Rheum rheum.

Muscles of: Bile ducts. Duodenum. Intestines. Liver.

Dentition. Eating. Summer. Nursing women.

Warmth. Wrapping up.

Sour, impatient, colicky children, who are always screaming and crying. Sour taste, vomitus, stools, sweat, etc.

Offensive mucus in mouth, after sleep. Difficult teething. Loathing after first bite. Colic with cries; > doubling up, < uncovering any part; then pappy, sour, brown, green, fermented, slimy or acrid stools; with shivering; < eating unripe fruit; < evening. Burning in bladder. Sleep, restless; with whining, cries and twitching of face, fingers, etc. Sopping, wet hair. Sweat on scalp, about nose, mouth or on upper lip.

Complementary: Mag-c. Related: Cham.

Suitable for children, especially during dentition. Sour smell of the whole body; child smells sour, even after washing or bathing (Hep., Mag. c.). Screaming of children with urging and sour stools. Children cry and toss about all night (Psor.). Child impatient, desires many things, and cries; dislikes even favorite playthings (Cina, Staph.). Sweat of scalp, constant, profuse; whether asleep or awake, quiet or in motion, the hair is always wet; may or may not be sour (Cal., Sanic.). Difficult dentition; child restless, irritable, peevish, with pale face and sour smell (Kreos., Cham.). Desires various kinds of food but cannot eat them, become repugnant. Colic: < at once by uncovering an arm or leg; with every sour stool; < when standing; not > by stool.

Complementary: after Magn. c., when milk disagrees and child has sour odor. Compare: Cham., Col., Hep., Ipec., Magn. c., Pod., Staph., Sulph. May be given after abuse of Magnesia with or without rhubarb, if stools are sour.

We use this remedy most particularly for sour smelling children; stools, vomit, breath, all smell sour. Before or during stool there are colicky pains about the umbilicus; straining before stool, and finally voided with ease; infants who cry a great deal with colic, in the night; tenesmus without stool.

Affections of the left side of the body. Sensation of crepitation in any part of the body. Perspiration on upper part of the body.

Bellad., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sulphur.

Camphor.

Appetite for various things, but cannot eat them, they become repulsive. Diarrhoea; stools brown and of an excessively sour smell, with much colic. The child smells sourish, oven if washed or bathed every day.

Rhubarb (RHEUM)

Of frequent use in children with sour diarrhœa; difficult dentition. Whole child smells sour.

Impatient and vehement; desires many things and cries (Cina).

Sweat on hairy scalp; constant and profuse. Cool sweat on the face, especially about mouth and nose.

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

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

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

Before stool, unsuccessful urging to urinate. Stools smell sour, pasty, with shivering and tenesmus, and burning in anus. Sour diarrhœa during dentition. Colicky, even ineffectual urging to evacuate altered fecal stools.

Worse, uncovering, after eating, moving about.

Compare: Mag phos; Hep; Pod; Cham; Ipec.

Antidotes: Camph; Cham.

Complementary: Mag carb.

Third to sixth potency.

Is another remedy which like Jalapa, has been abused by the old school, but is very valuable when used homœopathically. 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 diarrhœa 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 diarrhœa during dentition a choice will sometimes have to be made between this remedy and Magnesia carb.

Restlessness, with inclination to weep. The child demands various things with vehemence and weeping. Indolent and taciturn.

Heaviness in the head, with heat rising to it. Dull, stupefying headache, with bloated eyes. Pulsation in the head, ascending from the abdomen.

Pulsation in the eyes. Swimming eyes, full of water, especially in the open air. Contracted pupils. Convulsive twitching of the eyelids. Eyes weak and dull, especially when looking intensely on an object.

Pulsation in the ears. Dulness of hearing, as from relaxation of the tympanum.

Stupefying drawing in the root of the nose, extending to the tip of the nose, where it tingles.

Tension of the skin of the face. The muscles of the forehead are drawn together and wrinkled. Cool perspiration in the face, especially around the nose and mouth.

Painful sensation of coldness in the teeth, with accumulation of much saliva. Difficult dentition of children. The tongue becomes numb and insensible.

Aversion to coffee if not exceedingly sweetened. Hunger without appetite. Longing for various things, but the first morsel satisfies ; he rejects it at once. Nausea as from the abdomen, with colic pain. The food tastes bitter while in the mouth. Tension in the region of the stomach. Fulness in the stomach as if it were overloaded. Tension and bloatedness of the abdomen. Violent pain in the abdomen, with cutting, compelling one to lie doubled up ; much worse when standing. Twitching in the abdominal muscles. Cutting and rumbling in the abdomen as from flatulence.

Frequent ineffectual urging to stool, worse on motion and when walking. Thin, papescent, sour-smelling diarrhœic stools, with straining before, and colicky, constrictive cutting in the abdomen after, and chilliness during the stool. Mucous diarrhœa. Stools brown, mixed with mucus. Diarrhœa of lying-in women ; of children.

