Anus and Stool.

Nux vom.

Frequent, small, slimy, or bloody stools, with pain low down in the back and urging or tenesmus, > immediately after the stool.

Sulph.

Both the flow of urine and discharge of faeces are painful to the parts over which they pass.

Ipecac.

Stools yeast-like, foamy, or as if fermented; as green as grass, with nausea and vomiting.

Caust.

Frequent ineffectual efforts to stool, with much pain, anxiety and redness in the face.

Aloe.

Mucous stool coming away in a lump or “gob,” either large or small end of the consistency of a jelly-fish.

Ant. crud.

Alternate diarrhoea and constipation in old people.

Plumb.

Excessive pain in abdomen radiating from thence to all parts of body.

Caust.

Haemorrhoids < when preaching, or straining the voice; standing.

Ruta.

Prolapus of rectum, immediately on attempting a passage; from slightest stooping; after confinement.

Verat. alb.

Constipation, stools hard and large size; rectum seems inactive; forehad covered with a cold sweat while straining for the passage.

Berb.

Fistula in ano with sticking in the parts, particularly if complicated with cough.

Silicea.

Constipation; stool scanty or composed of hard lumps, light colored; expulsion difficult, as from inactivity of the rectum; when partly expelled it slips back again.

Con.

Tremulous weakness after a stool.

Lach.

A tormenting, constant urging in the rectum, not for a stool.

Phos.

Stools watery, with lumps of white mucus, or like little gains of tallow or sago.

Staph.

After every little morsel of food or mouthful of drink bellyache and tenesmus during dysentery in summer.

Nux vom.

Frequent and ineffectual desire to defecate, or passing small quantities of faeces at each attempt.

Sulph.

Diarrhoea some hours after midnight, or driving out of bed early in the morning, 5 a. m.

Ant. crud.

Stools often liquid, containing portions of sold matter (sometimes involuntary in old people).

Kali nit.

Diarrhoea from eating veal.

Lept.

Profuse, black, tar-like stool.

Phos.

Stools, profuse, watery, passing away as from a hydrant; > after sleeping.

Caust.

Evacuation possible only when standing.

Thuj.

Figwarts around anus or elsewhere.

Mur. ac.

Large protruding piles which look bluish, and are exceedingly painful to contact; even the sheet is insupportable.

Carbo veg.

Large protruding blue haemorrhoids, sometimes suppurating, burning and emitting a terrible smell.

Plumb.

The stools are usually composed of little balls compacted together like sheep dung.

Platina.

The stools adhere to the parts like soft clay, and pass with difficulty on that account.

Opium.

Nervous and irritable; passes nothing but hard black balls from the bowels.

Nit. ac.

Fissures of the rectum; pain in the rectum which lasts for hours after a stool.

Alumina.

Profuse discharge of coagulated blood in a mass resembling liver and serum, without pain, but great weakness (typhoid).

Nux mosch.

Diarrhoea undigested or like chopped eggs, with loss of appetite,and great sleepiness, in summer, with children.

Phos.

Constipation; the faeces begin slender, long, narrow, dry, tough, and hard like a dog’s; voided with difficulty.

Cham.

Green, watery, corroding, with colic, thirst, bitter taste, or bitter eructations.

Crot. tig.

Swashing in the intestines as from water.

Bry.

Constipation; stools large, hard, and dry as if burnt.

Carbo veg.

Frequent involuntary, putrid, cadaverous smelling stools, followed by burning in the anus.

Phos.

Discharge of mucus from wide open anus, with tenesmus.

Lach.

Beating in the anus as with little hammers.

Coloc.

Dysentery-like diarrhoea renewed each time after taking the least food or drink.

Hepar sulph.

Green, slimy diarrhoea of a sour smell; gray stools.

Calc ost.

Sour taste in the mouth,or of the food; sour vomiting, especially with children during dentition, also sour diarrhoea.

Phos.

Chronic painless diarrhoea of undigested food, with much thirst for water during night.

Lach.

Haemorrhage from the bowels in typhoid; when in the bottom of the vessel are seen black particles of blood like charred straw.

Nat. mur.

Constipation with sensation of constriction of the anus; difficult expulsion of stool fissuring the anus, with flow of blood, leaving a sensation of much soreness in the anus.

Caust.

Fissures or other troubles in the anus or rectum rendering walking intolerably painful.

Phos.

Frequent diarrhoea during cholera time.

Lach.

Stools extremely offensive hard or soft.

Secale.

Cholera infantum; great debility; vomiting and diarrhoea; much thirst; pale face; sunken eyes; dry heat; quick pulse; restless and sleepless, don’t want to be covered.

Phos. ac.

Clammy, sticky tongue; abdomen much bloated; great rumbling in the bowels; and painless watery diarrhoea (in cholera epidemics). (J. C. M.)

Acon.

Stools in summer complaints, like chopped spinach.

Ferr.

Obstinate diarrhoea, composed of slime, and undigested food; stools are painless, excoriating and exhausting, < after eating.

Sepia.

Constipation, stools hard, difficult and knotty, with sense of weight or a lump in the anus; not > by an evacuation.

Ferr. met.

Diarrhoea < mornings, bad sleep before midnight. (J. C. M.)

Lach.

