FTRN #103

[Jane Withey]

Natrum Phosphoricum
Kent's Reperatory

Mind:
Fear,or misfortune pg 46
Fear,waking,on pg 47
Forgetful pg 48
Forgetful,sexual excesses, after pg 49
Frightened,easily pg 49
Headless pg 51
Hurry pg 58
Hysteria pg 52
Ideas,abundant pg 53
Imbecility pg 53
Impatient pg 53Indifference pg 54
Indolence pg 55
Irritability pg 58
Irritability, morning pg 58
Irritability, forenoon pg 58
Starting pg 82
Starting easily pg 83
Starting,electric as if pg 83
Starting,fright from pg 83
Starting,from noise pg 83
Stupefaction pg 85
Suspicious pg 86
Talk,desire to pg 86
Thoughts,disease pg 87
Thoughts,wandering pg 88
Timidity pg 89
Unconsciousness pg 89
Weeping, pg 93

Mouth:
Taste,astringent pg 422
Taste,bitter pg 422
Taste,metallic pg 424
Taste,saltish pg 425

Throat:
Mucus pg 456
Mucus,drawn from posterior nares pg 457
Mucus,tenacious pg 457
Mucus,yellow pg 457

Stomach:
Eructation pg 489
Eructation, eating after pg 491
Eructation,empty pg 493
Eructation,sour pg 496
Eructations,waterbrash pg 497
Heartburn pg 499
Heaviness, pg 501
Nausea pg 504
Nausea,morning pg 505
Nausea,evening pg 505
Pain, 511
Pain, eating after pg 513
Pain,cramping,griping,constricting pg 517
Pain,gnawing pg 519
Pain,pressing pg 520
Pain,eating after pg 521
Pain,Sore pg 522
Pain,stitching pg 523
Retching pg 524
Vomiting pg 531
Vomiting bitter pg 536
Vomiting,mucus pg 538
Vomiting,sour pg 539

Stool:
Offensive pg 640
Sour pg 640

Genatalia Female:
Leucorrhoea pg 721
Leucorrhoea,sour pg 722

Perspiration:
Perspiration pg 1293
Perspiration,daytime pg 1293
Perspiration,morning pg 1293
Perspiration,afternoon pg 1293
Perspiration,evening pg 1294
Perspiration,night pg 1294
Perspiration,anxiety during pg 1295
Perspiration,odor,sour pg 1299

Generalities:
Milk, agg pg 1363
Storm,approach of pg 1403

LECTURES ON HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA
by JAMES TYLER KENT, A.M., M.D.

