Natrum Nitrosum – Sodium Nitrite

The attenuations are prepared from Sodium nitrite, NaNO₂, MW: 69.0.

The nitrites are known as vasodilators and have proved their worth in sudden at- tacks of angina pectoris. Natrum Nitrosum is particularly used in vertigo “as if one would become insensible”. In this state both the lips and the hands tend to become cyanosed, so that the patient must lie down for half an hour before he dares to move again.

There are also frequently violent palpitations in the head and terrible headaches, which are worse from movement and occur particularly on going upstairs. The pa- tients also complain of bitter eructations and a thick coating on the tongue. They have a sensation as if the stomach and intestines were squeezed together, and at night there may be attacks of copious diarrhoea with fainting. Syncope, possibly strokes or gastro intestinal inflammations, and particularly angina pectoris are ac- companied by general cyanosis. Thus Natrum Nitrosum is also included essentially in combination remedies for angina pectoris.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Natrium nitrosum, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for Natrium nitrosum: diarrhoea.