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Top Homeopathic Medicines For Irregular Bowel Movements

Bowel movements refer to the normal process of emptying waste material of the gastric system that does not serve any purpose in the body. In our body, nutrients are absorbed from whatever food we eat and the rest of the waste material is eliminated from the body as stool via anus. Bowel movements mean how often a person passes stool and what is the consistency of stool. It differs in each individual and there is no fixed definitive pattern of normal bowel movements. A person can pass stool once or many times a day or may skip a day or two without passing stool. But in general, three stools in a day to three stools per week are assumed to be normal. The stool may also be soft, hard or loose. Bowel movements might vary at times in a person and any occasional change is not to be worried about. However, if there occurs any sudden or significant change in the regularity, frequency or consistency of bowel movements then it refers to as irregular bowel movements.

It might simply be arising from some changes in the diet, change in daily routine, stress, anxiety, as a part of ageing, changes in the gut bacteria or it could indicate some underlying health problem needing treatment. One very common such health issue is IBS i.e. Irritable Bowel Syndrome. IBS refers to a functional disorder of the colon (large intestine) in which bowel movements get altered, means there occur diarrhoea or constipation or alternation between these two, bloating of abdomen and stomach cramps. Another health issue could be IBD (inflammatory bowel disease) that includes two inflammatory condition of digestive tract – ulcerative colitis and crohn’s disease. Ulcerative colitis causes inflammation and ulcers in the lining of large intestine and rectum. Crohn’s disease leads to inflammation in any part of the gastrointestinal tract from mouth to anus. Next health condition is celiac disease (a gastric disorder in which eating gluten which is a protein present in wheat, rye, barley set off an immune response which leads to damage to small intestine and causes symptoms including bloating, diarrhea, gas, stomach pain, fatty stool, anemia and weight loss).

Other reasons could be food intolerance, thyroid issues, neurological issues like multiple sclerosis (a disease in which the immune cells damage the protective myelin sheath of the nerve fibers and hinders communication between brain and rest of the body parts). Besides use of some medicines like antibiotics and pain killers may result in irregular bowel movements. With irregular bowel movements one may get diarrhea or constipation or alternation between these two. Depending on the cause, other symptoms may also attend like pain in the abdomen, bloating, straining to pass stool, feeling of incomplete bowel emptying, urgency to pass stool, mucus in the stool, undigested food particles in the stool, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, passing blood in the stool, weakness and weight loss.

Homeopathic Treatment

Homeopathy proves highly effective in cases of irregular bowel movements. Homeopathic medicines help to regularize the bowel movements in very natural way. Homeopathic treatment for this complaint is done on symptomatic basis in every case. An individualized treatment is done based on the characteristic symptom of the individual. Homeopathic medicines are of natural origin, so are 100 pc safe to use with zero side effects. As there are no specific medicines for treating this complaint and the treatment is given purely based on the individual’s symptoms, it is advised to get your case evaluated by a homeopathic physician for right prescription and dosage.

Homeopathic Medicines For Irregular Bowel Movements

1. Aloe Socotrina – Top Medicine For Diarrhea

This medicine is the leading medicine to manage cases presenting with diarrhea. In cases needing it, stool is loose with an urge to pass stool immediately after eating or drinking. There is a sudden urgency to pass stool with a need to rush to the toilet. Gas may pass along with the stool. In some cases, mucus occurs in the stool. There may be abdomen pain before and while passing stool. A constant bearing down sensation can be felt in the rectum. At times, stool is passed involuntarily when passing gas.

2. Podophyllum – For Copious Watery Stool

This medicine is beneficial when the stool is copious and watery. The stool passes out in a gush means suddenly with intense force. The stool can be yellow or green coloured. It may contain mucus or undigested food particles. The stool has offensive smell. There may be sudden urge to pass stool.

