Splenomegaly is an enlarged spleen. This can cause stomach discomfort, decreased blood flow and filtering, and anemia.
The spleen is a part of our lymphatic system. It helps the immune system by storing white blood cells and helping in the creation of antibodies.
It’s responsible for:
- filtering antibody-coated bacteria
- reprocessing old red blood cells
- recycling iron in hemoglobin
- It is a major blood filter, it helps remove old and damaged red blood cells and bacteria.
- It is part of the lymphatic system and produces lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell that is a part of the immune system that helps to prevent and fight infection).
- It acts as a reservoir for red blood cells and platelets, should the body need them.
Our spleen is extremely important in our body’s fight against infection because it’s the source of two types of white blood cells: B cells and T cells. White blood cells protect our body from bacteria and infections.
The spleen is located in the left upper quadrant of the abdomen, just beneath the diaphragm and next to the stomach. It has a very rich blood supply since it is responsible for filtering blood, and it is protected by the 9th, 10th, and 11th ribs.
Our spleen is a normally fist-sized organ that’s located on the upper left side of our abdomen, under our left ribcage. Our spleen belongs to our lymphatic system and our immune system. It filters our blood, removes waste products and produces white blood cells to fight infections. Conditions affecting the spleen itself or the blood that passes through it can cause it to become swollen and enlarged.
Size:
An easy way to remember the actual size of the spleen is:
The rule for the weight of the spleen:
1×3×5×7×9×11
An adult spleen measures around by 1-5 inches.
Its weight is about 7 oz.
The location of the spleen is the 9th and 11th ribs.
The spleen has two types of tissue; the red pulp is responsible for filtering blood, while the white pulp is responsible for its immune function.
Splenomegaly or enlarged spleen is not normal and occurs because of another underlying disease. Signs of an enlarged spleen do not cause symptoms and usually are caused by an underlying illness, for example:
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- Infections (mononucleosis, toxoplasmosis, endocarditis),
- Cancers, for example, lymphoma and leukemia,
- Liver diseases (cirrhosis due to excessive alcohol use),
- Inflammatory diseases (rheumatoid arthritis, sarcoidosis),
- Trauma,
- Infiltrated diseases (Gaucher disease, amyloidosis).
Examples of signs and symptoms caused by an illness, which results in an enlarged spleen may include:
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- Weakness,
- Easy bruising and shortness of breath (anemia),
- Weight loss (cancer),
- Fever (infection),
- Jaundice,
- Nausea and vomiting (liver disease).
Signs and symptoms of an enlarged spleen usually do not occur, but some patients may have:
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- Indigestion and a feeling of fullness because the enlarged spleen can compress the stomach,
- Hiccups because of diaphragm irritation
- Pain in the upper abdomen that may radiate to the back or shoulder blade.
Symptoms of Enlarged Spleen or Splenomegaly
Symptoms you may experience with an enlarged spleen include:
- pressure or pain in the left upper part of your abdomen (near the stomach),
- feeling full without eating a large meal,
- Pain in left shoulder blade or shoulder area when taking a deep breath.
- Because of its location, should it enlarge, the spleen can irritate the diaphragm and cause hiccups and perhaps some pain in the left upper quadrant of the abdomen.
- Because of its location adjacent to the diaphragm, pain from the spleen may radiate to the back and be felt in the shoulder blade.
- If the enlarged spleen compresses the stomach, the patient may feel full after eating a small amount, and therefore are unable to eat large meals.
Examples of illnesses that cause signs and symptoms may include:
Anemia, which causes symptoms that include:
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- Weakness,
- Fatigue,
- Shortness of breath.
Low platelet count (thrombocytopenia) due to spontaneously bleeding. Signs and symptoms of a low platelet count include
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- Fatigue,
- Excessive bleeding,
- Prolonged bleeding from cuts,
- Spontaneous bleeding from the gums or nose,
- Yellowing of the skin and eyes (jaundice).
