GI and Circulatory Disorders Flashcards
At the established phase of viral hepatitis, when a homeopathic treatment is indicated, on what digestive symptoms do you prescribe Phosphorus?
- Abundant and painless diarrhea burning the anus
- Nausea
- Strong desire for ice cold water vomited once it is reheated in the stomach
Give 2 medicines indicated in cholestasis and hepatocellular insufficiency indicating their symptoms
- Chelidonium: hepatic pain irradiating towards the tip of the right shoulder blade
- Hydrastis: constipation with thick mucus
- Lycopodium: bloating, sensitivity of the right hypochondrium
- Cinchona: fatigue, bloating, hemorrhage
Give 3 medicines indicated in acute gastroenteritis with painful diarrhea, indicating their symptoms
- Magnesia phosphorica and Colocynthis: colics improved bending double
- Arsenicum album: burning, excoriating, improved by local heat
- Croton: excoriating the anus, perianal redness
- Cuprum: cramping pains improved by drinking cold water
- Mercurius corrosivus: tenesmus, mucopurulent and bloody stools
Give 3 medicines indicated in acute gastroenteritis with abundant diarrhea, indicating their symptoms
- Podophyllum: yellow, squirting out
- Cinchona: painless, meteorism
- Aloe: mucus with gas and sphincter insecurity
- Arsenicum album: vomiting, burning
- Chamomilla: teething
Give 2 medicines indicated in febrile gastroenteritis indicating their symptoms
- Aconit: after brutal cold, green diarrhea, fever of sudden onset
- Arsenicum album: burning, exhausting, vomiting, anxiety
- Mercurius corrosivus: dysenteric stools with tenesmus, burning and bloody stools
Give 3 medicines for vomiting indicating on what symptoms they are prescribed
- Ipecac: tongue is clean, hyper salivation, vomiting that does not relieve
- Antimonium crudum: eructation, heaviness in the stomach, very coated tongue
- Nux vomica: vomiting that relieves, acidity
- Senna: acetone
- Cocculus and Tabacum: travel sickness
Give 3 chronic medicines for migraines and headaches indicating on what symptoms they are indicated
- Lycopodium: over the right eye, aggravated when skipping a meal
- Nux vomica: on awakening, frontal, after overindulging
- Sepia: frontal or occipital, of hepatic origin
- Lachesis: congestive, aggravated by heat
- Sulfur: periodic, each Sunday
Give 3 chronic medicines for constipation indicating on what symptoms they are indicated
- Calcarea carbonica: the digestive disorders are improved as long as the patient is constipated and recur when he goes to the stool
- Causticum: frequent urges, inefficient with very violent efforts
- Graphites: no urge, rectal atonia, large stools
- Kalium carbonicum: no urge, rectal atonia, important flatulence, «everything he eats seems to transform itself into gas“
- Lycopodium: frequent and inefficient urges, sensation as if the stools were not completed evacuated, digestive migraines
- Silicea: children that are often thin, weak, sensitive to cold and tendency towards demineralization
Give 3 medicines with venous tropism indicated in case of hemorrhoids, indicating their symptoms
- Aesculus: rectal fullness, systematic prescription
- Arnica: bruising sensation
- Carduus marianus: pruritis and bleeding, hepatic patient
- Hamamelis: bursting sensation
- Lachesis: tendency towards hemorrhoidal thrombosis
Give, without describing them, 3 medicines indicated in case of hemorrhoids with fissures
- Paeonia
- Ratanhia
- Graphites
- Nitricum acidum
- Fluoricum acidum
- Collinsonia
Give 3 medicines indicated for the chronic treatment of hemorrhoids, indicating their symptoms
- Sulfur: eruption, excoriation, oozing - Sepia: anorectal prolapse
- Nux vomica: improved by cold baths - Lachesis: tendency towards thrombosis
- Lycopodium: general symptoms of the medicine
- Pulsatilla: venous stasis
- Kalium carbonicum: bulging hemorrhoids
improved sitting on a hard surface
Give 2 symptomatic medicines indicated in ulcerative colitis, indicating their symptoms
- Ipecac: bloody diarrhea, nausea
- Mercurius corrosivus: very important tenesmus, hemorrhagic ulcerations
- Arnica: hemorrhagic dysenteric stools
Give 3 medicines of local similitude indicated in gastro duodenal ulcers and gastritis, indicating their symptoms
- Nitricum acidum: gastric bulbar ulcer with a linear aspect
- Graphites: callous scarring ulcer
- Kalium bichromicum: deep round ulcer with regular edges
- Iris versicolor: burning, acid vomiting, dumping syndrome
