Constipation Treatment Homeopathy — Dr. Vandna Kanani

The most frequently indicated remedy in constipation treatment homeopathy for constipation with frequent, urgent, ineffectual urging — the patient feels a constant desire to defecate but passes only small amounts with each attempt, never achieving a sense of complete evacuation. The Nux vomica constipation patient is irritable, overworked and over-stimulated, relies on coffee and stimulants, has a sedentary lifestyle and a constitutionally sluggish bowel that reacts to every dietary and lifestyle excess with either diarrhoea or constipation. Better after a proper stool. Worse in the morning and after stimulants. The irritable over-stimulated ineffectual-urging constitutional picture confirms Nux vomica in constipation treatment homeopathy.

For constipation with complete absence of any urge to defecate, large dry hard stools that are passed with great difficulty due to their dryness rather than muscular inertia, in the thirsty, irritable, movement-averse constitutional type. The Bryonia constipation patient wants large amounts of cold water at long intervals, is worse from any movement and better from rest and pressure. The stool is so dry it crumbles when passed. Among the most indicated remedies in constipation treatment homeopathy for the large dry crumbling stool in the thirsty, irritable, wants-to-be-left-alone constitutional type.

For constipation in the exhausted, bearing-down, indifferent constitutional type — the depleted woman who feels a heavy bearing-down sensation in the pelvis alongside the constipation, who has become indifferent to family and is dramatically better from vigorous exercise. The Sepia constipation produces a sensation of a ball in the rectum that never goes away even after stool. Constipation alternating with sudden urgent diarrhoea. Among the most indicated remedies in constipation treatment homeopathy for constipation in exhausted women, particularly in pregnancy, postpartum and during hormonal transitions.

For constipation with the extraordinary modality of difficulty passing stool even when the stool is soft — the rectal propulsive mechanism is so constitutionally weak that even a normally soft stool requires prolonged straining to pass. The Alumina constipation patient has no urge to defecate and may go many days without a bowel movement, finding when one eventually comes that even the soft stool requires enormous effort to pass. This paradox of soft stool requiring great straining to pass is the most distinctive and reliable Alumina indication in constipation treatment homeopathy.

For constipation with the characteristic Silicea shy stool pattern — the stool that partially emerges and then retreats back into the rectum, requiring the patient to manually assist extraction. The Silicea constipation patient has a constitutionally weak rectal expulsive mechanism that cannot sustain the muscular effort required to complete defecation. Constipation alternating with occasional offensive diarrhoea in the thin, chilly, refined constitutional type who lacks vital heat. The receding stool pattern alongside the chilly refined constitutional picture confirms Silicea in constipation treatment homeopathy.

For constipation with complete bowel inertia and absence of any sensation or urge from the bowel — the patient has no awareness of the need to defecate and the bowel simply fails to move for days at a time without any discomfort. Opium constipation is among the most severe in constipation treatment homeopathy, with hard round black pellet stools passed after many days without any discomfort during the long interval of constipation. The constitutional type is drowsy, heavy-headed and has a characteristic stuporous quality. Among the most indicated remedies for constipation in the elderly and for severe opioid-medication-induced constipation where the sensation of the bowel has been most completely suppressed.