Natrium carbonicum
Remedy of sensitivity to sun and heat with digestive weakness. Cannot digest milk or starchy food. Weak ankles that turn easily. Cheerful, self-sacrificing person who avoids conflict. Chronic effects of sunstroke.
Source
Prepared from sodium carbonate (Na2CO3), triturated and potentised.
Available Potencies
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Keynote Symptoms
Sun sensitivity — headache from sun, worse in summer heat, chronic effects of sunstroke. Digestive weakness — cannot tolerate milk, starch, vegetables. Weak, easy-spraining ankles. Cheerful, self-sacrificing nature but cannot cope with conflict. Produces separation — cannot connect emotionally while maintaining boundaries.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Cheerful, accommodating, self-sacrificing — the peacemaker. Avoids all conflict and confrontation. Sensitive to music — weeping from music. Difficulty concentrating. Comprehension slow. Anxious during thunderstorms. Estranged from certain family members — produces distance.
General Symptoms
Worse from sun, heat, summer, milk, starchy food, mental exertion, music, drafts, thunderstorms, 5 AM. Better from moving about, rubbing, pressure, sweating, eating.
Physical Symptoms
Head
Headache from sun exposure. Worse from mental exertion. Feels too large. Chronic effects of sunstroke.
Nose
Chronic catarrh. Posterior nasal drip. Coryza.
Stomach
Cannot digest milk — diarrhea from milk. Starch disagrees. Weak digestion. Sour eructations. Hungry at 5 AM. Ravenous then suddenly no appetite.
Abdomen
Flatulence, distension. Rumbling. Colic from milk.
Rectum
Diarrhea from milk, fruit, vegetables, starch. Sudden, gushing. Yellow.
Extremities
Weak ankles — constantly spraining, turning. Ankle gives way when walking. Feet sore from walking. Blisters on toes.
Skin
Herpes. Warts on palms. Miliary eruptions from sun.
Modalities
Better From
Moving about, rubbing, pressure, sweating, eating, boring into ears
Worse From
Sun, heat, summer, milk, starch, mental exertion, music, drafts, thunderstorms, 5 AM, sitting
Constitutional Type
Self-sacrificing, accommodating individuals who avoid conflict. Sun-sensitive. Digestively weak. Weak ankles. Often fair-haired.
Clinical Indications
Sun sensitivity, chronic headache, weak ankles, milk intolerance, digestive weakness, sunstroke effects, peacemaker personality
Comparative Materia Medica
Natrum muriaticum also has sun sensitivity but is more reserved and worse from consolation. Glonoinum has sunstroke but with more violent throbbing. Calcarea carbonica has milk intolerance but is chilly and sweaty.
Safety Information
Arsenicum album, Camphora, Spiritus nitri dulcis.
Sodium carbonate (washing soda) is mildly irritating in concentrated form. Widely used industrially. Low toxicity. Safe in all potencies.
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