Indicated in intestinal disorders, haemorrhoids and conditions characterized by portal congestion.
Dull pressing headache above the eyes, with mental apathy.
Abdomen full, heavy, bloated.
Abdominal flatulency, copious, burning, pressing downward and causing more severe colicky pain.
Abdominal colic, relieved from passing (hot) flatus.
Sense of ?insecurity? when passing flatus.
Loss of power of sphincter ani: must hurry to the closet.
Even solid stool passes almost unnoticed.
Stool watery, jelly-like, with great amount of flatus.
Severe griping pain before and during stool; stool followed by relief from pain and by great weakness.
Burning in the anus and rectum.
Worse early in the morning, desire for stool driving him out of bed; from eating and drinking; in hot, dry weather.
Better in the open air; from discharge of flatus; from local use of cold water.
(First Lessons in the Symptomatology of Leading Homoeopathic Remedies by H. R. Arndt, M. D. Philadephia. Boericke and Tafel.)