Nux Vomica: for patients who are thin, highly irritable and
very sensitive to noise and drafts of air. Bowels move only after
strong purgatives and straining pain in bowels. Constipation
due to excessive use of tobacco, wine or coffee. Ineffectual
desire felt in abdomen which is due to lazy habits. Give 200 or
1000 potency.
Bryonia: Stools dry as if burnt and hard. Large and without
mucus constipation accompanied with appendicitis or in warm
weather.
Alumina: Constipation due to dryness of the intestinal tract and
non-peristaltic action of the intestines; no desire for and no
ability to pass stool until there is a large accumulation. Great
straining, must grasp the seat of closet tightly. Stool hard,
knotty or soft, adhering to parts. There is little or no urging Lo
stool. Complete inertia even of the rectum so that the soft stool
is expelled with great difficulty. Stool hard and knotty like
sheep dung. Dry mouth and irritated tongue leads to the selection of this remedy. Great mental depression and want of
appetite. Constipation during pregnancy.
Sepia: In women suffering from severe bearing down pelvic
pains extending to the rectum with an ineffectual urge to pass
stools.
Anacardium: When ineffectual desire is felt at the rectum.
There is sensation of pressure on the rectum after stool. In Nux
Yom, the pressure is felt in the abdomen.
Opium: Constipation due to inaction of the intestines. There is
no desire for stool: When it is passed, it is like hard dry black
balls. There is inaction as well as dryness in the intestines.
Dryness of the mouth and stomach. The patient feels no
discomfort by not passing stools for days together. There is no
urge for stool.
Plumbum: Head remedy for chronic constipation. It is also like
opium constipation but there is some action in the intestines.
There is urging to stool but it is passed with great difficulty.
There is loss of muscular activity and diminished secretion of
intestinal glands. Stool hard and lumpy causing fissures.
Lycopodium: Constipation of the most severe kind. Ineffective
urging to stool. Acidity and burning in the stomach which is
better by eructations.
Sulphur: Constipation-stools hard, knotty, dry as if burnt,
large, painful; child is afraid to have the stool on account of
pain.
Gratiola: Constipation of cancer. Rectum constricted.
Carbo An: Constipation where patient thinks bowels will be moved but only wind passed.
Selenium: Constipation; hard evacuation which can be
removed only by mechanical aid. Stools exceedingly difficult
and threaten to tear anus by their immense size. Filaments like
hair in faces.
Syphil: Obstinate constipation for years, rectum seems tied up
with strictures. When enema was used, the agony of passage
was like labour.
Natrum Mur: When stool is hard and crumbly. The rectum is
dry; the stool is hard to expel and causes bleeding; smarting and
soreness in the rectum, after the motion.
Graphites: Constipation with no urging for stool. No stool for
days together when blotches on the face appear. Constipation
with haemorrhoids and fissures which burn, smart and itch
intolerably. Aching of the anus after stool. The general
Graphites temperament of sadness and obesity will easily
decide for the remedy. Mucus coated stool. It suits specially the
women who suffer from a neglect to attend promptly to nature's
call. The patient is exceedingly sensitive, nervous, finds it
difficult to concentrate. Difficulty in getting up in the morning.
Platina: Is indicated in constipation of travellers and emigrants
where the trouble is brought on by change in the manner of
living. Frequent urging, scanty and dry stool. Constipation after
lead poisoning when Nux Vom. fails.
Veratrum Alb: Complete atony of the intestines. The faeces
accumulate in large masses in the rectum, the patient strains
and strains, often breaking out into a sweat, but finally has to
give it up, and the faeces have to be removed by artificial
means.
Stannum M: Constipation on days following rest days.
Podophyllum: Chronic constipation associated with prolapse of the rectum or anus.
Lac Vac. Defl: Constipation where rectum seems paralyzed.
The stool recedes even on prolonged straining.
Magnesia Carb: Puny and sickly children who refuse food or
milk because they get pain in stomach if they take it; they suffer
from diarrhoea, green stools with marasmus.
Causticum: Better able to pass stool standing.
Medorrhinum: Likes to lean backwards to pass stool.
Magnesia Mur: Painful urging before stool; burning in anus
after the stool. Intestinal atony and atony, of bladder. Urine can
only be passed by leaning down and by pressing the abdominal
muscles. Constipation in children during dentition. Flatulence.
The motions are large, long, hard and knotty but cause no pain.
Asterias R: Obstinate constipation. Stools after 12-15 days.
Alumen: No desire for stools for days. Obstinate constipation,
attended with nausea, vomiting, retching etc.
Hydrastis: For constipation give in IX potency three drops a
dose thrice daily.
Ambra Grisea: Inveterate constipation in old people,
especia1ly when stool cannot be passed if there is anyone near
about him.
Sanicula: Constipation: stools large and hard-impossible to
evacuate. After great straining, it is partially expelled and a
portion recedes which must be removed mechanically. Stool
several inches long not requiring much effort to evacuate.
Silicea: Horribly offensive stools often hard and difficult to
evacuate. Foul smelling wind. Abdomen hard and swollen.
Tarentula H: Inveterate constipation with distress that the
patient rolls from side to side which affords relief to the
distress.