-IBIS-1.5.0-
tx
mental/emotional
bulimia
homeopathy

remedy differential

Aurum metallicum: appetite and thirst increased; digestion difficult often finishing with a lot of belching and vomiting
Iodium: alternating bulimia/anorexia
Kali phosphoricum: feeling of the epigastric emptiness, depression often followed by vomiting
Folliculinum: history of birth control pills and/or estrogen replacement therapy, esp. bad reaction, i.e., estrogen poisoning; tendency to put others' needs before her own, and then become resentful later; woman has lost touch with her own inner rhythms and her reference has become external rather than internal; often best used in a single dose, or repeated every two weeks, possibly at new and full moons
Lac Humanum: history of difficult mother-daughter relationship; issues of nourishment and addiction
Lycopodium: voracious hunger; much bloating; eating ever so little creates fullness; dyspepsia
Natrum carbonicum: voracious hunger especially after 5 p.m.; epigastric emptiness > eating; digestive weakness: bloating, flatulence, nausea, vomiting and sensation of weight in stomach
Phosphorus: hungry right after finishing eating ; feeling the "inner emptiness"; ashamed, gets up at night
Platina: sexual energy, excessive behavior
Pulsatilla: fixed ideas about weight; mental state tied to appetite, self gratification tied to eating, eat to ameliorate loneliness and depression


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