Natrum causticum [Nat-caust]:
-Jan Scholten
Natrum causticum is an alkali, sometimes called caustic soda. Its homoeopathic properties are unknown so far. I will not distinguish between the oxide and the alkali for the purpose of the overall picture, as they are closely related to each other: Na2O Plus H20 (>) 2NaOH.
Signature
Natrum causticum is used to unblock drains. It is also used to clean wounds and to remove bacteria and fungi from glass.
Concepts
Natrum Causticum
Impulsive relationships Idealism
Changing contacts Injustice
Vulnerable Indignant
Lack of perseverance Abuse
Withdrawn Victim
Alone Lonely Corruption
Closed Silent
Group Analysis
Abused due to impulsive behaviour.
Indignant about being left alone.
Hurt by corruption.
Being left alone because they always ask for attention.
A lonely victim.
A silent tramp.
Picture of Natrum causticum
Essence: Abused due to their impulsive behaviour.
Abused because of their own impulsive behaviour They have a strong tendency to make contact with others on a sudden impulse. It is their need to be appreciated that makes them do this, but they don't stop to think beforehand whether the other person is suitable, or whether he even wants this. This leads to situations where they get abused because of their own naive behaviour.
Indignant about being left alone They are extremely sensitive to both rejection and lack of appreciation. They get very indignant at the slightest hint of rejection. They want to feel appreciated even in the most everyday conversation and when the other person doesn't make a special effort to say how much he values them they immediately feel hurt. So they are bound to get disappointed many times, especially in the beginning of a relationship, when appreciation hasn't had a chance to develop yet. As soon as they feel rejected they give up on the relationship altogether.
One single person who appreciates them
They like to have one single person who shows that he or she cares, such as a boyfriend or girlfriend who is there to take care of them, to support them and to tell them that they are being appreciated. The need to have this reaffirmed all the time stems from their own insecurity and weakness. When they hear how much they are appreciated they feel stronger and also less lonely.
Hurt by corruption
They have a strong sense of justice and easily take up the fight for a good cause. They are very sensitive to corruption, lies and dirty tricks. They are quite likely to fight things out in court, especially because they feel that nobody else will do it for them anyway. They often feel very alone in their fight for worthy causes.
Left alone because they seek attention
They have very high expectations and feel that others should give them all the attention and appreciation they deserve. When this is not immediately forthcoming they tend to moan like a spoilt child. However, this emotionally immature behaviour puts other people off, as they feel pressurised and soon decide to leave them to their own devices.
A lonely victim
Eventually they begin to feel like a very lonely victim, like a wallflower totally ignored and left out. Nobody takes any notice of them anymore, nobody cares. They feel like a piece of dirt.
At the same time they feel that nobody needs their appreciation either, nobody is waiting for what they have to give, either in the form of love and attention, or support, or money or whatever.
This situation often comes about after the death of a partner or parents or friends.
A silent tramp
In even more extreme cases they may resort to living like a tramp. They let themselves go because they are not worth anything to anybody. Nobody cares about them, nobody is waiting for them anymore. They get depressed and empty and feel there is no point in living. There is no hope of a better future, nothing to look forward to. They end up doing nothing, neglecting themselves and sometimes even committing suicide.
Expressions
Fear: alone (3), loss of relations, death, future, people, insects, wasps, mosquitoes, bees, large dogs (2).
Mood: sadness, gloomy, melancholic, pessimistic, thinking of the past.
Mental: nervous tension, tired, problems concentrating.
Sexual: (<) sex, feeling asexual. Art: (>) music, soft, classical, piano.
Generals
Build: thin.
Weather: warm, (<) heat, (>) outside, (<) mountains, (<)(<) sun, (>) shade, (<)(>) sea.
Perspiration: copious (<)(<)nylon and synthetic materials. Time: (<) 11am, (<) winter. Desires: salt (3), starch, bread, fish, alcohol, sweet (3), chocolate, egg, milk, chicken, tobacco. Aversion: salt, fish, spices, sour, lemon. Food: (<) fat, cheese, butter, pork, milk, starch, (>) alcohol.
Menses: impatient and depressed before menses.
Sleep: much (2), light, wakes up at slightest sound.
