Darmnosoden: Verstopfung/constipation:

[Pearl B. Wheeler]

Since the intestinal canal is governed by the two great systems of nerves, the sympathetic, presiding over the upper portion and the cerebro-spinal, taking charge of the lower; it would be but natural to think of a close

association between this canal and all other parts of the body. Consequently, when a physician has a case of constipation to deal with, he finds but an index to disorders in the nervous system and the result and not a cause of trouble.

The character of the stool becomes a guide to the cure of distresses elsewhere, for seldom will there be found a case of real constipation without other symptoms in connection with it. The homeopath, who accurately chooses

his remedy with reference to the totality of symptoms will seldom need to resort to enemata(enema), injections, etc.

The following remedies with their accompanying symptoms may perhaps prove worthy of consideration.

*Meny. - Bry. - Nux-v. - Verat. - Staph.*

Aesc-h.: Constant urging to stool or ineffectual efforts. Stools large, hard, dry and dark. Dryness of rectum feels “As if full of sticks”. Haemorrhoids with little bleeding. Constant back-ache “As if it would break”. After stool

prolapse of anus with back-ache.

Alum.: No desire for stool. Difficult evacuation from want of peristaltic motion and dryness even when soft stool is passed requiring great pressing. Stool hard, knotty and scanty or soft and clinging to anus. Bad effects of

lead, scanty and insufficient. Vertigo “As if every thing was turning in a circle”.

Agar.: Stools hard and knotty at first, followed by loose stool and finally diarrhoea. Itching, burning and redness of feet and hands as if frozen. Itching at anus as from worms. Violent cutting in abdomen and discharge of

flatus with sharp stitching in liver. Painful drawing in pit of stomach. Hysterical subjects.

Am-c.: Stools difficult, hard and knotty. Haemorrhoidal tumors protruding before, during and after stools. Discharge of stool during and after evacuation. Can't sleep at nights on account of burning pains.

Am-m.: Large, hard stool, crumbling after passing anus, requiring great effort to expel, then followed by soft stool. Faeces covered by glairy mucus. Giddiness with fullness in head morning (after getting up).

Ambra.: Frequent ineffectual urging to stool. Stinging, smarting and itching of anus. Varices of rectum. Haemorrhoids. Heat in head on alternate days with fear of losing his senses.

Anac.: Frequent urging through the day, unable to expel anything. Sensation as if rectum was stopped up with plug, “As if lump” had lodged in rectum.

The expulsion not taking place immediately, a painful twisting twitching is felt across the abdomen. Stools loose at first, then hard (Opposite: Agar. Am-m.) Pale color, violent pressing

in region of right temple. 

Ant-c.: Hard stool with difficult expulsion without previous straining. Alternating constipation and diarrhoea of old persons. Faeces too large. Milky white coating on tongue. Stupefying headache with nausea in the evening

or after eating.

Apis: Prolapsus Ani. Hemorrhoids with stinging. Abdomen tender to pressure. Feeling in abdomen “As if something would give away” if he strained at stool. Great debility “As if he had worked hard”. Must lie

down.

Bell.: Constipation with tendency of blood rushing to head. When stooping, blood rushes to head followed by dizziness. Plethoric individuals. Shuddering during stool. Stools in lumps like chalk.

Bry.: Constipation. Chronic constipation. Stools large, hard and “As if burnt”. Lips dry and parched. Thirst. Rheumatic tendency. Headache, as if skull would split by motion.

Calc.: Stools large and hard, sometimes only partially digested. White stools (Black- Opium, Phos., Verat.) increasing from day to day. After stool, gloomy feeling in head and feeling of faintness. Oozing of fluid from the

rectum, smelling like herring brine. Too early and too profuse menstruation. Scrofulous individuals. Violent itching of anus.

Carb-a.: Constipation. Unsuccessful desire for stool. Passes only very offensive flatus. During stool, pain in small of back with inflation of abdomen. Stools hard and knotty.

