Nat-m, Natrium muriaticum

Core theme

Emotional vulnerability

• In Nat-m there is an intense feeling of emotional vulnerability, which forces him to build to protect himself. However, this wall itself increases the feeling of emotional insecurity. In other words, defense mechanisms is not necessarily the result of insecurity, but it can be the cause of insecurity.
• You may see a Nat-m who has no history of emotional damage, but instead inherited defense mechanisms from her parents made her feels insecure.

Not to hurt, Not to be hurt

• He likes to be emotionally open but this makes him vulnerable. So, at the cost of losing his open emotional relationships, he builds walls and goes to the Not to hurt, Not to be hurt phase.
• Since behind this wall, the desire to establish emotional relationships increases, he has to use a lot of energy to maintain this wall/control.
• On the other hand, this privacy gradually becomes stronger and causes depression.

Isolation feeling

• Nat-m is not kind to himself at all. Moral do and don'ts have completely Limited / Isolated him. Can you expect someone who is not kind to himself to be kind to others?
• His main concern is doing something/saying a word that will damage his social and interpersonal relationships.
• He feels duty bound even to strangers. A duty that conflicts with some of his personal freedoms, but he always prefers others to himself.
• His main problem is the integration of his inner and outer space. Despite his strong desire to establish deep friendships and maintain them, he cannot reach an acceptable conclusion between his inner and outer emotional flow which leads to successive emotional failures.

Over-generalization

• He is sensitive to the smallest confusion in his emotional flows, and this causes him to face numerous and repeated failures in his emotional relationships. He gradually believes that he cannot establish a proper emotional relationship with someone. Do not damage the flow.
• He quickly believes his bitter experiences as a rule.

Appearance

• He is polite and closed.
• Emotionally coldness: He is not emotionally active, in fact he has a problem with this issue.
• He is more involved with himself in cases of benevolence and emotional grieving.
• Serious: He gets to the point quickly and doesn't go to the sidelines and speaks regularly. (Nat-m ₳ Ars) doesn't laugh or joke at all (Aur ₳ Nat-m)
• Nat-m's face is greasy and shiny, thin, yellow and often pale
  

Clinic

• Entities: Headache, Allergy, Common cold, Herpetic eruptions, Constipation, Neurogenic Bladder, Vaginismus, Spinal sensitivity, Intermittent fevers

• Autoimmune diseases: Urticaria, Eczema
• Mental: Grief, Hysteria, Hatred, Fears, Forbidden love, Sympathetic

Common Cold

• Common Cold with watery secretions, which leads to chronic state (Thick / Egg white Nasal / Posterior nasal Discharges) .
• Thick / Egg white discharges are general character of Nat-m (Ear, Gonorrhea ,...)

Herpetic eruption

• Vesicular rashes are often seen around the ears, back of the neck, and hair margins
• Rash is scaly and very itchy.
• A liquid is leaking from eruptions but sometimes it is dry

Headache

• Severe pressure headaches like staples or throbbing (small hammers
• Especially in the morning (wakes him up).
• He is extremely nervous during headache.
• Headache between 10 am til 3 pm is very significant.

• The more the headache increases, the more sweating. Sweating does not help him
• Headache of anemic school girls (Calc-p) (Calc-p ₳ Nat-m)
• Headache caused by eye work (Ruta) (Nat-m ₳ Ruta)
• Headache caused by emotional problems (Ign) (Ign ₳ Nat-m) (Nat-m ₳ Phos)

• Left-sided headache (Spig). It looks like it's going to explode
• Headache with red face (Bell)
• Headache starts with blurred vision (Iris, Kali-bi, Cycl)
• Retinitis: seeing zigzag images or flashes of light with or before headache: Psor, Sul, Nat-m
• Headache extending to the chest (Con ₳ Nat-m)

• Headache + Eye pain at the same time: Onos, Arg-n

Allergy

• Lachrymation + Coughing (Euphr).
• Allergies, tickling of the nose, feeling of hair on the tongue

Tongue - HAIR, on all-s. Kali-bi. Nat-m. nat-p. SIL.

• Summer Allergies
• Cough only during the day (Nat-m. Ferr, Euphr)

Geographic tongue

Red patches especially on the sides

Tongue - MAPPED, tongue TARAX.

