Homeopathic Remedies for Stomach Pain

Abies nigra

Distressing constriction just about the pit of the stomach, as if everything were knotted up, or as if a hard lump of undigested food remained there; when severe, also headache and flushes of face.

Acidum nitricum

Cardialgia, spreading through to the back ; vomiting at night; great anguish about the heart with diastolic murmurs; chronic derangement of the liver and spleen ; aversion to meat and bread.

Aesculus

Pain in stomach four or five hours after eating, which continues till food is talcen ; aching, cutting, and burning dis- tress in stomach, fluttering sensation with faintness in pit of stomach ; periodical tightness in the scrobicuUis, with labored breathing.

Argentum nitricum

Gnawing ulcerative pain, confined to a small circumscribed spot in the stomach as from a sore, forcing one to double himself up, aggravated by the least motion or food ; spinal irritation ; tendency to gangrene. The pain comes on sometimes immediately after taking food, as if the oesophagus were irritated as well as the stomach; epileptiform convulsions from a heavy meal. Irritative flatulent gastralgia, chiefly affecting the cardiac and oesophagus, accompanied by belching ; faintish sort of nausea with palpitation ; sensation as if a splinter was lodged in the throat when swallowing, irritating the respiration, and stretching and moving the neck. Suitable to delicate nervous women, especially when the affection arises from depressing causes, nightly' watching, etc. The pain gradually increases in intensity ; when at its acme, the patients often press their clenched fists into the region of the stomach for relief, and then the pains gradually decrease again.

Arsenicum album.

Gnawing corroding pains, alternating with pres- sure in the stomach, with weight as of a stone or hard lump (objectively confirmed by the hardness of the stomach) ; sensation of soreness and of ulceration in the stomach, which is tender to pressure ; fruitless retching; vomiting immediately after eating or drinking; violent vomiting of food and gastric fluids; pain in stomach relieved by sweet milk ; anguish, fainting, pale face.

Asafoetida.

Rancid, greasy, or bitter taste; accumulation of gas, which is eructated, and lias a foul odor; rising of acid, rancid fluid; tearing-sticking pain in the stomach, with feeling of distension and heat; nausea and inclination to vomit, but no vomiting ensues, ac- companied by crampy pain, burning and soreness in stomach and epi- gastrium, strong pulsations in epigastrium ; flatus passes upward, none down ; obstinate constipation or very oflfensive diarrha?a.

Baptisia.

Sensation as if the oesophagus from its beginning to the stomach were too narrow and constricted; constant burning dis- tress in epigastrium and cramp in the stomach ; the patient can only swallow fluids, but no solids.

Baryta carbonica

Gastralgia resting on a material basis, especially stenosis of the cardia or pylorus from hypertrophy ; fullness and heaviness of the stomach immediately after the food has entered the stomach; pressure as from a stone, better from eructations, sour a few hours after dinner. Belladonna. Gnawing, pressing, crampy, drawing, and wrenching pain in stomach, extending through to spine ; between the shoulder- blades dull aching, with a sense of fatigue and tired feeling in the spine, relieved by bending backwards, worse after drinking; painful pressure in the pit of stomach when walking, compels him to walk slowly ; hard pressure on stomach after eating.

Bismuth.

Excessive pain in the back and shoulders, correspond- ing to the gastric region, but in the vertebral column, not emanating from the raucous coat of the stomach ; worse toward evening, or brought on at any time by fatigue and over-exertion ; pressure as from a load on one spot; intense malaise in the stomach, with burning; red or white tongue, restlessness; prostration; waterbrash ; flatulence, witli confusion in the head.

Bryonia.

Pressure on the stomach, not circumscribed but extending over the whole stomach ; pains come on one or two hours after eating, keep on for a few hours and gradually decline ; pressure on account of the bloatedness of the abdomen and dyspnoja ; epigastric region painful to touch, cannot endure the clotlies ; stitching pains in gastric region, worse from motion, especially from a misstep ; com- pressive sensation in temples, forehead, and occiput, as if tlie skull would hurst ; relief obtained by making pressure on liead and temples.

Calcarea carbonica

All food tastes too fresh, he wishes to have more salt on it ; milk disagrees ; sour or burning-sour eructations or tasting of the ingesta ; an undefined sensation of weight in stomach, with great anguish ; intolerable feeling of pressure, as from tight clothes, around the hypochondria ; pressing pains from above downwards, or from before backwards, in the abdomen, about the umbilical region ; flatulence, gurgling in the right side of the abdomen (Lyc. left) ; pressing-pinching, spasmodically squeezing and contracting pains in the stomach, particularly after meals, with vomiting of food, worse from motion, better lying quiet on the back.