Liver disease (cirrhosis), which causes symptoms and signs that may include:
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- Jaundice,
- Fatigue,
- Weakness,
- Itching,
- Loss of appetite,
- Easy bruising.
Ineffective white blood cell function may cause infections more often for example:
- Heavy periods (menstrual) that are unusual,
- Deep vein thrombosis (DVT),
- Bleeding that will not stop.
Blood disorders
The spleen will enlarge when it performs more of its duties to filter blood or manufacture blood cells. Therefore, any disease or condition that damages red blood cells, and requires them to be filtered and removed from the bloodstream, will cause the spleen to become larger.
Conditions such as hemolytic anemia, where red blood cells are damaged and broken down (hemolyzed) can cause the spleen to enlarge. Misshapen red blood cells, like those found in sickle cell disease, thalassemia, and spherocytosis, may be damaged when they try to squeeze through small capillary blood vessels. These damaged red blood cells need to be culled from the bloodstream and are filtered out by the spleen.
Decreased blood flow
The spleen will enlarge if there is a decrease in blood flow through the splenic vein. This may cause spleen congestion and enlargement. This situation may be associated with liver disease and portal hypertension. Damage to liver cells makes it difficult for blood to flow normally, and as blood backs up in the portal vein system, it may affect the pressure in the splenic vein. The decreased ability of blood to drain from the spleen causes it to become congested and grow larger. People with congestive heart failure may have an enlarged liver and spleen because of poor blood flow to and from the heart.
Cancer
Leukemia and lymphoma may be associated with abnormal white cells that can invade the spleen and increase its size.
Other cancers can spread or metastasize to the spleen and cause it to enlarge.
Metabolic diseases
Certain metabolic diseases may cause the spleen to enlarge, including Hurler Syndrome, Gaucher disease, and Niemann-Pick Disease.
In sarcoidosis and amyloidosis, the spleen can be involved and become enlarged with abnormal protein deposits.
Infection
Some infections may cause splenomegaly including:
- Infectious mononucleosis caused by the Epstein-Barr virus,
- Cytomegalovirus,
- HIV/AIDS,
- Viral hepatitis,
- Malaria,
- Tuberculosis,
- Anaplasmosis.
Trauma
Trauma, for example, from an accident, can damage the spleen.
Diagnosis
An enlarged Spleen (Splenomegaly) is most often found on physical examination or it is found incidentally when initially examining a patient (and it then serves as a clue to an underlying diagnosis), With its location protected beneath the left lower ribs, a normal spleen is usually not felt on physical exam, except in some unusually thin individuals. As it enlarges, the spleen grows from the left upper quadrant of the abdomen towards the umbilicus. Sometimes the doctor will ask the patient to roll on their right side to better attempt to feel the spleen.
Tests required for enlarged spleen (splenomegaly) are X-rays, CT scan, MRI, or ultrasound.
Treatment for Splenomegaly
Treatment for splenomegaly is directed to the care of the underlying condition.
Splenomegaly can be prevented by preventing the underlying illness as best as possible. An enlarged spleen is at risk for damage when it grows beyond the protection given to it by the lower ribs. Activity may need to be restricted to prevent any trauma or damage to the spleen.
The prognosis of someone with an enlarged spleen depends upon the underlying condition and its method of treatment.
Allopathic Treatment for splenomegaly
Because splenomegaly is due to an underlying illness, treatment will depend upon the primary cause. In some situations, removal of the spleen (splenectomy) may be part of the allopathic treatment. For example, in hereditary spherocytosis (a condition in which red blood cells are abnormal and shaped like a sphere instead of the concave disk shape).
These abnormal red blood cells are filtered from the bloodstream, which causes anemia and an enlarged spleen. Splenectomy limits the number of red blood cells destroyed and helps treat the disease but without spleen many other diseases make nest in that patient.
Homeopathic Treatment for Splenomegaly
As said earlier that splenomegaly is due to an underlying illness, treatment will depend upon the primary cause but there is no any theory in Homeopathy to remove an organ instead of to treat it.
