The following table summarizes conditions that can be indicated through general stool analysis:
| Stool indicator | Association |
| Slow transit time | Difficult-to-digest meals, poor digestive secretion, poor tone of the intestinal walls, and weak peristalsis. |
| Rapid transit time | Easily digested food, watery food, non-absorption of water from the stool, closed pores of the intestine. |
| Starts out hard and ends up loose | An untoned, unexercised colon and need for fiber. |
| Diarrhea upon rising in morning | Rumex Crispus (Yellow Dock) |
| Delay of stool upon rising | Slow transit time |
| Stool comes out part way then recedes | Spasm interfering with peristalsis; often with colicky pains, alternating diarrhea and constipation. Irritable bowel syndrome, not constipation. Anti-spasmodics. |
| Stool is well-formed but does not come out easily | Good intestinal tone but poor rectal sphincter tone. |
| Dry, hard, difficult, long transit time, dark. | True constipation |
| Loose, diarrhea | Weak, small intestine/spleen (Gentian, Bayberry), infections, worms, emotional-irritable bowel issues and absorption issues. |
| Bloody diarrhea | Ischemic colitis (Comfrey, Cranesbill, Goldenseal, Marshmallow, Fenugreek). |
| Dry/hard/thin | Excess heat, contracted colon (Psyllium , Slippery Elm, Rhubarb). |
| Hard balls all stuck together | Constipation. Drink water, 1/2 body weight in ounces unless Kapha, add fruit and fiber, and flax seeds, freshly ground. |
| Narrow, noodle-like feces | Internalized tension, Crohn’s disease, fibroids, tumors. |