Nat-c, Natrum Carbonicum

Similar remedies:

• Usually 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 Like Phos. (Nat-c ₳ Nat-m)
  • Similar to Phos and Carc in modalities.(Carc ₳ Nat-c)
• Nat-m is thin, dark and firm, but Nat-c is a little lighter and more phlegmatic.
• Like Phos, he is very affectionate and you feel comfortable dealing with him, but he is more introverted.

Selflessness vice versa Misanthropy

• Nat-c presents an amazing contrast of selflessness and misanthropy.
• This contrast is not seen Nat-m because Nat-c is not irritable and closed unlike Nat-m.
  • Nat-c is a Sympathetic remedy. He involves with others problems so deeply that he doesn't see himself anymore (Selflessness)
  • On the other hand he may enter Misanthropic phase which is completely diverse.

Diagnostic feature

1. Weakness caused by mental activity like Pic-ac and Kali-p
2. Extreme sensitivity to sound esp music esp piano

Murphy

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

Clinic

• It was proved by Hahnemann, and is one of the antipsoric remedies of the Chronic Diseases.
• Hahnemann used it that depression anxiety and sadness.
• The peculiarity of Nat-c is Indifference / Aversion to mankind. This indifference is for all family members, loved ones, friends, relatives and strangers.
• He develops anxiety and fear of facing people and maintains a distance from them.
• They often hide their negative and always try to put on a happy face for others, while internally they feel rejected, betrayed.

Sankaran view

• All natrums need relationship but with a single person or with very few people  
• Nat-c esp feels rejected or betrayed in relationships and this feeling makes him indifferent to mankind.

On the physical level, sodium carbonicum greatly affects the skin and mucous membranes. On

Enlargement of the glands with indurations, axillary, inguinal, abdominal, salivary. Especially suitable for enlargement of the prostate in older men. Chronic enlargement of the parotids and tonsils.

Nartum carb patients are chilly. They having a sensation of coldness, aversion to open air and indoors ameliorates and covering ameliorates. The body and extremities are worse in winter, and the head in summer.

All discharges of Natrium carb are offensive, putrid whether stool, vomiting, expectoration, leucorrhoea etc.

Mind

Aversion to family, friends, strangers, company and social gatherings. Fear of facing people, aversion to certain people. Unable to do the slightest mental exertion, which leads to state of brain fag and confusion. A state of trepidation from the slightest noise, the slam of a door, thunderstrome etc.

This mental state is very similar to the state of Sepia. Sepia also has the indifference, aversion to the family, loved ones, but we can differentiate them on the physical level.  Where both act on the GI tract, sepia has an all-gone sensation in the abdomen which is relived after eating and in natrum carb there is the sensation of fullness in abdomen and eating aggravates the patient in general. The patient is fearful inside but puts a smile on to hide emotions from the world.

Head

A good medicine for headaches that are due to sun exposure, in summer or in beginning of warm weather. Chronic headaches especially due to sunstroke.  All complaints of head due to mental exertion. The body and extremities are worse in winter, the head in summer.

GIT

Natrum carb has a chief action on the gastrointestinal tract. Any complaints of GIT after grief or in drunkards.  The stomach is disordered from the simplest food. There is strong aversion or intolerance of any kind of milk even mother’s milk.

In rubrics of natrum carb we see that natrum carb is a first grade remedy in both eating aggravates and eating ameliorates.  There are all-gone and empty sensations and pains in abdomen which are relived after eating. Appetite is also ravenous, but after eating, sensation of fullness and diarrhoea sets in. Stool is yellow; loud eructations, belching, hiccough are all there but give no relief. Stool is gushing and forcible. All these complaints develops a kind of anxiety or fear of eating in the patient. Boerickes says “ depression after eating.” There is extreme thirst but not unquenchable.

Skin

• Vesicular eruptions in patches and circles (Zona, Herpes labialis, Herpes preputialis)
• Eczema and various skin complaints. If it is applied locally it produces cracks and dryness of skin. Similarly in potentised form, Natrium carb is a wonderful remedy for skin troubles. Dry eruptions, moist eruptions, ulcers, tumors or hard swelling especially of glands, warts etc. Warts are painful and bleeding. Any skin complaint around nose and lips.  There is generalised dryness of skin with tendency to cracking.

Modalities

Aggravation :  company, or a certain person. Mental exertion, before and after eating.

Cold, heat, thunderstorm, etc.

Amelioration – closed rooms, covering, eating after, etc.

Natrum carb “ A Quick Review”

• Aversion to company, even loved ones.
• Fear of facing people.
• Head pain in summers. Sunstroke.
• Patient is chilly, having sensation of coldness, aversion to open air, indoors ameliorates, covering ameliorates. Body and extremities are worse in winter, and head in summer.
• Disturbance of stomach from slightest food. Soreness in stomach relived after eating but eating causes fullness in abdomen and diarrhoea.
• Extreme thirst.
• Skin complaints especially around nose and lips.
• Dry eruptions, moist eruptions, ulcers, tumors or hard swelling especially of glands, warts etc. warts are painful and bleeding.