====== NATRIUM PHOSPHORICUM ====== {{anchor:s1}}Natrum Phosphoricum. {{anchor:s2}}Sodium Phosphate. {{anchor:s3}}Na2 H P O4 12 H2O. {{anchor:s4}}Prepared from calcined bone; the crystals are colorless, transparent, obliquely four-sided, specific gravity 1.55, slightly alkaline, and have a cooling saline taste; insoluble in alcohol; imparts a yellow color to flame. {{anchor:s5}}--Am. Hom. Pharm. {{anchor:s6}}Provings by Farrington on twelve provers, Hahn. Mo., vol. 12, p. 172; also proved by Corson, Thesis, Hahn. Med. Col., 1877. The provings were made principally with the higher potencies. ====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ====== {{anchor:s8}}- Conjunctivitis, Schssler's Tissue Remedies, p. 114; Chronic dyspepsia, Hering, Schssler's Tissue Remedies, B. and D., p. 148; Gastralgia and enteralgia, Schssler, A. H. Z., vol. 103, p. 93; Goitre, Skeels, Hahn. Mo., vol. 15, p. 104; Weakness of legs, Farrington, Trans. Hom. Med. Soc. Pa., 1874, p. 272; Swelling of glands of neck, Fischer, Hom. Times, 1876, p. 92. ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s10}}Mental dullness; difficult to remember.\\ {{anchor:s11}}Nervous, irritable; vexed at trifles.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Anxious and apprehensive; despondent.\\ {{anchor:s13}}Melancholy, especially after emissions. ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== {{anchor:s15}}Giddiness; vertigo with gastric derangement. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s17}}Headache: in temples; on crown of head on awaking in morning; after taking thick sour milk.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Intense pressure and heat on top of head as if it would open.\\ {{anchor:s19}}Severe pain in head as if skull was too full; frontal or occipital, with nausea or sour slimy vomiting.\\ {{anchor:s20}}Sickening headaches, ejection of sour froth. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s22}}Dim sight as if veil was over eyes; dull, heavy headache.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Flickering of sight in left eye, on rising 5 A. M.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Halo around gaslight.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Eyes feel weak, agg. from gaslight; sore when reading.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Burning, stitching, cutting in eyes.\\ {{anchor:s27}}Eyes feel as if sand was in them, mostly left.\\ {{anchor:s28}}Burning lachrymation, eyes bloodshot.\\ {{anchor:s29}}Discharge of golden yellow, creamy matter from eyes.\\ {{anchor:s30}}Ophthalmia, conjunctivitis, discharge of yellow, creamy matter, lids glued together in morning.\\ {{anchor:s31}}Conjunctivitis with great dread of light, since measles some years previous; enlargement of glands of neck, creamy secretion from eyelids.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Granular conjunctivitis when granulations look like small blisters.\\ {{anchor:s33}}Scrofulous ophthalmia.\\ {{anchor:s34}}Dryness of left eyeball, with soreness as if bruised.\\ {{anchor:s35}}Squinting caused by intestinal irritation from worms.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Quivering of right eyelid while reading.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Eyelids feel sore, itch and burn.\\ {{anchor:s38}}Pain over eyes. ====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ====== {{anchor:s40}}Sensation in ears as of water dropping from a height into a long, narrow vessel, while lying down.\\ {{anchor:s41}}Fullness in ears.\\ {{anchor:s42}}Aching and itching in right meatus.\\ {{anchor:s43}}Tickling from middle ear into eustachian tube.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Ears sore externally, burn and itch, thin, cream-like scabbing; yellow tongue.\\ {{anchor:s45}}One ear red, hot, frequently itchy, accompanied by gastric derangement and acidity.\\ {{anchor:s46}}Lobe of right ear burns intolerably, scratches until it bleeds. ====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ====== {{anchor:s48}}Subjective offensive odor before nose in morning.\\ {{anchor:s49}}Left nostril sore, painful; picks it, scabs form.\\ {{anchor:s50}}Pricking in nares, brings tears to eyes.\\ {{anchor:s51}}Picking at nose, associated with acidity and worms.\\ {{anchor:s52}}Fullness at root of nose. ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== {{anchor:s54}}Red and blotched face, yet not feverish.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Paleness, or bluish, florid appearance.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Face white about nose or mouth.