Ornithogalum umbellatum

Ornithogalum umbellatum
(star of bethlehem)
* To be considered in chronic gastric and other abdominal indurations, possibly cancer of
intestinal tract, especially of stomach and caecum.
* Center of action is the pylorus, causing painfulcontraction 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 haemorrhage.
- Pains increased when food passes pyloric outlet.Vomiting of coffee-g ground-looking
matter.
- Distention of stomach.
- Frequent belching of offensive flatus.
- Painful sinking across epigastrium.
Dose
- Single doses of mother tincture and await action.