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Arnica Montana
Arnica montana, a flowering plant, is renowned for its ability to ease symptoms of
traumatic shock to the body. Best for acute injuries, it can provide some physical and mental
relief until medical help is issued.
Lycopodium
This remedy is especially effective for hernias located on the right side of the
abdomen or groin. Apprehension, melancholy, hemorrhoids and sciatica often respond to
Lycopodiuma, a fine yellow powder derived from the spores of Lycopodium clavatum.
Nux Vomica
Nux vomica alleviates pain in the affected area, easing nausea and vomiting. It can
also curb the irritability and hypersensitivity that may arise in the wake of a traumatic
incident.
Nitricum Adidum
Abdominal pain, cramps, swelling, and nausea are common symptoms of hernia, for
which Nitricum is ideal. Avoid extreme temperatures.
Homeopathic medicines
NUX VOMICA
Sudden violent pain in hernial region. Drawing, tearing and spasmodic
constriction in the abdomen , with nausea , vomiting of sour mucus. Constipation with
ineffectual urging to stool. Slow protrusion in aged people, with squeezing pain in hernia
region, fullness in abdomen, periodical nausea.Sour taste, and nausea in the morning, after
eating. Weight and pain in stomach; worse, eating, some time after. Flatulence and pyrosis.
Sour, bitter eructations.
OPIUM
Incarcerated and inguinal herniae. Soporous condition with red face , distended
abdomen with flatus. Antiperistaltic motion , belching and vomiting , bowels absolutely
closed with urging to stool and urine. Stomach.--Vomiting, with colic and convulsions. Fecal
vomiting. Incarcerated hernia. Hungry; no desire to eat.Abdomen is hard and bloated.
Obstinate constipation; no desire to go to stool. Round, hard, black balls. Feces protrude
and recede . Spasmodic retention of feces in small intestines. Stools involuntary, black,
offensive, frothy
SULPHURIC ACID
Colic with sensation as if hernia would protrude. Inguinal hernia, incarcerated
hernia in old people , coming on in a very gradual manner. Pinched, constricted feeling in
hernia. Sensation of fullness in abdomen periodical nausea and constipation. Hernia not very
sensitive. Hernia on left side of persons of a melancholy phlegmatic temperament. Periodical
transient tearing pains, constant nausea, belching of sweet, salty or bitter fluid, finally
vomiting. Gradual accumulation of flatus.
4.LYCOPODIUM
Best adapted to persons intellectually keen, but of weak, muscular power.
Dyspepsia due to farinaceous and fermentable food, cabbage, beans, etc. Excessive hunger.
Aversion to bread, etc. Desire for sweet things. Food tastes sour. Sour eructations. Great
weakness of digestion. Bulimia, with much bloating. After eating, pressure in stomach, with
bitter taste in mouth. Eating ever so little creates fullness. Cannot eat oysters. Rolling of
flatulence (Chin; Carb). Wakes at night feeling hungry. Hiccough. Incomplete burning
eructations rise only to pharynx there burn for hours. Likes to take food and drink hot.
Sinking sensation; worse night.Immediately after a light meal, abdomen is bloated, full.
Constant sense of fermentation in abdomen, like yeast working; upper left side.. Pain
shooting across lower abdomen from right to left. Right sided inguinal hernia.Crural hernia
in women. Lacerating , stiching pains. Distension of abdomen with rumbling of gas.Hot
patient with desire for warm food and warm drinks.Easy satiety.Ineffectual urging.Stool hard
,difficult,smalland incomplete.
COCCULUS INDICUS
Abdomen is distended, with wind, and feeling as if full of sharp stones when
moving; better, lying on one side or the other. Pain in abdominal ring, as if something were
forced through. Abdominal muscles weak; it seems as if a hernia would take place. Nausea
from riding in cars, boat, etc, or looking at boat in motion; worse on becoming cold or
taking cold. Nausea, with faintness and vomiting. Aversion to food, drink, tobacco. Metallic
taste. Paralysis of muscles preventing deglutition. Dryness of sophagus. Seasickness
(Resorcin. 1x). Cramp, in stomach during and after meal. Hiccough and spasmodic yawning.
Loss of appetite. Desire for cold drinks, especially beer. Sensation in stomach as if one had
been a long time without food until hunger was gone. Smell of food disgusts .
CALCAREA CARBONICA
Persons of scrofulous type, who take cold easily, with increased mucous
secretions, children who grow fat, are large-bellied, with large head, pale skin, chalky look,
the so-called leuco-phlegmatic temperament; affections caused by working in water. Great
sensitiveness to cold; partial sweats. Children crave eggs and eat dirt and other indigestible
things; are prone to diarrha. Calcarea patient is fat, fair, flabby and perspiring and cold,
damp and sour Aversion to meat, boiled things; craving for indigestible things-chalk, coal,
pencils; also for eggs, salt and sweets. Milk disagrees. Frequent sour eructations; sour
vomiting. Dislike of fat. Loss of appetite when overworked. Heartburn and loud belching.
Cramps in stomach; worse, pressure, cold water. Ravenous hunger. Swelling over pit of
stomach, like a saucer turned bottom up. Repugnance to hot food. Pain in epigastric region
to touch. Thirst; longing for cold drinks. Aggravation while eating. Hyperchlorhydria
Abdomen sensitive to slightest pressure. Cutting in abdomen; swollen
abdomen. Incarcerated flatulence. Inguinal and mesenteric glands swollen and painful.