\\ {{anchor:s57}}Facial neuralgia, shooting, stitching pains. ====== LOWER FACE. [9] ====== {{anchor:s59}}Soreness in right side of lower jaw, at angle, occasional darting. ====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ====== {{anchor:s61}}Grinding of teeth in children in sleep. ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== {{anchor:s63}}Acid taste; bad taste on awaking.\\ {{anchor:s64}}Thin, moist coating on tongue.\\ {{anchor:s65}}Tongue coated dirty white, dark brown centre.\\ {{anchor:s66}}Yellow, moist tongue.\\ {{anchor:s67}}Moist, creamy or golden yellow coating at back of tongue.\\ {{anchor:s68}}Blisters and sensation of hair on tip of tongue; pricking numbness of whole mouth.\\ {{anchor:s69}}On rising in morning, tongue has a thin, moist coating, a creamy deposit at back, or as if raw or yellow sugar had been partaken of.\\ {{anchor:s70}}Tries to say a word, but it will not come out; feels as if something closed in throat, preventing speech. ====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ====== {{anchor:s72}}Yellow, creamy coating at back part of roof of mouth.\\ {{anchor:s73}}Soft palate has a yellowish, creamy look.\\ {{anchor:s74}}Catarrh of tonsils, with a golden yellow-tinged exudation; acid condition of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s75}}Gumboils. ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== {{anchor:s77}}Tough, clear, white phlegm from posterior nares; much hawking.\\ {{anchor:s78}}Dropping of thick, yellow mucus from posterior nares, agg. at night; awakens him, must sit up and clear throat.\\ {{anchor:s79}}Sensation of a lump in throat; right side sore, pricking as of a pin; agg. swallowing liquids, amel. solids.\\ {{anchor:s80}}Throbbing in left tonsil.\\ {{anchor:s81}}Sore throat, tonsils coated with a yellow, creamy mucus, raw feeling, moist deposit on tongue mornings, looking yellow.\\ {{anchor:s82}}Diphtheritic sore throat, falsely so called.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Inflammation of any part of throat with characteristic coating; accompanied by an acid condition of stomach. ====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ====== {{anchor:s86}}Canine hunger, or loss of appetite.\\ {{anchor:s87}}Desire for: strong-tasting things, beer, alcohol.\\ {{anchor:s88}}Aversion to bread and butter. ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== {{anchor:s90}}Heartburn and acidity; waterbrash.\\ {{anchor:s91}}Flatulence with sour rising.\\ {{anchor:s92}}Nausea and vomiting of acid fluids and curdled masses (not food).\\ {{anchor:s93}}Sour eructations, sour vomiting, greenish diarrhea, pains, spasms and fever with acid symptoms.\\ {{anchor:s94}}Vomiting of sour fluids or of a dark substance like coffee-grounds, sour risings, loss of appetite. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s96}}Empty, gone feeling in stomach, with feeling of weight above ensiform cartilage.\\ {{anchor:s97}}Pain sometimes comes on two hours after taking food.\\ {{anchor:s98}}Every day several attacks of gastralgia and enteralgia, accompanied by vomiting of fluid sour as vinegar; oversecretion of lactic acid.\\ {{anchor:s99}}Stomachache when worms are present, accompanied by acid risings.\\ {{anchor:s100}}Gastric derangements with symptoms of acidity.\\ {{anchor:s101}}Dyspepsia with characteristic eructations and tongue, sour taste.\\ {{anchor:s102}}Chronic dyspepsia; thin, yellow, creamy coating on soft palate.\\ {{anchor:s103}}Ulceration of stomach, pain in one spot after food, sometimes sour risings, loss of appetite, face red and blotched, yet not feverish.\\ {{anchor:s104}}Gastric abrasions and ulcers. ====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ====== {{anchor:s106}}Sclerosis of liver and hepatic form of diabetes, especially when there is a succession of boils. ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s108}}Pain in bowels, restless sleep.\\ {{anchor:s109}}Flatulent colic.\\ {{anchor:s110}}Colic in children, with symptoms of acidity, such as green, sour-smelling stools, vomiting of curdled milk, etc.\\ {{anchor:s111}}Ulceration of stomach or bowels.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Pain through right groin, after seminal emissions. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s114}}Diarrheic stools with flatus, weak feeling in rectum and sphincter; afraid to pass flatus lest feces escape.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Diarrhea caused by excess of acidity, stools sour-smelling, green; jelly-like masses of mucus, painful straining, coagulated casein, scanty and frequent.\\ {{anchor:s116}}White or green stools, with diarrhea or jaundice.\\ {{anchor:s117}}Summer diarrhea, with lack of digestive power, stools clay-colored or greenish.