Nat Mur -- a Cell Salt for Allergies, Headaches, and the Stiff Upper Lip

"Nat Mur – Controls osmotic pressure of fluids to allow nutrients to be carried into cells. In a deficiency of biochemical sodium chloride (the cell salt, not the table salt), fluids tend to build up in one area and be lacking in another. Thus a person with swollen ankles or watering eyes can be constipated with dry stools or have other symptoms of dryness. Headaches are a common result, as are allergies. Emotions can be repressed, held in, preserved, as with salt."

The above is what I wrote about Natrum Muriaticum, sodium chloride, in my soon to be released book, Choosing Cell Salts: A Repertory for Natural Healing and Beauty. Each salt has a short paragraph outlining the basics, hopefully without overwhelming those who need Kali Phos to give them more mental strength, so they can think through their selection. Thank goodness, there are only twelve. It is much easier than learning the hundreds of homeopathic remedies, and treatment with cell salts can easily be managed at home.

To elaborate, Nat Mur is able to relieve symptoms that too much table salt might induce. In provings, or studies where potentized salt is given to healthy subjects, headaches and allergies were a major response. In my book-to-be, you can see how many headache types are relieved by this particular salt. Selected examples from my book's Headaches rubric:

constipation, with (headaches) – Kali Mur, Nat Mur
drowsiness, with – Nat Mur, Nat Sulph
dryness of some mucus membranes, with – Nat Mur
frothy coating on tongue, with – Nat Mur
girls in puberty, in – Nat Mur
heavy – Ferr Phos
       and dull, in the forehead – Nat Mur
light, sensitive to – Calc Phos (Kali Phos, Nat Mur) Silicea
listless subjects, in – Nat Mur
mental exertion, worse from – Calc Phos, Nat Mur
migraines, sick headache – Nat Phos, Nat Mur, Nat Sulph
sun, from the – Nat Mur
tears, watering of eyes, with – Nat Mur
vomiting, with
       frothy, watery phlegm, of, with – Nat Mur
watery symptoms elsewhere, with – Nat Mur

In the light sensitivity rubric, Nat Mur is in parenthesis, meaning it is supportive to the remedy listed before it, outside the parenthesis.

As table salt preserves vegetables and meats, a Nat Mur condition results in a person's preserving emotions, holding it all in, particularly grief. Indeed, the British stiff upper lip is said to have developed in times of great hardship and loss, during war in the homeland. A friend just today told me that she is not herself, nearly bursting into tears in a trying situation. Indeed, she had recently started on Nat Mur in a low potency, which will gently and safely help her to overcome grief that has been making her sick for many years as it balances fluids in her body, alleviating symptoms that she may not even have connected to those suppressed feelings. True, she may find it inconvenient to cry, but certainly it is better than dealing with the symptoms that have caused her suffering for years. 

If you have such headaches and/or allergies, and you have fluid imbalances in your body such as I mentioned in the top paragraph, you can take Nat Mur in a 3X or 6X potency, safely and slowly readjusting the fluids and overcoming the problems this condition causes. 

As for aging symptoms and fading beauty, Nat Mur can help with bloating of the face or body, dry cracked lips and skin, dirty looking skin, sallow, greenish, or yellow skin, inflamed eyelids, redness along the hairline, a greasy looking forehead, various types of eruptions, and so on. Please watch for my book to tell you more!

I will post on another remedy soon.

About the author ~ Debra Brown (call her Debbie) is a fortunate soul to have found homeopathy and at the same time, a mentor in the field, the brilliant Todd Schlapfer, N.D. Under his caring guidance, she learned to care for herself and her family with amazing, powerful homeopathic remedies. While there were bottles of cell salts in her supplements cupboard, she thought of them as terribly mild remedies rather than the profoundly nutritional and gently homeopathically stimulating treatments that they truly are, and so she ignored them. Don't make the same mistake.

When nothing else seemed able to treat her severe foot and leg cramps, Debbie finally gave in and turned to the salts. From the first dose, the cramps stopped, though they threatened for about a week. Within days, facial changes began to show, and in a week or ten days, the cramping that was so painful and persistent had completely disappeared. Now, of course, she wanted to fix everything, especially her face. She found pouring through her several cell salts books to be interesting but time consuming, and she had to make notes. She decided that she needed a repertory similar to Kent's, the one she uses in  choosing homeopathic remedies. And she could not find a comprehensive one online. For her own good, she set out to write one, and because the cell salts are really nature's answer to incredible healing, she will soon publish it for any who wish to use cell salts as well.