Physical: (<) exertion (2), (>) rest (2), (<) smoke, (<) lying on left side. Complaints Tiredness, low B.P. Vertigo, blackness before eyes. Headaches, (<) sun. Headache, pressing, above right eye, eyebrow feels pressed down, (<) working, talking, (>) rest.
Sinusitis, swelling of lymph glands.
Strabismus with left eye turned in. Right eye short sighted, left eye far sighted and lazy.
Nose blocked, epistaxis.
Throat dry, tickling, (<) talking. Loss of voice. Coughs up white lumps. Retrolental fibroplasia. Blindness. Hyperventilation. Liver problems, liver insufficiency, hepatogenic toxemia. Kidney problems. Burning of the feet. Vitiligo. DD: Carbon series, Silicium series, Stage 1 and 16, Causticum, Lithiums, Magnesium, Neon. Case A 40 year old woman has a nervous breakdown. She feels tired and depressed, and doesn't feel like doing anything. She cannot concentrate. She feels suicidal and wants to cut her wrists. Everything is worse when she has lots to do, when she has to take care of herself and when the weather is warm and damp. When she drinks alcohol things go a little better, and it helps her through the day. She has suffered from periodic bouts of depression for 15 years. She has no work; she is doing a course to become a librarian, but it isn't going very well because she can't concentrate. She has never had a relationship because she feels asexual and she is a lesbian. She is a rational type of person but underneath lies an emotionally immature little child. Her father was like this too: he had the tendency to make life as difficult as he possibly could. She feels very alone, although she says that she is very kind and loyal. She tends to stick to her guns, especially because nobody ever supports her. She once lodged a complaint against a woman psychiatrist and took her to court because of improper treatment. Apparently this psychiatrist had asked her G.P. for some background information without asking her first, and had called her a spoilt child. She is an only child and her parents were quite old when she was born. Her father never showed much feeling, he was only interested in school reports. He always talked school and duties. Her relationship with her mother was very good, almost too good. Her mother had an aversion to sex and her father respected this. Her father used to smoke and drink a lot, especially after her mother died. She is very like her father. She was good at school and her father thought this was very important, although he had been a poor learner. She didnt like art or games. She felt left out because she was interested in homework. She went to dancing lessons for a while because her father told her to. She hated it because she was always a wallflower. She couldn't keep to the rhythm and she didnt like the boys. She also sweated a lot because she had to wear nylon tights and dresses. She often as if felt her feet were on fire. She was often homesick as a child. Her mother died when she was 20 and her father when she was 37. After that she felt as if she didnt belong anywhere. She is afraid of heights (2), insects, wasps, mosquitoes, bees and large dogs (2). When she was a 7 week old baby she had to go to hospital because there was something wrong with her thyroid, so she was given hormones. When she was 14 her thyroid was 100 percent inactive. When she was 4 she had an operation to correct her eyesight: she had a squint in her left eye. When she was 18 she had another operation because her eye was turning towards the outside this time. She still has a squint, she is shortsighted in the right- and far sighted in the left eye. She also has a lazy left eye. When it is sunny she keeps the curtains shut all day, because the windows face south-west. Her mood can best be described by quoting some passages from a letter she wrote to me after the first consultation: I feel that there is nothing to look forward to, and my situation will never improve. I feel like a piece of dirt, nobody is interested in me. All they do in the Crisis centre is to pump you full of anti depressants and then talk about what might have caused the depression. And all a psychiatrist does is to give you electric-shock treatments, then some devastating medicine, and then some talk. I know very well what has caused my depression. What I want is one single person who will stick up for me, who will take care of me when I am unable to do so myself, one single person who really cares whether I am alive or dead. Other people tell me how strong I am, but that is only an excuse so they wont have to do anything. As far as they are concerned I might as well drop dead. Nobody who thinks that I should carry on living is prepared to do anything to help me do this. Nobody wants me to commit suicide, but nobody wants to be there for me either. Nobody wants to care for me until I can manage by myself again. My life is not important to anybody. So why should it be important to me? I have nothing to look forward to, only misery. I find no pleasure in hobbies or in study or in anything. There is nothing to relieve the endless misery. The only thing that would really help me is an unpotentised dose of arsenic. My life is meaningless. Nobody is dependent on me, either emotionally or financially. An easy death is all I desire. The only thing that would change this is if somebody were to come and put his arm around me and tell me: Its you I want to live for: together with you life would be good. I will help you until you feel deep down that life is worth living again. But this is merely an illusion. There is nobody who will do this for me. I wont be missed if you dump me on to the rubbish heap. Generals Weather: (<) damp heat (2), sun and sea; (>) thundery and stormy weather; (>) outside, wind, mountains, woods (2).
