Natrum Phosphoricum
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General EN
Natrum Phosphoricum.
Phosphate of Soda. Hydric Disodic Phosphate. Na2HPO4, 12H2O. Trituration. Solution.
Clinical EN
Acidity (infants). Conjunctivitis. Diabetes. Dyspepsia. Enteralgia. Erysipelas. Gastralgia. Glands, scrofulous swelling of. Goître. Gout. Intertrigo. Leucocytosis. Leucorrhoea. Morphinomania. Phthisis. Post-nasal catarrh. Rheumatism. Scrofula. Sighing. Sterility. Threadworms. Urticaria. Worms.
Characteristics EN
As Nat. phos. is one of Schüssler's introductions I will first quote what he has to say about it: "Nat. phos. is contained in the blood-corpuscles, in the cells of the muscles, of the nerves and of the brain, as well as in the intercellular fluids. Through the presence of Nat. p. lactic acid is decomposed into carbonic acid and water. Nat. p. is able to bind to itself carbonic acid, receiving into itself two parts of carbonic acid for every volume of phosphoric acid. When it has thus bound the carbonic acid it conveys it to the lungs.
The oxygen flowing into the lungs liberates the carbonic acid, which is only loosely attached to the Nat. p.; the carbonic acid is then exhaled and exchanged for oxygen, which is absorbed by the iron of the blood-corpuscles. Nat. p. is the remedy for those diseases which are caused by an excess of lactic acid. It therefore answers to the diseases of infants, who, having been fed to excess with milk and sugar, suffer from redundant acids. The symptoms in such cases are: Sour eructations, vomiting of sour, cheesy masses; yellowish-green, so-called hacked diarrhoeas; colic, spasms with acidity.
Uric acid is dissolved in the blood by two factors, the warmth of the blood and Nat. p. If uric acid is deposited from its solution in the joints or near them, owing to a deficiency of Nat. p., or when it combines with the base of Carbonate of soda into urate of soda, which is insoluble, then there arises podagra or acute arthritic rheumatism. During an acute attack of podagra the secretion of uric acid in the urine is diminished by just so much as is retained of it in the diseased parts.
Nat. p. also serves to saponify the fatty acids; it therefore cures those dyspeptic ailments which arise from eating fat food, or which are aggravated thereby."—Nat. p. has been proved, chiefly in the attenuations, under Farrington's direction. Schüssler's indications do not all appear in the provings, but I insert them in the Schema and distinguish them by (S). The correspondence is tolerably close. In the proving the nose-irritation and itching anus of the worm-condition was developed.
Atony of bladder. Hair sensation on tongue. Tightness of muscles and tendons. Seminal emissions.
Charles Mohr, who was one of the provers, relates in Amer. Med. Monthly (Oct., 1897) the effect it had on him and the use he made of it. After being under the influence of the drug some time (without knowing what it was) he had much itching at the ankle-joints, with an eczematous eruption.
Fear, especially at night, that something would happen. Headache; some nausea; defect of vision, one pupil dilated. The symptoms had to be antidoted with Sepia. Two years after, Mohr had a patient with visional disturbance and headache, and when these were at their worst he had a sense of fear, < at night, and an eruption about the ankles which began with itching.
Nat. p. 6x cured promptly. M. J. Luys (H.
W., xxxiv. 477) has successfully overcome the morphia habit by subcutaneous injections of Nat. ph. with glycerine and water The symptoms are < walking, especially up stairs. Warmth of bed = itching at anus from worms. Thunderstorm < pains; = trembling and palpitation.
When big toe pains heart pains are >. There is periodicity in the action. < From coitus.
Relations EN
Antidoted by: Sep. (especially eruption and swelling about joints); Apis (urticaria). Compare: Acidity and scrofula, Calc., Rheum. Gout, Benz. ac., Guaiac., Lyc., Urt. ur., Sul. Gastric catarrh, Calc., Carb. v., Kali c., Nux, Robin., Carbol. ac. Speech impeded, Nat. m. Hair sensation, Nat. m., K. bi., Sil. < From coitus, K. ca., Caust. Worms, Abrot., Cina, Teucr. Drinking water = cough, Sil.; (Caust. > cough). Emissions causing weak back and knees, Nat. m.
Causation EN
Sugar. Milk. Fat food. Bitter foods. Thunderstorms.
