SCRAPING LIKE HEARTBURN, AND IN OESOPHAGUS. Cardialgia during menses. GNAWING, LIKE RAVENOUS HUNGER. Clawing in morning on rising, as from long fasting, better eating. “Gastric catarrh, with thickly white coated tongue, dry mouth, nausea, especially when the distress and regurgitation of food takes place a long time after a meal; distress in the oesophagus, as if food were lying there (Abies; Bry.; China); dyspepsia from ice-cream or from too much ice-water; indigestion from buck-wheat cakes.” It is a valuable remedy for dyspepsia from eating pie. Gastric trouble from eating fatty, rich food, cake, pastry, especially after pork or sausage; the very sight or thought of pork causes disgust. “Atonic dyspepsia, digestion very slow, the food is tasted or regurgitated a long time after eating. In a general way the distress of this drug comes on only an hour or more after a meal.”.
PIERCE says, “whether we call it dyspepsia, atonic dyspepsia or plain indigestion, there is, in general, an aggravation from and a disgust for rich, fat or greasy food, fried food, buckwheat cakes, pastry of all kinds, and ice-cream, if the richness of the cream is the cause of the trouble.” Gastralgia, with profuse sweat of the face, nausea and vomiting.
Calcutta
Chief Editor, Homeopathic Herald