Flatulence, - wind in the stomach or bowels:
-JAHR Georg Heinrich Gottlieb
Common-sense eating for indigestion including acidity, bad breath, flatulence, gastritis, headache, heartburn, pain after meals (Common-sense eating series)
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.
Common-sense eating for indigestion including acidity, bad breath, flatulence, gastritis, headache, heartburn, pain after meals (Common-sense eating series)
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Medicinal treatment
Carbo vegetabilis
When it arises from taking the smallest quantity of food.
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.
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