Natrum Sulphuricum: Best Homeopathic Remedy for Liver, Joints & Damp Weather Complaints

  • Common Name: Sulphate of Sodium / Glauber’s Salt
  • Family: Mineral
  • Source: Naturally occurring sodium sulphate


Sphere of Action

Acts primarily on the liver, gastrointestinal tract, nervous system, and respiratory mucosa.
Indicated in chronic ailments from head injuries, asthma, liver affections, and sycotic (gonorrhoeal) constitution.


Constitutional Indications

  • Suited to hydrogenoid constitutions (worse in damp, humid weather)
  • Sycotic patients, those with gonorrhoeal history or chronic respiratory catarrh
  • Dull, depressed, suicidal patients; oversensitive to music


Mind

  • Depression with suicidal tendency (especially by drowning)
  • Cannot bear to be spoken to or comforted
  • Mental troubles after head injuries
  • Forgetful; confusion of mind
  • Irritable and taciturn


Head

  • Ill effects of concussion or head injuries (mental and physical)
  • Headache from injury, aggravated by damp weather
  • Sensation of blows, bursting pain in occiput
  • Worse in the morning, after injury, or in damp weather


Respiratory

  • Asthma < in damp weather or after suppressed gonorrhoea
  • Must hold chest while coughing due to painful sensation
  • Greenish, copious expectoration; loose cough in the morning
  • Dyspnea, must sit up and hold chest
  • Chronic bronchial catarrh


Liver & Digestion

  • Liver region sore, enlarged, sensitive to pressure
  • Biliary colic; jaundice
  • Greenish diarrhea, sudden and gushing
  • Flatulence, sour stomach, sour vomiting
  • Tongue coated greenish or dirty yellow


Stool

  • Profuse green watery diarrhea
  • Gushing, worse in morning, after rising
  • Diarrhea after fruits, cold drinks, or in damp weather
  • Alternates with asthma or other respiratory complaints


Moralities

Worse From - Damp weather, music, lying on left side, Morning, motion, touch
Better From - Dry weather, warm room, Pressure, open air

Sleep

  • Drowsy, sluggish on waking
  • Wakes with dull headache
  • Sleepless from mental depression or liver complaints


Joints & Extremities

  • Rheumatic complaints in damp weather
  • Cracking of joints; pain worse in morning
  • Dropsy of joints; painful stiffness
  • Sciatica with shooting pain


Skin

  • Itching vesicles; moist eruptions
  • Warts, especially on hands and face
  • Crusty eruptions behind ears or on scalp
  • Sycotic skin conditions


Eyes

  • Yellow conjunctiva from liver issues
  • Ophthalmia neonatorum (sycotic miasm)
  • Painless ulcers on cornea


Potency & Dosage

  • Common potencies: 6X (in Schüssler's Biochemic system), 30C, 200C
  • In liver complaints and asthma, use in moderate potency (6X–30C)


Miasmatic Influence

  • Sycotic remedy par excellence
  • Often needed in patients with gonorrhoeal history or suppressed discharge


Keynotes

  • Asthma in damp weather
  • Suicidal depression, especially after head injury
  • Greenish gushing diarrhea, liver complaints
  • Aggravation from damp, rainy, humid places
  • Sycotic miasm with mental, respiratory, and hepatic manifestations


Relationship

Complementary - Thuja, Natrum mur
Antidotes - Nux vomica, Bryonia
Follows Well After - Sulphur, head injury case
One-Line Summary
Natrum Sulph is the chief remedy for asthma, head injury effects, and greenish diarrhea aggravated by damp weather, especially in sycotic constitutions.

Poetry 

1. भीगी-सी यादें, नम-सी हवा, यही मेरे मन को हर रोज़ सताती है।

MIND – SADNESS – damp weather, in

MIND – AGGRAVATION – cloudy, damp atmosphere

GENERAL – WEATHER – damp – aggravates


2. बारिश की हर बूंद मुझे, अंधेरों की ओर ले जाती है।

MIND – GLOOMINESS – rainy weather

MIND – DEPRESSION – dampness from

GENERAL – WEATHER – rainy – aggravation


3. भीड़ में रहकर भी अकेली हूँ, मुस्कान के पीछे उदासी छिपाती हूँ।

MIND – LONELINESS – in crowd

MIND – SADNESS – concealed

MIND – HIDING emotions

MIND – SMILING – forced


4. सुबह-सुबह मन टूट जाता है, जीने की चाह कहीं खो जाती है।

MIND – SUICIDAL – morning, on waking

MIND – DEPRESSION – morning

MIND – AVERSION – to life

MIND – DESPAIR – morning


5. लोग कहते हैं— ‘मजबूत हो तुम’, पर भीतर कोई रोज़ मर जाता है।

MIND – CONTRADICTIONS – seeming strong, feeling weak

MIND – INTERNAL suffering – great

MIND – GRIEF – long blasting


6. कभी किसी की मौत ने, मेरे अंदर की रोशनी ही खींच ली थी।

MIND – AILMENTS FROM – death of loved ones

MIND – GRIEF – old, lingering

MIND – SORROW – prolonged


7. तभी से दुनिया से मन उचट गया, हँसने की आदत ही छीन ली थी।

MIND – AVERSION – to society

MIND – DISGUST – with life

MIND – GLOOMINESS – chronic


8. अब कदम बहुत संभल कर रखती हूँ, जरा-सी चूक भी दर्द दे जाती है।

MIND – CAUTIOUS

MIND – FEAR – of making mistakes

MIND – SENSITIVE – emotional


9. थोड़ा-सा सुकून, थोड़ा-सा अपनापन— शायद मुझे फिर जीना सिखा जाए।

MIND – YEARNING – for affection

MIND – NEED – emotional support

MIND – DESIRE – for company though avoids expressing



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