Sodium Sulphate-Na O SO3 10aq
General
Ailments which are (<). by, or which depend upon, dampness of weather, damp houses or cellars [Aran.]. Patient feels every change from dry to wet; cannot tolerate sea air, nor eat plants that thrive near water; a constitution in which the gonorrhoeal poison is most pernicious; recovers slowly from every sickness. Every spring, skin affections reappear [Psor.]. Inability to think [Nat. c.]. Sad, gloomy, irritable; worse in morning; dislikes to speak or be spoken to [Iod., Sil.]. Depressed; lively music makes her sad; satiety of life; must use great self-control to prevent shooting himself. Mental traumatism; mental effects from injuries to head; chronic brain effects of blows, falls. Granular lids: like small blisters [Thuja]; green pus and terrible photophobia; gonorrhoeal or sycotic. Nosebleed during menses [instead of menses, Bry., Puls.]. Toothache (>) by cold water, cool air [Coff. Puls.]. Dirty, greenish-gray or brown coating on tongue. Diarrhoea: sudden, urging, gushing, much flatus; on first rising and standing on the feet; after a spell of wet weather; living or working in basements. Gonorrhoea: greenish-yellow, painless, thick discharge [Puls.]; chronic or suppressed [thick, green, Kali iod.]. Dyspnoea: desire to take a deep breath during damp, cloudy weather. Humid asthma in children; with every change to wet weather; with every fresh cold; always worse in damp, rainy weather; sputa green, greenish, copious [greenish gray, Cop.]. Sycotic pneumonia: lower lobe of left lung; great soreness of chest, during cough, has to sit up in bed and hold the chest with both hands [Nic. - r. Lung, Bry.]. Spinal meningitis: violent crushing gnawing pains at base of brain; head drawn back; spasms with mental irritability and delirium; violent congestion of blood to head; delirium; opisthotonos.
Relations
Compare: Nat. m. and Sulph, which are very similar; Thuja and Merc. in syphilis and sycosis occurring in hydrogenoid constitutions.
Aggravation
Damp basements or dwellings; damp weather [Aran., Ars. i., Dul.]; rest lying.
Amelioration
Dry weather; pressure, sitting up [cough]; changing position [but (>). in wet weather, Caust.]; open air. Must change position frequently, but it is painful and gives little relief [Caust.].