Belladonna: For obstruction of intestines, the treatment be
started with this remedy.
Opium: Spasmodic retention of faeces in small intestines. Abdomen hard, bloated, tympanitic. During colic urging to stool and discharge of hard faeces.
Plumbum: Intestines filled with hard faeces, convulsions could be distinctly felt and seen.
Causticum: Incarceration of flatus, with hard faeces.
Lachesis: Abdomen tympanitic, sensitive, painful, cannot bear anything around waist.
Nux Vom: Obstruction in the sigmoid flexure of the colon with pain, laying on painful side but relieved by firm pressure. Unable to pass either faces or flatus.
Rhus Tox: Vomits everything but cold drinks. Tongue coated with red triangular tip. Restlessness, wants to change position frequently. Numbness and pain on the side on which he lies down. Unquenchable thirst. Desire for milk. Mouth dry. Drowsy after eating.
