Podophyllum. [Podo]
This remedy pictures cholera morbus; there is a painless watery stool coming out with a gush and a loathing of food; undigested diarrhoea worse mornings may also be present.
Veratrum album. [Verat]
This remedy should be given early in the true cholera. It has profuse watery stools with a cold, blue surface and cold sweat on forehead and great prostration. Its characteristics may be summed as follows:
1. Pain in the abdomen preceding stool.
2. Profuseness of the stool and forcible evacuation.
3. Great prostration following stool.
4. The sense of inner burning.
5. The cold sweat.
6. Cold surface of the body.
In all situations give continuous sips of water in which a little salt and some sugar have been dissolved.