HAEMORRHOIDS

NOTE- In the treatment of hemorrhoids, attention must be paid to disturbances in the function of the liver, the digestive organs, etc., which are, as a rule, present and stand in close connection with the former; otherwise a radical cure of haemorrhoids cannot be insured.

Ferrum phos [Ferr-p]

      Inflamed piles, bleeding piles, blood bright red, fluid, but with a tendency to form a thick, soft mass. Before induration.

Kali mur [Kali-m]

      Bleeding piles when the blood is dark and thick; fibrinous, clotted.

Kali phos [Kali-p]

      Haemorrhoids, sore, painful and itching.

Calcarea fluor [Calc-f]

      Internal or blind piles, frequently with pain in the back, generally far down in the sacrum. Note appearance of tongue, etc., which will indicate the alternating remedy. Piles with pressure of blood to the head. Internal blind piles with constipation, confined state of the bowels. Bleeding piles, alternate with such remedies as are indicated by the color of the blood, etc. Tumors, relaxed elastic fibres. Bleeding haemorrhoids, bright red blood following a short hacking or hemming cough from over-exertion.

Kali sulph [Kali-s]

      Internal and external piles may require this remedy in alternation with Calcarea fluor.; the chief remedy when the tongue has a yellow, slimy coating, or discharges or secretions of the characteristic type are present.

Calcarea phos [Calc-p]

      Chronic haemorrhoids in anaemic or weakly patients. Intercurrently with Calcarea fluor.

Magnesia phos [Mag-p]

      Cutting, darting pains, very acute, often like lightening, so sharp and quick. In external piles, also a tepid lotion.

Natrum mur [Nat-m]

      With smarting, beating and protrusion of the rectum, burning at anus, herpes about anus, stools hard, difficult and crumbling; stitches in rectum and in urethra after micturition.

Silicea [Sil]

      Intensely painful haemorrhoids, protruded, become incarcerated and suppurate. Much itching, and pain running into rectum and testicles. Fistula in ano. (Calcarea phos).

HAEMORRHOID CASES [Haemorrhoid cases]

      A young man of 28 had been troubled with haemorrhoids for some years. Bleeding piles, accompanied by chronic constipation. Much straining at stool, great pressure of blood to head and flushes of heat, tongue mapped or covered with grayish white coating. Calcarea fluor. 3x and Kali mur. 6x completely cured.

William Boericke

William Boericke, M.D., was born in Austria, in 1849. He graduated from Hahnemann Medical College in 1880 and was later co-owner of the renowned homeopathic pharmaceutical firm of Boericke & Tafel, in Philadelphia. Dr. Boericke was one of the incorporators of the Hahnemann College of San Francisco, and served as professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. He was a member of the California State Homeopathic Society, and of the American Institute of Homeopathy. He was also the founder of the California Homeopath, which he established in 1882. Dr. Boericke was one of the board of trustees of Hahnemann Hospital College. He authored the well known Pocket Manual of Materia Medica.

W.A. Dewey

Dewey, Willis A. (Willis Alonzo), 1858-1938.
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.