Natrum Carb 200 Uses, Benefits, Antidote: In this article, we will explore the characteristics of a patient experiencing Natrum Carb and identify the symptoms that warrant the administration of Natrum Carb as a remedy.

• Gentle, sacrificing
• Cheerful and jocular, even though sad within. Mental fatigue
• Sadness and weeping from music
• Inability to assimilate – emotional (intolerant to certain people) and physical (food allergies, especially milk)
• Worse sun

Source: Mineral kingdom
Synonyms: Carbonate of soda
Prover: Dr Hahnemann

Ailments From: Chronic effects of sunstroke, over study, strain, dietetic error.

Characteristic Mental Symptoms (Psychology)

1. Gentle, refined, selfless individuals.
2. Sympathetic.
3. Self-contained, independent, yet very mild, kind, unselfish. Tendency to sacrifice.
4. Desire to be magnetized, occupation ameliorates.
5. Sensitive to sensual impression.
6. Feels stupefied if he tries to exert himself.
7. Mental weakness and depression.
8. Examination funk after over study.
9. Very sensitive to noise. Starting from noise.
10. Anxious and restless during thunderstorm, due to electrical changes in the atmosphere.
11. Worse from music; music causes great sadness and tendency to suicide.
12. Sadness, religious insanity.
13. Sensitive to the presence of certain people. Aversion to certain people.
14. Cross and irritable.
15. Aversion to company. Indifference to own family or husband.
16. Occupied with sad thoughts.
17. Depressed and irritable, especially after a meal.
18. Delusions, is deserted, forsaken, cannot succeed.
19. Conscientious about trifles
20. Irritability during heat.

Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms

1. Great debility caused by heat of summer and sun; chronic effects of sunstroke.
2. Exhaustion and debility from least efforts, either mental or physical
3. Emaciation, milky white skin, pale face, blue rings around eyes, anaemia, puffiness; chilly patient.
4. Children who cannot tolerate milk but thrive better on cereals. Nervous
   children startle in sleep.

Important Characteristic Features

Head: Aches from SLIGHTEST MENTAL EXERTION, worse from SUN OR WORKING UNDER GAS LIGHT (Glon). Feels too large. Oversensitive hearing. Headaches with return of hot weather. Vertigo from exposure to the Sun.

Nose: All troubles of external nose which may attain a morbid size – pimples and puffiness. Constant coryza; obstruction of nose. CATARRH; BAD SMELL OF NASAL SECRETION. Many troubles of external nose (Caust). POSTERIOR NASAL CATARRH. HAWKING MUCH MUCOUS FROM THE THROAT; WORSE SLIGHTEST DRAUGHT.

Face: Freckles, YELLOW SPOTS, PIMPLES. Swelling of upper lip. Pale with blue rings around the eyes and swollen lids.

Stomach: Feels swollen and sensitive. ill-effects of drinking cold water when overheated. Waterbrash. Hungry at 5 am. VERY WEAK DIGESTION, caused by slightest error of diet. Averse to milk. Depressed after eating. Bitter taste. Old dyspeptics, always belching, have sour stomach and rheumatism. Dyspepsia relieved by soda biscuits.

Bowels: Sudden call for stool. Escapes with haste and noise. YELLOW SUBSTANCE LIKE PULP OF ORANGE IN DISCHARGE. Diarrhoea from milk.

Female: Induration of cervix. Pudenda sore. Bearing down sensation (Sep, Murx). Heaviness; worse, sitting; better by moving. Menses late, scanty, like meat-washings (Nit-ac). Leucorrhoeal discharge, offensive, irritating, preceded by colic.

Respiratory: Dry cough, when coming into a warm room from out of doors. Cough with coldness of left side of breast.

Sleep: Wakes too early in the morning. Amorous dreams. Drowsy during the day.

Extremities: Old sprains. Great weakness of limbs, especially in the morning. EASY DISLOCATION AND SPRAINING OF ANKLES. Foot bends under (Caust). Soreness between toes and fingers. Heel and tendo achilles affected. Chapped hands. The hollow of the knee is painful on motion. Icy coldness upto knees.

Skin: Inclination to perspire easily or dry, rough, cracked skin. Eruption on finger tips, knuckles and toes. Vesicular eruption in patches and circles. Veins full. Soles of feet raw and Sore.

