Dysentery

Sulphur

This should be used as an intercurrent remedy in 200 potency. Treatment may be started with this remedy in acute or chronic cases. In several cases one dose of this alone has the desired effect. It may be repeated after three or four days, if the previous dose has done some good.

Merc. Cor

Is the head remedy for dysentery. It has the symptoms of blood in stools with tenesmus; it has severe and extreme tenesmus which is intensely painful. Stools are scanty with mucus shreds. Blood is there in abundance or, may be scanty. Remedy is indicated in blood dysentery. There may be burning in anus. Tenesmus before and after stool.

Merc. Sol

Is indicated in dysentery when there is no blood, but there is mucus. It is a milder type than what is covered by Merc. Cor.

Thuja

An excellent remedy for amoebic dysentery when Sulphur and other indicated remedies fail.

Carbolic Acid

Mucus dysentery with marked prostration and cold sweat.

Cbaparro Amargoso

Chronic or acute dysentery or diarrhoea when everything else has failed.

Colocynth

In dysentery with tensemus before the stool. Pain is relieved by doubling up and pressure.

Trombidium

When dysentery is worse after eating and drinking. Crampy pains before, during and after stools.

Colchicum

Autumn dysentery with discharges of white mucus and violent tenesmus; bloody stools mixed with
slimy substance.

Cinnabaris

Dysentary worse every night; bloody mucus stools; much straining. Diarrhoea, with greenish stools, worse at night; protrusion of anus during stool.

Streptococcin 200

For blood dysentery of the baciliary type with excessive bleeding and high rise of temperature, with toxaemia.

Staphylococcin 200

For chronic cases of dysentery with discharge of blood and pus.

Septicaemin

Is a magic for dysentery in camp life. It also covers camp diarrhoea.

Tercbinthina

Entero-colitis with bleeding and ulceration of bowels.

Crotalus Hor

Dysentery of septic origin, excessive flow of dark fluid, blood or involuntary evacuations. Great debility and faintness. Urine scanty, dark red with blood.

Cascarilla

Stools knotty, covered with mucus and associa­ted with colic and burning. Frequent pale red haemorrhages from the bowels due to diseases of the blood vessels. It is not haemorrhage from haemorrhoids or from bowels.

Leptandra

Stool black thick, tar like, fetid. Bloody mucus. Sensation as if something passing out of rectum.

Nux Vom

Frequent urging to stools ceasing as soon as the bowels move. Ineffectual desire.

Aloe S

When there is griping pain in the hypogastrium before stool with blood and muscus, jelly like mucus is passed in unusually large quantity.

Rhododendron

Dysentry appearing before or during thunder storm or cold wet weather.