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FISSURA ANI

Homoeopathic Therapeutics · Samuel Lilienthal

Aesculus hip Aesc

Anus feels raw, soreness, burning, itching and fulness at anus; pain like a knife sawing backward and forward through anus; pains in anus about an hour after stool, continuing for some time.

Berberis Berb

Great soreness and pain throughout entire back, from sacrum to shoulders, (<) by an physical labor; dry, troublesome cough; acrid leucorrhoeal discharge, very prostrating in its effects; violent burning pains in anus during stool, as if surrounding parts were sore, frequent and constant desire to stool.

Causticum Caust

Fissures which tend to dry up and have dark-brown or purple edges; walking causes pain in and bleeding from anus.

Graphites Graph

Fissures of recent origin, especially in children; varices of rectum and burning rhagades between them. Fissures caused by large faecal masses, no irritability, no frequent desire to stool nor spasmodic contraction of sphincter, only some smarting and soreness, (<) at night and when sitting; flatus rancid or putrid.

Hydrastis Hydr

Burning and smarting pain in rectum and anus after each stool, lasting for hours, with hot sensation in bowels, colic and faintness; stools dry, large, lumpy, nodulated; dyspeptic cough with expectoration of ropy mucus.

Ignatia Ign

Fissures with haemorrhoids and prolapsus recti, with pains shooting upward in the rectum after stool, particularly a loose stool; pains return at the same hour each day, (<) from walking or standing.

Lachesis Lach

Sensation of little hammers pecking away in fissured parts; tormenting urging, but not to stool; itching at anus, (<) after sleep.

Nitric acid Nit-ac

Sharp, splinter-like cutting pains in rectum during and burning after stool; painful prolapsus of bowels and sensation of constriction in anus; very irritable, thinks will never be improving.

Paeonia Paeon

Ulcerations of mucous membrane of rectum and anus, with fissures, burning and biting some hours after stools; parts swollen and exhaling an offensive odor; diarrhoea with colic; anus damp and disagreeable from constant oozing.

Petroleum Petr

Fissures with diarrhoea; herpes and small boils around and at the verge of the anus.

Platina Plat

Fissura ani with crawling and itching in anus every evening; frequent urging with scanty stool; painful sensation of weakness.

Ratanhia Rat

Burning in anus like fire, preceding and accompanying defaecation and lasting a long time after, accompanied by prostration of varices; dry heat in anus, with sudden stitches like stabs with a pen-knife; sensation as if the rectum protruded and went back with a jerk, with most horrible pains; frequent and ineffectual desire to urinate; burning in urethra while urinating.

Rhus tox Rhus-t

Fissura ani with periodical bleeding from anus; blind piles protruding after stool. with pressure in rectum as if everything would come out.

Sepia Sep

Constrictive pain in rectum, extending to perineum and into the vagina; pain in rectum on going to stool, which persists for a long time after sitting down.

Silicea Sil

Long and painful efforts to expel the contents of the rectum but the sphincter ani seems tightly to resist the effort till suddenly the stool passes, sometimes with pain and nervous shuddering; stool partly descends and then slips back again.

Sulphuric acid Sul-ac

Sensation as of rectum being form asunder during defaecation; lancinating pains running upward from anus.

Thuja Thuj

Fissures with edges trimmed with polypoid excrescences or true rectal polypus; piles, condylomata, urinary troubles.

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These titles sit beside the repertory: Allen’s Keynotes, Anshutz on the twelve tissue remedies, Boericke’s materia medica, Clarke’s Dictionary, Hering, Jones, Kent’s lectures, Nash, and Boger’s Synoptic Key. Philosophy includes Hahnemann’s Organon (5th and 6th), Kent, Close, Burnett, Haehl, Gibson Miller, Royal, J. H. Allen, and Anshutz. Clinical, therapeutics, regional works, and short remedy pictures follow the same shelf.

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