With every single cough a stitch in the haemorrhoidal tumor.

Phos. ac.

White or gray watery diarrhoea.

Ignat.

Prolapse of the rectum from moderate extertion at stool.

Psorin.

Stools very offensive, like rotten eggs or carrion, similar to Lachesis.

Ignat.

Course stitches from anus deep up into the rectum.

Puls.

Dysenteric stools of clear yellow, red or green slime, with or without severe aching pains and tenesmus, extending up from the anus along the sacrum.

Rhus tox.

Pains running down the limbs in streaks, with every stool.

Phos. ac.

Copious watery diarrhoea, with rumbling in the bowels.

China.

Diarrhoea < at night; stools of undigested food.

Ant. crud.

Hard and loose stools, with nausea.

Ignat.

Contractive sore pain in the rectum as from blind piles, lasting two hours after a stool.

Ignat.

Sore pain in anus without reference to stool.

Aloe.

Feeling of weakness and loss of power in sphincter ani; sense of insecurity in the rectum, as if passing stool would escape when passing flatus.

Alumina.

Involuntary urination with the stools, or urine can be passed only during stool.

Zingiber.

Diarrhoea after drinking impure water.

Mag. carb.

Green, watery, frothy stools, with green scum like that of a frog pond.

Thuja.

Stools forcibly expelled; copious, gurgling like water from a bung-hole.

China.

Diarrhoea from change of water.

Apis mel.

Involuntary stools with every motion, as though the anus stood open; constant oozing of which the patient is unconscious.

Cantharis.

White or pale reddish mucous stools, like scrappings of the intestines.

China.

Yellow, watery, undigested, painless stools.

Merc. cor.

Constant tenesmus and urging to stool, pain before, during, and after stool.

Merc. sol.

Violent tenesmus and continued urging after stool; a “never get done” feeling.

Sulph.

Child falls asleep as soon as the tenesmus ceases, after the stools.

Psor.

Stools dark brown, thin, fluid, very offensive, like rotten eggs.

Oleand.

Involuntary stool when emitting flatus; undigested food of the previous day.

Nat. sulph.

Thin yellow fluid, gushing stools in the morning after rising and moving about.

Crot. tig.

Yellow watery stools, coming out like a charge of shot, all at once, < after drink, nursing, or eating.

Dulc.

Watery or mucus diarrhoea, after taking cold in cold or damp weather.

Gels.

Diarrhoea from sudden depressing emotions, fright, grief, bad news, excitement.

Graph.

Stools brown fluid, mixed with undigested substances and of an intolerable odor.

Gambogia.

Thin yellow, faecal stools, comming out all at once, with a single somewhat prolonged effort.

Jatropha.

Watery, profuse stools, gushing out like a torrent, with vomiting of a watery albuminous substance.

Aloe.

Solid stool passes involuntarily, dropping away unnoticed by the paient, even children at night in bed.

Aesc. hip.

Sensation as if a foreign body was in the rectum, or as if it was full of small sticks, with fruitless efforts at evacuation and pains through hips and sacrum.

Alumina.

Inactivity of the rectum, even a small stool requires great straining.

Hydrast.

Lumpy stool covered with mucus, after stool pain in the rectum.

Mag. mur.

Hard, knotty, difficult stools, crumbling as they pass the verge of the anus.

Arnica.

Emission of very foul flatus.

Ant. crud.

Much mucous secretion from the anus staining the linen, with burning, tingling, and itching.

Alumen.

Stools at long intervals, faeces being dry, hard, black, sometimes large, sometimes small, like sheep dung, and voided with great difficulty.

Selen.

Stool hard, so large, and impacted that it requires mechanical aid to get it away.

Gratiola.

Diarrhoea of yellow, or greenish yellow watery stools, forcibly evacuated, and followed by burning in the anus.

Bryon.

Diarrhoea putrid, smelling like old cheese,< (or only) in the morning, on motion and in hot weather.

Arg. nit.

Diarrhoea after eating sugar, of which the child is very fond (cholera infantum).

Abrotan.

Alternate diarrhoea and rheumatism (metastatic rheumatism).

Raph.

No emission of flatus by mouth or anus for a long time.

Kali carb.

Haemorrhoids after parturition, sticking pains.

Capsicum.

Tenesmus of rectum and bladder at the same time.

Anac. orient.

Great and urgent desire for stools, but with the effort the desire passes away without an evacuation; the rectum seems powerless, with sensation as if plugged up.

Puls.

Stools very changeable, no two stools alike.

Phos. ac.

Stools though copious and long continued do not seem to exhaust or weaken the patient.

Colch.

Discharge from anus like gelatine or jelly-like mucus, with great tenesmus.

Chel.

Stools thin, fecal, bright yellow, yellow as gold.

Arnica.

Stools involuntary during fever, putrid or dark bloody, or acrid and foul.

Lyssin.

Desire for stool < by seeing or hearing running water.

Calc. phos.

Diarrhoea; the flatulence with the stools makes a loud spluttering noise when the stool passes.

Arg. nit.

Diarrhoea turning green after remaining in the daiper.

Ars. alb.

Vomiting and stool simultaneously.

Iris.

Watery stool; anus feels on fire; wants to strain.

Iris.

Burning from mouth to anus (25 feet of intestinal fire).