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Anus and Stool.
Nux vom.
Frequent, small, slimy, or bloody stools, with pain low down in the back
and urging or tenesmus, > immediately after the stool.
Sulph.
Both the flow of urine and discharge of faeces are painful to the parts
over which they pass.
Ipecac.
Stools yeast-like, foamy, or as if fermented; as green as grass, with
nausea and vomiting.
Caust.
Frequent ineffectual efforts to stool, with much pain, anxiety and redness
in the face.
Aloe.
Mucous stool coming away in a lump or “gob,” either large or
small end of the consistency of a jelly-fish.
Ant. crud.
Alternate diarrhoea and constipation in old people.
Plumb.
Excessive pain in abdomen radiating from thence to all parts of body.
Caust.
Haemorrhoids < when preaching, or straining the voice; standing.
Ruta.
Prolapus of rectum, immediately on attempting a passage; from slightest
stooping; after confinement.
Verat. alb.
Constipation, stools hard and large size; rectum seems inactive; forehad
covered with a cold sweat while straining for the passage.
Berb.
Fistula in ano with sticking in the parts, particularly if complicated
with cough.
Silicea.
Constipation; stool scanty or composed of hard lumps, light colored;
expulsion difficult, as from inactivity of the rectum; when partly expelled
it slips back again.
Con.
Tremulous weakness after a stool.
Lach.
A tormenting, constant urging in the rectum, not for a stool.
Phos.
Stools watery, with lumps of white mucus, or like little gains of tallow
or sago.
Staph.
After every little morsel of food or mouthful of drink bellyache and
tenesmus during dysentery in summer.
Nux vom.
Frequent and ineffectual desire to defecate, or passing small quantities
of faeces at each attempt.
Sulph.
Diarrhoea some hours after midnight, or driving out of bed early in the
morning, 5 a. m.
Ant. crud.
Stools often liquid, containing portions of sold matter (sometimes
involuntary in old people).
Kali nit.
Diarrhoea from eating veal.
Lept.
Profuse, black, tar-like stool.
Phos.
Stools, profuse, watery, passing away as from a hydrant; > after
sleeping.
Caust.
Evacuation possible only when standing.
Thuj.
Figwarts around anus or elsewhere.
Mur. ac.
Large protruding piles which look bluish, and are exceedingly painful to
contact; even the sheet is insupportable.
Carbo veg.
Large protruding blue haemorrhoids, sometimes suppurating, burning and
emitting a terrible smell.
Plumb.
The stools are usually composed of little balls compacted together like
sheep dung.
Platina.
The stools adhere to the parts like soft clay, and pass with difficulty on
that account.
Opium.
Nervous and irritable; passes nothing but hard black balls from the
bowels.
Nit. ac.
Fissures of the rectum; pain in the rectum which lasts for hours after a
stool.
Alumina.
Profuse discharge of coagulated blood in a mass resembling liver and
serum, without pain, but great weakness (typhoid).
Nux mosch.
Diarrhoea undigested or like chopped eggs, with loss of appetite,and great
sleepiness, in summer, with children.
Phos.
Constipation; the faeces begin slender, long, narrow, dry, tough, and hard
like a dog’s; voided with difficulty.
Cham.
Green, watery, corroding, with colic, thirst, bitter taste, or bitter
eructations.
Crot. tig.
Swashing in the intestines as from water.
Bry.
Constipation; stools large, hard, and dry as if burnt.
Carbo veg.
Frequent involuntary, putrid, cadaverous smelling stools, followed by
burning in the anus.
Phos.
Discharge of mucus from wide open anus, with tenesmus.
Lach.
Beating in the anus as with little hammers.
Coloc.
Dysentery-like diarrhoea renewed each time after taking the least food or
drink.
Hepar sulph.
Green, slimy diarrhoea of a sour smell; gray stools.
Calc ost.
Sour taste in the mouth,or of the food; sour vomiting, especially with
children during dentition, also sour diarrhoea.
Phos.
Chronic painless diarrhoea of undigested food, with much thirst for water
during night.
Lach.
Haemorrhage from the bowels in typhoid; when in the bottom of the vessel
are seen black particles of blood like charred straw.
Nat. mur.
Constipation with sensation of constriction of the anus; difficult
expulsion of stool fissuring the anus, with flow of blood, leaving a
sensation of much soreness in the anus.
Caust.
