Aletris-far [Alet]
Flatulent colic in week, emaciated persons; least food distress the stomach; Obstinate dyspepsia, constipation.
Ammonium-carb [Am-c]
Abdomen painfully distended, rumbling and pain in bowels; great flatulency, especially evening, very foetid flatus.
Argentum-nit [Arg-n]
Stomach seems as if it would burst with wind, accompanied with grate desire to belch, which is accomplished with difficulty, when the air rushes out with great violence; a small spot, very sensitive to pressure, between xiphoid process and navel, and pains spreading from there all over; very noisy discharge of flatus downward.
Arnica [Arn]
Stomach distended with wind,, pressure on praecordia, oppression of chest, foul belching, (<) from pressure; pinching, spasmodic griping in stomach; offensive flatus, smelling like rotten eggs; gastralgia, after eating after blows on stomach.
Arsenicum-iod [Ars-i]
Abdomen hard and distended with flatus, which is constantly discharged; severe cutting in abdomen as if he would have a stool, but only large quantities of wind escape.
Asafoetida [Asaf]
Flatus passes upward, NONE DOWNWARD, NONE DOWNWARD; meteorism of stomach when feeling of tension is great and eructating difficult; colic with distension and a rising up, as if the peristaltic action were reversed, (>) from external pressure; causes fainting.
Calcarea-carb [Calc]
Flatulency with gurgling in right side of abdomen; incarcerated flatus with distention and colicky pains; emaciated everywhere except abdomen; mesenteric glands hard and swollen.
Capsicum [Caps]
Excessive distension of abdomen about two hours after a meal (Lycopodium, immediately); flatulence and wind colic; suffocative arrest of breathing.
Carbo-veg [Carb-v]
Gastralgia, especially when there is much flatus with a burning ache;stomach feels tense and full abdomen full to bursting;, pain flatus hot, moist, offensive, faeces escape with flatus; consequences of high living.
Carbolic-acid [Carb-ac]
Constant belching up of wind from stomach; acid eructations and formation of gas, (<) by pressing hand on stomach; rumbling and rolling in abdomen, with a sense of distention; FLATULENCE OF OLD AGE, DEPENDENT ON IMPERFECT DIGESTION; COLIC OF NURSING INFANTS, foetid flatus and stool.
Chamomilla [Cham]
Sour or empty eructations; abdomen swollen like a drum, flatus passes away constantly, but in small and insufficient quantities; flatulent colic; the flatus seems to collect in several spots in the abdomen, as if incarcerated, and stitches shoot through chest.
Chelidonium [Chel]
Bitter eructations which afford relief, with heartburn and discharge of flatus; abdomen distended with gas in spite of many eructations.
China [Chin]
Distension of abdomen;oppression of stomach; eructations taste of the food, or are bitter, especially after eating; sour rising from stomach, great fermentation in bowels; abdomen as if packed full, not relieved by eructation or flatus (Lyc); spasmodic constrictive pains from incarcerated flatulence, especially after new or sour beer and fruit, flatulence from tea-drinking.
Coca [Coca]
ERUCTATION OF ENORMOUS QUANTITIES OF GAS without odor and without relief; it is astonishing where all the gas resided without producing more tension. Violent beating of heart from incarcerated Flatus, which sometimes rises with such force that it seems as if oesophagus would by rent discharges of inodorous flatus, from bowels smells liked burnt gunpowder. Constipation from inactivity of the bowels.
Cocculus [Cocc]
Rumbling in abdomen, great distension, incarceration of flatulence; severe flatulent colic at night;constricting pain, with pressure towards genitals and qualmishness in epigastrium; fulness in groin, with sensation as if al would give way there; small, frequent stools, each accompanied by flatus.
Colchicum [Colch]
Abdomen distended, hard and tense, (>) only by being doubled, (<) by stretching out legs or standing erect; rumbling in abdomen with griping colic and urging to stool; much forcible, offensive or inodorous flatus; frequent copious eructations of tasteless as, with burning in stomach, (<) after eating even light food.
Colocynthis [Coloc]
Flatulent colic from decomposition of the gastric juices and a vicious secretion, with bitter taste, green vomiting constipation; violent, inodorous eructations after eating and drinking; tympanitic distension of abdomen, borborygmi like the croaking of frogs; incarcerated flatus; colic preceded by discharge of flatus; noisy emission of large quantities of wind.
