Remedy

Characteristics Symptoms

Patient Worse by

Patient Better by

Pain in the stomach after food

Tenderness in epigastrium

Pain and distention of abdomen from flatulence, after stool

Rumbling and rolling

Diarrhœa, with sudden and forcible ejection of bilious stools

Tenesmus after, with burning at anus

Ileo-cæcal region sensitive to pressure

Profuse, watery diarrhœa in hot weather, particularly old people

At night.

Eructations after eating and drinking

Temporary relief from belching

Rancid, sour, or putrid eructations

Water brash, asthmatic breathing from flatulence

Nausea in the morning

Burning in stomach, extending to back and along spine

Contractive pain extending to chest, with distention of abdomen

Faint gone feeling in stomach, not relieved by eating

Crampy pains forcing patient to bend double

Distress comes on a half-hour after eating

Sensitiveness of epigastric region

Digestion slow; food putrefies before it digests.

Aversion to milk, meat, and fat things

The simplest food distresses

Pain in abdomen as from lifting a weight; excessive discharge of fetid flatus

Cannot bear tight clothing around waist and abdomen

Ailments accompanying intestinal fistulæ

Abdomen greatly distended; better, passing wind

Flatulent colic

Frequent, involuntary cadaverous-smelling stools, followed by burning

Sluggish, fat and lazy and has a tendency to chronicity in his complaints

Blood seems to stagnate in the capillaries, causing blueness, coldness, and ecchymosis

Body becomes blue, icy-cold

Coldness, breath cool, pulse imperceptible, oppressed and quickened respiration, and must have air, must be fanned hard, must have all the windows open

Faints easily, is worn out, and must have fresh air

Very debilitated; seems to be too weak to hold out

Persons who have never fully recovered from the effects of some previous illness

Premature and too copious menses; pale blood

Leucorrhœa before menses, thick, greenish, milky, excoriating

Night

Open air

Cold

From fat food, butter, coffee, milk

Warm damp weather

Wine

From fanning

Cold

Smell of food causes nausea even to fainting, especially fish

Profuse salivary secretion

Vomiting of mucus, bile and food; worse, any motion

Craving for various things, but is averse to then when smelling them, seized them with nausea

Burning or icy coldness in stomach and abdomen

Thirst for effervescent, alcoholic beverages

Pain in transverse colon.

Distention of abdomen, with gas, inability to stretch out legs

Cæcum and ascending colon much distended

Fullness and continuous rumbling.

Ineffectual pressing; feels feces in rectum, but cannot expel them

Shocks as from electricity through one half of body

Dreams of mice

Urine dark, scanty or suppressed; bloody, brown, black, inky; contains clots of putrid decomposed blood, albumin, sugar

Motion

Loss of sleep

Smell of food

In evening

Mental exertion

Canine hunger

Feeling in stomach as if something would not yield; drawing pain.

Sensation as if stones were being ground together in the abdomen, and would burst

Intestines feel as if bruised

Colic with cramps in calves

Cutting in abdomen, especially after anger

Each paroxysm is attended with general agitation and a chill over the cheeks, ascending from the hypogastrium

Pain in small spot below navel

Jelly-like stools; musty odor

Often indicated in the transition season when the air is cold, but the sun is still powerful enough to heat the blood

Especially suitable for irritable persons easily angered, and ill effects there from

Women with copious menstruation, and of sedentary habits

Persons with a tendency to corpulency

Pains are nearly always relieved by pressure

Cramps and twitching and shortening of muscles

Constrictions and contractions

Urinous odor of perspiration

Agonizing pain in abdomen, causing patient to bend double

Sensations; cutting, twisting, grinding, contracting and bruised; as if clamped with iron bands

Hard pressure

Warmth

Lying with head bent forward

Feels every change from dry to wet; cannot even eat plants growing near water, nor fish

Always feels best in warm, dry air

Thirst for something cold

Bilious vomiting, acid dyspepsia, with heartburn and flatulence

Duodenal catarrh;

Cannot bear tight clothing around waist, worse, lying on left side

Flatulency; wind colic in ascending colon; worse, before breakfast

Burning in abdomen and anus

Bruised pain and urging to stool

Diarrhœa yellow, watery stools

Loose morning stools, worse, after spell of wet weather

Stools involuntary, when passing flatus

Great size of the fecal mass.

Lying on left side

Dampness of basement

Damp weather

Water in every form

Pressure

Changing position.

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

Takes some cathartic, liver pills, or mineral water, and soon gets into the habit of taking these things, which still further complicate matters.

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

Always seems to be out of tune; inharmonious spasmodic action.

