Homeopathy Remedy Natrum Phosphoricum


Natrum Phosphoricum homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Natrum Phosphoricum…


      Triturations of pure Sodium phosphate are used.

Generalities

      Intermittent pains here and there. Sore feeling, (<) joints. Pulse felt all over body. Nervous in morning on rising; form 11 till 12 O’clock before breakfast, with sick feeling; after breakfast, went to bed again; when studying, so that he must get up and walk about; (<) thunderstorm, with goneness at stomach, headache and crick in neck. Weakness; in morning and weak feeling in legs, (>) forcibly stretching; in afternoon, and falling asleep white sitting; after nocturnal emission; in hot weather; after dinner, with ill humor and desire to lie down.

Clinical This drug has been used empirically according to Schussler for ailments resulting from excessive acidity, diseases of infants, diabetes, etc.

Mind

      Imagines on waking at night that pieces of furniture are persons. Startled by the least noise, (<) night, then palpitation. Despondency; in evening, with inability to study; in attacks in evening; (<) emissions; and imagination that he was going to have typhoid fever. Anxiety about home, fear of bed news; A. about his health. Apprehension of some approaching evil. Fear on walking that his child, who had a trifling ailment, was dead. Ill humor; (<) forenoons. Inclination to study in evening. Study is burdensome, it is difficult to remember what is read. Dullness, forgot what I had just committed to memory No ambition to do anything.

Head

      Aching at 9 A.M., preceded by gagging and faintness, the A.at first (>) pressure, suddenly (>) 8 P.M.; A. at 10 A.M.; every afternoon, after menses; after dinner; (>) before breakfast; (>) after breakfast; throbbing; heavy, with dim vision; tensive, with Dullness and heaviness and dim vision. Dullness in morning, and at root of nose. Fulness in afternoon, with heaviness and flashes of heat, then sweat; F. towards evening; F. when studying, with heaviness and vertigo; with throbbing pan; with pulsating pain on stepping. Empty feeling. Vertigo; in morning on rising.

Forehead. Acute over l. eye; every forenoon. Aching over l. eye during menses; over r. eye, (<) before and after, (>) during menses, with sighing as if room were too close; alternately over each eye every afternoon, after menses; intermittent, in morning when studying, with fulness; Throbbing, (<) suddenly raising r. temples; F. over eyes in morning.

Temples. Cutting in r.; in l. at 3 P.M. when walking. Pinching in l. descending to l. ear and nostril. Sharp pain in r. Pain nearly all the morning; P. in r.; intermittent in r.; in r. extending to eye and ear, at noon, (>) 5 P.M., after eating grapes, and in evening P. over l. temple when riding in a street-car.

Tearing in l. side of H., (<) temple and front of ear. Cutting in r. side with intermittent aching over eyes. Rheumatic drawing up l. side of occiput into forehead.

Eyes

      Bloodshot. Sticking, inducing winking and lachrymation. Cutting in r. Felling as if sand were in them, (<) l. Sore feeling in evening when reading. Weak feeling at 8 P.M., (<) gaslight. Feeling as if bathed in hot water. Burning, causing rubbing of eyes and lachrymation. Burning lachrymation. Quivering of r. lid when reading, before sleep and on waking. Lids feel heavy and itch along margins. Soreness of r. inner canthus, desire to rub it, and redness; S. of r. inner C., with shooting. Aching of r. ball. Dryness of l. ball, with bruised pain. Infraorbital neuralgia on r. side. Pain over eyes; (<) closing eyes, on retiring; in l. orbit, with pain in abdomen extending into chest, and flatulence; in orbit above ball on using eyes, and lids feel sore, itch and burn; in centre of l. brow. Flickering before l. eye on rising at 5 A.M. Vision misty, halo around gaslight, with sore, weak feeling in eyes.

Clinical Ophthalmia, with yellow, creamy discharge. Squinting from worms. Granular lids. Scrofulous ophthalmia.

Ears

      Aching in r. meatus auditorium. Fulness; in evening. When lying, sensation as of water dropping from a height into a long narrow vessel. Ticking from middle into Eustachian tube. Itching in r. meatus auditorius. Emergence that he hears footsteps in the next room.

Nose

      Pricking in nostrils. L. nostril sore, painful, picks it constantly, scabs from. Feels full of mucus, discharge slight. Fulness at root in evening and skin feels tight over it; F. at root in evening, and in ears. Stoppage of l. nostril, (<) open air. Offensive odor in morning. Bleeding.

