Pregnancy – Morning sickness



Lilium-tigr [Lil-t]

VOMITING FROM MALPOSITIONS OF UTERUS; frequent, hawking mucus from throat; hollow, empty sensation in stomach bowels; skin of abdomen feels stretched and stiff; constant desire to urinate, with scanty discharge; haemorrhoids.

Lobelia-infl [Lob]

Vomiting with profuse flow of saliva; frequent gulping up of burning sour fluid; nausea (<) at night and after sleeping, (>) by a little food or drink and in some cases (<) from food and drink; faintishness; after vomiting breaks out in a sweat, followed by a sensation as of needles pricking her all over; asthmatic sufferings.

Lycopodium [Lyc]

Desire for sweets and craving for food, the more he eats, the more he craves; headache if she does not eat; thirst with disgust for drinks; everything tastes sour; vomits sour fluid, bile and food, or blood in clots and dark-greenish masses after eating or drinking.

Natrum-mur [Nat-m]

Morning nausea; vomiting of food; profuse, constant waterbrash, like limpid mucus. Obstinate cases, with loss of appetite and taste; great hunger, as if stomach were empty, but no appetite; heartburn after eating; headache on awaking in the morning; palpitation; dreams of robbers in house, which must be searched for to satisfy her whim.

Nitric-acid [Nit-ac]

NAUSEA AND GASTRIC TROUBLE BETTER MOVING ABOUT OR RIDING IN CARRIAGE; nausea and burning in throat and stomach; urine ammoniacal, strong and offensive.

Nux-vomica [Nux-v]

Nausea in early morn, with fainting; vomiting after eating or thinks she would feel better if she could vomit; food and drink smell bad to her, cannot bear the smell of tobacco; bitter or sour taste, belching, eructations, hiccough and heartburn; vomiting of a sticky mucus and a sour fluid; restless sleep, particularly after 3 A.M.; great depression and irritability, wants to be left alone; longing for alcoholic stimulants; constipation.

Petroleum [Petr]

APPLICABLE TO ALL GASTRIC TROUBLES OF PREGNANT WOMEN; vomiting of bile; aversion to fat food and meat: (<) when riding in carriage; dizziness and stupefaction after a slight meal; dimness of sight; constant and profuse collection of fluid in mouth, with frequent spitting and nausea; diarrhoea only in daytime.

Phosphorus [Phos]

Very sleepy, especially after dinner; sour eructations and vomiting of food, of sour matter, of blood; long, narrow, hard stool, difficult to expel, or profuse diarrhoea; sight of water makes her vomit.

Pulsatilla [Puls]

Soreness of uterus and abdominal walls; vomiting evening or right of green, slimy, bilious masses, excessively bad taste in mouth in morning; nausea and colic after vomiting, followed by diarrhoea of changeable stools, of white, green or yellow mucus; repugnance to water; eructations tasting of the food recently taken; salivation.

Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]

Putrid taste after the first mouthful; eructations and nausea with inclination to vomit; cramps in legs at night very severe; no appetite, or hunger without appetite.

Sabadilla [Sabad]

No relish for food till she takes the first morsel, then she makes a good meal; horrid burning in stomach, as if it would burn up into the throat; sweetish taste; frequent spitting of insipid water.

Sepia [Sep]

Vomiting of milky water or mucus; sense of emptiness in pit of stomach; thought of food sickens her; taste as of manure; aversion to meat and bread; morning nausea; vomiting of food or bile, finally even blood; before pregnancy uterine anomalies, with yellowish or purulent; leucorrhoea; morning sickness, reflex hard, tumefied cervix.

Silicea [Sil]

Qualmishness and vomiting in women whose menses were always accompanied by palpitation; taste of blood in the morning; nausea, with palpitation of heart after every exercise that raises the temperature of body; aversion to meat; constipation; great weakness at night; pressure at pit of stomach; nausea after lying down; frequent sour or loud eructations; vomiting after every drink; NERVOUS exhaustion.

Staphisagria [Staph]

Extreme hunger even when the stomach is full; sensation as if the stomach were hanging down relaxed; constant accumulation of water in mouth; sensitiveness to mental impressions.

Sulphur [Sulph]

Profuse salivation, the taste of which causes nausea and spells of vomiting; flushes of heat; aversion to meat, and craving for brandy.

Sulphuric-acid [Sul-ac]

CONSTANT PROFUSE FLOW OF WATERY SALIVA; every vomiting commences with coughing, ending in retching and vomiting; throat and stomach sensitive to touch; great thirst, (>) by drinking hot water, (<) by cold water, which feels cold in stomach.

Symphoricarpus [Sym-r]

Qualmishness with indifference to food; deathly nausea; violent retching, continuous vomiting; DISGUST AT THE SIGHT, SMELL OR THOUGHT OF FOOD; most comfortable while lying on back.

Tabacum [Tab]

Nausea with deathly faintness and pallor of face, (>) by going into open air; nausea on beginning to move; vomiting of water, of acid liquids or mucus; rapid emaciation; cold sweat.

Tarentula [Tarent]

Loss of appetite; intense thirst; vomiting after eating or getting out of bed; general prostration; craving for raw food.

Tartar-emet [Ant-t]

(Antimonium tart.). Vomiting of large quantities of mucus in the most violent manner; belching and disgust for food; nausea, salivation.

Veratrum-alb [Verat]

Violent retching and frothy vomiting of food and bile; cold sweat on forehead; craves fruit and juicy articles of food; wants everything cold; craving for acids and salt food; canine hunger; feels very weak and faint.

Zincum [Zinc]

Taste to blood in mouth and terrible heartburn after taking sweets, with dyspnoea and apparent stricture of oesophagus; greediness when eating, she cannot eat fast enough; fidgety feet.

Samuel Lilienthal
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal (1815-1891) was from Germany, and became a pioneer homeopath in America. He received his Doctor of Medicine Degree from the University of Munich in 1838. After he moved to the United States, he was hired as Professor of Clinical Medicine at New York College for Women, and also as Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases at the New York Homeopathic College.
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.