Natrum Phosphoricum
We are not dependent upon Schüessler alone for indications for this remedy,
as we have many pathogenetic symptoms.
Schuessler's indications were good and mostly confirmed by clinical
observations. The author has given this remedy for twenty years to many
patients whose nerves were in a fret from mental exertion and sexual
excesses and vices.
Modalities: The symptoms are worse in the morning, EVENING, and night, and
after midnight. There is marked anemia and aversion to the open air.
He is aggravated from a draft, from open cold, from becoming cold and after
becoming cold, and there is a tendency to frequent taking cold.
He is worse from changes weather. Chlorosis. Aversion to bathing. Many
symptoms after coition. He may be a sexual debauche.
Many symptoms come on from fasting, and he is generally ameliorated after
eating aggravated from any physical exertion. His muscles are flabby, he is
losing flesh.
He is disturbed by butter, cold drinks, fats, fruit, MILK, sour things and
vinegar.
Formication externally and internally. There is great physical irritability,
and later a marked lack of reaction. Many symptoms are aggravated from a
jar, or stepping. There is marked lassitude in the morning in hot weather.
desire to lie down.
Prolonged weakness from loss of fluids. Lying on left side aggravates many
symptoms. Worse before and after menses. During menses the symptoms are
aggravated afternoon and evening. Numbness in single parts. Orgasm of blood.
Stitching, tearing pains aggravated during a thunderstorm.
Pulsation all over the body. Sensation as though a shot was forced through
the arteries is a verified symptom. Oversensitive in general, and to pain.
Shocks through the body, in night while awake.
Sitting aggravates. General aggravation during a thunderstorm. Tension in
muscles and tendons. Trembling in thunderstorm. Twitching of muscles.
Nervous and paralytic weakness aggravated in morning, and after exertion.
The body smells sour (like Hepar, Sulph., Lyc.).
Mind: Anger over trifles, and complaints from vexation.
Anxiety and night; in bed; before midnight; after eating; with fear fever;
about the future; about his health; on waking.
Complaints from bad news. Aversion to company. Concentration difficult.
Confusion of mind in the morning; in the evening; after eating; from mental
exertion; on waking.
Delusions, frightful; thinks he sees dead people; imagines; thinks he is
going to have typhoid fever; hears footsteps in the next room.
Discontented, discouraged and easily distracted. Dullness of mind while
reading. Mental exertion brings on many complaints.
He is very excitable. Fear at night; of impending disease; that something
will happen; of misfortune; on waking.
Fears bad news. Forgetful. Easily frightened, and heedless. She is
hysterical, and in a hurry. No one works fast enough suit him. Sometimes his
ideas are abundant, and again deficient and his mind grows sluggish.
Impatience. He is indifferent to every thing, even to his family. A
gradually increasing indolence; a mental and physical work. Irritability; in
the morning menses; about trifles. Memory weak.
Times of mirthfulness. GREAT PROSTRATION OF MIND. Restless and anxious,
evening and night. Sadness in evening, after emission, during fever, and
from music.
He is extremely sensitive to music and noise and to his surroundings. He
grows serious and silent, and sits by himself quite still for a long time.
He is easily startled, from fright, from noise, on falling asleep, and
during sleep.
Spells of stupefaction creep over him. His friends call him suspicious.
Indisposed to talk. His thoughts wander. He is growing timid and bashful.
Weeps easily. Mental work becomes impossible and he seems to be approaching
imbecility.
Vertigo and head: Vertigo in the morning; aggravated from mental exertion
while sitting and walking. Tendency to fall.
Congestion in the evening. Heat in head in evening, in forehead and vertex.
Flushes of heat after sweat. Tension in the scalp.
Eruptions on the head of golden yellow scabs; eczema on the forehead.
Fullness in forehead; over the eyes; in the morning; aggravated by, mental
exertion. Heaviness of the head, and the hair falls out.
Pain in the head, morning, afternoon, evening and night, aggravated binding
up the hair; after eating; must lie down; aggravated from light; lying;
before, during and after menses; MENTAL EXERTION; after sour milk; motion;
motion of head; noise; rising from lying; in a room, sexual excesses, after
sleep; after stooping; straining eyes; during a thunderstorm; while walking;