3. China Officinalis – For Loose Stool With Weakness

China Officinalis works well in cases of loose stool accompanied with weakness. Stool is profuse and attended with excessive gas in the abdomen. Abdomen pain may occur due to gas. Abdomen is bloated. Stool smells bad. Rumbling occurs in the stomach.

4. Croton Tiglium – For Sudden Stool After Eating / Drinking

This medicine is recommended for cases where a sudden urge to pass stool appears immediately after eating or drinking. Stool gushes out with a great force. Pain in the abdomen on passing stool can occur. Nausea may be felt while passing stoolwhich  be yellow or greenish. It may contain mucus or white flakes.

5. Nux Vomica – For Constipation With Frequent Urge For Stool

Nux Vomica is the best choice of medicine for managing constipation with a frequent almost constant ineffectual urge to pass stool. It may be recommended for persons who pass scanty stool several times a day, stool is unsatisfactory. Despite passing stool frequently in a day, they feel as if the bowels are not completely emptied and there is still more stool to pass giving a never got done feeling. They may feel pain in the abdomen. Nausea and vomiting especially in the morning may be felt.

6. Bryonia – For Constipation With Dry, Hard Stool

This medicine is very effective when there is constipation with dry, hard stool passed in lump form. The stool passes with difficulty and seems as if burnt. Besides, there is distension of abdomen.

7. Alumina – For Constipation With Absence Of Urge For Days Together

Alumina is a helpful medicine for cases where a person has no urge to pass stool for days together. Stool is passed when large faecal matter has accumulated in the intestines. When urge occurs, the stool is passed with intense straining efforts either with hard or soft stool.

8. Antimonium Crudum – For Alternate Constipation And Diarrhea

This medicine is highly suitable to manage cases in which an alteration occurs between constipation and diarrhea. Watery stool occurs with little hard lumps or undigested food particles in it. Cutting pain may be felt in the abdomen before passing stool. Vomiting may also attend. During constipation, there is passage of dry, hard stool with difficulty. There may be trapped gas in the abdomen. A characteristic feature that attends gastric complaint in most of the cases is thickly white coated tongue.

9. Lycopodium – For Alternate Diarrhea And Constipation With Bloating

This medicine is prominently indicated for alternate diarrhea and constipation with bloating. Persons needing it complain of gas and distension of abdomen after eating even a little amount of food. Gas and bloating is marked in the lower abdomen. Some specific food items that worsen the complaints includes cabbage, onions and beans.

 

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Homeopathic Remedies for IBD

Homeopathic remedies for Ulcerative Colitis and Inflamatory Bowel Disease
Diarrhoea, often with blood and mucus, the frequent urge to pass stool or poop, cramping pains in abdomen, all these point to a stomach disorder. Inflammatory Bowel Disease refers to inflammation in the digestive tract. It includes two medical conditions:- The first is Ulcerative Colitis in which inflammation of rectum or large intestine (colon) occurs and the second condition is Crohn’s Disease, in which inflammation of any part of the gastro-intestinal tract from mouth to anus can take place but mainly the small intestine is involved. The main symptoms of Ulcerative Colitis are diarrhea containing blood or mucus, urgency or frequent desire to pass stool and tenesmus, where there is a constant urge to pass stool but the bowels cannot be moved and only scanty stool is passed. The main symptoms of Crohn’s Disease are diarrhea, cramping pains in abdomen, weight loss, anemia and joint pains. The treatment for Inflammatory Bowel Disease is very beneficial and completely safe as it is made of natural substances and has no side effects. Homeopathic Remedies for IBD or Inflammatory Bowel Disease can bring relief to the patient and also work to root out the causative factor.

Top Homeopathic Remedies for IBD – Ulcerative Colitis

Top medicines for Ulcerative colitis are Merc Cor, Colchicum, Arsenic Album, and Phosphorus

1. Mercurius Corrosivus: For Blood and Mucus in Stool in Ulcerative Colitis

Mercurius Corrosivus is the top natural medicine to treat patients suffering from Ulcerative Colitis. This is the best remedy for patients in whom blood and shreds of mucus membranes are passed along with the stool. The patients requiring this medicine feel a constant urge to pass stool but only scanty, hot stool of offensive odour is passed. After passing the stool, the urge reappears and the patient gets no satisfaction. Cutting pains in the rectum accompany the passage of stool.

