 Calcarea
carbonica
In his book
Desktop Guide to Keynotes and Confirmatory Symptoms, Roger Morrison
lists these symptoms for Calc Carb’s Gastrointestinal applications:
Cravings:
Eggs. Sweets (especially pastries and ice cream). Salt. Olives.
Indigestibles as chalk, pencils, or dirt. Cheese. Nuts and Seeds.
Milk.
Aversions:
Fat. Meat. Coffee, Slimy. Milk.
Indigestion.
Sour Eructations. Heartburn.
Indigestion
from milk, bread, dry food.
Constipation
without an urge for stool.
Patient feels
no ill effects from constipation. Clay-like stool.
Sour diarrhea,
especially in infants.
Fear felt in
epigastrium.
... [plus a
few beyond self care]
While these details may seem like more
than you want to know, these excerpts from Robin Murphy’s
Homeopathic Remedy Guide can help the picture: Heartburn and loud
belching. Frequent sour belchings, sour vomiting of curdled milk.
Cramps in stomach, worse pressure, cold water. ...
Aggravation while eating.
Miranda Castro can always add a little
friendly insights like these:
Calcarea is a remedy that affects the assimilation of food - the
metabolism is slow and everything turns to fat. Mild may turn sour
in their stomachs... They have one unusual symptom and that is that
constipation makes them feel generally better.
 Carbo
vegetabilis
Before we spill
all the technical listings for
Carbo veg, here is a clear friendly summation of
Carbo veg’s distress from
Miranda Castro’s Complete Homeopathy Handbook: The
Carbo vegetabilis digestion is easily upset, especially by
eating fatty, rich foods. The stomach feels full and becomes bloated
after eating, to the extent that the skin is stretched as tight as a
drum.
Tight clothes
feel extremely uncomfortable then. The nausea is worse in the
mornings. Burping may only relieve the bloatedness for a while, and
it builds up quite quickly again.
In his book
Desktop Guide to Keynotes and Confirmatory Symptoms, Roger Morrison
lists these symptoms for
Carbo veg’s Gastrointestinal applications:
Tremendous
bloating and indigestion.
Frequent
eructations which ameliorate both the stomach and the patient in
general. Patients may drink carbonated beverages to induce
eructations in order to feel this relief.
Flatulence,
worse at night, worse when lying.
Often
indifferent to food, but some cases are greedy for food.
Craving:
Sweets. Salt.
Aversion or
indigestion from rich foods or fat.
Heartburn.
Pulling yet a few more details from
Robin Murphy’s Homeopathic Remedy Guide, we can add:
Digestion slow, food putrefies before it digests. The simplest food
distresses. Belchings after eating and drinking, temporary relief
from belching. Belchings, heaviness, fullness and sleepiness, tense
from flatulence with pain, worse lying down....
 Hydrastis
canadensis
As a more specifically applied and
obscure remedy known best for hay fever, the acute gastric use
details for Hydrastis are more sparse.
Robin Murphy’s Homeopathic Remedy Guide
offers the most extensive range of gastric details:
Stomach - Weak digestion. Gastritis. Sore feeling in stomach more or
less constant. Gone feeling in stomach with loathing of food or as
of a sharp lump in stomach. ... Apt to vomit all food, retaining
only milk or water, mixed. Atonic dyspepsia. Belchings of sour
fluid. ... Faintness at the stomach, sinking, gone feeling. Acute,
distressing cutting pains. ...
 Nux
vomica
As a major polycrest remedy with a
special expertise in this field, Nux has more details than most of
us want to know. In his book Desktop Guide to Keynotes and
Confirmatory Symptoms, Roger Morrison lists these symptoms for Nux
vom’s Gastrointestinal applications:
Craving:
Spicy. Fat. Alcohol. Coffee. Tobacco. Any stimulant.
[gastric
issues] in workaholic patients. Gastritis from alcohol abuse....
Nausea and
vomiting, worse anger, worse tight clothes, better warmth, warm
applications or warm drinks.
Cramping or
sharp pains in abdomen, worse after eating, worse cold, better
warmth or warm drinks, better stool.
Infants with
colic and angry arching of the back.
Constipation
with constant, ineffectual urging for stool...
Diarrhea
alternating with constipation; ... Diarrhea, worse cold, worse
alcohol.
This degree of detail requires little
embellishment, but Robin Murphy’s Homeopathic Remedy Guide offers a
few more telling details like these:
Indigestion. Hiccough from overeating...
Sour taste and nausea in the morning after eating. Weight and pain
in stomach, worse eating, some time after. Flatulence and
heartburn.... 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. Dyspepsia from drinking strong coffee.
Need more? Miranda Castro lists many of
these details, plus:
Causes:
alcohol; coffee; mental strain; over-eating; rich food. Food lies
like a knot in the stomach for 1-2 hours after eating, and the
stomach feels full, heavy and tender.
Travel
Sickness
Symptoms with
faint-like feeling; nausea. Better lying down. Worse for tobacco.
 Pulsatilla
nigricans
For the friendliest glance at
Pulsatilla’s digestive complaints, we’ll turn to Miranda Castro’s
Complete Homeopathy Handbook:
Indigestion
Symptoms
Belches:
bitter; empty; tasting of food just eaten. Belly/stomach feels
empty. Pains: in stomach; pressing. With Heartburn.
Worse at
night; for rich, fatty foods.
Causes rich,
fatty food (ice-cream, fats, pork, etc.). The belly/stomach gurgles
and rumbles during the evening.
For a more technical description, Roger
Morrison’s Desktop Guide to Keynotes and Confirmatory Symptoms lists
these symptoms for Pulsatilla’s Gastrointestinal applications:
Craves: Butter. Cream and whipped-cream. Cheese. Sweets. Ice cream.
Cold food. Peanut butter. Hard-boiled eggs.
Aversion: Fat.
Butter. Warm food. Pork.
Indigestion
from fats and rich foods, ice cream, pork.
Bloating and
abdominal distension.
Nausea and
vomiting from headache.
Nausea of
pregnancy. [with professional guidance] Thirstless.
Diarrhea in
children.
Murphy’s Homeopathic Remedy Guide offers
a few more fascinating details,
including:
Belchings
taste of food remains a long time after ices, fruits, pastry.
Bitter taste, diminished taste of all
food. ... Stomach disordered, feels heavy. |
We
send you our best wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving with a hearty
appetite and no side effects!
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