**Podophyllum also resembles **Calcarea carbonica and Phosphoric a in many respects;
the rapid debility and exhaustion distinguish it from the acid, an the absence of general **Calcarea symptoms from the acid, an auseful in the obstinate di
in the 3x dilution.
#Mercurius. [Merc]
Straining at stool is the great characteristic of Mercurius, and this is more marked under **Mercurius corosivus than under the solub The former is the great homoeopathic remedy for dysentery. It may be remarked, in passing, that the allopaths have recently discovered this application of **Mercurius corrosivus. The stools of Mercury are slimy and bloody, accompanied by a straining and tenesmus whi not seem to let up; so we have what is characteristically described as a never-get-done-feeling. There is accompanying, much hepati soreness, flabby tongue taking imprint of the teeth, and before the stool there is violent urging and perhaps chilliness. Bayes praises
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smell from the mouth is chara
perspiration so characteristic of **Mercurius be present the choice is easy. Prolapsus of the rectum may follow the stool.
#Calcarea. [Calc]
**Calcarea should never be overlooked in any intestinal trouble; as we have seen, it is one of the great remedies for sour stools, and for undigested stools. It is one of our best remedies for chronic diarrhoea, its symptoms produced by the provers are very few, yet prescribed for its general symptoms it has proved very useful, for it is just in a genuine **Calcarea patient that one usually finds diarrhoea.
Diarrhoes occurring during dentition in infants with open fontanelles
uished by being a ***spluttering diarrhoea,
ly a ravenous appetite,
acetica. Prescribe for the patient instead of the iarrhoea at all times,but more especially if Calcarea be given.
*Phosphorous is especially a remedy for chronic forms of diarrhoea. s]
the morning, often undigested and n
of
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ing between the shoulders. The frog spawn, or call for **Calcarea. **Calcarea phosphorica, too, is a very useful
remedy in these diarrhoeas, but the diarrhoea of **Calcarea phosphorica is disting
forcibly expelled, but watery, greenish, or undigested, and with a great deal of offensive flatus. **Calcarea carbonica is more suited to fat children.
**Calcarea phosphorica to those who are old and wrinkled. Both of these remedies, as well as **Silicea and Sulphur, come in most frequently in the diarrhoeas of scrofulous and rachitic children. In the **Calcarea carbonica patient there is usual
and, as in **Phosphoric acid, the stools do not seem to weaken. This is especially true of another of the Calcareas,
**Calcarea d
#Phosphorous. [Pho
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It has green mucous stools worse in
painless. The stools pass as soon as they enter the rectum,and contai white particles like rice or tallow. **Apis has a sensation as if the anus stood open, and the involuntary escape of faeces in
**Phosphorous reminds also of **Aloes. **Chronic,painless diarrhoea undigested food call sometimes for Phosphorus. It is profuse and forcible and aggravated by warm food, and the patient often vomits in fact, one of the characteristics of **Phosphorous is the
vomiting of what has been drunk as soon as it becomes warm in the stomach. With the diarrhoea there is a weak, gone feeling in the stomach, and perhaps burn
sago, or grain of tallow stool is most characteristic of the remedy.
#Argentum nitricum. [Arg]
**Argentum nitricum is quite similar to **Arsenic in many ways. The
stools are green, slimy and bloody,like chopped spinach in flakes.
**Aconite has a green stool like spinach. With the stool there is a ischarge of flatus and much spluttering, as in **Calcarea
ols are worse from any candy, sugar, or from tum
icum is its use in
*Opium has diarrhoea from fright and so has **Veratrum album.
be indicated in diarrhoea from fright; the ges in the weather or in
ry y d
Phosphorica. The sto
drinking. The sudden attacks of cholera infantum in children who have eaten too much candy will often be removed by **Argen nitricum. The children are thin, dried up looking, and it seems as if the child had but one bowel and that extended from the mouth to the anus. Another characteristic of **Argentum nitr
diarrhoea brought on by great mental excitement, emotional disturbance, etc.
**Gelsemium is one of the most prominent remedies for diarrhoea produced by fright or fear; it appears suddenly and the stools are yellow and papescent.
***Pulsatilla, too, may
stools are greenish yellow and changeable.
**Dulcamara has diarrhoea from chan
temperature, as in those employed in packing house who change frequently from hot to cold, or diarrhoea in the mountains where the midday is hot and the nights excessively cool.
There are a number of minor remedies for diarrhoea , but these ve minor remedies become of major importance when they are closel indicated.
