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PROCTITIS AND PROCTALGIA

Homoeopathic Therapeutics · Samuel Lilienthal

Belladonna Bell

Pressing and urging downwards anus and genitals, alternating with contractions of the anus; spasmodic constriction of anus, as in dysentery.

Causticum Caust

Fruitless urging to stool, with anxiety and red face.

Cocculus Cocc

Tenesmus recti after stool, with faintness; lessened peristalsis.

Ignatia Ign

Proctalgia; contraction, with cutting, shooting pains, (<) after stool, Symptoms irregular, fitful, as in hysteria.

Kali bichrom Kali-bi

Sensation of a plug; diarrhoea of brown, frothy water, squirting out in early morn and followed by tenesmus ani.

Lachesis Lach

Tormenting urging in rectum, but on account of constriction of anus it becomes so painful he must desist; protruding piles with constricted anus.

Mezereum Mez

After stool the anus is constricted around the protruding rectum.

Natrum mur Nat-m

Sensation of contraction in rectum during stool; faeces tear the anus; frequent ineffectual urging; spasmodic constriction of anus.

Nitric acid Nit-ac

Sticking in rectum as from a splinter; constriction during stool and lasting for hours afterwards; rectum feels as if torn.

Opium Op

Obstinate constipation; anus spasmodically closed during colic; inactivity of bowels, stools consisting of hard, round, black balls; flatulency from inertia.

Plumbum Plb

Retraction of abdomen; marked spasm or contraction of sphincter ani; urging to stool, and sensation as if a string were drawing the anus up into the rectum; faeces hard and dry from absorption of their moisture.

What is in this library

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.

Dewey’s Practical Homoeopathic Therapeutics and Lilienthal’s Homoeopathic Therapeutics are readable here. The other books keep their chapter lists so you can see what each volume covers. For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice.

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