Hiatal Hernia
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Remedy |
Characteristics Symptoms |
Patient Worse |
Patient Better |
| Aesculus Hippocastanum | Venous stasis general, varicose veins of purple
color; everything is slowed down, digestion, heart, bowels, etc
Torpor and congestion of the liver and portal system, with constipation Flying pains all over Fullness in various parts, dry, swollen mucous membranes Weight of a stone, with gnawing, aching pain; most manifest about three hours after meals Large, hard, dry stools Frequent, scant, dark, muddy, hot urine |
In morning on awaking
From any motion Walking From moving bowels After eating Afternoon Standing |
Cool open air |
| Alumina | Dryness of
mucous membranes and skin
Tendency to paretic muscular states Old people, with lack of vital heat, or prematurely old, with debility Sluggish functions, heaviness, numbness, and staggering Eructations in spare, dry, thin subjects Delicate children, products of artificial baby foods Abnormal cravings-chalk, charcoal, dry food, tea-grounds Heartburn; feels constricted Aversion to meat Potatoes disagree No desire to eat Can swallow but small morsels at a time Hard dry, knotty stools; no desire Must strain at stool in order to urinate Menses too early, short, scanty, pale, followed by great exhaustion |
Periodically
In afternoon From potatoes In morning on awaking Warm room |
In open air
From cold washing In evening On alternate days Damp weather |
| Ammonium Carbonicum | Especially indicated in in rather stout women who
are always tired and weary, take cold easily, suffer from cholera-like
symptoms before menses, lead a sedentary life, have a slow reaction
generally, and are disposed to frequent use of the smelling-bottle
Too frequent and profuse menses Fat patients with weak heart, wheezing, feel suffocated Very sensitive to cold air Great aversion to water; cannot bear to touch it Heaviness in all organs Uncleanness in bodily habits Pain at pit of stomach, with heartburn, nausea, water brash, and chilliness Great appetite, but easily satisfied Stools difficult, hard, and knotty Aversion to the other sex Menses too frequent, profuse, early, copious, clotted, black |
Evenings
From cold, wet weather Wet applications Washing During 3 to 4 am During menses |
Lying on painful side and on stomach
In dry weather |
| Aurum Metallicum | Hopeless, despondent, and great
desire to commit suicide
Appetite and thirst increased, with qualmishness Swelling of epigastrium. Burning at stomach and hot eructations Urine turbid, like buttermilk, with thick sediment Constipation, stools hard and knotty |
In cold weather when getting cold
Many complaints come on only in winter From sunset to sunrise |
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| Calcarea Carbonica | Increased local and general
perspiration
Nausea, acidity and dislike of fat Gets out of breath easily A jaded state, mental or physical, due to overwork Great sensitiveness to cold; partial sweats Prone to diarrhœa Is fat, fair, flabby and perspiring and cold, damp and sour Aversion to meat, boiled things Craving for indigestible things-chalk, coal, pencils; also for eggs, salt and sweets Milk disagrees Frequent sour eructations; sour vomiting Dislike of fat Loss of appetite when overworked Heartburn and loud belching Cramps in stomach; worse, pressure, cold water Ravenous hunger Swelling over pit of stomach, like a saucer turned bottom up Repugnance to hot food Pain in epigastric region to touch Thirst; longing for cold drinks Hyperchlorhydria Frequent emissions; increased desire; semen emitted too soon Menses too early, too profuse, too long; the least excitement causes their return Leucorrhœa, milky Same disagreeable idea always arouses from light slumber Night terrors Dreams of the dead |
From exertion, mental or
physical
Ascending Cold in every form Water Washing Moist air Wet weather During full moon Standing |
Dry climate and weather
Lying on painful side Sneezing (pain in head and nape) |
| Calcarea Phosphorica | Numbness and crawling
Tendency to perspiration Craving for bacon, ham, salted or smoked meats Much flatulence Great hunger with thirst Flatulence temporarily relieved by sour eructations Heartburn Easy vomiting in children Leucorrhœa, like white of egg |
Any
change of weather
Exposure to damp Cold weather Melting snow |
In summer |
| Cocculus Indicus | Esp indicated in
light-haired female, unmarried and childless women, sensitive and
romantic girls, etc.
