Homeopathic Treatment for Diarrhoea and Vomiting

Take remedies in 6c or 30c potency 1-2 hourly or as necessary, for 2-3 days. If in any doubt, contact a professional homeopath.

Arsenicum

• Holiday tummy; first remedy for food poisoning
• Vomiting, nausea and diarrhoea with great pain in the stomach or abdomen
• Stomach or abdomen very sensitive to touch
• Quite exhausted; very weak yet very restless
• May be fearful; afraid of being alone; may fear imminent death
• Marked thirst for sips of water, but vomits as soon as it hits the stomach
• Very chilly; burning or cramping in stomach or abdomen; better for warmth
• Worse at night, often after midnight

Bryonia

• Main indications are worse for any movement, and dryness
• Pressure in stomach after eating (as if a stone in stomach)
• Vomiting after eating, but occasionally nausea is relieved by drinking
• Abdominal pain better for pressure or lying on painful side (prevents movement)
• Diarrhoea after rising and moving around
• Warm, irritable and desires solitude and stillness

Carbo Veg

• Digestion slow; feels worse lying down
• Trapped wind; abdomen distended, bloated; flatulent colic; better for passing wind

Chamomilla

• No. 1 remedy for colic and teething; child feels cross and irritable
• Watery, green stools - smells of ammonia and stings bottom

Colocynthis

• Cutting pain in abdomen, coming in waves
• Feels better for curling up and better for pressure
• Pains often brought on by feeling insulted or angered or indignant
• Jelly-like stools

Ipecac

• Persistent and extreme nausea, with or without vomiting and/or diarrhoea
• Vomiting brings no relief; clean tongue; increased salivation
• Nausea worse for sight or smell of food; often after too much fatty food

Lycopodium

• Flatulence/bloating with discomfort and tenderness - loosens clothing for relief
• Acidity; water-brash or heartburn
• Feels worse between 4pm and 8pm
• Craves sweets, warm foods and drinks
• Appetite easily satisfied after one mouthful OR eating increases the appetite
• Suffers from anticipation - dreads ordeals

Nux Vomica

• No. 1 remedy for hangovers
• Brought on by mental exertion; overeating; coffee; alcohol or other drugs
• Heartburn; nausea; empty retching and sour burps; digestive upsets
• Headaches; irritation; drowsiness and dullness; feels irritable and snappy
• Person strains to stool or vomit; feels if only they could be sick they'd feel better

Phosphorus

• Fearful, excitable
• Weak, empty, "gone" sensation in abdomen
• Excessive thirst for cold liquids, but will vomit as liquid warms in stomach
• Burning pains in stomach
• May be blood in the stool; great weakness after stool

Podophyllum

• Profuse diarrhoea: copious, frequent and offensive
• Yellowish or greenish - often completely liquid
• Often alternating with headache
• Good for teething babies with diarrhoea

Pulsatilla

• Often from rich or fatty food, or ice-cream
• Person feels weepy; moods and stool are changeable
• No thirst; feels better for sympathy

Veratrum Album

• Diarrhoea with violent vomiting and profuse sweating - cold sweat on forehead
• Very chilly; great weakness and prostration
• Stools may look like rice-water or watery and green
• Stool ejected forcefully from body
• Accompanied by colicky cramps, temporarily relieved by diarrhoea
• Much thirst for large quantities of cold water