Mind EN
Melancholy, esp. after emissions
Despondent; could not study; imagined he was going to have typhoid fever
Fears bad news
Nervous fears on waking
Easily startled
Irritable
Memory lost.
Head EN
Dizzy, as if he would fall; objects turn round on rising or moving
Dulness in head and at root of nose
Fulness in head; flushes of heat, afterwards sweat
Fulness in forehead, over eyes; in morning; while studying;
With cutting in r. temple
Sharp cutting r. side of head with, at times, dull aching over eyes.
Eyes EN
Eyes weak;
< from gas-light 8 p.m
Slight burning, lachrymation, must rub eyes
Cutting in r. eye
Eyes feel as if sand in them
Pain over eyes
Pressure on r. eye during menses
Pressure over r. eye with sighing
Pain in l. orbit, with pain in bowels, extending up into chest; flatulence
R. supraorbital neuralgia
Lids heavy, itch along margins
Dryness of l. eyeball with bruised pain
Vision: dim; flickering; halo round gas-light.—(Squinting, with worms.)
Disturbed vision, one pupil dilated.
Ears EN
Lobe of r. ear burning and itching so intolerably has to scratch it till it bleeds
Sensation in ears as of water dropping from a height into a long round vessel
Fulness in ears, aching in r. meatus
Itching and tickling in (r.) Eustachian tube from middle ear
Imagines he hears footsteps in next room.
Nose EN
Fulness at root of nose; skin feels drawn tight over it
Nose as if full of mucus, but discharge slight
L. nostril sore, painful; picks it constantly; scales form
Pricking in l.
(and r.) nostril, brings tears to eyes
Offensive odour before nose.
Face EN
Shooting pain in r. cheek
Peculiar stitching pain along cheek into ears
Great soreness r. lower jaw at angle; occasional slight darting through jaw
Intense itching of face esp. nose.
Mouth EN
Teeth in morning and mouth all day covered with a brownish mucus
Gumboils on molars
Tongue coated dirty white, brown centre
Moist, golden-yellow, or creamy coating back part of roof of mouth (S)
Sensation of hairs on tip of tongue, followed by prickling numbness of whole mouth
Stinging on tip of tongue
Bad taste (coppery) on waking
Tries to say a word, but it will not come out; feels as if something closed in throat preventing speech.
Throat EN
Mucus in throat
Tough clear white phlegm in posterior nares
Thick yellow mucus drops from posterior nares;
< night; wakens him; must sit up to clear throat
Sensation of lump in throat
R. side of throat sore; sensation as of a pin pricking it;
< swallowing liquids, > swallowing solids; throbbing in region of l. tonsils.
Stomach EN
Acidity in children fed with excess of milk and sugar (S)
Dyspepsia from f at food, or < by fat food (S)
Canine hunger with gone feeling in stomach
Desires: strong-tasting things; eggs; fried fish; beer, which >
Aversion to: bread-and-butter
Sour eructations (S)
Eructations after eating
Goneness; in stomach and abdomen, even in chest;
< after eating
Heaviness and pressure in epigastrium
Vomiting of sour cheesy masses (S).
Abdomen EN
Sharp cutting in hypochondria and l. iliac region
Flatulence, < after eating; rumbling
Whilst at stool, sensation as if a marble dropped down descending colon
Colic, and pressure, with acidity (S)
Colic, as from wind pressing on bladder, causing frequent inclination and urging to stool
Colicky pains while walking
Colic in hypogastrium; soreness.
Stool And Anus EN
Burning contracting pain in anus and lower rectum (on waking from troubled dream)
Sticking as from splinter in anus on walking
Sore, raw feeling
Itching soreness; must scratch
Must bring will to bear to prevent escape of faeces
Diarrhoea with colic; fears to pass flatus for fear faeces should escape
After coitus (man) urging to stool and urination: stools small, loose
Yellowish green, so-called "hacked diarrhoea" (S)
Stool: yellowish brown.; profuse, thin, yellowish brown
Before stool: Weak feeling in rectum and sphincter
Small stool before breakfast, soft yet with effort; sudden urging while eating; afterwards, watery yellowish brown, painless stool
Large, soft stool, easily expelled, with feeling afterwards as if much remained behind
Costive
One day costive, next diarrhoea
Intestinal, long or round worms, with acidity, picking nose, occasional squinting, pain in bowels, restless sleep (S).