\\ {{anchor:s118}}Habitual constipation, with occasional attacks of diarrhea, in young children.\\ {{anchor:s119}}Obstinate constipation.\\ {{anchor:s120}}Itching, sore and raw anus.\\ {{anchor:s121}}Itching at anus from worms, especially at night when warm in bed.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Intestinal, long or thread worms, with picking at nose, occasional squinting, pain in bowels, restless sleep, etc. ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s124}}Burning during urination; frequent micturition.\\ {{anchor:s125}}Urine: dark red, with arthritis; pale; increased, scanty and dark.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Polyuria; diabetes.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Atony of bladder.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Incontinence of urine in children, with acidity of stomach. ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== {{anchor:s130}}After coitus burning and itching at meatus.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Sexual desire increased or absent; desire without erections.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Seminal emissions every night, at first with erethism and lascivious dreams, but later without any sensation whatever; followed by weakness of back and trembling of knees, which felt as though they would give way.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Seminal emissions, without dreams.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Semen thin, watery, smells like stale urine. ====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ====== {{anchor:s136}}Weakness and distress in uterine region.\\ {{anchor:s137}}Prolapsus uteri, with weak, sinking feeling, after defecation.\\ {{anchor:s138}}Uterine displacements with rheumatic pains.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Discharges from uterus sour smelling, acid. {{anchor:s140}}~ Sterility.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Menses: too early and pale, with afternoon headache over eyes, agg. after menses, with sensation in knees as if cords were shortened; sore wrists; chilliness; restless sleep; feet icy cold by day and burn by night.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Leucorrhea: creamy or honey-colored; acrid and watery. ====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ====== {{anchor:s146}}Morning sickness, with vomiting of sour masses or fluids. ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== {{anchor:s148}}Pain through chest and in left shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Pain from right clavicle, diagonally to stomach; hoarseness.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Pains in chest, agg. from deep breathing and pressure.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Burning deep in chest, agg. right side, evening in bed.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Sudden feeling of fullness in upper part of chest.\\ {{anchor:s153}}Phthisis florida in young subjects.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Consumption. ====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ====== {{anchor:s156}}Feels as if a lump, or a bubble started from heart and was forced through arteries.\\ {{anchor:s157}}Trembling about heart; agg. walking up-stairs.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Pains about base of heart, relieving pains in limbs and great toe.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Palpitation: caused by every strange noise; feels pulse in different parts of body.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Heart feels uneasy and pains, when pains in limbs and great toe are better.\\ {{anchor:s161}}Sensation as though shot was rolling through artery. ====== OUTER CHEST. [30] ====== {{anchor:s163}}Intercostal muscles feel sore as if drawn.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Lower third of sternum pains as if torn in two. ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== {{anchor:s166}}Crick in both sides of neck.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Swelling of glands of neck, extending to chest.\\ {{anchor:s168}}Goitre (in thirteen cases), the feeling of pressure was relieved in three to five days; in some cases a cure was effected.\\ {{anchor:s169}}Weak feeling in back and limbs.\\ {{anchor:s170}}Spinal anemia; paralytic weakness of lower extremities, with general prostration, heaviness and sensation of fatigue, especially after a short walk or ascending steps; legs give way, so as to be unable to progress further.