Ho ho ho …hmmmm
Toast the winter holidays with glasses of bubbly. Feast on delectable appetisers, heavy, sauce-laden main courses and rich, sumptuous desserts. Wash it down with velvety wines. Perhaps a cordial or a liquor-laced coffee to follow? We tend to indulge with family and friends when it’s the holiday time. If your insides stage violent storms of protest afterwards, reach for a remedy. Read on to treat discomfort after eating, for stomachache, constipation, diarrhoea, bloating and flatulence. Ho ho ho hhmmmmm.
What you eat matters. You don’t want a tummy ache.
Everyone is gathered round for holiday feasting. You may normally avoid foods that aggravate: citrus, skins of fruits, cooked cabbage, tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, beans and pulses, nuts, bread, spices, wine, fizzy drinks and rich, fatty consumables, for instance. Tea, coffee and sugar sometimes interfere with stomach function. Wheat and dairy have adverse effects for some people. At the holidays how do you avoid what causes trouble?
Homeopathic Remedies for Indigestion
Below are main remedies to consider.
Carbo veg For a bloated feeling in stomach and abdomen, and flatulence even after eating plainest foods. When digestion is slow with a faint burning sensation in stomach about a half-hour after eating this is a good remedy. Burping offers temporary relief. Your system feels sluggish and heavy. There’s craving for fresh air.
Arsen alb addresses an unremitting anxious feeling with burning pains. It reduces acute gastrointestinal troubles, including vomiting and diarrhoea. Better for hot (worse for cold) drinks. It eases discomfort from fruit and salad. Arsenicum targets tidy, organised people who are concerned for their health and often fearful. Patients are usually chilly and exhausted.
Lycopodium The abdomen is bloated. There’s noisy flatulence and a long-lasting burning sensation. Appetite is strong yet even a small meal causes a full feeling. Bread, pulses or cabbage often make bloating worse. There’s a desire for hot food and drink. Symptoms are worse between 4 and 8 pm. Lycopodium is helpful for reflux.
China lessens indigestion from fruit and dairy products. Fullness is not relieved by belching. Colic and burping ease after movement and bending double. Sharp pains across the stomach lessen when clothes are loosened.
Nux Vom addresses a hangover from overindulgence of rich food and drink, especially from stimulants like coffee, liquor and tobacco. Heartburn and a sore, bruised sensation is in the stomach and abdomen. Are you constipated? Often the appetite is good. Flatulent distension and trapped wind after eating are common. Hard-working overindulgers benefit from from this remedy. Useful remedy for hiatus hernia and reflux.
Pulsatilla Stomach and abdomen discomfort after rich, fatty foods or dairy. Often there’s a craving for the very foods that cause the most discomfort. Gas, bloating heartburn or sore stomach. Better for sympathy and fresh air. There’s little thirst, despite a dry mouth. Like Carbo veg, there is pain in the stomach about a half-hour after eating.
Indigestion, heartburn and bloating or flatulence may be caused by poor diet, a compromised immune system or stress. They stick around until you pay attention. Manage the gastrointestinal pains and the anxiety, anger, fear, resentment and impatience that may have sparked them – in a holistic, natural way.
Below is helpful advice to accompany the above remedies. Your mood will improve, your patience will expand and you will feel and look better as bodily systems revert to balance.
The cell salt Nat phos is a marvelous, low strength solution to abdominal and stomach discomfort. It greatly reduces acidity and restores balance. This is my best supplement for digestive disorders. It works alongside conventional and homepathic remedies.
Add cumin, ginger or aniseed to cooked foods to help with digestion. Drink 2 – 3 litres of filtered water daily. Try peppermint, raspberry leaf or fennel tisane to quell stomach flatulence and indigestion.
How you eat matters. Relax before and after eating. Slow down when you eat. Too much or too fast can aggravate. You don’t want heartburn. Don’t eat late at night either. Because we all experience stress and react in different ways, you may be uncertain which remedy suits you best. We can also look at specific problems like acid-reflux or IBS or chronic abdominal pains. Book a complimentary talk to tell me the problem; I will tell you how homeopathy works.
Of course you can go the conventional root. With an antacid or a laxative symptoms disappear. They may well return. Tracing the problem to its root is a logical step toward removing it forever, or for longer. If you suspect allergies, you might eliminate a suspected culprit – wheat or dairy or certain spices – for six weeks. You could test your tolerance for certain foods. Hypoglycaemia, candidiasis, gastric reflux, ulcers, hernias or oesophagus stricture could be behind your discomfort. Kidney or gallstones can cause stomach problems; in the case of kidney troubles, antacids are not safe to take. Perhaps new medications are bothering the system. Are you moving? Engage in exercise every day. When something looks wrong and especially if it endures, pay attention. Severe abdominal pain could flag appendicitis. If there’s persistent pain and fever or if symptoms exacerbate, have them checked.
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