Hyperacidity is the keynote, for the employment of this inorganic constituent of the body. Excess of lactic acid in children, resulting from overfeeding with milk and sugar. The indications are a thin, moist coating on the tongue, of a golden yellow color especially toward the base. There are sour eructations, sour vomiting and greenish diarrhea. Water-brash, flatulence with sour risings. It is a useful remedy in constipation of infants, and when the acid conditions prevail, it may be given in the 6x potency; however, it may be necessary to use it as a laxative, administered with the food in 5 to 10 grain doses. By correcting the diet, this use of the drug will scarcely ever be necessary.

It has been recommended as an efficient worm medicine, and also finds a use in gout; here we should remember the peculiar dyspepsias of the gouty. There is a marked correspondence in them, to Na-trutn phosphoricum.

Characteristic Symptoms Of Natrum Phosphoricum

1. Ailments resulting' from excessive acidity; excess of lactic acid; from too much sugar in the diet; infants and children overfed with milk and sugar.

2. Acid dyspepsia; sour eructations; sour vomiting.