Here are few Homeopathic medicines for spleen diseases causing splenomegaly:
Arsenicum Album
A profoundly acting remedy on every organ and tissue. Debility, exhaustion, and restlessness, with nightly aggravation, irritable weakness. Great thirst; drinks much, but little at a time. Nausea, retching, vomiting, after eating or drinking. Anxiety in pit of stomach. Burning pain. Heartburn, long-lasting eructation. Vomiting of blood, bile, green mucus, or brown-black mixed with blood. Stomach extremely irritable; seems raw, as if torn. Gastralgia, dyspepsia from vinegar, acids, ice-cream, ice-water, tobacco.
Terrible fear and dyspnea, with gastralgia; faintness, icy coldness, great exhaustion. Malignant symptoms. Unable to lie down; fears suffocation. Extremities trembling, twitching, spasms, weakness, heaviness, uneasiness. Cramps in calves. Swelling of feet.
Gnawing, burning abdominal pains; relieved by heat. Liver and spleen enlarged, painful. Ascites, anasarca. Abdomen swollen and painful, pain on coughing.
Skin itching, burning, swellings; edema, eruption, popular, dry, rough, scaly; worse cold and scratching. Malignant pustules. Ulcers with offensive discharge. Poisoned wounds. Urticaria, with burning and restlessness. Psoriasis. Scirrhous. Icy coldness of body. Epithelioma of the skin. Gangrenous inflammations.
Rectum painful, spasmodic protrusion of rectum. Tenesmus. Burning pain and pressure in rectum and anus. Stool small, offensive, dark, with much prostration. Worse at night, and after eating and drinking; from chilling stomach, alcoholic abuse, spoiled meat. Dysentery dark, bloody, very offensive. Cholera, with intense agony, prostration, and burning thirst. Body cold as ice. Hemorrhoids burn like fire; relieved by heat. Skin excoriated about anus.
Urine scanty, burning, involuntary. Bladder as if paralyzed. Aluminous. Epithelial cells; cylindrical clots of fibrin and globules of pus and blood. After urinating, feeling of weakness in abdomen. Bright’s disease. Diabetes.
Septic fevers. Intermittent. Exhaustion. Hay-fever. Cold sweats. Typhoid. Delirium. Restlessness.
Natrum Muriaticum
Dropsies and edemas, anemia, leukocytosis, intermittent fever, chlorosis, many disturbances of the alimentary tract and skin. Great debility; most weakness felt in the morning in bed. Coldness. Emaciation most notable in neck. Great liability to take cold. Dry mucous membranes. Constrictive sensation throughout the body. Great weakness and weariness. Oversensitive to all sorts of influences. Hyperthyroidism. Addison’s disease. Diabetes.
Hungry, yet loose flesh. Heartburn, with palpitation. Unquenchable thirst. Sweats while eating. Craving for salt. Aversion to bread, to anything slimy. Throbbing in pit. Sticking sensation in cardiac orifice. Cutting pain in abdomen. Distended. Pain in abdominal ring on coughing.
Burning pains and stitching after stool. Anus contracted, torn, bleeding. Constipation; stool dry, crumbling. Painless and copious diarrhea, preceded by pinching pain in abdomen.
Tachycardia. Sensation of coldness of heart. Heart and chest feel constricted. Fluttering, palpitating; intermittent pulse. Heart’s pulsations shake body. Intermits on lying down.
Pain in back. Every movement accelerates the circulation. Palms hot and perspiring. Arms and legs, but especially knees, feel weak. Hangnails. Dryness and cracking about fingernails. Numbness and tingling in fingers and lower extremities. Sleepy in forenoon. Nervous jerking during sleep. Bad dreams.
Skin: Greasy, oily, especially on hairy parts. Dry eruptions. Fever blisters. Urticaria; itch and burn. Crusty eruptions. Warts on palms of hands. Eczema; raw, red, and inflamed. Alopecia. Hives, itching after exertion.
Fever. Chill in morning. Violent thirst, increases with fever. Fever-blisters. Coldness of the body, and continued chilliness. Hydremic in chronic malarial states with weakness, constipation, loss of appetite, etc. Sweats on every exertion.