warm room; ameliorated in open air; by pressure.
The headaches are periodical, pulsating. Pain in forehead aggravated from
MENTAL EXERTION; from motion; over eyes; in occiput; sides of head; temples;
in vertex on waking in morning; in vertex and forehead.
The pains are bursting, cutting in temples and sides of head; drawing in
head and occiput; pressing with sour slimy vomiting; pressing in forehead,
outward, over eyes; pressing in occiput, and sides of occiput; pressing in
temples; pressing in vertex as if it would open.
Stitching in head, in forehead, in sides of head, in temples. Stunning in
head and forehead. Tearing in head. Perspiration of forehead. Pulsating in
head, forehead, temples and vertex. Shocks in the head. Twitching.
Uncovering the head brings on the symptoms.
Eyes: Dryness of the eyes.
Creamy yellow discharges. Heaviness of the lids. Inflammation of the eyes.
Scrofulous ophthalmia, and granular lids. Itching and burning of the lids
and margin of the lids.
Burning lachrymation, must rub the eyes.
Pain in the eyes, when reading. Burning and cutting. Pressing during menses.
Pain as though sand in eyes. Sore, bruised feeling when reading. Stitching
pain in eyes.
Paralysis of the optic nerve. Photophobia. Pupils dilated. One pupil
dilated. Quivering of right eyelid while reading. Staring. Strabismus.
Swollen lids. Yellow sclerotics.
Colors before the eyes, dark. Halo around the light. Dim vision for distant
objects. Foggy vision; blindness.
Exertion of vision aggravates many symptoms. Flickering before the eyes
morning on rising, at 5 P.M. Mist before the eyes aggravated in gaslight at
8 P.M. Myopia. Sparks before the eyes.
Ears: Eruption on the ears.
Creamy yellow crusts on the ears. Fullness in ears. Heat and redness of one
ear. Itching in the ears. Lobe of right ear burning and itching, must
scratch it until it bleeds. Noises in ears, with vertigo, humming, ringing,
roaring, rushing, singing, whizzing.
Pain in ear. Aching in right meatus. Burning. Stitching in and behind ear.
Tearing. Pulsation. Stopped sensation. The hearing is acute, acute for
voices; impaired, lost.
Nose: The patient is subject to fluent coryza, and catarrh of the nose with
thick yellow-purulent discharge.
Epistaxis on blowing the nose. Fullness at the root of the nose. The nose is
obstructed with mucus and crusts, but the discharge is generally scanty.
Offensive odors in the nose in the morning. Ozoena. Pricking in the left
nostril brings tears to the eyes.
Smell is acute. Soreness in the left nostril. He picks the nose constantly
and scales form. Frequent sneezing. Tension over the root of the nose.
Face: Discoloration of the face, bluish circles around the eyes; earthy,
PALE; red blotches but not feverish red alternating with paleness; yellow,
liver spots, white about nose and mouth.
Eruptions on the face, on the chin, forehead, lips, about the mouth, ON THE
NOSE. Pimples on the forehead. Pustules on the face. Heat in the evening
during chill. The face burns. Itching of the face and nose.
Pain in the face, burning, neuralgic. Shooting in the right cheek. Soreness
in the right lower jaw at angle, darting through it. Stitching. Swelling of
the glands of the lower jaw. Swelling of the sub-maxillary gland.
Mouth: Bleeding gums.
The tongue is coated yellow. Yellow at the base, or dirty white. Roof of
mouth coated golden yellow or creamy. Dryness of mouth and tongue.
Salivation. Sensation of a hair on the tongue, followed by prickly numbness
of whole mouth.
Speech difficult. Stinging on the tongue. Taste bad on waking, bitter,
metallic, saltish, sour. Vesicles in mouth and on tongue.
Caries of the teeth. Grinding the teeth during sleep in children. Looseness
of the teeth. Pain in the teeth, at night, ameliorated by pressure and
external warmth. Burning, pressing and pulsating.
Throat and tonsils: coated yellow.
Dryness of the throat. Mucus forms in throat. Tough clear white mucus in
posterior nares. Thick yellow mucus drops from posterior nares, aggravated
at night, must sit up to clear the throat. Sensation of a lump in throat.
Much hawking.
Inflammation of throat. Pain in throat on swallowing. Sore throat on right
edge, aggravated swallowing. Burning, pricking, stitching. Pulsation in left
tonsil. Scraping mucus from posterior nares. Swallows liquids better than
solids in sore throat.
Stomach: The appetite is increased, ravenous or wanting.
Aversion to food, to meat, to milk, to bread and butter. Desires alcoholic
drinks, beer, pungent food, eggs, fried fish, cold drinks. The stomach is
