Anorexia Nervosa
- The loss of appetite is known as Anorexia.
- Anorexia nervosa is a psychological eating disorder in which
a person refuses to eat adequately, in spite of hunger and they lose enough
weight to become emaciated.
- The illness usually begins with a normal weight – loss diet.
- The person eats very little, and refuses to stop dieting
after a reasonable weight loss.
- People most affected are female adolescents and young
adults.
Causative factors – Unknown.
- However, all patients have family and internal conflicts,
including sexual conflicts.
- Increased risk from peer pressure to be thin.
- History of slight overweight.
- Perfectionists, compulsive or overachieving personalities.
- Psychological stress.
- There are various causes for the loss of appetite:
- Psychological: stress, grief and anxiety disorders.
- Other causes may be bacterial or viral infections.
- Diseases like hypothyroidism, tuberculosis, chronic liver
disease, chronic kidney disease, hepatitis, and cancer can also lead to the
loss of appetite.
- Certain medications and drug addictions also cause Anorexia.
- Another significant reason for the loss of appetite is
Anorexia Nervosa.
Signs and Symptoms
- Weight loss of at least 25% of body weight without physical
illness.
- High energy level despite body wasting.
- Intense fear of obesity.
- Depression, Appetite loss, Constipation, Cold intolerance,
Refusal to maintain a minimum standard weight for age and height. Distorted
body image.
- The person continues to feel fat – even when emaciated.
Anorexia and Homoeopathic Remedies
- Homeopathic treatment for loss of appetite helps by safely
boosting the appetite. It works by correcting the cause of the anorexia to
enhance the appetite. These medicines are useful for treating anorexia in
patients of all age groups.
Alfalfa
- Poor Appetite
- Alfalfa helps tone up the appetite in a very natural way.
- Along with boosting the appetite, it also helps to provide
mental and physical strength to the body.
- Alfalfa works well in patients who experience a loss of
appetite accompanied by weight loss, loss of flesh and emaciation.
- In such cases, the medicine helps improve the appetite as
well as gain weight.
- Alfalfa is also a suitable homeopathic medicine for anorexia
nervosa and loss of appetite with weakness, fatigue, and exhaustion.
Antimonium Crudum
- Appetite has diminished After a Severe Disease
- Antim crud helps to stimulate appetite after a serious
illness.
- Complete and almost total loathing of food and drink, with a
tendency to be overweight at the beginning of the illness.
- A patient needing Antimonium Crudum experiences a loss of
appetite along with an aversion to every kind of food.
- But in some cases, the patient can eat acidic and sour
things and has an aversion to all other food.
- Many will feel peevish, sad and weepy with a tendency to be
sentimental.
- Nausea and a bitter taste in the mouth are accompanying
symptoms.
- Along with these features, the tongue feels thickly coated.
Arsenicum alb.
- Extreme fastidiousness especially about germs and dirt.
- Anorexia coupled with fear of being poisoned.
- Fear of getting certain diseases so they starve.
Bryonia
- Following a total loss of appetite, the lips and tongue
become very dry and constipation develops with hard, dry stools.
- The person cannot bear any movement and wants to be left
alone, becoming irritable, angry and nervous if disturbed.
- Thirsty only for large quantities of water.
Calcarea phosphorica
- Generally affects tall, usually slim women, with the illness
often following grief or an unfortunate love affair.
- Complaints of a colicky feeling and abdominal pain when
trying to eat.
Carbo vegitabilis
- Anorexia often follows a debilitating illness.
- The sufferer may appear pale and greyish and have a poor
memory and slow thought processes.
- The stomach feels very full after the smallest amount of
food or drink and can become very distended with wind.
Carcinosin
- Obsessive compulsive disorder.
- Perfectionism, fear of becoming fat, fear of rejection.
- Ailments from abuse, grief or fears, often related to
weight.
- Chronic insomnia, workaholics.
China
- Poor Appetite When Accompanied by a Sense of Abdominal
Fullness.
- China is a beneficial homeopathic remedy for improving
appetite.
- It works by helping to aid the desire to eat.
- This medicine works well in cases of reduced appetite with a
sensation of fullness in the abdomen.
- China is useful when a person feels full in the stomach all
the time.
- The abdomen feels bloated and distended.
