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digestive system
constipation
homeopathy

remedy differential

Aesculus: sensation of fullness; feeling in rectum as if filled with small sticks; stool hard, black, dry, passed with difficulty; backache after stool
Aloe: encopresis; stool with watery or bloody mucus; much gas, loss of urine and stool
Alumen: no desire for stool for days; violent, ineffectual urging; stool hard as stones with some blood; obstinate constipation with nausea and vomiting, retching
Alumina: dryness of intestinal tract; difficult evacuation, even soft stool requires great pressing; stools hard and knotty (like sheep dung) or soft; no desire until a large accumulation; constipation of pregnant women, children, painters, travelers
Bryonia: stools large, hard, scanty, dry as if burnt; constipation accompanied by appendicitis; no urging; stools passed with a great difficulty; in young children with irritability and ill-humor
Calcarea carbonica: stool hard, small in quantity, often with undigested substances; ineffectual efforts sometimes with pain in evacuation only every 2 days; stools like clay, knotty or serous, feels > when constipated
Causticum: hard, pellet-like stools, covered with blood or mucus; even hard stool is voided unnoticed; stool can only be voided while standing
Graphites: no urging; no stools for days and blotches on the face appear; with hemorrhoids/ fissures which burn, smart and itch intolerably; aching of anus after stool; stool little round balls, knotted together with shreds of mucus and great pain when passing; people who fail to defecate when urge is apparent
Lachesis: anus feels tight as if nothing could go through; feces small, scanty, tenacious; constipation alternating with diarrhea; stool lies close to the anus without passing or urging
Lycopodium: ineffectual urging to stool; feels as if something left behind, then excessive, painful flatulence; constriction of the rectum; often associated with hemorrhoids; stools hard, dry or the first part hard, the second soft; constipation of children and pregnant women; lot of rumbling in the abdomen following stool
Magnesia muriaticum: painful urging before stool; burning in anus during and after stool; constipation in children during dentition; feces are large, long, hard, knotty, but without pain; stools crumble as if burnt, violent tenesmus with scanty evacuation or only emission of flatus
Natrum muriaticum: stool hard, crumbly, difficult to expel, causes bleeding; smarting, soreness in rectum after stool; stitches in the rectum; in young people with acne; frequent urging and ineffectual effort
Nux vomica: great straining; need strong purgatives; ineffectual desire for stool; caused by excessive use of tobacco, wine, coffee or sedentary habits; stool incomplete; obstinate constipation from inactivity; large, hard feces obstructs intestines
Opium: no desire for stool; hard, dry, black balls; inactivity, dryness in intestines; paralysis of peristaltic movement; does not usually disturb the person until flatulence builds up in the upper intestines; constipation of old people, travelers
Phosphorus: stools long, hard, slim, dry; evacuation with straining and trembling of the limbs; urgent and distressing, want to evacuate; pain in anus violent; heat in hands and anxiety > application of warm clothes; after stool, tenesmus
Platina: constipation of travelers; frequent urging; scanty, dry stools, as if burnt; constipation after lead poisoning when nux-v. fails; dryness of the rectum; stools adhere to the rectum like glue or putty sharp, stitches in rectum
Plumbum metallicum: obstinate constipation; urging to stool with marked retraction of abdominal walls; stools difficult to pass which are black, dry, hard with marked spasm of the sphincter which is painful; anus feels drawn upward; loss of muscular activity
Silicea: offensive stools; hard, difficult and slow to evacuate; foul-smelling flatulence; abdomen hard, swollen; spasmodic sphincter suddenly contracts and partially expelled stool recedes; soreness about the anus with an oozing of moisture; frequent tenesmus; burning and stinging in rectum during stool
Sulphur: stools hard, knotty, dry as if burnt, large, painful; child is afraid to have stool on account of pain; ineffectual urge with sensation of heat and discomfort in the rectum; hemorrhoids; first effort to stool is painful; constipation/ diarrhea; redness about the anus; sensation as if stool left behind
Veratrum album: complete atony of intestines; feces accumulate in large masses and patient strains, often breaking out into a sweat; may be faintness after stool, often accompanied by heat and headache; constipation of nursing infants


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