ORNITHOGALUM UMBELLATUM
Star of Bethlehem
To be regarded in continual gastric and different belly indurations, per chance most cancers of intestinal tract, specially of belly and Caecum. Center of motion is the pylorus, inflicting painful contraction with duodenal distention.
Depression of spirits. Complete prostration. Feeling of illness maintains affected person conscious at night.
Stomach.–Tongue coated. Agonizing feeling in chest and stomach, staring from pylorus with flatus that rolls in balls from one aspect to the other, loss of appetite, phlegmy retchings and loss of flesh. Gastric ulceration even with haemorrhage. Pains multiplied when food passes pyloric outlet. Vomiting of coffee-ground-looking matter. Distention of stomach. Frequent belching of offensive flatus. Painful sinking throughout epigastrium.
Dose.–Single doses of mom tincture and look ahead to action.
