Common name: Sodium chloride. Table salt.
Chemical formula: NaCl
Both Sodium and Chloride are essential elements located in Row 3 of the Periodic Table of Elements. Sodium combines readily with many elements. The most abundant compound is with Chloride, forming common salt. In the body, Chloride transmits nerve impulses, regulates liquid flow in and out of cells, and regulates the acid/base balance. Sodium chloride is an electrolyte, a substance that conducts electrical current, and within the body is necessary to maintain proper water balance. Although salt is an essential nutrient, too much salt intake can lead to health problems like hypertension, kidney disease, and heart disease. Salt has been used to preserve food for thousands of years and is one of the basic taste sensations.
Natrum muriaticum is a homeopathic remedy that is useful when there is unresolved grief or past emotional trauma. A person needing Nat-mur is highly sensitive and easily wounded, which leads to a state of deep sorrow, even bitterness. It can be difficult to forgive and forget. Instead, a person in this emotional state clings to past hurts and humiliations and lives behind a psychological wall of solitude and emotional suppression. This looking back brings to mind the Biblical account of Lot’s wife, who turned into a pillar of salt. Children who would benefit from Nat-mur are overly responsible, well-behaved, prefer to be alone, and don’t like to be hugged or fussed over. Yet they are overly sensitive and emotionally vulnerable, desiring affection but rejecting it.
Keynotes:
- Very responsible, overly proper, too serious, feelings of guilt
- Closed, defensive, cautious, reserved
- Easily offended or hurt, sensitive to criticism, rejection, and insults
- Desire for solitude, introversion, melancholy, averse to consolation
- Dwells on past disagreeable or traumatic experiences, brooding, holds grudges
- Silent grief, ailments from grief or disappointed love, ailments from humiliation
- Depression, suicidal thoughts
- Perfectionist, fastidious, excessive control
- PMS with irritability and sadness
- Sadness without weeping, sighing, involuntary tears, hysteria
- Loyal and dedicated to family and loved ones, sympathetic
- Sensitive to noise and music
- Warm-blooded, aggravation from the sun, better from perspiration
- Twitches of the face and head, tics
- Heart palpitations worse at night, worse from noise
- Anemia
- Migraines, headaches from grief, “like hammers beating the head,” worse 10 am – 3 pm
- Insomnia from past griefs and disagreeable occurrences, vivid dreams
- Craves salt, thirsty for ice cold drinks
- Hay fever, colds begin with sneezing, watery eyes, loss of taste and smell
- Cold sores on the lips and at corners of the mouth, canker sores in the mouth
- Dry cracked lips, cracked fingertips or nails
- Bleeding hemorrhoids, constipation, stress incontinence
- Low back pain better from lying on something hard
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