Calcarea Fluor

Vomiting of undigested food; hiccough from hawking of mucus, weakening and recurring during the day.

Calcarea Sulph

Desire for fruit, tea, claret and green sour vegetables. Great thirst and appetite. Nausea with vertigo. While eating roof of mouth sore, burning in the stomach.

Silicea

Indurations of the pylorus. Chronic dyspepsia, with acid eructations, with heartburn and chilliness. Disgust for meat and warm food. Extreme hunger. Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants.

Clinical Cases

Mrs. B., aged 58. anaemic, and of nervous temperament has been suffering for over ten years with severe attacks of neuralgia of the stomach. The attacks would last from four to ten hours, and would consist of a series of paroxysms, each of which would last five or ten minutes, with a correspond-ing interval of rest between.

Her suffering was simply terrible. Up to the time I saw her nothing had been given her but palliative treatment, principally hypodermics of morphine.

When I saw her first she had been suffering for an hour. I at once gave five grains of Mag. phos, 3x, in hot water, and repeated the dose every fifteen minutes. After the third dose the pain abated. That attack was conquered. I then prescribed the same remedy in ten-grain closes, after each meal, and after three mild attacks she has had no further trouble for over three years. (B. A. Sunders, M. D., Winterset, O).

Sudden attacks of deathly sickness at the stomach, coming on at no particular time, even in sleep, and lasting one-half or one hour, appetite poor. Ferrum phos. cured, and appetite became ravenous. (Raue. Rec. Horn. Lit., 1875).

Kali Sulph In Catarrh Of The Stomach

Mr. M---------, aged 38 years, had been suffering with his stomach for several years. He had a yellow coated tongue and much fulness and pressure at the pit of the stomach. He could not remember when he did not have pain in the stomach more or less. Hot drinks made him worse, and he never was thirsty. His skin was generally dry and often hot and rough, and abdomen was cold to touch. He had some bronchial irritation. If he got chilled he would have colicky pains in his stomach which would extend into the bowels.

At times he would have bloating of the abdomen. Kali sulph. 3X was given with some directions about bis living, and in a few weeks he was well. Not being used to this form of medicine he was greatly surprised when he was relieved. (O. A. Palmer, M. D).

An officer suffered for a long time from pains in the abdomen, together with pressure and fulness in the stomach and constipation. The tongue was coated with a yellow slime. He bad been treated for three weeks by an allopath without any result whatever. The bowels were so constipated that he could only have a passage by taking a strong purgative. Kali sulph. 6x, three powders in water, dose every two hours. The result was surprising. The next morning the patient had a natural stool, and the abdominal distress was nearly all gone. In two weeks he was entirely cured, having taken only two powders. - I'op. Zeit., Dec, 1885.

A young man with chronic dyspepsia. After trying several remedies without effect, I discovered in the mouth a thin, yellow, creamy coating on the soft palate. This induced me to give the patient Natrum phos., which cured him in a short space of time. (C. Hg).

The following is a resume from a case in A. H. Z., '82, p. 51: Woman suffered for five years from dyspepsia. After eating, nausea, vomiting of food; the vomit is so sour that it sets teeth on edge; cannot bear sour things. Vomiting appears in the morning and after eating, accompanied by cephalalgia. Hammering in the forehead and temples so violent that she fears apoplexy. Menstruates every three weeks with profuse flow. Troubled sleep, disturbed by anxious dreams. Feels tired in the morning, and feels so tight in her clothes that she must loosen them. Ferritin phos.8 three times a day, a dose before meals, cured the case. Many symptoms pointed to Natrunt phos., but the totality of the symptoms favored Ferritin phos.

Notes from letter to Schussler by a doctor in Paderborn (A. H. Z., 1882, p. 102): I recently bad a case exactly like the preceding, healed in ten days by Ferrum phos.10. after I had treated him five weeks in vain with Natrum phos.

A young man complained of an unnatural appetite He had to eat almost every hour, feeling such an intense craving for food, yet he fell exhausted and languid. There were no secondary symptoms present. The tongue was clean, the urine was not increased, evacuations normal. Kali phos. cured the patient in the course of two days, (From Schussler).

Farmer B. consulted me for a singular affection. All acid food caused an attack beginning with a strung chill, followed by fever and profuse weakening sweats. .Natrum mur6. After fourteen days she informed me that the attacks had entirely ceased, and the partaking of acid foods did not cause him the least discomfort. (Dr. Quesse).