Conium Maculatum
Debility, hypochondriasis, urinary troubles, tumors, trembling, and palpitation. Cancerous diathesis. Arteriosclerosis. Caries of sternum. Enlarged glands.
Soreness about the root of tongue. Terrible nausea, acrid heartburn and acid eructation. Painful spasms of the stomach. Amelioration from eating and aggravation a few hours after meals; acidity and burning; painful spot the level of the sternum.
Severe aching in and around the liver. Chronic jaundice, and pains in right hypochondrium. Sensitive, bruised, swollen, knife-like pains. Painful tightness.
Frequent urging for stools; hard, with tenesmus. Tremulous weakness after every stool. Heat and burning in rectum during stool. Difficult urination. It flows and stops again. Interrupted discharge. Dribbling.
Dry cough, almost continuous, hacking; worse, evening and at night; caused by dry spot in larynx with itching in chest and throat, when lying down, talking or laughing, and during pregnancy. Oppressed breathing, constriction of chest; pains in chest. Dorsal pain between shoulders. Dull aching in lumbar and sacral region.
Trembling extremities especially lower, Muscular weakness, Putting feet on chair relieves pain. Axillary glands pain, with numb feeling down arm. Induration after contusions. Yellow skin, with popular eruption; yellow fingernails. Glands enlarged and indurated, also mesenteric. Flying stitches through the glands. Tumors, piercing pains; worse, at night. Chronic ulcers with fetid discharge. Sweat as soon as one sleeps, or even when closing eyes. Night and morning sweat, with offensive odor, and smarting in skin.
Ferrum Metalicum
Best adapted to young weakly persons, anemic and chlorotic, with pseudo-plethora, who flush easily; cold extremities; over sensitiveness; worse after any active effort. Weakness from mere speaking or walking though looking strong. Pallor of skin, mucous membranes, face, alternating with flushes. Pseudo-plethora. Muscles flabby and relaxed. Chest oppressed; breathing difficult.
Voracious appetite, or absolute loss of appetite. Loathing of sour things. Attempts to eat bring on diarrhea. Spits up food by the mouthful. Gastroesophageal reflux, without nausea. Nausea and vomiting after eating. Vomiting immediately after eating or after midnight. Distention and pressure in the stomach after eating. Heat and burning in stomach. Soreness of abdominal walls. Flatulent dyspepsia.
Heart palpitation. Sense of oppression. Anemic murmur. Pulse full, but soft and yielding; also, small and weak. Heart suddenly bleeds into the blood vessels, and as suddenly draws a reflux, leaving pallor of surface. Skin pale; flushes readily; pits on pressure. General coldness of extremities; head and face hot.
Stool undigested, at night, while eating or drinking, painless. Ineffectual urging; stool hard, followed by backaches or cramping pain in rectum; prolapses recti; itching of anus, especially young children. Urine involuntary; worse daytime. Tickling in urethra extending to bladder.
Phosphorus
Destructive metabolism. Yellow atrophy of the liver and sub-acute hepatitis, jaundice in patients with Cirrhosis of Liver, stool very offensive, vomiting of blood, desire for cold drinks, juices and ice creams.
Hunger soon after eating. Sour taste and sour eructation after every meal. Belching large quantities of wind, after eating. Throws up ingest by the mouthfuls. Vomiting; water is thrown up as soon as it gets warm in the stomach. Postoperative vomiting. Cardiac opening seems contracted, too narrow; the food scarcely swallowed, comes up again. Pain in stomach; relieved by cold food, ices. Region of stomach painful to touch, or on walking. Inflammation of stomach, with burning extending to throat and bowels. Bad effects of eating too much salt.
Abdomen feels cold. Sharp, cutting pains. A very weak, empty, gone sensation felt in whole abdominal cavity. Liver congested. Acute hepatitis. Fatty degeneration. Pancreatic disease. Splenomegaly. Large, yellow spots on abdomen.
