GRAPHITES

REMEDI OF THE DAY: GRAPHITES BERNARD H., THE HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT OF CONSTIPATION. Materia Medica. Stools: Hard, knotty, with discharge of mucus and blood. In lumps united by threads of mucus, large and ball-shaped, long and slender in shape. Before stool, great desire During stool, Hard stool, with much urging and sticking in the anus, Great straining even when the stool is not hard, shooting pains in the anus, discharge with white mucus. After Stool: Prolapsus recti and haemorrhoids, as if the rectum was paralyzed, stitching, tearing and soreness in the rectum. Concomitants: Burning heat in the stomach after eating and from the least aggravation of the general conditions, or distress after a meal, abdomen very much distended from gases, hardness in the region of liver. Pains in haemorrhoidal protusions. Fissures of the anus with sharp cutting pains during stool, followed by constriction and aching for several hours. Worse at night. Skin dry and rough, or with herpetic eruptions, secreting an aqueous or viscous liquid. Hahnemann says, that when there is chronic constipation and when a delay of several days in the appearance of the menses gives rise to complications, we can seldom succed in the treatment without having recourse to this remedy. Beatriz H Hill !