Arsenicum Album:
Great weakness, esp after diarrhea
Thirsty for small sips (usually room temp)
Better heat, warm drinks
Very chilly
Worse between 1-3am
Great anxiety and restlessness accompanies the nausea, doesn’t want to be alone
Vomiting & diarrhea at the same time
Stool: can be burning, acidic, yellow, very offensive
Vomiting immediately after drinking smallest amount
Gambogia:
Diarrhea, with sudden and forcible ejection of bilious stools. Tenesmus after, with burning at anus.
Profuse, watery diarrhea in hot weather/ Summer
Pain and distention of abdomen from flatulence, after stool. Rumbling and rolling.
Pain in the stomach after food. Tenderness in epigastrium.
Feeling of coldness at edge of teeth.
Great irritability of the stomach; burning, smarting, and dryness of the tongue and throat.
Carbo Veg:
Violent, Exhausting diarrhea
Marked tenesmus, and the passage of small stools.
Look will be ill, pinched drawn, pale face.
Covered with cold, clammy sweat , yet have a hunger for air; want to fan them.
Contractive pain extending to chest, with distention of abdomen. Faint gone feeling in stomach, not relieved by eating. Crampy pains forcing patient to bend double.
Eructations, fullness, heaviness in stomach
Distended abdoment. excessive passage of fetid flatus.
The simplest food distresses.
Gastralgia of nursing women, with excessive flatulence, sour, rancid belching. Aversion to milk, meat, and fat things
Itching, gnawing and burning in rectum. Acrid, corrosive moisture from rectum
Croton Tig:
Copious watery stools, with much urging;
Always forcibly shot out, with gurgling in intestines;
Worse, drinking the least quantity, or even while eating, during summer
Constant urging to stool, followed by sudden evacuation.
Swashing sensation in intestines.
Phosphorus:
Wants and better from cold drinks
Fearful (alone, dark, etc)
Better from sleeping, a nap
Vomiting 15-20 minutes after drinking even a small amount of water.
Painless, copious debilitating diarrhea.
Green mucus with grains like sago.
Involuntary; seems as if anus remained open.
Great weakness after stool.
Watery, greenish, mucousy diarrhea.
A very weak, empty, gone sensation felt in whole abdominal cavity.
Hunger soon after eating. Sour taste and sour eructations after every meal.
Nux vomica:
Irritable mood
Chilly, even with a fever
“Wants to but can’t” – has repeated urges to vomit, pass stool but cannot
Nausea and vomiting, with much retching.
Hypersensitivity to noise, light, odors, being questioned.
Great anxiety accompanies the nausea.
Epigastrium bloated, with pressure s of a stone, several hours after eating.
Stools relieve pains for a time. Constant uneasiness in rectum
Complaints worse in morning in bed on waking
Veratrum Album:
Cold perspiration on forehead with diarrhea and vomiting
Huge thirst for cold water
Craving for sour things
Burping after eating and heartburn
Diarrhea worse from motion
Involuntary stool on passing gas
Violent, forceful vomiting with equally forceful, gushing diarrhea
Acidic diarrhea
Podophyllum:
Painless diarrhea
Forceful, gushing stool which shoots out
Frothy, fermented, profuse stool
Yellow stool with pieces of food (lienteric)
Great weakness after diarrhea
Diarrhea during dentition.
Diarrhea of hot weather, after citrus fruits
Thirst for large quantities of cold water
Ipecac:
“Deathly”, violent, unrelenting nausea
Nausea not better from vomiting
Nausea with much salivation
Faintness after vomiting
Paroxysmal (waves of) vomiting
Stools Pitch-like green as grass, like frothy molasses, with griping at navel