Conium [Con]
Loud eructations, tasting of ingesta; frequent and sour, with hardness and distension of abdomen; sour belching, (<) at night; rumbling and grunting in abdomen so loud that it is heard by others; abdomen distended as if it would burst colic with flatulence; (<) during night, (>) by day.
Copaiva [Cop]
Distension and flatus after eating; SPITTING UP INGESTA with large quantities of mucus; borborygmi, rumbling in abdomen so loud that it is heard by others; abdomen distended as if it would burst; colic with flatulency, indigestion and diarrhoea;nettlerash.
Dioscorea [Dios]
Flatulence after meals, distension of stomach; tasteless eructation, which after long attacks may become sour; inordinate belching of gas, tasteless, sour, bitter or like rotten eggs, with only particular relief of pain.
Graphites [Graph]
Gastralgia, disagreeable taste in the morning, (<) from all meats, (>) by eating, abdomen distended with flatus and rush of blood to head; wakes up at night gasping for breath; sudden dyspnoea, temporarily (>) by eating; constipation; flatus incarcerated in various parts of abdomen, and pressing towards abdominal ring before discharges of flatus; SLOW AND IMPERFECT DIGESTION.
Kali-bichrom [Kali-bi]
Foetid eructations, relieving an uneasiness as from pent-up wind, in great curvature of stomach, abdomen feels bloated, followed by eructations.
Kali-carb [Kali-c]
Belching putrid gas like rotten eggs; pit of stomach swollen, hard, sensitive to touch if it would burst.
Kreosotum [Kreos]
Frequent and violent eructations, empty, sour;(>) after dinner, when sitting up of being carried.
Lachesis [Lach]
Eructations afford relief; put of stomach painful to touch; abdomen painfully distended with Flatus, cannot bear any pressure, with sensation as if the pats we too small; incarcerated flatulence.
Lycopodium [Lyc]
Frequent belching without relief;heart burn waterbrash; feeling as though a cord were tied around the waist; constant rumbling and gurgling of wind in bowels, more in left hypochondrium; incarcerated flatus; pressing upward to chest and downward to rectum and bladder; abdomen distended, feet cold; least food fills him, up to throat; mental weakness, confusion and distraction of mind.
Magnesia-carb [Mag-c]
Sour eructations; constrictive pain in stomach; cutting about navel, (>) by flatus; great heaviness of the bloated abdomen; frequent ineffectual urging, with small stools or only flatus.
Magnesia-phos [Mag-p]
Nervous flatulence, with loud discharges, preventing patient from going into any society.
Mancinella [Manc]
HOT ERUCTATIONS DURING EXPIRATION, with an oppressed feeling; burning in a stomach and throat with nausea; distension of abdomen,. fulness in rectum with feeling in stomach; increased emission of flatus.
Momordica-bals [Mom-b]
Accumulation of flatus in the splenic flexure of the colon; flatulence upward and downward.
Natrum-carb [Nat-c]
Sour-smelling and foetid flatus, faeces escape hard, bloated swollen abdomen; flatus; frequent ineffectual urging to stool, alternately with liquid stools; weak digestion; palpitation, dyspnoea and shortness of breath, (>) by motion, pressing and rubbing.
Natrum-mur [Nat-m]
Violent hiccough;sour eructations and malaise after eating;fermentation and incarceration of flatus; wants to pass wind, but fears faeces might escape; foul flatus.
Natrum-sulph [Nat-s]
Belching after eating, eructations tasteless or sour; rumbling in ascending colon; much wind is passed with the stools, especially forenoon.
Nux-moschata [Nux-m]
Excessive distension of abdomen;cutting and pinching pain about navel; wind in the womb (Lyc);great dryness of mouth and throat, no thirst, appetite capricious; great bloating of stomach, oppressing heart and lungs with pain behind sternum, often causes by UNPLEASANT MENTAL EMOTIONS; constant desire for highly seasoned food.
Nux-vomica [Nux-v]
Pressure towards head and chest; oppression of chest; sour or bitter eructations; putrid in the morning; pressure under short ribs, as from incarcerated flatulence, (<) mornings and after meals.
Oleander [Olnd]
Violent empty, (<) mornings and vomiting, wants brandy which relieves; ineffectual urging to stool, EVERY THEY PASS WIND THEY SOIL THEIR LINEN; rolling and rumbling in abdomen, with emotion of great quantities of foetid flatus.
Oxalic-acid [Ox-ac]
Pain between hypochondria and navel more on left side, with violent efforts to pass flatus and sensation as if parts would burst; rumbling in bowels with pressing downward, (>) from passing wind.
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.