- There is an aversion to all food.
- China works well in cases where there is not a complete loss
of appetite, but the patient feels satiated by eating very little.
- Lastly, China is a beneficial homeopathic medicine for a
total loss of appetite during malaria.
Colchicum
- Poor Appetite When Nausea Accompanies Anorexia
- Colchicum is another excellent homeopathic treatment for
loss of appetite.
- It helps to promote appetite in such cases.
- Colchicum is most helpful when nausea is present along with
the loss of appetite.
- A person requiring Colchicum gets nauseous at the thought or
smell of food.
- The patient feels hungry, but on smelling food, the appetite
vanishes.
- If food is somehow taken, it seems tasteless. Colchicum
helps to reduce nausea and stimulate the appetite.
Hyosyamus
- Anorexia plus mania, insanity, fear of being poisoned.
- Could have pathological jealousy, over concern about weight
and getting fat.
Ignatia
- It helps to bring back appetite in patients who have lost
their appetite due to depression.
- The guiding feature to use Ignatia is a loss of appetite
from sadness, grief, and depression.
- A patient needing Ignatia refuses to eat and is absorbed in
sad thoughts.
- The person feels sad and disappointed all the time, avoids
the company of people, and feels exhausted both mentally and physically
- Perfectionism, fear of becoming fat, fear of rejection.
- Hysteria – loss of control of emotions, fainting.
- Ailments from grief or big disappointment, often related to
weight.
Lycopodium muriaticum
- The illness may follow a large fright or extreme anger.
- A tendency to become very apprehensive, weepy and cannot
bear to be contradicted.
- Any slight amount of appetite disappears on eating the first
mouthful of food, especially cold food.
- The symptoms are worse between 4 and 8 pm.
Natrum mur
- Most often indicated remedy in anorexia, a lot of guilt.
- Fear of being rejected, hurt easily, very self conscious.
- Dry lips, emaciate, dry skin, constipated, loose appetite.
- Behind this is perfectionism and fear of becoming fat. Nat
mur have more confidence.
Phosphorus
- Food is vomited up as soon as it reaches the stomach.
- This remedy is well suited to tall, slim, sensitive,
artistic types who are oversensitive to light, noise, smells and touch.
- Great weakness and loss of strength is also experienced.
Phosphoric acid
- Ailments from grief with loss of appetite with emaciation,
pining away from loss of love, second stage they get indifferent to all
emotions and food.
- Deadness inside (Sepia, Aurum met).
- Grief – anorexia than some chronic disease.
Platina met.
- Obsessed with their appearance, fear of becoming fat.
- Very obsessive and impulsive personality, egocentric and
arrogant, all tied up with their sexuality, religious mania.
Psorinum
- Psorinum works well when there is a loss of appetite, but
there is a constant thirst for water.
- Other symptoms include belching that tastes like rotten
eggs.
- Psorinum is also useful for the loss of appetite and
weakness arising after an acute disease.
- In such cases, Psorinum helps to improve appetite as well as
provide strength to the body.
Pulsatilla
- Feeling of worthlessness, unloved, loneliness, fixed ideas
about.
- Food especially certain foods are bad, than amount of foods
that are bad grows, fear of gaining weight, pulsatilla’s gain weight easily,
they can eat a pastry and swear they gained weight.
- Ignatia, Puls. and Nat. mur. are constantly weighing
themselves.
- Scanty menses.
Sepia
- Anorexia plus hormonal problems, nausea, sensitivity to
smell.
- Disgust for food, worse since childbirth, hormones causes
lack of appetite.
Stapysagria
- Acute of Carcinosin, more visible, visibly upset. Carcinosin
can control it more, Staph. may it more.
- Deep sense of worthlessness and depression, even suicidal.
- Humiliation, mortified, put down, criticized, zero
confidence.
Tarentula
- Mania could be religious mania.
- Underneath you have a fear of being poisoned. Obsessiveness
about weight, very restless and hyper energy people, they do everything fast –
talk, move.
Thuja
- Fear of being impure, dirty blood, anxiety about health,
obsessed with idea of have to clean themselves out.
Veratrum alb
- Religious mania, loquacious, end of world is coming.
- Punish themselves, fast to appease god. Behind this you see
guilt.
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