Ricinus [Ric]
Aphthous diarrhoea, especially among children improperly fed; frequent and griping stools; varying in color from greenish- yellow to dark grass-green, then becoming more liquid, and mixed with slimy and gelatinous masses mixed with blood; each stool accompanied by pain and tenesmus; mouth dry and aphthous, belly
tumid and painful, anus inflamed; the child becoming more and more feverish, emaciated and somnolent.
Secale-corn [Sec]
Profuse undigested stools, watery, very offensive and discharged in fits and starts, followed by intense prostration.
Senna [Senn]
Dark-colored water, with cutting pains, flatulency, but less severe than in Jal. (which has copious watery discharge, accompanied by screams and restlessness).
Sepia [Sep]
Almost constant oozing from bowels; green or sour-smelling diarrhoea of children; rapidly EXHAUSTING DIARRHOEA; stool, having a putrid, sourish, foetid smell, expelled suddenly and the whole of it at once; prolapsus ani; fontanelles open; (<) from taking boiled milk.
Silicea [Sil]
CHILD VERY MUCH EMACIATED BY LONG CONTINUANCE OF DIARRHOEA; it nurses well, but the food passes through it undigested and fails to sustain it, alternating with loss of appetite and vomiting; open fontanelles; much perspiration about head; great thirst; emaciation; cold hands and feet, with cold sweat on them; rolling of head; suppressed secretion of urine; watery, very offensive stools; aversion to milk, refuses to nurse and if it does, vomits; feet very dry and smell like those of an old person.
Stannum [Stann]
Stools green and curdy, with much colic, (>) only by carrying the child against the point the shoulder; rectum inactive, much urging even with soft stool; deficient urging to urinate, from insensibility of bladder, which feels full, yet secretion is scanty; hemiplegia occurring during the course of the disease, paralyzed parts are constantly moist from perspiration.
Staphisagria [Staph]
Diarrhoea associated with stomach ache, tongue and gums white and spongy; cutting pains before and after stools, with tenesmus of rectum during stool and escape of hot flatus smelling like rotten eggs, (<) by every attempt to take food or drink.
Sulphuric-acid [Sul-ac]
Diarrhoea with great debility, stools watery, very offensive, looking stringy or chopped, bright yellow, with aphthae and great irritability.
Sulphur [Sulph]
Particularly in children of delicate parents; the discharges are slimy, brown, green, or white, often marked with slight streaks of blood; redness around the anus and excoriation between the thighs; hot palms and soles; dysuria; worse in the morning.
Veratrum-alb [Verat]
Stools profuse, watery, frequent, with thirst and vomiting, baby looks much exhausted after each stool; cold sweat on forehead from the least movement of the body.
Zincum [Zinc]
Feet constantly fidgety; on awaking, the child appears frightened, and its head rolls from side to side; during sleep it cries out (Apis), starts and jumps; painless, papescent diarrhoea for many days, but some colic after stools and emission of flatus.
Also read Homeopathy for Infants and Children
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal was the author of many great books including “Homeopathic Therapeutics”. For many years, with the support of Dr. Constantine Hering, he was the editor of the North American Journal of Homeopathy. Dr. Lilienthal passed away on February 2nd 1891 in San Francisco.