Carb-v.: Hard, tough, scanty stool. Labor like pain. Discharge of tough faeces in fragments. Violent urging with tingling in rectum and pressure in bladder. Burning in bowels and sensation as if diarrhoea would set in.

Great debility and weakness as soon as he makes the least exertion.

Caust.: Frequent and unsuccessful desire to pass stool, with red face and anxiety. Hard, tough stool covered by mucus. Shining as if greased. Stool too small shaped, comes off in pieces, Passes better while standing.

Light colored (pale Anac. like chalk- Bell,) white stool (Calc.) Writhing pain in abdomen, previous to stool. Excessive itching in anus day and night. Soft small stool, size of a goose quill. Constipation in children.

Involuntary emissions of urine when coughing sneezing or laughing, frequent and urgent desire to urinate with scanty emission. Thirst.

Chel.: Stools in hard lumps like sheep dung. Suitable to persons with hepatic diseases, shooting pains from liver to back. Constant pain under lower inner angle of right scapula. Crawling and itching in rectum/reddish urine.

Chin.: Difficult stool even when soft: Dizziness and heat in head with accumulation of faeces in rectum. Menses profuse, bright or black and clotted. Discouraged.

Cimx.: Stools hard and in small balls. Stools with haemorrhoidal sufferings. Pain in small of back, extending over abdomen with distension of abdomen. After white stool, discharged in small pieces, rectum closes firmly.

Cocc.: Hard stool expelled with difficulty after stool, violent tenseness of rectum even to fainting. Contractive pain in rectum, preventing sitting.

Colch.: Extremely painful stools. Scanty evacuation even soft stool is expelled with hard straining in back with pain in back. Ineffectual pressing at stool. Feels faeces in rectum but can't expel them. Lancinating or

lancinating-lacerating at anus.

Con.: Frequent urging without stool. Hard stool with tenseness (headache discharge of prostate fluids). Tremulous weakness after every stool. Stool passing off in open air. Frequent stitches in anus between stools.

Involuntary flow of urine, suddenly stops and continues after a short intermission. Dizziness when turning in bed. Heat and burning in rectum during stool.

Cupr-met.: Suppressed stool with general heat. Obstruction of intestinal canal or violent evacuation.

Eup-per.: Constipation with catarrh.

Euphorb.: Stool like glue with previous itching of rectum. Burning sore pain around the anus. Itching of rectum during desire for stool.

Graph.: Stools hard and knotty, lumps being united by threads of mucus. A quantity of white mucus is expelled with stool or the faeces are covered with mucus. Stools size of lumbricoides.

Humid tetters and eruptions.

Hep.: Sluggish of rectum. Stools hard or soft and insufficient. After mercurial dosing.

Hydr.: Stools lumpy, covered with mucus. Constant headache with piles, severe pains in anus and rectum for hours after stool. Fainting turns and heat in bowels.

Ign.: Difficult stool causing prolapsus ani. After stool a violent, stabbing, stitching from anus up into rectum. Constipation from taking cold or from riding in a carriage (from traveling, Plat.)

Grieving. All-gone feeling at stomach.

Iod.: Ineffectual desire for stool, immediately prompted by drink of milk. Scrofulous people with low cachectic state of the system. Stools hard, knotty and dark. Part of faeces retarded.

Kali-bi.: Habitual constipation. Painful retraction of anus. Stools dry, knotty, with burning at anus. Stools slate colored, bloody, coldness of extremities, debility and headache.

Kali-c.: Insufficient, soft stool. Constipation with distress and colicy, stitching pains an hour or two before stool. Too large sized faeces. Stools resembling sheep dung.

Passing of white mucus before and during stool. Large painful varices, inactivity of the rectum.

Lach.: Chronic constipation without any other ailments. Constipation of years standing Unsuccessful urging to stool, anus feels closed, faeces press against it at all times without passing, only flatus

is passed, sensation as of lump lodged in rectum. Sheep's dung stool with difficult, scanty discharge or tenesmus. Severe pains in back with constipation. Cadaverous smelling stools.

