Plumbum [Plb]
Burning in anus during stools and long-lasting severe tenesmus afterwards; frequent and almost fruitless effort to stool, which is bloody, watery, offensive; cutting pains with violent screaming anus feels as if drawn upward, retraction of abdomen.
Podophyllum [Podo]
Severe straining during stool, with emission of much flatulence;mucous stools, with spots and streaks of blood; great thirst, but no appetite; stools yellow, green brownish, watery, mucus streaked with blood, with heat in rectum, flashes of heat running up the back, painful tenesmus and descent of rectum; great sensation of weakness in rectum.
Pulsatilla [Puls]
Discharges white, slimy, whitish-coated tongue; pappy, sticky taste, without thirst; great difficult in breathing; all worse at night; dysenteric stools of clear yellow, reader green slime; pain in back, straining; tenesmus from anus up along sacrum;dysentery during cholera times; discharge of blood and mucus during stool;face pallid;fainting; dysuria; frequent stools of mucus only after dysentery.
Rhododendron [Rhod]
Dysentery in summer during thunderstorm; stool tardy, papescent, requiring much urging.
Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]
Stools water, mucous and bloody, with nausea, a tearing down the thighs and much tenesmus; like the washings of meat;tenesmus vesicae; jellylike discharges; tenesmus; like the washings of meat; tenesmus vesicae; jelly like discharges;tenesmus and during before stool, with remission after stool; changes position often to get relief from tearing pains down thighs; (<) at night, after getting wet.
Staphisagria [Staph]
Cutting pain before and after stool; tenesmus in rectum and ladder during stool, (<) after eating, and drinking cold water.
Sulphur [Sulph]
Dysenteric stools at night with colic and violent tenesmus; blood in mucus in thready streaks; frequent unsuccessful desire for stool; WITH THE STOOL TENESMUS CEASES, BUT MUCUS AND BLOOD ARE STILL BEING DISCHARGED; prolapsus ani at night; cutting pains while urging at stool, (>) by dry heat; chills on lower part of body and lassitude.
Trombidium [Trom]
Abdominal pains begin while eating, are not relieved by stools, which are unceasing, occurring every half-hour, accompanied by tenesmus; flatus give no relief; brown fluid stools, with or without bloody streaks discharges of mucus, soft faeces or pus, or bloody and mucus with violent colic, causing the patient to scream; prolapsus ani; skin dry, tongue coated, thirst moderate.
Zincum [Zinc]
(Zincum met. sulph.). Chronic dysentery; stools frequent, small, pitch-like to thin, with pale blood; involuntary; extreme emaciation; great desire for food, which fails to be assimilated; twitching of muscles jerking, of muscles during sleep.
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.