Violent thirst for ale or beer; craves brandy.
Desire to imbibe alcoholic drinks from morning to night. (Comp. Nux.)
Desire for, and worse for eating sweets.
Aversion to meat; sour and sweet things; smoking; wine; milk.
The untidy, ragged philosopher type.
Puls. and Sulph. follow, and antidote one another.
Arsenicum . .
Pain epigastrium and stomach, burning violent, like red-hot coals. Stitches or fine stinging in stomach.
Cramp in stomach: weight like a stone.
Lancinations, sometimes into chest.
Haematemesis, often with black stools. (Comp. Phos.)
Characteristic of Ars. Its pains are apt to be burning, with relief from heat (rev. Phos.).
Cannot drink cold water: it causes pain, or lies in stomach as a cold mass, and is very distressing (rev. Phos.)
Thirst for small quantities.
Appetite for bread; for acid drinks.
Intense anxiety; restlessness; prostration.
Weary of life; loathes it; thoughts of death: “is incurable.” (Comp. Ant. cr.)
Dread of death when alone.
Fastidious; exacting; fault-finding (Nux).
Podophyllum . .
Hollowness and emptiness stomach.
Acute burning pain region of pyloric orifice.
Heartburn, waterbrash, heat in stomach.
Sour regurgitation of food.
Great thirst for large quantities of cold water. (Phos.) Desire for something sour (Hep.).
Smell of food produces loathing.
Great prostration with pain in stomach.
Imagines he is going to die, or be very ill.
Affects duodenum, liver-a gall-stone colic remedy; intestines, with very profuse diarrhoeic stools.
Stools may be white, like chalk.
Robinia . .
Excessive acidity acidity of stomach; vomit sets teeth on edge.
Heartburn and acidity at night on lying down.
Intensely acid condition of stomach, often suddenly after eating (Phos.).
Or continued eating sometimes seems to postpone attack
Burning pain stomach and between scapulae.
Dull, heavy, squeezing pain, stomach.
Distension and weight like a stone.
Very low-spirited; excessive irritability.
Lycopodium . .
Everything tastes sour: sour eructations; heartburn, waterbrash. Acid gnaws stomach.
Epigastrium extremely sensitive to touch.
Fulness and bloating: must loosen clothes.
Discomfort, pressure and heaviness after eating a little. (Comp. Ant. cr.)
May be canine hunger; usually easy satiety.
Desires sweets (Arg. nit.), oysters, which disagree.
Aversion to coffee, tobacco, bread, meat.
Worse from onions, bread, spirituous drinks.
Anticipation: wants to be alone, yet is afraid.
Antimonium crud. Gastric catarrh: while tongue; nausea and vomiting.
Pain stomach, as after eating too much.
Cramp-like pains, stomach; burning, spasmodic pains, driving to despair.
Feeling as if he had eaten too much when he has not eaten at all. (Comp. Curare, Lyc.)
All symptoms seem to centre about stomach.
Nausea and colic from bread and pastry.
Worse pork, acids, vinegar; alcohol.
Characteristic: “Thickly coated, white, very white, white as milk, tongue.”
Must not be touched or looked at.
Worse warm weather; heat of sun; heat of fire; cold bathing and wet weather.
Prostration like Ars., “but Ars. has overwhelming fear of death, while Ant. crud. loathes life”.
Curare . .
Digestive functions entirely prostrate. Cannot bean anything on stomach, pyrosis, pain and distension after eating ever so little.
Indecision; no longer wishes to think or to act for herself. “Better first mouthful of food”.
Kali carb. . .
After eating feels he burst.
Sour eructations, set the teeth on edge.
Pain, or burning in stomach, after eating.
Gone feeling, not better from eating.
Anxiety is stomach, as though fear: throbbing there, like violent palpitation.
Stomach distended; feels full of water: feels as if cut to pieces. Worse milk and warm food.
Ornithogalum (One of Dr. Robert Coopers valuable umb . . contributions to Homoeopathic Materia Medica.)
“Ornithogalum in those sensitive to it goes at once to the pylorus, causing painful spasmodic contractions, and distends the duodenum with flatus; pains invariably increased when food attempts to pass the pyloric outlet.”
A very great remedy of gastric and duodenal ulceration; has even cured cancer of stomach. (She Clarkes Dictionary.)
We had a number of cases in the wards one of the War years, some with severe haematemesis, all but one did well on Ornithogalum. The drug is not well proved: but one gets most light from Clarke. Distension, with frequent belching of mouthfuls offensive flatus.
Writhing in agony, unable to keep anything long in stomach.
> warm food; < cold drinks; at night.
“As if an iron brick were being forced through stomach and chest.” Pain stomach with vomiting.
Cocculus . .