Sensation of hollowness, or emptiness, as if parts had gone to sleep Feels too weak to talk loud Nausea from riding in cars, boat, etc, or looking at boat in motion; worse on becoming cold or taking cold Nausea, with faintness and vomiting Aversion to food, drink, tobacco Metallic taste Cramp, in stomach during and after meal Loss of appetite Desire for cold drinks, especially beer Sensation in stomach as if one had been a long time without food until hunger was gone Smell of food disgusts Too early menses, clotted, with spasmodic colic Purulent, gushing leucorrhœa between menses; very weakening, can scarcely speak So weak during menstruation, scarcely able to stand |
Eating
After loss of sleep Open air Smoking Riding Swimming Touch Noise Jar Afternoon Menstrual period After emotional disturbance |
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| Conium | Often found in old age, a
time of weakness, languor, local congestions, and sluggishness
Trouble at the change of life, old and bachelors General feeling as if bruised by blows Great debility in the morning in bed Weakness of body and mind, trembling, and palpitation Terrible nausea, acrid heartburn and acid eructations; worse on going to bed Painful spasms of the stomach Amelioration from eating and aggravation a few hours after meals; acidity and burning; painful spot at the level of the sternum. Tremulous weakness after every stool Much difficulty in voiding, it flows and stops again Menses delayed and scanty; parts sensitive |
Lying down
Turning or rising in bed Celibacy Before and during menses From taking cold Bodily or mental exertion |
While fasting
In the dark From letting limbs hang down Motion Pressure |
| Iris | Burning of whole
alimentary canal
Vomiting, sour bloody, biliary Nausea Deficient appetite Profuse flow of saliva; ropy |
In evening and at night
From rest |
From continued motion |
| Lycopodium | Adapted
more especially to ailments gradually developing, functional power
weakening, with failures of the digestive powers
Atony Malnutrition Red sand in urine Intolerant of cold drinks Craves everything warm Best adapted to persons intellectually keen, but of weak, muscular power Emaciation Debility in morning Thin, withered, full of gas and dry Lacks vital heat; has poor circulation, cold extremities Pains come and go suddenly Sensitive to noise and odors Dyspepsia due to farinaceous and fermentable food, cabbage, beans, etc Excessive hunger Aversion to bread, etc Desire for sweet things Food tastes sour Sour eructations Great weakness of digestion After eating, pressure in stomach, with bitter taste in mouth Eating ever so little creates fullness Cannot eat oysters Rolling of flatulence Wakes at night feeling hungry Incomplete burning eructations rise only to pharynx there burn for hours Likes to take food and drink hot inking sensation; worse night Menses too late; last too long, too profuse Leucorrhœa, acrid, with burning in vagina Dreams of accidents |
Right side
From right to left From above downward 4 to 8 pm From heat or warm room, hot air, bed Warm applications, except throat and stomach which are better from warm drinks |
By motion
After midnight From warm food and drink On getting cold From being uncovered |
| Mag Carbonica | Gastro-intestinal catarrh,
with marked acidity
Broken-down, "worn-out" women, with uterine and climacteric disorders Numbness and distension in various, parts and nerve prostration Sensitive to the least start, noise, touch, etc Tendency to constipation after nervous strain; sensitive to least touch, it causes starting, or cold winds or weather or from excess of care and worry with constipation and heaviness Desire for fruit, acids, and vegetables Eructations sour, and vomiting of bitter water Craving for meat |
Warmth of bed
Change of temperature Cold wind or weather Every three weeks Rest. |
Warm air
Walking in open air
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| Nux Vomica | Remedy
for many of the conditions incident to modern life
Patient is rather thin, spare, quick, active, nervous, and irritable. Does a good deal of mental work; has mental strains and leads a sedentary life, found in prolonged office work, over study, and close application to business, with its cares and anxieties Seeks stimulants, coffee, wine, possibly in excess; or, again, he hopes to quiet his excitement, Takes preferably rich and stimulating food; wine and women play their part to make him forget the close application of the day Pre-eminently a male remedy. Irritable, nervous system, hypersensitive and over-impressionable Especially adapted to digestive disturbances, portal congestion, and hypochondriacal states depending thereon Zealous fiery temperament Easily chilled, avoid open air, etc Seems to be out of tune; inharmonious spasmodic action Sour taste, and nausea in the morning, after eating Weight and pain in stomach; worse, eating, some time after Sour, bitter eructations Nausea and vomiting, with much retching Ravenous hunger, especially about a day before an attack of dyspepsia Region of stomach very sensitive to pressure Epigastrium bloated, with pressure as of a stone, several hours after eating Desire for stimulants Loves fats and tolerates them well Difficult belching of gas Wants to vomit, but cannot Constipation, with frequent ineffectual urging, incomplete and unsatisfactory; feeling as if part remained unexpelled Passing but small quantities at each attempt Urging to stool felt throughout abdomen Frequent small evacuations Frequent calls to urinate; little and often Easily excited desire. emissions from high living, bad effects of sexual excesses Menses too early, lasts too long; always irregular, blood black Cannot sleep after 3 am until towards morning; awakes feeling wretchedly |