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 s of a stone, several hours after eating

Desire for stimulants; loves fats and tolerates them well 

Dyspepsia from drinking strong coffee

Difficult belching of gas

Wants to vomit, but cannot.

Bruised soreness of abdominal walls 

Flatulent distension, with spasmodic colic

Colic from uncovering.

Colic, with upward pressure, causing short breath, and desire for stool

Weakness of abdominal ring region

Alternate constipation and diarrhœa-after abuse of purgatives

Urging to stool felt throughout abdomen

Diarrhœa after a debauch; worse, morning

Frequent small evacuations

Scanty stool, with much urging

Constant uneasiness in rectum

Easily excited sexual desire

Menses too early, lasts too long; always irregular, blood black with faint spells

Cannot sleep after 3 am until towards morning; awakes feeling wretchedly

Drowsy after meals, and in early evening

Dreams full of bustle and hurry

Mental exertion

After eating

Touch

Spices

Stimulants

Narcotics

Dry weather

Cold

In evening

While at rest

In damp, wet weather

Strong pressure

Throbbing in pit of stomach

Feels full

Colic when uncovering

Wind seems to rise up to chest.

 Stools smell sour, pasty, with shivering and tenesmus, and burning in anus

Colicky, even ineffectual urging to evacuate altered fecal stools.

After eating

Moving about

Sensitive to pressure and cold air

Violent bearing-down pains

Pains are accompanied by sensation of cold, numbness and tingling

Empty eructations, tasting of apples

Unnatural hunger

Flatulent distention of stomach and abdomen

Profuse inodorous flatus

Burning in stomach about three hours after a meal, changing into a dull pressure

Gastric disturbance with sharp pains in liver region.

Stitches under short ribs, left side

Diarrhœa with much fetid flatus

Fetid stools.

Menses, increased, earlier

Leucorrhœa, with much itching

After eating

After coitus

In cold weather

Before a thunder-storm

Pressure on dorsal spine, which causes involuntary laughter.

Adapted to weary people, the aged, and phlegmatic, old beer-drinkers

Dissatisfied and angry about himself

Heat internally and externally

Longing for juicy things

After eating, flatulence, pulsation in rectum and sexual irritation

Nausea, with headache

Pain in pit of the stomach when making false step.

Abdomen feels full, heavy, hot, bloated

Pulsating pain around navel; worse pressure

Weak feeling, as if diarrhœa would come on

Great accumulation of flatus, pressing downwards, causing distress in lower bowels

Sensation of plug between symphysis pubis and os coccygis, with urging to stool

Colic before and during stool

Burning, copious flatus

Stool passes without effort, almost unnoticed

Lumpy, watery stool

Jelly-like stools, with soreness in rectum after stool

A lot of mucus, with pain in rectum after stool

Menses too early and too profuse

Summer

Heat

In hot, dry weather

After eating or drinking

Open air

Great exhaustion after the slightest exertion

Irritable weakness

Burning pains

 Burning relieved by heat

Seaside complaints

Odor of discharges is putrid

In complaints that return annually

Gradual loss of weight from impaired nutrition

System under the stress of malignancy regardless of location

Septic infections and low vitality

Great thirst; drinks much, but little at a time

Nausea, retching, vomiting, after eating or drinking

Anxiety in pit of stomach

Craves acids, milk and coffee

Heartburn; gulping up of acid and bitter substances which seem to excoriate the throat

Long-lasting eructations

Stomach extremely irritable; seems raw, as if torn

Gastralgia from slightest food or drink

Dyspepsia from vinegar, acids, ice-cream, ice-water, tobacco

Terrible fear and dyspnœa, with gastralgia; also faintness, icy coldness, great exhaustion

Abdomen swollen and painful

Pain as from a wound in abdomen on coughing.

Stools small, offensive, dark, with much prostration

Urine scanty, burning, involuntary, albuminous

Menses too profuse and too soon

Leucorrhœa, acrid, burning, offensive, thin

Disturbed, anxious, restless sleep

Must have head raised by pillows to sleep

Sleeps with hands over head

Dreams are full of care and fear

After midnight

From cold, cold drinks, or food

Seashore

Right side

From head elevated

Warm drinks

Great muscular soreness and putrid phenomena always are present

All the secretions are offensive-breath, stool, urine, sweat, etc

No appetite

Constant desire for water

Sinking feeling at stomach

Pain in epigastric region

Feeling of hard substance 

Ulcerative inflammation of stomach and bowels.