Violent spasms of stomach, griping, tearing. Rolls, twists (Puls.), gasps for breath.
Acidity of stomach.
Paralytic weakness. Prostration, nervous exhaustion. “From the combination of grief, anxiety, vexation and prolonged loss of sleep.”
Sea-and train-sickness; worse motion, noise.
Aversion to food, smell of food, with hunger.
Longs for cold drinks, especially beer.
Lueticum . .
Severe pain, epigastrium to back. Vomiting clear fluid, then bile, even blood.
Or pain without vomiting, or vomiting without pain. (“Gastric crises”.)
Heartburn with pain and rawness from stomach to throat. Vomiting for weeks or months from superficial ulceration of stomach, herpetic or syphilitic.
Has cured obscure “vomiting at night only.”
N.B. any of the nosodes may have to be called in for these stomach conditions.
Kali bichrom. .
Ulceration of stomach and duodenum.
Round, perforating ulcer of stomach (Phos.).
Pains of Kali bic. are limited to a small spot.
Food lies like a load: as if digestion suspended.
Giddiness, then vomiting of acid, mucous fluid, with pressure and burning in stomach.
Characteristics: Longing for beer; for acid drinks. Dislike to meat. Worse for beer.
Listlessness, languor; great disinclination for mental and bodily labour.
Indifferent, or low-spirited after least annoyance, with distress in stomach.
Inclination to lie down.
Argentum nit. .
Gastrodynia.
Ulcerative pain, stomach, after dinner.
Perforating ulcer of stomach (Kali bich., Phos.).
Pain left stomach, below short ribs; worse inspiration and touch.
Before midnight, pain preceded by vomiting of bilious and slimy fluid.
Much belching.
Eating relieves squeamishness but increases pain. (Comp. Puls.)
Pain begins soon after taking food, and till food is vomited, in about an hour.
Great desire for sugar; for sweets; salt.
Terrors of anticipation (Lyc.).
“Exam. funk.”
Hurried anxious, irritable, nervous; with strange, imaginary, futile fears.
Hydrastis . .
Chronic ulceration, mucous membrane of stomach.
Gastro-duodenal catarrh: sinking and prostration at stomach, with violent and continued palpitation.
Little thirst, with loathing of food.
Characteristic: pulsations and palpitation.
Worse from bread and vegetables.
Broken down by excessive alcohol. (Comp. Nux.).
Terebinthinum As if he had swallowed a bullet which had lodged in pit of stomach.
Intense burning in stomach, with nausea and vomiting of mucus, bile or blood.
Gastritis: cannot bear the least touch.
Loss of appetite; great thirst.
Flatulent; acrid eructations: haematemesis.
Aversion to meat. Sudden desire to eat rue.
Think of Tereb. even in old ailments of the alimentary tract, originating in the “smell of paint”.
Hepar . .
Sensation of hard body in stomach, immediately followed by haemoptysis.
Empty sinking sensation, better by eating.
Desire to loosen clothes p.c. (Lyc., Lach.).
Dull aching pain, p.c. Burning in stomach.
Gnawing as from acids: acrid sensation in stomach.
Sticking pain, hepatic region, when walking.
Sour regurgitation of food: heartburn.
Sour, or bilious vomiting.
Great desire for vinegar.
Longs for condiments; sour pungent, highly flavoured foods: wine. (Comp. Nux.)
Hasty speech and hasty drinking.
Obstinate; cross; passionate; fretful; extreme discontent. Does not laugh.
Sudden, violent, insane impulses.
Chilly; oversensitive to cold.
A young man of 23 (an out-patient 7 years ago) had been treated and dieted for “stomach ulcer”. His pain was worse 12 hours p.c relieved at once on eating. He had vomited blood 4 months previously. He liked his boiled fish, “but not without vinegar sauce”. His strange craving for vinegar led to the consideration of Hepar, a drug that would not have occurred to one. He got. 1m (1) and in a fortnight reported, “A world better. No vomiting. Eating a lot of things he had been told not to, and most the worse.” Hep. had to be repeated at long intervals. four times in a year. “Stomach splendid”.
Nux vom. . .
In perforating ulcer (Kali bi., Arg. nit., Phos.); vomiting whether she eats or no. Swallowing a mouthful of water causes spasmodic contractions of stomach, and vomiting.
Clawing, cramping stomach pains, with pressure and tension between scapulae. Pains extend to chest, and down back to anus.
Worse food; better hot drinks. (Graph., Chel.)
Pressure after eating, as from a stone: < a.m. and p.c. Constant pain; throbs; cramps; claws; in brandy and coffee drinkers (Sulph.).
Burning in stomach: at pylorus.
Sensitive to pressure; cannot bear tight clothing (Lach., Lyc.). Caused by worry, and too much mental with too little bodily exertion. In business men.
