– Tarkas P. and Ajit Kulkarni.

Common Salt

Region

Absorption and

Nutrition

Mucous membranes

Mucous-glands

Thyroid

Lymphatics

Liver. Spleen

Spine

Solar plexus (?)

Worse

HEAT : Sun, summer,

Room. Hot damp (not cold damp)

Marsh exposure. Wetting

Sea-side. Seabath

Winter exposure

PERIODICALLY :

Morning till 10 am or noon; forenoon. Small hours of morning, 2,3,5,8,9,10,11 am

Every 12 hours; 10 or 12 am/pm. Begin or end at 10 am, 12 noon, 4 pm to midnight. 5,6,7 pm

Daytime; with the Sun

Alternate days. Fifth day

Moon : full; waxing; 1st quarter

Before menses

Puberty

Depletions: Loss of fluids Onanism

Trauma: mental (grief, sympathy, frustration, anger, bad news, horrid scene altercation)

Exertion. Motion

Long talk. Noise

Suppressed: malaria, headache, sweat

Touch. Mild pressure

Immunizations

Eating; soon after, 2-3 hours after, during digestion, breakfast Carbohydrates. Abuse of salt, sour, silver salts, bread, fat. Quinine Alu. Zinc

Better

Cool : Bath, open air

Seaside. Evening (mind)

Sleep. Being let alone

Fasting

Moderate exercise

Deep breathing

Rubbing

Rest. Lying; on back (not on one (l.) side)

Hard pressure (back)

Sweating. Stool

Lying on l. side (dyspnea)

Music

Unbalanced. Hydric. Heliophobic

Chlorotic. Salophilic. Cachectic

Calcareous. Scorbutic. Exudative

Highlights : Depressed. Irritable. Bloated. Dry. Thirsty. Constipated. Catarrhal. Intermittency, often regular.

In health salt assists digestion and nutrition, regulates osmosis and holds the fibrin and albumin in solution. Its abuse may produce Nat-m. (or Nit-s-d. or Pho.) condition.

Biochemically : Salt within the cell attracts water from the intercellular fluid keeping it moist and aiding mitosis. It is the great regulator of osmotic pressure in blood vessels, thereby keeping the blood-serum at an uniform specific gravity (and volume). It thus controls the distribution of utilizable water in the system (while Nat-s. turns out of leucocytes waste water). Thus, Nat-m. presides over water in arteries, Nat-s. that in veins. In depletion of salt, water is retained in intercellular spaces and hydraemia results, excess in some parts and dryness in other: an unequal distribution of water and serous fluids in the cells and intercellular spaces, resulting in symptoms attributed to Nat-m.

Three substances are of largest natural distribution, and almost freely available: Carbon, Salt, Silica; and these three our precious metals: Platinum, Argentum, Aurum. Both groups represent the three miasms respectively : Psora, Sycosis, Syphilis. The first group has a moderately deep action; the second very deep action.

Make-up : Persons with pale, shiny, bloated, greasy, downy, pentagonal face; cheek bones prominent; chilly, weak and restless; having unequal-unbalanced body- build, growth and even emaciation. The oxygenoid; demineralized.Tubercular.

Covers both extremes: in physical formation fatty or thin, ugly or shapely; mentally intelligent or imbecile, timid or bold; shrewd or bungling; flattery-hater or lover; emotionally sympathetic or cruel; objective or controlled at mental level, immature at emotional level; highly moral or depraved- pervert; generous or greedy; good sense of humor or none; in behaviour fastidious or untidy; discreet or crude artless; hostile or amiable; will strong or poor; antirest or lazy; overfunction or dysfunction, e.g. hair grows exuberantly or falls off in clusters; growth rapid or slow; oversexed or frigid. In short, a bipolar remedy.

Mental make-up : Conflict between self-love and self- denial. Individuals where the heart rules the head.

Fastidious, but careless. Contemptuous; hates persons who once offended him; malevolent, takes everything en mal; immature, yet obstinate; narrow- minded, malicious; wants things exclusively (like Ars.).

