Acute gastroenteritis is characterized clinically by the association of vomiting and diarrhea.Vomiting is the sudden rejection of gastric contents by antiperistaltic contractions.Diarrhea is a too frequent evacuation of stools that are too liquid.Diarrhea is due to a double mechanism most often combined:These mechanisms are the direct consequences of an attack on the digestive mucous membranes.Acute gastroenteritis is not an autonomous, nosologically defined disease.These are only reaction syndromes that are observed in an often complex clinical whole, resulting from various causes:Diarrhea and vomiting may or may not be associated, responsible for metabolic disorders if they are abundant.Considering the digestive tropism of the toxicology of many pharmacodynamic substances, the number of homeopathic medicines rises particularly.For didactic reasons, we will propose in this article to distinguish 5 different cases.The patient presents with either diarrhea or vomiting, or an association of diarrhea and vomiting with the possibility of abdominal pain of varying intensity.The choice of drug can indeed quickly be guided by the characteristic modalities of this diarrhea.Diarrhea is watery or mucous, very abundant, preceded by pain and rumbling.It mostly occurs early in the morning or before noon.The stools are fetid, yellowish, expelled in a jet, followed by tenesmus, extreme weakness and a feeling of emptiness in the abdomen.The pains improve with warmth and lying on the stomach.Dosage: Take 5 granules of Podophyllum after each stool, at least in 9 CH, low dilutions risking aggravating diarrhoea.Diarrhea is abundant, willingly mucous like jelly, accompanied by abundant intestinal gas that the patient dares not emit because of great sphincter insecurity.A bowel movement can occur immediately after drinking.Dosage: Take in 7 CH or 9 CH, 5 pellets after each bowel movement.This medication is indicated when the diarrhea is accompanied by cramping, acute pain, with a sudden onset and end.The improvement is observed by being bent double, by heat and by strong pressure.Dosage: Take in 7 or 9 CH, at the rate of pain and/or stool.Magnesia phosphate being one of the pharmacodynamic constituents of colocynth, Magnesia phosphorica and Colocynthis can be used interchangeably.→ Cuprum metallicum and Cuprum sulfuricum:In experiments, copper causes gastroenteritis with spasmodic manifestations both in smooth muscles and in striated muscles.Copper sulphate turns out to be a powerful laxative.In homeopathic therapy, these medicines are taken in violent diarrhea accompanied by cramping pains throughout the abdomen and even in the calves.The pains have an abrupt onset and end.The patient may also experience very violent, intermittent stomach cramps, with nausea and vomiting, all temporarily improved by drinking one or more sips of cold water.Dosage: Take 5 granules in 7 or 9 CH at the rate of stools and/or painful cramps.This drug is taken when there is a distention of the whole abdomen (which the patient seems to contain with his hands), with great flatulence, tympanism on percussion, as well as hypersensitivity to contact or touch.The emission of stools is painless, but is accompanied by a faint sensation.Everything tastes bitter.The drug is indicated after the abuse of fruit or milk (and also in infant diarrhea due to gluten intolerance).Dosage: Take China 7 or 9 CH after each bowel movement.Watery, whitish, rice-like diarrhea.The emission of stools is painless, preceded by painless rumbling accompanied by numerous nauseas.Dosage: Take China 7 or 9 CH after each bowel movement.Croton's diarrhea responds to 4 very specific characteristics;it is excoriating for the anus and the perianal region, liquid and yellow, expelled in a jet with a clicking noise, like that of a gunshot and caused by the indigestion of the slightest quantity of food or drinks.These modalities are often encountered in diarrhea occurring during antibiotic therapy.Dosage: Take 5 granules in 7 or 9 CH at the rate of the stool.Burning abdominal pains, relieved by local heat, accompany liquid and blackish diarrhea, burning the anus, with a nauseating odor.Dosage: Take 5 granules in 7 or 9 CH at the rate of the stool.This is the indication of Gelsemium sempervirens or Argentum nitricum.In most cases it is indigestion due to overeating or acute alcoholism.Containing strychnine and brucine experimentally responsible for antiperistaltic spasms, this drug is used in the face of nausea, regurgitation and acid vomiting which relieve, following food or drink abuse.Dosage: Take 5 granules of Nux vomica 7 or 9 CH at the rate