GASTRIC DERANGEMENT
Aconite [Acon]
Yellow coating on the tongue; bitter taste in the mouth and of food and drink, except water; exercise nausea; BETTER ERUCTATIONS; violent but ineffectual urging to vomit, or BITTER, GREENISH, or SLIMY VOMITING; distention and swelling of the hypochondria, with painful sensitiveness of the region of the liver, no stool, or small, frequent stools, with tenesmus; beating or stitching pain in the head; worse when talking.
Abies-nigra [Abies-n]
Feeling as if he had swallowed some indigestible substances which had stuck at the cardia; hypochondriasis, constipation.
Agaricus [Agar]
Fulness in stomach even after eating light food moderately; pressure and fulness in abdomen; very drowsy after dinner, he sleeps deeply and awakens with pains in all his limbs; after
supper tormenting fulness in abdomen, backache, chills; after a meal nausea, eructations, abdomen distended.
Anacardium [Anac]
Patient hungry, (>) while eating, but (<) afterwards, frequent urging to stool, but with the attempt to move the bowels the desire passes off; sensation of a plug in rectum; loss of memory; brain-fag; Hypochondriasis.
Antimonium-crud [Ant-c]
Indigestion, with the following symptoms: frequent hiccough, loss of appetite, loathing, tongue coated or covered with blisters, dry mouth; or else; accumulation of saliva or mucus in the mouth; thirst at night; nausea, desire to vomit increased by drinking wine; ERUCTATIONS SMELLING AND TASTING OF THE INGESTA, or with a foetid smell; vomiting of the ingesta or of slimy and bilious substances; painfulness of the stomach to the touch, with painful feeling of fulness; colic and frequent flatulence; diarrhoea or constipation; dull headache; worse when smoking or going upstairs. (After Ant., Bryonia, is sometimes suitable.)
Argentum-nit [Arg-n]
Flatulent indigestion, loud rumbling, sensation as a if stomach and oesophagus were filled with food which oppresses and feels like a weight; periodic constructing sensation in stomach;gastric derangement with belching stitches in stomach and short breathing; pain at epigastrium and under left ribs immediately after eating, with flatulence and loud rumbling. CONSTANT CRAVING FOR SWEETS.
Arnica [Arn]
Gastric symptoms occasioned by external injuries, by watching at night, by mental overexertion, causing great nervousness with dry or yellow-coated tongue; putrid, bitter or sour taste; bad smell from the mouth; distention; especially after a meal; heavy feeling all over, giving away at the knees; vertigo; dullness of head; aching with heat in brain and stupefaction (after Arnica, often suitable, Chamomilla or Nux v.)
Arsenicum [Ars]
Gastric catarrh from CHILLING THE STOMACH WITH ICE CREAM or ICE- WATER, or other indigestible food, with nausea, which is frequent and often periodical ( midnight), accompanied by great prostration; acrid, bitter eructations; dry tongue with violent thirst for small sips, but, drinking causes irregular, convulsive vomiting of the water, of food or of bilious, brownish or greenish substances; coloc or burning pains in stomach and abdomen, chilliness and anguish or violent burning pressure at a small spot in stomach; stomach sensitive to touch; debility and desire to lie down; no stool or watery, greenish, brownish or yellowish diarrhoea; vomiting and diarrhoea (<) after drinking and after every motion of the body.
Asafoetida [Asaf]
PAIN BROUGHT ON BY EATING FAT THINGS; burning pains and distention of stomach; nausea watery vomiting or inclination to vomit without any vomiting accompanied by crampy pains, burning and soreness in stomach and epigastrium, (<) by pressure on the part; STRONG PULSATIONS IN ABDOMEN; taste rancid, greasy and bitter; watery stools and flatus of disguising odor.
Belladonna [Bell]
Whitish, yellowish, or thickly-coated tongue; aversion to drink and food; sour taste of rye-bread, vomiting of food, or of sour, bitter or slimy substances; sometimes with constant nausea, dry mouth or thirst; headache in the sinciput, as if everything would fall out at the forehead, with throbbing of the temporal arteries; no stool or slimy diarrhoea.
Bellis-peren [Bell-p]
Acute and chronic derangement of stomach from eating cold ices; ILL EFFECTS OF COLD DRINKS TAKEN WHEN HEATED; effect from a sudden chilling from s cold drenching when one is hot ( Burnett).