A man in search of his ego. Creates a wall around himself. Introverts; reserved; non-communicative, silent in grief, weeps in solitude. Friendless. A kill-joy. Has to work constantly at being happy. Unbalanced; unstrung nerves; hysterical. Vulnerable at emotional level. Given to excesses everywhere (in work, habits, sex or even in anti-social activities); angel in society, devil at home; nice to know, difficult to live with. Slippery or undependable; artistic but tactless; have injustifiable antipathy (prejudice) against certain people; torn by emotional conflicts; lovers of past, but also dwell too much on unpleasant past occurences, grievances or depressing subjects and harbours resentment over them with no inclination to forget or forgive. Time instead of healing serves to crystallize the rebuffs. Unpredictable. Sensitive to small noises, not to loud one. Ungrateful.

Hasty, active, fidgety, the anti-rest, “restless even while resting.” And a great hustler, “never takes rest, never gives rest.” Hence often awkward too.

Abnormal, increased mental faculty with reduced rationality or feeling. Answers a sentiment very much enhanced or with a contrary sentiment. Generous (even lavish) but slow to pay dues. Excess of greed, leading to kleptomania, even if affluent. A non- conformist. Dogmatic. Schizophrenic. A snob. An antifuss; refuses help, sympathy or consolation. Unscrupulous, promiscuous, incestuous, lecherous (under religious garb -Tarn.).

Children : Learn to walk early but to talk late or vice-versa. Brought up in domestic disharmony. Hostile to parents, esp. father. Problem child : coming down with breath-holding spasm, asthma, enuresis etc.;also behavioural problems like temper tantrums, kleptomania, thumb-sucking, nail-biting, juvenile delinquency; cry, when looked at, esp. pampered children; a prodigy. Obstinate; demanding; fights for things he wants. Leader in school with competitive spirit. Estranged / displaced children. Mute. Backward; idiotic, mongol, moron, cretin. Infant who did not cry after birth; high grade malnutrition with undeveloped speech centre.

Old people, marrying young girls.

Tissues

Hydric tendency, with unequal distribution, excess of water in one place, none in others. Blood discharged is watery. Effusion in serous cavities (pleura, peritoneum, pericardium). Serum collects in joints; closed sacs (e.g. hydrocele, hydrocephalus).Dropsies, after malaria, after alum. Ascites. Hydro – thorax. Elephantiasis. Oedema : face, lips, feet; anasarca. Dropsy: cardiac; (hepatic).

Malnutrition diseases; Addison’s disease. Goitre. Anemia. Leucocytosis. Leukemia.

Fissures; lips dry and cracked, esp. in the middle, also commisseurs, skin and around nails; between toes.

Nails: faulty, brittle, thickened, flat, split, sensitive, ingrowing, ribbed, “hangnails split up the side of the nails” (?).

Emaciation; unequal, neck scrawny, collar bone prominent, but hips and legs remain plump and round. Or neck may be bulky; or full bosom and thin below. E. descending or ascending.

Mucous membranes : Exudative, acrid, slimy, watery, frothy, later thick white like boiled starch or white of egg (Alum.).Or tendency to dryness of some MM with inflammation or erosion.

Glands : Swollen – submaxillary, cervical (also sore when coughing); goitre.

Blood : Scurvy. Haemorrhages, circulation irregular; weak (icy coldness of body). Purpura hemorrhagica. Hodgkin’s disease. Leukemia. Raynaud’s disease; idiopathic trophoneurosis leading to cyanosis and gangrene.

Joints : Arthritis, subacute or chronic; after frustrations, resentment etc. or based on some dyscrasia (as malaria). Joints stiff; crack; pains fixed; contraction in; constriction; synovitis; gouty concretions.

Growths : Warts (on palms etc.); hard, horny. Corns painful, stitching in. Polypi. Dermoid tumor on edges of eyelid. Fibroma.

