Natrum Muriaticum: Homeopathic Uses, Symptoms, Benefits & Key Indications

Source :- Mineral Kingdom
Common Name :- Common Salt, Sodium Chloride
Family :- Halides
Prover :- Dr. Hahnemann
Miasm :- Psora
Temperament :- Sad, Reserved, Introverted
Diathesis :- Anemic and Cachectic
Thermal :- Chilly patient
Duration of Action :- 15 to 20 days
Active Principle :- Sodium Chloride
Inimical to :- Apis Mellifica
Side Affection :- Mainly affects left side more than right

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INTRODUCTION

• Natrum Mur is a great constitutional and polychrest remedy
• Best suited to thin, anaemic, sensitive, reserved, and weepy individuals
• Dr. Kent calls it “The chronic of Ignatia”
• Especially used in chronic ailments after grief, disappointment, and suppressed emotions
• Indicated in patients who never well since emotional trauma or loss

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GUIDING SYMPTOMS

• Great weakness, especially in the morning and during menses
• Craving for salt, salty food, pickles (keynote symptom)
• Aversion to bread
• Greasy, oily skin, acne in youth, hair falling from forehead
• Mapped tongue or tongue with deep cracks, dryness of mouth without thirst
• Headache like hammers beating inside the head, worse from sun, reading
• Complaints from grief, disappointed love, suppressed emotions
• Very sensitive to noise, music causes weeping
• Lips dry, cracked – especially in the middle of lower lip
• Constipation with dry, hard stool like sheep dung, difficult to expel
• Palpitations worse when lying down, better walking slowly
• Females with irregular, late, and scanty menses
• Vaginal dryness, burning, painful coition
• Great dryness of all mucous membranes
• Coldness between scapulae

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MIND / MENTAL SYMPTOMS

• Sadness with desire to be alone, worse when consoled
• Dwells on past unpleasant memories
• Silent grief, long-lasting sorrows, broken-hearted feeling
• Easily offended, broods over insults quietly
• Weeps when alone, avoids company
• Intelligent but introverted personality
• Feels worse after consolation (Opposite of Pulsatilla)
• Idealistic, perfectionist, sensitive to criticism

TONGUE

• Mapped tongue, with deep cracks, especially in the middle
• Clean tongue with white coating or frothy saliva
• Dryness of mouth and tongue, especially at night
• Tongue fissured, especially on the sides
• Impression of teeth on the tongue margins (similar to Merc Sol, Podophyllum)
• Blisters on tongue, burning and raw sensation
• Taste may be bitter, salty, or metallic
• Loss of taste in some chronic conditions
• Tongue feels heavy, numb, or paralyzed
• Tongue may tremble when protruded (in nervous weakness)

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FEVER

• Chill stage: Begins at 10-11 am, chill starts in back or extremities
• Heat stage: Long-lasting with red face and headache
• Sweat stage: Profuse on forehead, oily sweat
• Ailments after intermittent fevers
• Chronic malarial states where other remedies fail
• Fever with great weakness and thirst

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HEADACHE

• Chronic headaches, schoolgirls’ headache
• Worse from sun exposure, reading, noise, motion
• Better by lying in a dark room, pressure over head
• Headache as if thousands of little hammers beating
• Begins with blindness, zigzag vision, ending in throbbing pain

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SKIN

• Dry, raw, scaly, or greasy skin
• Oily face with acne
• Eczema of hairy scalp, rawness in bends of joints
• Coldness of one part of the body while the other is hot
• Urticaria with itching, worse from exertion
• Alopecia (hairfall) after grief or childbirth
• Herpes on lips, around mouth (Cold sores)

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FEMALE COMPLAINTS

• Menses late, irregular, scanty
• Headache before and during menses
• Palpitations during menses
• Dryness of vagina, painful intercourse
• Leucorrhoea like egg white, thick and stringy
• Ailments after disappointment in love or emotional trauma

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MODALITIES

Aggravation:

• From sun, heat, exertion, reading, noise, talking
• Consolation, sympathy
• Grief, suppressed emotions, sea air
• Morning time

Amelioration:

• Open air, rest, cold bathing
• Lying down in quiet and dark place
• Pressure on affected part

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MEMORIZING TIPS (Mnemonic - S.A.L.T.)

