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Homeopathic Treatment for Diarrhoea and Vomiting

Take remedies in 6c or 30c potency 1-2 hourly or as necessary, for 2-3 days.  If in any doubt, contact a professional homeopath.

Arsenicum

• Holiday tummy; first remedy for food poisoning

• Vomiting, nausea and diarrhoea with great pain in the stomach or abdomen

• Stomach or abdomen very sensitive to touch

• Quite exhausted; very weak yet very restless

• May be fearful; afraid of being alone; may fear imminent death

• Marked thirst for sips of water, but vomits as soon as it hits the stomach

• Very chilly; burning or cramping in stomach or abdomen; better for warmth

• Worse at night, often after midnight

Bryonia

• Main indications are worse for any movement, and dryness

• Pressure in stomach after eating (as if a stone in stomach)

• Vomiting after eating, but occasionally nausea is relieved by drinking

• Abdominal pain better for pressure or lying on painful side (prevents movement)

• Diarrhoea after rising and moving around

• Warm, irritable and desires solitude and stillness

Carbo Veg

• Digestion slow; feels worse lying down

• Trapped wind; abdomen distended, bloated; flatulent colic; better for passing wind

Chamomilla

• No. 1 remedy for colic and teething; child feels cross and irritable

• Watery, green stools - smells of ammonia and stings bottom

Colocynthis

• Cutting pain in abdomen, coming in waves

• Feels better for curling up and better for pressure

• Pains often brought on by feeling insulted or angered or indignant

• Jelly-like stools

Ipecac

• Persistent and extreme nausea, with or without vomiting and/or diarrhoea

• Vomiting brings no relief; clean tongue; increased salivation

• Nausea worse for sight or smell of food; often after too much fatty food

Lycopodium

• Flatulence/bloating with discomfort and tenderness - loosen clothing for relief

• Acidity; water-brash or heartburn

• Feels worse between 4pm and 8pm

• Craves sweets, warm foods and drinks

• Appetite easily satisfied after one mouthful OR eating increases the appetite

• Suffers from anticipation - dreads ordeals

Nux Vomica

• No. 1 remedy for hangovers

• Brought on by mental exertion; overeating; coffee; alcohol or other drugs

• Heartburn; nausea; empty retching and sour burps; digestive upsets

• Headaches; irritation; drowsiness and dullness; feels irritable and snappy

• Person strains to stool or vomit; feels if only they could be sick they'd feel better

Phosphorus

• Fearful, excitable

• Weak, empty, "gone" sensation in abdomen

• Excessive thirst for cold liquids, but will vomit as liquid warms in stomach

• Burning pains in stomach

• May be blood in the stool; great weakness after stool

Podophyllum

• Profuse diarrhoea: copious, frequent and offensive

• Yellowish or greenish - often completely liquid

• Often alternating with headache

• Good for teething babies with diarrhoea

Pulsatilla

• Often from rich or fatty food, or ice-cream

• Person feels weepy; moods and stool are changeable

• No thirst; feels better for sympathy

Veratrum Album

• Diarrhoea with violent vomiting and profuse sweating - cold sweat on forehead

• Very chilly; great weakness and prostration

• Stools may look like rice-water or watery and green

• Stool ejected forcefully from body

• Accompanied by colicky cramps, temporarily relieved by diarrhoea

• Much thirst for large quantities of cold water