Calcarea hypophosphorica.

Constant desire to eat, feels only well when the stomach is full, or else severe pain; pressure and dis- tress in the pit of the stomach, recurring about two hours after each meal. Milk relieves.

Carbo animalis.

Burning-aching pain, acidit_y, heartburn ; faint, gone feeling, not relieved by eating; fulness, cold feeling in stomach after slight meal, relieved b}' laying hand on it ; eructatious tasting of food eaten long ago.

Carbo vegetabilis

Atony of digestion. Suits old people, the male sex, and the hemorrhoidal world ; pains in stomach, from loss of nutrition ; painful burning pressure, with anguish, trembling, and aggravation by contact at night and after a meal, especially after taking flatulent food ; spasmodic contractive pain, compelling the patient to bend double, with short breathing and aggravation in a recumbent position ; heartburn ; nausea; loathing of food, even when merely thinking of it ; frequent flatulence, with oppression of chest and constipation.

Causticum.

Pressure, spasmodic constriction and griping in stomach, as if clawed, especially on deep breathing; pain in the stomach in the morning, increased by every quick movement; must lie down ; nausea during and after meals ; acidity and mucus in the stomach.

Chelidonium.

Atony of digestion from morbid hepatic states ; alternate heat and coldness in the stomach ; gnawing and digging pains in the stomach, relieved by eating ; spasmodic contraction, stitching, and burning, with eructations, nausea, salivation ; short breath and anxiety, relieved by belching ; empty eructations after eating.

Chamomilla.

Distension of the epigastrium and hypochondria, with pressure as from a stone; oppression, short and difficult breathing; aggravation of the pains after a meal, or at night, with great anguish and restlessness ; decrease of the pains by bending double, instantaneous relief by coffee; and when the following symptoms are present: beating pain in the vertex, at night, obliging one to get out of bed; irritable, peevish mood. Cham, is frequently most suitable in alternation with coff. ; if it should be ineffectual, give Bell., instead.

China.

Dyspeptic weakness, with distension of and painful pres- sure in the region of the stomach, after eating or drinking ever so little ; acidity, heartburn, slimy or bilious passages; the pains get worse during rest, abate during motion ; loss of appetite, aversion to food and drink ; idleness; sleepiness; hypochondriac mood and inability to work, especially after a meal ; slow stool ; yellow, livid complexion ; yellow appearance of the whites.

Cocculus.

After partial relief by  nux. vom. or chamom. Symptoms : aching, contractive pains in the abdomen, passing off after dis- charge of flatulence ; the colic returns after eating, with nausea, water in the mouth and oppression of the chest ; hard, delaying stool ; ill, intractable mood, taciturn. Sensation of hunger or of emptiness, even to fainting, or real l)ulimy ; nausea and malaise, as in sea-sickness, with reeling and inclination to vomit; hysteria; cardialgia arising from menstrual difficulties.

Conium.

Pressure in the stomach during eating, contraction in the back with sensation of coldness, griping and sore feeling; dry- ness of the m uith ; contraction in the throat with retching; painful acid eructations, with burning in the stomach, nausea, and severe vomiting of mucus ; spasmodic cough ; violent pains in the stomach, two or three hours after eating, but also at night; somewhat better in the knee-elbow position ; eructations offensive or frequent and empty, with heartburn ; hysteria.

Dioscorea.

Dull heavy pain in the pit of the stomach, worse after eating, relieved by frequent eructations of air ; the pains radiate from the stomach in all directions, and at times they appear suddenly in the head and feet ; belching large quantities of wind, with sensation as if both temples were in a vice ; has to unfasten her cloth- ing, relief by stretching the body or by walking about ; burning dis- tress in the stomach, with sharp, prickling pains in it, and faintness ; flatulent distension after meals in persons of weak digestion.

Elaps corallinus.

Cold drinks feel like ice in the stomach ; weight in stomach after eating ; sinking, faint feeling at the pit of the stomach, relieved by lying down on the abdomen ; constipation ; fearful of some impending fatal disease ; desire for sweetened butter- milk.

Ferrum metallicum.

Neuralgic and anaemic cardialgia ; atony of digestion ; vomiting of food immediately after eating without any preceding nausea, as also when coughing or moving about; heavy pressure in pit of stomach ; palpitating in stomach, and through oesophagus, as if a nerve was quivering, with an occasional suffocative feeling, as if a valve rose in the throat ; cardiac uneasiness.

Graphites.