Organic changes: Practically all sclerotic / degenerative conditions like arthritis deformans, malignancy, sclerosis, HBP, Addison’s disease, myasthenia gravis and so on call for Nat-m., a deep acting antisycotic and tubercular. Scleroderma. Scirrhus. Epithelioma (of malarial origin etc). Dupuytren’s contracture . Thrombo-angitis obliterans, with intermittent claudication. Arterio-sclerosis. Atheroma. Atrophy.

Nerves Oversensitive to all sorts of influences, external (like noise, light, heat) or internal (emotions); but not so to smell or pain.

Pains : pulsating, hammering, bursting, stitching, splinter, constricting. Worse : touch, motion. Better : cold, hard pressure.

Numbness : Of parts lain on, of one side, nose, lips, tongue, lumbar region, (fore) arm, hand (r.), fingers, legs (during siesta), foot (l or ascending), toes. Tingling in nose, lips, tongue, limbs, finger (tips), toes.

A general nervous trembling, internal T; T. and sweat from tobacco; morning, before breakfast, noon (after sleep), before sleeping. Intention tremors. In hand when writing. Twitching.

Cramps : Arms, hands, fingers, legs, feet, (toes). Deficiency of salt causes cramps. Professional neuroses.

Weakness: Morning in bed, (>) after rising; after eating; in evening. Paralytic W. in limbs with stiffness, shortening of tendons, hamstrings. Hysterical weakness. Tremulous W.

Paralysis: From pains, nervous exhaustion, sexual excesses, intermittents, diphtheria, emotions (anger etc.), spinal. P. of lower limbs, after anger, grief, diphtheria. “A sort of hemiplegia from nightly pains” (Boger). Paralytic sensation in parts. Post-apoplectic hemiplegia.

Chorea : After fright; after suppression of eruptions; r. side; full moon.

Spasms : Febrile; at full moon; 08-11 am. Traumatic tetanus with bubbles from mouth.

Epilepsy after vaccinations, immunizations, malaria, quinine, from tubercular heredity. Petit mal, suppr. measles, retarded brain. Before : general nervous feeling, twitchings.

Locomotor ataxia. Awkwardness; jumps up and down regardless of near objects.

Peculiar symptoms

1. Intolerance of Summer and Sun. As a part of their defence mechanism they have instinctively to resort to taking salt and water.

2. Anomalies : Irritable from trifles, not from big problems; they may cause great mischief. Sensitive to small noises, not to loud. Seems to enjoy his melancholia. Though a good person, is difficult to live or pull on with. Sweat relieves itching.

3. Greasy skin with aversion to fats.

4. Metastases: of pains of mumps to testes; of malaria.

5. Suppr. neuralgias lead to eczema, phthisis or insanity.

6. An orderly disorder; symptoms usually begin (or end) at a definite hour; every 12 hours. A regular ague (like Chin.). Pulse intermits regularly. Stool only on alternate days.

7. Lop-sided, unbalanced (see-saw like) functions (see Make- up).

8. Autism : automatic conduct during un-consciousness or sleep.

9. Reflex discharges: tears from pain or cough; salivation with toothache; from shake-up; face sweats or nose drips while eating, urine spurts while coughing, sneezing etc. 10.Tendency to deposits: on teeth, in kidneys, on joints; “the calcareous.”

11. Congenital malformations from muscular contractions. (Rub salt).

12. Extremes : see Make-up.

13. Opposities : Some parts cold, others hot (irregular circulation). Some part boggy, others dry (e.g. lachrymation with general dryness). Some parts emaciated, others obese. Drowsy during day, sleepless at night. Chilly during day, hot at night. Fear of open space as well as closed rooms. Past lover as well as hater. Active, or lazy. Claustrophobia or agoraphobia.

