Dysentry

*Amoebic dysentery and it's homoeopathic management*

It is an infection caused by protozoa Entamoeba histolytica involving large intestine and clinically characterised by sudden onset of frequent, foul smelling, bulky, semisolid, mucoid stools, with pain over colonic region.

*Signs and symptoms*

a.Weakness, loss of appetite, occasional nausea and vomiting.

b.Coated tongue.

c.Tenderness over caecum and pelvic colon.

d.Repeated episodes of passage of loose stools, alternating with constipation.

e.Stool consists of mucus and blood streak. Abdominal discomfort.

f.Dyspepsia.

g.Loss of appetite

*Homoeopathic management*

*Nux vomica*

 Frequent but ineffectual and anxious effort to evacuate. Constant urging, sensation in rectum of stool which never comes. Or a small portion of faecal matter may be passed, leaving the sensation as if little lump were left behind the rectum, which was yet to come away. Faeces, partly soft or liquid, partly hard with much flatus. Small, loose, aqueous evacuations, or mucous with colic and cuttings, pains in loins and tenesmus, pain as from excoriation in rectum, and burning pain in anus. Whitish or greenish, deep coloured mucous evacuations.

*Aloe socotrina*

 Diarrhoea; has to hurry to closet immediately after eating and drinking, with want of confidence in sphincter ani; driving out of bed early in the morning. When passing flatus, sensation as if stool would pass with it. Colic; cutting, griping pain in right lower portion of abdomen; excruciating, before and during stool;all pains cease after stool ,leaving profuse sweating and extreme weakness .

*Gambogia*

Diarrhoea, with sudden and forcible ejection of bilious stools. Tenesmus after passing stool with burning at anus. Ileo- caecal region sensitive to pressure. Profuse, watery diarrhoea in hot weather, particularly old people. Pain in coccyx. Modalities; worse, towards evening and at night.

*Gratiola*

Nux symptoms in females often met by gratiola. Diarrhoea; green, frothy, watery, followed by anal burning and is forcibly evacuated without pain .

*Sulphur*

Unsuccessful desire for stool. Tenesmus before and after stool. Pressing on the rectum, as if it would protrude. Constant desire for stool, at night. Soft stool, with tenesmus and burning of the anus, followed by emission of hot foetid flatulence. Colic and distention. Watery diarrhoea every half hour, preceded by grumbling in the abdomen, without pain. Frequent frothy diarrhoea, with tenesmus, even at night. Diarrhoea, with tenesmus and cutting in the abdomen.

*Merc sol*

Greenish, bloody and he slimy, worse at night; with pain and tenesmus, Never get-done feeling. Discharge accompanied d by chilliness, sick stomach, cutting colic, and tenesmus. Whitish-gray stools.

*Mercurius corrosivus*

 Dysentery; tenesmus, gnot relieved by stool; incessant. Stool hot, bloody, slimy, offensive, with cutting pains and shreds of mucous membranes.

By-Arushi Agarwal

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