Colic (Elders):

when the well-known griping pains forcing the patient to bend double or press something hard into the abdomen are present. It is a colic caused by flatus, undigested food or cold, or perhaps some violent emotion such as a fit of anger There may be present diarrhea, and the griping is with and preceding the same and emission of flatus or stool will relieve the colic. It is also a most useful remedy in menstrual or vesicle colic, but in all the forms of colic to which RA 4 is applicable it is necessary that the nervous element predominate over the inflammatory. Indeed, it is of little use in inflammatory colic.