A chronic digestive problem or your eating habits can cause indigestion, which is a general term for discomfort in the upper abdomen.
Indigestion that isn’t brought on by an underlying disease may be relieved with lifestyle modifications and medication. Indigestion can be a symptom of other digestive diseases.
There are other options besides medication for treating indigestion, such as changing your lifestyle, which can help with digestion and alleviate uncomfortable symptoms.
Snacking frequently during the day.
Avoid fatty, spicy foods because they can cause heartburn.
Don’t eat before you lie down, and consume food more slowly.
· Stop smoking.
· Lose excess body weight.
Reduce your consumption of alcohol, coffee, and soft drinks.
· Get plenty of rest.
Stop using NSAIDs and other gastrointestinal irritants.
Practice relaxation techniques like yoga to lower your stress.
Causes
Numerous factors can contribute to indigestion, which can also be brought on by certain foods, beverages, or medications.
Eating excessively or hurriedly
Spicy, oily, or fatty foods
Too much booze, chocolate, caffeine, or carbonated drinks
· Smoking
· Alcohol
· Anxiety
Specific antibiotics, analgesics, and iron supplements
Other digestive issues, such as the following, can also contribute to indigestion:
Gastritis, a stomach inflammatory condition
· Peptic ulcers
· Celiac disease
· Gallstones
· Constipation
Disorders of the muscles, such as esophageal spasm.
· Pancreas inflammation (pancreatitis)
· Stomach cancer
· Intestinal blockage
Reduction in gastrointestinal blood flow (intestinal ischemia)
· Irritable bowel syndrome
· Renal failure
· Hypercalcaemia
Functional or non-ulcer dyspepsia is the term for indigestion with no apparent cause.
Symptoms
The following signs and symptoms could be present in indigestion sufferers:
·Early fullness during a meal.You may not be able to finish eating because even though you haven’t consumed much of your meal, you already feel full.
·Uncomfortable fullness after a meal.Overly prolonged feeling of fullness.
·Discomfort in the upper abdomen.Between your navel and the bottom of your breastbone, you experience a mild to severe pain.
·Burning in the upper abdomen.Between your navel and the bottom of your breastbone, you experience an unpleasant heat or burning sensation.
·Bloating in the upperYou experience an uneasy tightness in your abdomen as a result of a gas buildup.
·Nausea.You’re experiencing the urge to throw up.
Belching and vomiting are less common signs and symptoms.
Heartburn is a pain or burning sensation in the middle of your chest that may radiate into your neck or back during or after eating. Indigestion and heartburn are sometimes co-present conditions, but heartburn and indigestion are two distinct illnesses.
Complications
You might miss work or school due to your symptoms, even though indigestion usually doesn’t have any major complications. When indigestion is brought on by an underlying condition, that condition can also have complications of its own.
HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES
Since it promotes inner balance at the mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical levels, homoeopathy is a rapidly expanding system that is used throughout the world. When it comes to indigestion, many effective medicines are available in homoeopathy, but the selection depends on the patient’s individuality, taking the mental and physical health into consideration
NUX VOMICA 30—Nux vomica is one of the best treatments for indigestion, especially after overeating. It also helps with heartburn, constipation, and nausea.
Heartburn and flatulence. Indigestion with loose stools. Changeable stools, no two stools alike. Thirstlessness with nearly all complaints. **PULSATILLA NIGRICANS 30—**Pulsatilla is another top remedy for indigestion, which is caused by consuming rich foods, fats, pork, pastries, desserts, ice -creams, etc. Belchings, taste of food remains a long time after ices, fruits, pastry, etc.
CARBO VEGETABILIS 30—Carbo vegetabilis is excellent for indigestion with excessive flatulence. Indigestion can be brought on by overeating, consuming rich, fatty foods, eating too late in the evening, and sleeping soon after. The simplest food distresses. Digestion is slow; food putrefies before it digests. Contractive pains extending to the chest and distension of the abdomen.
ANACARDIUM ORIENTALE 30Anacardium is prescribed for indigestion that is brought on by consuming cold drinks or stress, including weak digestion with fullness and distension, heartburn that improves after eating but gets worse after 2-3 hours, empty feeling in the stomach, gastric pain that improves with eating but gets worse after 2-3 hours, and a feeling of a plug somewhere in the alimentary canal.
ABIES NIGRA 30Abies nigra is a good remedy for dyspepsia of the elderly with functional heart symptoms, which is characterized by indigestion with a feeling of constriction just above the pit of the stomach as if everything were knotted up, pain in the stomach that always comes on after eating, belching, and a sensation of a lump that hurts.
Arsenic is alb is a useful treatment for indigestion brought on by eating preserved food, as well as for dyspepsia brought on by acidic foods, ice cream, vinegar, and other things, as well as for nausea, retching, and vomiting after eating and drinking. It also relieves severe anxiety and restlessness.
IPECACUANHA 30Clean tongue is a leading Ipecac symptom, and the stomach is upset by fatty foods like pork, pastries, candy, and ice cream, among others. Ipecac is indicated for indigestion with constant nausea that is not relieved by vomiting.
NATRUM MURIATICUM 200—Natyrum muriaticum is prescribed for smokers’ indigestion, which includes loss of taste, a bitter aftertaste, blisters on the tongue, heartburn and extreme thirst, a feeling of sticking in the heart’s orifice, and a craving for salt and salty foods.
NATRUM CARBONICUM 200—Natrum carb is prescribed for indigestion in elderly individuals. These symptoms include weak digestion made worse by the smallest food mistakes, swollen, sensitive stomachs, heartburn brought on by consuming fats, and negative effects from drinking cold water that has been overheated.
LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM 200—Lycopodium clavatum is best for indigestion with great weakness of digestion and much bloating. Lycopodium patient prefer sweets and hot drinks and food. Eating ever so little creates fullness. Belching rise only to pharynx. Flatulence, much noisy, pressing out. Immediately after eating, abdomen is bloated and full. Complaints from flatulent food, cabbage, beans, oysters, and onions.
**ROBINIA 3X—**Robinia is recommended for indigestion with severe acidity, sour stomach, everything turns to acid, heartburn, acidity of the stomach at night when lying down, nausea with sour belching, profuse vomiting of an extremely sour fluid, and complaints that are exacerbated by eating fats, cabbage, turnips, raw fruits, and ice cream.
COLOCYNTHIS—Colocynthis is prescribed for indigestion with stomach pain that comes in waves, is better with doubled-up pressure and is worse with the least amount of food or drink, with the exception of coffee and tobacco use. Other symptoms of indigestion include complaints of heartburn from potatoes and other starchy foods, as well as indigestion brought on by anger.
If you have trouble eating breakfast, complaints about meat, potatoes, onions, or garlic, rancid belching after consuming fattening foods, noisy swallowing, loud belching, flatulence, pain after eating, or a sinking feeling in the epigastrium before eating, Thuja occ is prescribed.
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