Dysentery

MERCURIUS COR.

Persistent straining before, during, and after stool (rev. of Nux).

Scanty stools of bloody or shreddy slime.

Stools excoriate, burn. Burning in rectum.

“Never-get-done” sensation.

Straining to pass hot urine, drop by drop.

MERC. COR. IS ALMOST A SPECIFIC FOR DYSENTERY.

Tongue large, flabby, tooth-notched.

Mouth foul. Salivation.

NUX. Stools of slimy mucus and blood, but small and unsatisfactory: with relief, pro tem., after every stool.

Nux is irritable, hypersensitive, offended.

Is chilly, with great aversion to uncovering. Griping pains, now here, now there, in abdomen. COLIC.

COLOCYNTH.

Much colic, only relieved by bending double, and pressing hard into abdomen.

PHOSPHORUS.

Dysenteric stools oozing from an open anus.

Patient craves COLD DRINKS and food; ices.

IPECACUANHA.

Dysentery with constant nausea.

Stools with bright blood, or green mucus.

Tongue clean with nausea.

ARSENICUM.

RESTLESSNESS ANGUISH. FEARFUL ANXIETY.

Burning thirst for sips of cold water.

Internal, violent burning pain, with cold extremities. Better heat, hot drinks.

Great collapse and prostration.

Tongue dry, to brown, or black. Putrid stools.

THE GREAT REMEDY IN PTOMAINE POISONING.

(N.B.-Don’t give Arsenicum in dysentery unless there is the Arsenicum restlessness, anxiety, and thirst for frequent small drinks.)

Dose. Hourly or half-hourly till improvement.

Margaret Lucy Tyler

Margaret Lucy Tyler, 1875 – 1943, was an English homeopath who was a student of James Tyler Kent. She qualified in medicine in 1903 at the age of 44 and served on the staff of the London Homeopathic Hospital until her death forty years later. Margaret Tyler became one of the most influential homeopaths of all time. Margaret Tyler wrote - How Not to Practice Homeopathy, Homeopathic Drug Pictures, Repertorising with Sir John Weir, Pointers to some Hayfever remedies, Pointers to Common Remedies.