Lyc.: Ineffectual urging owing to contraction of sphincter ani. Small stool “As if much remained behind” (Part of feces retarded: Iod.), Acid and heartburn with great drowsiness after dinner. Red sand in urine.

Fermentation in abdomen.

Mag-m.: Constipation, stool hard, difficult and insufficient. Knotty, like sheep's dung, covered with blood and mucus. Stools in little round balls, crumbling as they pass the anus. Throbbing in stomach with dullness of head.

Nux-v.: Constipation with rush of blood to the head. Stool insufficient, black, hard, often streaked with blood as from inactivity of intestines, with ineffectual effort to go to stool. “As if anus were closed or too narrow”

Large hard faeces. Piles, blind or bleeding. Frequent eructations of some bitter fluid. “As of stone or lump of lead in stomach”. Frontal headache. Sedentary habits. Pregnant women. Victims of drugs.

Op.: Torpor of bowels after chronic diarrhoea or from abuse of cathartics (Nux) Stools small, hard, black balls, that crumble as they pass, like excrement of dogs in small lumps. Constipation from fear or fright. Costiveness

for weeks with loss of appetite. Inertia of rectum. Vomiting of stecoraceous matter in consequence of intussusception.

Phos.: Stools long, narrow and hard like a dog's. Very difficult to expel. Exceedingly painful cramps in rectum after stool. Constipation # diarrhoea. Very sleepy after eating (after dinner).

Plat.: Difficult expulsion of scanty stool, adhering to parts like soft clay. After lead poisoning. Constipation caused by travelling. Cramp like pressing in temples from within, outward. Low spirited and nervous.

After expulsion sense of great weakness in abdomen or chilliness.

Plb-met.: Stools consist of hard balls made up of smaller balls. Constipation with violent colic. Sensation of constriction in sphincter ani with ineffectual urging.

Puls.: Constipation (faeces are large and hard) after suppressed intermittent fever by quinine, with menstrual disorders. Constipation consequent upon eating rich greasy food. Constipation # diarrhoea.

Ruta.: Frequent urging to stool with protrusion of rectum. Constipation following mechanical injuries.

Sabad.: Violent urging to stool with noise like croaking of frog. Must sit a long time before stool (which is enormous) is passed, preceded by immense amount of flatus, and followed by burning in abdomen.

Sars.: Obstinate constipation with urging to urinate. Desire for stool with contraction of intestines and excessive pressure from above downward as if bowels would be pressed out. Frequent scanty emissions of urine (at night).

Selen.: Stools so hard and impacted that they must be removed by mechanical agency. Faeces contain threads of faecal matter like hair.

Sep.: Hard, knotty stools, sometimes mixed with mucus with cutting pain in rectum. Unsuccessful urging to stool. Only wind and mucus are passed and “As if lump had lodged in it”.

Not relieved by stool. Insufficient stool with tenesmus. Pressing stool does not relieve. Constipation during pregnancy.

Sil.: After much effort and straining stool recedes back in rectum after partial expulsion. Stools composed of hard lumps. Constipation of women before and during menses (Constipation before and diarrhoea after menses Graph.) Infants and scrofulous children.

Sulph.: Stools hard, lumpy, mixed with mucus, followed by burning pain in anus and rectum. Constant heat on top of head. Frequent weak spells. Constant urging pressing on rectum as if it would protrude,

with pressure on bladder. Palpitation of heart. Fainting regularly towards 10 - 11 h.

Thuj.: Obstinate constipation as from inactivity or intussusception. Stools in hard balls. Streaked with blood. Violent pain in rectum during stool. Copious and frequent urination with burning in urethra.

Offensive perspiration in anus at perineum.

Verat.: Chronic constipation, particularly in infants. Much straining with cold perspiration on head. Stool too large and hard. Inactivity of rectum, “As if paralyzed.

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