Perspiration: (<) damp heat, synthetic clothes. Time: (<) 9 am; (<) summer and December. Desire: milk, yoghurt, alcohol (3), filleted or smoked fish like salmon. Aversion: A hot meal that has gone cold, sour, pepper, fish (3), ginger (2), chicken, tobacco, curry, too much pepper. Food: (<) ginger, curry, lemon juice; (>) alcohol.
Menses: restless and depressed before menses.
Sleep: wakes up at 4 am. and can't sleep again, (<) after alcohol. Analysis The desperation this woman feels is very obvious, together with the feeling of extreme loneliness. This makes us think of Natrum, further confirmed by the desire to have one special person in her life. And what does she expect from this one single person? That he will stick up for her, that he will appreciate her and that he really cares that she stays alive. These themes indicate the Carbon series. Other indications for the Carbon series: she is an emotionally immature child, (<) death of her parents, homesickness, listlessness, asexual. She feels as if she is merely a piece of dirt, which is typical of Oxygen. Adding up all these different pieces we get to Natrum oxidatum which, when dissolved in water, gives Natrum causticum. Her fights against injustice fit with the causticum element. She rebels against the impersonal treatment she gets from the psychiatrist, and from other people who don't want to get involved. Other confirming symptoms for Natrum: wallflower, depressed, suicidal, (<) sun, (<) warm, (>) salt, (<) fish. Other Oxidatum symptoms: suicidal, listless, many fears, (<) heat, (<) damp, not wanting to eat, (>) sweet, (>) and (>) alcohol.
Reaction One month after Natrum causticum 1M she feels a lot better. The utter misery has gone and although the fits of depression still come and go. Six months later she no longer feels suicidal and she has moments when she does not feel depressed anymore. After a year she tells me that other people have started to like her because she no longer bothers them with her sob stories.
Natrum causticum is an alkali, sometimes called caustic soda. Its homoeopathic properties are unknown so far. I will not distinguish between the oxide and the alkali for the purpose of the overall picture, as they are closely related to each other: Na2O Plus H20 (>) 2NaOH.
Signature
Natrum causticum is used to unblock drains. It is also used to clean wounds and to remove bacteria and fungi from glass.
Concepts
Natrum Causticum
Impulsive relationships Idealism
Changing contacts Injustice
Vulnerable Indignant
Lack of perseverance Abuse
Withdrawn Victim
Alone Lonely Corruption
Closed Silent
Group Analysis
Abused due to impulsive behaviour.
Indignant about being left alone.
Hurt by corruption.
Being left alone because they always ask for attention.
A lonely victim.
A silent tramp.
Picture of Natrum causticum
Essence: Abused due to their impulsive behaviour.
Abused because of their own impulsive behaviour They have a strong tendency to make contact with others on a sudden impulse. It is their need to be appreciated that makes them do this, but they don't stop to think beforehand whether the other person is suitable, or whether he even wants this. This leads to situations where they get abused because of their own naive behaviour.
Indignant about being left alone They are extremely sensitive to both rejection and lack of appreciation. They get very indignant at the slightest hint of rejection. They want to feel appreciated even in the most everyday conversation and when the other person doesn't make a special effort to say how much he values them they immediately feel hurt. So they are bound to get disappointed many times, especially in the beginning of a relationship, when appreciation hasn't had a chance to develop yet. As soon as they feel rejected they give up on the relationship altogether.
One single person who appreciates them
They like to have one single person who shows that he or she cares, such as a boyfriend or girlfriend who is there to take care of them, to support them and to tell them that they are being appreciated. The need to have this reaffirmed all the time stems from their own insecurity and weakness. When they hear how much they are appreciated they feel stronger and also less lonely.
Hurt by corruption
They have a strong sense of justice and easily take up the fight for a good cause. They are very sensitive to corruption, lies and dirty tricks. They are quite likely to fight things out in court, especially because they feel that nobody else will do it for them anyway. They often feel very alone in their fight for worthy causes.
