DIARRHOEA


There are in the homoeopathic Materia Medica a large number of medicines which have wonderful effects in diarrhoea. These should be studied with the help of the homoeopathic books. Among the most frequently indicated is Arsenic, which is, of course, a poison, but which is not dangerous at all if used in the 6x potency. Arsenic is an excellent remedy for diarrhoea, including diarrhoea containing blood.


DIARRHOEA is, as a rule, an attempt of nature to discharge from the body discarded material which should be expelled. If there is much discarded material in the alimentary canal, it produces vomiting and diarrhoea. Discarded material includes, of course, unwanted material such as unsuitable or irritating food. The orthodox doctor stops diarrhoea by giving opium; this is a most undesirable procedure, because opium replaces the diarrhoea by severe constipation.

For ordinary diarrhoea, Kaolin (China clay) is the sovereign remedy. In every good chemists will be found China clay in some form or other. The most favoured are: Kaylene and Collo-Kaolin; a heaped teaspoonful in hot water, taken every hour or half hour will rapidly eliminate the more serious diarrhoeas of every kind, and it is an excellent remedy even for cholera.

There are in the homoeopathic Materia Medica a large number of medicines which have wonderful effects in diarrhoea. These should be studied with the help of the homoeopathic books. Among the most frequently indicated is Arsenic, which is, of course, a poison, but which is not dangerous at all if used in the 6x potency. Arsenic is an excellent remedy for diarrhoea, including diarrhoea containing blood.

In the case of diarrhoea and most other complaints of the stomach and abdomen, hot outer applications are of great value.

J. Ellis Barker
James Ellis Barker 1870 – 1948 was a Jewish German lay homeopath, born in Cologne in Germany. He settled in Britain to become the editor of The Homeopathic World in 1931 (which he later renamed as Heal Thyself) for sixteen years, and he wrote a great deal about homeopathy during this time.

James Ellis Barker wrote a very large number of books, both under the name James Ellis Barker and under his real German name Otto Julius Eltzbacher, The Truth about Homœopathy; Rough Notes on Remedies with William Murray; Chronic Constipation; The Story of My Eyes; Miracles Of Healing and How They are Done; Good Health and Happiness; New Lives for Old: How to Cure the Incurable; My Testament of Healing; Cancer, the Surgeon and the Researcher; Cancer, how it is Caused, how it Can be Prevented with a foreward by William Arbuthnot Lane; Cancer and the Black Man etc.