Crampy, spasmodic or clawing pains, or pressure, with vomiting of the ingesta, relieved by lying down, and the warmth of the bed, and returning when rising, with vomiting; acidit}^ ; constipation ; pains in the hepatic region ; sensation of lump in the stomach, with constant beating; relief from warm food or drinks. Nervous cardialgia, with anaemia (chlorotic color of the face).

Hippomanes.

Icy coldness in stomach ; desire for acids and aversion to sweet things ; sensation of emptiness in stomach and head,

Hydrastis canadensis.

Faintness at the stomach ; sinking, gone feeling, with violent palpitations of the heart ; great acidity; constipation.

Iris versicolor.

Spasm of the pharynx while swallowing food ; salivation ; excessive nausea and retching ; eructations of much taste- less gas, and burning in the region of the fauces ; great burning dis- tress in the epigastrium; vomiting of sour fluid; everything sours easily in his stomach ; diarrhoea, with burning in anus and rectum after stool.

Ignatia.

After partial relief by pulsatilla. Symptoms : Painful pressure as from a stone, especially after eating or at night, in the region of the pylorus ; or sensation of weakness or emptiness in the pit of the stomach, with sensitiveness to contact, and burning in the stomach; hiccough; regurgitation of the ingesta ; aversion to food and drink, or to tobacco ; accumulation of mucus in the mouth, etc. ; suitable to persons who had been starving either from want or other causes.

Kali bichromicum.

Organic cardialgia ; eructations ; nausea like sea- sickness ; sensation of fullness ; heaviness ; malaise after a meal ; chilliness ; inflation ; gnawing, burning, constricting pain in stomach and hypochondria, aggravated in the morning and during motion, better by eating.

Kreosotum

Malignant induration, fungus, and ulcers of the stomach ; painless gastromalacia ; pressing, gnawing, ulcerative pain in stomach with haematemesis ; painful hard spot at or to the left of the stomach ; tension over stomach and scrobiculum ; tight clothing is unbearable,

Lachesis.

Aching pains, which diminish immediately after a meal, but recommence again in a few hours, and are particularly' violent after a siesta ; dyspeptic weakness, flatulence, and constipation.

Leptandria.

Constant distress in the lower part of the epigastrium and upper portions of the umbilical regions; sharp cutting pains at intervals in the same i)arts ; burning aching sensation in the stomach, aggravated by drinking cold water; weak sinking sensation in the pit of the stomach ; great desire for stool, that cannot be retained one moment.

Lobelia inflata.

Nausea, pain, heat, oppression, and excessive uneasiness ; extreme nausea, with profuse perspiration ; feeling of weakness of the stomach, extending through the whole chest ; feeling of pressure in the pit of the stomach, as from a plug ; violent painful constriction in the cardia ; tightness of the epigastrium, with acidity of the stomach.

Lycopodium.

Gnawing griping in the region of the stomach ; compressive pain, as if the stomach were pressed together from both sides ; flatulence, immediately after a meal ; the stomach is full, bloated, distended ; tension, as from a cord marking the diaphragmatic attachments ; he cannot stretch nor stand upright; abdominal phlethora ; full and bloated stomach, acidity, pyrosis; the pains radiate, according to the flatulency, to the chest, the back, upward to the oesophagus, downward to the umbilicus and abdomen.

Magnesia Carbonica.

Aching and contractive pain, with sour eructations ; ulcerative pain in the stomach, with great sensitiveness to pressure.

Natrum muriaticum.

Pressing, constricting, stitching, burning pains, setting in one or two hours after eating; cramp in stomach ; better from tightening the clothes ; clawing in the pit of the stomach ; water- brash ; heartburn with palpitations.

Nitri Spiritus Dulcis

Aching contractive pain from eating too much salt; fullness in stomach after a meal, with sour or slimy vomiting; loss of appetite; heartburn; acidity.

Nux moschata.

Atony of digestion ; gastric catarrh with flatulent swelling, voraciousness" or loss of appetite; twisting pains below the stomach, as from colic ; severe pain in the praecordia, with vomiting ; wants to eat after taking a meal, but feels uncomfortable and tired ; scratching eructations as from rancid oil ; irritation of stomach from overtaxed mental powers ; weak digestion, especially in the aged.

Nux vom.

