Natrum Phosphoricum



Ears

Lobe of ear burning and itching so intolerably has to scratch it till bleeds. Sensation in ears as of water dropping from a height into a long round vessel. Fulness in ears, aching in right meatus. Itching and tickling in (right) Eustachian tube from middle ear. Imagines he hears footsteps in next room.

Nose

Fulness at root of nose, skin feels drawn tight over it., _ Nose as if full of mucus, but discharge slight. Left nostril sore, painful, picks it constantly, scales form. Pricking in left (and right) nostril, brings tears to eyes. Offensive odour before nose.

Face

Shooting pain in right cheek. Peculiar stitching pain along cheek into ears. Great soreness right lower jaw at angle, occasional slight darting through jaw. Intense itching of face especially nose.

Mouth

Teeth in morning and mouth all day covered with a brownish mucus. Gumboils on molars. Tongue coated dirty white, brown center. Moist, golden-yellow, or creamy coating back part of roof of mouth (S). Sensation of hairs on tip of tongue, followed by prickling numbness of whole mouth. Stinging on tip of tongue. Bad taste (coppery) on waking. Tries to say a word, but it will not come out, feels as if something closed in throat preventing speech.

Throat

Mucus in throat. Tough clear white phlegm in posterior nares. Thick yellow mucus drops from posterior nares, worse night, wakens him, must sit up to clear throat. Sensation of lump in throat. Right side of throat sore, sensation as of a pin pricking it, worse swallowing liquids, better swallowing solids, throbbing in region of left tonsils.

Stomach

Acidity in children fed with excess of milk and sugar (S). Dyspepsia from fat food, or worse by fat food (S). Canine hunger with gone feeling in stomach. Desires: strong-tasting things, eggs, fried fish, beer, which better _ Aversion to: bread-and- butter. Sour eructations (S). Eructations after eating. Goneness, in stomach and abdomen, even in chest, worse after eating. Heaviness and pressure in epigastrium. Vomiting of sour cheesy masses (S).

Abdomen

Sharp cutting in hypochondria and left iliac region. Flatulence, worse after eating, rumbling. While at stool, sensation as if a marble dropped down descending colon. Colic, and pressure, with acidity (S). Colic, as from wind pressing on bladder, causing frequent inclination and urging to stool. Colicky pains while walking. Colic in hypogastrium, soreness.

Stool & Anus

Burning contracting pain in anus and lower rectum (on waking from troubled dream). Sticking as from splinter in anus on walking. Sore, raw feeling. Itching soreness, must scratch. Must bring will be bear to prevent escape of faeces. Diarrhoea with colic, fears to pass flatus for fear faeces should escape. After coitus (man) urging to stool and urination: stools small, loose. Yellowish green, so-called “hacked diarrhoea”(S). Stool: yellowish brown, profuse, thin, yellowish brown. Before stool: Weak feeling in rectum and sphincter. Small stool before breakfast, soft yet with effort, sudden urging while eating, afterwards, watery yellowish brown, painless stools. Large, soft stool, easily expelled, with feeling afterwards as if much remained behind. Costive. One day costive, next diarrhoea. Intestinal long or round worms, with acidity, picking nose, occasional squinting, pain in bowels, restless sleep (S).

Urinary Organs

Burning during micturition. After coitus burning and itching at meatus. Frequent micturition. Obliged to vomit from pressure of wind on bladder, pressure not better thereby. Passed a large quantity of urine on arising in morning. Bladder semi-paralysed: flow soon stops, and requires straining. Urine: increased, pale, scanty, dark. (Diabetes, hepatic form).

Male Sexual Organs

Erections almost nightly, preceded by slight pains in testicles (worse left). Drawing in testes and cords. Emissions: at night with vivid dreams, after coitus, without dreams. Semen, thin, watery, smells like stale urine. Emissions followed by week back and trembling of knees. Great itching of scrotum, prepuce, anus.

