Hepatitis
Hepatitis
- Actea spicata
- Bryonia alba
- Chelidonium
- Lachesis
- Phosphorous
- Stellar
Bryonia
Characteristic
particulars
- When there are stitching pains in the
right hypochondriac region, Bryonia is the first remedy to be thought of.
- Under Bryonia the liver is swollen,
congested and inflamed.
- The pains in the hypochondriac region
are worse from any motion, and better from lying on the right side, which
lessens the motion of the parts when breathing.
- Nausea and faintness when rising up.
- Abnormal hunger, loss of taste.
- Thirst for large quantity.
- Vomiting of bile and water immediately
after eating. Worse, warm drinks, which are vomited.
- Stomach sensitive to touch.
- Pressure in stomach after eating, as of
a stone. Soreness in stomach when coughing.
- There is a bitter in the mouth and the
stools hard, dry, as if burnt; seem too large. Stools brown, thick and
bloody.
- Bryonia pre-eminently a gastro-hepatic
remedy, and has pain in right shoulder, giddiness, skin and eyes slightly
yellow.
Modalities
- < - warmth, motion, morning, eating,
weather, exertion, touch
- > - lying on painful side, pressure,
rest, cold things.
Characteristic
particulars
·
The liver symptoms
of Chelidonium are very prominent.
·
There is soreness
and stitching pains in the region of the liver, but the keynote for this drug
in hepatic diseases is a pain under the angle of the right shoulder blade,
which may extend to the chest, stomach, or hypochondrium.
·
There is swelling of
the liver, chilliness, fever, jaundice, yellow coated tongue, bitter taste and a
craving for acids and sour things, such as pickles and vinegar.
·
The stools are
profuse, bright yellow and diarrhea; they may be clayey in color.
·
It is remedy to be
used in simple biliousness and jaundice, and in hepatic congestion or
inflammation the character of the stools will distinguish Bryonia.
·
homeopathic medicine
for liver cirrhosis is perhaps our greatest liver remedy; it causes the liver
to secrete thinner and more profuse bile than any remedy;
·
It is a useful
remedy to promote the expulsion of gall stones, and to prevent their formation
Modalities
- < - siiting erect, lying on affected
side
- >
- after dinner, pressure
Lachesis
·
Liver region
sensitive, cannot bear anything
around waist. Especially suitable to drunkards. Abdomen tympanitic,
sensitive, painful
·
Stool is Constipated, offensive stool. Anus feels tight, as if nothing could go
through it.
·
Pain darting up the rectum every time be
sneezes or coughs.
·
Hemorrhage from
bowels like charred straw, black
particles.
·
Hemorrhoids protrude, become constricted, purplish. Stitches in
them on sneezing or coughing.
·
Constant urging in
rectum, not for stool.
Modalities
- < - sleeps into aggrevation
- > - open air
Phosphorous
Characteristic
particulars
·
Phosphorus is the
remedy for fatty degeneration of the liver, with well marked soreness and
jaundice.
·
The stools are
grayish white.
·
Jaundice
accompanying pneumonia may also call for Phosphorus.
·
Suddenness of
symptoms, sudden prostration, faints, sweats, shooting pains, etc.
·
Fatty degenerations,
cirrhosis, caries, are pathological states often calling for Phosphorus.
Modalities
- < - touch, physical/mental exertion,
warm food, drink, evening, lying on left/ painful side
- > - dark, lying on right side, cold
food, cold, open air,sleep
