October-2020 - MUCOUS COLITIS & ITS LESSER KNOWN REMEDIES

1. MUCOUS COLITIS &
ITS LESSER KNOWN REMEDIES
DR.SAPTARSHI BANERJEA
GOLD MEDALIST
B.H.M.S. (HONOURS IN NINE SUBJECTS OF HEALTH UNIVERSITY); M.D. (Hom.)
1ST
POSITION IN ALL INDIA M.D. ENTRANCE EXAMINATION’14;
S.C.G.M. AWARD FOR 1ST
POSITION IN THE HEALTH UNIVERSITY;
LECTURED AT: HOMOEOPATHIC ACADEMIES, BANGKOK (THAILAND);
VISITING LECTURER: ALLEN COLLEGE OF HOMOEOPATHY, ENGLAND
ASST. DIRECTOR: BENGAL ALLEN MEDICAL INSTITUTE
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ALLEN COLLEGE OF HOMOEOPATHY
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DEFINITION OF MUCOUS COLITIS:
A common gastrointestinal disorder involving an abnormal condition of gut contractions
(motility) and gut sensation (hypersensitivity) characterized by abdominal pain, bloating,
mucous in stools, and irregular bowel habits with diarrhoea or constipation or alternating
diarrhoea and constipation, symptoms that tend to be chronic, wax and wane over the years.4
AETIOLOGY:
No definite cause is known but the attacks are precipitated by overwork, worry, often in cold
weather, prolonged use of purgatives, nervous causes, and dietetic errors.
CLINICAL FEATURES:
 Pain - Persistent abdominal pain and discomfort of burning character especially in left
iliac fossa; colic worse after bowel evacuation.
 Character of stool – Stool may be hard and ribbon-like, attacks of obstinate constipation
alternating with attacks of diarrhoea. During diarrhoea mucus may be passed in masses,
shreds or casts; stool does not contain blood.
 Accompanying symptoms –Abdominal distension, Insomnia, Fatigue and loss of weight.
 On Examination – Distended caecum, colon is felt tender. The patient often accurately
delineates the colon along its whole course. Eczema of umbilicus may co-exist.

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DIAGNOSIS:
The disease is distinguished from Ulcerative colitis clinically by presence of blood or not.
Barium enema and Sigmoidoscopy are necessary to exclude organic condition. Barium meal
may show narrowing of descending and sigmoid colon.4
PROGNOSIS:
It can cause many years of ill health and needs much patience in treatment. Diverticulosis and
diverticulitis may be developed in due course of years. Reassurance is necessary. Treatment
must be directed to the underlying nervous make-up of the individual. Repeated stool
examination must be discouraged.5
DIET AND REGIMEN:
The diet needs to liberal except coarse roughage to be avoided. Fruit and vegetables are
useful for their cellulose content. Smoking and drinking must be avoided. Some patients are
greatly benefitted after quitting smoking.
Adequate warm clothing covering the abdomen is essential as cold may precipitate an attack.
COMMONLY INDICATED MEDICINES:
Aloe, Ant-c., Arg-n., Arn., Bell., Colch., Dulc., Ip., laur., Mag-c., Merc-c., Sulph, alst.,
ambro., asc-t., Bapt., coll., cuph., Eucal., gamb., Ip., leon., Nux-v., Podo., Verat.
STUDY FROM SYNTHESIS REPERTORY:
RECTUM - DYSENTERY - acute: calo.
RECTUM - DYSENTERY- spring dysentery: vario.
RECTUM - DYSENTERY- women during menopause; in plethoric, nervous: lil-t.
STOOL - MUCOUS – white, dysentery; before: silphu.
RECTUM - DYSENTERY- septic origin, of: crot-h
GENERALS - MALARIA - accompanied by. dysentery: alst-s.
STUDY FROM KENT’S REPERTORY:
RECTUM - DYSENTERY- emaciated undersized children: Bar-m.
SKIN - ERUPTIONS – alternating, with dysentery: rhus-t.