Increased secretion of urine. Urine, red or greenish-yellow. The bladder is weak, one has to press hard to pass the urine. Burning in the bladder.

Dyspnœa, as from a load on the upper part of the chest. Stitches in the nipples. The milk of nursing women is yellow and bitter ; the infant refuses the breast.

Stiffness in the sacrum and hips, which does not allow one to walk straight.

Upper. Twitching in the arms, hands and fingers. Swelled veins on the hands. Cold perspiration on the palms of the hands. Bubbling sensation in the elbow-joint. Lower. Twitching of the muscles on the thighs. Sensation of fatigue in the thighs. Bubbling sensation from the bend of the knee to the heel. Stiffness in the bend of the knee with pain on motion.

Bubbling sensation as from small bubbles in the muscles and joints. The limbs on which one lies go to sleep. Weakness and heaviness in the whole body, as if one were waking from a heavy sleep. The joints pain on moving them.

Restless sleep at night, with tossing about, crying, moaning and groaning or with convulsive twitching of the eye-lids, muscles of the face and fingers, especially in children. After sleep on waking, headache, bad odor from the mouth, and unconsciousness. The hands are stretched over the head when going to sleep and during sleep.

Chilliness alternating with heat. One cheek is red and the other pale. Internal chilliness with external heat. Heat over the whole body, mostly on the hands and feet, with cold face. Heat predominates, without thirst. Perspiration from slight exertions. Cold perspiration around the nose and mouth. Perspiration on the forehead and scalp. The perspiration colors yellow.

Especially suitable for children, especially nursing infants or during dentition.

Rheum officinale. R. palmatum. Rhabarbarum. Rhubarb (though called "Turkey-rhubarb," the root comes from China, the exact species yielding it not being certainly known). N. O. Polygonaceæ. Tincture and trituration of the dried root. [A tincture of the fresh leaves and young stalks should be investigated.]

Ardor urinæ. Breath, offensive. Constipation. Deafness. Dentition, difficult. Diarrhœa . Duodenum, catarrh of. Dysentery. Ears, thickening in. Frowning. Headache. Jaundice. Kidneys, affections of. Ménière's disease. Milk, abnormal. Mouth, mucus in . Nipples, pain in. Nose, pain in. Nurselings, affections of. Œsophagus, constriction of. Rheumatism. Salivation. Screaming, of children. Snoring. Stomach, disordered. Taste, bad . Tongue, numbness of. Urination, difficult, of childbed. Urine, red.