Distended and rumbling

Soreness over region of gall-bladder, with diarrhœa

Stools very offensive, thin, dark, bloody

Soreness of abdomen, in region of liver

Menses too early, too profuse

Nightmare and frightful dreams

Cannot get herself together, feels scattered about bed

Falls asleep while answering a question

Fog

Indoors

Beer

Dry, parched lips, mouth

Bitter taste

Sensitive epigastrium,

Especially the constitution of a robust, firm fiber and dark complexion, with tendency to leanness and irritability

Physical weakness, all-pervading apathy

Complaints apt to develop slowly

Abnormal hunger, loss of taste

Thirst for large draughts

Vomiting of bile and water immediately after eating

Stomach sensitive to touch

Pressure in stomach after eating, as of a stone

Soreness in stomach when coughing

Burning pain in abdomen, stitches; worse, pressure, coughing, breathing

Tenderness of abdominal walls.

Stools brown, thick, bloody; worse in morning, from moving, in hot weather, after being heated, from cold drinks, every spell of hot weather.

Menses too early, too profuse; worse from motion

Evening

Open air

Warm weather after cold days

Warmth

Any motion

Morning

Eating

Hot weather

Exertion

Touch

Cannot sit up; gets faint and sick

Warm drinks

Pressure

Rest

Cold things

Tendency to perspiration

Much flatulence

Great hunger with thirst

Flatulence temporarily relieved by sour eructations

Heartburn. Easy vomiting in children.

Sunken and flabby abdomen

Colic, soreness and burning around navel.

Green, slimy, hot, sputtering, undigested stools, with fetid flatus

Menses too early, excessive, and bright in girls

Leucorrhœa, like white of egg

Exposure to damp

Cold weather

Melting snow

Change of weather

Warm, dry atmosphere.

Cold extremities

Over sensitiveness

Weakness from mere speaking or walking though looking strong

Pallor of skin, mucous membranes, face, alternating with flushes

Orgasms of blood to face, chest, head, lungs, etc

Irregular distribution of blood

Pseudo-plethora

Muscles flabby and relaxed

Attempts to eat bring on diarrhœa

Eructations of food after eating, without nausea

Nausea and vomiting after eating

Vomiting immediately after eating

Vomiting after midnight

Intolerance of eggs

Distention and pressure in the stomach after eating

Heat and burning in stomach

Soreness of abdominal walls

Menses remit a day or two, and then return

Menses too early, too profuse, last too long; pale, watery

While sitting still

After cold washing

Overheating

Midnight

Active effort

After rising

Lack of vital heat

Prostration of mind and body

Great sensitiveness to taking cold

Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants

Want of grit, moral or physical

Want of appetite; thirst excessive

Sour eructations after eating 

Pit of stomach painful to pressure

 Much rumbling in bowels

A milky, acrid leucorrhœa, during urination

Increased menses, with paroxysms of icy coldness over whole body

In morning

From washing

During menses

Uncovering

Lying down

Damp

Lying on

Left side

Cold

Wrapping up head

Summer

In wet or humid weather.

Dislike of water

Dry and hard hair and skin

Red orifices

Sinking feeling at stomach about 11 am

Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections

Aversion to being washed

When carefully-selected remedies fail to act, especially in acute diseases, it frequently arouses the reactionary powers of the organism

Complaints that relapse

General offensive character of discharge and exhalations

Very red lips and face, flushing easily

Food tastes too salty

Drinks much, eats little

Milk disagrees

Great desire for sweets

Great acidity, sour eructation

Burning, painful, weight-like pressure in the stomach

Very weak and faint about 11 am; must have something to eat

Nausea during gestation

Water fills the patient up.

Movements in abdomen as of something alive

Colic after drinking.

Must hurry, sudden call to urinate

Great quantities of colorless urine.

Menses too late, short, scanty, and difficult; thick, black, acrid, making parts sore

Leucorrhœa, burning, excoriating

Catnaps; slightest noise awakens

Cannot sleep between 2 an 5 am

When standing

Warmth in bed

Washing

Bathing

In morning

11 am

Night

From alcoholic stimulants

Periodically

Lying on right side

From drawing up affected limbs

Complete loss of appetite

Dislike for fresh meat and potatoes

Rancid eructations after fat food

Cutting pain in epigastrium

Cannot eat onions

Flatulence; pain after food; sinking sensation in epigastrium before food; thirst

Chronic diarrhœa, worse after breakfast; discharges forcibly expelled; gurgling sound

Flatulence and distension; protruding here and there

Rumbling and colic

Profuse leucorrhœa; thick, greenish

Menses scanty, retarded

From heat of bed

At 3 am and 3 pm

From cold, damp air

After breakfast

Fat, coffee

Vaccination

From moonlight

While drawing up a limb

Diarrhœa before and during menses

Menses too early and profuse; worse at night

Leucorrhœa acrid, thick, tough, greenish, follows menses

Cannot bear tight clothing around waist 

Traces of menses between menstruation

Must bend double

Pain around umbilicus

Stitches through perineum towards rectum and genitals.