Left alone because they seek attention
They have very high expectations and feel that others should give them all the attention and appreciation they deserve. When this is not immediately forthcoming they tend to moan like a spoilt child. However, this emotionally immature behaviour puts other people off, as they feel pressurised and soon decide to leave them to their own devices.
A lonely victim
Eventually they begin to feel like a very lonely victim, like a wallflower totally ignored and left out. Nobody takes any notice of them anymore, nobody cares. They feel like a piece of dirt.
At the same time they feel that nobody needs their appreciation either, nobody is waiting for what they have to give, either in the form of love and attention, or support, or money or whatever.
This situation often comes about after the death of a partner or parents or friends.
A silent tramp
In even more extreme cases they may resort to living like a tramp. They let themselves go because they are not worth anything to anybody. Nobody cares about them, nobody is waiting for them anymore. They get depressed and empty and feel there is no point in living. There is no hope of a better future, nothing to look forward to. They end up doing nothing, neglecting themselves and sometimes even committing suicide.
Expressions
Fear: alone (3), loss of relations, death, future, people, insects, wasps, mosquitoes, bees, large dogs (2).
Mood: sadness, gloomy, melancholic, pessimistic, thinking of the past.
Mental: nervous tension, tired, problems concentrating.
Sexual: (<) sex, feeling asexual. Art: (>) music, soft, classical, piano.
Generals
Build: thin.
Weather: warm, (<) heat, (>) outside, (<) mountains, (<)(<) sun, (>) shade, (<)(>) sea.
Perspiration: copious (<)(<)nylon and synthetic materials. Time: (<) 11am, (<) winter. Desires: salt (3), starch, bread, fish, alcohol, sweet (3), chocolate, egg, milk, chicken, tobacco. Aversion: salt, fish, spices, sour, lemon. Food: (<) fat, cheese, butter, pork, milk, starch, (>) alcohol.
Menses: impatient and depressed before menses.
Sleep: much (2), light, wakes up at slightest sound.
Physical: (<) exertion (2), (>) rest (2), (<) smoke, (<) lying on left side. Complaints Tiredness, low B.P. Vertigo, blackness before eyes. Headaches, (<) sun. Headache, pressing, above right eye, eyebrow feels pressed down, (<) working, talking, (>) rest.
Sinusitis, swelling of lymph glands.
Strabismus with left eye turned in. Right eye short sighted, left eye far sighted and lazy.
Nose blocked, epistaxis.
Throat dry, tickling, (<) talking. Loss of voice. Coughs up white lumps. Retrolental fibroplasia. Blindness. Hyperventilation. Liver problems, liver insufficiency, hepatogenic toxemia. Kidney problems. Burning of the feet. Vitiligo. DD: Carbon series, Silicium series, Stage 1 and 16, Causticum, Lithiums, Magnesium, Neon. Case A 40 year old woman has a nervous breakdown. She feels tired and depressed, and doesn't feel like doing anything. She cannot concentrate. She feels suicidal and wants to cut her wrists. Everything is worse when she has lots to do, when she has to take care of herself and when the weather is warm and damp. When she drinks alcohol things go a little better, and it helps her through the day. She has suffered from periodic bouts of depression for 15 years. She has no work; she is doing a course to become a librarian, but it isn't going very well because she can't concentrate. She has never had a relationship because she feels asexual and she is a lesbian. She is a rational type of person but underneath lies an emotionally immature little child. Her father was like this too: he had the tendency to make life as difficult as he possibly could. She feels very alone, although she says that she is very kind and loyal. She tends to stick to her guns, especially because nobody ever supports her. She once lodged a complaint against a woman psychiatrist and took her to court because of improper treatment. Apparently this psychiatrist had asked her G.P. for some background information without asking her first, and had called her a spoilt child. She is an only child and her parents were quite old when she was born. Her father never showed much feeling, he was only interested in school reports. He always talked school and duties. Her relationship with her mother was very good, almost too good. Her mother had an aversion to sex and her father respected this. Her father used to smoke and drink a lot, especially after her mother died. She is very like her father. She was good at school and her father thought this was very important, although he had been a poor learner. She didnt like art or games. She felt left out because she was interested in homework. She went to dancing lessons for a while because her father told her to. She hated it because she was always a wallflower. She couldn't keep to the rhythm and she didnt like the boys. She also sweated a lot because she had to wear nylon tights and dresses. She