Week 7 - Influenza, Acute Gastritis, Nausea, Vomiting, Diarrhea

Question 1

Influenza - Chelidonium

Answer 1

• Tongue brown and/or cracked during influenza
• Chill on right side
• Burning heat spreading from hands all over body
• Numbness in fingers during fever

Question 2

Acute GI - Cocculus indicus

Answer 2

• Nausea in morning before/during menses
• Nausea during constipation
• Nausea from dryness in pharynx
• Nausea in the head and/or mouth
• Vertigo and nausea on rising in bed

Question 3

Acute GI - Colocynthis

Answer 3

• Constipation after abuse of drugs
• Diarrhea after anger
• Coffee ameliorates diarrhea
• Diarrhea after fruit
• Standing aggravates involuntary stool
• Worse emotions, vexations, chagrin, lying on painless side
• Better bending double, hard pressure

Question 4

Acute GI - Croton tiglium

Answer 4

• Diarrhea immediately after drinking or eating
• Gurgling in abdomen before stool
• Nipple pain when nursing the child, drawing pain as if with a string

Question 5

Acute GI - Ipecacuanha

Answer 5

• No relief from vomiting
• Nausea with hemorrhage (uterine, epistaxis, etc)
• Nausea in the morning before and/or during menses
• Nausea during cough, during delivery
• Nausea deathly
• Child puts fingers in the mouth
• Suffocative cough, child becomes stiff and blue in face

Question 6

Acute GI - Tabacum

Answer 6

• Pale/green face
• Better from open air, closing the eyes, and uncovering abdomen
• Emptiness/sinking in the stomach
• Nausea worse pregnancy, seasickness, in a warm room
• Uncovering abdomen ameliorates

Question 7

Acute GI - Chelidonium majus

Answer 7

• Nausea with a yellow coated tongue
• Better warm milk
• Vomiting of bile during headache; right-sided
• Pain referred to inferior angle of right scapula
• Nausea after anxiety
• Nausea during pain
• Stitching pain extending to back
• Right upper quadrant pain referring to right scapula
• Better warm drinks
• Jaundice in newborns
• Abdomen constricted as by a string
• Cancer of the gall bladder
• Complaints of liver accompanied by neuralgic pains in the face
• Pressing or stitching pain in the liver

Question 8

Acute GI - Dioscorea

Answer 8

• Cramping and cutting pains in abdomen in the morning, better stretching out/bending backwards
• Bending forward aggravates
• Twisting pain in abdomen
• Abdominal pain shifting suddenly to distant parts
• Liver pain extending to chest and arms
• Sleep aggravates male pollutions without erections

Question 9

Acute GI - Iris versicolor

Answer 9

• Burning in stomach and through whole GI tract
• Profuse ropy saliva
• Nausea worse after exertion
• Vomiting of bile during headache