Hepatitis, especially of children (? with pneumonia). Jaundice with flatulence.
Characteristics; worse afternoon: 4-8 p.m.
Intense flatulence; everything turns to wind.
Bloating: must loosen clothes. A mouthful fills him up to throat.
Better warm drinks ( Ars). Desire for sweets ( Argentum nit.).
Ptelia [Ptel]
Dragging weight in both hypochondria when walking ( Hepar, Mag. mur.).
Liver swollen sore: clothes too tight.
Congestion of liver:chronic hepatitis.
Voracious (or poor) appetite.
Repugnance to animal; food and rich puddings of which he is fond; to butter; fats, which aggravate epigastric pain.
Hepatic and gastric symptoms worse from cheese, meat, puddings.
Natrum sulph. [Nat-s]
Cannot bear tight clothing about waist.
Liver enlarged, swollen and sore of touch.
With deep breath, violent stitch as if in liver; as if it would burst open there ( Bryonia).
Worse lying on left side ( Card. m., Kali carb.).
Nausea: vomit sour: then bile.
Worse wet weather: damp houses: sea air.
Suicidal. After head-injuries.
Carduus marianus [Card-m]
Liver engorged: swelled laterally.
Pressure, drawing pain, stitches in liver.
Worse lying left side.
Sensitiveness and induration left lobe liver, causing difficult breathing and a cough.
Diseased liver has implicated lungs, with haemoptysis: simple congestion, or inflammation of liver and lungs. Vomiting of blood.
A proving showed nausea, uneasiness, pain, vomiting, with inflation of abdomen.
Kali carb. [Kali-c]
Heat, burning, pinching in liver: wrenching pain on stooping.
Painful stitches right lumbar and liver: worse motion: sits stooped forward, stopped forward, elbows on knees and face in hands.
Must walk stooped forward, hands on knees, to steady body against motion. ( See Belladonna)
Sprained pain, liver; can only lie on right side ( Nat. sul., etc.).
Calcarea [Calc]
“A peculiar feature: the greater the internal congestion, the colder the surface.” Kent.
Sore pain, liver and spleen.
Pressure hepatic region with every step.
Enlargement of liver.
Tight clothes about hypochondria are unbearable ( Lachesis, etc.).
Characteristics: longing for eggs: ice-cream: lemonade ( Belladonna).
Coldness: general: of single parts.
Sweats: general, of single parts. Of head during sleep.
Disposed to grow fat.
