DIARRHOEA



Horribly offensive Diarrhoea, preceded by sopor; the offensiveness of the stool indicates it in low forms of disease; constant urging in. the rectum and a sensation as of little hammers there; the sphincter is unduly irritable.

What are the Stools of Nitric acid?

Offensive, greenish, and contain lumps of casein; slimy and associated with tenesmus and soreness about anus. there may be pasty and sour stools, particularly in scrofulous children.

What drug is indicated in Diarrhoea from drinking cocoa or Chocolate?

Lithium carb.

When Nux vomica indicated in Diarrhoeas?

When they occur after a debauch and are worse in the morning; they are papescent, scanty and watery, and accompanied by urging.

What are the symptoms calling for Rhus tox?

A bloody, slimy Diarrhoea, or an involuntary stool of cadaverous odor in typhoid fever.

Give five drugs which have especially offensive stools

Carbo veg., silicea, Psorinum, sulphur and Podophyllum.

What is the Diarrhoea of Ferrum phos.?

Undigested, copious and sudden, may be watery or greenish mucus; Diarrhoea during dentition.

Give indications for Natrum phos. in diarrhoea.

Sour smelling, greenish stools; mucus with painful straining, excoriating parts as they pass.

What is the characteristic of the Stools of Hyoscyamus?

They are involuntary in low delirious conditions.

What is the stool of chelidonium?

It is a bright yellow or clayey diarrhoea.

How does Mercurius differ?

It has the hepatic soreness and tongue taking the imprints of the teeth, but it also has slimy tools, with a great deal of tenesmus-a never-get-done feeling.

What is the Diarrhoea of Calcarea phosphorica?

Diarrhoea in teething, scrofulous and rachitic children; the stools are green, slimy and undigested; it is a noisy, offensive, watery and spluttering diarrhoea;cholera infantum, with a great deal; of offensive flatus.

What is the Diarrhoea of Carbo vegetabilis?

Thin, watery, morning diarrhoea, accompanied by straining and urging to stool, which is due to flatulence;the discharges are offensive and burn the parts.

Give the Diarrhoea of Phosphoric acid.

It is a watery, painless, oftentimes undigested, diarrhoea, preceded by rumbling in the bowels, and despite the frequency of the stool the patient does not seem weakened by it; the keynote are absence of pain and absence of exhaustion.

Give also he Diarrhoea of Euphorbia corolata.

Diarrhoea with vomiting, purging, and cold sweat over the body.

What is the Diarrhoea of Thuja?

Chronic diarrhoea traceable to vaccination, forcibly expelled like water from bunghole; thirst with same gurgling sound on drinking, worse in the morning after breakfast, from coffee and onions, with rapid emaciation and exhaustion.

Give the Diarrhoea of Natrum muriaticum.

It is a diarrhoea which is watery wand accompanied with great weakness of the abdominal muscles, and is sometimes involuntary.

What is the Diarrhoea of Dulcamara?

Yellow, watery diarrhoea in damp weather, or in summer, when the weather suddenly cools mucous, green or changeable stools of sour odor. Diarrhoea from repelled eruptions.

What are the stool symptoms of Colchicum?

Abdomen is distended enormously, with urging to stool and passage of jelly-like mucus; thee are also dysenteric symptoms, with spasms of the sphincter ani.

W.A. Dewey
Dewey, Willis A. (Willis Alonzo), 1858-1938.
Professor of Materia Medica in the University of Michigan Homeopathic Medical College. Member of American Institute of Homeopathy. In addition to his editoral work he authored or collaborated on: Boericke and Dewey's Twelve Tissue Remedies, Essentials of Homeopathic Materia Medica, Essentials of Homeopathic Therapeutics and Practical Homeopathic Therapeutics.