Stool very fetid stools and flatus. Long, narrow, hard, like a dog’s and difficult to expel. Desire for stool on lying especially on left side. Painless, copious debilitating diarrhea. Green mucus with grains like sago. Involuntary; seems as if anus remained open. Great weakness after stool. Discharge of blood from rectum, during stool. White, hard stools. Bleeding hemorrhoids. Hematuria, especially in acute Bright’s disease. Turbid, brown, with red sediment.
Acid Sulphuricum
Heartburn; sour eructation; sets teeth on edge, Water causes coldness of stomach, Sour vomiting. Desire for fresh food. Hiccough. Coldness of stomach relieved by applied heat Nausea with chilliness, Weak feeling, with dragging into the hips and small of back. Feeling as if hernia would protrude, especially left side (increased pressure). Splenomegaly.
Piles; oozing dampness. Rectum feels as if it had a big ball. Diarrhea, fetid, black, with sour odor of body, and empty faint feeling in abdomen.
Ecchymosis. Petechiae. Purpura hemorrhagica. Livid, red, itching blotches. Hemorrhage of black blood from all outlets. Cicatrices turn red and blue and become painful. Chilblains with gangrenous tendency. Carbuncles, boils and other staphylococcus and streptococcus infections.
Carbolicum Acidum
Stomach pains are terrible; come and go suddenly. Physical exertion brings on abscess. Putrid discharges. Scarlet fever, with marked tendency to destruction of tissue internally, and fetid odor. Spasmodic coughs. Arthritis. Constant belching, nausea, vomiting, dark olive green. Heat rises up esophagus. Flatulent distention of stomach and abdomen. Painful flatulence, low apatite, Fermentative dyspepsia with bad taste and breath. Splenomegaly. Puerperal fever, with offensive vaginal discharge. Irritating leucorrhoea, causing itching and burning. Itching vesicles, with burning pain. Burns tend to ulcerate.
Constipation, with very offensive breath. Bloody, like scrapings of intestines. Great tenesmus. Diarrhea; stools thin, black, putrid. Urine almost black. Diabetes. Irritable bladder in old men with frequent urination at night, of probable prostatic nature.
Ferrum Arsenicosum
Hepatomegaly and splenomegaly, with fever ( Enlarged spleen with high fever of a continued type); albuminuria. Simple and pernicious anemia and chlorosis, pale, jaundiced, emaciated; abdomen filled with enlarged and indurated liver and spleen, slightly tender to pressure. Skin dry. Eczema, psoriasis, impetigo.
Constipation, or, sometimes, colliquative diarrhea, the stools consisting of undigested matter and mucus, no thirst during any stage of the fever; heat intense and prolonged with slight burning of the whole body, emaciation, and debility.
Ferrum Iodatum
Scrofulous affections, glandular enlargements, and tumors call for this remedy. Crops of boils. Acute nephritis following eruptive diseases. Uterine displacements. Body emaciated Anemia Exophthalmic goiter following suppression of menses. Debility following drain upon vital forces. Impetigo of the cheek.
Splenomegaly. Food seems to push up into throat, as if it had not been swallowed. Fullness, even after a little food; stuffed feeling, as if she could not lean forward. Throat sore, as if of a splinter, shooting in different directions. Hoarse.
Urine dark. Sweet smelling. Crawling sensation in urethra and rectum. Sensation as if urine were stopped at fossa naviculars. Difficulty in retaining urine. Incontinence in anemic children.
Urtica Urens
Profuse discharge from mucous surfaces. Enuresis and urticaria. Spleen affections. Splenomegaly. Antidotes ill-effects of eating shellfish. Symptoms return at the same time every year. Gout and uric acid diathesis. Favors elimination. A remedy for agalactia and lithalsas. Rheumatism associated with urticaria-like eruptions. Neuritis. Vertigo, headache with spleen pains. Diarrhea chronic disease of large intestine characterized by large secretion of mucus.
