Hello all.
Here are two must-have remedies to have around the house to help if you’re faced with a case of diarrhoea and vomiting.
Arsenicum
This is the first remedy to think of in cases of food poisoning, though as it’s often hard to know the cause of diarrhoea and vomiting, if the symptoms of the remedy described below fit, Arsenicum is your remedy whether the cause is viral or due to food poisoning.
The person requiring Arsenicum in a case of diarrhoea or vomiting will feel very weak, even prostrated, and chilly. The pains they experience would feel burning, so for example the oesophagus might burn after bouts of vomiting and despite this, as they are very chilly, they’ll want hot drinks. They’ll be thirsty, but just for small sips of fluid.
The person who’d benefit from this remedy will be difficult to look after as they’ll be very needy and wanting to be reassured that they just have a mild illness and are not actually on the verge of death; Arsenicum are great hypochondriacs. An additional complication for the person caring for an Arsenicum patient will be their fastidious nature, which might be accentuated in ill-health. This person will not tolerate an untidy bedside table.
Nux Vomica
The name of this remedy says it all. Nux Vomica is for diarrhoea and vomiting that comes after overindulgence of in food or alcohol; it is the classic hangover remedy. The Nux Vomica person is no milder a person to care for than the Arsenicum person described above; they’ll be grumpy, easily annoyed and oversensitive. They’ll also feel chilly and want to sit very still and warm till their symptoms pass.
I hope this is helpful. Please get in touch if there's anything you'd like to know more about.
This is a series of entries to help you prescribe for yourself and your family or friends. I am linking it to the Basic remedy kit from Helios homeopathic pharmacy https://www.helios.co.uk/shop/basic-18-kit which will equip you with all the main remedies to deal with first aid situations and more. Homeopathy: pharmaceutical- free healing.