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SKIN - ERUPTIONS – herpetic, alternating with chest affections & dysenteric stools: rhus-t.
RECTUM - DYSENTERY- night: Merc., sulph., trom.
STUDY FROM MURPHY’S REPERTORY:
Clinical - dysentery, infection- elderly people: bapt.
STUDY FROM CLARKE’S REPERTORY:
Clinical-dysentery, chronic: rhus-a.
STUDY FROM PHATAK REPERTORY:
COLITIS MUCOUS: Asar.,Colch.,Cop.,Kali-p.,Rhus-t,Zinc-val.
DYSENTERY
AFTER AGG.: Alo.,Colch.
AUTUMN: Arnica
CLIMAXIS AT:Lilium-tig
EMACIATED, Undersized children: Baryta mur
RHEUMATIC PAIN WITH: Asclepias
STUDY FROM BOERICKE’S REPERTORY:
ABDOMEN - Diarrhoea, enteritis - Type of stool. Tenacious, glairy: Asar.Caps. crot-t. hell.
Kali-bi.
LESSER KNOWN REMEDY DISCUSSION
ALUMEN
 Putrid dysentery.
 Violent pains going from rectum down the thigh.
 Tenesmus after stool with unendurable pain (scirrhus in rectum).
AMMON MURIATICUM
PARTICULARS:

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 Hard, crumbly stool alternates with green mucus stools covered with glairy mucus
requiring great effort in their expulsion
 Colour of stools varies; white and undigested, or green and slimy.
GENERALS:
 Thirst for lemonade
 Free acrid, hot watery discharge corroding the lip.
 Many symptoms are accompanied by cough with profuse glairy secretions
 Desire to cry, but cannot as a consequence of grief.
CLINICALS:
 Cancer of stomach.
ASAFOETIDA
 Slimy (only slime passes, no faeces)
 Sensation of a ball rising in the throat, causing dyspnoea.
 Food, when partially swallowed, returns into the mouth.
ASARUM EUROPAEUM
PARTICULARS: Strings of odourless yellow mucus pass from bowels.
GENERALS:
 Desire for alcoholic drinks.
 Nausea; worse after eating.
 Scratching on silk or linen or paper unbearable.
 Relief from cold bathing & damp weather is characteristic.
BOLETUS LARICIS
 Heavy dragging pains in liver, more in right lobe.
 Quotidian intermittent fever is associated.
CAPSICUM ANNUM
PARTICULARS
 Dysentery in moist weather < from any current of air, even when warm.
 Violent tenesmus of rectum and bladder at the same time (Merc. cor.);
 Burning at anus; drawing pains in back, after stool.
 Thirst, but drinking causes shuddering, stool after drinking.14
CANTHARIDES

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White or pale reddish mucous stool like scrapings from intestine. Tenesmus of rectum.
CARBOLIC ACID
PARTICULARS
 Bloody and mucous discharge, appearing like scraping of mucous membrane.
 Tenderness over transverse colon;
GENERALS:
 Tongue dry and coated with thick, yellow fur.
CHAPARRO AMORGOSO
 Tenderness over liver.
 Stools little pain, but with much mucus.
CINCHONA OFFICINALIS
Stool chocolate coloured & putrid smell.3
CISTUS CANADENSIS
Chronic dysentery.3
COLOCYNTHIS
 Stool symptoms << from least motion.
 Dysentery renewed each time by the least food or drink.
 In dysentery with great tenesmus, Merc. & Colocynth is complementary.
CORNUS CIRCINATA
PARTICULARS :> By passage of offensive flatus.
GENERALS: Face hollow, with an expression of weakness and dullness.
Weight in head, particularly the temples > by coffee.
CUBEBA
PARTICULARS
Yellow mucous; mingled with whitish shining particles looking like kernels of rice.
>From rising from the bed and moving about (colic)
GENERALS:
Desire for delicacies; oranges; acid fruits
Unquenchable thirst, with dryness of the mouth, though moistened with oily saliva.

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DIOSCOREA
 Just before and during stool severe pain in sacral region of a writhing character;
 The pains radiate upward and downward, until the whole body even the fingers and
toes, become involved with spasms,
 Sensation as if the faeces were hot, during the stool nearly fainting.3
ELATERIUM
 Very frequent and copious (watery) stools.
 Beriberi, urticaria and mental disorders as a consequence of suppressed malaria.
 Irresistible desire to wander from home at night
 It is a very efficient remedy in certain forms of dropsy.
ERIGERON
PARTICULARS:
 Dysentery with burning in any part of the alimentary canal.
 Extreme tenesmus, with frequent blood streaked stools.
 Diarrhoea or dysentery <least motion
CLINICALS:
 Metrorrhagia; with vesico-rectal tenesmus; after abortion.
 Great irritation of the urinary organs; urination painful or suppressed.
KALI CHLORICUM
PARTICULARS: Allen credits it with the cure of this: "Dysentery, with most violent cutting
pains as from knives, tenesmus, makes the patient cry out, evacuations almost pure blood,
great prostration.”
KALI BICHROMICUM
After Canth. Has removed the stool like scrapings of intestine, stool often becomes jelly like
& stringy.3
MURIATICUM ACIDUM
PARTICULAR: Dysenteric stools; blood and slime separated As soon as he begins to move
strong urging compels haste, stools profuse, dark-brown, gelatinous;
GENERALS: Prostration and drowsiness, wants to lie down all day.
OPUNTIA

