Understanding Natrum phosphoricum

Dr. Claudio C. Araujo MD, FFHom (Lon.) at al.

Based on the proving symptoms, this is the most probable clinical mental picture of our patient. Nat-p. will come to see his doctor very tired, confused, and despondent:

Dullness of mind while reading. 

Mental work becomes impossible and he seems to be approaching imbecility.

Mental exertion brings on many complaints.

Forgetful. 

Mental dulness; forgot what I had just committed to memory.

Mental dulness ; difficult to remember. 

Very drowsy, falls asleep while sitting. 

Drowsy feeling, yet not sleepy. 

Study is burdensome; it is difficult to remember what is read, [2a].

Great prostration of mind.

Despondent in evening; could not study. 

Very despondent; imagined he was going to be sick, to have typhoid fever

Discontented, discouraged and easily distracted. 

Sometimes his ideas are abundant, and again deficient and his mind grows sluggish.

Sits up in bed, seizes the sheet, and folds it precisely along the hems, [9b].

A gradually increasing indolence; a mental and physical work. Irritability; in the morning menses; about trifles. 

He is indifferent to every thing, even to his family.

He is also irritable and critical to the others, impatient and faulfinding:

She is hysterical, and in a hurry. 

No one works fast enough suit him. 

Impatience. 

 Irritable,

Nervous, irritable

Vexed at trifles; disposed to be irritable,

Ill-humor, mostly forenoons,

Based on the proving symptoms, what comes around oneself? 

He is extremely sensitive to music and noise and to his surroundings. 

Apprehensive of some approaching evil, [7b]. 

 Felt anxious about home; had misgivings; feared bad news. 

Complaints from bad news. 

When Natrum phos. looks into reality, what comes to his senses?

Delusions, frightful; thinks he sees dead people; imagines; thinks he is going to have typhoid fever; hears footsteps in the next room.

Awakes in night, and imagines pieces of furniture are persons. 

Nervousness : tired feeling, with goneness of stomach, crick in neck, trembling and palpitation ; in a thunderstorm. 

Apprehensive of some approaching evil,

Easily startled by the least noise, especially at night, causing palpitation,

He is easily startled, from fright, from noise, on falling asleep, and during sleep.

Our patient is someone very sensitive and very frightened. There´s something evil comig towards him, prone to arrive at any moment. He´s expecting bad news and these expectetions are a constant issue in his mind.

Fear at night; of impending disease; that something will happen; of misfortune; on waking.

Fears bad news. 

Easily frightened, and heedless. 

Apprehensive of some approaching evil. 

 Felt anxious about home; had misgivings; feared bad news. 

Complaints from bad news. 

 It´s very probable that his concerns are related to his home and his family:

 Felt anxious about home; had misgivings; feared bad news.

We have mentioned before the state his mind he is in, the dullness and the forgettingness he is felling now. But another subject was brought up by the proving; The Nat-p. sexuality.  

Our patient may have lost control both over his passions and over his emissions, they are occuring without the aquaintance of his will. 

Upon discretion and confidence, our patient may tell us his sexual life, his uncotrolled desires and the lost of control of his emissions:

Female: Desire increased in the female.

Sexual dreams, thinks she is with her husband, but the act is prevented by the unbidden entrance of some stranger, 

Male: Great sexual excitement, 

 Erections almost every night (married man), preceded by slight pains in the testicles, mostly left,. 

Seminal emissions, without dreams. 

Seminal emissions every night, at first with erethism and lascivious dreams, but later without any sensation whatever ; followed by weakness of back and trembling of knees, which felt as though they would give way. 

Semen thin, watery, smells like stale urine. 

Seminal emission at night, with vivid dreams.

Emission of semen, some hours after coitus; no dream or erection, [9b], [9c]. 

Emissions every other night,

Three emissions in one week; unconscious thereof until morning.

Emissions every night; no lascivious dreams; semen thin, watery, smells like stale urine, [7a]. 

Seminal emission during night, without dreams; seminal emission during night, with dreams; another nocturnal emission; still another emission, at night, without dreams,

Seminal emissions, without erotic dreams, two in one night,

Erections are troublesome morning and night, continued, frequent, incomplete, painful, without desire, violent, wanting.

Seminal emission after coition, without dreams, without erections, frequent, unconscious.

Could we establish a link between our patient´s seminal losses and his mental dullness and tiredness? This is very probable, making a further investigation upon our patient´s sexual life inevitable, thus searching for the origins of such mental enfeblement. And also, is our Nat-p. partient someone with an intense but discreet sexual life, to the point of losing control over his sexual desire and now acting as if his desires were commanding his acts?

 

Natrum phosphoricum  Groups

Dr. Claudio C. Araujo MD, FFHom (Lon.)

With the Environment 

Awakes in night, and imagines pieces of furniture are persons. 

 Felt anxious about home; had misgivings; feared bad news.

Nervousness : tired feeling, with goneness of stomach, crick in neck, trembling and palpitation ; in a thunderstorm. 

Apprehensive of some approaching evil, [7b]. 

Easily startled by the least noise, especially at night, causing palpitation, [2a].

He is easily startled, from fright, from noise, on falling asleep, and during sleep.

Anxious and apprehensive ; despondent. 

Worries about his health, about the future, 

Fear at night; of impending disease; that something will happen; of misfortune; on waking.

Fears bad news. 

Easily frightened, and heedless. 

He is extremely sensitive to music and noise and to his surroundings. 

Delusions, frightful; thinks he sees dead people; imagines; thinks he is going to have typhoid fever; hears footsteps in the next room.

Apprehensive of some approaching evil, [7b]. 

 Felt anxious about home; had misgivings; feared bad news. 