Cannot bear tight clothing around the waist. Distention with hardness. Increase of fat in
abdomen. Umbilical hernia. Trembling; weakness, as if sprained. Crawling and constriction
in rectum. Stool large and hard (Bry); whitish, watery, sour. Constipation; stool at first hard,
then pasty, then liquid.
SILICEA
Disgust for meat and warm food. On swallowing food, it easily gets into
posterior nares. Want of appetite; thirst excessive. Sour eructations after eating. Pit of
stomach painful to pressure. Vomiting after drinking .Pain or painful cold feeling in
abdomen, better external heat. Hard, bloated abdomen. Colic; cutting pain, with
constipation; yellow hands and blue nails. Much rumbling in bowels. Inguinal glands swollen
and painful. Rectum feels paralyzed. Stool comes down with difficulty; when partly expelled,
recedes again. Great straining; rectum stings; closes upon stool. Feces remain a long time
in rectum. Constipation always before and during menses; with irritable sphincter ani.Silica
patient is cold, chilly, hugs the fire, wants plenty warm clothing, hates drafts, hands and
feet cold, worse in winter. Lack of vital heat. Prostration of mind and body. Great
sensitiveness to taking cold. Intolerance of alcoholic stimulant.
ZINCUM MET
Painful pressing in left groin asif hernia would occur.Drawing pain in left
inguinal region while sitting.Hiccough, nausea, vomiting of bitter mucus. Burning in
stomach, heartburn from sweet things. Cannot stand smallest quantity of wine. Ravenous
hunger about 11 am. Great greediness when eating; cannot eat fast enough. Atonic
dyspepsia, feeling as if stomach were collapsed.Pain in abdomen after a light meal. Pain in
spot beneath navel. Gurgling and griping; distended. Flatulent colic, with retraction of
abdomen.Hard, small, constipated stool.
PLUMBUM MET
Right sided strangulated hernia.Severe pain with continual vomiting of
feculent matter. Contraction in sophagus and stomach; pressure and tightness. Gastralgia.
Constant vomiting. Solids cannot be swallowed.Excessive colic in abdomen, radiating to all
parts of body. Abdominal wall feels drawn by a string to spine. Pain causes desire to stretch.
Intussusception. Abdomen retracted. Obstructed flatus, with intense colic. Colic alternates
with delirium and pain in atrophied limbs.Constipation; stools hard, lumpy, black with urging
and spasm of anus. Obstructed evacuation from impaction of feces. Neuralgia of rectum.
Anus drawn up with constriction. The great drug for general sclerotic conditions. The blood,
alimentary and nervous systems are the special seats of action of Plumbum. Constrictive
sensation in internal organs.
NITRIC ACID
i.
Mainly 2 factors play in causing an inguinal hernia:1. Weakness of the abdominal muscles and
2. Increased abdominal pressure which forces the content out the normal abdominal
musculature.
Weakness of the abdominal musculature may be
a. CONGENITAL WEAKNESS
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Persistence of processus vaginalis.
ii.
Patent canal of Nuck in female.
b. ACQUIRED WEAKNESS
Excessive fat in the abdomen causes weakness of the abdominal musculature. Fat
separates muscle fibers and thus causes weakness.
ii.
Muscle weakness may follow repeated pregnancy.
iii.
Surgical incisions may lead to division of nerve fibres and thus causes muscle
weakness.
iv.
Incisional hernia develops through weakened abdominal muscle following a
previous operation.
Increased abdominal pressure e.g.
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Impulse on coughing
The patient is asked to turn his face away from the clinician and to
cough. This is done to avoid the salivary shower from the patient. Look
carefully at the superficial inguinal ring. If a swelling already exists, it will
expand during coughing as more abdominal contents will be driven out into
the hernia sac due to increased abdominal tension (expansile cough
impulse). If a swelling was not present a momentary bulge may be seen
synchronously with the act of coughing. Presence of expansile cough impulse
is almost diagnostic of a hernia, but absence of this sign does not exclude a
diagnosis of hernia. If the neck of the sac is blocked by adhesions additional
viscera will not get access into the sac during coughing.
Position of the penis
of the bowel, cardinal symptoms of intestinal obstruction will appear. These are colicky pain
in abdomen, vomiting, abdominal distension and absolute constipation.
The causes of hernia must be enquired into. Persistent
coughing of whooping cough or chronic bronchitis,constipation,dysuria due to benign
enlargement of prostate or stricture urethra may show may show other symptoms which the
patient deliberately do not mention considering them irrelevant. Ask about the past history
also. Whether the patient had any operation or not? Many patients give a previous history of
hernia repair on the same side(recurrent hernia) or on the opposite side(right sided hernia
generally precedes that of the left side).
There are many things to consider when deciding if you should have
inguinal hernia repair surgery, such as whether your hernia is incarcerated or strangulated
and whether you have other conditions that need to be addressed before hernia repair
surgery is appropriate.
Inflammation
Irreducibility
Haemorrhage
Autoimmune problems
Incarceration, which is where it cannot be reduced or pushed back into place, at least not
without very much external effort