Desires for Food and Drinks their use in Homeopathic Remedy Selection

Desires for Food and Drinks their utility in Homeopathic Remedy Selection given by BOUKO LEVY M.in his Homeopathic and Drainage Repertory

Desire for Particular food and drink indicates the specific Homeopathic Remedy for a Constitution.

 A desire is a drive, or  an unconscious strength that pushes an individual to satisfy an essential need.
 This behavior is typically characteristic of a remedy and sometimes is very striking if it appears or disappears suddenly during an acute disease.
 Much more than a local symptom, a desire represents a general and mental symptom.
 The systematic research of the marked desires of the patient is always an essential step for a correct diagnosis of the remedy.
 This repertory gives only some of the most frequent and strong desires.
 They must always be included in the general  picture of the remedy and the potency indicated needs to be adapted to each individual case.
 Foods 
 

Food Desires

Eggs
 --  fat subject :
 • one dose, as needed : CALCAREA CARBONICA 9C
 --  thin subject :
 • one dose, as needed : NATRUM PHOSPHORICUM 9C
 Farinaceous 
 --  in general :
 • one dose, as needed : NATRUM MURIATICUM 15C
 --  bread, bread and butter :
 • acids, meat :
 one dose, as needed : FERRUM METAL 9C
 • milk :
 one dose, as needed : MERCURIUS SOLUBILIS 9C
 Fat and rich foods 
 --  in general :
 • 3 granules, as needed : NITRIC ACID 5C
 --  ham, pork, fat on meat :
 • one dose, as needed : TUBERCULINUM 9C
 Fish, seafood 
 --  fish one dose, as needed (9 to 30C) :
 • NATRUM MURIATICUM, NATRUM PHOSPHORICUM, PHOSPHORUS,
 --  oysters :
 • BRYONIA, CALCAREA CARBONICA, LACHESIS, LYCOPODIUM, NATRUM MURIATICUM, rhus tox
 Fruits 
 --  in general :
 • with dry constipation :
 3 granules, as needed : ALUMINA 5C
 • with acid diarrhea :
 3 granules, as needed : MAGNESIA CARBONICA 5C
 --  acid :
 • with thinness :
 3 granules, as needed : ARSENICUM ALBUM 4C
 • with violent and profuse diarrhea :
 3 granules, as needed : VERATRUM ALBUM 4C
 --  green :
 • one dose, as needed : MEDORRHINUM 9C
 Indigestible things 
 --  in general :
 • very dry and thin subject :
 3 granules, as needed : ALUMINA 5C
 • with appetite increased at 5 P.M.  :
 one dose : CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA 9C
 • plump or fat subject :
 one dose : CALCAREA CARBONICA 9C
 --  earth, chalk, clay, etc :
 • 3 granules, as needed : NITRIC ACID 5C
 --  sand :
 • one dose, as needed : SILICEA 9C
 Meat
 --  in general :
 • raw :
 3 granules, as needed : KREOSOTUM 5C
 • sauces :
 3 granules, as needed : MAGNESIA CARBONICA 5C
 --  smoked meat, one dose, as needed :
 • child, during growth stage : CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA 9C
 • frightful, agg. at twilight : CAUSTICUM 9C
 • irregular appetite : TUBERCULINUM 9C
 Milk 
 --  in general, many remedies but especially :
 • hot :
 3 granules, as needed : CHELIDONIUM 6X
 • in big quantities :
 3 granules, as needed : MERCURIUS SOLUBILIS 5C
 --  cold :
 • frozen :
 3 granules, as needed : PHOSPHORUS 5C
 • during night :
 3 granules, as needed : RHUS TOX 5C
 • sweet :
 one dose, as needed : TUBERCULINUM 9C
 --  warm :
 • 3 granules, as needed : BRYONIA 5C
 Pickles 
