Materia Medica de A a Z

RHEUM (PALMATUM) OFFICINALE (rheum)

"I do not propose to adopt the usual way by beginning with /Aconite/ and ending with /Zincum/, but to follow the bent of my inclinations, or, as it is sometimes expressed, the movings of the spirit; and may I not here invoke the aid of the spirits of the immortal Hahnemann, Boenninghausen and the galaxy of bright names that adorn the fair page of the history of Homoeopathy to help me."

First: NUX VOMICA (nux-v)

Previus: JALAPA (Jal)

Next: COLLINSONIA CANADENSIS (Coll)

Is another remedy which like Jalapa, has been abused by the old school, but is very valuable when used homoeopathically. The leading indication is sour stools. They may be brown mixed with mucus, or thin and pasty. There is often much pain before the stool, of a colicky nature, and there may be tenesmus after stool. It is most useful in colicky diarrhoea of children. There is another very characteristic symptom, viz.,: "Not only the stools are sour; the whole child smells sour, no matter how much it is bathed." In colic and diarrhoea during dentition a choice will sometimes have to be made between this remedy and Magnesia carb (Mag-c).