14. Contradictory symptoms : Chilly but Heliophobic and () by cold air, clothing. Itching (>) after perspiration. Cold drinks (>) chill. Weak digestion with bulimy. Loses flesh while eating well. Hunger without appetite. Emptiness not (>) by eating. Weepy but not (>) by consolation. More irritable when consoled. Hatred of those who love her intensely. Generous, but avoids payments, or schemes for selfish ends. A good person but difficult to pull on with. Or, strangely, two pugnacious, irascible, tantrumy Nat-m. persons making a happy couple. Sympathetic, but resents sympathy. Fastidious but careless. Tears from laughing. Thirsty during chill, but thirstless during heat (Ign.), thirsty during sweat again. Menses early and copious or late and scanty. Chilly but averse to Sun. 15. Alternations : Hyperaesthesia and numbness. Restlessness and inertia. Irritability and depression. Cheerfulness and sadness. Sleepiness and sleeplessness. Intolerance of heat and chilliness. Thirst and thirstlessness. Temperature too high and too low. Desire for and aversion to the same thing. Violence and goodness. Superiority and inferiority complex. Schizophrenia and asthma. Coryza fluent and dry. Constipation and diarrhea. Palpitation and beating in head. Dandruff and catarrh.

Injuries : Sprains. Shock of l.: threatened collapse with intermittent pulse and great thirst. Chronic effects of injury to head (Nat-s.).Tetanus. Cicatrices become painful. Acupuncture injuries (Hypr.,Led.).

Select Particulars

Mind : Anxiety in stomach rises to head. Epigastric pulsation. Anticipatory anxiety. Apprehension. Hurriedness with anxiety and fluttering at heart. Fear of tunnels, crowds, robbers, people, thunderstorm, evil, insanity, on waking or during menses.

Brain storms (like Proteus, its acute). Sudden outbursts of temper with vindictive rage, tantrums.

Takes everything in bad part; contemptuous. Cave-man sentiments. Irritability etc. fluctuate with the degree of constipation. Aggressive, domineering fellows with ‘fighting’ spirit. Rebellious; anti-establishment; non-conformist; egoistic. Also defensive, closed, cautious.

Frustration, disappointments.Love-failure (rouses e.g. duodenal ulcer). Past rebuffs take possession of her mind. Miserable and makes others too, even cruel.

Sadness in evening, when alone; during chill, heat or sweat; during feminine stages (puberty, before and during menses, pregnancy, climaxis); from constipation, with silent grief.

Sensitive to emotions, to music, over-much delicacy, stool or urine withheld in presence of others, even if there are persons in attached room.

Unconsciousness: from headache, in high fever, frequent blank spells. Fainting, from summer heat, in a warm, close or crowded room; from exertion; during fever. Brain fag.

Head : Vertigo and headache: ocular; catarrhal; gastric; anemic; periodic; of school girls; qualmish. Congestive headaches (bursting, hammering); migraine; tension headaches; reflex; sun ( worst at 12 N.); summer; sick.

Acute spinal meningitis with extreme nervous tension and opisthotonos. Acute diseases result in hydrocephalus or spinal irritation. Sunstroke, cerebral type. Apoplexy.

Hair falling; during lactation,with headache. Dandruff; alternating with catarrh. Humid eczema; scabs. Impetigo.

Eyes : Inflammations. Lachrymation; from pain in distant parts of shake-ups. From obstruction of nasal duct; in open air or wind; periodical. Ulcers. Lids granular; heavy. Ptosis. Strabismus, divergent, () lying on back on a hard bed. Easy or uneasy conception. “A tablespoonful salt in brandy night preceding intercourse aids conception.” -Hering. “Salt eaters seldom have male issues.” Labor pains feeble. During confinement; lochia white, prolonged, milk disappears, hair falls, vulvitis, no recovery (subinvolution).

Mammae : Full bosom but thin below: or atrophied.

Respiratory : Hoarse voice; after silver-nitrate on throat. Laryngitis; after intermittents. Easy dyspnea; (>) lying on (l.) side. Asthma, in small hours of morning, (>) in open air. Loose (sometimes dry) cough () cold, sweat. Eczema fissum rubrum (

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