Podophyllum. [Podo]
This remedy pictures cholera morbus; there is a painless watery stool coming out with a gush and a loathing of food; undigested diarrhoea worse mornings may also be present.
**Iris versicolor. Watery, yellowish-green stools, worse in the morning at 2 or 3a.m. There is a vomiting of food, sour and bilious matters.
**Elaterium. Cholera infantum; olive-green watery stools, coming with a gush, indicate **Elaterium.
**Croton tiglium has profuse yellow or watery stool provoked by eating or drinking.
**Ipecacuanha. Vomiting is a predominating symptom with this remedy, and comes on alternately with a watery, yellowish diarrhoea accompanied by colic.
Calcarea carbonica. [Calc]
Cholera infantum, craving for eggs; vomiting of milk in curds, diarrhoea, worse in the evening, of greenish, undigested, watery and sour stools are characteristic of this remedy.
**Aconite. This remedy has greenish or chopped spinach stools and inflammatory symptoms Hempel recommended **Aconite tincture in cholera where there is a rapid collapse unattended with copious evacuations. A quiet, subdued, passive condition contraindicates **Aconite. **Aconite is one of the most important remedies in the active stage of cholera infantum.
**Argentum nitricum. Cholera infantum in thin, dried up, mummified children; slimy, noisy stools, stools like finely chopped spinach, especially in children who have eaten too much sugar.
**Aconite. Stools are like large choppings of grass and discharged with a blast of wind and water.
**Calcarea phosphoricum. Great emaciation, pale face, craving for bacon and ham are characteristics.
**Ferrum phosphoricum has proved most useful in summer diarrhoea which is undigested; a regular cholera infantum.
**Psorinum. Patient is nervous, restless; profuse watery stools, worse at night, of offensive putrid odor, clinging to clothing, are keynotes of this remedy.
Professor of Materia Medica in the University of Michigan Homeopathic Medical College. Member of American Institute of Homeopathy. In addition to his editoral work he authored or collaborated on: Boericke and Dewey's Twelve Tissue Remedies, Essentials of Homeopathic Materia Medica, Essentials of Homeopathic Therapeutics and Practical Homeopathic Therapeutics.
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