Natrum Phosphoricum

by C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica

REGION

Occiput.
Mucous glands.
Duodenum.
Bile-ducts.
Mesentery.
Genitals.

WORSE

Sugar.
Children.
Milk.
Mental exertion.
Thunder-storms.
Gas-light.

BETTER

Cold.

SOURNESS, eructations, vomitus, stomach, stools, leucorrhœa, expectoration, sweats, etc. Acidity. Deep yellow discharges; matter from eyes, etc. Debility. Overfed children, with acidity. .................... Mental weakness. Fear, < night. Itching; nose; about mouth and anus. Child picks nose. Worms. One ear red and hot. Pale face or red on alternate sides. YELLOW CREAMY COAT ON BASE OF TONGUE; on tonsils. As of a hair on tongue or a lump in throat. Cheesy vomitus. Noisy flatulence. Gastro-duodenal catarrh. Fulness in abdomen, < standing or < eating a little. Hacked stool. Eruptions about joints, < ankles; itching. Alternate joint and heart pains. Rheumatism.

Related: Cina. Kali-s. Kre.

Natrum Phosphoricum across the other classic books

Natrum Phosphoricum appears in 8 of the 13 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.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Sodium phosphate, Na2 Preparation , Triturations. Authorities. (Dr. Farrington's provings, Hahnemannian Monthly, 12, 172)”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“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…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“BALL. FINE PAINS, needle, splinter, thread or hair-like, etc. SOURNESS YELLOW YELLOW, golden, bright or orange 5 A.M.”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“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…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“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…”
Kent — The mental and general picture — who the patient is, before what the remedy cures.
“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…”
Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Excess of acidity; yellow, creamy coating at the back part of the roof of the mouth; sour eructations and vomiting.”

Natrum Phosphoricum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Natrum 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).

EXTREMITIES - TREMBLING - emissions,after
MOUTH - DISCOLORATION - Palate - yellow,creamy
MOUTH - MEMBRANE - Palate covered with a false - evening
MALE GENITALIA - SEMINAL emissions (nightly) - night,every
MOUTH - DISCOLORATION - Palate - white
THROAT - MEMBRANE,exudation,diphtheria,etc. - yellow
MOUTH - DISCOLORATION - Tongue - yellow - base
RECTUM - INVOLUNTARY stool - flatus,on passing
HEAD - PAIN, - Forehead,in - mental exertion
GENERALITIES - EMISSIONS agg.
MIND - STARTING,startled - easily
EXTREMITIES - WEAKNESS - Ankle
GENERALITIES - ONANISM,from
GENERALITIES - NURSING - children
MIND - STARTING,startled - noise,from
MIND - PROSTRATION of mind
GENERALITIES - SEXUAL - excesses,after
GENERALITIES - WEAKNESS,enervation - nervous
BACK - PAIN - sore - bruised - beaten - Spine - spinal irritation
FACE - ERUPTIONS - nose

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