Clinical Offensive discharge from nose. Naso-pharyngeal catarrh, with yellow mucus.

Face

      Shooting in r, cheek; along cheeks into ears; through l. lower jaw. Soreness in r angle of lobe jaw, with occasional darting through jaw. Pain about chin.

Mouth

      Teeth in morning and mouth all day covered with brownish mucus. Gumboils, one opposite first l. premolar, another opposite last r. molar. Pain in gum over last l. upper molar. Tongue coated dirty white, with dark brow centre. Blisters on tip of T. Stinging in tip of T. in evening. Sensation of hairs on tip of T., then prickling numbness of whole mouth, net day a pimple. Taste bad in morning on waking. Taste coppery at 5 A.M.

Clinical Yellowish, creamy look on soft palate. Thin, moist coat on tongue. Moist, creamy, golden-yellow coat at root of tongue on palate.

Throat

      Mucus; tough, clear, white from posterior nares; dropping of thick, clear M. from posterior nares, (<) night, waking him must sit up to clear his throat. Much hawking from posterior nares; H. in afternoon; with tickling and cough. Pricking in r. side, (<) swallowing liquids, (>) swallowing solids. Sensation of a lump. Feeling as if something closed it, preventing speech. Soreness of r. side. Throbbing in region of l. tonsil.

Stomach

      Canine hunger. Appetite for strong-tasting things, even alcohol; for beer, it relieves the goneness; for eggs; fried eggs. Little appetite; most for supper; little for dinner. Appetite lost, with sick, gone feeling. Aversion to bread and butter. Eructations after eating; of food after dinner. Pressure in pit after menses, (>) eating. Full feeling; after eating a little; (<) eating. Heaviness after tea, causing restlessness; H. in epigastrium and lower third of sternum during menses, (<) ascending stairs; in epigastrium, (>) eating. Goneness; all day, (<) eating; in morning on rising; from 11 till 12 O’clock, before breakfast; and in abdomen and even in chest; and in abdomen, with weight above ensiform.

Clinical Sour eructations and vomiting. Acid dyspepsia, with flatulence.

Abdomen

      Flatulence during the day; F. after eating, with rumbling; F. (<) dinner Bloated feeling, (<) evening, with flatulence, necessity to loosen clothes and urging to stool. Colic in evening when lying, with discharge of Flatus; C. after breakfast when walking in the room; after supper when walking; after stool; as from wind pressing on bladder causing frequent maturating, with urging to stool. Anxiety. Empty feeling in A. and chest after eating; in A. and chest after dinner.

Sensation in descending colon as if a marble dropped, when at stool. Cutting in hypochondria and l. iliac region. Pain through r. groin the day after emissions; in hypogastrium in morning; in hypogastrium, with desire for stool, much flatus before stool, after supper, when walking. Soreness in hypogastrium after micturition, (>) lying on back, (<) lying on belly in evening.

Rectum

      Urging; after coitus, U. to stool and urine, S. small and lose. Must bring my will to bear to prevent the escape of faces. Sudden urging. stool copious, easy, first part fluid, second faecal; sudden U. at 6.30 P.M. and after supper, during stool, difficulty in retaining faces, stool mushy, yellow-brown, with flatus before and during, and colic during stool; sudden urging after a light supper, with colic, had to contract sphincter to prevent escape of faces, stool watery, gushing, painless. Ineffectual urging.

Anus

      Sticking on walking. Burning, contracting pain in A. and lower part of rectum after waking from a troubled dream. Sore feeling. Rawness; on waking, (<) scratching; sore R., with desire to retract it, which relieves. Itching; and soreness.

Stool

      Watery, yellowish-brown, containing faecal lumps; W., yellowish- brown, small, and after four hours and a half, another thin, profuse, yellowish brown, before each stool feeling in rectum and sphincter. Diarrhoea before morning, with colic; D. after rising, with rumbling in abdomen, and after breakfast a small, dry, difficult, dark brown stool, next day dark brown S. requiring straining; frequent D., with flatus and with cramp in stomach and abdomen, afraid to pass flatus lest faces escape also. Soft and large; and easy, afterwards feeling as if much remained behind; soft and small, difficult, before breakfast, sudden urging while eating, afterwards watery, yellowish-brown, painless stool.

Constipation; next day diarrhoea. Small stools twice a day. Scanty, at 7.30 A.M., with flatus, after breakfast a large stool, with much flatus. Difficult, in two small lumps at 9 A.M., normal S. in evening.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.