Fissures or other troubles in the anus or rectum rendering walking
intolerably painful.
Phos.
Frequent diarrhoea during cholera time.
Lach.
Stools extremely offensive hard or soft.
Secale.
Cholera infantum; great debility; vomiting and diarrhoea; much thirst;
pale face; sunken eyes; dry heat; quick pulse; restless and sleepless, don’t
want to be covered.
Phos. ac.
Clammy, sticky tongue; abdomen much bloated; great rumbling in the bowels;
and painless watery diarrhoea (in cholera epidemics). (J. C. M.)
Acon.
Stools in summer complaints, like chopped spinach.
Ferr.
Obstinate diarrhoea, composed of slime, and undigested food; stools are
painless, excoriating and exhausting, < after eating.
Sepia.
Constipation, stools hard, difficult and knotty, with sense of weight or a
lump in the anus; not > by an evacuation.
Ferr. met.
Diarrhoea < mornings, bad sleep before midnight. (J. C. M.)
Lach.
With every single cough a stitch in the haemorrhoidal tumor.
Phos. ac.
White or gray watery diarrhoea.
Ignat.
Prolapse of the rectum from moderate extertion at stool.
Psorin.
Stools very offensive, like rotten eggs or carrion, similar to Lachesis.
Ignat.
Course stitches from anus deep up into the rectum.
Puls.
Dysenteric stools of clear yellow, red or green slime, with or without
severe aching pains and tenesmus, extending up from the anus along the
sacrum.
Rhus tox.
Pains running down the limbs in streaks, with every stool.
Phos. ac.
Copious watery diarrhoea, with rumbling in the bowels.
China.
Diarrhoea < at night; stools of undigested food.
Ant. crud.
Hard and loose stools, with nausea.
Ignat.
Contractive sore pain in the rectum as from blind piles, lasting two hours
after a stool.
Ignat.
Sore pain in anus without reference to stool.
Aloe.
Feeling of weakness and loss of power in sphincter ani; sense of
insecurity in the rectum, as if passing stool would escape when passing
flatus.
Alumina.
Involuntary urination with the stools, or urine can be passed only during
stool.
Zingiber.
Diarrhoea after drinking impure water.
Mag. carb.
Green, watery, frothy stools, with green scum like that of a frog pond.
Thuja.
Stools forcibly expelled; copious, gurgling like water from a bung-hole.
China.
Diarrhoea from change of water.
Apis mel.
Involuntary stools with every motion, as though the anus stood open;
constant oozing of which the patient is unconscious.
Cantharis.
White or pale reddish mucous stools, like scrappings of the intestines.
China.
Yellow, watery, undigested, painless stools.
Merc. cor.
Constant tenesmus and urging to stool, pain before, during, and after
stool.
Merc. sol.
Violent tenesmus and continued urging after stool; a “never get
done” feeling.
Sulph.
Child falls asleep as soon as the tenesmus ceases, after the stools.
Psor.
Stools dark brown, thin, fluid, very offensive, like rotten eggs.
Oleand.
Involuntary stool when emitting flatus; undigested food of the previous
day.
Nat. sulph.
Thin yellow fluid, gushing stools in the morning after rising and moving
about.
Crot. tig.
Yellow watery stools, coming out like a charge of shot, all at once, <
after drink, nursing, or eating.
Dulc.
Watery or mucus diarrhoea, after taking cold in cold or damp weather.
Gels.
Diarrhoea from sudden depressing emotions, fright, grief, bad news,
excitement.
Graph.
Stools brown fluid, mixed with undigested substances and of an intolerable
odor.
Gambogia.
Thin yellow, faecal stools, comming out all at once, with a single
somewhat prolonged effort.
Jatropha.
Watery, profuse stools, gushing out like a torrent, with vomiting of a
watery albuminous substance.
Aloe.
Solid stool passes involuntarily, dropping away unnoticed by the paient,
even children at night in bed.
Aesc. hip.
Sensation as if a foreign body was in the rectum, or as if it was full of
small sticks, with fruitless efforts at evacuation and pains through hips
and sacrum.
Alumina.
Inactivity of the rectum, even a small stool requires great straining.
Hydrast.
Lumpy stool covered with mucus, after stool pain in the rectum.
Mag. mur.
Hard, knotty, difficult stools, crumbling as they pass the verge of the
anus.
Arnica.
Emission of very foul flatus.
