Diarrhoea

Nux Vom

It is the remedy which should be given in acute cases which may have arisen as a result of indiscreet dieting, overeating etc. Given in IX potency.

Aloe

It is indicated when the patient is unable to control and has to run to the lavatory. The stool flows like water from a hydrant. Cutting and cramping abdominal pains around the navel, worse by eating and drinking. Urge to pass stool when urinating.

Ergotin

When the rectum has lost all sensation so that the patient has no warning and is never clean. Give in 2X dilution.

Hyoscyamus

Involuntary stool while urinating. Evacuation painless.

Ars Alb

Is useful in cases where there is great restlesssness, anguish and intolerance of pain. Great thirst for small quantities of water at short intervals. Quantity of stool passed is small and the prostration and weakness is out of all proportion to the quantity passed. Diarrhoea due to chilling the stomach with cold substances; of malarial origin.

Verarrum Album

Profuse stools; restlessness; great thirst for large quantities of water; great prostration follows the stool. Cold sweat, coldness and blueness of the body generally.

Acetic Acid

Diarrhea in - phthisis. Diarrhoea, thin, bloody or pure blood. Profuse bleeding from piles, Chronic diarrhoea.

Alumina

Diarrhoea on alternate days.

Fluoric Acid

On alternate days at a later hour each time.

Bryonia, Ignatia, Colocynth and Stapbisagria

Diarrhoea after bad humour.

Croton Tig

Diarrhoea with three important indications:
(1) stools yellow and watery;
(2) expelled suddenly like a shot and
(3) aggravated by drink or food.
Soft thin stool coming out with one gush or squirt. It is associated with nausea and vomiting. Amelioration from drinking warm water. Every movement causes discharge.

Phytolacca

Diarrhoea during dentition with irresistible desire to bite gums and teeth.

Tarentula H

Stools occur immediately the head is washed.

Petroleum

Diarrhoea during the day; better during the night when cough starts. Diarrhoea always at the same time.

Argentum Nit

Diarrhoea brought on by taking sugar and candy. Nervous diarrhoea from emotions.

Merc Dulcis

Green diarrhoea in children. Also study Arg. Nit. and Ipec.

Nux Mosch

Diarrhoea during pregnancy.

Oleander

Diarrhoea with involuntary stools. Gastric affections. Digestion is paralyzed and food passes completely undigested. Stool is passed with flatus.

Thuja

Morning diarrhoea with rumbling in abdomen as if pouring of water from an air tight vessel.

Trombidium

Excellent remedy for diarrohoea when there is aggravation after eating and drinking. Crampy pains before, during and after stools. It has also dysentery.

Digitalis

Diarrhoea during jaundice. White, chalk-like, ashy, pasty stools.

Sanicula

Stools as often as food is taken: must hurry from table after each meal. Must cross legs to prevent stool from escaping. No control over sphincter; often soils himself, standing, running, even at night.

Alstonia Con

Diarrhoea of undigested food immediately after eating, has to leave table before finishing meals. There may be slow fever also.

Merc Cor

In forcibly gushing diarrhoea.

Guaiacum

Diarrhoea; food passed undigested; early morning diarrhoea; grown anaemic: hot patient, also rheumatic.

Argentum Met

Diarrhoea due to mental exertion.

Chaparro Amargoso

Diarrhoea and dysentery—chronic or acute when everything else fails.

Graphites

Stool of brown fluid mixed with undigested substances and an intolerably fetid odour.

Benzoic Acid

Excessively offensive, smelling the whole house. White stool like soap-suds. Putrid, bloody. Diarrhoea of children.

Conium

Diarrhoea with cold stools.

Dulcamara

Specific for hill diarrhoea. When diarrhoea is due to cold.

Syphilinum

Diarrhoea always relieved by going to the mountains.

Psorinum

Diarrhoea smelling like rotten eggs, horribly offensive. Eructations also tasting like rotten eggs.

Silicea

Diarrhoea from taking milk. Due to exposure to cold and evacuations are watery, slimy greenish or yellow.

Iris Ver

When stools are watery and burn the anus which feels on fire. Nausea with burning in the  mouth and oesophagus.

Septicaemin

It works like a magic in diarrhoea in camp life.

Rhododendron

Diarrhoea in cold wet weather and renewed before thunderstorm.

Arnica

Involuntary stools during sleep.

Camphora

Collapse at the commencement of the disease.

Gratiola

Summer diarrhoea: yellowish, gushing and watery as from a hydrant, from excessive drinking of water; cold feeling in the abdomen. Swelling of mesenteric gland.

Liatris Spicata

Diarrhoea chronic, following exposure in camp life.

Magnesia Carb

Puny and sickly children who get diarrhoea after taking milk or food. They refuse to take food as it gives them pain in stomach and diarrohea with green stools: marasmus. Stools green and frothy like scum of frog pond.

Sulphur

Morning diarrhoea ordinarily at the time when the patient begins to think about rising; between mid­night and morning. Stools offensive and the odour of the stool follows the patient as if he has soiled himself; should also be used as an intercurrent remedy.

