Petroleum: Specific for seasickness. The patient suffers from violent
nausea and vomiting with vertigo and occipital headache. Nausea from
riding in a carriage.
Apomorphia: Vomiting of cerebral origin. Use in 30 dilution or higher.
Tabacum: Worse from least motion and better on deck in fresh cold
air, but with characteristic symptoms of pallor, cold sweat and
coldness, especially of the hands.
Staphisagria: For sea sickness in nervous persons. It should be taken
at the moment when dizziness and nausea commenced before vomiting
sets in.
Cocculus Ind: When riding in a carriage. Caused by swinging.
Theridion: Sea sickness. For nervous women who shut their eyes to get rid of the motion of the ship.
Pulsatilla: Better in open air on deck but gets seasickness as soon as
she enters the room. Temperamentally cheerful but easily affected to
tears; thirstlessness.
Borax: Nausea and vomiting with its red-line symptom dread of
downward motion. The downward motion of the ship or carriage brings
on nausea and vomiting.
Bryonia: When the patient feels better by lying down quiet. Every
disturbance, even offering of medicine aggravates his trouble.
Coffea: Continued. sickness at stomach with headache, constant
inclination to vomit felt in throat, vomiting of mucus with violent
attacks of migraine.