Ant. crud.
Much mucous secretion from the anus staining the linen, with burning,
tingling, and itching.
Alumen.
Stools at long intervals, faeces being dry, hard, black, sometimes large,
sometimes small, like sheep dung, and voided with great difficulty.
Selen.
Stool hard, so large, and impacted that it requires mechanical aid to get
it away.
Gratiola.
Diarrhoea of yellow, or greenish yellow watery stools, forcibly evacuated,
and followed by burning in the anus.
Bryon.
Diarrhoea putrid, smelling like old cheese,< (or only) in the morning,
on motion and in hot weather.
Arg. nit.
Diarrhoea after eating sugar, of which the child is very fond (cholera
infantum).
Abrotan.
Alternate diarrhoea and rheumatism (metastatic rheumatism).
Raph.
No emission of flatus by mouth or anus for a long time.
Kali carb.
Haemorrhoids after parturition, sticking pains.
Capsicum.
Tenesmus of rectum and bladder at the same time.
Anac. orient.
Great and urgent desire for stools, but with the effort the desire passes
away without an evacuation; the rectum seems powerless, with sensation as if
plugged up.
Puls.
Stools very changeable, no two stools alike.
Phos. ac.
Stools though copious and long continued do not seem to exhaust or weaken
the patient.
Colch.
Discharge from anus like gelatine or jelly-like mucus, with great
tenesmus.
Chel.
Stools thin, fecal, bright yellow, yellow as gold.
Arnica.
Stools involuntary during fever, putrid or dark bloody, or acrid and foul.
Lyssin.
Desire for stool < by seeing or hearing running water.
Calc. phos.
Diarrhoea; the flatulence with the stools makes a loud spluttering noise
when the stool passes.
Arg. nit.
Diarrhoea turning green after remaining in the daiper.
Ars. alb.
Vomiting and stool simultaneously.
Iris.
Watery stool; anus feels on fire; wants to strain.
Iris.
Burning from mouth to anus (25 feet of intestinal fire).




Urinary Organs.
Lyssin.
Seeing or hearing running water excites desire to urinate.
Petrosel.
Sudden desire to urinate; child jumps up and down.
Puls.
Retention of urine with great desire, which is greatly < on lying,
especially on the back.
Pareira.
Constant urging to urinate with violent pain in glans penis and straining;
the pain is so great that it extorts cries from the patient; extends into
the thighs; urine has strong ammoniacal smell, and contains large quantities
of thick, tough mucus.
Opium.
Child makes no water, with full bladder, and has no stool; from nursing
after the nurse had a furious fit of passion.
Ant. tart.
Painful urging to urinate, scanty discharge, dark red, or the last bloody,
with stitches in the bladder and burning in urethra.
Kreosot.
Can only urinate when lying.
Coloc.
Urinates small quantities with frequent urging; foetid, thickening,
viscid, jelly-like urine.
Equiset.
Severe dull pain in the bladder, which is not > after urinating.
Chim.
 
Chronic renal and vesical affections with an enormous amount of thick ropy
mucous sediment in the urine.
Apis.
Urine scanty, dark sediment like coffee grounds.
Puls.
Wetting the bed, particularly little girls, or on coughing or sneezing.
Nat. mur.
Cutting in the urethra after micturation.
Caust.
Involuntary emission of urine when coughing, sneezing, blowing the nose or
walking.
Phos. ac.
Must often rise at night in order to pass large quantities of colorless
urine.
Hydrast.
Catarrh of the bladder, with thick, ropy mucous sediment in urine.
Petrol.
Constant dribbling of urine after micturation.
Merc. corr.
Urine scanty, bloody; albuminous, containing filaments; flocks or dark
flesh-like pieces of mucous.
Zinc.
Sitting with the legs one over the other bending forward; can make but
very little water; and still feels as if his bladder would burst.
Apis.
Scanty urination with absence of thirst (dropsy).
Phos. ac.
Urine like milk mixed with jelly-like pieces, and pain in the kidneys.
Stram.
Kidneys secrete lesser or none in acute diseases, especially children.
Cina.
The urine turns milky after standing a little.
Arn.
Bloody urine from mechanical causes.
Zinc.
Constant urging to pass water; only when sitting and bending backward can
he discharge the same; much sand in the sediment.
Conium.
Much difficulty in voiding uring; the flow suddenly stops, then flows
again, several times at each emission.
