An old homeopathic remedy the pathogenesis of which appears in Vol IV. of the Chronic Diseases. Its principal employment may be summed up as follows: cases of anemia, malnutrition and emaciation; nutritive defects with profound blood poverty; the blood partakes of a scorbutic nature, producing inflammation, ulceration and distinct dyscrasiae; it produces and cures a cachexia similar to that which results from ague, plus quinin.

A serous discharge is the leader to the drug; its catarrhs are characterized by secretions of transparent, watery, frothy mucus. The tongue is clean or is broad and puffy with a pasty coat.

It is specifically a remedy in depressed mental states. Headaches; itching scurvy eruptions; backaches; nasal catarrhs; neuralgias and fevers of an intermittent type, with thirst and chilliness; fever blisters on the lips, and profuse sweats. It is a wonderful remedy in anemic conditions and in depraved cachexia with emaciation.

Characteristic Symptoms Of Natrum Muriaticum

1. Headache as if bursting; beating and stitches through the neck and chest, with heat in head, red face, nausea and vomiting before, during and after menses; or during the fever stage, decreasing gradually after the sweats.

2. Lips dry, cracked, upper lip swollen; eruption around the mouth.

3. Blisters like pearls upon the lips, especially in intermittent fever.

4. Much complaint about the dryness of the tongue, which is not very dry.

5. Great aversion to bread, of which she was once very fond.

6. When throat and neck of children emaciate rapidly, during summer complaint.

7. Constipation, with sensation of constriction of the anus; difficult expulsion of stool which fissures the anus, with flow of blood, leaving a sensation of much soreness.

8. Irregular intermission of the beating of the heart and pulse, . especially when lying on the left side.

9. Intermittent fever, especially inveterate or badly treated cases, after quinin in damp regions or on newly turned ground; chill at 10 or 11 A. M.