ARSENICUM ALBUM
Keywords: COLDNESS, ANXIETY, RESTLESSNESS, WEAKNESS, <12-3 a.m.
Nausea and vomiting esp. from food poisoning or in septic conditions often accompanied with diarrhea (Verat.) which is acrid, burning, offensive.
Extreme weakness from continued nausea, vomiting and retching; too exhausted to continue vomiting. Vomiting with perspiration.
Chilly, restless, fearful, avoiding and struggling not to vomit.
He might even fear that he is going to die.
Burning pains and acrid emesis.
THIRSTY FOR SIPS but soon becomes nauseous and vomits after drinking the smallest quantity of drinks (esp. cold drinks).
Nausea from smell or thought of food (Sep., Colch.), after fever.
Cold extremities.
Modalities
Worse: night, MIDNIGHT TO 2 AM, after eating, ice-cream, motion, drinking, cold drinks, smell or thought of food.
Better: warm drinks, warmth, milk (stomach pain).
IPECACUANHA
Keywords: ANY COMPLAINT WITH UNRELIEVED NAUSEA AND VOMITING, CLEAN AND RED TONGUE.
Any complaint accompanied with severe nausea and vomiting (esp. with respiratory and gastrointestinal problems).
Nausea and hanging down sensation in the stomach which are NOT relieved by vomiting.
Clean and red tongue despite the nausea.
Vomiting on coughing, after stooping, during fever, labor, COLICS, headaches (Sang., Puls.), hemorrhages and aggravated by motion.
Nausea of pregnancy.
Modalities
Worse: after rich food, SMELL OF FOOD (Colch.), fruit, pork, stooping, motion.
Better: nothing seems to alleviate the patient.
NUX VOMICA
Keywords: INEFFECTUAL NAUSEA WITH IRRITABILITY AND ABDOMINAL PAIN <ANGER, <COLD.
Nausea due to anger (Cham., Coloc.), nausea after surgery, from hepatitis, peptic ulcer, irritants, gastroenteritis.
Irritable and oversensitive during nausea.
Nausea with inability to vomit, usually accompanied with cramps and abdominal pain.
Nausea with perspiration or constipation. Constant, faint-like nausea.
Nausea and vomiting with violent retching, sour and bitter eructations.
Vomiting with palpitations (Lach.), aggravated by anger.
Vomiting bile with colic (Coloc., Chin.), vomiting during chill or vertigo.
Modalities
Worse: Anger, alcohol, morning on rising, 6-9 AM (esp. nausea), after eating, motion or seasickness, cold, cold drinks.
Better: warm drinks, lying.
VERATRUM ALBUM
Keywords: PROJECTILE VOMITING, CHILLY, COLD PERSPIRATION, WEAKNESS.
Vomiting or nausea esp. in conditions such as gastroenteritis, pregnancy, vertigo or menses.
Violent, PROJECTILE VOMITING with SIMULTANEOUS DIARRHEA (Ars.) and WEAKNESS.
Vomiting with sensation of coldness esp. of back. Internal coldness.
Cold perspiration (on forehead, face, hands, feet).
Vomiting with great weakness, prostration or even COLLAPSE.
Vertigo with vomiting. Vomiting with cough. Nausea after sleep.
Desires lemon during the acute phase of gastroenteritis. Generally desires salt, sour, ice.
Cold extremities.
Modalities
Worse: after sleep, after drinking, eating, dysmenorrhea (with weakness), pregnancy.
Better: walking, motion.
Other remedies:
COCCULUS INDICUS
Keywords: NAUSEA < MOTION, SEASICKNESS.
MOTION SICKNESS or SEASICKNESS (Petr., Tab.).
Nausea, vomiting accompanying VERTIGO and dizziness.
Faint-like nausea when in car, boat, train, etc. or when looking steadily at moving objects.
Vomiting on rising in the morning aggravated while sitting up in bed.
Nausea from dryness in pharynx.
Liver remedy, swelling of liver.
Nausea and weakness after loss of sleep (in chronic states).
Looks like intoxicated.
Modalities
Worse: MOTION, rising up from bed, sitting up in bed, odors, smell or thought of food, after drinking, after eating, afternoon (esp. 1-6 PM), when cold.
Better: swallowing, must lie down.
COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE
Keywords: NAUSEA WITH DISTENTION < SMELL, SIGHT, THOUGHT OF FOOD.
Nausea, vomiting or fainting from ODORS of food, on looking or even thinking of food (esp. fish and eggs).
Nausea with great DISTENTION of abdomen, flatulence and burning sensation in stomach. Cannot pass gasses.
Nausea in head, during PREGNANCY, on becoming erect, on raising head from pillow or sitting up in bed, when swallowing saliva, during pregnancy.
Nausea on head.
VIOLENT vomiting of food followed by bile.
Accumulation and incarceration of gas after surgery (Raph., Nux-v.).
Modalities
Worse: ODORS (esp. eggs and fish, meat)or sight of food, thinking of food, becoming erect, motion, riding, swallowing saliva.
PHOSPHORUS
Keywords: BURNING IN STOMACH, VOMITS AS SOON AS WATER BECOMES WARM IN STOMACH.
Nausea and vomiting with burning in the stomach.
Craving for cold drinks but VOMITS AS SOON AS THE COLD WATER BECOMES WARM IN STOMACH.
Nausea with stomach emptiness.
Nausea from gastroenteritis, peptic ulcers, pregnancy.
Nausea on putting hands in warm water.
Yellow, bloody vomiting, or coffee ground vomiting. Epistaxis during vomiting.
Anxiety about health, fear of death during vomiting.
Desires and ameliorates from ice-cream.
Modalities
Worse: warm (drinks, room, food), 11A.M., odor of tobacco, putting hands in warm water.
Better: sleep, lying on the right side, cold drinks, ice-cream.
SEPIA
Keywords: NAUSEA > EATING, NAUSEA IN PREGNANCY < ODORS OR THOUGHT OF FOOD.
Horrible nausea ameliorated by eating.
Empty feeling in stomach (not releived by eating)
Nausea in menses, pregnancy, from fasting, on looking steadily.
Nausea from odors (Colch.) or from the slightest thought of food (Colch., Cocc., Ip.).
Nausea and vomiting as side effects of chemotherapy (Carb-v., Verat., Ip.).
Modalities
Worse: 1-3 P.M., before eating, while fasting, odors, thought of food, before stool, on rising, walking, night, riding, on looking steadily, coition
Better: after eating, sour food (lemon).
TABACUM
Keywords: DEATHLY NAUSEA, SEASICKNESS, COLDNESS <MOTION , < EYES OPENED.
Motion sickness and seasickness (Cocc., Petr., Con., Nux-v.).
Deathly nausea with or without vomiting; the patient appears very pale, cold and clammy.(Carb-v.).
Terrible feeling of faintness or FAINTNESS and sinking feeling at pit of stomach.
Nausea is aggravated by every motion (Bry.) and esp. when the eyes are open.
Nausea of pregnancy, with spitting.
Violent vomiting when riding (Cocc., Petr.).
Modalities
Worse: warm room, motion, opening the eyes, riding, drinking, smoking, morning, before breakfast
Better: uncovering abdomen, closing eyes, open fesh air.
