HOMEOPATHIC RESEARCH

- BERNARD H, Stools   Large and soft, but passed with difficulty; Sometimes whitish; Involuntary.  Before stool   Pressing and ineffectual desire for stool.  During stool   Violent urging, more in the upper intestines and epigastrium than in the anus; the desire is actively felt, and yet only a little matter escapes, although it may be soft. The least effort causes prolapse of the rectum. Haemorrhoids protrude and bleed.  After stool   Painful constriction of the anus, worse while standing; Stinging in the anus extending into the rectum; Dull pain in the rectum as if it was distended with gas; Long-standing desire for stool. Haemorrhoids.  Concomitants   [Feeling of emptiness or goneness in the stomach, not relieved by eating, with flat state and languor in the limbs; excessive flatulence; gastralgia with stinging pains; sensation of itching and crawling in the rectum as from pin-worms. Nervous and ...

- BERNARD H, Dr. Claude, of Paris, says Iris vers. possesses a very marked alterative effect which not only appears in connection with a certain dilution independent of the constitution of the patient, but the other pathogenetic symptoms due to the lower dilutions persist under this dilution as well as in others still more elevated. In Hale's New Remedies diarrhoea is constantly indicated with signs which relate to an action at once pathogenetic and curative. Constipation is noted without any additional symptoms, and only once; like Hale, Ruddock and Hughes, who give among the clinical indications "diarrhoea, dysentery, cholera-infantum, migraine, sea-sickness, salivation", do not mention the constipation in which Iris has rendered me great service, but in dilutions above the 6th.  It is very remarkable that, if the intestinal phenomena of this medicine changes with the dilutions, they do not alter its action upon the salivary glands, facial neuralgia and migraine. ...

- BERNARD H, Stools   Hard, dry, knotty, difficult. In one mass, of excessive hardness; Pale, clay-colored.  During stool   Difficult expulsion with painful retraction of the anus.  After stool   Burning in the anus (knotty and dry stools); Falling of the rectum.  Concomitants   Headache; Coated tongue, loss of appetite; Cutting pains in the lower intestines, and rumbling of gas in the upper. Colic pains. Sensation of a plug in the rectum with soreness. Pains across the loins with coldness of the extremities. Debility. During an emission of wind per anum, sweat all over the body, but especially on the face, from which it runs in streams. During the menses very hard stools, and when they delay there is painful retraction of the anus. Tough secretions from all of the mucous membranes.   Generalities   Tendency to constipation, and especially when there exists an aggravation of general symptoms in cons...

- BERNARD H,  Stools   Dry and large; Retarded and difficult because excrements are so large.  Before stool   Feeling of anguish and distress for an hour or two before stool; Rectum inactive; Unsuccessful desire; White mucous discharge.  During stool   Rectum feels too weak to expel the faeces; [Protrusion and distension of the haemorrhoids with pricking and burning.]  After stool   Itching about the anus : [Severe lancinating, tearing and cutting pains in the anus; Violent pain in the small of the back as if broken.]  Generalities  Kafka recommends Kali carb. for women whose abdominal organs are very weak, in consequence of frequent miscarriages or multiple and difficult labors; when, on account of the inactivity due to abdominal pressure, the evacuations only occur with great difficulty.  Willmar Schwabe gives this remedy when the patient suffers from night sweats (Natrum mur., on the contrar...

- BERNARD H, Stools   Scanty, grayish like potter's; Hard like sheep-dung; Hard and difficult; Frequent and hard; Hard, scanty, insufficient; Offensive.  Before stool   Ineffectual urging; Constant and very painful pressure in the rectum, without stool; Constriction in the rectum or sensation of a plug in the anus.  During stool   Great effort; Pain as if the sphincter was torn with the effort; Tearing pains in the rectum from below upward and backward, to the point of producing eructations; Faeces remain at the anus; Aggravation of pains, so that it is necessary to cease all efforts.  After stool   Haemorrhoids protrude, with constriction of the sphincter; Beating in the anus as from hammers; Rectum prolapsed and tumefied.  Concomitants   Lassitude, anxiety and symptoms of mental alienation. Cephalalgia. Tearing pains and burning in the eyes, especially in the upper lids; pains in the eyes from rea...

- BERNARD H, Stools   Very hard; small and incomplete evacuation; Broken masses, mixed with, or followed by, a liquid discharge.  Before stool   Strong desire, or the desire may be wanting; Flatulent colic; Pain at the anus; Straining efforts, often followed by tenesmus.  During stool   Pain in the rectum, with ringing in the ears; Difficult stools, evacuated only after very great efforts.  After stool   Pains similar to those during stool, with syncope; Sensation as though all the faecal mass had not passed, followed by excessive and painful accumulation of flatus, contractive pain in the perineum after a scanty, hard stool.  Concomitants   Hypochondriacal. Painful tympanitis of the abdomen, with flatulency (also Carbo veg.). Indigestion resulting from a too free use of a farinaceous, heavy and fermentable diet. Acidity and heartburn, together with a irresistible drowsiness after dinner, followed b...

- BERNARD H, Stools   Hard, nodular, insufficient and delayed; Crumbling at the verge of the anus and seem as if burnt; Large, hard lumps or knotty, like sheep's dung; Faeces covered with mucus and blood.  Before stool   Painful urgings.  During stool   Painful urgings with occasional discharge of mucus; Pressure, with scanty passage or only flatus.  After stool   Burning at the anus; Shuddering for a short time.  Concomitants   Earthy complexion. Good appetite. Nausea in the morning. Swelling o f the abdomen, with cuttings and pinchings. Pain and distress every few days in the hypo-gastric region. Cramps in hysterical women who waste freely and have a tendency to constipation. Weakness and chill, increasing during the continuance of the hysterical accident; globus hystericus and oppression of the breath.  Generalities   Constipation of infants during dentition.  Boenninghause...