disordered by fat and milk. Emptiness, aggravated after eating. Eructation
after eating, empty, SOUR; waterbrash.
Fullness after eating. Heartburn, heaviness and pressure. Heat in the
stomach. Nausea in the morning, evening, during cough, and during headache.
Pain in the stomach; after eating; two hours after eating; cramping;
gastralgia, several attacks every day with vomiting sour fluids;
over-secretion of lactic acid. Gnawing in the stomach. Pressing after
eating. Soreness and stitching. Retching. Extreme thirst.
Ulceration of the stomach. Sour vomiting. Creamy coating on the tongue. Sour
odor of the body. Vomiting on coughing, with headache, of bile, bitter,
frothy with headache, OF MUCUS, SOUR in infants fed on milk, sour cheesy
masses in intermittent fever; in pregnancy; vomiting yellow, green.
Abdomen: Distension of the abdomen after eating.
Sensation of emptiness, after stool. Flatulence, obstinate, after eating.
Fullness gurgling and hardness. Pain afternoon and night, after eating,
paroxysmal, before stool. Pain in hypochondria. Burning in abdomen. Cramping
before stool, causing urging to stool, while walking. Cutting in abdomen.
Pressing in the hypogastrium. Soreness in the whole abdomen.
Stitching in the abdomen and in liver. Torpid liver. Rumbling. Tension.
Constipation with difficult hard stool. Inactivity of the rectum; one day
constipated, next day diarrhoea.
Diarrhoea morning, night, with colic, after eating, in summer, with flatus.
Anus: The anus is excoriated; much flatus; involuntary stools, involuntary
when passing flatus.
Sore, itching anus, aggravated in the warmth of the bed. Pain in the rectum
after stool. Burning during and after stool. Painful contraction of anus.
Cutting during stool. Stitching on walking. Tenesmus. Urging to stool after
coition, in a man.
Urging ineffectual, unsatisfactory. Weak feeling in the rectum before stool.
The stool is bloody, cheesy, crumbling; light colored, bileless stool;
green; jelly-like masses; pasty; sour-smelling.
Stools; thin yellowish brown stool; watery; yellowish green; yellowish
brown. Worms with the stool.
Bladder: Paralysis of the bladder.
Pressing pain in the bladder before urination. Urging to urinate at night,
after coition (man); after eating; constant; frequent. Dysuria. Urination
frequent, at night, during perspiration, involuntary, night, during sleep.
Must wait for urine to start. Must press a long time before urine starts.
Unsatisfactory urination. Stitching pain in the kidneys. Emission of
prostatic fluid during stool. Enlarged prostate. Burning in the urethra
during the flow of urine.
After stool burning and itching of the meatus. The urine is albuminous,
burning, cloudy, dark, pale; copious; night and morning, offensive, scanty,
with mucous sediment.
Men: Erections are troublesome morning and night, continued, frequent,
incomplete, painful, without desire, violent, wanting.
Vesicles upon the genitalia. Itching of the scrotum, prepuce and anus. Pain
in the spermatic cords and testes. Drawing in spermatic cords. Pressing in
testes.
Seminal emission after coition, without dreams, without erections, frequent,
unconscious. Sexual passion diminished, or increased, without erection,
vomiting. Swelling of penis and testes.
Female: Desire increased in the female.
Leucorrhoea after menses, acrid, copious, creamy, honey colored, sour
smelling, yellow and watery.
Menses absent, copious, too frequent, late, pale, painful, protracted.
Prolapsus of the uterus with a weak sinking feeling after stool. Sterility.
Respiration: Soreness in trachea.
Hoarseness and loss of voice. Respiration is asthmatic, difficult, short and
sighing.
Cough afternoon, evening in bed, night, during chill, constant, with coryza,
after drinking. Dry evening cough with expectoration in the morning.
Hacking, hallow, short, racking cough, with irritation in chest or larynx.
Loose morning cough. Tickling in larynx and chest, Violent cough. Cough
aggravated while sitting. Expectoration in the morning bloody, greenish,
mucous, offensive, purulent, thick, viscid, yellow; tasting flat, putrid,
salty.
Anxiety in the chest; a bubble starts from the heart and passes through the
arteries. Constriction of the chest. Empty sensation in the chest after
eating. Pimples on the chest. Sudden feeling of fullness in the upper part
of the chest. Oppression of the chest. Pain in the chest after dinner, from
deep breathing, during cough.
Pain in the heart. Aching, pressing in the chest. Burning deep in the chest,
