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HICCOUGH SINGULTUS

Homoeopathic Therapeutics · Samuel Lilienthal

Aconite Acon

Hiccough complicating acute congestion; great thirst; after eating and drinking, mornings, with pain and restlessness.

Agaricus Agar

Spasmodic twitching of muscles, especially face and upper extremities; hiccough, shaking whole body, (<) evening and when standing; abdomen distended.

Ammonium carb Am-c

Hiccough in the morning after the chill; imperfect eructations, tasting after the food; exhaustion with defective reaction.

Ammonium mur Am-m

Hiccough with stitches in chest, (<) after breakfast; distended abdomen.

Amyl nitric Aml-n

Hiccough, uncomfortable feeling in stomach, heat in stomach, with the pains, empty belching, trembling of limbs and weak feeling all over.

Belladonna Bell

Spasm, composed partly of eructations, partly of hiccough; violent attacks of hiccough, so that they jerk the patient up, even with feeling of suffocation, hiccough and convulsions of left arm and right leg alternating; violent hiccough after midnight, accompanied by profuse sweat; borborygmi, with feeling of heat in abdomen; erratic cutting in abdomen and pressure as if everything would be forced through pelvis; single muscles contract continuously in different parts of body.

Bismuth Bism

Hiccough; pressure in stomach after a meal; violent eructations, sometimes foetid and cadaverous-smelling; gastric irritation with pyrosis; restless, moving about despite languor and prostration.

Bryonia Bry

Hiccough after eructations, without having eaten anything, (<) by slightest motion; severe hiccough after eating and after vomiting; pressure in stomach after eating, as from a stone; excessive thirst.

Calcarea carb Calc

Frequent hiccough and eructations tasting of food eaten, or sour with burning in epigastrium; weak stomach and great voracity; nervous irritability and debility; exhaustion in the morning.

Carbo veg Carb-v

Hiccough after a moderate dinner, (<) from slight causes; violent and nearly constant eructations, (<) after eating and drinking, preceded by griping in abdomen.

China Chin

Hiccough an sour belching; heartburn with flatulence, not relieved by belching; slow digestion, food remains long in stomach.

Cicuta Cic

Loud-sounding, dangerous hiccough; nausea in morning and when eating; in-appetency, or insatiable longing for charcoal; burning pressure at stomach and abdomen; violent vomiting with headache, thirst and dryness of throat.

Cocculus Cocc

Hiccough with stitches in stomach (Amm. m., stitches in chest); eructations causing sore pain in epigastrium and chest; violent spasms of stomach, with griping, tearing pains.

Colchicum Colch

HICCOUGH FOR HOURS AT A TIME; frequent empty eructations with burning in stomach; excessive retching and vomiting; stomach feels icy-cold; abdomen extremely distended with pain as from incarcerated flatus.

Cuprum met Cupr

Hiccough precedes vomiting and spasms, begins attacks of asthma; constant eructations and rumbling in abdomen; epigastrium sore to touch.

Cyclamen Cycl

Violent hiccough while eating and for some time afterwards or hiccough-like eructations, particularly IN PREGNANT WOMEN; burning in oesophagus and aching pains in stomach, extending through to back, coming on when at rest, (<) by motion.

Graphites Graph

Hiccough in the morning after rising and after dinner; in the evening, lasting for an hour or more, after every meal, whether hot or cold, with a dull, heavy head or sleeplessness; constant eructations, tasting after food; ineffectual attempts to eructate; nausea and vomiting in the morning.

Hyoscyamus Hyos

HICCOUGH AFTER ABDOMINAL OPERATIONS, followed by inflammation; violent hiccough at midnight, with involuntary micturition and frothing at the mouth, with constipation, excessive long- continued hiccough after dinner; frequent hiccough with cramps and rumbling in abdomen; heartburn; thirst from dryness of throat; ineffectual effort to eructate; bad-tasting eructations with inclination to vomit.

Ignatia Ign

Hiccough in the evening and after drinking or eating, from

tobacco-smoking; in children from emotions, when they are restless and cry much at night; (<) from tobacco and coffee.

Iodum Iod

Empty eructations from morning till evening, as if every particle of food were turning into air.

Kreosotum Kreos

Hiccough and belching, especially when sitting up or being carried; belching after dinner, with throwing off of frothy saliva and scraping roughness in throat; during PREGNANCY; constipation of hypochondria, cannot tolerate tight clothing.

Laurocerasus Laur

Hiccough; eructations tasting like bitter almonds; long-lasting faints.

Lobelia infl Lob

Hiccough with profuse flow of saliva, followed in the evening by drowsiness; frequent gulping up of burning, sour fluid; fulness in hypochondria after eating; gaping and belching of wind.

Lycopodium Lyc

Frequent hiccough after a meal or after smoking; incomplete burning eructations, which only rise into the pharynx where they cause a burning for several hours; constant thirst, especially at night, with dry lips and dry mouth; frequent empty eructations; cramp in stomach, which is much distended.

Magnesia carb Mag-c

Hiccough, heartburn, belching; eructation sour or greasy; sour taste and sour vomiting; aversion to green food, relishes meat and acid drinks.

Magnesia phos Mag-p

Idiopathic or reflex after failure of morphine and other remedies.

Marum verum Teucr

HICCOUGH AFTER NURSING; gulping of bitter-tasting food; hiccough with a stitch through stomach to back.

Natrum mur Nat-m

HICCOUGH AFTER ABUSE OF QUININE; hiccough with gaping and nausea, while in bed; violent hiccough for several days; ravenous hunger, alternating with aversion to food and tobacco; excessive thirst.

Nicotinum Nicot

(Tobacco). - Frequent violent hiccough in the evening, renewed from time to time for several days after retiring; nausea and sticking pain in stomach.

Nux moschata Nux-m

Hiccough, nausea and waterbrash with fulness in stomach, impeding breathing, inclination to sleep while riding in a carriage; weak digestion.

Nux vomica Nux-v

Hiccough brought on BY COLD DRINKS, frequently coming on before dinner, without any apparent cause; form overeating and from his customary tobacco; eructations sour, bitter, rancid; nausea after eating; (<) by tobacco.

Pulsatilla Puls

HICCOUGH AFTER COLD FRUIT, after drinking; desire for strong alcoholic drinks, very little thirst; crampy pain in stomach before breakfast and after meals; vomiting, caused by ices, fruit, pastry, fat; pale face and chilliness.

Ruta Ruta

Hiccough with depression; sudden nausea, while eating, with vomiting of the food; bruised feeling all over, as from a fall or blow.

Sepia Sep

Hiccough after meals and during smoking, with contractions in the throat and a sensation as if a plug were in it, producing an excessive accumulation of water in the mouth; heartburn morning and afternoon; sensation of goneness in stomach.

Staphisagria Staph

Frequent hiccough, with nausea and stupefaction of head, (<) while smoking; hiccough, often severe, after eating; belching causes scratching in throat; longing for soup, wine, brandy and tobacco.

Veratrum alb Verat

Hiccough after HOT DRINKS (Stram.); nausea, with sensation of fainting and violent thirst; hiccough in the morning while smoking.

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