- 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
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
| One-Line Summary |
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
