A phenotype represents a defensive stance rather than a natural constitutional expression. Phenotypes can develop from life shocks, traumas, conflicts and false beliefs. Over time, as a patient works through past hurts, their natural genotype becomes more visible. Natrum muriaticum is made from sodium chloride, or table salt. It illustrates retention and difficulty letting go. People needing this remedy are overly sensitive, reserved, and hold emotions in to avoid future hurt. They are serious, private, and cautious about security to feel safe. Physical symptoms include headaches, dry skin, constipation from difficulty releasing. Treatment may be resisted as exploring emotions feels threatening.

1. Constitutional
Phenotype
Dr. Angelo Smith M.D
WHPL

2. What is a phenotype?
it represents a compensatory stance to life, or permanent defence
mechanism, rather than the natural, healthy constitutional
expression of the six pure genotypes.
For the phenotypes, one of the key structural characteristics we are
looking at is the differences between stasis
neurosis and psycho neurosis.
These are psychological terms which represent blockages to the
natural flow of the person’s life energy based either on external
factors of suppression (stasis neurosis), or internal factors of
repression (psycho neurosis).

3. The emergence of a particular phenotype in a
patient will come from a variety of factors in
terms of their life history,
1. the nature of their shocks,
2. traumas, and
3. conflicts, as well as their
4. broader ideogenic terrain (which is the realm of the
highest form of disease caused by false beliefs,
illusions, or delusions), as well as
5. the genetic inheritance of the chronic disease patterns
in their family tree.

4. the phenotype will gradually melt away
(sometimes faster, sometimes slower) over time
as the patient’s time line of shocks and traumas
are gradually whittled away, moving them
always one step closer towards their natural
state of health.
As this process unfolds, their natural genotype
becomes more and more visible, and the
heavier elements of their personality fall away.

5. Natrum
Muriaticum•This remedy is made from the
chemical compound sodium
choride, which is common table
salt.
•The two separate elements
(sodium and chloride) are
poisons, but become inert
together in this compound.
• Sodium chloride, and all other
forms of salt are examples of
crystalization

6. This forms a first image for
its use as a homeopathic
remedy, in terms of all
biological or psychological
processes which condense
items (such as cell
structures or emotional
memories) to be more easily
retained, or “held on to”.

7. •Lot’s wife, in the
Bible, illustrates this
to us with an artistic
image of being
turned into a pillar of
salt when looking
back and trying to
live in the past.

8. •Natrum Muriaticum is
extremely retentive, and the key theme
of the remedy revolves around a loss of
trust.
•Nat-m holds on to the past, and has a
very hard time of letting go of anything,
whether past emotions of hurt, or
objects infused with the feeling of
sentimentality.

9. This is the foundational disease
state of mind for anyone who falls
into the category of hoarders.

10. Even the physiology of the cancer cell
illustrates this, as the normal healthy balance
of potassium being predominant inside the
cell, and sodium surrounding the outside of
the cell is reversed, taking the function back
to a much older state of evolution related to
creatures of the sea.
Such a cell retains an excessive, unhealthy
amount of fluid, illustrating this deeper theme
of failure to let go.

11. •Nat-m is characteristically over-sensitive, and is
very easily offended or hurt, although they will
generally hold it in.
•They can be extremely reserved, never allowing
anyone to see their inner emotional world or true
feelings in life.

12. •All of this is a function of a tremendous wall
or emotional defense designed to protect
them from repeating the hurts of the past.
•It is the feeling of avoiding getting into any
relationship, other than one where they feel
absolutely certain that they will be “safe”
and protected, which is usually in a form of
co-dependency in the Nat-m state

13. Nat-m is overly serious, and tends to
support one or another cause of social
justice, which is really a projection of
their own attempt to defend
themselves from ever being hurt again
by another.

14. They tend to suffer their grief in silence, not
able to let go in front of anyone, with the
exception of a single romantic partner or
close friend who has been brought inside
their inner “safe” zone. Even then, it is usually
not even their true core self that is fully
opened up, but still an outer layer of their
persona.

15. A characteristic bad dream for Nat-m is of
their house being robbed, as this represents
an unwelcome outsider breaking in, and
gaining access to their most valued, private,
inner world.

16. Even in waking life, you’ll find that they may
be overly cautious about their house security
system, as well as all kinds of efforts taken to
ensure their anonymity and privacy in
every aspect of their life.

17. •The physical symptoms of Nat-m
include
•headaches (lots of congestion of the
energy of uncried tears), as well as
•sinus infections originating at the site of
the tear ducts.
•They are very sensitive to noise.
•Salt is a very strong craving in this state.
•The skin may be prone to dryness, and
even significant cracks.

18. They suffer from constipation, which is
a combination of the dryness of this
remedy, and the difficulty in letting go.

19. •They can often suffer insomnia, which is yet
another form of having difficulty “letting go” of
their daytime consciousness, into the
uncontrolled world of sleep and dreams.
•Conversely, they may need to sleep
excessively, as a mechanism for avoiding the
intimacy and demand for emotional
involvement of waking life.

20. •They may be very retentive of water, in
parallel with holding onto all of their emotional
hurts.
•In treatment, it may be very difficult for the
practitioner to get to really know the inner
content of the patient, and can take quite a
while for a relationship of trust to be formed.

21. The idea of treatment itself,
particularly on the emotional axis, will
be perceived as a threat, and these
patients will often be the ones who
only bring a physical symptom in for
treatment, but solidly block any
attempt to explore the emotional
realm.