2. Colchicum Autumnale: For Ulcerative Colitis with Jelly-like Mucus in Stool

Colchicum Autumnale is a natural remedy used in treating those patients of Ulcerative Colitis who complain of excessive jelly-like mucus in stool. The patients experience nausea of the extreme degree and even faint from the odour of cooking food, mainly eggs and meat.

3. Arsenicum Album: For Ulcerative Colitis with Stool of Offensive Odour and Blood

Arsenicum Album is a natural medicine of great help for the treatment of Ulcerative Colitis. The main symptom guiding its use is stool with an offensive odour and dark-coloured blood in it. The complaints get worse at night and the patient feelsa lot of weakness. This medicine can bring about much relief when alcoholic drinks, watery fruit or cold drinks worsen the condition. Burning painin abdomen and rectum is a constant accompanying symptom. Warm drinksgenerally bring relief to patients requiring medicine Arsenicum Album.

4. Phosphorus: For Ulcerative Colitis with Stool Containing Blood and Greenish Mucus

Phosphorus is a very beneficial remedy for patients of ulcerative Colitis where the stool contains blood and greenish mucus with extreme offensiveness. The condition mainly gets worse in the morning. The patients show an excessive craving for cold drinks, ice cream and juicy things.

5. Aloe Socotrina: For Crohn’s Disease with Loose Stool

Aloe Socotrina is among the top natural remedies for Crohn’s Disease. The patients requiring this medicine complain of loose stool which gets worse immediately after eating or drinking anything. The patient feels a sudden urge to pass stool and has to rush to the toilet. Aloe Socotrina also brings relief from the cutting pains in lower abdomen which get worse before and during passing stool and get better after the stool is passed out. Faintness usually follows stool. This medicine can also control diarrhea that gets worsedue to the intake of beer.

6. Podophyllum Peltatum: For Crohn’s Disease with Diarrhea

Podophyllum Peltatum is a very beneficial remedy for Crohn’s Disease with diarrhea and when the stool is watery, greenish and very offensive. The diarrhea mainly gets worse in the morning but in the evening, the stool is normal. The patient can also complain of prolapse of rectum before or during stool. The patient always feels a thirst for large quantities of cold water.

7. Cinchona Officinalis: For Crohn’s Disease with Diarrhea Worse at Night

Cinchona Officinalis is a natural medicine of great help in treating Crohn’s Disease where the diarrhea gets worse at night. The patient has excessive flatulence in the whole abdomen along with diarrhea. This remedy also works best for patients in whom diarrhea gets worse by taking milk or fruits.

8. Argentum Nitricum: For Crohn’s Disease with Watery Green Stool and Flatulence

Argentum Nitricumis thee top natural remedy for Crohn’s Disease with watery green stool accompanied by discharge of loud and noisy flatus. The diarrhoea mainly gets worseby over-eating sweets or after any emotional excitement. An unusual craving for sweets may be present in patients requiring this medicine.

9. For Bleeding from Rectum

For controlling bleeding from the rectum in Inflammatory Bowel Disease,  natural medicines Mercurius Solubilis, Nitricum Acidum, Nux Vomica and Hamamelis Virginica are the best remedies. Mercurius Solubilis is prescribed for patients in whom bleeding from rectum occurs with loose stool and extremely chilly feeling. There’s also an unusual thirst for water. Nitricum Acidum is the medicine which is of great help for patients complaining of bleeding of excessive bright red blood from rectum with severe cutting or tearing pains in rectum. Hamamelis Virginica is the ideal remedy when the blood from rectum is dark coloured and the patient experiences extreme weakness. Nux Vomica is a medicine that is very beneficial when the bleeding from rectum is excited by the intake of spicy food, alcoholic drinks or coffee.