aggravated on the right side, evening in bed. Cutting, pressing. Rawness in
chest on coughing. Soreness in chest. Stitching in the chest, sides of chest
aggravated in left side.
PALPITATION, anxious, after, eating; aggravated from noise, lying on the
left side, during a thunderstorm. Phthisis florida in young people.
Trembling of heart, after menses, on ascending stairs.
Back: Heavy dragging in the back. Itching of the skin of the back.
Pain in the back at night, during menses, on motion, from sexual excesses,
while sitting. Pain in the dorsal region; left scapula, between scapulae.
Pain in lumbar region, during menses. Pain in sacrum, during menses.
Aching in back during menses in lumbar region. Sore bruised back and spine.
Spinal irritation.
Burning in lumbar region and in the spine. Drawing in the back. Sharp pain
in right sacro-iliac junction. Stitching in lumbar region.
Perspiration of the back. Stiffness both sides of neck. Swelling of the
glands of the neck. Weakness of the back toward evening, in the lumbar
region, after emissions.
Limbs: COLD HANDS, legs and feet.
Feet icy cold during menses, in daytime, burn at night in bed. Contraction
of extensors in forearm while writing. Sore stinging corns. Cramp in calves
and feet. Cramp in hands, while writing. Cracking in joints. Eruption on
limbs, vesicles; pimples and vesicles on lower limbs; pimples on nates,
eczema of ankles. Formication of upper limbs and of feet.
Heat of hands and feet Heaviness of limbs, of lower limbs, legs and feet.
Itching of limbs, upper limbs, lower limbs, ankles. Numbness of limbs, upper
limbs, right hand and arm, of fingers, right fingers, of feet. Pain in the
limbs. Gouty, rheumatic joints, wrist. Rheumatic pain in shoulder (right).
Pain in leg, calf, ankle, ball of foot, first toe. Bruised pain in limbs,
lower limbs, knee, leg. Burning hands and soles.
Crampy pain in left hand and index finger. Drawing in forearm, wrist during
menses, hand, joints, left shoulder, hip and knee. Pressure in shoulder.
Stitching in shoulder and fingers, in hip, thigh, knee, soles, heel. Tearing
in limbs, joints, upper limbs, shoulder, upper arm, elbow, fingers; lower
limbs, hip, knee, leg, foot, toes.
Perspiration of hands and feet. Restless legs. Shortening of tendons in
hollow of knee, also, after menses. Stiffness of joints. Swelling of
fingers; of lower limbs, of feet. Tension in hamstrings and calf Trembling
in hands, in knees after emissions.
Twitching of muscles. Weakness of upper limbs, of hands, of right wrist and
left ankle after menses; of lower limbs, thighs, ANKLES. Weakness of ankles
in children (Nat. c.). Sudden giving way of legs while walking.
Sleep: Very deep sleep.
The patient is a great dreamer. Dreams anxious, amorous, of dead people,
distressing, of previous events, of fire, frightful, nightmare, pleasant,
vexatious and vivid.
Falling asleep in the chair. The sleep is restless. Sleepiness all day and
after dinner, most in forenoon. Sleepless before midnight, after midnight,
from crowding of thoughts. Sleepiness, yet cannot sleep. Unrefreshing sleep.
Wakeful from 12 to 3 A.M. Waking early, 5 A.M., unrested. Waking late.
Coldness in evening in bed, in cold air. Chilliness in evening, during
menses, after eating. Shaking chill. One-sided coldness. Internal chill.
Fever, flushes of heat and headache every afternoon. Cannot get to sleep,
feels so hot. Fever with sweat during sleep. Intermittent fever with
vomiting of sour masses.
Skin: Perspiration in the daytime, morning, afternoon, during the night.
Anxious sweat. Cold sweat. Perspiration on coughing, on slight exertion.
Profuse sweat in the morning and during the night with great nervous
weakness. Sour smelling sweat. The infant smells sour.
Biting, burning, or coldness of the skin. Liver spots red spots, yellow
spots and jaundiced skin. Dry skin. Dry, burning eruptions; blisters, boils,
burning, desquamating, moist, dry, herpetic, painful, phagedenic, pimples,
golden yellow scales; suppurating, urticaria, vesicular. Eczema with honey
colored discharge. Erysipelas. Excoriation. Formication. Freckles.
Gnawing pain in skin. Inactivity of the skin. Itching, biting, burning,
crawling, creeping, stinging, ameliorated by scratching, aggravated by
warmth of bed. Sensitive skin. Sore feeling in the skin. Sticking in skin.
Swelling of skin, of affected parts.
Dropsical skin. Ulcerative pain. Ulcers; biting, burning, crawling, deep;
discharge offensive and yellow; fistulous, inflamed, red areola, sensitive,
stinging, suppurating, swollen, unhealthy. Unhealthy skin. Warts.

HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA
by William BOERICKE, M.D.

NATRIUM PHOSPHORICUM
Phosphate of Sodium
Natrum phosphoricum is the remedy for conditions arising from excess of
lactic acid, often resulting from too much sugar. Ailments, with excess of
acidity. Sour eructations and taste. Sour vomiting. Yellow, creamy coating
at the back of the roof of mouth and tongue. Inflammation of any part of the
throat, with sensation of a lump in throat. Flatulence, with sour risings.
Colic, with symptoms of worms. Cracking of joints. Jaundice (1x trit).
Oxaluria.
Mind.--Imagines, on waking at night, that pieces of furniture are persons;
that the hears footsteps in next room. Fear.
Head.--Feels dull in the morning, full feeling and throbbing.
Eyes.--Discharge of golden-yellow, creamy matter from the eyes. Dilation of
one pupil. Whites of eyes dirty yellow.
Ears.--One ear red, hot, frequently itchy, accompanied by gastric
derangements and acidity.
Nose.--Offensive odor. Itching of nose. Naso-pharyngeal catarrh, with thick,
yellow, offensive mucus.
Face.--Paleness of bluish, florid appearance of face.
Mouth.--Canker sores of lip and cheeks. Blisters on tip of tongue, with
stinging in evening. Thin, moist coating on the tongue. Yellow, creamy
coating at the back part of the roof of the mouth. Dysphagia. Thick, creamy
membrane over tonsils and soft palate.
Stomach.--Sour eructations, sour vomiting, greenish diarrhœa. Spits mouthful
of food.
Male.--Emissions without dreams, with weakness in back and trembling in
limbs. Desire without erection. Gonorrhœa.
Female.--Menses too early; pale, thin, watery. Sterility, with acid
secretions from vagina. Leucorrhœa; discharge creamy or honey-colored, or
acid and watery. Sour-smelling discharges from uterus. Morning sickness,
with sour vomiting.
Extremities.--Rheumatism of the knee-joint.
Back.--Weariness; aching in wrists and finger-joints. Hamstrings sore.
Synovial crepitation. Rheumatic arthritis.
Skin.--Yellow. Itching in various parts, especially of ankles. Hives.
Smooth, red, shining. Erysipelas. Feet icy cold in daytime, burn at night.
Swelling of lymphatic glands.
Relationship.--Compare: Natrum lactic (rheumatism and gout; gouty
concretions, rheumatism with diabetes); Natrum nitrosum (angina pectoris.
Cyanosis, fainting, copious liquid stools at night; throbbing and fullness;
faintness, nervous pain in head, nausea, eructations, blue lips). Natrum
silicofluoricum-Salufer--(a cancer remedy; tumors, bone affection, caries,
lupus, ethmoiditis. Must be used carefully); Nat selen (chronic laryngitis
and laryngeal phthisis; hoarseness of singers, expectorate small lumps of
mucus with frequent clearing of throat); Nat sulphurosum (diarrhœa, with
yeasty stools); Nat sulphocarbol (pyæmia; purulent pleurisy, 3 to 5 grains
every three hours); Nat telluricum (breath has odor of garlic; nightsweats
of phthisis) calc; Robin; Phos. In oxaluria 1x four times daily prevents
formation of calculi; keeps the oxal of lime in solution (Schwartz).
Dose.--Third to twelfth trituration. In Jaundice 1x. Non-homeopathically,
Phosphate Soda used hypodermically for Morphine habit, by Dr. M. J. Luys.
Phosphate Soda, 75 gr daily, for constitutional iodism, thyroidism and
Grave's disease.