often as if felt her feet were on fire. She was often homesick as a child. Her mother died when she was 20 and her father when she was 37. After that she felt as if she didnt belong anywhere. She is afraid of heights (2), insects, wasps, mosquitoes, bees and large dogs (2). When she was a 7 week old baby she had to go to hospital because there was something wrong with her thyroid, so she was given hormones. When she was 14 her thyroid was 100 percent inactive. When she was 4 she had an operation to correct her eyesight: she had a squint in her left eye. When she was 18 she had another operation because her eye was turning towards the outside this time. She still has a squint, she is shortsighted in the right- and far sighted in the left eye. She also has a lazy left eye. When it is sunny she keeps the curtains shut all day, because the windows face south-west. Her mood can best be described by quoting some passages from a letter she wrote to me after the first consultation: I feel that there is nothing to look forward to, and my situation will never improve. I feel like a piece of dirt, nobody is interested in me. All they do in the Crisis centre is to pump you full of anti depressants and then talk about what might have caused the depression. And all a psychiatrist does is to give you electric-shock treatments, then some devastating medicine, and then some talk. I know very well what has caused my depression. What I want is one single person who will stick up for me, who will take care of me when I am unable to do so myself, one single person who really cares whether I am alive or dead. Other people tell me how strong I am, but that is only an excuse so they wont have to do anything. As far as they are concerned I might as well drop dead. Nobody who thinks that I should carry on living is prepared to do anything to help me do this. Nobody wants me to commit suicide, but nobody wants to be there for me either. Nobody wants to care for me until I can manage by myself again. My life is not important to anybody. So why should it be important to me? I have nothing to look forward to, only misery. I find no pleasure in hobbies or in study or in anything. There is nothing to relieve the endless misery. The only thing that would really help me is an unpotentised dose of arsenic. My life is meaningless. Nobody is dependent on me, either emotionally or financially. An easy death is all I desire. The only thing that would change this is if somebody were to come and put his arm around me and tell me: Its you I want to live for: together with you life would be good. I will help you until you feel deep down that life is worth living again. But this is merely an illusion. There is nobody who will do this for me. I wont be missed if you dump me on to the rubbish heap. Generals Weather: (<) damp heat (2), sun and sea; (>) thundery and stormy weather; (>) outside, wind, mountains, woods (2).
Perspiration: (<) damp heat, synthetic clothes. Time: (<) 9 am; (<) summer and December. Desire: milk, yoghurt, alcohol (3), filleted or smoked fish like salmon. Aversion: A hot meal that has gone cold, sour, pepper, fish (3), ginger (2), chicken, tobacco, curry, too much pepper. Food: (<) ginger, curry, lemon juice; (>) alcohol.
Menses: restless and depressed before menses.
Sleep: wakes up at 4 am. and can't sleep again, (<) after alcohol. Analysis The desperation this woman feels is very obvious, together with the feeling of extreme loneliness. This makes us think of Natrum, further confirmed by the desire to have one special person in her life. And what does she expect from this one single person? That he will stick up for her, that he will appreciate her and that he really cares that she stays alive. These themes indicate the Carbon series. Other indications for the Carbon series: she is an emotionally immature child, (<) death of her parents, homesickness, listlessness, asexual. She feels as if she is merely a piece of dirt, which is typical of Oxygen. Adding up all these different pieces we get to Natrum oxidatum which, when dissolved in water, gives Natrum causticum. Her fights against injustice fit with the causticum element. She rebels against the impersonal treatment she gets from the psychiatrist, and from other people who don't want to get involved. Other confirming symptoms for Natrum: wallflower, depressed, suicidal, (<) sun, (<) warm, (>) salt, (<) fish. Other Oxidatum symptoms: suicidal, listless, many fears, (<) heat, (<) damp, not wanting to eat, (>) sweet, (>) and (>) alcohol.
Reaction One month after Natrum causticum 1M she feels a lot better. The utter misery has gone and although the fits of depression still come and go. Six months later she no longer feels suicidal and she has moments when she does not feel depressed anymore. After a year she tells me that other people have started to like her because she no longer bothers them with her sob stories.
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