The digestive system contains the mouth, teeth, salivary glands, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, duodenum, jejunum, ileum, large intestine, caecum, colon, rectum anal canal. Disturbance in any of these parts can lead to stomach disorders.
Stomach disorders include indigestion and heartburn, hyperacidity, indigestion, inflammatory gastric complaints, gastritis, acid reflux. Hyperacidity or acid dyspepsia is due to the excretion of higher acids in the stomach. People with hyperacidity often have a feeling of heartburn. Heartburn is a painful burning feeling just below or behind the sternum. Heartburn has a feel of burning in the chest or throat. Sometimes, a taste stomach fluid in the back of the mouth. If these symptoms are more than twice a week, it may indicate gastro-oesophageal reflux disease. Other problems like- blood after passing stool, severe abdominal pain, heartburn not relieved by antacids, weight loss, ongoing vomiting, or diarrhea.
Gastrobin is a Homeopathic medicine that is used in the treatment of gastric disorders. It helps in regulating the acid level in the stomach, so helps in complaints of hyperacidity, heartburn, burning in the stomach, pain in the stomach, gastric sensitivity to pressure, acid eructation, and sour or acid vomiting.
- Manufacturer: Schwabe India Pvt. Ltd.
- Type of medicine: Homeopathic medicine, Alcohol content v/v 36%
- Main Indication: Gastric problems
Precaution/Safety: Due to alcohol content it is recommended that children, pregnant and lactating ladies, and with certain serious liver and alcohol problems, always consult a specialist.
Contraindications/side-effects/drug interaction: None known
Composition of Gastrobin
- Acidum sulphuricum 4x 10%
- Capsicum annum 3x 10%
- Natrum phosphoricum 1x 0.1%
- Phosphorus 5x 10%
- Robinia pseudocacia 2x 10%
- Excipients Q.S. Alcohol content v/v 36%
Know the Ingredients
1- Acidum sulphuricum 4x (10%)
This remedy is related to marked weakness, especially in the digestive tract, which causes a very relaxed feeling in the stomach with a craving for stimulants. The patient also feels tremors and weakness. There is a tendency to gangrene following mechanical injuries. The patient has a lack of patience. He is unwilling to answer questions, stays always in hurry. It is a very good remedy for heartburn with sour eructation. The patient has craving for alcohol. There is a typical sensation, water causes coldness of the stomach, so he must be mixed with liquors. There relaxed feeling in the stomach. The patient has aversion to the smell of coffee. There is sour vomiting. There is a desire for fresh food. Coldness in the stomach relieved by the application of heat. There is nausea with chilliness. There is a weak feeling, with a dragging sensation in the hips. It is a very good remedy for piles with oozing dampness. Rectum feels as if it had a big ball. If the patient has diarrhea, there is fetid, black with the sour odor of the body and an empty faint feeling in the stomach.
2- Capsicum annum 3x (10%)
It is well suited for people with a weak muscle, fiber, and there is not much of a reaction from the body. They are fat, weak, as opposed to doing any physical exertion, they are averse to go outside their routine and get homesick easily. There is burning at the tip of the tongue. There is much flatulence, especially in weak people. There is marked thirst, but drinking causes coldness in the body. It is a very good remedy for dysentery, where there is bloody mucus with burning, and a regular urge to pass stool. There are drawing pains in the back after a stool. The patient has a particular symptom that he feels thirsty after stool with shivering. It is a very good remedy for bleeding piles, with soreness in the anus. There is stinging pain during stool.
3- Natrum phosphoricum 1x(0.1%)
It is a remedy where there are problems with excess acidity. There are sour eructation and taste. There is sour vomiting. There is a yellow, creamy coating of the tongue and posterior portion of the roof of the mouth. Flatulence, with sour rising. There is colic, with symptoms of worms. The patient has greenish diarrhea.
4- Phosphorus 5x (10%)
This remedy is well suited to tall, slender people, narrow chested, with unhealthy skin. The patient is nervous all the time. The patient is sensitive to light, sound, odors, touch, thunderstorms, shifting of weather. There is always suddenness of symptoms. The patient is hungry soon after eating. There are a sour taste and sour eructation after every meal. Belching large quantities of wind, after eating. Vomiting, water is thrown up as soon as it gets warm in the stomach. It is useful in cases of vomiting soon after the operation. Food is difficult to be swallowed, comes up again. There is a pain in the stomach, which is relieved by cold food, ices. The region of the stomach painful to touch, or on walking. The patient has bad effects from eating too much salt.
There are sharp cutting pains. There are large yellow spots on the abdomen. There are extremely fetid stools and flatus. The patient has difficulty to expel stools, very long, narrow, hard stool. There is a desire for stool lying on the left side. There is great weakness after stool.
5- Robinia pseudocacia 2x (10%)
It is a very good remedy for hyperacidity. There is difficulty in starch digestion. There is gastric acidity which is accompanied by frontal headache. There is acrid eructation’s. Painful greenish vomiting, within pain in stomach, and flatulence, there are nocturnal burning pains in stomach and constipation with an urgent desire to pass stools. Stools and perspiration sour. There is a heaviness in the stomach. There is nausea, sour eructation, profuse vomiting of intensely sour fluid. There is great distension of the stomach. Sour stools, child smells sour.
Alcohol content v/v 36%.
Indications of Gastrobin
- Excess gastric acid
- Gastric disorders and associated symptoms
- Gastric mucous membrane inflammation
- Gastric sensitivity to pressure, acid eructation, and sour or acid vomiting
- Hyperacidity, heartburn, burning in the stomach, pressure, and pains in the stomach
- Irritable stomach with hyperacidity
- Regulating the acid level in the stomach
Dosage of Gastrobin
The recommended dosage is 10 to 15 drops (Unless otherwise prescribed). The drops should be taken 3 times per day before meals. A suitable diet is recommended to complement this therapy. If complaints are not relieved, consult a specialist.
- Side effects: No side effects of Gastrobin are known.
- Contraindications: No known contraindications.
- Presentation: 20 ml glass bottle pack.
- Price: 20ml @190.00