Urinary Organs EN
Burning during micturation
After coitus burning and itching at meatus
Frequent micturition
Obliged to vomit from pressure of wind on bladder, pressure not > thereby
Passed a large quantity of urine on arising in morning
Bladder semi-paralysed: flow soon stops, and requires straining
Urine: increased, pale; scanty, dark.—(Diabetes, hepatic form).
Male Sexual Organs EN
Erections almost nightly, preceded by slight pains in testicles (< l.)
Drawing in testes and cords
Emissions: at night with vivid dreams; after coitus; without dreams
Semen, thin, watery, smells like stale urine
Emissions followed by weak back and trembling of knees
Great itching of scrotum; prepuce; anus.
Female Sexual Organs EN
Menses five days early
During menses: feet icy cold by day, burn at night in bed; pressure in r. eye; flow at first paler than usual
After menses: symptoms <; trembling at heart, headache; paralytic aching in r. wrist; knees feel as if tendons shortened
Leucorrhoea: creamy or honey-coloured; sour-smelling, acrid, and watery (S)
Prolapsus uteri with weak sinking sensation after defecation.
Respiratory Organs EN
Hoarseness
Cough from drinking water
Cough from tickling in throat
Constant cough and hawking; pain in chest in mammary region.
Chest EN
Empty feeling in chest,< after a meal
Pain through chest (< Q after dinner
Pain from r. clavicle diagonally to stomach, intense, caused starting, followed by hoarseness
Burning deep in chest, < r. side
Sudden feeling of fulness
Contracted feeling; muscles as if drawn; aching pains
Weight above ensiform cartilage, with empty feeling
Lower third of sternum, pain as if torn in two.—(Phthisis florida in young subjects).
Heart EN
Trembling about heart < going up stairs
Feeling as if a lump or bubble started from heart and were forced through arteries
Heart feels uneasy, esp. about base, when pains in limbs and great toe are better
Pulses felt all over body
Pulse, quick, jerking.
Neck And Back EN
Crick in both sides of neck
Scrofulous swelling of lymphatic glands (S)
Goître
Weakness in back towards evening
Slight pain in l. scapula
Sharp pain in r. sacro-iliac joint.
Limbs EN
R. wrist and l. ankle weak, ache as if paralysed (after menses).—Drawing in hands, feet, wrist-joints, and l. shoulder.
Upper Limbs EN
Synovial crepitation
Arm (l.) feels gone, tired
Arms weak, must let them drop
Heaviness of r. arm
Contraction of extensors in back of arm, often, when writing
Rheumatic pain in r. shoulder; feels nervous
Shooting pains from neck over r. shoulder
Deep-seated pain in r. wrist going into palm
Drawing cramping; paralytic aching (during menses) in r. wrist
Numbness in r. hand and arm
Crampy pain in l. hand, esp. index finger
Numbness in r. fingers, occasional darting, < ring fingers
Severe shooting pains in l. middle and index fingers.
Lower Limbs EN
Synovial crepitation
Sudden giving way of legs while walking, as though they would be paralysed
Hamstrings stiff
Sharp, shooting front of l. thigh
Knees feel as if tendons shortened;
(also at menses)
Stitching in l. knee
When walking: calves feel pulled tight, as if needles piercing calf
Pain in ball of foot; in (r.) big toe
Gout (S)
Rheumatism (S)
Much itching at ankle-joints; even eczematous eruption.
Generalities EN
Lassitude: in morning; in hot weather.—Nervous.—Sore.—Wakes at midnight; soon a sensation like electric shock through body; trembling and palpitation as from fright.—Deposits in joints (S).
Skin EN
Itching;
< after going to bed; hives (Apis >)
Itching papules on r. ear; about joints
Itching of scrotum, prepuce, and anus
Chafing of skin
Eczema, with acidity, honey-coloured secretion
Crusta lactea
Golden-yellow scabs.
Sleep EN
Drowsy all day, most forenoon; falls asleep sitting
Unusual excitement, could not sleep till 1, awoke again at 5, unrested
Sleepless 12 to 3 a.m
Dreams: sexual; vexing; of the dead.
Fever EN
Chilly: during menses; most on chest; followed by hot flushes round body
Feet icy cold by day, burn at night (during menses)
Cannot get to sleep feels so hot; thoughts crowd on his mind
Flashes of heat and sweat
Face burns
Exceedingly sour-smelling sweats (S)
Intermittent fever with vomiting of sour masses (S).