Faint, as if dying

Bluish appearance of face

Prostration from slight exertion

Excessive nausea, not relieved by vomiting

Faintness, great weakness in stomach

Burning in stomach extending to œsophagus

Discomfort, even after a small quantity of food, or from mere sight or smell

Tenderness of epigastrium

Neuralgic pain in stomach, unconnected with taking food.

Severe abdominal pains, pulsation in abdominal aorta, and epigastric constriction

Diarrhœa during jaundice.

Starts from sleep in alarm that he is falling from a height

After meals and music

In open air

Especially useful in females

Dyspepsia, with much distention of the stomach

Cramps and colic after supper and during night, with swelling of abdomen and constipation

Excessive sexual desire

Menses too profuse, premature, and too long

Leucorrhœa

Frequently indicated in children; whole body smells sour, and disposed to boils

Broken-down, "worn-out" women, with uterine and climacteric disorders

With numbness and distension in various, parts and nerve prostration

Sensitive to the least start, noise, touch, etc

Sensitive to least touch, it causes starting, or cold winds or weather or from excess of care and worry

Eructations sour, and vomiting of bitter water

Craving for meat.

Dragging towards pelvis

Very heavy; contractive, pinching, pain in right iliac region.

Green, watery, frothy, like a frog-pond's scum

Menses too late and scanty, thick, dark, like pitch

Mucous leucorrhœa

Menses flow only in sleep; more profuse at night, or when lying down; cease when walking

Change of temperature

Cold wind or weather

Every three weeks

Rest

Walking in open air

Stomach feels swollen and sensitive

Hungry at 5 am

Very weak digestion, caused by slightest error of diet

Averse to milk

Depressed after eating

Bitter taste

Dyspepsia relieved by soda biscuits.

Diarrhœa from milk.

Menses late, scanty like meat-washings 

Leucorrhœal discharge, offensive, irritating preceded by colic

Wakes too early in morning

Amorous dreams

Drowsy during day

From music

Summer heat

Mental exertion

Thunderstorm

Least draught

Changes of weather

Sun

By boring in ears and nose

Want of appetite for any kind of food, with unquenchable thirst

Bitter taste

Nausea, vertigo, and bloated abdomen after eating

Desire for milk

Pressure in stomach as from a stone

Drowsy after eating.

Pain in region of ascending colon

Colic, compelling to walk bent

Excessive distention after eating

Rumbling of flatus on first rising, but disappears with continued motion.

Stools of cadaverous odor

Frothy, painless stools

Menses early, profuse, and prolonged, acrid

Dreams of great exertion; heavy sleep, as from stupor, sleepless before midnight

Cold, wet rainy weather and after rain

At night

During rest

Drenching

When lying on back or right side

Motion

Walking

Change of position

Rubbing

Warm applications

From stretching out limbs

Persons of feeble digestive powers; tea-drinkers, with much flatulence

Belching of large quantities of offensive gas

Neuralgia of stomach

Sinking at the pit of the stomach

Pain along sternum and extending into arms

Eructations of sour, bitter wind, with hiccough

Sharp pain in epigastrium, relieved by standing erect.

Rumbling, with emission of much flatus

Griping, cutting in hypogastric region, with intermittent cutting in stomach and small intestines

Colic; better walking about; pains radiate from abdomen, to back, chest, arms; worse, bending forwards and while lying

Sharp pains from liver, shooting upward to right nipple

Pain from gall-bladder to chest, back, and arms

Hurried desire for stool

Diarrhœa (worse in morning), yellowish, followed by exhaustion, as if flatus and feces were hot

Lying down

Doubling up

motion in open air

Pressure.

Dizziness, drowsiness, dullness, and trembling

Slow pulse, tired feeling, mental apathy

Muscular weakness

Complete relaxation and prostration

Lack of muscular co-ordination

General depression from heat of sun

Sensitive to a falling barometer; cold and dampness brings on many complaints

Sensation of emptiness and weakness at the pit of the stomach, or of an oppression, like a heavy load.

Stool painless or involuntary. Cream-colored, tea-green.

Urine profuse, clear, watery, with chilliness and tremulousness

Fog

Before a thunderstorm

Emotion, or excitement, bad news

Tobacco-smoking

When thinking of his ailments

At 10 am

By profuse urination

Open air

Continued motion

Stimulants

Griping in hypochondrium in morning

Congestion of the liver, with urgent, loose, stools on rising

Brown, thin, bloody stools, with tenesmus

During stool, sharp pain in left side, shooting downward