Phosphorus [Phos]
Oppression of chest, coming from the stomach; (<) after eating; palpitation; belching of large quantities of wind after eating; great drowsiness after eating; variable appetite; sensation of great weakness in the abdomen, particularly across and below the umbilicus; burning and gnawing pain in a circumscribed spot of the stomach, sensitive to the least pressure, extending to the back, aggravated by motion after a meal, (>) by ice, external cold and rest; vomiting immediately after eating, so that all the food is brought up, or pure blood or bloody, brown masses; regurgitation of undigested food soon after eating; great thirst, but drinking increases the pain; stool scanty, dry and difficult of evacuation. Emaciation, anaemia, collapse.
Plumbum [Plb]
SENSATION AS THOUGH THE ABDOMEN AND BACKBONE MET; violent pressure in the stomach and pain in the back, at times better bending backward, at others bending forward; hard pressure relieves; cold hands and feet, or offensive sweat of feet, dry skin; sweetish tastes; constriction; of throat.
Pulsatilla [Puls]
Sensation as if a stone lay on the epigastrium; throbbing, perceptible to the head, in the epigastrium; contracting sensation in the oesophagus, as if one had swallowed too large a morsel of food; the same sensation over the hypochondria, then upward over the chest and impedes respiration; pressure in pit of stomach, after every meal, with vomiting; stitching pains, worse when walking or making a misstep; crampy pains before breakfast and after a meal; gnawing distress when stomach is empty; pressure and pinching after eating; absence of thirst, except at the acme of the pain.
Sanguinaria [Sang]
Gastrodynia from deficient secretion of gastric juice, with loss of appetite, heartburn and periodic vomiting; spasmodic constriction of cardia, retaining flatus in stomach, with dry, tickling cough and sensation of suffocation, burning pain in epigastrium, (>) leaning towards or lying on right side, with great thirst for large quantities of water and with headache; feeling of emptiness with sick headache.
Sepia [Sep]
Sense of lump in stomach; an ALL GONE FEELING IN STOMACH, NOT RELIEVED BY EATING; pain in stomach after the simplest kind of food, during or immediately after eating the pains are renewed or aggravated; heartburn extending from stomach to throat; sensitiveness of pit of stomach to touch; twisting in stomach and rising in throat, tongue becomes stiff, speechless; afterwards the body may become rigid; indifference to household affairs, to which she was formerly attentive; (>) by motion, keeps motion, keeps quiet only during severity of attack; (<) in hot weather.
Silicea [Sil]
Nervous exhaustion, frequently complicated with nervous headache, (<) from every movement of eyes; burning of throbbing in pit of stomach, which is sensitive to touch; pressure as after eating too much; anguish in pit of stomach; attack of melancholy; induration of pylorus.
Sinapis-alb [Sin-a]
Disagreeable burning in pharynx, extending through oesophagus into stomach, burning in oesophagus, with accumulation of water in the mouth, compelling much spitting, (<) after a meal; violent heartburn; very acute bruised pain, even on slight pressure, just beneath ensiform cartilage.
Stannum [Stann]
Obstinate cardialgia, pains gradually come and go, extend to the navel and are better from hard pressure or walking about; uneasy, does not know what to do with himself; pains relieved by walking yet so weak he must soon rest; sinking; gone feeling in epigastrium; canine hunger; the slightest touch on stomach causes a feeling of subcutaneous ulceration.
Staphisagria [Staph]
CANINE HUNGER, EVEN WHEN THE STOMACH IS FULL OF FOOD; great desire for wine, brandy for tobacco, but the latter makes him sick; aching and tensive pain in stomach, off and on after eating, especially bread or meat, with frequent nausea and constipation; sensation as if stomach were hanging down relaxed; bitter eructation after sour food; hot, very offensive flatus; great weariness and sleepiness, especially mornings.
Stramonium [Stram]
Cardialgia, ending with eructations and vomiting, about an hour after eating; great anxiety in the epigastric region; abdomen
distended, with rumbling and gurgling in it, and painful to pressure; urgency to stool, yet no stool; pale and furred tongue; weak and small pulse; emaciation.
Strontia [Stront-c]
Aching in stomach, especially after a meal, with fulness of the stomach.
Sulphur [Sulph]
PRESSURE AS FROM A STONE, particularly AFTER EATING, with nausea, water in mouth, or vomiting; also when the following symptoms are present; ACIDITY, HEARTBURN, FREQUENT REGURGITATION OF INGESTA; aversion to fat food, rye bread, sour things, or sugar; dulness of the head, with inability to think; the pressure of the clothes upon the hypochondria in unpleasant, with distension of those parts; disposition to piles or accumulation of mucus in the intestines; hypochondriac, whining mood; disposition to be vehement; venous plethora, haemorrhoids.
Tabacum [Tab]
Constant pain in stomach, vomiting of all food and sometimes of mucus and blood; incessant nausea, almost fainting, like seasickness; pit of stomach sensitive to pressure; shocks at epigastrium when first going to sleep; constipation; insomnia.
Terebinthina [Ter]
Pressure as if he had swallowed a bullet, which had lodged in pit of stomach; slight pressing pain in small spot in epigastrium, better stooping, lying down or taking a deep breath; burning in stomach and hypochondria; anorexia and thirst; after eating, sick at the stomach; acrid, rancid eructations; relief from belching; vomiting of blood, of blood; gastritis, cannot bear the least touch.
Valeriana [Valer]
Cardialgia with sleeplessness and migrating pains; sudden warm rising from epigastrium, with difficult breathing; pressing aching in pit of stomach, as from something forcing a pressure through it, neuralgia of limbs; hysteria.
Veratrum-alb [Verat]
Gastralgia accompanied by cold sweat and forehead or extremities, pain radiating all over abdomen (Diosc), (>) by eructations; pains coming gradually, first in epigastrium, radiating to both sides and upward, reaching to back, between lowest point of scapulae, become agonizing and then gradually subside; shakes with cold; painful retraction of abdomen during vomiting; craves fruit, juicy food or saltish things; thirst for the coldest drinks.
Zincum [Zinc]
Burning in stomach, particularly on pressure, when empty, accompanied by dyspnoea and apparent stricture of oesophagus; eructations, with burning pain running into the back, in line of the stomach, with nausea and vomiting, especially of tough mucus; salivation; sensation like a worm creeping up from pit of stomach into throat, causing coughing; vomiting only of frothy, bitter mucus or of food as soon as if reaches the stomach: TERRIBLE HEARTBURN, AFTER EATING SWEETS, from wine and sour eructations after milk; aversion to meat, fish or sweets, to cooked or warm things.
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal was the author of many great books including “Homeopathic Therapeutics”. For many years, with the support of Dr. Constantine Hering, he was the editor of the North American Journal of Homeopathy. Dr. Lilienthal passed away on February 2nd 1891 in San Francisco.