Obesity

Remedies

Calc, Ferr, Graph, Phyt, Thyr, Ant-c, Fucus religoisa, Phos, Kali-bi, Kali-c, Puls, Seneg

Calc

• Three F: Fat, Fair and Flabby
• PCOS + Anovulation
• Excessive sweating on head
• Extreme sensitivity to cold air
• Peculiar craving for boiled eggs
• Pica: Craving for strange things like chalk and lime.
• Local perspiration + Swelling of glands + Scrofulous + Rachitic conditions
• Obesity in children: Large belly + Large heads + Pale skin
• Coldness of single parts of body

Ferr

• Obesity + Anemia + Puffy face + Pitting of flesh
• Young, weakly Chlorotic / Anemic persons
• Pseudo-plethoric patients who flush easily and have cold extremities
• Weakness even on speaking or walking though looking strong.
• Pallor of skin, mucus membranes and face.
• Worse by: Night, Rest, Sitting quietly , During menses.
• Better by Slow motion, Walking slowly, Summer.

Am-m

• Fat / Sluggish and with large buttocks
• Fatty tumors and thin legs.
• All mucus secretions are increased and retained.
• Respiratory troubles
• Associated affections of liver.
• Obstinate constipation accompanied by much flatus.
• Hard, crumbling stools require great effort in expulsion; crumble from the verge of anus.

Thyr

• Anemia + emaciation, muscular weakness,
• Increased sweating, tingling and palpitation
• Goiter and excessive obesity and acts best in
• Females with paleness and uterine fibroids or mammary tumors.

Ant-c

• Obesity in young people with excessive irritability and fretfulness
• Thick coated white tongue
• Children / Young people inclined to grow fat, for the extremes of life.
• Old people with morning diarrhea suddenly become constipated or alternate diarrhea and constipation
• Pulse hard and rapid.
• A fretful, peevish and child who cannot bear to be touched or looked at,
• Sad, Sulky , Weeping child who does not wish to speak or be spoken to and become angry at every little attention.
• Food and drinks
  • Longing for acids and pickles
  • Gastric / Intestinal affections after Bread / Pastry / Acids/ Vinegar/ Sour / Bad wine
• Cold and heat:
  • General amel in the open air, rest and warm bath.
  • Aggravate by heat and cold bathing esp GI problems.
  • Sensitive to the cold and complications of Common cold.

Graph

• Obese / Fair complexion females with delayed menstruation.
• Many skin affections
• Constipation
• Chilly patients who take cold easily
• Swollen genitals with indurations of tissues.

Phyt

• Glandular Swellings/ Heat / Inflammations
• Rheumatism of syphilitic origin where the pains are wandering, shifting and shooting.
• Burning in throat as from coal fire and cannot swallow hot liquids.
• General soreness, lameness, bruised feeling over whole body causes the patient to groan.
• Intense prostration, sitting upright makes him faint and dizzy.
• Mother tincture is used for weight reduction.

Fucus religoisa

• A good remedy for obesity and non-toxic goiter
• Digestion is improved and flatulence diminished.
• Obstinate constipation.
• Thyroid enlargement in obese people.

Calc-ars

• Flesh and obese around menopause
• Chilliness with dropsical affections
• Cancer of uterus, affections of spleen and mesenteric glands are often found associated.
• Great mental depression.
• The slightest emotion causes palpitation

Caps

• Suits nicely people with lax fibers, weak
• Fat/ Indolent/ Low vital heat / No reactive force.
• General uncleanliness of body and opposed to physical exertion.
• Burning pains and general chilliness with marked tendency to suppuration

Phos

• Anemic people with waxy, translucent skin
• Delicate eyelashes
• Fair, blondes, tall slender persons of sanguine temperament
• Quick and hemorrhagic diathesis
• Pseudo-hypertrophy of muscles
• Quick perceptions, Very sensitive nature.
• Young people, who grow too rapidly, are inclined to stoop who are chlorotic or anemic;
• Old people, with morning diarrhea. Hemorrhagic diathesis; small wounds bleed profusely from every mucous outlet.
• Longs for Cold food and drink/ Juicy/ Refreshing things / Ice cream which agg gastric pains.
• As soon as water becomes warm in stomach it is thrown up.

Lac-d

• Obesity and diseases that are associated with faulty nutrition.
• Sick headaches with intense throbbing, nausea and vomiting, prostration and all complaints aggravated during menses.

Kali-bi

• Fleshy, fat, light haired complexioned people with scrofulous or syphilitic history.
• Symptoms tend to increase in the morning
• All pains migrate quickly with rheumatic and gastric symptoms alternating.
• Catarrhal stage of all mucus membranes.

Puls

• A female remedy with tendency to obesity
• Affectionate /Mild/ Gentle / Yielding / Sad females who cry easily and weeps when talking.
• The symptoms are changeable and contradictory.
• She seeks the open air and feels better in it.
• Thirst less, chilly fat females
• Aversion to fatty foods, still grows obese
• Indecisive, slow, phlegmatic temperament;
• Sandy hair, blue eyes, pale face, easily moved to laughter or tears
• Fleshy women , with scanty and protracted menstruation.
• Worse in a warm close room, very rich, fat, indigestible food
• Bette in the open air; lying on painful side, cold air or cool room, eating or drinking cold things

Sep

• Obesity in females with weakness, yellow complexion and bearing down sensations.
• Pains extend down to back and patient chills easily with uterine troubles.
• Obesity in menopausal females with hot flushes and perspiration.
• Particularly sensitive to cold air, “chills so easily;” lack of vital heat, especially in chronic diseases.
• Anxiety with fear, Great sadness and weeping.
• Indifferent even to one’s Family/ Occupation
• Greedy, miserly.
• Worse from sexual excesses
• Better with warm bed, hot applications; violent exercise.

Seneg

• People with lax fibers who tend to become obese
• Children who are chubby in appearance.
• Seneg in child: Children usually suffer from repeated respiratory catarrhal affections where rattling cough and profuse mucus but difficult raising are characteristics.