Pain in acute gout deltoid; pain in ankles, wrists. Itching blotches. Urticaria, burning heat, with formication; violent itching. Consequences of suppressed nettle rash. Rheumatism alternates with nettle-rash. Burn confined to skin. Urticaria nodose. Erythema, with burning and stinging. Burns and scalds. Chicken-pox. Angioneurotic edema. Herpes labialis with sensation of heat and itching. Itching and stinging of scrotum. General heat in bed with soreness over abdomen. Fever of gout. Tropical fever.
Cardus Marianus
The action of Cardus Marianus is centered in the liver, spleen and portal system, causing soreness, pain, jaundice. Has specific relation to the vascular system. Abuse of alcoholic beverages, especially beer. Varicose veins and ulcers. Diseases of miners, associated with asthma. Dropsical conditions depending on liver disease, and when due to pelvic congestion and hepatic disease. Splenomegaly. Disturbs sugar metabolism. Splenomegaly. Influenza when liver is affected. Debility. Hemorrhages, especially connected with hepatic disease, dropsical accumulation of water in abdomen (ascites).
The next field is bleeding consequent to liver damage, liver pain and sensitiveness, feel fatigued or tired and have bouts of nausea and vomiting due to Liver Cirrhosis. Taste bitter. Aversion to salt meat. Appetite small; tongue furred; nausea; retching; vomiting of green, acid fluid. Stitches in left side of stomach, near spleen. Gallstone disease with enlarged liver.
Pain in region of liver. Left lobe very sensitive. Fullness and soreness, with moist skin. Constipation; stools hard, difficult, knotty; alternates with diarrhea. Stools bright yellow. Swelling of gallbladder with painful tenderness. Hyperemia of liver, with jaundice. Cirrhosis, with dropsy.
Hemorrhagic piles, prolapse or rectum, burning pain in anus and rectum, hard and knotting, clayey stools. Profuse diarrhea due to rectal cancer. Urine cloudy; golden-colored.
Itching on lying, at night. Varicose ulcers. Eruption on lower part of sternum. Pain in hip-joint, spreading through buttocks and down thigh; worse from stooping. Difficult rising. Weakness felt in feet, especially after sitting.
Calcarea Carbonica
Splenomegaly. Swelling of glands, scrofulous and rachitic conditions. Tickling cough, fleeting chest pains, nausea, acidity and dislike of fat. Gets out of breath easily. Frequent sour eructation; sour vomiting. Heartburn and loud belching. Cramps in stomach; worse, pressure, cold water. Ravenous hunger. Swelling over pit of stomach, like a saucer turned bottom up. Repugnance to hot food. Pain in epigastric region to touch. Thirst; longing for cold drinks. Aggravation while eating. Hyperchlorhydria.
Abdomen: Sensitive to slightest pressure. Liver region painful when stooping. Cutting in abdomen; swollen abdomen. Incarcerated flatulence. Inguinal and mesenteric glands swollen and painful. Cannot bear tight clothing around the waist. Distention with hardness. Gall-stone colic.
Stool – crawling and constriction in rectum. Stool large and hard; whitish, watery, sour. Prolapse anis, and burning, stinging hemorrhoids. Diarrhea of undigested, food, fetid, with ravenous appetite. Children’s diarrhea. Constipation; stool at first hard, then pasty, then liquid. Urine dark, brown, sour, fetid, abundant, with white sediment, bloody. Irritable bladder. Enuresis.
Palpitation at night and after eating. Palpitation with feeling of coldness, with restless oppression of chest; after suppressed eruption. Pain as if sprained; can scarcely rise.
Chill – internally in stomach region. Fever with sweat. Pulse full and frequent. Chilliness and heat. Partial sweats. Night sweats, especially on head, neck and chest. Hectic fever. Heat at night during menstruation, with restless sleep.
Skin unhealthy; readily ulcerating; flaccid. Small wounds do not heal readily. Glands swollen. Nettle rash; better in cold air. Warts on face and hands. Petechial eruptions. Chilblains. Boils.
