Nat-c, Natrum Carbonicum

Similar remedies:

• Nat-c is usually not prescribed the first time and it is mistaken for Nat-m, Phos and Carc.(Nat-c ₳ Phos)
• In order to understand him, it is better to attribute the properties of Nat-m to a Phos person.
  • Emotional problems similar to Nat-m, but more extroverted patient than Nat-m. (Like Phos) (Nat-c ₳ Nat-m)
  • Similar to Phos and Carc in terms of modalities.(Carc ₳ Nat-c)
• In terms of appearance, Nat-m charcters are thinner, greener and firmer, and Nat-cs are a little lighter and more phlegmatic.
• Like Phos, it is very affectionate and you feel comfortable dealing with him, but it is a little more closed than Phos.

Nat-c Paradox

• Selflessness vice versa Misanthropy.
• Nat-c presents an amazing contrast of selflessness and misanthropy. This contrast is less in Nat-m because Nat-c is not irritable and closed in his normal state unlike Nat-m.
• Nat-c is selflessness. He involves with other people's problems so deeply that he doesn't see himself anymore therefore could be considered as Sympathetic remedy (Phos)
• On the other hand he may enter Misanthropic phase which is completely diverse.

Diagnostic feature

Two important and reliable features:

1. Weakness caused by mental activity like Pic-ac and Kali-p

2. Extreme sensitivity to sound: in the case of sound, there are both tendencies towards music and worsening and nervousness with noise, especially with the piano.

Murphy considers these four prescriptions: Infertility, Catarrhal Sinusitis, Sunburn and Bright's disease.

Diseases - BRIGHT'S disease, kidneys

Diseases - INFERTILITY

Diseases - SINUSITIS, infection, nose - post-nasal catarrh

Diseases - SUNSTROKE