Sensation of double action in stomach, while vomiting, one trying to force something up, the other sucked it back? ( Nux.)
Colic and cold sweat on forehead ( Veratrum).
Lycopodium [Lyc]
“Pain in liver: recurrent bilious attacks with vomiting of bile.
Subject to gall-stone colic.
After Lycopodium the attacks come on less frequently, the bilious secretion becomes normal and the gall- stones have a spongy appearance, as though being dissolved.
Lycopodium patients are always belching: sour eructations like strong acid burning in pharynx.” ( Chion.)
Bloating: obliged to loosen clothes. ( Nat. sulph.)
Worse cold drinks, often (>) warm drinks.
Worse afternoons: 4-8 p.m. aggravation.
Generally, craving for sweets.
Natrum sulph. [Nat-s]
In black type for gall-stone colic.
Sore, heavy liver: stitches.
Sensation of lump below liver.
Crawling in gall bladder. ( Card. mar.)
Cannot bear tight clothing about waist. ( Lycopodium)
Liver swollen: sore to touch: (<) lying left side. Colic, (<) rubbing.
When taking deep breath, sharp violent stitch in liver; as if it would burst open. (Compare Apis.)
Worse damp weather: touch: pressure.
Many symptoms worse at 4 a.m.
Apis [Apis]
Apis is set down for gall-stone colic.
Severe burning pain under short ribs (but especially the left).
Great soreness and sensitiveness to touch.
Tension, as if something would break. ( Nat. sulph.)
The pains are stinging: exorting cries.
Apis is intolerance of heat.
Thirstless.
Cocculus [Cocc]
Pressive pain hepatic region: worse bending and coughing.
Pain right hypochondriac region extends towards stomach: (<) bending, coughing, breathing, least touch.
Nausea from smell or thought of food.
Ipecacuanha [Ip]
Epigastric pain-colic-goes from left to right (reverse of Calcarea). Holds him transfixed. Stabs like a knife. Cannot stir or breath. With nausea.
“Has cured cases of gall-stone colic: relief prompt and lasting.”
Persistent, constant, anxious, Nausea, with clean tongue, not relieved by vomiting.
Cold sweat forehead: no thirst.
Nausea with itching of skin.
Hydrastis [Hydr]
Skin yellow: stools white and frequent: fullness and tenderness over hepatic region.
Catarrhal inflammation of mucous lining of gall bladder and biliary ducts.
Cutting from liver to right scapula (Chelidonium): (<) lying on back or right side.
Burnett : ” I have found myself best in the painful attacks with Hydrastis. I have used as much as ten-drop doses of the strong tincture, given every half-hour in very warm water, and known it succeed in a few hours after everything had failed. After the attack of pain is over, it is best to set about curing the liver itself gall-stones are a secondary affection, due to a previous condition of the liver, or the gall, or the gall bladder, or the lining of the ducts.”.
Bryonia [Bry]
Bryonia is also in the lists for gall-stone colic.
Kent says: “It has inflammation of the liver, and many other liver symptoms.
Liver lies like a load with soreness and tenderness, and he cannot move.
Every motion, every touch, every deep breath causes pain. Breathing short, sharp, quick: burns and stitches. Stitching pains.
When he coughs it feels as if the liver or right hypochondrium would burst.” ( Nat. sulph.)
Thirsty for big, cold drinks. White tongue: constipation. Irritable.
Kali carb [Kali-c]
Pains stitching, darting, worse during rest and lying on affected side (reverse of Bryonia).
Cutting in abdomen, as if torn to pieces.
Violent cutting: must sit bent over, pressing with both hands ( Coloc.) or lean far back ( Dioscorea). Cannot sit upright.
Cannot bear to be touched.
Painful stitches right lumbar and region of liver. Stitches (<) on motion: must sit stopped forward, elbows on knees and head in palms of hands. Walks stooped forward with hands on knees.
Everything- noise, etc.- felt in stomach.
Worse 2-4 a.m.
Easily startled with noise or touch.
Hepar [Hep]
Lilienthal gives Hepar as one of the remedies of gall-stone colic.
It has stitches in region of liver.
Hepatitis, stools white or green.
Is extremely sensitive mentally and physically
Cannot bear the slightest touch: or pain.
Cannot stand draughts: craves vinegar.
Chamomilla [Cham]
Another of the greatly sensitive remedies, mentally and physically. “Cannot bear it”
Liver troubles and jaundice after anger or vexation. (One have seen this.) ( Cocc.).
Chamomilla tosses in agony: bends double ( Coloc.).
Stitches in liver region, and severe colic.
Veratrum alb. [Verat]
Is in Kent’s Repertory for gall-stone colic.
It has, Hyperaemia of liver, gastric catarrh, putrid taste, disgust for warm food, great pressure on hepatic region with vomiting and diarrhoea.
In Veratrum cases, there will be profuse sweating: cold sweat on forehead: hippocratic face.
Pains maddening, driving patient to delirium.
Typically; cold skin; cold face; cold back; cold hands, feet and legs, cold sweat.
Calcarea [Calc]
Cramp at navel.
Biliary colic. Calculi.
Darting pains, right to left (reverse of Ipecac.) with profuse sweat: has to bent double and clench hands, writhing in agony.
Tight clothes about hypochondria are unbearable.
Sweat, especially about head, feet and hands; cold sweat, when rest of body is warm.
Sensation of damp, cold stockings.
Sensitive to cold: to wet weather.
Desire for eggs: boiled eggs.
Mercurius sol. [Merc]
Pressing pains; stitching; in liver. Cannot lie on right side (reverse of Phosphorus).
Jaundice: violent rush of blood to head; bad taste: tongue moist and furred: soreness hepatic region; from gall-stones.
Violent stitches in hepatic region, could not breathe or eructate.
Worse night: worse warm in bed: worse for the profuse sweat.
Foulness of mouth and sweat.
Mercurius loves bread and butter.
Phosphorus [Phos]
Probably more important for the treatment of liver, leading to gall-stones, than for the actual attack?
Great tenderness liver region.
Craving for ice-cold drinks, vomited when warm, vomiting followed by violent thirst.
Worse lying on left side (reverse of Mercurius).
Anxious and restless in the dark.
Nitri spiritus dulcis. [Nit-s-d]
Hering says: “incarcerated gall-stones (with yolk of egg beaten up and applied inwardly and outwardly).
Has the same action upon disturbed innervation as the so-called anti- spasmodics.”
Hahnemann said it should be given (in certain fevers) a few drops dissolved in an ounce of water, a teaspoonful every three hours.
Desire for salt: or ailments from eating too much salt, and salt foods.
(<) from cheese.
Ether [Aether]
Farrington: “In the passage of gall-stones, when remedies fail to relieve, I find that ether, externally and internally, is very good, acting better than chloroform.”.
Chloroformum [Chlf]
“Cholestric gall-stones and biliary colic.”
Clarke says: “Chloroform will dissolve gall- stones, and cases have been treated by injection of chloroform into gall bladder.”
Hot Wet Flannels
Squeeze a flannel out in hot water, and apply.
Have a hot bottle over this, to keep up the supply of moist relaxing heat.
Carlsbad Waters [Carl]
Almost specific, Ruddock says, for gall-stone Colic.
