Obesity

Remedies

Here is a list of 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, suffer from weakness even on speaking or walking though looking strong.
• Pallor of skin, mucus membranes and face.

• Modalities
• Worse by: Night, Rest, Sitting quietly , During menses.
• Better by Slow motion, Walking slowly, Summer.

Am-m

• Fat and sluggish and with large buttocks, fatty tumors and thin legs.
• All mucus secretions are increased and retained.
• Generally suffering from respiratory troubles and 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
• Aggravate by heat and cold bathing
• Children and 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.
• Sensitive to the cold and agg After taking cold.
• 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.
• Longing for acids and pickles
• Gastric and intestinal affections esp agg with Bread / Pastry / Acids/ Vinegar/ Sour / Bad wine
• GI problems after cold bathing, Over-heating And hot weather.
• General amel in the open air, During rest and after a warm bath.

Graph

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

Phyt

• Glandular swellings with heat and 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

• 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/obese/ Indolent and have no vital heat or no reactive force.
• General uncleanliness of body and opposed to physical exertion.
• Burning pains and general chilliness with marked tendency to suppuration in every inflammatory process are found.

Phos

• Half anemic people with waxy, translucent skin and 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
• Desire for ice cream which agg gastric pains.
• As soon as water becomes warm in stomach it is thrown up.
• Worse – Evening, before midnight, lying on left or painful side; during a thunderstorm; weather changes, either hot or cold.
• Cold air relieves the head and face symptoms but aggravates those of chest, throat and neck.
• Better – In the dark; lying on right side; from being rubbed or mesmerized; from cold food, cold water, until it gets warm.

Lac-d

• Useful in obesity and where diseases are associated with faulty nutrition.
• Sick headaches with intense throbbing, nausea and vomiting, prostration and all complaints aggravated during menses.

Kali-bi

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

Puls

• A female remedy with tendency to obesity
• Mild, Obese, gentle, yielding females who are sad, 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
• Affectionate, mild, gentle, timid, yielding disposition.
• Weeps easily: almost impossible to detail her ailments without weeping. Especially, in diseases of women and children.
• 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, flushes of heat over face and head
• Great sadness and weeping. Dread of being alone; of men; of meeting friends
• 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.
• Children usually suffer from repeated respiratory catarrhal affections where rattling cough and profuse mucus but difficult raising are characteristics.