Phytolacca Decandra - Abdomen symptoms - T.F. Allen

ABDOMEN

Eating

Regurgitation of food through the evening and until I went to sleep,

Effects first felt on awaking from an after-dinner nap; nausea, which passed off and recurred in ten minutes, again passed off and recurred, was first felt after two hours,

Flatus

Eructation of flatus,

Flatus was abundant,

Emission of flatus relieves the pain in the bowels,

Griping all day long, followed by the passage of offensive flatus; the griping disappears in the night,

Nausea

The usual appetite remains, notwithstanding the nausea of the stomach,

Nausea, on being awoke out of sleep, in the night,

Nausea, with a very faint feeling,

Nausea, with severe pain in the umbilical region,

Nausea (after one hour),

Nausea, with the heat in the head (after three hours, third day),

Slight nausea most of the time (second day),

A scruple was administered by him in nearly thirty cases, in all of which, except in one case, it operated as an emetic, usually three or four times thoroughly, though not severely, generally commencing its operation on the stomach in an hour, and rarely continuing longer than four. He found it to excite little or no nausea previous to its operation, and though it made a powerful impression on the system, it never produced any disagreeable or unusual symptoms,

Vomiting

Continued eructation of gases while vomiting,

Hiccough, with great inclination to vomit, but no nausea,

Nausea and Vomiting.

Nausea, with the vertigo, immediately followed by violent retching and vomiting, ejecting the contents of the stomach, which consisted of the ingesta (after half an hour); vomiting now continued at intervals of from one to five minutes, ejecting a transparent mucus, slightly tinged with yellow,

Feeling of sickness, as if he would vomit,

Slight nausea, with profuse vomiting, without much pain attending it, but a good deal of distress in the stomach,

Nausea and violent vomiting, the ingesta of a dark-red color,

Nausea and vomiting, the ingesta of a dark red color,

Nausea, followed soon by vomiting, and purging, continuing for about six hours (after two hours),

Violent vomiting,

Vomiting severely and frequently (after half an hour),

Seized so suddenly with violent cramps and vomiting that they had no time to get to bed, but lay upon the floor, unable even to call for assistance (after half an hour),

Free vomiting at intervals of twenty or thirty minutes (after one hour and a half); continued to vomit until 6 A.M. (second day),

In one case there was no vomiting, but most profound prostration,

Repeated vomiting in two cases (after one hour),

Vomiting, with but little distress in the stomach,

The vomiting was without effort and easy, no taste, but bitter,

The substances vomited appeared dark-brownish in color at first, afterwards light-yellow,

Soon commenced vomiting, first the contents of stomach, and afterwards a bitter watery mess, which continued almost incessantly from 9.30 P.M. until 5 A.M.,

During the third attack of nausea colic and purging began; the pain was not severe, and had no special characteristic; he vomited and purged ten or twelve times with so little discomfort, that he calls it the best evacuant that he ever took,

Hypochondria

Heavy aching pain in hypochondrium, which left as soon as leucorrhoea commenced,

Digging pain in the right hypochondrium, in the upper and outer portion of the liver, preventing motion; first felt at 2 P.M., then every morning before daylight, some soreness remaining through the afternoon and evening,

Cannot lie on the right side, after midnight, on account of penetrating pain in the right hypochondrium,

Violent dull pressing pain in the left hypochondrium, in the evening, so that he cannot remain in the sitting posture; he lies on the painful side all night, and the pain is gone the next morning,

Recurrence of pain in abdomen, in evening (this pain finally located itself in the splenic region), (fourth day),

Pain in the left hypochondriac region, when walking,

The diarrhoea appears to be kept up by the increased action of the liver and consequent redundancy of bile, with but little tormina and tenesmus,

Umbilical.

Constant dull pain in the umbilical region, worse by motion,

Great distress in the umbilical and hypogastric regions,

Burning distress in the umbilical region,

Burning-griping pains in the umbilical region,

Burning-griping pains in the region of the umbilicus,

Violent cramping pain about the umbilicus, soon followed by a copious discharge from the bowels,

Boring pain to the left and a little above the umbilicus continuing but a few minutes,

Severe colicky pains in the umbilical region,

A pain which commenced at the scrobiculus became intolerable,

Pain in the umbilical region, with desire for stool,

General Abdomen.

Frequent passage of wind downwards,

Wind passes the bowels constantly, of a very fetid nature,

Rumbling noise in the bowels,

Rumbling in the bowels, sometimes with desire for stool,

Great rumbling in the bowels, with pain in the umbilical region,

Bowels very tender on pressure, and pain severely when walking,

Very weak, especially in the abdomen (second day),

Considerable griping pains and cramp in the abdomen, with the purging, in the afternoon (first day),

Griping pain in abdomen, as before a diarrhoea,

Griping in bowels (after one hour and a half),

Griping pains, without diarrhoea,

Griping pain, as before a diarrhoea,

Sensation in the bowels as if a diarrhoea would follow,

Bowels felt like moving, but did not,

Cutting in the abdomen,

Some of the abdominal symptoms disappear in the night,

Pain in the region of the transverse colon, at 7 A.M. (second day),

Deepseated but not severe pain in the left iliac region,

Neuralgic pain in the left groin,

Stomach

Tenderness to the touch of the pit of the stomach,

Epigastric tenderness (second day),

Feeling of weakness at the stomach, which caused frequent yawning, that was attended by a stitching pain through the part,

Great oppression of the epigastric region, with a sensation of weight (after one hour and a half),

Burning pain in epigastric region (after one hour and a half),

Great distress in the stomach and bowels,

In great agony

complained of his stomach, where he felt constrictive gripings,

he complained of his stomach, saying that it was pinched together,

When completely aroused from their narcotism, they complained of intense epigastric pain, great thirst, and chilliness (after five hours),

Severe pain in the stomach, on pressure, causing him to cry out,

Pain in the stomach (after five hours),

While riding, I had a simple aching pain in the region of the pylorus, which gradually worked up into the chest on the same side (after one hour and a half, third day),

With the stools much pain in the stomach, upon pressure, which made him cry,

Pain in the region of the pylorus,

Pains in the cardiac portion of the stomach, aggravated by a full inspiration and by walking,

The pain at the pit of the stomach felt like a pain resulting from traumatic injury,

Bruised and sore feeling at the pit of stomach, with pain in the same place (second day),

Intense burning pain in the stomach and bowels, which seemed swollen, and became very sore (after two hours, and again at 9.30 P.M., third day),

A burning sensation in the stomach, with tenderness of the bowels, and a peculiar heat in the rectum, which is soon followed by tenesmus and mucous and bloody discharges,

Violent pressure in the stomach, on waking, in the morning, with accumulation of water in the mouth; disappears after rising,

Cutting in the pit of the stomach and in the abdomen,

Cutting-tearing straining pains in the stomach, followed by soreness to pressure,

Heat in the stomach, after taking the drug (third day),

The symptoms of the stomach, throat, and mouth are worse in the morning,