of nausea.You should know that the use of this medicine as a preventive measure, at the rate of 5 granules or a tube-dose before engaging in the "Bacchus cult", facilitates digestion, reduces the feeling of drunkenness and avoids unpleasant feeling of “hangover” the next morning.This medication is used for belching that tastes like food in individuals complaining of feelings of gastric fullness and heaviness, following the gluttonous absorption of too much food.The tongue is often heavily coated, covered with a thick, milky-white coating.Nausea quickly occurs followed by vomiting containing food debris.The stools have a semi-solid, semi-liquid appearance.Dosage: Take 5 granules of Antimonium crudum 7 or 9 CH at the rate of nausea.You should know that the use of this medicine as a preventive measure, at the rate of 5 granules or a tube-dose before engaging in the "Bacchus cult", facilitates digestion, reduces the feeling of drunkenness and avoids unpleasant feeling of “hangover” the next morning.The patient presents here with vomiting which does not relieve perpetual nausea.The tongue is clean or slightly loaded, always kept moist by hypersalivation.The patient is not thirsty.The stools are accompanied by tenesmus.They can be fermented, green, frothy, sometimes bloody.Dosage: 5 granules of Ipecac 7 or 9 CH repeated all the more frequently as the intensity of the symptoms is greater.Acute febrile gastroenteritis includes food poisoning and “intestinal flu”.After a sudden cold, an infant, a child or an adult develops green diarrhea, sometimes with bloody mucus.Hyperthermia also sets in suddenly.The patient is not sweating, is restless, anxious and has a strong thirst for cold water.Dosage: Take 5 granules in 7 or 9 CH after each bowel movement.Burning abdominal pains, relieved by local heat, accompany liquid and blackish diarrhoea, burning the anus, with a nauseating, exhausting smell.There is also burning vomiting and a sharp thirst for cold water which is soon thrown out.This picture evolves in an acute febrile context, with chilliness, with alternating phases of agitation and prostration.The disorders worsen at night, between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m.These manifestations are observed most of the time in front of toxic-infectious syndromes and Arsenicum album is an excellent medicine for poisoning by spoiled food (damaged fish or meat, soiled shells, polluted water).Dosage: Take in 7 or 9 CH, 5 granules repeated every hour, gradually spaced out with the reduction of symptoms.This medicine works quickly.Preceded by rumbling and periumbilical pain, calmed by the emission of gas, the diarrhea is dysenteriform, either watery, with sometimes bloody mucus, or mucous, viscous, green or yellowish.It occurs most of the time in a subacute febrile context with chills, after cooling in humid weather.Dosage: Take in 7 or 9 CH, 5 granules repeated every hour, gradually spaced out with the reduction of symptoms.This medicine works quickly.This drug is suitable when the stools are greenish, bloody or viscous, worse at night with tenesmus and the feeling that the stools are never finished.But above all, the intestinal state is concomitant with bucco-pharyngeal and general signs characteristic of Mercurius solubilis:Dosage: Take in 7 or 9 CH, 5 granules repeated every hour, gradually spaced out with the reduction of symptoms.This medicine works quickly.This drug is very close to mercurius solubilis.It is preferred in hyperacute dysentery, with an even more painful tenesmus than in the preceding description.The stools are small, hot, bloody or bloody, with mucous debris and violent intestinal trenches.Dosage: Take in 7 or 9 CH, 5 granules repeated every hour, gradually spaced out with the reduction of symptoms.This medicine works quickly.Severe cholera-like diarrhea is responsible for dehydration with deterioration of general condition.There are 3 successive stages:These 3 phases correspond to 3 precise homeopathic medicines which can be used separately or in turn and thus make it possible to observe the recovery of worrying situations.If the case requires it, it is necessary, in parallel with the homeopathic treatment, to ensure rehydration and correction of electrolyte disorders by parenteral route.This drug is indicated in case of profuse febrile diarrhea, extremely abundant, with cramping pains, great prostration and profuse cold sweats especially on the forehead.The associated vomiting is often profuse and aggravates the tendency to collapse.The patient experiences an intense burning sensation with general coldness of the whole body and cyanosis