Cholecystitis refers to inflammation of the lining of the secondary gallbladder caused by an obstruction of the cystic duct. In general, cholecystitis is of the stone type and caused by a stone preventing the normal flow of bile which is thus infected. Cholecystitis can be easily treated. However, it can evolve and cause complications.
Symptoms of cholecystitis
The symptoms of cholecystitis are characterized by pain. Quite brief and occurring in attacks, the pain is felt in the right submammary region and radiates to the right shoulder. Of violent intensity and unable to be soothed with analgesics, this pain prevents breathing when it occurs. Various symptoms such as nausea and vomiting, a fever between 38 and 38.5°C, chills and an increased heart rate are generally associated with the pain. During the examination of the abdomen, it is possible to feel a slight induration of the abdominal wall in the area where the pain is located. The pain is perceptible by performing the Murphy maneuver, by compressing the right hypochondrium with the fingers.
The classic treatment of cholecystitis
The treatment of cholecystitis has medical and surgical components. Medical treatment is based on analgesics and antispasmodics to soothe the pain as well as antibiotics to fight the infection. The surgery consists of removing the inflamed bladder.
Natural remedies to soothe bladder pain
To soothe intense pain with ascending radiations, relieved by forward bending of the body, heat and strong compression of the abdomen and exacerbated when the patient is lying down, one should take 3 granules of Colocynthis in 6 and 7 Ch every 60 minutes. When the pain is intense, but dissipates suddenly and if the intensity does not vary according to the flexion or extension of the body, you should take 3 granules of Magnesia phos in 6 and 7 Ch per hour. 3 granules of Chamomilla vulgaris in 9 Ch every 60 minutes are indicated if the pain is unbearable and appears after intense emotions while it is soothed by placing a warm poultice on the painful area. When the pain is relieved by a frozen position in the right lateral decubitus and intensifies at the slightest movement, the solution is to take 3 granules of Bryonia alba in 6 or 7 Ch every hour.
Removing gallstones
The subject with cholecystitis must compose 5 granules of Calcarea carbonica in 7 Ch, Pareira brava in 5 Ch, Arnica in 5 Ch, Ocimum canum in 5 Ch, Belladona in 7 Ch, Lycopodium in 7 Ch and Berberis vulgaris in 5 Ch in a glass of water. He should shake the mixture well and drink a teaspoon every fifteen minutes. It is also advisable to boil a few flax seeds, an unpeeled black radish cut into pieces and Ribes nigrum in 100 cl of water. You have to wait until the amount of water is reduced by half to recover the juice in a bottle. Add 50 cl of brandy before letting the mixture rest for 72 hours. Drink the drink in a glass in the morning, when you get up, and a second one in the evening before going to bed for about twenty days.
