Materia Medica by Kent (nat-m)Salt is so common an article of
diet that it has been assumed that it could be of no use in
medicine. This is only the opinion of men who operate entirely
on the tissues. There are no constitutional effects from crude
salt. One may find an individual growing thin with all the
symptoms of salt; he is taking salt in great quantities, but
digesting none of it. Salt will be found in the stool, for it
does not enter into the life. There is a Natr. mur. inanition, a
starving for salt. The same is true of lime. Children can get
plenty of lime from their food and that is better when the salt
or the lime is given in such shape that it cannot be resisted by
the internal man—aimed not at the house he lives in, but at the
individual himself—then the bone, salt inanition, the Natr. mur.
inanition, will soon pass away. We do not with our small dose
supply the salt that the system needs, but we cure the internal
disease, we turn into order the internal physical man, and then
the tissues get sal