Constipation

Constipation

Alum - With rectum sore and bleeding; stools hard, knotty, covered with

mucous; stools accumulate in rectum.

Amm-mur - Hard, crumbling stool, covered with mucous; smarting and

soreness in rectum.

Anac - Sense of plug in rectum, preventing stool.

Bar-carb - Constipation of hard, knotty stools.

Bry - Large, hard stools, dry, as if burnt.

Calc - Constipation of large hard stools; for first hard, then pasty,

then fluid.

Chel - Stool of small, round, black balls; constipation and diarrhoea

alternate

Grap - Large, knotty; united by threads of mucus.

Hydras - With gastric faintness, debility, heavy pain in rectum.

Lach - Like excrements of sheep; difficult.

Lyc - Hard, lumpy; after stool, sense of incompletion; difficult from

pain and constriction at anus.

Nat-mur - Difficult from anal constriction and soreness; stools

crumbling

Nux-vom - Constipation from inefficient peristalsis; cannot get done;

alternating with diarrhoea.

Opium - Hard, black balls.

Phos - Long slender, ribbon-like stools.

Plum - Constipation of small hard stools, like excrements of sheep.

Sep - Hard, knotty, in balls; difficult, with pain in rectum; sense of

ball in anus; not relieved by stool.

Sul - Constipation of dry, hard, knotty stools; painful; alternating

with diarrhoea; ineffectual urging before and after stool, followed by aching and sticking pain in rectum.