 • abies canadensis, ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM, HEPAR SULFUR, LACHESIS, SULFUR FLAVUM, SULFUR IODATUM, veratrum album
 salted  
 SALTED   SALTED   SWEET
 +SWEET
 ALOE  AMMONIUM CARBONICUM
 ARGENTUM NITRICUM
 BRYONIA
 CALCAREA CARBONICA
 CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA  CALCAREA SULFURICA
 CARBO VEGETABILIS
 CAUSTICUM  CHINA
 CONIUM  IPECA
 KALIUM CARBONICUM
 KALIUM SULFURICUM
 LYCOPODIUM
 MAGNESIA MURIATICA
 MEDORRHINUM
 NATRUM MURIATICUM  NATRUM CARBONICUM
 NITRIC ACID
 PHOSPHORUS
 PLUMBUM METAL
 SANICULA  RHEUM
 RHUS TOX
 SABADILLA
 SECALE CORNUTUM
 SEPIA
 TARENTULA HISPANA  SULFUR FLAVUM
 VERATRUM ALBUM  TUBERCULINUM
 Seasoning 
 --  highly seasoned foods :
 • thin subject :
 3 granules : CHINA 4C,
 one dose : PHOSPHORUS 9C
 • plump or fat subject :
 3 granules : NUX VOMICA 4C, and
 one dose : SULFUR FLAVUM 9C
 --  pungent things :
 • young people; violent :
 one dose, as needed : HEPAR SULFUR 15C
 • old people, or old-looking people :
 one dose, as needed : FLUORIC ACID 15C
 --  mustard :
 • arsenicum album, COCCULUS, colchicum, HEPAR SULFUR
 Strange things 
 --  in children, according to the constitution :
 •  one dose, as needed :
 CALCAREA CARBONICA 9C, or CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA 9C
 --  hepatovesicular, gallbladder and pancreas disorders :
 • CHELIDONIUM 6X, or CYCLAMEN 6X
 Sweet
 (See :salted and sweet)
 Vegetables 
 --  starch :
 • 3 granules, as needed : ALUMINA 5C
 --  indistinct things :
 • 3 granules : MAGNESIA MURIATICA 4C
 --  raw potatoes :
 • one dose : CALCAREA CARBONICA 9C
 Vinegar, sour 
 • apis, arnica, arsenicum album, CHELIDONIUM, HEPAR SULFUR, kalium phosphoricum, SEPIA, SULFUR FLAVUM
 Drinks 
 In general 
 (See :thirst)
 --  cold :
 • 3 granules : CHINA 4C, CHAMOMILLA 4C, etc
 --  warm :
 • 3 granules, as needed : CHELIDONIUM 6X
 Alcoholic drinks 
 --  beer :
 • 3 granules, as needed : KALIUM BICHROMICUM 7C
 --  whisky :
 • no ice : one dose, as needed : ARSENICUM ALBUM 9C
 • with ice :  one dose, as needed : LACHESIS 9C
 --  wine :
 • red : one dose, as needed : SULFUR FLAVUM 9C
 • white : one dose, as needed : PHOSPHORUS 9C
 Stimulating 
 --  coffee :
 • angry :
 one dose, as needed : AURUM METAL 9C
 • emotional, faintness, sleepiness :
 3 granules, as needed : NUX MOSCHATA 7C
 --  tea :
 • 3 granules, as needed : ALUMINA 7C
 --  bitter :
 • one dose, as needed : NATRUM MURIATICUM 15C
 Company 
 Desire for company, agg. while alone
 one dose, as needed :
 --  happy when many people around :
 • PHOSPHORUS 9C
 --  fears, delusions, agg. during night :
 • STRAMONIUM 9C
 --  speaks loud, cries easily, violent angers :
 • LYCOPODIUM 9C
 --  feels danger of death; restlessness and prostration alternate :
 • ARSENICUM ALBUM 9C
 --  panic when alone; loquacity :
 • PALLADIUM 9C
 --  extremely emotional; fear of diseases :
 • KALIUM CARBONICUM 9C
 Desire for silence 
 --  in acute fever
 (See :Fever) :
 • 3 granules, as needed  : ARNICA 4C or GELSEMIUM 4C
 --  during depression, suicidal thoughts :
 • one dose : AURUM METAL 200C
 --  to masturbation, feeble-minded, retarded, epilepsy :
 • one dose : RANA BUFO 200C
 See : anxiety, air, alcoholism, appetite, aversion, cold, depression, fatigue, heat, itching, mountain, seaside, sexual desire, thirst.