12/29/2024
♥️How do we contract gastroenteritis: It is epidemic right now- notice the overlap in the Covid remedies listed on this page.
(FYI: most common Covid, Influenza remedy is Gelsemium.)
The stomach flu can be caused by a number of different viruses that attack your gut. These viruses can be contracted from food that was inadequately prepared/stored or rotten (food poisoning) or from another person who has the virus. Typically, the virus is very contagious and often can run through everyone in the house in matter of days.
Signs and symptoms:
�Fever, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea are the most common symptoms
�Typically last 24-48 hours
�If you are in contact with a sick person, make sure to wash hands and surfaces often
What to do?
�🌸Choose a homeopathic remedy
�Fluids are critically important as you’re losing vital bodily fluids through sweating, vomiting, and diarrhea. Drink small sips (good choices include: water, broth, ginger or peppermint tea) or suck on ice chips
�If there is a fever, BEST NOT TO EAT
�If no fever and hunger, small amounts of BRAT foods: banana, rice, apple sauce, toast work best
How to Choose the Remedy:
In homeopathy, we always look for ‘strange, rare and peculiar symptoms’ as the best guide to the right remedy
�Make note of the peculiar symptoms with regard to the specific complaints of the illness (ie, what’s peculiar about the diarrhea, vomiting, etc?)
�Then make a note of the peculiar symptoms looking at the general aspects of the person (ie, their thirst, temperature, food cravings, mood, etc – is it different than their usual?)
Common Remedies in Acute Gastro:
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�Arsenicum Album
�Pulsatilla
�Phosphorus
�Nux vomica
�Sulphur
�Veratrum album
�Podophyllum
�Ipecac
🌸Keynotes of 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
🌸Keynotes of Pulsatilla
�**Weepy, clingy, down mood with despair**
�**Craves and feels generally better from fresh air, esp nausea**
�**Feels better from reassurance, company**
�Not thirsty, even with the fever
�Nausea (and generally) worse heat, warm drinks, better cold
Worse evening
🌸Keynotes of 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
� Has an appetite with the fever
� Watery, greenish, mucousy diarrhea
�Burning pains common
🌸Keynotes of Nux Vomica
�**Irritable mood**
�**Chilly, even with a fever**
�**“wants to but can’t” – has repeated urges to vomit, pass stool but cannot**
�Much retching
�Hypersensitivity to noise, light, odors, being questioned
�Great anxiety accompanies the nausea
�Spasmodic, crampy pains
�Complaints worse a.m. in bed on waking
🌸Keynotes of Sulphur
�Foul-smelling diarrhea (possibly like rotten eggs)
�**Diarrhea gets patient out of bed in the morning, esp 5am, waking with urging**
�Thirsty for cold drinks
�**Feeling overly warm and wanting to uncover**
�Red lips (more in children)
�Involuntary stool on passing gas (compare Aloe)
�Nausea worse from bad odors
�Standing aggravates most complaints
🌸Keynotes of 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
🌸Keynotes for Podophyllun
�**Painless diarrhea**
�**Forceful, gushing stool which shoots out**
�Frothy, fermented stool
�Yellow stool with pieces of food (lienteric)
�Great weakness after diarrhea
🌸Keynotes for Ipecac
�**“Deathly”, violent, unrelenting nausea**
�**Nausea not better from vomiting**
�Nausea with much salivation
�Faintness after vomiting
�Paroxysmal (waves of) vomiting
Homeopathic Treatment for Gastroenteritis
The most common remedy in case of gastroenteritis is having ORS. However, homeopathy is also considered very effective if you have got infectious diarrhoea. Homeopathic medicines are considered very safe and result in yielding in case of gastroenteritis. A homeopathy is a form of medicine, which is always given preference by all experts, as it is natural with no side effects. After conducting various surveys, it has been proven that homeopathic treatment is far more effective than other forms of medication for gastroenteritis. I would try 30c and take 2 doses an hour apart or 1 dose of a 200c and see how you do. Repeat once if necessary ♥️
