When melancholy meets the sea waters…
Have you ever felt like you want to express something, but you can not cry because the tears are behind your eyes?
Do you want to be left alone just to brood and allow emotions to flow through you?
Or maybe you have dreams of the past that wake you up in the middle of the night with a nostalgic feeling?
These are some characteristics of the Natrum muriaticum state.
Natrum Muriaticum is an essential ingredient in our lives, without which we can not function. It is made of salt that we cook with, bathe in the sea, or drink as mineral water.
Natrum Muriaticum is a fascinating remedy which not only comes as a C potency remedy but is also a part of 12 essential Cell Salts (Tissue salts) in X (D) potency that are essential for our body, as based on the work of Dr. Wilhelm Heinrich Schuessler, who developed the system of 12 Cell salts (Tissue salts) in the 19th century.
Natrum Muriaticum in the form of a cell salt is the water-distributing cell salt. It enters into the composition of every fluid and solid of the body. Because of its powerful affinity for water, it controls the ebb and flow of the bodily fluids. Its prime function is to maintain a proper degree of moisture throughout the system. Without this cell salt, cell division and normal growth would not be possible.
Natrum Muriaticum is closely associated with nutrition, with glandular activity and with the internal secretions which play such an important part in the physiological process.
Natrum Muriaticum, as a homeopathic remedy, is a profound remedy that goes very deep into your body.
It can make an enormous shift in your emotional and physical symptoms.
‘Tears of salt’ evoke deep sorrow, grief, and the painful weight of emotional experience. For example, Federico Garcia Lorca writes of ‘salt-waters’ of the sea representing tears and bitterness.
These descriptions have a lot to do with the emotional picture of Nat Mur, which is the top and amazing remedy for prolonged grief, sadness and loss.
Natrum Muriaticum is a remedy that, more gently, helps to express emotional wounds, memories and grief that resonate beyond simple sadness.
Natrum Muriaticum state is a melancholy state in a sensitive and refined individual who is easily wounded by criticism, rejection, loss, or insult. The wound is so deep that they want to be left alone to be able to cry the salt through the tears. They often build a psychological wall around themselves to protect further hurt. They tend to be introverted, very responsible and perfectionist with emotions going inwards.
Looking at the constitutional picture, Nat Mur children are often underweight and may have a history of delayed development, often a delay in speech and learning. They tend to be calmer when left alone, well-behaved and more mature children beyond their age.
General characteristics of Natrum Muriaticum:
Thirsty, mainly for cold drinks. Craving salt, vinegar, and pickles. Feels better after perspiring. Feels worse in heat, especially the heat of the sun, and will stay out of the sun.
Irregularities in appetite – can lose appetite, then get hungry very fast. The stomach is strongly affected. Sensation of weakness. Mucous membranes are dry. Tendency to constipation. Mentally tired.
The top indications Natrum Muriaticum:
- Prolonged silent grief, crying when alone and isolating from social life
- Feeling disconnected or overwhelmed with the desire to be left alone
- Headaches from intense mental effort, emotional upset or sun exposure
- Frontal headaches with pain over the eyes
- Eye infections with streaming eyes aggravated by open air or wind
- Colds with egg-white clear discharges with lots of sneezing and streaming with
- A loss of taste and/or smell
- Hayfever with sensitivity to sun, streaming bland discharges from nose and eyes with lots of sneezing, discharges become clear like egg white with loss of taste and smell
- Cold sores with a pearly appearance, often with a crack in the middle of the lips. The lips and corners of the mouth are dry and often cracked
- Mouth ulcers, especially those on the lips, with a pearly appearance
- Skin: eczema, psoriasis and acne; skin conditions often with crusty eruptions around the margin of the hair
- Hair loss or/and amenorrhea due to grief, infertility
- Insomnia from disagreeable thoughts, grief or bereavement (Ignatia)
- Back pain and low back pain, better by lying on something
- Constipation resulting from emotional distress, causing dry, crumbling stools (dryness)
- Breech baby before delivery when there is too little amniotic fluid, with the mother being of a more closed-up nature (dryness, water balancer)
- Toothache with flow of tears and saliva
teeth sensitive to touch, brushing, warmth and air - Frothy feeling on the tongue with a sense of dryness and scorbutic gums
- Thyroid disorders
- Malaria, shingles and trigeminal neuralgia
Modalities:
Worse for – heat of the sun, summer, being by the sea, dampness, mental exertion, strong emotions, music, talking, full moon.
Better for – open air, deep breathing, sweating, lying on the right side, resting, fasting.
Natrum Muriaticum remedy has a great relation with the remedy Apis, and often in the acute states of Natrum Muriaticum, the remedy Apis will be indicated.
It feels like Natrum Muriaticum is a remedy we all will need at some stage of our lives, as it is a sacred essence of life in the form of salt.
Let it flow through you so the sacred cell-waters are back to balance.
Top Ten Indications of 120 Homeopathic remedies, A. Gladstone Clarke
Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica, William Boericke, M.D.
Nature’s Materia Medica by Robin Murphy ND
Radar Opus Online repertory
Remedy prescriber by Ainsworths