Nux Vom: Is an excellent remedy for gastric derangements. There is loss of appetite, pain after eating. Indigestion is the ranking symptom of this remedy. It has pains radiating to various directions from the epigastrium with spasmodic vomiting. Nervous gastralgia. The discomfort comes about half an hour after meal s, when due to spirituous liquors.
Carbo Veg: Slow and imperfect digestion, weight in the stomach and intestines, and a faint and all-gone sensation in the stomach not relieved by eating, but after a few mouthfuls there is a sense of repletion. There is violent burning in the stomach, chest and abdomen with crampy pains which force the patient to bend double. Heaviness in the stomach. The eructations are rancid, sour and putrid. There is flatulence in stomach or upper part of the abdomen.
Iris Ver: An excellent remedy for hyper-acidity. Sour and bitter belching and vomiting which set the teeth on edge.
Robinia: This should be tried for hyper-acidity when Iris Ver. Fails.
Ptelia T: Biliousness with headache. Chronic gastritis; constant sensation of corrosion, heat and burning in stomach, constipation and after-noon fever. Liver swollen, sore on pressure, causing dull and aching pain. Congestion in liver; chronic hepatitis.
China: Where there is flatulence in the- whole of the abdomen and the distension is painful, only relieved momentarily by belching. Sour or bitter eructations or offensive flatus. Digestion is slow, worse after late supper. Yellow diarrhoea, worse at night and after meals is an important keynote of this remedy. The absence of rancid belching with burning in this remedy distinguishes it from Carbo Veg. Another important indication of this remedy is that the food does not digest but lies a long time in the stomach causing eructations and finally is vomited undigested.
Antim Crud: Diarrhoea pasty, sour and offensive. The child vomits every time it is fed or nursed. Tongue heavily coated white. Chronic disorders of children. Constant nausea, lump in the stomach, distension exhaustion.
Lycopodium: It is indicted when there is flatulence in the lower part of the abdomen. Vigorous appetite but few mouthfuls make him feel as if the stomach is bloated and he has to leave his meals. Unlike Pulsatilla and Anacardium, the distress in Lycopodium is seen immediately after and not half an hour after eating as in the former two remedies. Nux Mosch has distress immediately after eating but there is intolerance of pressure about the waist, not all the time as in Lachesis. Another important symptom of this remedy is desire for sweets. It is especially useful in the atonic and acid forms of dyspepsia, for it has sour taste, sour belching and vomiting, whenever it does occur, it is sour. Painful swelling at the pit of the stomach. Belching of gas does 1 not afford any relief. Red sand in the urine. Colic in newly born children.
Pulsatilla: Dryness of the mouth, putrid taste in the morning on waking and a sensation as if food had lodged under the sternum are characteristic symptoms of this remedy. Tongue coated with thick rough white fur; acidity and heart-burn; food tastes bitter, sour or putrid; water-brash and eructation tasting of food. No thirst, only a desire to moisten the mouth. Bad taste is special indication of Pulsatilla. It is especially useful for dyspepsia arising from fatty foods, pork, pastry or mixed diets. The patient is chilly, but is worse from heat. Worse in the evening unlike Nux Vom, which is worse in the morning.
Doryphora: Burning in stomach and other parts.
Anacardium: Great relief after eating is the leading indication of this remedy. Sinking feeling which comes on two hours after eating and dull pain in the stomach extending to the spine. There are tasteless eructations, occasionally sour. Worse after eating.
Phosphorus: Regurgitation of food. Craving for cold food which is vomited as soon as it becomes hot in the stomach. Spitting Of blood without nausea is also common in this remedy. Gone, weak feeling in the stomach, which, unlike Sulphur and Sepia, extends to the bowels. Burning between the scapulae is also present at times. Vomiting chronic dyspepsia. It has special relation to destructive and disintegrating processes, hence it is one of the remedies for cancers A burning,
gnawing, circumscribed pain is characteristic. Rapid loss of flesh and anaemia.
Stannum: The gastralgia compels the patient to walk about for relief yet the weakness is so great that he is soon compelled to rest. The pains are better by hard pressure.
Gentiana C.Q: Pressure in stomach as if a stool were in it, with inclination to vomit.
Aconite Nap: Pressure in the stomach and pit of stomach as from a hard stone.
Aesculus Hip: Great burning distress in the stomach. Pressure as from a stone in the pit of stomach: empty eructations of wind. Graphites. Gastralgia relieved by eating. Hurries to meals to relieve violent pain at epigastrium; especially to dinner and supper.
Arsenic Alb: An excellent remedy for gastric disorders; irritative dyspepsia and acute inflammation. Abdominal pains and diarrhoea. The pains are of a burning character accompanied by nausea and vomiting. The stomach is sensitive and sore, patient prostrated. Taking cold in stomach by eating fruit or ice cream.
Argentum Nitricum: It has a lot of flatulence which is relieved by belching. Gnawing and ulcerative pain at the pit of the stomach from where pains radiate in every direction. Gastralgia especially in delicate and nervous women; it may be indicated when the cause is emotion, loss of sleep or menstrual trouble. Feeling of a lump in stomach. Vomiting of mucus which may be drawn into strings. Longing for sugar and yet sweets aggravate and produce diarrhoea etc. Gastric ulcer. Pain worse after eating and on the pressure with vomiting of blood, mucus, etc. Chronic gastralgia-Colic in newly born children.
Petroselinum: For gastric and intestinal troubles.
Colchicum: Icy coldness of stomach.
Hippomanes: Icy coldness of stomach. Give 6th or 30th potency.
Gratiola: Acidity with gout.
Natrum Sulph: General bilious condition brought on or aggravated by dampness.
Natrum Carb: Diarrhoea from milk. Palpitation. Pain in stomach relieved by eating. Drives him out of bed to cat early in the morning.
Natrum Phos: Flatulence with vomiting of curdled milk. Hyperacidity, sour smelling sweats, acid condition of stomach with nausea and vomiting of acrid fluid. Sour eructations. Vomiting of sour fluid like vinegar. Ulceration of stomach with sour risings.
Lac Vac Defl: Gastro-enteritis. Chronic diarrhoea and vomiting.
Phosphorus:
Ferrum Met:
Arsenic Alb:
Aesculus Hip:
Indigestion. As soon as the food is swallowed, it becomes sour and he eructates until after a while when the contents are vomited. Heart burn and constant burning in the stomach. Ulceration of stomach.
Antim. Crud: Disturbance of the stomach with mental symptom; desire for death. Rising from stomach after eating with .and/or nausea. Give in 200 or IM potency.
Nyctanthes: Burning in stomach with nausea and vomiting.
Cadmium Sulph: Inflammation of bowels. Burning in stomach. The abdomen is swollen and tympanitic; lancination, cutting and stabbing pains. Pain in pylorus. Diarrhoea of bloody stools with bloody urine.
Bryonia: Disorder of stomach with gastric fevers, cold and
chilliness: Vexation with coldness and chilliness.
Crotalus Hor: Wonderful bilious remedy. Vomiting of black bile in large quantities with sick headache.
Petroleum: Gastralgia of pregnancy whenever the stomach is empty, relieved by constant eating.
Acid Salicylic: Acidity of stomach.
Velariana Off: Nervous gastric disturbance.
Sulphuric Acid: When there is excess of hydrochloric acid.
Alumen: Gastralgia with obstinate constipation, nausea, vomiting, retching etc. Give in IM or CM potency.
