchi; causes hemming, with (dry) racking cough (<mornings), difficult sputum. Loose night cough (after supper); expectoration grayish, (slate-colored), or bluish black, offensive purulent. Bronchitis; in growing children. Pleuritic pains. Typical TB with racking cough and greenish expectoration; hemoptysis; all above symptoms, hectic, night sweats; last stage: cavernous respiration, rapid pulse, great dyspnoea and emaciation with reduced sweats. Advanced "greenish" stage of TB.

Heart: Polyneuritis of chest (simulating a heart attack) with: anxiety, palpitations, pains, irregular pulse, precordial oppression, nervousness, tachypnoea, sore and stiff back, numb arms, hot hands, trembling and chill; after stress and strain. Oppression, on least exertion. Anxious palpitation; < ascending, exertion, hurrying.

Back: Sore and stiff; coldness; neck; between scapulae; < inspiration; > bending forward, Lumbago; < stooping, sitting walking; > motion, walking.

Locomotor: Coldness of hands and feet. Frequent erratic neuralgia. Joints painful, stiff crack. Aching in arms esp. shoulders. Legs feel heavy. Weary, sore aching anteriorly then restless, and Pain in anterior crural nerves (Lt. sciatica) <rest. Shaking in tibia when walking. Ankles weak turn easily. Corns on toe (Sil)
Sleep Drowsy; but wakes early, Emissions during. Sleepless after midnight, Nightmares. Dreams: amorous, angry, quarrels, murder, vexatious or pleasant, black animals, vivid.

Skin: Psoriatic squamous eruptions, with bran-like scales which on tearing leave red spots; scales itch, < from heat of exertion (cp. Ars, Thyr) or scaly on chest, dark brown spots, eruptions with red base, non-itching. Ptyriasis rubrum. Miliary rash. Moth patches on face, or red blotchy irregular eruptions.

Ulcers: burning stinging deep (fistulous) or phagadenic, discharging yellow.

Thermic: Surface dry and hot, or cold and clammy. Warmth seeking chilliness; < at night, followed by dry burning heat; or alternating with dry heat (from 11 pm to 3-4 am)
Nightly dry fever with lassitude Hectic with night sweats. Heat of face with dullness in forehead.

Relations: Is a cocktail of Ars, Nat-m, Sep and Thyr
Similar: Ap, Ars, Aru-t, Hydr, Kali-bi, Kali-c, Lyc, Nat-c, Nat-m, Nux-v, Sep, Sil, Thyr
Antidote: Camphor

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