10. For IBD with Diarrhea

Gambogia is a natural medicine that is very beneficial for controlling diarrhoea in  Inflammatory Bowel Disease where the stool is very profuse, watery and is ejected out with suddenness and force. Diarrhoea mainly gets worse in hot weather in patients requiring Gambogia. Sulphur, on the other hand, is the best remedy when the diarrhoea gets worse in the morning. Such patients have to rush out of bed early morning to pass out stool. Patients usually feel hot in soles of feet, palms and head. Podophyllum Peltatum is another effective natural remedy to treat diarrhoea inInflammatory Bowel Disease. The symptoms which guidetowards its use are watery, greenish profuse stool with jelly-like mucus in it.

11. For IBD for Controlling Mucus

Aloe Socotrina and Colchicum Autumnale are the top natural medicines for excessive jelly-like mucus in the stool with pain in the rectum of Inflammatory Bowel Disease patients. Pulsatilla Pratensis is of great help if the mucus in stool is of green colour. The patients requiring Pulsatilla Pratensis are almost thirstless and fatty food always worsens the condition.

12. For Controlling Cramps

Colocynthis works well in patients in whom the cramping pain in abdomen is relieved by pressure or bending double. Dioscorea Villosa is the ideal remedy for patients in whom the abdominal cramps get worse from bending double and better by bending backwards or by walking. Magnesium Phoshphoricum gives excellent results if the cramps in abdomen get better by pressure or warm applications.

13. For controlling Tenesmus

Nux Vomica is the best natural medicine for treating tenesmus in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. The main indication towards this medicine use is an ineffectual but constant urge to pass stool. The stool is very scanty and the patient is not satisfied and goes to pass stool at very short intervals. There is pain in the abdomen which is relieved for a little while after passing of stool, but reappears very soon. Mercurius Solubilis is another remedy which is very beneficial for tenesmus in Inflammatory Bowel Disease where the stool is slimy, bloody and is accompanied by excessive chilliness. Capsicum Annum, meanwhile, is a natural medicine that is of great help for dealing with the tenesmus of Inflammatory Bowel Diseaseif burning and stinging pains are present in the rectum while passing unsatisfactory and insufficient stool. Thirst for water is present after passing stool.

14. For IBD with Weight Loss

Ferrum Phosphoricum, Natrum Muriaticum, Cinchona Officinalis and Lycopodium Clavatum are of great help in treating weakness or anemia in patients of Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Ferrum Phosphoricum can help in raising the haemoglobin level of the patient who has become anemic due to excessive blood loss in stool. The patient looks pale and very weak. Natrum Muriaticum is another good medicine to relieve the weakness in a patient of Inflammatory Bowel Disease. The patient requiring this medicine shows an unusual craving for salty things and cannot bear the heat of sun. Cinchona Officinalis, on the other hand, is the ideal natural medicine for treating the weakness in Inflammatory Bowel Disease due to excessive loss of fluid in diarrhoea.  Excessive flatulence is mainly present in patients requiring Cinchona Officinalis. Lycopodium Clavatum can reduce weakness in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and the symptoms guiding its use are a desire for sweets and warm drinks. The patient looks pale and emaciated with a yellow face and blue circles around eyes.

15. For IBD with Joint Pains

The joint pains in patients of Inflammatory Bowel Disease can be best treated with natural medicines like Bryonia Alba, Rhus Toxicodendron and Kali Bichromicum. If joints are excessively inflammed with pains getting worse on motion, Bryonia Alba can provide a lot of relief. Such joint pains always get better by resting. Rhus Toxicodendron gives a huge amount of relief toInflammatory Bowel Disease patientssuffering from joint pains who experience excessive pain and stiffness in joints which get worse on resting and better by motion. Kali Bichromicum can be very beneficial if the joint pains are of a wandering nature that shiftquickly from one joint to another at short intervals.

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