INDIGESTION AND HOMEOPATHY

INDIGESTION AND HOMEOPATHY

NUX VOMICA

Indigestion, especially after overeating.  Sour taste and nausea in the morning after eating. Weight and pain in stomach, worse eating, sometime after. Epigastrium bloated with pressure as of a stone several hours after eating. Heartburn. Heartburn after taking coffee, spicy food, and alcoholic drinks. Constipation. Constipation with frequent ineffectual urging is a leading symptom of Nux vomica.

PULSATILLA NIGRICANS

Indigestion, which is caused by consuming rich foods, fats, pork, pastries, desserts, ice –creams etc. Belching’s, taste of food remains a long time after ices, fruits, pastry etc. Stomach disordered, feels heavy. Heartburn and flatulence.  Indigestion with loose stool. Changeable stools, no two stools alike. Thirstlessness with nearly all complaints.

CARBO VEGETABILIS

Indigestion with excessive flatulence. Indigestion may result from over eating, eating rich fatty foods or eating too late in the evening and sleeping soon, thereafter. Digestion slow, food putrefies before it digests. The simplest food distresses. Belching, heaviness, sleepiness, tense from flatulence with pain, worse lying down. Contractive pains extending to chest with distension of abdomen. Sometimes headache associated with indigestion.

ANACARDIUM ORIENTALE

 Indigestion, which results from taking cold drinks or stress. Weak digestion with fullness and distension. Heartburn after 2-3 hours of eating, which is better from eating. Eating relieves dyspepsia. Empty feeling in stomach. Gastric pain better from eating, but worse again after 2-3 hours. There is a sensation of plug anywhere in the alimentary canal.

ABIES NIGRA

Indigestion with a feeling of constriction just above the pit of the stomach as if everything were knotted up. Pain in stomach always comes on after eating. Belching. Sensation of a lump that hurts. As if a hard-boiled egg had lodged in the cardiac end of stomach. It is a good remedy for dyspepsia of the aged with functional heart symptoms. Offensive breath and eructation’s

ARSENICUM ALB

 Indigestion from consuming preserved food. Dyspepsia from vinegar, acids, ice cream, ice water etc. Nausea, retching and vomiting after eating and drinking. Burning pain. Ice cold water distresses the abdomen and is vomited immediately. Great anxiety and restlessness.

IPECACUANHA

 Indigestion with constant nausea, not relieved by vomiting. Clean tongue, a leading symptom of Ipecac. The stomach is disordered by rich food, pork, pastry, candy, ice cream etc.

NATRUM MURIATICUM

 Indigestion of smokers. Loss of taste. Bitter taste in mouth. Blisters are seen on tongue. Heartburn with intense thirst. Sticking sensation in cardiac orifice. Desire for salt and salty foods.

NATRUM CARBONICUM

Indigestion in old people. Digestion weak, worse by slightest errors in food. Stomach feels swollen and sensitive. Heartburn after consuming fats. Ill effects of drinking cold water when overheated.

LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM

 Indigestion with great weakness of digestion with much bloating. Hunger, but quick satiety. Eating ever so little creates fullness. Belching rise only to pharynx.  Flatulence, much noisy, pressing out. Immediately after eating abdomen is bloated and full. Complaints from flatulent food, cabbage, beans, oysters, and onions. Lycopodium patient prefer sweets and hot drinks and food.

ROBINIA 3X

 Indigestion with great acidity. Sour stomach. Everything turns to acid. Heartburn and acidity of stomach at night on lying down. Nausea with sour belching. Profuse vomiting of an intensely sour fluid. Complaints worse from consuming fats, cabbages, turnips, raw fruits, ice creams.

 COLOCYNTHIS

Indigestion with stomach pain. Pain comes in waves, better doubling up and hard pressure, worse least food or drink, except coffee and tobacco smoking.  Sensation in stomach as if something would not yield, drawing pain in the stomach. Complaints from potatoes and starchy food. Indigestion from anger.

THUJA OCCIDENTALIS

Indigestion is due to drinking excessive tea. Unable to eat breakfast. Complaints from meat, potatoes, onions, garlic etc.  Rancid belching after fat food. Noisy swallowing, loud belching. Flatulence, pain after food, sinking sensation in epigastrium before food.