Ignat.
Frequent and abundant discharge of watery urine (hysterical women).
Cann. sat.
Great pain in back in region of kidneys with urging to urinate, bloody
urine.
Cann. ind.
Urine dribbles out after the stream ceases; has to force out the last few
drops with the hand.
Lact. acid.
Diabetes, especially if accompanied with rheumatic pain and swelling of
joints.
Sepia.
Urine thick, slimy, very offensive, depositing a yellow or pasty
sediment, which sometimes adheres to the vessel like burnt clay.
Berb.
Renal or urinary troubles with sticking, cutting pain from left kidney
following course of ureter into bladder and kidney.
Apis.
Incontinenece of urine with great irritation of the parts, < at night
and when coughing.
Acon.
Micturation painful, difficult, drop by drop, urine scanty, fiery red,
scalding hot or dark colored; restles, feverishness.
Alumina.
Can only void urine while straining at stool.
Acon.
Retention of urine from cold, especially in children, with crying and
restlessness.
Ars. alb.
Suppression or retention of urine; has no desire to pass it.
Bell.
Involuntary micturation; constant dribbling; paralysis of sphincter
vesicae.
Benz. ac.
Urine highly colored; urinous odor exceedingly strong; offensive, pungent
smell (with many complaints).
Cann. ind.
Burning and scalding, or stinging pain in the urethra before, during and
after urination.
Terebinth.
Violent burning; drawing pain in region of kidneys; urine scanty and
bloody, smoky, albuminous.
Staph.
Burning or smarting in urethra when not micturating; ceases while urine is
passing.
Lycop.
Red sand in the clear, colorless urine.
Nit. ac.
Urine scanty, dark brown, smelling intolerably strong like horse urine.
Lycop.
Severe pain or backache, > by passing urine.
Cann. ind.
The urine dribbles out after the stream ceases; has to force out the last
few drops with the hand.
Hep. sul.
Micturation impeded; has to wait awhile before urine passes; cannot empty
bladder thoroughly; the urine drops down vertically without force.
Cann. sat.
The urethra feels inflammed and sore to touch along its whole length;
during erection tensive pain.
Canth.
Tenesmus of the bladder; urine scalds and burns; passed drop by drop.
Mag. mur.
Urine can only be passed by bearing down with the abdominal muscles.
Caps.
Burning at the orifice of urethra, before, during and after
micturation.Burning at the orifice of urethra, before, during and
after micturation.
Gels.
Copious discharge of clear limpid urine > the headache.
Dulc.
Urinary troubles caused by exposure to damp cold.
Chel.
Urine dark yellow, turbid on passing, dark brownish-red, staining
linen or diaper dark yellow.
Sepia.
Child always wet the bed during first sleep;
Kreosot.
Child wets bed during first sleep, from which it is roused with great
difficulty, it sleeps so soundly.
Cina.
Wetting the bed in children with vermiculous symptoms, such as picking or
boring the nose, etc.
Sars.
Severe pain at the conclusion of urinating.
Equiset.
Great excess of mucus in urine after if stands awhile.
Sars.
Urine dribbles while sitting, standing it passes freely.
Cann. sat.
Drawing pains from region of the kidneys to the inguinal glands, with
anxious nauseous sensation in the pit of the stomach.
Ocimum.
Nephritic colic (right side), with violent vomiting every fifteen minutes;
twists about, screams and groans, red (bloody) urine, with brick dust
sediment after the attack.
Helon.
Weariness, languor, weight in the region of the kidneys, with profuse,
clear light-colored or albuminous urine.
Lac. deflor.
Urine profuse, colorless; clear as water, with sick headache.
Ham.
Haematuria from passive congestion of the kidneys, dull pain in the renal
region.
Canth.
Cutting and contracting pains, from ureters down to penis, sometimes from
without inwards; pressure of the glands > a little.
Caps.
Discharge from the urethra purulent; bloody, cream-like.
Lach.
Urine almost black, foamy, frequent, dark.
Lycop.
Stitches in the neck of the bladder and anus at the same time.
Phos. ac.
White jelly-like flocculi in the urine.
Phytol.
Chalk-like sediment in the urine.
Opium.
Distension of the bladder, but no power to expel the urine and a catheter
has to be used.
Raph.
Turbid urine with yeast-like sediment.
Lil. tig.
