Moschus Violent eructations tasting like musk, sometimes of garlic. The sight of food makes her sick. Eructations with hot saliva in the mouth. Vomiting of the food, then subsequent vomiting and more vomiting.
Natrum mur. Waterbrash, like limpid mucus, profuse and constant. She always awakens in the morning with headache. She craves salt. Has a strong aversion to bread. Clawing in the pit of the stomach. Feeling of great hunger, as if the stomach were empty, but no appetite. She always has heartburn after eating. Very much nausea, particularly in females using much salt food. Dreams at night of robbers being in the house; she must have the house searched in order to be satisfied.
Nitric acid.
Much nausea and gastric trouble, relieved by moving about or riding in a carriage. Constant nausea with heat in the stomach, extending to the throat. Fat food causes nausea and acidity. Exceedingly strong and offensive urine, smelling like that of horses.
Nux mosch. Mouth, tongue and throat very dry, so that they stick to one another, particularly at night. Sensation of fulness of the stomach with tightness of breathing. Very useful for this symptom in the last months of pregnancy.
Nux vomica
Feels as if she would feel better, if she could vomit. Nausea and vomiting every morning, with constipation of large, difficult feces. Putrid taste lower down in the pharynx, when hawking up mucus. Food and drink have a fetid smell to her. She cannot bear the odor of tobacco. Stools very small and frequent, with frequent and painful urging. Not much appetite, restless sleep, particularly after three A.M., with nausea and vomiting in the morning and great depression of spirits. She cannot enjoy reading or conversation. She is irritable and wishes to be alone.
Opium Will be found very useful where occurs the grand keynote for this remedy, constipation of round, hard, black balls.
Petroleum In females affected with diarrhoea only in the daytime; nausea when riding, she cannot ride in her carriage. Particularly applicable in all gastric troubles of pregnant females.
Phosphorus With constipation of narrow, long, hard, dry feces, which are difficult to evacuate. Very weak feeling in the abdomen. Heat up the back. Profuse watery diarrhoea, pouring away as if from a hydrant. Sour eructations and sour vomiting. Very sleepy all the time.
Phosphoric acid.
Sensation as if the stomach were being balanced up and down. Bread tastes bitter. Nausea, as if in the palate. She frequently rises at night to pass large quantities of colorless urine. Much debility.
Pulsatilla Pulsations in the pit of the stomach. Vomiting of mucus. Bad taste in the mouth every morning on awaking; she has to wash it out soon, it is so bad she cannot bear it. Nothing tastes good to her. Absence of thirst; she does not relish as much water as usual. Nightly diarrhoea.
Rhus tox.
No appetite. Putrid taste after the first mouthful. Pain between her shoulders on swallowing food. Very restless at night. particularly the latter part of the night; she must turn frequently in order to find an easy position.
Sabadilla No relish for food till she takes the first morsel, when she makes a good meal. A kind of heartburn, the heat commencing in the abdomen and extending upwards clear to the mouth. Much nausea and vomiting with heat in the abdomen. Vomiting of ascarides. Horrid burning in her stomach, as if it would burn up through into her throat.
Selenium Violent beating of the pulse in the whole body after eating, particularly in the abdomen.
Sepia Vomiting of milky water, or milky mucus. Sense of emptiness at the pit of the stomach; the thought of food sickens her; and sense of weight in the anus. Eructations tasting like spoiled eggs. Taste of manure. Aversion to meat. In the morning, nausea as if all the viscera were turning inside out. Inclination to vomit in the morning when rising her mouth. She cannot take her accustomed ride in the morning, on account of nausea. Painful feeling of hunger in the stomach.
Silicea Hungry; but she cannot get down food, it is so nauseous. Prolonged after taste of food. Nausea, with violent palpitation of the heart. Nausea after every exercise that raises the temperature of the body. Constipation, as if from inactivity of the rectum, the stool receding after partial protrusion. Taste of blood in the morning.
Staphysagria Sensation as if the stomach were hanging down relaxed. Shortly after a full and substantial meal, she feels very hungry. Extreme hunger, even when the stomach is full of food.
Stramonium Troublesome thirst, even with very much saliva. Every kind of food tastes like straw; in fact, she has no taste. Nausea, with flow of very saltish-tasting saliva.
Sulphur Profuse salivation, the taste of which causes nausea and spells of vomiting. All the trouble seems to be caused by the nauseous salivation. Flushes of heat; heat on the top of the head; cold feet; short sleep at night, she wakes very frequently. Profuse waterbrash.
