Mercurius [Merc]
LARGE BLEEDING, VARICES, WHICH SUPPURATE; haemorrhage after micturition, haematuria, with violent and frequent urging to urinate; prolapsus ani after stool, also if rectum is black and bleeding; pain in sacrum, as after lying on a hard couch; great weakness, with ebullition and trembling from the least exertion (Mercurius biniod., inveterate piles).
Millefolium [Mill]
Haemorrhoids, with profuse flow of blood; chronic blennorrhoea from atony of mucous membranes; great pain.
Muriatic-acid [Mur-ac]
Piles, suddenly, IN CHILDREN; the haemorrhoidal tumors are inflamed, swollen, bluish, with swelling of the anus, sore pains, violent stitches and great sensitiveness to contact, even to the use of paper after stool or of the sheets; prolapsus ani while urinating; piles after confinement.
Natrum-mur [Nat-m]
Varices painful, stinging and humid; protrusion of the rectum; smarting and burning in the rectum; herpes about the anus and on the boundaries of the hair on the nape of neck; stool hard, difficult, or crumbling; anus contracted, anus torn, bleeding,
smarting, burning afterwards; stitches in the rectum; cutting pain in urethra after micturition.
Nitric-acid [Nit-ac]
Long-lasting cutting pain in rectum after stool, with haemorrhoidal troubles; old pendulous haemorrhoids that cease to bleed, but become painful to the touch, especially in warm weather; HAEMORRHAGE BRIGHT-RED, NOT CLOTTED, faint from least motion, bleed after every stool; spasmodic tearing during stool from fissures in rectum; HAEMATURIA ACTIVE, shuddering along the spine during micturition and urging afterwards.
Nux-vomica [Nux-v]
Piles, blind or flowing, irregular piles; stitching, burning or itching of the anus; stitches and shocks in the small of the back, with bruised pain, so that the patient is unable to raise himself; frequent constipation, with ineffectual urging to stool, and with sensation as if the anus were closed and constricted; frequent tendency of the blood to the head or abdomen, with distension of the epigastrium and hypochondria; haematuria from suppressed haemorrhoidal flow or menses; ischuria, suppression of urine; backache, must sit up to turn in bed; strangulated piles.
Paeonia-off [Paeon]
Painful ulcer at the anus, with exudation of a foetid moisture; haemorrhoids, with fissures at the anus; intolerable pains when going to stool and afterwards; biting itching in anus, provoking scratching.
Petroleum [Petr]
Piles and fissures at the anus, great itching; scurf on borders of anus; stool insufficient, difficult, hard, in lumps.
Phosphorus [Phos]
Bleeding piles, with severe lancinating pains; BLOOD FLOWS WITH EACH STOOL IN A SMALL STREAM; ulceration of the rectum, with discharge of blood and pus; constipation, faeces slender, long, dry, tough and hard, voided with difficulty; paralysis of lower bowels and sphincter ani; discharge of mucus out of the gaping anus; stinging or itching at anus; (<) evening and night, when lying on back or left side, (>) when lying on right side, from rubbing or after sleeping; needlelike stitches in rectum when not at stool; violent burning in rectum and anus with great exhaustion.
Phosphoric-acid [Ph-ac]
Bleeding piles, with intolerable pains while sitting, with cramps of upper arm, forearm and wrist.
Physostigma [Phys]
Sphincter ani swollen and rigid; hard lumps, like piles, protruding, very painful, burning and very sensitive; (<) while sitting or walking; desire for stool, with constipation, burning at anus with stool.
Phytolacca [Phyt]
Constipation of the aged, or those of weak heart; bleeding piles, fissured rectum; aching in sacrum.
Podophyllum [Podo]
Piles with prolapsus ani and long-standing diarrhoea, worse morning, prolapsus ani, with stool, even from least exertion, following stool, or thick transparent mucus, or mixed with blood; bleeding or non-bleeding piles; flushes up the back, with stool.
Polygonum [Polyg]
Copious stool, followed by a smarting sensation in the anus; straining at stool, with mucous, jellylike discharge.
Psorinum [Psor]
Burning haemorrhoidal tumors; large quantities of blood from rectum, with hard, difficult stool; pain in small of back.
Pulsatilla [Puls]
Painful protruding piles, with itching and sticking pains and soreness.
Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]
Fissures of the anus, with periodical profuse bleeding from the anus; sore piles protruding after stool, drawing in the back from above downward, pain in the small of the back as if bruised, when keeping quiet; frequent urging to urinate, day and night, with increased secretion; sore, blind haemorrhoids, protruding after stool, with pressing in the rectum, as if everything would come out, (<) at night, from cold, pressure, rest.
Rumex [Rumx]
Sensation as of pressure of stick in rectum; feeling of fulness and hardness in abdomen with rumbling; itching of anus with discharge of offensive flatus; faeces hard, tough, brown; sore and burning pain near sacro-lumbar symphysis.
Sabina [Sabin]
Haemorrhoids with discharge of bright-red blood, causing pain in back, from sacrum to pubis, followed by great lassitude and heaviness.
Sepia [Sep]
Weakness of the sphincter; piles come down from any exertion, as walking or standing; she supports the anus by pressure with her hand to prevent protrusion of the parts; sense of weight in anus; not relieved by stool; discharge of blood with stool; oozing of moisture from rectum; soreness between the buttocks; constipation of hard, knotty stool; turbid urine of a peculiar foetid odor, depositing, when standing, a lithic acid sediment which adheres tenaciously to the side of the vessel.
Silicea [Sil]
HAEMORRHOIDS INTENSELY PAINFUL, boring, cramping from anus to rectum and testicles; protrude during stool, become incarcerated and suppurate; piles protrude with the stool and discharge bloody mucus; can only be returned with difficulty; fistula in ano with chest symptoms; aching, beating, throbbing in lumbo-sacral region; anus is constantly damp.
Staphisagria [Staph]
PILES WITH ENLARGED PROSTATE, intense pain in back and throughout the whole pelvis.
Stramonium [Stram]
Painful bleeding piles, coagulated blood passes from the anus; constipation alternating with diarrhoea.
Sulphur [Sulph]
Haemorrhoids blind or flowing dark blood, with violent bearing- down pains from small of back towards the anus; lancinating pain form the anus upward, especially after stool; suppressed haemorrhoids, with colic, palpitation, congestion of lungs, back feels stiff, as if bruised; anus swollen, with sore stitching pains; considerable blood passed with soft, easy stool; PAINLESS PILES; bleeding, burning and frequent protrusion of the haemorrhoidal tumors; weak digestion, dysuria; shooting in the rectum stops the breath.
Sulphuric-acid [Sul-ac]
PILES FEEL DAMP, painful to touch, itch violently; stools cause violent burning, stinging, tearing pains or the tumors prevent passage; stools hard, small black limps, mixed with blood, with violent pinching in anus; sediment like blood in the urine; needlelike pains at anus.
Thuja [Thuj]
Haemorrhoids pain during stool so much that one has to desist, burning violently while walking, sensitive to touch; anus fissured; warts around the anus; obstinate constipation from inactivity.
Veratrum-alb [Verat]
Haemorrhoids red and dark-blue; neuralgic pains in the rectum.
Zincum [Zinc]
Constipation; stools hard, dry, inefficient, only discharged after hard pressing; sensation of soreness and violent itching at anus; tingling at anus as if from worms; violent desire to urinate, (<) afternoon, evening, in warm room; (>) in open air (Zincum met. val.).
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.