Continual pressure upon the bladder, wants to urinate all the time
(uterine displacements).
Nux vom.
Painful ineffectual urging to urinate, urine passes in drops with burning
and tearing in the urethra and neck of the bladder (sedentary people
specially).
Acet. acid.
Passes large quantities of pale urine, particularly if accompanied by
intense thirst and dry hot skin.
Merc. corr.
Great tenesmus of rectum and bladder at the same time.
Caust.
Numbness or insensibility of urethra; cannot tell when the urine is
passing in the dark, only by sense of touch.
Sars.
Can only pass urine when standing.
Aloe.
Every time he passes urine feels as if stool would pass.
Mur. ac.
Must press so hard to start urine the anus protrudes; severe pain at the
conclusion of urination (Berth., Sars. , Thuja
, Puls. ).
Thuja.
Frequent micturation with the pains.
Berb.
Pains radiating from renal region; extending to thighs.
Borax , Sars.
, Lycop.
Painful urination; child cries before urine starts.
Petros
Intense itching in urethra.





Male Sexual Organs.
Staph.
Voluptuous itching in the scrotus ( Crot.
tig.
)
Agnus.
Sexual desire lessened, almost lost; penis so relaxed that voluptuous
fancies excite no erection.
Arg. met.
Crushed pain in the testicle; clothing < the pain.
China.
Onanism and consequences of excessive seminal losses.
Hydrast.
Gonorrhoea, second stage, thick yellow discharge.
Phos. ac.
Weakness of sexual organs and frequent debilitating emissions; sensorium
dulled.
Conium.
Bad effects from suppressed sexual desire or from excessive indulgence.
Hyos.
Sexual desire excessive; lascivious; exposes his person.
Puls.
Thick, bland, yellow or green yellow discharge from the urethra
(gonorrhoea).
Merc. sol.
Gonorrhoea with phymosis or chancrioids; green discharge < at night.
Gels.
Involuntary emissions without erections.
Puls.
Orchitis from cold or checked gonorrhoea.
Crot. tig.
Vesicular eruption on the scrotum and penis, with frequent corrosive
itching.
Lycop.
Impotence; penis small, cold, relaxed, with or without desire.
Rhod.
Testicles, especially epididymis, intensely painful to touch, drawn up,
swollen and painful.
Phos acid.
Onanism; when the patient is distressed by the culpability of his
indulgence.
Staph.
Hypochondriasis from sexual excesses or by persistent dwelling of the mind
on sexual subjects.
Selen.
Prostatic juice oozes while sitting, during sleep, when walking, and at
stool.
Graph.
Itching moist eruption on the scrotum; sticky gelatinous discharge.
Ham.
Variocele; pain running down the spermatic cord into the testes; orchitis;
intense soreness and swelling.
Nit. ac.
Sycotic excrescences on the glands; sometimes bleeding when touched.
Staph.
Effects of onanism; hypochondriacal; face sunken; abashed look; nocturnal
emissions; backache; weak legs; organs relaxed.
Agnus.
Impotence with gleet with those who have frequently hand gonorrhoea;
“old sinners;” yellow discharge.
Thuja.
Sycotic and moist excrescences on prepuce and glans.
Hep. sul.
Excoriation and humid soreness on genitals and in folds between scrotum
and thigh.
Coral.
Ulcers flat and extremely sensitive to touch; chancres on any part of
penis or scrotum.
Cinnabar.
Redness and swelling or warts on prepuce, itching, bleeding, and
sensitive.
Nat. sul.
Gonorrhoea, yellowish green discharge, thick consistency, little pain,
especially in the hydrogenoid constitution.
Clemat.
Painful inflamed, or afterwards indurated testes.
Phos.
Lascivious; strips himself; sexual mania; irresistible desire for coition.
Pic. ac.
Priapism associated with spinal disease; terrible erections.
Nat. mur.
Hair falling off the pubes.
Calad.
Impotence with mental depression; relaxed penis with sexual desire and
excitement.
[Nuphar.]
Complete absence of sexual desire; penis retracted; scrotum relaxed.
Cinnabar.
Red, swollen chancres with hard, elevated edges; not sensitive;
discharging thin pus.
Merc. prot.
Hunterian (hard) chancre. (Secondary symptoms rarely follow if given in
the 1000th potency).
Nat. mur.
Gleet; clear mucus; chronic after abuse of Argent. nit.

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