A landed proprietor, aet. 44, wrote to me a few weeks ago: "The medicine I have taken very steadily, and for a long lime attended strictly to my diet. In spite of this, my trouble is no better; I may almost say it has become worse. The conditions were these: 1. 1 feel almost constantly a taste as of bile. 3. My tongue is covered with a curdy, bitter coating. 3, During the day. especially after food. 1 suffer from eructations of gases, which have either a bitter taste or are tasteless. 4. My complexion is rather yellow. 5. The appetite very slight; no thirst. My favorite beverage, beer, is distasteful to me. 6. I incline to shiver, and am somewhat faint. 7. My head is but little involved, but feel a constant pressure over one eye. 8. Stools are normal, but scanty, on account of spare diet. The whole condition discloses that I have bile in the stomach." Thus far the patient's own report. To this I may add that the patient in question had already taken by my orders Nux vom. and Fulsat. He bad used the waters of Marienbad the previous summer on the recommendation of another medical man. I sent him now Natrum sulph., with the request to take dally three doses of this powder.

The gentleman came six or seven days later to my consulting rooms to thank me for the valuable medicine. "The powder," he said, "has really worked wonders. All my ailments have disappeared as if by magic, and I feel at last perfectly well." (From Schussler).

Dr. Mossa, Bamberg, reports: Toward the end of last year I received a letter with the following details, and asking me to forward some medicine: "My boy, a child, ret. 7, hitherto healthy and strong, has been suffering from pains in the stomach for Borne weeks, latterly he has vomited all his food, sometimes immediately after taking it, and at other times not till during the night. The child has now become very emaciated. Last week he was frequently feverish. This has, however, not returned since taking the medicine our doctor here has given him The boy complains of much exhaustion." To form a scientific diagnosis of the case on such information was clearly impossible. But, as if was not convenient for me personally to examine the case, I had to do ray best with the details furnished. The nature of the abdominal pains pointed to swelling and enlargement of the organs of the viscera, liver, spleen, etc,; also the feverish attacks, probably subdued by quinine, and the vomiting of food, all coincided with my surmises. As to the selection of the medicine, I hesitated considerably, and then decided to give Ferrum phos., twelve powders, one night and morning. The report some time after was very favorable.

The fever had not returned; the vomiting of food and pains in the stomach had quite ceased soon utter taking the medicine. The little fellow was so much stronger that he attended scoohl again. (From Schussler).

W. Watson, aet. 40. Ulceration of stomach, vomited all his food, and latterly the egesta had the appearance of coffee-grounds. He had suffered from vomiting and indigestion more or less for fourteen years, had seen many doctors, and taken much medicine without avail. I advised him to take Ferrum phos.5 and Natrum phos.6, in usual quantities, and a table-spoonful every two hours alternately for a fortnight. On his second visit he was free from vomiting, had little pain, and felt greatly better. He continued another ten days with the same remedies, and returned quite well. On making special inquiry if he had nothing troubling him, he said: " No, the only thing I sometimes trouble myself about, is thinking after taking any kind of food, whether it will trouble me, but it never does.'" His cure has proved permanent, at it is now nearly two years since, and he is keeping well. (M. D. W. From Schussler).

Patient with troublesome burning in the stomach after eating and continuing until next meal time; pain develops one or two hours after meals; tongue light-gray, no bad taste, no tenderness, bowels regular, stools normal, no thirst, the burning was so troublesome as to keep him awake at night. Natrum phos. cured. (Med. Era).

Child with indigestion after typhoid fever. Everything soured on his stomach, breath sour, vomited curdled milk, and sour-smelling fluids, green stool alternating with constipation, was troubled with colic, white-coated tongue and white around mouth, fretful, cross and restless. Natrum phos. cured. (Med. Era).

An old man, some 60 years of age, came to see me; he had "dyspepsia," the doctors said. Emaciated, pale, swarthy, no appetite, restless, bowels inactive, stools sometime* light-colored and at times costive, tongue thickly coated with a brownish.yellow tinge, bitter taste, conjunctiva bluish-white, sktn wrinkled and bowels retracted and shrunken, shrivelled, and a pain in the stomach of a burning character after eating; and from the general character of the case, assimilation was greatly at fault. The man had been, and was at the lime, taking Argentum in pill form, from a "regular," three doses a day, and had been for a year or more; all to no purpose except to hasten the emaciation. After surveying the situation and taking all conditions, I at once put him on Natrum sulph. 6x, three doses a day before meals, and Kali phos. 6x, as a nerve remedy. These two remedies perfectly cured the "dyspepsia" and all the other troubles, so that in about three weeks he was a well man, the Natrum sulph. correcting all the liver and stomach trouble and the Kali phos. building up the nerve forces. (A. P. Davis, M. D).