Neurotic and congestive gastralgia ; a light pressure increases the pain, but harder pressure relieves ; bending forward gives, therefore, immediate relief; vomiting relieves, so that the paroxysm of pain ceases for the time being ; burning in the stomach at the pylorus ; clawing-cramping pain in the stomach, with pressure and tension between the scapule ; pains extend to chest or down the back to the anus, with urging to stool ; pressure in epigastrium as from a stone ; the pressure of the clothes on epigastrium feels painful ; pains worse after a meal, from taking coffee, at night, towards morning, or after rising ; sensation as if a band were tied around the chest, with pain extending to the back and kidneys, attended with nausea, water in the mouth, heartburn, and even vomiting of the ingesta ; sour or foul taste in the mouth, flatulency in abdomen, hemicrania, palpitations.

Nitric acid.

Vascular and organic cardialgia; erosions and ulcers of the stomach ; spinal irritation ; burning, gnawing, stitching pains; sensitive to pressure and motion ; eating eases, but soon produces again pain and feeling of satiety; heartburn ; sour alleviating eructations; distension of the abdomen, preventing breathing; pulsations in differeny parts of the body ; pain in cardiac orifice on swallowing food.

Petroleum.

Gastralgia, with pressing drawing pains, better from eating ; sensation of emptiness and weakness of the stomach ; w'atei'- brash ; feeling of fulness in the pit of stomach, which is painful to the touch ; aversion to open air; don't like to move.

Phosphorus.

Oppression of chest, coming from the stomach ; worse after eating ; palpitation ; belching of large quantities of wind after eating; great drowsiness after eating; variable appetite; sensation of great weakness in the abdomen, particularly across and below the umbilicus ; burning and gnawing pain in a circumscribed spot of the stomach, sensitive to the least pressure, extending to the back, aggravated by motion after a meal, ameliorated by ice, external cold and rest ; vomiting immediately after eating, so that all the food is brought up, or pure blood, or bloody, brown masses ; great thirst, but drinking increases the pain ; stool scanty, dry, and difficult of evacuation. Emaciation, ana?niia, collapse.

Plumbum.

Sensation as though the abdomen and back are one; violent pressure in the stomach, and pain in the back, at times better bending backward, at others bending forward; hard pressure relieves.

Pulsatilla.

Sensation as if a stone lay on the epigastrium ; throbbing perceptible to the head, in the epigastrium ; contracting sensation in the oesophagus, as if one had swallowed too large a morsel of food; the same sensation over the hypochondria, then upwards over the chest and impedes respiration; pressure in pit of stomach, after every meal, with vomiting; stitching pains, worse when walking or making a misstep; crampy pains before breakfast and after a meal; gnawing distress when stomach is empty ; pressure and pinching after eating ; absence of thirst, except at the acme of the pain.

Sanguinaria.

Soreness in the epigastrium, aggravated by eating ; burning in stomach, with headache ; jerking in stomach, as from something alive ; feeling of emptiness, with sick headache ; sudden attacks of constriction in pit of stomach, as if suffocating.

Sepia.

Chronic gastric catarrhs, with stagnation in the portal system ; pressing, burning, tensive pains up to the oesophagus ; great praecordial sensitiveness to the touch ; excessive acidity, heartburn, sour foul breath ; aggravation by eating or drinking ; hardness in the pyloric region ; twisting in tlie stomach, and rising in the throat ; tongue becomes stiff, speechless ; afterwards the body may become rigid. Debility.

Silicea.

Nervous exhaustion, frequently complicated with nervous headache, worse from every movement of the eyes ; burning or throbbing in pit of stomach, which is sensitive to touch ; pressure as after eating too much ; anguish in pit of stomach ; attack of melancholy : induration of pylorus.

Stannum.

Obstinate cardialgia, pains gradually come and go, extend to the navel, and are better from hard pressure ; uneasy, does not know what to do with himself; pains relieved by walking, yet so weak he must soon rest ; sinking gone feeling in epigastrium ; canine hunger ; the slightest touch on stomach causes a feeling of subcutaneous ulceration.

Staphisagria.

Aching and tensive pain in the stomach, at times worse, at other times better, after eating, especially' bread, with frequent nausea and constipation; sensation as if the stomach were hanging down, relaxed ; bitter eructations after sour food ; water- brash.

Strontium

Aching in stomach, especially after a meal, with fullness of the stomach.

Sulphur.

Pressure as from a stone, particularly after eating, with nausea, water in the mouth, or vomiting ; also when the following symptoms are present: acidity, heartburn, frequent regurgitation of the ingesta ; aversion to fat food, rye bread, sour things or sugar; dullness of the head, with inability to think ; the pressure of the clothes on the hypochondria is unpleasant, with distension of those parts ; disposition to piles or accumulation of mucus in the intes- tines ; hypochondriac, whining mood ; disposition to be vehement.