Podophyllum

Camp diarrhoea due to drinking impure water. Stool horribly offensive. Early morning stool; watery, pasty, yellow or undigested, forcibly expelled, natural stool follow later in the day. Stools are painless. Especially useful in obstinate cases of diarrhoea in children.

Acid Phos

Diarrhoea, watery, thin and comes out without trouble. Patient feels better afterwards. Sphincter becomes weak and there is involuntary escape of faeces. Profuse and long continued diarrhoea does not cause weakness.

Natrum Carb

Diarrhoea brought on by taking milk–it accompanies palpitation as well.

Lithium Carb

Diarrhoea from drinking coca or eating chocolate.

Cistus Can

Chronic diarrhoea with swelling of the gland and abdomen which may or may not be tuberculosis.

Opium

In fright when the image causing the fright constantly appears before the mind; in joy.

Veratum Album

In fright accociated with cold sweat.

Argentum Nit

When diarrhoea follows great excitement especially when the imagination has been played upon. Green diarrhoea in children when the mother has taken lot of sugar.

Pulsatilia

When the stools are greenish, yellow and slimy, worse at night. Diarrhoea in opium eaters.

Jatropha

Diarrhoea and vomiting. Great palpitation with coldness of the body and cramps in the calves. Simultaneous vomiting and purging as in Asiatic cholera.

Euphorhia Corollata

Diarrhoea and vomiting with cold sweat all over the body. Peculiar mental state. The patient wants to die.

China

Thin watery painless stools, rumbling in abdomen; much thirst and perspiration of the whole body. It is worse after food, especially after taking fruits, and at night or early in the morning.

Rheum

Sourness of the stool, and of the whole body is the ranking symptom of this remedy. It has frothy green, frog pond scum stools. The medicine is specially suita­ble for children with the above characteristics.

Calcarea Phos

For sour and undigested stools in children, especially when the child is passing through dentition period. Spluttering diarrhoea, forcibly expelled. It is watery, greenish and undigested.

Borax

Stools before making water, diarrhoea after breakfast.

Strontia

Diarrhoea at night with great urgency, patient is scarcely off the vessel before he has to go again.

Phosphorus

For chronic diarrhoea. It has green mucus stools worse in the morning, often undigested and painless. Stools contain white particles like rice or tallow. The anus remains open after the stools.

Castoreum

For children suffering from green stools in summer. Nervous colic.

Colocynth

Diarrhoea with intense colic; better by pressure, and aggravation from emotional excitement. Bilious secretions with spasmodic colic pains.

Ferrum Met

The patient can hardly wait till the meal is finished. It is almost simultaneous with eating and drinking. The stools are undigested and mostly noctur­nal. Evacuation painless in chronic cases.

Gambogia

Diarrhoea of tfld people; the urging is excessive and the stools are expfHed at once with considerable force followed by a feeing of general relief.

Natrum

Sulph

Diarrhoea from vegetables, fruit, pastry, cold food and drinks. It is indicated in morning diarrhoea, after the patient has moved about a little after rising from bed. It is different from Sulph. Where the urging drives the patient out of bed long before it is time to leave it. Rumbling and gurgling in bowels, then sudden gushing noisy spluttering stool.

Elaterium

In olive green stools; profuse and gushing.

Abrotanum

Diarrhoea suddenly checked, followed by piles and acute rheumatism. Alternate diarrhoea and constipation. (Specific for diarrhoea in children)

Chamomilla

When the child wakes up on account of pain while passing stool; wants to be carried all the time. Stools green, watery, corroding, like chopped eggs, sour smelling, during dentition. Screams with pain; refuses food, drink and toys.

Magnesia Carb

Diarrhoea occurs every three weeks, stools green, frothy, like scum of a frog pond. Milk passes undigested. Diarrhoea preceded by cutting pains. The whole baby smells sour.

Rheum

Difficult dentition, child restless, irritable, peevish, with pale face and souf smell of the whole body. Child smells sour even,after washing and bathing. Constant, profuse sweat on sclap,

Phytolacca

Diarrhoea during dentition with irresistible desire to bite gums and teeth.

Acetic Acid

Chronic diarrhea of children with great emaciation.

Allium Cepa

Indigestion, vomiting and flatulency, will pass offensive flatus.

Medorrhinum

Diarrhoea in children with greenish-yellow stools, horriby offensive. Stools involuntary, watery, slimy curdled and smelling like rotten eggs. Profuse discharge of blood and pus.

Gummi Gutti

Cutting pains about the navel, child crying and fretting followed by expulsion of stool all at one time giving immediate relief lasting for some time but it recurs again after a while.

Aconite Nap

When the child suffering from watery diarrhoea is crying and complaining very much; bites his fists and is sleepless.

Apis M

Specially useful in a peculiar kind of stool in children and infants, intermingled with blood, mucus and food giving appearance like tomato sauce.