Ornithogalum umbellatum
Plant · Asparagaceae
Ornithogalum suits patients with deep-seated gastric pathology including suspected cancer of the stomach or caecum and gastric ulceration. The center of action is the pylorus; patients experience agonising gastric pain, loss of appetite and flesh, phlegmy retchings, and profound prostration.
Key symptoms
- Agonizing feeling in chest and stomach starting from the pylorus
- Painful pyloric contraction with duodenal distention
- Flatus that rolls in balls from one side to the other
- Vomiting of coffee-ground-looking matter
- Painful sinking across epigastrium
- Pains increased when food passes the pyloric outlet
- Gastric ulceration even with haemorrhage
- Complete prostration and depression of spirits
- Feeling of sickness keeping patient awake at night
Worse (aggravation)
- Worse from cold drinks
- Worse at night
- Worse when food passes the pyloric outlet
Better (amelioration)
- Better from warm foods
Star of Bethlehem
To be considered in chronic gastric and other abdominal indurations, possibly cancer of intestinal tract, especially of stomach and Cæcum. Center of action is the pylorus, causing painful contraction with duodenal distention.
Depression of spirits. Complete prostration. Feeling of sickness keeps patient awake at night.
Stomach
Tongue coated. Agonizing feeling in chest and stomach, staring from pylorus with flatus that rolls in balls from one side to the other, loss of appetite, phlegmy retchings and loss of flesh. Gastric ulceration even with hæmorrhage. Pains increased when food passes pyloric outlet. Vomiting of coffee-ground-looking matter. Distention of stomach. Frequent belching of offensive flatus. Painful sinking across epigastrium.
Dose
Single doses of mother tincture and await action.
Ornithogalum umbellatum. Star of Bethlehem. [A plant of which there are many varieties; nearly allied to Garlic (Allium Sativum)]. N. O. Liliaceæ. Tincture of fresh plant.
Clinical
Cancer. Flatulence. Gastric ulcer. Stomach, ulceration, of.
Characteristics
In his Cancer and Cancer Symptoms Cooper has published the case of George M., 40, who was suffering from cancer of the stomach, and was operated on in the Cancer Hospital. The operation was abandoned on account of the numerous adhesions, and because it was impossible to remove all the diseased tissue. Cooper saw him first on July 22, 1898, and found him writhing in agony on his bed, unable to keep anything long on his stomach; > by warm foods, < by cold drinks. Pains < at night. They began in stomach, spreading to hands and between shoulders, as if an iron brick were being forced through stomach and chest. There was a visible bulging beneath attachment of diaphragm extending to scrobiculus cordis. Tongue red, coated towards back; bowels confined, sometimes …
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