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
3. Indifference / Aversion to mankind. This indifference is for all family members, loved ones, friends, relatives and strangers.
4. He develops anxiety and fear of facing people and maintains a distance from them.
5. They often hide their negative feelings and always try to put on a happy face for others, while internally they feel rejected, betrayed.

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 for anxiety and sadness.
• All natrums need relationship but with a single person or with very few people (Sankran)
• He feels rejected or betrayed in relationships and this feeling makes him indifferent to mankind.

• Tumors or hard swelling of glands
  • Enlargement of the glands with indurations, axillary, inguinal, abdominal, salivary.
  • Esp suitable for prostate enlargement in older men.
  • Chronic enlargement of parotids and tonsils.

Chilly

• Sensation of coldness
• Aversion to open air and indoors
• Covering ameliorates
• Body and extremities agg in winter/ Head agg in summer

• All discharges are offensive, putrid whether stool, vomiting, expectoration, leucorrhoea etc.

GI tract

• GI tract complaints after grief or in drunkards
• Stomach disorders from the simplest food.
• Strong aversion or intolerance of any kind of milk even mother’s milk.
• Both eating agg and eating amel  
• All-gone and empty Sensations / Pains in abdomen which amel after eating.
• Appetite is also ravenous, but after eating fullness sensation and diarrhea comes
• Stool is yellow, loud eructations, belching, hiccough are all there but give no relief. is
• Gushing / Forcible Stool
• GI problems due to anxiety or fear of eating. Depression after eating (Boerickes)
• 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.
• Dry eruptions, moist eruptions, ulcers,
• Warts are painful and bleeding.
• Any skin complaint around nose and lips. 
• Generalized 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
• After eating

Rubrics

• MALE GENITALIA/SEX - SEXUAL DESIRE - increased - legs were crossed, while
• MALE GENITALIA/SEX - SEXUAL DESIRE - increased - stool, during: Nat-s