Bryonia [Bry]
Especially in summer and hot and damp weather; taste unpleasant, flat even with good appetite; sometimes bitter or putrid, with offensive breath; appetite generally diminished or destroyed, with aversion to food; thirst day and night, with sensation of dryness on tongue, in mouth and throat; eructations after eating, sometimes tasting of the food, but generally BITTER or SOUR, with accumulation of sour water or tasteless water in the mouth; aversion to solid food, with desire wine, acids, or coffee; HICCOUGH; nausea after a meal, frequent ineffectual attempts at vomiting or bilious vomiting, especially after drinking; nausea after a meal though the food tasted well and eaten with a relish; food oppresses the stomach is felt like a load at the epigastrium, and is often regurgitated; sensation of distention and sometimes actual swelling in the umbilical region; constipation; dulness of head with vertigo, or burning, oppressive or distensive pain in head, (<) after drinking; chilliness and shuddering.
Capsicum [Caps]
Accumulation of mucus and acids in the stomach; heartburn; waterbrash; STOMACH ICY-COLD, or burning in the stomach and at the anus during every stool; stools of tenacious mucus; suitable to phlegmatic persons or to such who take everything in the bad part.
Carbo-veg [Carb-v]
Malaise, no appetite; pyrosis great flow of water; sour or rancid eructations; vomiting of food, of sour, bilious or bloody masses; pains in stomach on pressure; stomach feels heavy and hanging down; pain in stomach from nursing or other loss of fluids; heaviness and dulness of head, with debility; humming and buzzing in ears, (<) in warm room; burning distress in epigastrium, (<) from meat, fat or milk; stomach feels dragged down after eating; abdomen distended with flatus; eructations of a rancid or putrid taste; flatus offensive; constipation with piles.
Carbolic-acid [Carb-ac]
Total loss of appetite, but desire for stimulants; CONSTANT BELCHING UP OF WIND; regurgitation from stomach; intense nausea and waterbrash,(>) after raising a sort of sweetish-sour liquid; sensation of warmth in epigastrium; heavy weight in epigastrium with constant inclination to relieve himself by fruitless efforts at eructations or by pressing the hand into ther pit of the stomach; INCARCERATION OF GAS IN ABDOMEN; rumbling and rolling in abdomen; insufficient, sluggish stool. muddled and confused feeling in head.
Chamomilla [Cham]
Red and cracked tongue, or coated yellow; bitter taste in the mouth of food; foetid odor from the mouth; loss of appetite, nausea, or eructations, and greenish, bitter or sour vomiting; great and oppressive anxiety, tension and pressure in the pit of the stomach, hypochondria and epigastrium, constipation, or greenish, diarrhoeic stools; or sour diarrhoea, or discharge of faecal matter and mucus, resembling STIRRED EGGS in appearance; restless sleep, with tossing about and frequent waking; pain and fulness in the head.
Chelidonium [Chel]
Total loss of appetite desire for very hot or sour drinks; bitter, pappy taste, but not of food or drink, tongue covered with thick, yellow fur; ALL COMPLAINTS LESSEN AFTER DINNER; persistent pain in scrobiculus, (<) by motion, (>) by eructations; diarrhoea and constipation alternately.
China [Chin]
Heartburn after milk; belching, sour rising; frequent eructations, or regurgitation and vomiting of the food, constant satiated feeling, yet can eat, but feels worse afterwards; fulness in stomach and abdomen; flatulence, belching does not relieve; slow digestion, food remains long in the stomach, especially of eaten too late in the day.
Cina [Cina]
Dryness of mouth; inability to swallow, drinks roll around in the mouth for a long time; on drinking wine she shudders as if it were vinegar; canine hunger shortly after a meal; qualmish distress at epigastrium; winding and sticking pains around navel, as if navel were forcibly pressed inward in abdomen.
Cocculus [Cocc]
Yellow-coated tongue; loathing of food and at the same time sensation of hunger in epigastrium; aversion to drink and yet great thirst; foetid eructations, NAUSEA and desire to vomit, especially when talking after sleeping, when eating, or during motion, particularly riding in a carriage; painful fulness in the region of the stomach, with labored breathing; constipation, or soft stools, with burning at the anus; debility, with sweat during the least exercise; aching in the forehead with vertigo.
Coffea [Coff]
Hiccough, eructations; constant inclination to vomit felt in the throat; gastric symptoms accompanied by great nervousness and sleeplessness.
Colchicum [Colch]
Enormous appetite, but as soon as he sees or smell food, he shudders nausea and desire to eat is gone, eructations of tasteless gas; fulness of stomach, even when he are nothing, (<)after eating light food; nausea and vomiting after rich or fat food; offensive flatus and offensive stools.
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal was the author of many great books including “Homeopathic Therapeutics”. For many years, with the support of Dr. Constantine Hering, he was the editor of the North American Journal of Homeopathy. Dr. Lilienthal passed away on February 2nd 1891 in San Francisco.