=DYSENTERY.
#Mercurius corrosivus. [Merc-c]
All the preparations of mercury act on the intestines, producing bloody stools with tenesmus, and, of course, all may be indicated in dysentery. **Mercurius corrosivus is the one usually thought of in this affection, as its symptoms corresponds to many severe cases. In
e first place we have severe and extreme tenesums; this is the of the remedy; it is something more than the
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ercurius ing s of thgreat characteristic
never-get-done feeling of **Mercurius solubilis, it is an intense, painful tenesmus,and at the same time there is much tenesmus of th bladder,the stools are scanty, of mucous shreds and blood and there is great burning at the anus.
**Mercurius solubilis corresponds more to sporadic cases, and is seldom indicated in malignant types, and in mild cases **M
dulcis is an excellent remedy where tenesums and pain are slight.
Capsicum has frequent small stools attended with tenesums and burn in the rectum, but to have **Capsicum well indicated the symptom
shivering when the patient drinks should be present.
the .
also
h have the bove symptom of being doubled up by pain, both have slimy and bloody tools, worse from eating or drinking; but under **Colocynth the pains
t is relieved by bending double.
antharis has more inflammation, **Colocynth more nervous symptoms.
similar, the tenesmus and constriction of anus
t
. [Acon]
n the first stages of dysentery **Aconite has proved a useful remedy, specially well when the days are warm and the nights are cold. ,The stools are frequent and scanty with tenesmus,
cases th
#Arsenicum. [Ars]
**Arsenicum is a valuable remedy in dysentery. There are scanty stools, burning in the rectum, thirst, and after the stool there is great prostration, but there is not the tympanitic distension of the abdomen found under **Lycopodium and **Carbo vegetabilis; though patient is restless and thirsty, water is borne badly.
Stools which are undigested , slimy and bloody, indicate **Arsenicum Blackish brown, horribly offensive stools also indicate well the remedy. The tenesums and burning of the anus and rectum continue after stool. If **Arsenicum be well indicated its characteristic
thirst and restlessness must be present.
#Cantharis. [Canth]
This remedy, which produces such an intense vesical tenesums, produces a like condition in the rectum.
Its characteristics are bloody and slimy discharges which look like the scrapings of the intestines, which are nothing but the fibrous exudations from the disease. Tenesums is marked, and always with
**Cantharis there is a painful urination, and there is present a colic-like pain doubling the patient up, being here similar to Colocynth, which has a number of the same symptoms. Thus bot a
scease after stool and the patien C
**Colchicum is also
following stool is more tormenting than the urging during stool;
tympany also strongly indicates **Colchicum. **Kali bichromicum follows **Cantharis when the scrapings become jelly-like. The thirs with Cantharis is unquenchable.
#Aconite I
and it comes in e
the skin is hot and dry and general
**Aconite symptoms are present. **Ferrum phosphoricum comes in less acute than **Aconite; there is more blood with the stool,
but tenesmus contra-indicates the remedy. **Mercurius follows bo well. **Belladonna is especially suitable to the dysentery of children and plethoric young persons. Cowperthwaite recommends the 3X.
#Sulphur. [Sulph]
onic cases of dysentery **Sulphur is the remedy;
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ss of of
*Aconite well. Ipecac ay be useful in cases where large quantities of mucus are expelled.
h is really a phlebitis of the For persistent or chr
the tenesums continues, in fact there is a sort of tenesums all the time, the stools are slimy and there is frequent sudden urging to stool. Sometimes this condition is present without the tenesums. I
**Nux the tenesums ceases after stool and the pains are relieved for a short time; it is similar to **Sulphur in its frequent urging, the stools are bloody, slimy, scanty and watery,and the patient is worse in the morning. Tearing pains down the thighs as an accompaniment dysentery would indicate **Rhus toxicodendron. Great offensivene stools and constriction of the anus would suggest **Lachesis.
Baptisia is useful where there is tenesums but no pain which indicates vital depression, offensive discharges are also present. It is
especially useful in dysentery of old people with fevers. **Aloes is also a useful remedy in dysentery. The stools are of a jelly-like
mucus, and covered with blood and accompanied by griping in the epigastric region, the amount of mucus expelled is large, and, like
**Sulphur,it is useful in chronic cases. It is also a splendid remedy in purely inflammatory dysentery and follows *
mIn haemorrhoidal dysentery, whic
haemorrhoidal veins, **Aloes and Hamamelis are the remedies.