NATRUM PHOSPHORICUM

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

  • Nerves in a fret from mental exertion and sexual excesses and vices
  • Symptoms worse in the morning, evening and night, and after midnight
  • Marked anaemia
  • Aversion to the open air
  • Aggravated from a draft, from open air, from cold, from becoming cold and after becoming cold
  • Tendency to frequent taking cold
  • Worse from changes in the weather
  • Chlorosis
  • Aversion to bathing
  • Symptoms come on after coition
  • Sexual debauch
  • Symptoms come on from fasting
  • Ameliorated after eating
  • Aggravated from any physical exertion
  • Muscles flabby
  • Losing flesh
  • Disturbed by butter, cold drinks, cold food, fats, fruit, milk, sour things and vinegar
  • Formication externally and internally
  • Great physical irritability
  • Marked lack of reaction
  • Aggravated from a jar, or stepping
  • Marked lassitude in the morning in hot weather
  • Constant 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
  • 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
  • Body smells sour
  • Anger over trifles, and complaints from vexation
  • Anxiety evening and night; in bed; before midnight; after eating; with fear; during 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; images; thinks he is going to have typhoid fever; that he hears footsteps in the next room
  • Discontented, discouraged, and easily distracted
  • Dullness of mind while reading
  • Mental exertion brings on many complaints
  • Very excitable
  • Fear at night; of impending disease; that something will happen; of misfortune; on waking
  • Fears bad news
  • Forgetful
  • Easily frightened, and heedless
  • Hysterical, and in a hurry
  • No one works fast enough to suit him
  • Ideas are abundant, and again deficient, and his mind grows sluggish
  • Impatience
  • Indifferent to everything, even to his family
  • Gradually increasing indolence; a dread of mental and physical work
  • Irritability; in the morning; during 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
  • Extremely sensitive to music and noise and to his surroundings
  • Grows serious and silent, and sits by himself quite still for a long time
  • Easily startled, from fright, from noise, on falling asleep, and during sleep
  • Spells of stupefaction creep over him
  • Friends call him suspicious
  • Indisposed to talk
  • Thoughts wander
  • Growing timid and bashful
  • Weeps easily
  • Mental work becomes impossible and he seems to be approaching imbecility
  • 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
  • Headaches are periodical, pulsating
  • Pain in fore head aggravated from mental exertion; from motion; over eyes; in occiput; sides of head; temples; in vertex on waking in morning; in vertex and forehead
  • 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
  • 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
  • Eruption on the ears
  • Creamy yew 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
  • Hearing is acute, acute for voices; impaired, lost
  • 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
  • Nose is obstructed with mucus and crusts, but the discharge is generally scanty
  • Offensive odors in the nose in the morning
  • Ozaena
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Bleeding gums
  • 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 side, aggravated swallowing
  • Burning, picking, stitching
  • Pulsation in left tonsil
  • Scraping mucus from posterior nares
  • Swallows liquids better than solids in sore throat
  • 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
  • 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

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