A15 INDIGESTION GAS & ACIDITY

Remedies Used: Indication Areas.

Nux vomica The gastric symptoms which suggest this drug are disgust for food, with nausea, or a ravenous but easily satisfied hunger; sensation of overloading of the stomach after meals, with flat taste; eructations; bitter and sour regurgitations, pyrosis, and sometimes acid vomiting.

Lycopodium clavatum Food tastes sour. Excessive hunger, but eating ever so little creates fullness. Wakes at night feeling hungry. Incomplete burning eructations rise only to pharynx. Sour eructations due to farinaceous or fermentable food, cabbage, beans, oyster. Abdomen bloated.

Anacardium orientale Dyspepsia. Heartburn relieved by eating.

Antimonium crudum Loss of appetite. Desire for acids, pickles, wine, vinegar, cucumber. Eructation tasting of the ingesta. Gastric and intestinal complaints from bread, pastry, acids, vinegar, sour wine, cold bathing, overheating, and hot weather. Constant belching. Bloating after eating.

Carbo vegetabilis Flatulence and fullness with weak digestion, accompanies all complaints. Simplest food disagrees. Flatulence upper abdomen. Craving for coffee; acids; sweets and salted things, alcohol. Aversion to meat; fats; milk.

Scrophularia nodosa Pain in the abdomen on pressure. Colic below the navel.