A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy

Rheum rheum.

Allen (1892)In every bookSave

General action

An active cathartic, stimulating persistaltic action.
Catharsis followed by constipation.

Stomach

Aversion to ordinary food, yet with certain desire to eat, but food is repulsive.
Fullness, as if he had eaten to satiety.
Nausea, with colic.

Abdomen

Griping pain, particularly in the umbilical region, with ineffectual desire for stool, > bending over after the stool.

Rectum and Anus

Frequent urging and ineffectual straining, < motion.

Stool

Stool pasty or brown, frothy, always of a very sour, fermented odor, preceded by colic and chilliness; constriction in the bowels, accompanied by shivering, often followed by tenesmus.
Diarrhœa of varying color and consistency, usually frothy and of a sour odor.

Back

Cutting pain in the lumbar region, with digging pain in the bowels.

Fever

Easy perspiration, particularly of the forehead and scalp.
Cold sweat on the face, particularly about the mouth and nose, with the abdominal symptoms.