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Pain in articulation of lumbar vertebrae and sacrum, left side; pressing spot causes pain down thigh to knee; leg gives way when walking. ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s173}}Rheumatic pains in right shoulder; feels nervous.\\ {{anchor:s174}}Slight drawing in left deltoid, morning.\\ {{anchor:s175}}Arms tired.\\ {{anchor:s176}}Contraction of extensor muscles on back of arm.\\ {{anchor:s177}}Crampy pain in hands while writing; hand trembles; contraction of extensor muscles on back of arm.\\ {{anchor:s178}}Aching wrists; rheumatic pains in joints of fingers.\\ {{anchor:s179}}Rheumatic arthritis, especially of joints of fingers, pains suddenly go to heart. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s181}}Sudden giving way of legs while walking, as though they would be paralyzed.\\ {{anchor:s182}}Drawing on inside of thighs.\\ {{anchor:s183}}Sore hamstrings; feels stiff on rising, cords feel too short.\\ {{anchor:s184}}Calves pain or feel as if too tightly bandaged.\\ {{anchor:s185}}Pain in knees, ankles, shins, in hollow and ball of foot.\\ {{anchor:s186}}Right big toe pains; when amel., pain in heart. ====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ====== {{anchor:s188}}Sore feeling in joints.\\ {{anchor:s189}}Right wrist and left ankle weak, ache as if paralyzed; after menses.\\ {{anchor:s190}}Synovial crepitation. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s194}}Lying down: sensation of water dropping in ear.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Must sit up: at night to clear throat.\\ {{anchor:s196}}Sitting: falls asleep.\\ {{anchor:s197}}Writing: crampy pains in hands.\\ {{anchor:s198}}Walking up-stairs: trembling about heart agg.; sensation of fatigue.\\ {{anchor:s199}}Walking: legs give way. ====== NERVES. [36] ====== {{anchor:s201}}Nervousness: tired feeling, with goneness of stomach, crick in neck, trembling and palpitation; in a thunderstorm.\\ {{anchor:s202}}Irritation of intestines by worms, causing squinting and twitching of facial muscles. ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== {{anchor:s204}}Drowsy feeling, yet not sleepy.\\ {{anchor:s205}}Sleep restless with worm troubles.\\ {{anchor:s206}}Very drowsy, falls asleep while sitting. ====== TIME. [38] ====== {{anchor:s208}}At 5 A. M.: on rising, flickering of sight.\\ {{anchor:s209}}Morning: headache on crown of head on awaking; lids glued together; offensive odor before nose; on rising, tongue has a thin, moist coating; slight drawing in left deltoid.\\ {{anchor:s210}}Day: feet icy cold.\\ {{anchor:s211}}Evening: in bed, burning deep in chest.\\ {{anchor:s212}}Night: dropping of thick, yellow mucus from posterior nares agg.; itching at anus agg.; feet burn.\\ {{anchor:s213}}During menses many symptoms have an afternoon and evening aggravation. ====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ====== {{anchor:s215}}Warmth of bed: itching at anus from worms.\\ {{anchor:s216}}In a thunderstorm: trembling and palpitation; pains agg. ====== FEVER. [40] ====== {{anchor:s218}}Chilliness: during menses; in chest; followed by hot flashes.\\ {{anchor:s219}}Flashes of heat and headache every afternoon.\\ {{anchor:s220}}Acid, exceedingly sour-smelling sweats.\\ {{anchor:s221}}Intermittent fever, with vomiting of acid, sour masses. ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== {{anchor:s223}}Two hours: after food, pain in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s224}}Every day: several attacks of gastralgia and enteralgia.\\ {{anchor:s225}}Every night: seminal emissions.\\ {{anchor:s226}}Every afternoon: flashes of heat and headache.\\ {{anchor:s227}}Summer diarrhea. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s229}}Right: quivering of eyelid; aching and itching in meatus; lobe of ear burns intolerably; soreness in side of lower jaw; side of throat sore; pain through groin; pain from clavicle to stomach; burning deep in chest, agg. side; rheumatic pain in shoulder; wrist weak.\\ {{anchor:s230}}Left: flickering of sight in eye; as if sand was in eye; dryness of eyeball; nostril sore; throbbing in tonsil; pain in shoulder; pain in sacrum; slight drawing in deltoid; ankle weak. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s232}}As if top of head would open; as if skull was too full; as if veil was over eyes; as if sand was in eyes; as if eyeball was bruised; in ears as of water dropping from a height into a long, narrow vessel; as of hair on tip of tongue; as if something closed in throat; as of a lump in throat; pricking as of a pin in throat; limbs as though they would give way; as if cords of knees were shortened; as if a lump, a bubble started from the heart and was forced through arteries; as though shot was forced or rolling through arteries; intercostal muscles as if drawn; lower third of sternum as if torn in two; as though legs would be paralyzed; cords of legs feel too short; as if calves were too tightly bandaged.