Homeopathy: Homeopathic Remedies for Diarrhea

Aethusa – Intolerance of milk. Cholera infantum. Child becomes cold, clammy, loses consciousness. Staring eyes.

Apis- Involuntary stool from every movement as if anus was wide open. Worse in warm air. Thirstless.

Arsenicum – Worse midnight – 1 to 3 a.m. Intense restlessness. Rapid emaciation; exhaustion and collapse. There may be simultaneous vomiting with diarrhea, (Ipec). Thirst for cold water immediately vomited. Coldness of extremities.

Gelsemium – Fright, emotion, anticipation will produce diarrhea. Discharges almost involuntary; intense spasmodic colic and tenesmus. Ipecacuanha Dysentery with constant nausea. Tenesmus awful; pain so great that nausea comes on and he vomits bile.

Chamomilla – Watery, greenish stools; excoriating; smell like rotten eggs. Very cross; must be carried; especially in teething children.

Rhus fox – Worse damp, wet weather; or getting wet.Extreme restlessness. Copious, watery, bloody stools; drive him out of bed (Sulph) as early as 4 a.m. Craves cold milk.

Mercurius – Mucous, bloody, dark green stools with tenesmus, “never-get-done” feeling. (Merc, cor. has a more violent attack. Rarely indicated where the tongue is dry. Mercurius cor. Bloody stool with severe tenesmus, not relieved by stool. Passes pure blood with tormenting tenesmus.

Nitric acid – Dysentery with pain lasting for hours after stool. Stools tear the rectum even though soft.

Phos acid – Painless dirty watery or lienteric stools for days, but little debility.

Podophyllum – Gurgling through bowels then profuse putrid stools gush out painlessly.

China – Stools lienteric, dark, foul, watery, BLOODY, WORSE eating, at night, from fruit, milk, during hot weather. Diarrhea after weaning in children.

Sepia – Diarrhea from boiled milk, with rapid exhaustion.

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