– BORLAND Douglas M. There is another group of conditions of the same type, the post-herpetic neuralgias, which are sometimes very troublesome. You know the ordinary shingles neuralgia where the patient comes with acute burning pain along the course of the intercostal nerve and gives a history that he has had a small crop of shingles,…

– BORLAND Douglas M. Then you get another type of neuralgia – the sciaticas. And there again you can get helpful leads. In cases of sciatica, in which I can get no indications at all but the ordinary classical symptoms of sciatica, that is to say, acute pain down the sciatic nerve, which is aggravated…

– Benson.A.R, According to M. Jousset the regimen should be especially directed to combating the special etiology circumstances. Besides the use of cold injections or the introduction of a roll of charpie into the rectum, the diet should consist of bran bread and a soup made of maize, lentils or beans. The use of unground flaxseed…

–  BERNARD H, Jahr gives : Whitish-gray excrements. Constipation from atony. Collection of faecal material on account of the constipation. Insufficient bilious secretions. Stool firm, insufficient, soon after a meal, aggravated from standing. Hunger during stool.  Espanet : This medicine is suitable for melancholic venous temperaments, with a constitution used up from table excesses. It corresponds…

– BERNARD H, The Cinchonine, as we know, is an alkaloid which is found in many species of Cinchona, especially the gray.  The use of this substance in the treatment of constipation is mentioned by Dr. R. Noack, of Lyon. In his homoeopathic guide he divides habitual constipation into five classes :  1. Constipation from inertia…

– BERNARD H,  In this pathogenetic résumé of Cocculus, Jahr notes : Constipation with tenesmus; stool hard, difficult. In his Repertory, he classes Cocculus among the first of the remedies indicated for constipation in general, imitating in this respect the example of Boenninghausen, who, besides, italicizes the following symptom : Ineffectual urging at stool from insufficiency…

– BERNARD H,  Stools   Large and pale; Lumpy and light colored.  Before stool   Cutting pains in the hypogastrium with desire.  During stool   Absence of marked desire; Straining; Violent effort and dull pain.  After stool   Dull pains in the anus.  Concomitants   Pulsative or painful cephalalgia. Congestion towards the heart and head alternating with haemorrhoidal symptoms. Indigestion arising…

– BERNARD H, This medicine presents but few symptoms of constipation, but they are very characteristic. In the Chronic Diseases we find; Constipation with ineffectual desire for stool; hard stool which occurs only every two days. After stool, palpitation of the heart.  [In Raue, we find : Frequent urging without stool, or there is only a…

– BERNARD H, Dr. Schmidt says : I have often succeeded with Crocus in obstinate constipation, notably when it occurs in the new-born; and is based on disturbances in the vena-porta. In these cases, in the dose of a drop of the tincture, once a day, I have obtained natural stools without any inconvenient result.  We…

– BERNARD H, The only symptom which we find in Hahnemann’s Materia Medica bearing upon this subject is the following : Daily stool, but it is hard and scanty.  We would not have referred to this drug, if we had not read the following curious observation.  Case 12   A child, one year of age (Calc. carb.…