Complaints from bad news. 

No ambition to do anything [2a]. 

As if veil was over eyes; 

With Oneself

Dullness of mind while reading. 

Mental work becomes impossible and he seems to be approaching imbecility.

Mental exertion brings on many complaints.

Forgetful. 

Mental dulness; forgot what I had just committed to memory.

Mental dulness ; difficult to remember. 

Very drowsy, falls asleep while sitting. 

Drowsy feeling, yet not sleepy. 

Study is burdensome; it is difficult to remember what is read, [2a].

Great prostration of mind.

Despondent in evening; could not study. 

Very despondent; imagined he was going to be sick, to have typhoid fever

Discontented, discouraged and easily distracted. 

 

Sometimes his ideas are abundant, and again deficient and his mind grows sluggish.

Sits up in bed, seizes the sheet, and folds it precisely along the hems, [9b].

A gradually increasing indolence; a mental and physical work. Irritability; in the morning menses; about trifles. 

He is indifferent to every thing, even to his family. 

Nervous, irritable ; vexed at trifles. 
Melancholy, especially after emissions. 
As if top of head would open;

as if skull was too full; 

as if sand was in eyes; 

as if eyeball was bruised; in 

Tears as of water dropping from a height into a long, narrow vessel ;

 as of hair on tip of tongue; 

as if something closed in throat ; 

as of a lump in throat; 

pricking as of a pin in throat;

 limbs as though they would give way ; 

as if cords of knees were shortened;

 as if a lump, a bubble started from the heart and was forced through arteries ; 

as though shot was forced or rolling through arteries ; 

intercostal muscles as if drawn ; 

lower third of sternum as if torn in two ; as though legs would be paralyzed ; 

cords of legs feel too short ; as if calves were too tightly bandaged. 

Frequent attacks of gloominess, evening, [2a]. 

Depression; too apt to dwell on annoyances, [7b]. 

Irritation of intestines by worms, causing squinting and twitching of facial muscles. 

Sleep restless with worm troubles. 

 Irritable, [2]. 

Nervous, irritable (sixtieth day), [13]. 

Vexed at trifles; disposed to be irritable, [9b]. 

Ill-humor, mostly forenoons, [2], [2a]. 

Anxiety and night; in bed; before midnight; after eating; with fear fever; about the future; about his health; on waking.

He is very excitable. 

She is hysterical, and in a hurry. 

No one works fast enough suit him. 

Impatience. 

Times of mirthfulness. 

Restless and anxious, evening and night. 

Sadness in evening, after emission, during fever, and from music.

He grows serious and silent, and sits by himself quite still for a long time. 

Weeps easily. 

With the Others

 Awakens; fears his child, who has a trifling ailment, is dead; he goes to her room to relieve the otherwise ineffacable impression (never nervous before in sickness), [9b]. 

Dreams of the dead; tired on awaking, [2a].

Anger over trifles, and complaints from vexation.

Aversion to company. 

Delusions, frightful; thinks he sees dead people; imagines; thinks he is going to have typhoid fever; hears footsteps in the next room.

No one works fast enough suit him. 

He is indifferent to every thing, even to his family. 

His friends call him suspicious. 

He is growing timid and bashful. 

Sexuality

Male: 

Great sexual excitement, 

Melancholy, especially after emissions, [7a]. 

Seminal emissions, without dreams. 

After coitus burning and itching at meatus. 
Sexual desire increased or absent ; desire without erections. 
Seminal emissions every night, at first with erethism and lascivious dreams, but later without any sensation whatever ; followed by weakness of back and trembling of knees, which felt as though they would give way. 

Semen thin, watery, smells like stale urine. 

 Erections almost every night (married man), preceded by slight pains in the testicles, mostly left, [9b]. 

Pain in left testicle, and about the chin, [9c]. 

Dull drawing in testicle and cord, [9c]. 

Pain in left spermatic cord, [9c]. 

Drawing in right spermatic cord, [9b]. 

Sexual desire diminished, [9b]. 

Sexual desire, but no erections; later, total absence of desire, [9a].

Seminal emission at night, with vivid dreams.

Emission of semen, some hours after coitus; no dream or erection, [9b], [9c]. 

Emissions every other night,

Three emissions in one week; unconscious thereof until morning.

Emissions every night; no lascivious dreams; semen thin, watery, smells like stale urine, [7a]. 

Seminal emission during night, without dreams (forty-second day); seminal emission during night, with dreams (forty-third day); another nocturnal emission (forty-fourth day); still another emission, at night, without dreams (forty-fifth day),

Seminal emissions, without erotic dreams, two in one night, [11a]. 

Erections are troublesome morning and night, continued, frequent, incomplete, painful, without desire, violent, wanting.

Seminal emission after coition, without dreams, without erections, frequent, unconscious. Sexual passion diminished, or increased, without erection, vomiting. 

Swelling of penis and testes.

Female: 

Sexual dreams, thinks she is with her husband, but the act is prevented by the unbidden entrance of some stranger, 

Desire increased in the female.

Menses five days too early (always regular before); feet icy cold by day, burn at night in bed; flow pale (dark in health), with pressure over right eye, and desire to take a long breath, as if room was too close. Three days later, headache over left eye; all worse 3 to 4 P.M. Fifth day, flow dark as usual. After menses, much worse. Trembling about the heart, worse walking upstairs; pressure in pit of stomach, better eating; headache returns every afternoon, now over one, now over other eye; sleep restless, tosses from side to side. Next period three days too early. Same symptoms as before, but flow stopped two days and returned with headache, chilliness, restless sleep, and paralytic aching in right wrist; knees felt as if the cords were shortened. (Was under treatment eighteen months before symptoms were all removed),