1 . Phlegmatic indolent persons ; old people ; women near climaxis ; tendency to local congestions. 2 . Periodic and alternating complaints ; e.g. congestive headache in winter, diarrhoea in summer. 3 . Diarrhoea spluttery , immediately after eating and drinking ( Croton ) ; drives out of bed early a.m. ( Sulphur ) ; abdominal distension with rumbling and colic before and during stool > passing flatus and stool but prostration and sweating. 4 . Constipation, solid stool passes without exertion or unnoticed ; passage of mucus in jelly-like lumps. Haemorrhoids protrude like bunch of grapes after each stool with bleeding, bearing down, itching, burning, > cold applications. 5 . Modalities ; < hot, dry weather ; < walking and standing, > open air ; > cool applications. Benzoïcum Acidum 1 . Uric acid diathesis especially if gonorrhoeal or syphilitic taint. 2 . Urine dark, brownish with intensely strong, odour in urinary or other complaints. 3 . Rheumatic and arthritic conditions ; gouty concretions ; tearing stitching joint pains, < cold open air, > wrapping up ; ganglia. 4 . Diarrhoea in children ; profuse, watery, very offensive, exhausting stools of urinous odour ; characteristic urine. 5 . Symptoms tend to travel from left to right and from below upward.