Arsenicum and Mercurius and lots of remedies have grass green stools.
Routinist that I was in those days I could not get anything but Mercurius out of it, and although the baby had gotten Merc,, Ars, and
Cham, there was no relief, until I found that the mother had been eating candy. When she was asked if she ate sweet things, sugar, etc.,
she said, “Oh, no.” “Why, yes, you do,” said the husband ; “I bring
you home a pound of candy every day. What do you do with it ?’
“Oh, that was nothing,” she replied. But the baby did not get well
until it got Argentum nitricum and the mother stopped eating sugar.
^'Irresistible desire for sugar.*' Quite a number of medicines have
craving for sweets, but many of them can eat sweets with impunity.
It is always a peculiar thing when one of the articles of diet, such as
milk, sugar, salt, starch, etc., and the things of the table make sick.
When it is said that “I cannot cat a leaspoonful of anything with
starch, egg or sugar in it without being sick,” it is always strange and
peculiar, because it is not something that comes in only as a craving
and affecting the stomach, but it affects the whole patient. The patient says: “1 become sick,” and hences it becomes a general. When
the patient gets a diarrhoea from eating sugar it is not merely a local
and particular symptom, because the whole patient is sick before the
diarrhoea begins ; the diarrlioea is the outcome. Hence as it is a general it is necessary that it should be examined into.
“The vomited substances tinge the bedding black.” Incessant vomiting of food. He sometimes spits up food by the mouthful until the
stomach is empty. Eructations of air accompanied by a mouthful of
undigested food, like Phosphorus and Ferrum. Spitting it up ; welling up in mouthfuls.
“Eructations relieve.” “Flatulence passes upwards, in quantities.”
Frequent eructations. Eructations do not always relieve. It is more
like China in its eructation. The eructations of Cargo veg, relieve
for some time and he feels better. This is the way with Carbo veg, ;
he is distended almost to bursting and he cannot get up any wind, but
finally after much pain and distension it wells up in empty eructations
and then he gets relief. With China he is distended, and every little
while getting up gas, but with no relief. It docs not seem to help, and
sometimes patients will say they seem to get worse after it. So it is
- ▸with Argentum nitricum at times.
- ▸It evidently has both.
- ▸“Most gastric ailments are accompanied by belching.
- ▸” “Belching difficult ; finally
air rushes out with great violence.” “Nausea after every meal; nausea
with troublesome efforts to vomit.” I have seen these Argentum
nitricum patients vomiting and purging in the same moment, not vomiting one second and purging the next, but gushing out both ways with
great exhaustion like cholera morbus, so relaxed, prostrated and weak.
•'Vomit; streaked brown, flocculent, like coffee grounds.”