Morning
Mental exertion After eating Touch Spices Stimulants Narcotics Dry weather Cold |
From a nap, if allowed to
finish it
In evening While at rest In damp Wet weather Strong pressure |
| Oxalicum Acidum | Pains very violent, in
spots ; worse, motion, and thinking of them
Periodical remissions Violent pain in epigastrium, discharge of flatus relieves Gastralgia Sensation of coldness below epigastrium Burning pain, extending upwards Slightest touch causes excruciating pain Bitter and sour eructation, worse at night Cannot eat strawberries |
Left
side
Slightest touch Light Shaving Aroused about 3 am with gastric and abdominal pain By thinking about self |
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| Petroleum | Gastric acidity
Lingering gastric and lung troubles Chronic diarrhœa Heartburn; hot, sharp, sour eructation Distention of stomach Feeling of great emptiness in stomach Strong aversion to fat food, meat; worse, eating cabbage Hunger, immediately after stool Nausea, with accumulation of water in mouth Gastralgia when stomach is empty; relieved by constant eating Ravenous hunger; must rise at night and eat Odor of garlic Leucorrhœa, profuse, albuminous |
During the winter season
From riding in cars, carriages, or ships Dampness Before and during a thunder-storm Passive motion Eating From mental states |
Warm
air
Lying with head high Dry weather. |
| Phosphorus | Tall, slender persons, narrow
chested, with thin, transparent skin, weakened by loss of animal fluids,
with great nervous debility
Emaciation Amative tendencies Great susceptibility to external impressions, to light, sound, odors, touch, electrical changes, thunder-storms Suddenness of symptoms, sudden prostration, faints, sweats, shooting pains, etc Hunger soon after eating Sour taste and sour eructations after every meal Belching large quantities of wind, after eating. Vomiting; water is thrown up as soon as it gets warm in the stomach Cardiac opening seems contracted, too narrow; the food scarcely swallowed, comes up again Pain in stomach; relieved by cold food, ices Region of stomach painful to touch, or on walking Inflammation of stomach, with burning extending to throat and bowels Bad effects of eating too much salt Very fetid stools and flatus; long, narrow, hard, like a dog's Turbid, brown urine, with red sediment Menses too early and scanty-not profuse, but last too long Leucorrhœa profuse, smarting, corrosive, instead of menses Vivid dreams of fire; of hæmorrhage Lascivious dreams |
Touch
Physical or mental exertion Twilight Warm food or drink Change of weather From getting wet in hot weather Evening Lying on left or painful side During a thunder-storm Ascending stairs |
In dark
Lying on right side Cold food Cold Open air Washing with cold water Sleep |
| Picrotoxin | Night sweats | Morning | |
| Silicea | Patient is cold, chilly, hugs
the fire, wants plenty warm clothing, hates drafts, hands and feet cold,
worse in winter
Lack of vital heat Prostration of mind and body Great sensitiveness to taking cold Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants. Want of grit, moral or physical Disgust for meat and warm food On swallowing food, it easily gets into posterior nares Want of appetite; thirst excessive Sour eructations after eating Pit of stomach painful to pressure Vomiting after drinking A milky (Calc; Puls; Sep), acrid leucorrhœa, during urination |
New moon
In morning From washing During menses Uncovering Lying down Damp Lying on left side Cold Winter |
Warmth
Wrapping up head Summer In wet or humid weather. |
| Sulphuricum Acidum | Debility in the digestive
tract, giving a very relaxed feeling in the stomach, with craving for
stimulants
Tremor and weakness Everything must be done in a hurry Hot flushes, followed by perspiration, with trembling Gastralgia and hypochlorrhydria Heartburn; sour eructations; sets teeth on edge Craving for alcohol Water causes coldness of stomach; must be mixed with liquors. Averse to smell of coffee Sour vomiting Desire for fresh food. Coldness of stomach relieved by applied heat Nausea with chilliness |
From excess of heat or cold
In forenoon and evening |
From warmth
Lying on affected side |
| Veratrum Album | Collapse,
with extreme coldness, blueness, and weakness
Cold perspiration on the forehead Vomiting, purging, and cramps in extremities Profuse, violent retching and vomiting Voracious appetite Thirst for cold water, but is vomited as soon as swallowed Averse to warm food Copious vomiting and nausea; aggravated by drinking and least motion Craves fruit, juicy and cold things, ice, salt Anguish in pit of stomach Great weakness after vomiting Gastric irritability with chronic vomiting of food Menses too early; profuse and exhausting |
At night
Wet, cold weather |
Walking
Warmth |
| Zincum Metallicum | Nausea, vomiting of bitter
mucus
Burning in stomach Heartburn from sweet things Cannot stand smallest quantity of wine Ravenous hunger about 11 am Great greediness when eating; cannot eat fast enough Atonic dyspepsia, feeling as if stomach were collapsed Can only void urine when sitting bent backwards Menses too late, suppressed Menses flow more at night |
At menstrual period
From touch Between 5 to 7 pm After dinner From wine |
While eating
Discharges Appearance of eruptions |