of the extremities.Dosage: Take 5 granules of Veratrum album 7 or 9 CH, taken repeatedly every hour or at the rate of the stools, then gradually spaced out as the intensity of the symptoms decreases.This medicine is then indicated when the stools burning like fire, excoriating for the anus and nauseating, become scarce.They are often associated with burning vomiting of the little food that the patient absorbs.Feverish, thirsty, very weak, the patient shows alternations of anxious agitation and dejection.Symptoms flare up at night, between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m.Dosage: Take 5 granules of Arsenicum album 7 or 9 CH, taken repeatedly every hour or at the rate of the stools, then gradually spaced out as the intensity of the symptoms decreases.The patient now presents with cramping pains in the whole abdomen and even in the calves, with sudden onset and end, which are temporarily relieved by the absorption of a little cold water.Dosage: Take 5 granules of Cuprum metallicum 7 or 9 CH, taken repeatedly every hour or at the rate of the stools, then gradually spaced out as the intensity of the symptoms decreases.A certain number of drugs are used more particularly in infants.Their prescription is made in specific conditions: dental flares, intolerance to milk, acute febrile gastroenteritis.Homeopathic drugs for toxicosis are confused with those studied in acute gastroenteritis with dehydration.In addition to diarrhea and teething, we observe a capricious, angry, detestable infant who only calms down if he is carried, cradled in the arms or taken for a walk in the car.The diarrhea is green like spinach mixed with scrambled eggs.In case of fever, one notices one cheek red and hot while the other is pale and cold.Dosage: Due to the change in the habitual behavior of the infant, take 5 granules of Chamomilla 9 or 15 CH, repeated at the rate of painful stools or outbursts of anger.The rhubarb rhizome experimentally causes intestinal hypersecretion.Its use in homeopathic therapy is done in infants during teething, capricious and agitated, with profuse sweating on the scalp, emitting a sour smell despite all cleanliness care.Another therapeutic indication: diarrhea occurring after excessive ingestion of green fruits.Dosage: Take 5 granules of Rheum officinale 7 or 9 CH at the rate of the stool.In infants, this medication is used especially at the time of teething when a feverish syndrome, diarrhea and hypersialorrhoea are observed.Dosage: Take in 7 or 9 CH, 5 pellets 2 to 4 times per 24 hours.It is the infant's medicine that gives off a sour smell from the whole body and does not tolerate milk well.The diarrhea is watery, frothy green, like frog spawn, sour smelling.Dosage: Take in 7 or 9 CH at the rate of the stool.Febrile gastroenteritis in infants, apparently isolated, is very often concomitant with otitis.Homeopathic therapy then consists of the range of pharmacodynamic substances whose targets, in their pathogenesis, are the digestive system and the ENT system: Aconitum, Chamomilla, Arsenicum album, Belladonna, Capsicum, Dulcamara, Mercurius solubilis.Acute gastroenteritis are episodes which often, once the acute attack of digestive disorders has ended, also leave two types of more or less temporary sequelae:This drug corresponds to the physical asthenia with pallor and hypotension that one encounters in patients who have notably presented an abundant loss of organic fluids.Dosage: Take 5 granules twice a day of China 7 or 9 CH until the symptoms disappear, generally around ten days.In infants or young children who often present with great asthenia as well as marked weight loss after diarrheal episodes.Dosage: China rubra is well supplemented by taking 1 to 2 weekly doses of Natrum muriaticum 9 or 15 CH until initial weight is restored.These are biotherapeutics prepared from culture lysates of the corresponding Salmonella, without the addition of antiseptics.These 2 drugs can be indicated either on an etiological basis, or on the clinical basis of persistent soft stools at the slightest dietary deviation after acute gastroenteritis.These germs are in fact responsible in pathology, and therefore experimentally, for irritation of the intestinal tract with diarrhoea.Dosage: Take 1 weekly dose in 9 or 15 CH until symptoms improve.For each case, the study is limited to the most reliable and most frequently encountered drugs.It is always advantageous to take in medium or high dilutions in order to dry up the secretions.Your email address will not be published.Mandatory fields are marked with *Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.