Iodum
All glandular structures, respiratory organs, circulatory system are especially affected. Abnormal vasoconstriction, capillary congestion followed by edema, ecchymosis, hemorrhages, and nutritive disturbances. Splenomegaly. Throbbing at pit of stomach. Ravenous hunger and much thirst. Empty eructation, as if every particle of food were turned into gas. Anxious and worried if he does not eat. Loss flesh, yet hungry and eating well.
Hepatomegaly. Jaundice. Mesenteric glands enlarged. Pancreatic disease. Cutting pain in abdomen. Hemorrhage at every stool. Diarrhea, whitish, frothy, fatty. Constipation, with ineffectual urging; better by drinking cold milk. Constipation alternating with diarrhea.
Urine frequent and copious, dark yellow-green, thick, acrid with cuticle on surface. Menstruation irregular. Uterine hemorrhage. Skin hot, dry, yellow and withered. Glands enlarged. Nodosities. Anasarca of cardiac disease. Flushes of heat all over body. Marked fever, restlessness, red cheeks, apathetic. Profuse sweat.
Capsicum
Burning in tip of tongue. Atonic dyspepsia. Much flatulence, especially in debilitated subjects. Intense craving for stimulants. Vomiting, sinking at pit of stomach. Much thirst; but drinking causes shuddering. Splenomegaly.
Stool – bloody mucus, with burning and tenesmus; drawing pain in back after stool. Thirsty after stool, with shivering. Bleeding piles, with soreness of anus. Stinging pain during stool. Coldness, with ill-humor. Shivering after drinking. Chill begins in back; better, heat. Must have something hot to back. Thirst before chill.
Ceanothus Americanus
Best medicine for the spleen. Splenomegaly. Ague cake of malaria. A left-sided remedy generally. Anemic patients where liver and spleen are at fault. Diarrhea and dysentery. Heart disordered. Intermittent fever. Jaundice. Marked blood pressure, reducing powers. Active hemostatic, materially reducing the clotting of blood, palpitation and dyspnea on exertion along with splenomegaly. Insomnia, nightmares. Intermittent fever with splenic enlargements. Cheeks and ears hot, with cold fingers, pulse 120; throbbing carotid arteries.
Congested feelings in lungs, Palpitation and dyspnea, with enlarged spleen. Pulse full and very strong, heart’s pulsations visible through the clothes. Heart beat so hard it shook him all over. Chest feels too small for heart.
Splenetic pain all up the left side, deep-seated pain in left hypochondrium; pain and fullness in left side; cutting pain. Pain, inflammation, enlargement of spleen, deep-seated pain in left hypochondrium, hypertrophy of spleen. Leukemia. Violent dyspnea. Menses profuse, and yellow weakening leucorrhoea. Unable to lie on left side. Pain in liver and back.
Diarrhea. Dysentery. Stool light brown, with loud flatus. Continual bearing down in rectum with constricting sensation. Constant urging to urinate. Green; frothy; contains bile, sugar.
Quercus Robur or Aspeedosperma
Quercus Robur/Aspeedosperma/Corylaceae or Cupuliferae.
Alcoholism. Breath, offensive. Constipation. Diarrhea. Dropsy (splenic). Splenomegaly. Fistula. Giddiness. Gout. Intermittent fever. Leucocythemia splenic. Spleen affections, ascites and dropsy of lower extremities, intermittent fevers, gnawing at pit of stomach. Flatulent dyspepsia, diarrhea, polyuria, Fluttering and irregular heart (Bradycardia). Gouty eczema. Dropsy. Tottering gait. Varicose veins.
China Officinalis
Hectic fever, Intermittent fever, Hectic fever, Traumatic fever, Jaundice, Liver, diseases of; cirrhosis of. Meniere’s disease, Psoriasis, Spleen affections, splenomegaly, Gall-stone colic. Alcoholism. Amblyopia. Anemia. Aphthae. Apoplexy Appetite, disordered. Asthma. Back, weakness of. Bilious attack. Catarrhal affections. Coma. Constipation. Cough. Debility. Delirium. Diarrhea. Dropsy. Dyspepsia. Liver diseases; Liver cirrhosis, Varicose veins.
