Comparison
Aloe + Podophyllum
+ Croton tiglium + Sulphur in diarrhea
Acute cases of diarrhea: Aloe:
Podophyllum: and often it will be
very difficult to differentiate between these two remedies. It is therefore
necessary to study carefully their similarities and differences.
Both can have prolapse of the rectum with diarrhea (more common in
Podophyllum).
Both can have involuntary stool in sleep or when passing flatus. Both
< motion/summer heat/after eating or drinking.
Both can have profuse, watery, yellowish, gushing diarrhea. (Podophyllum
a gush “As from a fire hydrant”.)
The Podophyllum child can have a deathly look, very pale, as if he is
going to die.
Both can develop hemorrhoids with the diarrhea. Both can have offensive
diarrhea. (in Podophyllum it can smell like carrion).
Both can have a morning aggravation, < 5 h., and both can be driven
out of bed. Both can have alternation of complaints: diarrhea # with headaches.
Aloe has # lassitude with great activity.
Both have heat in the abdomen with full, bloated feeling, distention and
the soreness of the abdomen, all > after stool. Both have a pressing out
feeling.
(Podophyllum feels that the uterus will come out while urinating and
that during a stool, all the internal organs will come out).
What are the main differences?
Aloe: Prominent with Aloe is the insecurity of the sphincter of the
rectum. The bolus moves with great rumbling and when it reaches the rectum a
weakness is felt.
There is a feeling of not being able to hold the stool. The haste to go
is therefore more prominent with Aloe because of this weakness.
Aloe will also have a greater tendency to lose control and have
involuntary stools, which is < after eating or while walking. Aloe commonly
has involuntary stool while urinating like Mur-ac. The involuntary stools of
Aloe can even happen with hard-formed stools and can even be unnoticed.
Another good differentiating symptom is the amount of flatus during
diarrhea, which is definitely more pronounced in Aloe where it is characterized
by a loud sputtering. Loud gurgling, as of water running out of a bottle, prior
to passing stool or large amounts of gas is more characteristic of Aloe.
Aloe will characteristically pass hot flatus. Jelly-like stool is more
characteristic of Aloe while Podophyllum’s is generally watery. It is more
characteristic of Aloe
for the diarrhea < standing +/o. walking. Aloe will tend to be hungry
after every stool like Veratrum album while Podophyllum tends to have no
appetite with the
diarrhea. Above all, the Aloe patient is a more unpleasant patient when
acutely sick. Podophyllum is more depressed, he thinks he is going to die.
Podophyllum: The most characteristic symptom of the Podophyllum diarrhea
is how profuse it is. You wonder where so much can come from. The profuse
gushing stool
of Podophyllum tends to be more changeable, in terms of the color. It
can be yellow, green, white or black. It is changeable also in terms of the
consistency. It can be
watery, slimy, gelatinous, lienteric, bloody, pasty or naturally formed.
The very offensive stool like carrion belongs to Podophyllum. Podophyllum can
have empty retching with the diarrhea. The diarrhea of Podophyllum < during
dentition, not found in Aloe. In this condition there is a desire to press the
gums or teeth together.
The sleep of Podophyllum tends to be more restless. He sleeps with his
eyes half open, whining, moaning and rolling the head from side to side.
However, both grind their teeth in sleep. The painless stool is more
characteristic of Podophyllum. The hot flatus is not characteristic of
Podophyllum, but instead it passes hot eructations.
DD.: Crot-t. from Aloe and Podophyllum in cases of acute diarrhea, which
shares with them many characteristic symptoms such as the loud gurgling before
the diarrhea followed by a profuse, yellow, watery stool which is aggravated by
drinking, eating and motion. The most characteristic aspect of the stool of
Croton tiglium is the explosiveness. It comes out like a sudden explosion, in
like a shot all at once, in one violent gush like water from a hydrant. The
aggravation of drinking (Infant nursing)
and eating is more intense in Croton tiglium and more characteristic of
it. The gurgling before the stool can sound like a loud swashing of water. The
diarrhea tends to be
more painful in Croton tiglium, more griping pain and tenesmus. Other
characteristic symptoms of Croton tiglium are the great pallor and weakness
associated with faintness, vertigo, nausea, vomiting, dimness of vision,
perspiration and coldness.
Podophyllum can have vomiting preceding its diarrhea. The time aggravation
is not very prominent in Croton tiglium. Aloe has most prominently the urgency
with insecurity
of the rectum, Podophyllum has the great quantity of stool and Croton
tiglium has the explosiveness of its stool. Only Aloe, among these three
remedies, will pass stool without noticing it.
Sulphur: the chronic level. Both share hundreds of similar symptoms.
Both are hot remedies but Aloe is more intolerant of the heat. For instance,
the diarrhea of Aloe < heat
of the summer, which is not characteristic of Sulphur. However the great
heat of the feet and the desire to uncover them (at night) is more
characteristic of Sulphur.
Both are driven out of bed in the morning 5 h. but it is more striking
for Sulphur and less for Aloe. Aloe and Sulph. will desire apples, beer,
farinaceous foods and salt but Sulphur will also tend to desire spices and
sweets more prominently. The 11 h. aggravation is more characteristic of
Sulphur. The aversion to change and the cycles of fixations are characteristic
of Aloe. The great indolence and lassitude # activity is also more
characteristic of Aloe. Sulphur tends to be often hungry during the day and
especially at
11 h., while Aloe tends to be most hungry after stool.