Tongue - WHITE - patches - red insular, with

Urticaria

Chronic or acute urticaria, all over the body

Esp with intense exercise (Apis, Calc, Hep, Sanic, Urt-u)

Skin - URTICARIA, hives - white

Skin - URTICARIA, hives - scratching, after

Skin - URTICARIA, hives - nodular

Skin - URTICARIA, hives - exercise, exertion, from - violent, after

Skin - URTICARIA, hives - emotion, from

Constipation

• Sensation of contraction in the anus

Rectum - CONSTIPATION, general - contraction, spasmodic of anus, with

• Rectal shooting pain, bleeding and burning after stool (Nit-ac) (Nat-m ₳ Nit-ac)

Rectum - CONSTIPATION, general - bleeding, with Rectum - CONSTIPATION, general - anus very sore, with

• Prolonged Rectal pain

Rectum - CONSTIPATION, general - painful : NIT-AC

Rectum - CONSTIPATION, general - painful, persistent rectal pain, with

Neurogenic Bladder

BLADDER - URINATION - retarded, must wait for urine to start - long while, and then only a little urine passes - others are near him; especially if

BLADDER - URINATION - retarded, must wait for urine to start - alone, can only pass urine when

BLADDER - URINATION - retarded, must wait for urine to start

BLADDER - URINATION - involuntary - standing, while

BLADDER - URINATION - involuntary - desire is resisted; if : PULS , SEP , SULPH

BLADDER - URINATION - involuntary - children

Vaginismus

1. Genital (long and uncomfortable contractions - vaginismus

FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - VAGINISMUS - coition - painful : ARG-N , LYSS

• Lower digestion (constipation caused by disturbances in the peristaltism of the rectum)

Spinal sensitivity

• It is used in the sensitivity of the spinal column to pressure (excitability)

Intermittent fevers

• Acon and Bell have no place in typhoid fevers, but Bry and Rhus-t are suitable
• Nat-m is one of the best for intermittent fevers.
• Chill attacks before noon around 10:30 are indicative for Nat-m .
• His limbs are bruised from shivering, but his face is hot + Throbbing headaches + Delirium and talkativeness + Great thirst + Physical restlessness in the form of rolling over
• Nat-m is useful in periodic intermittent fevers when the patient is very susceptible to colds.
• Despite his good appetite, he is thin and anemic
• Emaciation with progression from top to bottom (Like Lyc and opposite Abrot)

Mental disorders

Grief:

• After Grief ailments (Ign ₳ Nat-m) (Caust ₳ Nat-m)

Headache + Internal Trembling + Insomnia + Crying suppression (Silent grief) + Inability to control emotions and feelings

Forbidden love:

She falls in love with something that is unattainable. It is like the love of a man with a woman and with this love he is ready to defeat himself in advance. She is afraid of becoming emotionally attached. Of course, it often becomes dependent. He avoids the deepening of his emotional relationship. Therefore, it is better that the relationship is not able to deepen from the very beginning and he can blame the lack of deepening on external problems (projection) rather than realizing this psychological disorder in himself.

Sympathetic

For Menstrual delay if Nat-m doesn't work, Kali-c is best.

Hysteria

• He is polite and controlled / Suppressed. His politeness is a byproduct of his controls. He is a moral idealist (Aur) but if the wall suddenly collapses, there will be a flood.
• In Nat-m you see a lot of opposite signs because there is a lot of control in them. He has a completely control his hysterical personality.
• You see a lot of Reaction Formation or masking of inner feelings. (Nat-m ₳ Staph )
• Nat-m is hysterical Alternating Laughing-Crying
• Misplaced laughter
• Spastic and long laughter that ends in crying and sadness)
• Nervous (Nat-c ₳ Nat-m)

Hatred

• Nat-m become bitter with the progress of pathology. They are very rude. They hate people. (Nat-m ₳ Nit-ac)
• You are not comfortable with him and you feel that I should not say anything to him that will upset him, yet you are sure that he will not get angry and will not show a harsh behavior.

Fears

• His fears are deep and controlled and you can hardly discover them because he is a very shy, timid and cautious.
• But he has most fears of Phos, Calc and Lyc. (Nat-m ₳ Phos) , (Lyc ₳ Nat-m)

Clinical experience

• Most of people you think are Nat-m are actually Lyc. Lyc statistics are much higher than Nat-m and Nat-m is not very common.
• Nat-m humbly and submissively does not bring up his problems lest he upset you.
• Nat-m's are mostly heat, however, do not pay attention to heat/coldness in Nat-m, Phos, Sul. While we do not have cold Lach.
• Do not repeat Nat-m in chronic patients and be sure to give intercurrent administration between each dose.

Nat-m flare-ups

• Headache:
  • Spig is used in H. flare-ups esp left-sided 's (without changing place of pain).
  • Nux-v for prolonged headache / Dizziness or when weakness lasts long after prescribing Nat-m

• Urticaria: Apis
• Eye fatigue due to over work , Amel in the open air (Arg-n, Ruta)
• Typhoid fever: Bry or Rhus-t in inflammation phase
• Best remedies after Nat-m are Apis, Arg-n, Ign, Sep, Thuj

Modalities

• Sun-light: Physical activity problems under sun (Ant-c, Lach,)
• Loves salt (Calc, Caust)
• 10 -11 A.M agg (Sul)
• Open air amel (Puls, Apis)
• Lying on right side amel
• Lying on painful area (Bry, Puls, Ign)
• Takes cold easily (Calc, Kali-c)
• Cries for no reason (Puls)