General Modalities

Aggravation: Heat of sun, music, mental or physical exertion, 5 am, milk,
dietetic errors, drafts, vegetables, starchy foods, cold drinks when overheated, sitting, heat, THUNDERSTORM, changes of weather.

Amelioration: Motion, rubbing, eating, pressure, wiping with hand, boring into the nose or ears with fingers, sweating.

Remedy Relationships

Complementary: Calc, Nux-v, Puls, Sel, Sep, Sulph.

Follows well: Sep in bearing down sensation.

Antidoted by: Ars, Camph.

Compare: Lyc, Mag-m, Nat-m, Sil, Staph.

Comparison

Sodium bicarbonate: In vomiting of pregnancy with acetonuria; 30 grains in water twenty four hours

Natrium sulphuricum, Causticum, Natrium cacodylicum: Foul breath; halitosis. Dry dermatitis of the skin of abdomen. Malignant growths. In phthisis, 5 centigrammes hypodermically, daily. Increases number of red blood corpuscles to double. Also in MALIGNANT DISEASES.

Arsynal (Disodium methylarsenate): Introduced by M.A. Gautier; for phthisis in the second stage, 4 to 6 centigrammes per day for one week followed by a week’s intermission. But much smaller doses, that is, 1x to 3x are followed by improvement, lessened fever, night sweat and haemoptysis ceasing.

Potency: 3x, 6x, 12x.

Quotations

Nat-c has helped when the cervix is enlarged or has a congenital defective growth of the anterior vaginal wall – Dr Farrington

Therapeutic Value: Cystitis, Eczema, Food allergies, Gastritis, Headache, Herpes, Infertility, Irritable bowel syndrome, Multiple sclerosis, Peptic ulcer, Urethritis.

A distinctive symptom of Natrum Carb is the patient experiencing fatigue even with minimal mental exertion. Their ability to think and engage in mental tasks is impaired, resulting in fatigue when mental work is attempted.

Headaches commence, accompanied by the onset of dizziness. Even if this were the sole symptom of this medicine, its value would persist, as we frequently encounter individuals daily whose minds persistently experience fatigue.

For such issues, employing Natrum Carbonicum in a 30 potency has proven to be successful.

One symptom associated with this remedy is the patient developing indifference towards family members, friends, etc. They prefer to distance themselves from human society and lack the inclination to maintain relationships with people in the community.

He perceives a substantial gap between himself and others at home or in the world, a gap that appears insurmountable. There is a reluctance even to encounter the faces of specific individuals.

A similar indifference towards family members is also observed in Sepia. The depression associated with Natrum Carb is profound, to the extent that listening to music evokes tears, sadness, and even suicidal thoughts. While this depressed demeanor is present in all Natrum (Sodium) substances, Natrum Carb is particularly characterized by such a profound depressive attitude.

Individuals who experience headaches due to sun exposure find relief with Natrum Carb. Headaches induced by sun heat are also present in Glonoin, Lachesis, and Lysine. While we have discussed the first two in suitable contexts, Lysine has not been elaborated upon.

Lysine’s headache is aggravated by the sound of running water or bright light.

In numerous individuals, a persistent cold manifests, with nasal discharge continually dripping down the back of the nose and into the throat, leading to pronounced coughing.

Thick mucus comes out from the throat, and whatever comes out gets collected in the throat through the nose.

In the case of Natrum Carb and Bryonia, conditions such as cough and cold are either induced or exacerbated by transitioning from a cold environment to a warm one. Conversely, in Rumex, the dynamic is reversed. Moving from a warm place to a cold one tends to escalate ailments like cough and cold.

Numerous women face challenges in conceiving due to their physical condition, wherein the muscle constriction in their vagina is excessively loose and relaxed, causing the man’s semen to flow out instead of remaining inside. Such women should be given Natrum Carb.

5 main points of Natrum Carb should be kept in mind:-

• Aversion to company, even with loved ones.
• Afraid of facing people.
• Headache in summer, sunlight
• The patient feels cold, feels cool, abhors open air, feels comfortable indoors, gets relief by covering.
• Only headache occurs in summer.
• Stomach upset after eating even a little. Stomach pain reduces after eating but eating also causes diarrhea.
• Its patient is unable to digest milk at all.
• Feels extremely thirsty.