Sulphur: This should be used as an inter-current 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.
Chaparro Amargoso: Chronic or acute dysentery or diarrhoea
when everything else has failed.
Colocynth: In dysentery with tenesmus 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: Dysentery worse every night; bloody mucus
stools; much straining. Diarrhoea, with greenish stools. worse
at night; of anus during stool.
Streptococcin 200: For blood dysentery of the bacillary type
with excessive bleeding and high rise of temperature, with
toxaemia.
Septicaemin: Is a magic for dysentery in camp life. It also
covers camp diarrhoea.
Terebinthina: Entero-colitis with bleeding and ulceration
covers camp diarrhoea. 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 ceasing as soon as the bowels
move. Ineffectual desire.
Aloe S: When there is griping pain in the hypogastrium before
stool with blood and mucus, jelly like mucus is passed in
unusually large quantity.
Rhododendron: Dysentery appearing before or during
thunderstorm or cold wet weather.
