Materia Medica de A a Z

RHEUM (PALMATUM) OFFICINALE (rheum)

Of frequent use in children with sour diarrhoea; difficult dentition. WHOLE CHILD SMELLS SOUR.

Mind

Impatient and vehement; desires many things and cries [Cina].

Head

Sweat on hairy scalp; constant and profuse. COOL SWEAT ON THE FACE, ESPECIALLY ABOUT MOUTH AND NOSE.

Mouth

Much saliva. Sensation of coolness in teeth. Difficult teething; restless and irritable. Breath smells sour [Cham].

Stomach

Desire for various kinds of food, but soon tires of all. Throbbing in pit. Feels full.

Abdomen

Colicky pain about navel. Colic when uncovering. Wind seems to rise up to chest

Rectum

Before stool, unsuccessful urging to urinate. STOOLS SMELL SOUR, pasty, with shivering and tenesmus, and burning in anus. Sour diarrhoea during dentition. Colicky, even ineffectual urging to evacuate altered faecal stools.

Modalities

Worse: uncovering, after eating, moving about.

Relationship

Compare: Mag Phos (Mag-p); Hep; Podo; Cham; Ip.

Antidotes: Camph; Cham.

Complementary: Mag-c.