Sulphuric acid Coldness and relaxed feeling in the stomach; loss of appetite and great debility.
Tartar em Vomiting of large quantities of mucus.
Valerian Heartburn, with gulping up of rancid fluid, which, however, does not rise into the mouth. Nausea, as if a thread were hanging in the throat, exciting attempts to vomit. She feels nauseated, faint, with white lips and body icy cold.
Veratrum Much thirst for cold drinks. Craves fruits and juicy articles of food. Wants every thing cold. Violent retching. A grand key-note for Veratrum is a cold sweat on the forehead, with all the sufferings.
Zinc Taste of blood in the mouth, and sweetish risings from the stomach. Terrible heartburn after taking sweetish things. Great greediness when eating; she cannot eat fast enough, from canine hunger. Much nausea and vomiting, and fidgety feet.
Pyrosis Acidity Heartburn. These distressing forms of gastric disturbance sometimes make their appearance soon after the conception; in other cases they may not appear until after the fourth month. Some women are remarkably subject to these symptoms when enceinte; in others they are manifested with less violence; in others not at all. There may be merely a burning sensation, heartburn in the throat, which indicates sympathetic irritation, or the severer forms of pyrosis, with acidity, which arise from more fully developed gastroses. As in the nausea and vomiting of pregnancy, so in pyrosis, heartburn and acidity, every degree of intensity and variety of manifestation and complication may be seen in different individual cases. Sometimes these disturbances are found accompanied with and greatly aggravating the nausea and vomiting; at other times they seem to appear instead of the vomiting.
As in ordinary cases of dyspepsia, these sufferings are worse after taking particular articles of food or drink, such as meats, fat meats or gravies, milk, fruit. In the more severe cases, nearly everything that is ingested becomes but an added fuel to the burning of the pyrosis and acidity. Still, a careful avoidance of all those articles which, whether solid or liquid, are found most to disagree, and a careful administration of the truly indicated Homoeopathic remedy will, as in cases of nausea and vomiting, go very far to remove the most distressing symptoms, and eventually to secure a great improvement in the general health. For these difficulties, when not merely the aggravations by pregnancy of already existing forms of chronic gastritis, are but the developments of constitutional miasms hitherto latent, as explained in the case of morning sickness. And while the classes of hereditary miasm are but few, still modified as they are, in their actual development, by individual peculiarities, they require a great variety of remedies for their proper treatment. Not indeed many remedies for each individual case, for the more skilful the physician, the fewer will be the remedies which he will be obliged to administer in any given case; and the greater the number of cases which he will cure with a single remedy, sometimes even with a single dose. But a variety of remedies will be necessary to correspond to the variety of disorders which result in different persons, even from the same cause.
The doctrine of individual specifics is based upon the most profound analysis of the human system and of the law of cure, and is confirmed by the radical and constitutional improvement, an improvement which is found to be the more radical and permanent the higher the potencies of the remedies which are administered The doctrine of individual specifics is therefore truly scientific, since it harmonizes the results of practical experience with well-established principles, and even with those profounder explorations of our being in which matter is seen to fade into spirit, and physiology to be replaced by psychology. The doctrine of general specifics leads to just the reverse of all this, as well in principle as in the ratio and extent of actual success. For our Allopathic and Eclectic brethren, and even those of the so-called physiological school among the Homoeopaths, are so manifestly blind, that they totally ignore in therapeutics that predominance of mind over matter which they do not hesitate to admit in all other branches of scientific inquiry. They prove themselves materialists and chemists, any thing but true physiologists; while as to psychology, or the doctrine of the connection of the body with the soul, and of the influence of the latter over the former, they seem to regard it as entirely beneath their attention. Hence, what do we see in the practice of all these classes alike, but temporary expedients, which often result in manifest disaster, and which always occasion more injury than they are capable of discerning, instead of radical cures. We see chemical antidotes which, if they sweeten the streams, do it at the expense of the fountains; and the mechanical appliances, which not only fail to assist nature, but in many cases effectually prevent her from helping herself. Those who thus pride themselves in indulging in Allopathic and Eclectic modes of thought, are greatly to be pitied; they know not what they do. All the advancing progress of modern scientific thought is against them; and the more enlightened of those whom they profess to admire, despise them as foolish rejectors of the higher light held up before them.
