Anorexia nervosa

Clinic

• It is a kind of Eating disorder
• It is related with
  • Emaciation (Marasmus)
  • Bulimia
  • Hysteria

Remedies

Ign

• Complete loss of appetite for food, drinking without disgust of taste.
• All-gone feeling / Sinking in stomach, relieved by taking a deep breath
• Much flatulence; hiccough.
• Cramps in stomach; worse slightest contact.
• Averse to ordinary diet; longs for great variety of indigestible articles.
• Craving for acid things
• Mentally, the emotional element is uppermost, and co-ordination of function is interfered with.
• Ign is the king remedy of hysteria esp in Rapid change of opposite mental and physical conditions.
• Especially adapted to Nervous temperament, Sensitive, Easily excited (Quick to perceive, Rapid in execution)
• Mild disposition
• Alert, nervous, apprehensive, rigid, trembling patients who suffer acutely in mind or body.
• Introspective; silently brooding. Melancholic, sad, tearful. Sighing and sobbing. After shocks, grief, disappointment.
• Great contradictions, Not communicative.

Prunus-s

• Fullness after few mouthfuls as if too much had been taken.
• Shooting from right frontal bone through brain to occiput.
• Pain in right eyeball, as if it would burst.
• Piercing toothache, as if teeth were pulled out; worse, taking anything warm.
• Hard, nodular stool, with rectal pain, as if angular body were pressed inward.
• Burning in anus after slimy diarrhoea

Calc-ars

• loss of desire for all types of food.Region of stomach distended. Enlarged liver and spleen in children. Pancreatic disease; relieves burning pain in cancer of pancreas. Belching with saliva and beating of heart. Anger, anxiety. Desire for company. Confusion, delusions, illusions. Great depression. Violent rush of blood to head with vertigo. Pain in head better by lying on painful side. Weekly headache. Benumbling headache mostly around ears.

Nat-m

• Most often prescribed medicine for anorexia nervosa.
• The prolonged taking of excessive salt causes profound nutritive changes to take place in the system, and there arise not only the symptoms of salt retention as evidenced by dropsies and śdemas, but also an alteration in the blood causing a condition of anćmia and leucocytosis.Great debility; most weakness felt in the morning in bed. Coldness. Emaciation most notable in neck.
• Great liability to take cold.
• Dry mucous membranes. Constrictive sensation throughout the body. Great weakness and weariness.

Ars

• Complaints with extreme fastidiousness, patient is extremely weak mentally and physically.

Homarus

• Complete loss of appetite with great weakness and inability to walk. Dyspepsia, sore throat, and headache seems to be a combination that may be controlled by this remedy. Frontal and temporal pain chiefly, with soreness in eyes. Throat sore, raw, burns, with tough mucus. Pain in stomach and abdomen, better after eating. Belching. Chilliness and pain all over. Itching of skin.

Ferr

• Appetite diminished or lost, great aversion to food. Best adapted to young weakly persons, anćmic and chlorotic, with pseudo-plethora, who flush easily; cold extremities; oversensitiveness; worse after any active effort. Weaknessfrom mere speaking or walking though looking strong. Pallor of skin, mucous membranes, face, alternating with flushes. Orgasms of blood to face, chest, head, lungs, etc. Irregular distribution of blood. Pseudo-plethora. Muscles flabby and relaxed. Irritability. Slight noises unbearable. Excited from slightest opposition. Voracious appetite, or absolute loss of appetite. Loathing of sour things. Attempts to eat bring on diarrhoea. Spits up food by the mouthful (Phos). Eructations of food after eating, without nausea. Nausea and vomiting after eating. Vomiting immediately after eating. Vomiting after midnight. Intolerance of eggs. Distention and pressure in the stomach after eating. Heat and burning in stomach. Soreness of abdominal walls. Flatulent dyspepsia.

Ph-ac

• Remarkable medicine for anorexia nervosa, loss of appetite with great weakness and lethargy. The common acid “debility” is very marked in this remedy, producing a nervous exhaustion. Mental debility first; later physical. A congenial soil for the action of Phos acid is found in young people who grow rapidly, and who are overtaxed, mentally or physically. Whenever the system has been exposed to the ravages of acute disease, excesses, grief, loss of vital fluids, we obtain conditions calling for it

Plat

• Extremely conscious about her health; fear of becoming fat

Aur-ars

• It causes rapid increase of appetite especially in anemia and chlorosis

Lyc

• Appetite disappears when eating first mouthfuls

Lecithinum

• Excellent medicine for such complaints

Tissue Salt Remedies

FP