WITH INDICATIONS.
Aconite.
“Vomiting and retching; tearing the very inside out by that awful retching.
Vomits blood : bright red blood.
Craves bitter things, wine, beer, brandy.
If he could only swallow something bitter ! yet everything, except water, tastes bitter.”.
KENT. Terrible anxiety and restlessness (Ars.).
Chamomilla.
“Cham. has much vomiting. Violent retching to vomit : as if it would tear the stomach or tear the body. Covered with cold sweat.
Antidotes morphia retching (Phos., chloroform). Cham. is hypersensitive-frantic : things are intolerable.
A child, with pain, spitefully moans, yells, screams. Violently excited with pain.
Angry with pain or suffering.” KENT.
Nux.
“Lean, hungry, withered : always selecting his food and almost digesting none.”.
Aversion to meat which makes him sick.
“When stomach is sick, with Nux, there is retching and straining as if the action were going the wrong way : as if it would force the abdomen open : retches, gags, strains, and after prolonged effort finally empties the stomach.”.
Nux is irritable : violent : hypersensitive.
In abdomen also, reversed peristalsis : one of the great remedies of spasms.
“If I could only vomit I would feel better.”.
Vomit : oily, greasy; food, drink, bile, blood.
Arsenicum.
Extreme irritation of stomach. Vomiting of everything taken, even a teaspoonful of water. Extreme sensitiveness of stomach : he does not want to be touched.
Vomiting of bile and blood.
Everything that comes up or goes down burns.
Extreme restlessness, anxiety, prostration.
Vomiting after ice cream (Puls.).
Pyrogen.
Vomiting persistent : offensive : stertorous. “Coffee-ground” vomiting.
In ptomaine (Ars.) or sewer gas poisoning.
Horribly offensive, painless (?) involuntary diarrhoea.
Vomits water when it becomes warm (Phos.).
Characteristic tongue : smooth as if varnished ; fiery red.
Pulse and temperature do not move together.
Antimonium tart.
Constant nausea : deadly loathing of food.
Violent retching : straining to vomit.
“Stomach seems to take on a convulsive action. With great effort a little comes up, then a little more.” (A never-get-done stomach drug.).
Any food is vomited, with quantities of mucus-tenacious, stringy (Kali bi.).
Vomiting followed by drowsiness and prostration : irresistible inclination to sleep (as with all Ant. tart. complaints.) (Comp. Aeth.).
“Face presents a perfect picture of anxiety and despair” (Ars.).
Extraordinary craving for apples.
Veratrum.
Vomiting : forcible; excessive : violent, with continued nausea, retching and great prostration. Of food and drink; or drink only.
Vomits whenever he moves (Bry.) or drinks.
With painful distortion of face : with cold sweats.
Characteristic, cold sweat on forehead.
Thirst for coldest drinks : craves ice.
May be simultaneous vomiting and purging (Ars.,etc.).
Veratrum viride.
Long continued vomiting of glairy mucus p.c.; of bile; of blood.
Smallest quantity of food or drink immediately rejected; with collapse, very slow pulse, and cold sweat.
Red streak down centre of tongue.
Colchicum.
Violent retching, then copious and forcible vomiting of food and then of bile.
Nausea. Loathing of food. Loathes the sight and smell of food. Smell of fish, eggs, fat, broths cause nausea and faintness (Gamb.). (Comp. Ars., Sepia.).
Coldness or burning in stomach (Phos.).
Abdomen distended with flatus : tympanitic.
(The remedy that saves cows when they have got into clover and “eaten themselves so full they are going to explode.”) (Comp. China.).
Gamboge.
Frightful vomiting and purging, with fainting.
Nausea and vomiting after food and drink.
emptiness; gnawing; sharp stitches in stomach, causing starting (Sep.).
Heat in stomach, or sensation like a cool and refreshing wind blowing there.
Rumbling and rolling in bowels : with the Gamb. diarrhoea : “sudden stool, comes with one gush” (Crot. tig.).
Tabacum.
Violent vomiting: in the morning: as soon as he begins to move (Bry.) : deathly nausea.
Dreadful faint feeling in stomach.
Nausea; incessant; with frequent vomiting: vertigo : cold sweat (Verat.).
Violent efforts to vomit.
Seasickness.
Cuprum.
Cuprum is not passive in its business : it has violence everywhere : violent diarrhoea; violent vomiting; violent spasms; strange and violent in mania and delirium..
It is a remedy of spasms and cramps.
Curious symptom: “tightness, stomach, affects voice, which becomes cracked and squeaky.” KENT.
Jatropha.
Vomiting of large masses of dark green bile and mucus; or of large quantities of watery glairy fluid, with watery diarrhoea.