S – Sad, silent grief and ailments after suppressed emotions
A – Aversion to bread, Ailments from heat & sun
L – Lips dry and cracked, especially middle of lower lip
T – Thirst for large quantities at long intervals, Tears when alone, not in front of others

Best suited for – Thin, sensitive, emotional persons who bottle up grief, love solitude, and crave salt.

Key remedy for – Headache from sun, skin troubles, chronic constipation, hairfall after grief, menstrual troubles.

NATRUM MURIATICUM POETRY 

1. जो में ये आंसू की धारा बहा देती

MIND – WEEPING – tearful mood

MIND – WEEPING – alone, when

MIND – GRIEF – silent, unexpressed

2. जो ये विरह की अग्नि बुझा देती

MIND – AILMENTS FROM – disappointed love

MIND – LOVE – ailments from unhappy love

MIND – LONGING – for the beloved

3. तो खत्म हो जाती ये कहानी

MIND – BROODING – over past events

MIND – REMEMBERING – grievances, past, dwells on

4. शायद आ जाती नई रवानी

MIND – HOPELESS – despair of recovery

MIND – DESPONDENCY – alternates with cheerfulness

5. ना मैं भूल सकूंगी ना भुलाने दूंगी

MIND – DWELLS – on past disagreeable events

MIND – MEMORY – active for past unpleasant events

6. गुजरे कल की एक एक निशानी

MIND – SENTIMENTAL – about past

MIND – CLINGING – to past memories

7. मत आना मुझे बहलाने

MIND – CONSOLATION – aggravates (Nat Mur keynote)

MIND – AVERSION to being pitied

8. टूटे दिल पे रहम मेरे खाने

MIND – AILMENTS FROM – grief, sorrow, disappointment

MIND – HEART – affections, wounded feelings

9. मैं और बिखर जाऊंगी

MIND – FEAR – losing self-control

MIND – SENSITIVE – emotional

10. जो लगे मुझे समझाने

MIND – ADVICE – intolerant of

MIND – COUNSEL – aversion

11. एक वादा तूने किया था / एक वादा मैंने लिया था

MIND – DISAPPOINTMENT – from broken promises

MIND – TRUST – difficulty, after betrayal

12. एक तुझको दिल ये दिया था

MIND – LOVE – strong attachment

MIND – AILMENTS FROM – disappointed love

13. बस तुझपे भरोसा किया था

MIND – TRUST – misplaced, ailments from

MIND – SENSITIVE – to betrayal

14. रूठ गई अब नींदें

SLEEP – SLEEPLESSNESS – from grief

SLEEP – DISTURBED – mental exertion, thinking of past

15. टूट गए अब सपने

MIND – HOPELESSNESS

MIND – DESPAIR – future about

16. वो याद बहुत आते हैं

MIND – LONGING – for the beloved

MIND – DELUSIONS – sees absent people

17. जो छोड़ के यूं जाते हैं

MIND – ABANDONED – feeling of

MIND – AILMENTS FROM – disappointed affection

18. जो महफ़िल सजा के रखते थे

MIND – CHEERFUL – before grief

MIND – CONTRADICTIONS – mood alternating

19. गुनगुनाते थे सागर किनारे

GENERAL – SEA-SHORE – aggravates or affects (Nat Mur is a sea-shore remedy)

20. वो ढूंढ रहे हैं रोने को तकिया, कंबल, चार दीवारें

MIND – WEEPING – alone, desires solitude

MIND – HIDING – emotions

21. हंसी के पीछे जलना है

MIND – ANGER – concealed

MIND – GRIEF – hidden behind smile

22. कोई देखें ना आर-पार

MIND – RESERVED

MIND – SECRETIVE – hides emotions

23. अब संभल के इतना चलना है

MIND – CAUTIOUS

MIND – CAREFUL – overly

24. कोई छेड़े ना दिल के तार

MIND – SENSITIVE – to emotional stimuli

MIND – FEAR – emotional involvement