Acidity of Stomach

Acids: before meals, or as an acid wine during meals. For acid eructations, especially of sulphuretted hydrogen. Acid, Carbolic: to stop fermentation or to relieve an irritable condition of the stomach. Alkalies: after meals, best as bicarbonates; with flatulence give magnesia if there is constipation; lime water if there is diarrhea. Ammonia: in headache from acidity. Ammonium Bicarbonate. Atropine: for gastric hypersecretion. Bismuth: in gastritis due to chronic absce or chronic alcoholism. Very well combined with arsenic in very chronic cases, with hydrocyanic acid in more acute cases. Calcium Carbonate, precipitated. Cerium Oxalate. Charcoal: as biscuits. Creosote: same as carbolic acid. Ichthalbin. Ipecacuanha: in small doses in pregnancy where flatulence and acidity are both present. Kino: useful along with opium. Lead Acetate: in gastric catarrh and pyrosis. Lime Water. Liquor Pota æ: useful for both gastric and urinary acidity. Magnesium Carbonate. Magnesium Oxide. Manganese Dioxide: sometimes relieves, probably acting like charcoal. Mercury: When liver deranged and stools pale. Nux Vomica: in small doses before meals, especially in pregnancy, or in chronic alcoholism. Pota ium Bitartrate. Pota ium Carbonate. Pulsatilla: every four hours in hot water. Silver Nitrate: same as silver oxide. Silver Oxide: especially useful when acidity is accompanied by neuralgic pains in stomach. Sulphurous Acid: if a ociated with the vomiting of a pasty material, presence of sarcinæ. Tannalbin: when there is abundance of mucus. Tannic Acid: in acidity a ociated with chronic catarrh and flatulence. Glycerin 1 minim, tannic acid 4 grn., as pill.