Female Sexual Organs

Menses five days early. *During menses: feet icy cold by day, burn at night in bed, pressure in right eye, flow at first paler than usual. *After menses: symptoms worse, trembling at heart, headache, paralytic aching in right wrist: knees feel as if tendons shortened. Leucorrhoea: creamy or honey-coloured, sour smelling, acrid, and watery (S). Prolapsus uteri with weak sinking sensation after defection.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness. Cough from drinking water. Cough from tickling in throat. Constant cough and hawking, pain in chest in mammary region.

Chest

Empty feeling in chest, worse after a meal. Pain through chest ( worse left) after dinner. Pain from right clavicle diagonally to stomach, intense, caused starting, followed by hoarseness. Burning deep in chest, worse right side. Sudden feeling of fullness. Contracted feeling, muscles as if drawn, aching pains. Weight above ensiform cartilage, with empty feeling. Lower third of sternum, pain as if torn in two. (Phthisis florida in young subjects).

Heart

Trembling about heart worse going up stairs. Feeling as if a lump or bubble started from heart and were forced through arteries. Heart feels uneasy, especially about base, when pains in limbs and great toe are better. Pulses felt all over body. Pulse, quick, jerking.

Neck and Back

Crick in both sides of neck. Scrofulous swelling of lymphatic glands (S). Goitre. Weakness in back towards evening. Slight pain in left scapula. Sharp pain in right sacroiliac joint.

Limbs

Right wrist and left ankle weak, ache as if paralysed (after menses). Drawing in hands, feet, wrist-joints, and left shoulder.

Upper Limbs

Synovial crepitation. Arm (left) feels gone, tired. Arms weak, must let them drop. Heaviness of right arm. Contraction of extensors in back of arm, often, when writing. Rheumatic pain in right shoulder, feels nervous. Shooting pains from neck over right shoulder. Deep-seated pain in right wrist going into palm. Drawing cramping, paralytic aching (during menses) in right wrist. Numbness in right hand and arm. Crampy pain in left hand, especially index finger. Numbness in right fingers, occasional darting, worse ring fingers. Severe shooting pains in left middle and index fingers.

Lower Limbs

Synovial crepitation. Sudden giving way of legs while walking, as though they would be paralysed. Hamstrings stiff. Sharp, shooting front of left thigh. Knees feel as if tendons shortened, (also at menses). Stitching in left knee. When walking: calves feel pulled tight, as if needles piercing calf. Pain in ball of foot, in (right) big toe. Gout (S). Rheumatism (S). Much itching at ankle-joints, even eczematous eruptions.

Generalities

Lassitude: in morning, in hot weather. Nervous. Sore. Wakes at midnight, soon a sensation like electric shock through body, trembling and palpitation as from fright. Deposits in joints (S).

Skin

Itching, worse after going to bed, hives (Apis better). Itching papules on right ear, about joints. Itching of scrotum, prepuce, and anus. Chafing of skin. Eczema, with acidity, honey-coloured secretion. Crusta lactea. Golden-yellow scabs.

Sleep

Drowsy all day, most forenoon, falls asleep sittings. Unusual excitement, could not sleep till left awoke again at 5, unrested. Sleepless 12 to 3 a.m. Dreams: sexual, vexing, of the dead.

Fever

Chilly: during menses, most on chest, followed by hot flushes round body. Feet icy cold by day, burn at night (during menses). Cannot get to sleep feels so hot, thoughts crowd on his mind. Flashes of heat and sweat. Face burns. Exceedingly sour-smelling sweats (S). Intermittent fever with vomiting of sour masses (S).

Chilly: during menses, most on chest, followed by hot flushes round body. Feet icy cold by day, burn at night (during menses). Cannot get to sleep feels so hot, thoughts crowd on his mind. Flashes of heat and sweat. Face burns. Exceedingly sour-smelling sweats (S). Intermittent fever with vomiting of sour masses (S).

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica