Child colic remedies

Remedies

Bell

• Pain comes and goes suddenly.
• Episodes of screaming.
• Periodical pain.
• Pain in afternoon, around 3 pm.

Nux-v

• Indicated esp when pain is amel by flatus (Carb-v).
• Child is very irritable and cranky in nature.

Lyc

• Specially indicated due to time modality.
• Distention of abdomen with flatulence.
• Infant passes much flatus.

Puls

• Pain especially in the evening.  
• An otherwise calm and yielding child  irritable during pain.
• Generalized amelioration in open air.

Cina

• Well known remedy for very irritable child.
• Crying relived by only rocking, and starts crying again if rocking is stopped.

Coloc

• Colic is consequence of mothers mental state.
• Suppressed anger in mother.
• Indignation, mortification etc.
• Pain relived by pressure on abdomen.

Ip

• Like Coloc and Staph, Ip is also a very good remedy for colic originating from mothers mental state.
• Mortification.
• Thirstless, colic associated with vomiting and nausea

Jal-p

• When the child is “good” all day, but screams and is restless all night.

Senna

• The child cries terribly, and seems full of incarcerated flatus
• Cyanosis: He even turns blue all over during its caries.
• Sometimes it has frequent and bloody stools.

Stann

• The child’s colic is relieved by pressing firmly upon its abdomen.
• When it is crying with colic, relief is obtained at once by carrying it with its abdomen resting upon the point of the nurse’s shoulder.

Verat

• Terrible colic with coldness of the forehead.
• Very cold feet with the colic.
• The sufferings cause a cold sweat to stand upon the surface, particularly upon the forehead.