– BERNARD H,
Stools
Hard, scanty, tenacious, expelled with difficulty.
Before stool
Pressing and ineffectual desire; Repeated tenesmus and rumblings as if diarrhoea would come on.
During stool
Burning pain in rectum; Straining.
After stool
Burning pains in the rectum; Tenesmus; A wrenching pain in the coccyx; Creeping chills.
Generalities
This medicine, says Jahr, is still but little known and has only been employed against hypochondriacal affections, a few cases of gastralgia, and certain forms of constipation.
Teste considers it as being in some respects the Chamomilla of chronic diseases.