Common-sense eating for indigestion including acidity, bad breath, flatulence, gastritis, headache, heartburn, pain after meals (Common-sense eating series)
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Symptoms. -Fullness in the abdomen; rumbling in the bowels; severe pain; accumulation or copious discharge of wind – a symptom of Indigestion.
Medicinal treatment
Carbo vegetabilis
When it arises from taking the smallest quantity of food.
Dose.-Two grains every three or four hours in acute cases, otherwise three times a day.
China officinalis
If flatulency arises from flatulent food, or after eating fat meats or fruits, with much distension.
Dose. -Two drops repeated as Carbo Veg.
Nux vomica
If there is abundant flatulence, or if it is worse after eating and drinking.
Dose.-As China.
Pulsatilla pratensis
Is a very efficacious remedy, especially when the symptom arises from fat or rich food, pastry, etc.
Accessory treatment
See under Indigestion. -Eat slowly, and chew the food carefully. Three or four charcoal biscuits or charcoal lozenges may be taken daily, or a few grains of pure vegetable charcoal mixed in a teaspoonful of brandy twice or thrice a day. Sometimes immediate relief may be obtained from a few drops of essence of ginger on a small lump of sugar. Vegetables should be sparingly taken; and plenty of exercise in the fresh air, and friction over the abdomen, are enjoined. -See Flatulent Colic.