Apis feels the heat; cannot stand heat.
Is thirstless. (Reverse of Phosphorus)
Its pains everywhere are Stinging and burning.
It is one of the remedies for dropsical conditions.
Conium [Con]
Ineffectual urging; hard stool.
Inability to strain at stool; inability to expel contents because of the the paralytic weakness of all the muscles that take part in expulsion.
Strains so much at stool that uterus protrudes.
At every stool tremulous weakness and palpitation.
Conium has dizziness; numbness; paralytic weakness, mental and physical.
A queer symptom: sweats copiously during sleep-on merely closing eyes.
Ruta [Ruta]
Large stool evacuated with difficulty, as from loss of peristaltic action of rectum (Alumina, Phosphorus ac.).
Frequent urging to stool, but only rectum prolapses (Ignatia). The slightest stooping, or crouching down, caused rectum to protrude.
Sepia [Sep]
Ineffectual urging: or days with no urging, then the effort as if in labour.
Stool not hard, but much straining.
Constipation of pregnancy.
“A ball in rectum”; fullness, prolapses.
Straining and sweating with stool.
Sepia is dull and indifferent, has heaviness and sagging of all viscera; tendency to prolapses.
Mezereum [Mez]
Stool hard as stone: threatens to split anus: dark hard balls; much painless straining.
During stool prolapsus ani with constriction: it is difficult to replace.
Before stool copious discharge of fetid flatus.
“Frightened in the stomach” (Calcarea, Kali carb., Phosphorus).
Cocculus [Cocc]
Paralytic condition rectum. Inability to press at stool, or to evacuate stool.
Disposition to stool; but peristalsis wanting in upper intestines.
Inability to use muscles of evacuation.
After stool violent tenesmus, even to fainting.
Nausea at thought or smell of food (Colchicum, Arsenicum, Sepia).
Lachesis [Lach]
Stool lies in rectum without urging.
Drawing and constriction of anus (Lycopodium).
Pain extends from anus to navel.
Lachesis cannot bear touch (abdomen or throat).
Foul stools. Piles, worse coughing.
Lachesis sleeps into aggravation of symptoms.
Lachesis is purplish and loquacious.
Calcarea [Calc]
Old, lingering, stubborn constipation.
Constipated stool white, like chalk.
Patient generally better when constipated. (Diarrhoea, and no worse, or better, Phosphorus ac.)
Hard, difficult, light-coloured stool. Undigested stool (China). Smells like bad eggs.
Sour eructations, vomit, stool, sweat.
Head and neck sweat at night (Silicea, Sanicula).
Coldness of single parts: sensation of cold damp stockings (Sepia).
Staphisagria [Staph]
Frequent desire for stool with scanty evacuations, hard or soft. Difficult evacuations.
Staphysagria is sensitive, angry, petulant. Dwells on old injuries, insults: on things done by himself or others.
Thuja [Thuj]
Difficult evacuation after 2,3, or 8 days; subsequent burning in anus (Bryonia).
Moisture at anus. Anus fissured; painful; surrounded with flat warts.
Violent pains compel cessation of effort (Sul.).
Stool recedes (Silicea, Sanicula).
Sensation of something alive in abdomen (Croc.).
Great remedy for the much vaccinated, or the “worse for vaccination”.
Silica [Sil]
Stool hard lumps: scanty; difficult; after urging and straining till abdominal walls sore. Stool already protruded slips back (“bashful stool”) (Thuja, Sanicula).
Much urging, but inability to expel (Alumina no urging).
Straining with suffering and sweating head.
Silica is chilly; great want of self-confidence.
Head is apt to sweat in sleep (Calcarea, Sanicula).
Sanicula [Sanic]
No desire for stool still a large accumulation.
Stool hard, impossible to evacuate; of greyish white balls (Comp. Calcarea).
Stool, partly expelled, recedes (Silicea, Thuja).
Odour of stool persists, despite bathing (Sul.).
Children, look old, dirty, greasy, brownish.
Head sweats profusely at night (Silicea, Calcarea).
Lycopodium [Lyc]
No desire for days: yet rectum full, no urging.
Stool hard, difficult, small and incomplete.
Spasmodic constriction of anus preventing stool.
Lycopodium is always belching: distension of abdomen; has to loosen clothing.
Desire for sweets: hot drinks; (<) 4-8 p.m.
Magnesia mur. [Mag-m]
The keynote for Mag.mur. is worse from salt: salt food, salt baths, sea air.
Constipation at the sea side.
Stools dry: crumble at anus.
Brief Pointers In Acute Uncomplicated Diarrhoea
(Compare Intestinal Conditions and Colic: also Cholera Infantum.).
Camphor [Camph]
A couple of drops of tincture on sugar, repeated in a quarter- hour, if necessary, will generally cure acute diarrhoea.
N.B.-Keep Camphor away from other medicines.
Colocynth [Coloc]
Doubled up with colic.
Pain only relieved by bending double, and pressing into abdomen.
Cuprum [Cupr]
Diarrhoea associated with cramps. Cramps in abdomen, in fingers, calves, feet.
China [Chin]
Painless diarrhoea. Much flatulence.
Passes undigested food.
Veratrum alb [Verat]
Coldness.
Cold Sweat.
Profuse evacuations with profuse, cold sweat.
Cold sweat on forehead.
Arsenicum [Ars]
After eating ices; or cold drinks when hot.
After tainted meat and foods or fruit.
Relentless vomiting and purging.
The Great Remedy For Ptomaine Poisoning.
Carbo veg [Carb-v]
Diarrhoea from bad food (like Arsenicum) but with more distension.
Podophyllum [Podo]
Excessive evacuations, very offensive, and no colic.
Aloe [Aloe]
Stool urgent: at once after eating.
Dulcamara [Dulc]
Diarrhoea from Damp, Or Damp Cold.
Baptisia [Bapt]
Influenzal diarrhoea: very sudden onset: with prostration, drowsiness, putridity.
Pyrogen [Pyrog]
Rapidly curative in sudden, exhausting summer diarrhoea; profuse, watery, painless: extreme restlessness.