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Excoriating sick feeling in lower part of abdomen, with sensation as if all the bowels settled
down in lower part of abdomen; bowels move oftener than natural with urgent desire for
stool.
RHUS GLABRA
PARTICULAR: It has a popular repute in diarrhoea and dysentery, especially when the
discharges are fetid.17
GENERALS:
 These patients are subject to a peculiar dream, as though flying through the air.
 A sensation of extreme weakness as found in China associated with profuse
perspiration.
CLINICALS
 The berries are used for chronic cough with wheezing.
 Occipital headache on waking, > by exercise; associated with epistaxis.
RHUS TOXICODENDRON
During stool, pain runs down thigh.
Bloody water like washings of beef or flesh.3
SILPHIUM LACINATUM
 Dysentery attack preceded by constipated stools covered with white mucus
 Cough with profuse, stringy, frothy, light-coloured expectoration.
 Mucus rattling in chest and worse by drafts of air.
TANACETUM VULGARE
PARTICULARS:
 Pain in rectum; relieved by stool.
 Desire for stool immediately after eating.
GENERALS:
Abnormal lassitude with nervousness and tiredness."Half dead, half alive feeling".
CLINICALS
Its common name is Tansy, a word which means immorality, from the fact that the plant was
mainly utilized for bringing on abortions. Most of our symptoms of Tanacetum have been
obtained from cases of drugging, done with the intention of procuring abortions.3

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TROMBIDIUM
PARTICULAR: Has a specific place in the treatment of dysentery.
 Symptoms are worse by food and drink.
 Much pain before and after stool;
 Urging for stool only after eating.
 During stool, sharp pain in left side, shooting downward
 Landmark of this medicine-
1. Burning in anus .2Great tenesmus 3.Prolapsus ani.2
CASE EXAMPLE: An interesting case in the "Guiding Symptoms,"
He suffered from peculiar diarrhoea after his dinner at 5 P.M.The dinner was immediately
followed by a violent pain in the intestine, which kept on increasing until he had relief in
stool; they were sudden and passed with flatus &tenesmus. The pains did not subside until he
had 3 or 4 similar passages, when he ceased to suffer till he dined again the next day.10
ZINGIBER OFFICINALIS
 Brown mucous in stool from drinking impure water.
LESSER KNOWN INDIAN DRUGS
ATISTA RADIX
 Autumnal dysentery with worms with flatulence
 Pt. passes blood with intense naval pain.
CLERODENDRON INFORTUNATUM
 Frothy stool with nausea & ptyalism
 Hepatosplenomegaly with fever < afternoon
HOLARRHENA ANTIDYSENTERICA
 Dysentery with weakness & loss of appetite
 More mucous & less blood
THERAPEUTIC HINTS OF MASTERS
JAHR’S GUIDELINES

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 If the dysentery sets in with violent fever & patient complains of distress in the head
and limbs ; I give unhesitatingly Acon.,as in many cases to cures in two or three day
 If Acon. is not sufficient, I give in every case Merc. viv., especially if bloody mucus
is discharged with violent urging to stool and colicky pains.
 If there is no change after Merc., blood with vomiting, I give Ipec.;
 If the bloody discharges are accompanied by a cutting pain in the bowels, I give Bell.
 If the colic is crampy, spasmodic, and the evacuations principally of a bloody mucus,
I give Coloc.
 If this does not improve in 24 hours, I give Staphys.; this course has proved effectual
in my hands than the alternate use of Staph & Colo. recommended by Hering.
DEWEY’S GUIDELINES
In the first stages of dysentery Aconite is useful especially when days are warm and the
nights are cold. The stools are frequent and scanty with tenesmus; the skin is hot and dry.
COWPERWAITHE GUIDELINES
Belladonna 3x is suitable to the dysentery of children and plethoric young persons. It is often
the only remedy required for severe cases of infantile dysentery.6
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