\\ {{anchor:s233}}Pain: over eyes; in stomach, in one spot after food; in bowels; through right groin; through chest and in left shoulder; from right clavicle, diagonally, to stomach; in chest; about base of heart, relieving pains in limbs and great toe; in lower third of sternum; in articulation of lumbar vertebrae and sacrum, left side; down thigh to knee; in calves; in knees, ankles, shins; in hollow and ball of feet; in right big toe.\\ {{anchor:s234}}Severe pain: in head.\\ {{anchor:s235}}Shooting, stitching pain: in face.\\ {{anchor:s236}}Burning, stitching, cutting: in eyes.\\ {{anchor:s237}}Throbbing: in left tonsil.\\ {{anchor:s238}}Crampy pain: in hands.\\ {{anchor:s239}}Rheumatic pain: in right shoulder; in joints of fingers.\\ {{anchor:s240}}Aching: in right meatus; in wrists; in left ankle.\\ {{anchor:s241}}Dull, heavy pain: in head.\\ {{anchor:s242}}Drawing: slight, in left deltoid; on inside thighs.\\ {{anchor:s243}}Crick: in both sides of neck.\\ {{anchor:s244}}Burning: of eyelids; of external ear; of lobe of right ear; at meatus; deep in chest.\\ {{anchor:s245}}Soreness: of left eyeball; of eyelids; of external ear; of left nostril; of right side of lower jaw; of anus; of hamstrings.\\ {{anchor:s246}}Sore feeling: in joints.\\ {{anchor:s247}}Raw feeling: in throat; in anus.\\ {{anchor:s248}}Pricking: in nares.\\ {{anchor:s249}}Pricking numbness: of whole mouth.\\ {{anchor:s250}}Tickling: from middle ear into eustachian tube.\\ {{anchor:s251}}Dryness: on left eyeball.\\ {{anchor:s252}}Fullness: at root of nose; sudden, in upper part of chest.\\ {{anchor:s253}}Intense pressure and heat: in top of head.\\ {{anchor:s254}}Feeling of weight: above ensiform cartilage.\\ {{anchor:s255}}Empty, gone feeling: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s256}}Weak feeling: in rectum and sphincter; in back and limbs.\\ {{anchor:s257}}Itching: of eyelids; in right meatus; of external ear; of anus; at meatus.\\ {{anchor:s258}}Intense itching: in various places over body. ====== TISSUES. [44] ====== {{anchor:s260}}Acts upon glandular organs of intestinal tract.\\ {{anchor:s261}}Marasmus of children who are bottle-fed; abdomen swollen, liver large; colic after eating; stools containing undigested food.\\ {{anchor:s262}}Diseases of infants suffering from excess of lactic acid, resulting from overfeeding of milk and sugar.\\ {{anchor:s263}}Ailments with excess of acidity.\\ {{anchor:s264}}Exudations and secretions yellow, honey-colored.\\ {{anchor:s265}}Leukemia.\\ {{anchor:s266}}Swelling of lymphatic glands before hardening; scrofula.\\ {{anchor:s267}}Leucocytosis, swellings of lymphatic glands; scrofulous inflammation of eyes.\\ {{anchor:s268}}Rheumatic arthritis. ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== {{anchor:s272}}Pressure: pains in chest. ====== SKIN. [46] ====== {{anchor:s274}}Chafing of skin.\\ {{anchor:s275}}Eczema with symptoms of acidity, secretion creamy, honey-colored.\\ {{anchor:s276}}Erythema; "rose rash;" golden yellow scabs.\\ {{anchor:s277}}Crusta lactea.\\ {{anchor:s278}}Hives, itching all over body, like insect-bites.\\ {{anchor:s279}}"Rose" erysipelas, smooth, red, shiny, tingling or painful swelling of skin, intense itching; in various places over body; of nose; of prepuce; of scrotum; about anus; on joints. ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== {{anchor:s281}}Boy, aet. 2 1/2, suffering from a chronic diarrhea, cured finally by Cinchona; swelling of glands of neck.\\ {{anchor:s282}}Girl, aet. 8, several years ago had measles, since then eyes affected; conjunctivitis.\\ {{anchor:s283}}Woman, aet. 50, suffering for two years; gastralgia and enteralgia. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s285}}Antidoted by Sepia, particularly the eruption and swelling about joints; Apis relieved the hives.\\ {{anchor:s286}}Compare: Calc. ost. in scrofulosis with acidity; Calc. ost., Carbo veg., Coccul., Carbol. ac., Kali carb., Nux vom., Robinia in gastric catarrhs; Rheum in sour stools and sour smell of body; Benz. ac., Colchic., Guaiac., Lycop. and Sulphur in gouty dyspepsia. ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 08, 1889 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r127|Natrium phosphoricum]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r127|Natrium phosphoricum]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. | ^ Year: | 1889 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}