NATRIUM SULFURICUM mit generierter deutscher Übersetzung Pulfords Remarks: Nat-s. calls to mind a bilious; sickly-looking individual with a sycotic or hydrogenoid constitution who cannot stand any dampness as if either brings on or agg. all his symptoms; esp. useful if he lives near a water way, and is usually, if not always, accompanied by liver complications agg. lying on the left side (Merc., the right), he is sensitive to touch, pressure, the night air, and to pain, his pains are amel. motion, and he is usually at his worst during rest, in the spring and in warm weather, the skin is jaundiced, the mouth always slimy, his dyspnea and oppression of the chest always agg. dampness [damp or damp-cold weather, DD - Dulc. nh6] and amel. open air, the cough usually agg. 3 to 4h, and the chest is amel. holding it with both hands, the expectoration is glairy, the tongue usually has a dirty, grayish-green coat at the root, or brown if jaundice complicates. It selects esp. the left lower lobe [Kali-s., Sulph. glt2]. Is the ONLY known remedy for: Loathing of life [suicidal sadness, DD - Aur., Aur-m. glt2], must restrain herself from doing herself bodily injury; redness of eyelids at night; greenish-grey tongue; sycotic pneumonia. Is THE leading remedy for: Cheerful after stool; photophobia during headache; green tongue; dyspnea of children, or in wet weather; oppression of heart while sitting; pain in chest in damp weather; agg. green vegetables. Borland bl4 (Ed.: Is one of Borland's "complicated pneumonia / bronchopneumonia" - remedies. (Nat-s., Lob., Puls., Seneg.) As a rule in the Nat-s.-pneumonias, or broncho-pneumonias, you get a history of a fairly gradual onset. You find physical signs in one area, probably quite a small area, and the condition is steadily spreading. The patients are usually definitely cyanotic, and not infrequently in Nat-s. there is a sort of yellowish tinge, there may even be a definite jaundice. It is a quite frequently indicated drug in post-operative pneumonias; pneumonia following an acute appendix, pneumonia following a gall bladder operation, etc. The outstanding characteristic of the Nat-s.-patient, apart from the type of pneumonia, is the mentality. Nat-s. patients are always extremely depressed [suicidal sadness, DD - Aur., Aur-m. glt2]. It is not a weepy depression at all, but they feel horribly gloomy and flat, they do not want to be disturbed, they do not want to be interfered with, they are quite liable to turn their back on you, they do not want to be questioned, and they do not want to have to think. They are quite liable to say "For heaven's sake leave me alone". Very often they display a certain amount of irritability if they have to talk to you, and they are strangely sensitive to noise and often acutely irritated by it. They are always sensitive to heat, they cannot bear a stuffy room at all, and they always have a got, sticky skin surface. The tongue in Nat-s. is very suggestive. It has a pretty general greyish-green coating. At times you may find a yellowish tongue with a definitely brown base, or a whitish tongue with a yellow base. But that greyish-green tongue is the one characteristic of Nat-s. The patients always complain of a good deal of acute pain in the chest, and it is a pretty acute stabbing pain accompanied by a feeling of general soreness in the chest wall. That stabbing pain is very much aggravated by coughing, and while coughing you will find these Nat-s. patients sitting up supporting the side of the chest to keep it as quiet as possible. There is always a degree of physical restlessness in Nat-s.-patients, they feel jolly uncomfortable, they are forced to change their position, but their movement does not give them any sense of relief at all. Then all the Nat-s.-pneumonias I have seen have complained very bitterly of an intensely troublesome occipital headache. There is usually a rather bitter taste in the mouth, but the thirst is not extreme. Another symptom which is sometimes very distressing is a feeling of intense heat in the legs, from about the knees downwards. You know the ordinary Nat-s. time of aggravation is taken to be about 5 o'clock in the morning, well, in their pneumonias that is not the time of maximum aggravation, it is much earlier, it is between 3 and 4 o'clock in the morning. You are liable to get a very bad spell in these Nat-s. pneumonias about 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning, definitely earlier than the 5 o'clock aggravation that you expect in Nat-s. As regards the sputum, quite frequently in these Nat-s.-cases it is definitely greenish, and it may even be definitely bile-stained. One winter we had quite a number of cases with frankly bile-stained sputum in their pneumonias. And with that greenish or yellowish sputum there is a good deal of rusty material intermingled. There is a fair quantity of sputum, and as a rule it comes up without undue difficulty. In spite of the fact that you have this creeping type of pneumonia, you will always get the maximum involvement on the left side, usually, I think, the left lower lobe. Tyler tl2 Pneumonia with [constitutional history of rbbx2] asthma [history of neglected gonorrhoea, warts, condylomata k2] [History of hemorrhoids or anal fistula. fr1] Lilienthal ll1 Sycotic pneumonia; inexpressible agony; slowly coagulated blood; stitching pains running up from abdomen to left chest; dry cough, with soreness in chest; rough feeling in throat, particularly at night; ...loose, purulent sputa in the morning; all-gone, empty feeling in chest (Bry., Stann.). Chettri chex ... Delayed resolution in pneumonia. Springs up in bed the cough hurts so, holds painful side. Stitches in the left side of the chest, when sitting, yawning, during inspiration. Loose cough with expectoration. Rabe rbbx2 There need not be diarrhoea during the course of the pneumonia. There may be constipation. It does not contra-indicate the remedy by any manner of means. Kent k2 It is a very useful remedy for complaints following neglected gonorrhoea. The symptoms and the constitutional state of the patient are worse in wet weather. It is useful in patients who live near waterways and have suffered long from malarial influences. It is useful as an antidote to the abuse of quinine. ... Sycotic conditions with a history of warts and condylomata. ... Frequent attacks of paroxysmal cough from irritation in larynx ending in copious white, viscid expectorations. Expectoration bloody; greenish yellow; purulent; white; viscid. Oppression of the chest from damp evening air and in the morning on waking. Emptiness in the chest on inspiration. Soreness in the chest on coughing, better by holding the chest with the hands. Bronchitis and pneumonia are sometimes hard to cure in sycotic patients. Swelling and suppuration in the axillary glands. Galic glt1 There is a chronic disease process, the suicidal sadness is part of a severe disease (e.g. Broncho-pneumonia, Asthma, Chronic nephritis). Children who would prefer to be dead allready because everything seems too laborious and who ponder about how said their mother would be. Very frequently there is a systemic burden, e.g. separation of the parents or tragical, unprocessed events in the family (even in past generations). The child was allways "well-behaved" and suddenly became severly sick and does not talk anymore. If the remedy is deeply indicated constitutionally you find the agg. from warm wet weather, the loathing of and intolerance for vegetables, which is hardly present in sole acute cases. Rehman rma1 Complementary Ox-ac. - Critical state of a influenza-pneumonia, as the patient lost all his powers and the heart quickly failed. Patient collapsed. Followed by: Morg. - Residual infection after broncho-pneumonia. Compare with: Aur. glt2, Aur-m. glt2, Dulc. nh6, Med. k2, Merc. pfa3 Followed by: Morg. rma1, Ox-ac. rma1