PSYCHOLOGY OF NATRUMS IN HOMOEOPATHY

1. Keynote: suppression of emotional
pain

2. • Natrum Muriaticum is by far the commonest
constitutional type, at least in modern
industrialised societies.
• About two thirds of all the people are belong
Natrums.
• Natrum Muriaticum is the predominant type
in modern times, a reflection of the
suppressed emotional pain.

3. • Natrums are introverted people who hide
their feelings, avoid company, and hate
sympathy; who cannot cry and cannot show
affection.
• This is true as far as it goes, but it is a gross
oversimplification, and those homeopaths
who can only recognise this 'archetypal'
(మూలరూపాత్మ క)Natrum will miss the
majority of the type.

4. Origins
• The emotional pain that is at the centre of
Natrum's pathology originates early in
childhood, when the unconditional love that
the child needs is not received.
• The parents usually mean well, and are loving
in their own way, but their love is not
unconditional and freely given, since they are
hiding from their own emotional pain.

5. ధారాళమైన నిబంధన లేని

6. • Sometimes the parents are openly cold and
hostile(విరుద్ధమైన), and the children of such
parents are likely to grow into the most closed
and unhappy Natrums, the typical textbook
version.

7. Hostile (విరుద్ధమైన),

8. • More often the parents are simply average
Natrums, who are afraid not only of showing
emotions, but also of feeling them.

9. • Natrum's emotional suppression goes much
deeper than an inability to express emotion.
• It involves a determined forgetting of painful
emotions, many of which the average Natrum
is no longer aware of.
• In deep psychotherapy these emotions
resurface, to the amazement of the patient,
who thought that he had had a happy
childhood.

10. • It is only when these suppressed emotions
resurface that they can be cried out and
gotten rid of.
• Until then, the Natrum individual is forever
sitting on a timebomb of sadness, anger and
fear, which tends to either explode sooner or
later creating a 'breakdown', or trickle out as
frequent or continual moodiness.

11. • Even if the child is cuddled and treated
lovingly, he can sense if his parent is actually
feeling love, or fear, or anger.
• Babies are incredibly sensitive to the
emotional atmosphere at home, and cannot
be fooled.
• So, the average Natrum child senses that he is
not receiving a free flow of unconditional or
pure love (since his parent has partially closed
off her heart to protect it, or is as needy of the
child's love as it is of hers).

12. • This deficiency of love is felt keenly by the
child, and is so painful that he soon learns to
shut down his heart to some degree, to make
it less sensitive.
• The more emotionally starved the child, the
denser the protection around the heart, and
the less the growing child will feel
emotionally.

13. • Natrum children often refuse hugs and kisses,
partly because they do not feel the implied
affection, and partly because they are afraid
of opening up the safely closed heart, which
does not hurt quite so much so long as it is
covered.

14. • There are two common types of interaction
between Natrum parents and their child.
• One is the type predicted by the traditional
view of Natrum; the parents are relatively
undemonstrative, and the child soon protects
itself by becoming emotionally unresponsive
or cold.

15. UNDEMONSTRATIVE

16. • Such children will grow into closed Natrums,
and will actually be unaware of most of their
feelings

17. • The other type of interaction appears to be
the very opposite.
• The parents show a great deal of love and
affection, to the point of being overconcerned
and smothering, and the child becomes clingy
and very dependent upon the parents.
• Let us analyse these two scenarios in turn.

18. Closed parent, closed child