Cough. Debility. Delirium. Diarrhea. Dropsy. Dyspepsia. Ears, deafness; noises in. Emissions. Empyema. Erysipelas. Facial neuralgia. Hemorrhages. Hemorrhoids. Headache. Hip-joint pain.
Bryonia Alba
Alcoholism. Amenorrhea. Aphthae. Apoplexy. Asthma. Bilious attack. Cancer. Chlorosis. Constipation. Consumption. Diarrhea. Dropsy. Dyspepsia. Eczema. Enteric fever. Eruptions. Gastroenteritis. Hemorrhages. Hands, swollen. Headache. Heart inflammation. Intermittent fevers. Jaundice. Liver diseases. Lumbago. Measles. Meningitis. Menstruation, vicarious. Miliaria. Puerperal fever. Pyuria. Relapsing fever. Remittent fever.
Splenomegaly. Bitter taste of all food, or only after meal-time, or at other times, as well as in the morning. Regurgitation if the food. Hiccough. Nausea and inclination to vomit. Nausea, with inclination to vomit and anxiety, when sitting, or on forcing one’s self to drink, Contractive pains in the stomach sensible to the touch, or on coughing.
Pains in the liver, mostly shooting, tensive, or burning. Tractive pains in the hypochondrium, extending to the stomach and the back, in the morning and after meals.
Hard swelling in the hypochondriac and umbilical regions. Shootings in the region of the spleen. Colic with tension of the abdomen, and water-brash. Inflation of the abdomen, with pressure in the epigastrium, especially after dinner. Inflammation of the liver. Tearing in the stomach, from the hips to the pit of the stomach. Dropsical swelling of the abdomen. Gurgling and borborygmi in the abdomen, with escape of flatus.
Respiration difficult, or short, rapid, and anxious, or sighing, Constant occasion to make a deep inspiration. Fit of dyspnea. Bradycardia. Frequent sharp stitching pain in cardiac region. Swelling of the feet, with redness and heat. Skin – yellow color, moist and clammy. Burning and pricking over the whole body. Erysipelatous inflammation.
Constipation. Feces too large, with difficult evacuation, Diarrhea, with colic, sometimes alternating with constipation and gastralgia. Loose evacuations, of a putrid smell, as of rotten cheese. Diarrhea preceded by pain in the abdomen. Nocturnal diarrhea, with burning pain in the anus. Colliquative diarrhea. Constrictive colic.
Complications
Perhaps the most important worry with splenomegaly is the risk of injury as it grows beyond the protection of the rib cage. A minor injury may cause it to rupture and bleed. Spleen injuries are often treated by observation, but on occasion, the spleen can rupture causing life-threatening internal bleeding requiring surgery to remove the spleen. This is the reason that teenagers and young adults diagnosed with infectious mononucleosis (kissing disease) need to wait until the spleen returns to its normal size, and is protected by the rib cage, before participating in activities where the enlarged spleen could be damaged.
All types of blood cells may become trapped in a large spleen and cause anemia (low red blood cell count which may cause…weakness, fatigue, dizziness, shortness of breath, chest pain etc). Low platelet count (thrombocytopenia) may be associated with an increased risk of bleeding. Leukopenia (low white blood cell count) may be associated with an increased risk of infection.
P. S: This article is only for doctors having good knowledge about Homeopathy and allopathy, for learning purpose(s).
For proper consultation and treatment, please visit our clinic.
None of above-mentioned medicine(s) is/are the full/complete treatment but just hints for treatment; every patient has his/her own constitutional medicines.
Dr. Sayyad Qaisar Ahmed (MD {Ukraine}, DHMS), Abdominal Surgeries, Oncological surgeries, Gastroenterologist, Specialist Homeopathic Medicines.
Senior research officer at Dnepropetrovsk state medical academy Ukraine.
Location: Al-Haytham clinic, Umer Farooq Chowk Risalpur Sadder (0923631023, 03119884588), K.P.K, Pakistan.
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