Homeopathic Medicine for Hiatal Hernia Problem

A hiatal hernia occurs when part of your stomach pushes upward through your diaphragm. Your diaphragm normally has a small opening (hiatus) through which your food tube (esophagus) passes on its way to connect to your stomach. The stomach can push up through this opening and cause a hiatal hernia.

Hiatus Hernia Treatment in Homeopathy

In most cases, a small hiatal hernia doesn't cause problems, and you may never know you have a hiatal hernia unless your doctor discovers it when checking for another condition. But a large hiatal hernia can allow food and acid to back up into your esophagus, leading to heartburn. Self-care measures or homeopathic medications can usually relieve these symptoms of Hiatal Hernia, although a very large hiatal hernia sometimes requires surgery.

Causes of Hiatal Hernia 

A hiatal hernia occurs when weakened muscle tissue allows your stomach to bulge up through your diaphragm. It's not always clear why this happens, but pressure on your stomach and age-related changes in your diaphragm may contribute to the formation of a hiatal hernia.

How Does a Hiatal Hernia Form

Your diaphragm is a large, dome-shaped muscle that separates your chest cavity from your abdomen. Normally, your esophagus passes into your stomach through an opening in the diaphragm called the hiatus.

Hiatal hernias occur when the muscle tissue surrounding this opening becomes weak, and the upper part of your stomach bulges up through the diaphragm into your chest cavity. Possible causes of hiatal hernia:

• Injury to the area
• Being born with an unusually large hiatus
• Persistent and intense pressure on the surrounding muscles, such as when coughing, vomiting or straining during a bowel movement, or while lifting heavy objects

Symptoms of Hiatal Hernia in Stomach

Most small Hiatal hernias cause no signs or symptoms. However, larger Hiatal hernias can cause signs and symptoms such as:

• Heartburn
• Belching
• difficulty swallowing
• Chest or abdominal pain
• Feeling especially full after meals
• Vomiting blood or passing black stools, which may indicate gastrointestinal bleeding

Risk Factors of Hiatal Hernia

Hiatal hernia is most common in people who are:

• Age 50 or older
• Obese

Homeopathic Medicine for Hiatus Hernia

Homeopathy today is a rapidly growing system and is being practiced all over the world. Its strength lies in its evident effectiveness as it takes a holistic approach towards the sick individual through the promotion of inner balance at mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical levels.

Effective medicines are available in homeopathy for hiatus hernia problem, but the selection depends upon the individuality of the patient, considering the mental and physical symptoms.

1. Calcarea carbonicum 200 - Calcarea carb is an excellent homeopathic remedy for hiatus hernia, and it helps for strengthening the relaxed weak muscles. Calcarea carb is suitable for fat, flabby obese persons who perspire profusely. Heartburn and loud belching. Frequent sour belching, sour vomiting of curdled milk. Cramps in the stomach, worse pressure, cold water. Swelling over a pit of the stomach like a saucer turned bottom up. Pain in the epigastric region to touch. Aggravation while eating. There is a special craving for indigestible things like chalk, coal, pencils, etc.
2. Robinia 3x - Robinia is one of the effective homeopathic medicines for hiatus hernia with heartburn and acidity of the stomach. S our stomach. Great acidity of the stomach at night on lying down. Nausea with sour belching. Profuse vomiting of intensely sour fluid. Heavy, aching, dullness in the stomach. Very severe, sharp pains in the stomach all day and night. Great distension of stomach and bowels
3. Phosphorus 200 - Phosphorus is another homeopathic remedy for hiatus hernia with a sour taste and sour eructations after every meal. Belching large quantities of wind after eating. Throws up foods by the mouthfuls. Water is thrown up as soon as it gets warm in the stomach. Pain in stomach, relieved by cold foods, ices etc.
4. Natrum Phos 30 - Natrum Phos is prescribed where heartburn and sour belching are present. Belchings after eating. Spits mouthfuls of food. Vomiting of sour cheesy masses, especially in the morning. Heaviness and pressure in the epigastrium.
5. Carbo vegetabilis 3x - Carbo vegetabilis is excellent hiatus hernia homeopathic medicine with difficulty in breathing. Contractive pain extending to chest with distension of abdomen. Waterbrash, asthmatic breathing from flatulence. Belching after eating and drinking, temporary relief from belching. Eating the simplest kind of food causes sour belching. Belching, heaviness, fullness and sleepiness, tense fro flatulence with pain, worse lying down. The epigastric region is very sensitive.
6. Abies nigra 30 - Abies nigra is an effective homeopathy remedy for hiatus hernia with a sensation as if a hard-boiled egg had lodged in the cardiac end of the stomach. A distressing and constriction just above the pit of the stomach, as if everything were knotted up. Pain in the stomach immediately after eating. Waterbrash with choked feeling in the throat.
7. Nux vomica 30 - Nux vomica is the best homeopathic remedy for hiatus hernia with great sensitivity in the area of the stomach. Complaints after taking highly spicy food, coffee, and alcoholic drinks. Waterbrash, sour and bitter risings, nausea, and vomiting. Indigestion with hiatus hernia. The patient is highly irritable and sensitive to noise and light.
8. Lycopodium clavatum 200 - Lycopodium is indicated for hiatus hernia with great weakness of digestion with much bloating, heartburn, and indigestion after takin flatulent food, cabbage, beans, oysters and onions. Belchings rise only to the pharynx. The patient prefers hot food and hot drinks. Craving for sweets.
9. Pulsatilla nigricans 30 - Pulsatilla is effective homeopathic remedies for hiatal hernia where the complaints arise after taking fatty, rich foods. The stomach disordered and feels heavy. Waterbrash with a foul taste in the morning.

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