It is suitable in both acute and chronic diarrhoea. It is suitable in cholera infantum. The marked feature is the extreme, suddenness with which the stool is ejected. It all gushes out in one squirt. That is descriptive.
Many remedies have a holding on and a prolonged effort at stool, until it takes quite a long time.
Many of the diarrheas are prolonged with numerous little gushes of thin f ces or water, but this particular feature is striking. It may not always be so, but this violent gush of thin, yellow faeces or yellow water is a striking feature of the remedy. Another peculiar thing commonly attending Croton tig . Clinically it has been described as if the pain followed the intestines all the way down to the anus. This gives the general features of the Croton tig . diarrhoea.