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Materia Medica Viva Volume 9 – page 2051

Stitching pains in the liver region, sometimes with intervals, or
painful tearing there. Swelling of liver with pressive pain and accumu¬lation of ear-wax, causing partial deafness.
Painful tension about the hypochondria, as from a constricting band. Pressive-tensive pain in the left hypochondrium, extending to the left side of the hypogastrium. Oppressive contraction of the hypogastrium.
Contractive pain in lower abdomen, like after-pains.
Pinching pains in the abdomen, as if diarrhoea would come on.
Spasmodic or bearing-down pains, like menstrual colic or labour pains.
Sore feeling in belly when walking on stone pavement.
Trembling of the whole abdomen.
Rectum and Stool
Conium has some very characteristic and unusual symptoms in this region. The symptom ‘Discharge of cold flatus’ seems to be unique in the materia medica. Clarke reports that in a case of severe diarrhoea where the stools felt cold Conium was successfully given.
However, there is also the opposite sensation that is much more ‘normal’. ‘During stool, burning in the rectum’ and ‘Heat in lower portion of rectum’ (but not in the anus!).
Conium has been useful in. constipation with ineffectual urging or with unsatisfactory stools. Sometimes violent stomach cramps in combin¬ation with the constipation. Hard stools, only every other day. ‘Constant urging without any stool. Frequent unsuccessful urging’. Several stools every day, but in very small quantities.
The remedy may also be indicated in diarrhoea, especially if watery or liquid stools are mixed with hard particles and are discharged together with noisy flatus. ‘Frequent diarrhoea; stools like water, with many eructations, and copious passage of urine’. Watery diarrhoea, intermingled with undigested food.
The attacks of weakness after stool are very characteristic, too. After every stool, tremulous weakness, that ceases in the open air. And: after stool, palpitation of heart, with intermission of heart beats.
Stools coated with blood.