by E. B. Nash — Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics
Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.
Excess of acidity; yellow, creamy coating at the back part of the roof of the mouth; sour eructations and vomiting.
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Natrium phosphoricum appears in 11 of the 27 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.
“Sodium phosphate, Na2 Preparation , Triturations. Authorities. (Dr. Farrington's provings, Hahnemannian Monthly, 12, 172)”
“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…”
“BALL. FINE PAINS, needle, splinter, thread or hair-like, etc. SOURNESS YELLOW YELLOW, golden, bright or orange 5 A.M.”
“Occiput. Mucous glands. Duodenum. Bile-ducts. Mesentery. Genitals. Sugar. Children. Milk. Mental exertion. Thunder-storms. Gas-light. Cold. SOURNESS, eructations, vomitus, stomach, stools, leucorrhœa, expectoration, sweats, etc. Acidity. Deep yellow discharges; matter from eyes, etc. Debility. Overfed children, with…”
“Phosphate of Soda. Hydric Disodic Phosphate. Na 2 HPO 4 , 12 H 2 O. Trituration. Solution. Acidity (infants) / Conjunctivitis / Diabetes / Dyspepsia / Enteralgia / Erysipelas / Gastralgia / Glands, scrofulous swelling of / Goître / Gout / Intertrigo / Leucocytosis / Leucorrhœa / Morphinomania / Phthisis / Post-nasal…”
“Sodium Phosphate. Na 2 H P O 4 12 H 2 O. 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. --Am. Hom. Pharm. Provings by Farrington on twelve…”
“NATRUM PHOSPHORICUM. Sodium phosphate, Na^HPO^.iiH.O. I. I. E. L. Corson took 20 gr. After 4 h., slight dizziness, and passage of a yellowish<brown watery stool, containing fxcal lumps, another similar stool at 6 h., another, more profuse, at to^ h. ; before each weak feeling in rectum and sphincter, had to use great…”
“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…”
“Natrum phos. has the alternating symptoms from arthritis of the leg and toes to the heart; when one is better the other gets worse, and vice versa. Compare Benzoic acid, Colchicum, Guaiacum, Lycopodium and Sulphur in gouty conditions. Pains about base of heart. Palpitation. Crick in both sides of neck. Pain in…”
“WE have been asked to paint a Drug-picture of Natrum phos., and, as usual, have gone the round of writers on homoeopathic Materia Medica, only to discover how little seems to have been written about it. Why? For us, it happens to be one of the Twelve Tissue Remedies that has assumed a distinct individuality;—which is…”
Kent's Repertory lists Natrium phosphoricum in 1,242 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (180), HEAD (114), MIND (101), GENERALITIES (91), STOMACH (72).
