Bile Vomiting

It is a vomiting that goes beyond the ordinary. The stomach has long been empty, but your body does not stop. It keeps retching, keeps pressing, until bitter, yellow-green fluid comes — bile. A substance that normally does its work in the digestive tract, breaking down fats and making nutrients available. But now it rises up, burns in the esophagus, leaves a taste that doesn't wash away easily. Bitter. Sharp. Impossible to ignore.

Medically, bile vomiting can have many causes — gastric emptying disorders, gallbladder disease, severe nausea without stomach contents. The psychosomatic perspective asks a different question: What in your life has become so unbearable that your body is literally retching up what lies deepest inside you? What has accumulated so much that even ordinary digestion — ordinary processing — no longer suffices?