Hahnemann's proving of Rheum has confirmed many of its traditional uses. In the form of Compound Rhubarb Powder ( Pulv. Rhei. Co . — Gregory's powder) along with Magnesia and Ginger , most of us can remember it as one of the terrors of the nursery. In its homœopathic form it has no terrors, but it remains a great remedy of sucklings and children, especially during dentition, to whom as well as to pregnant and nursing women it is particularly suited . Milne well summarises its action from the traditional point of view: "Tonic, cathartic, and a feeble astringent, the latter property being overborne by the cathartic and only coming into play afterwards" [ i.e ., the constipation which follows Rhubarb purgation]. "In small doses, it improves digestion and appetite, and renders the renal secretions more healthy. In larger doses it is an excellent cathartic, acting on the whole bowel and especially the duodenum, and increasing the peristaltic action. It is well suited for the early stages of diarrhœa, as a laxative in constipation from debility of the digestive organs, and in disorders of children, such as flatulence and irritation of the alimentary canal. It renders the serum of the blood yellow, the urine is almost of a blood-red colour." In connection with the last observation it must be remembered that Rheum contains a large amount of Chrysophanic acid (named from its brilliant yellow crystals). Among its many other constituents is Oxalate of Lime ( Calc. ox .) and Rheo-tannic acid. Milne's observations agree in the, main with homœopathic experience, but it is the latter alone which brings out the distinctive characters of the medicine. The grand keynote of Rhe . is sourness : The stools are sour; the taste is sour; the whole body has a sour smell. — No amount of washing will wash the sourness out of a characteristic Rheum baby. Such a condition may occur in sucklings, or at the period of dentition; and it may be associated with another characteristic Rhe . symptom, night-screaming; and yet another sopping-wet hair. The Rhe . child is as acid in temper as he is in body: peevish, impatient; screams for things; dislikes even his favourite playthings. "Screaming of children with urging and sour stools" is characteristic. With a few drops of Rhe . Ø I have relieved severe constipation in an acid child who was intolerant of almost all remedies in the attenuations. But Rhe . is by no means exclusively a children's remedy. Its symptoms are good for any period of life. The stomach disorders calling for Rhe . are characterised by: Sour, flat, slimy taste; or insipid or nauseous. Food tastes bitter, even sweet things (there is no bitter taste independently of food). The mouth is covered with offensive mucus after sleeping; and after sleeping there is bad taste and offensive breath. There is hunger for various kinds of food and the first few mouthfuls nauseate. The effects of eating plums or unripe fruit. There is nausea in abdomen. Colic is severe, compelling one to bend double, < standing; < just before stool; not > after; < at once by uncovering an arm or leg. The evacuations are accompanied by shivering and followed by renewed urging. "Shivering with stool" should draw attention to Rhe . — That there is much yet to be learned of the action of Rhe . is evident from the following: ( 1 ) Two cases (in men) of severe skin eruptions are quoted, H. W ., xxvii. 17, from the effects of Rhubarb root taken for constipation. The first symptoms in one case were rigors and pains in the legs. Soon lips, face, and tongue began to swell and became livid. A rash developed involving lips, beard, eyelids, and scalp, scabs mixed with abundant bloody pustular exudations. Hæmorrhages and pustular eruptions then appeared all over the body; blebs with clear fluid on backs of hands. Lymphatic glands swollen and painful. Removal of scabs left shallow dirty ulcers. Blood passed freely from urethra, but sometimes the urine was wholly free from it. Urine brownish yellow; free from albumen or sugar. Temperature 103.3° F. The second case was similar to the above. The patient had taken the powdered root. He woke one morning with burning sensation in face and found it covered with blisters and pustules. These were brownish red, irregular, size of pea or bean, deeply infiltrated at bases. Both surfaces of hands were also affected. The eruption, which closely resembled pemphigus, disappeared in a few weeks without treatment, leaving bluish pigmentation, but no cicatrices. There was no fever in this case. ( 2 ) From these cases given me by Cooper: ( a ) A lady suffering from characteristic symptoms of Ménière's disease, feeling of things spinning round with extreme giddiness and noises in the head, was cured by a chemist giving her 10 grains of powdered rhubarb, on the idea it was due to the liver. Before this great suffering had been endured without any relief. ( b ) In vertiginous symptoms due to brain exhaustion with flushings followed by perspiration and awful muffled and discordant tinnitus, great relief followed the sniffing of 3x trit. of Rheum Palmatum . Among the Peculiar Sensations and Symptoms of Rhe . are: Tendency to frown. Sensation as if brain moved when standing. Dull stupefying headache with bloated eyes. Sweat on hairy scalp, constant and very profuse; whether asleep or awake; in motion or quiet, hair always sopping wet; may or may not be sour. Stupefying drawing in root of nose extending to tip, where it tingles. Bladder weak, must press hard to urinate. Sensations : as if in a dream. As of a lump around navel. As of a load on upper part of chest. Cutting as if in lumbar vertebræ. Heaviness as on waking from a heavy sleep. Coldness in teeth. Blunt feeling in teeth. Constriction of stomach; of gullet. Crackling, crepitation, or bubbling in muscles and any part of body. Tongue numb, numbness of part of limb lain on. Symptoms are mostly left-sided or go from above down or from right to left. Localities are: Left loin; brain; upper part of body (sweat). " Rhe . has the property of setting up pains in old disease depôts, in the seat of old cellulitis and old psoriasis patches, producing hot burning pains therein as well as in the unaffected veins of the thighs and other parts. Its good effect in old middle and internal ear thickenings seems due to the creation of tissue-activity in dormant structures" (R. T. C.). Forcing pains are felt in dartrous patches. The symptoms are: < Night; and morning after sleep. < Uncovering; from cold. Uncovering arm or leg < colic. > Wrapping up; from warmth. In open air: eyes full of water. Hot weather < colic. > Lying doubled up; takes the queerest positions in order to rest awhile. Lying on limbs = them to go to sleep. Motion < . Walking < . [On the indication "Diarrhœa only during active exercise," Hurndall ( H. W . xxxvi., 28) cured a horse of a diarrhœa which only came on when he was at work.] Standing < (vertigo as if brain moved; colic; uterine bearing down). < After eating; after eating plums. < Before, during, and after stool (colic > or not > after stool).

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Rhubarb. Polygonaceæ.
Provings by Hahnemann, Gross, Hornburg, Rückert, Teuthorn, etc. See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 8, p. 303 .
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Headache , Fuller, Hah. Mo., vol. 20, p. 539 ; Difficult dentition , Tuller, Hah. Mo., vol. 20, p. 538 ; Renal affections , Tuller, Hah. Mo., vol. 20, p. 542 ; Diarrhœa , Hartmann, Tietze, Weigel, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 846 ; Kirsch, Müller, Hartmann, Kafka, Weber, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 430 ; Smalls, Raue's Rec., 1873, p. 122, from U. S. Med. and Surg. Jour., vol. 7, p. 428 ; Dysentery , Gauwerky, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 447.

Child impatiently and vehemently desires many things and cries ; dislikes even its favorite playthings.
Screaming of children, with urging and sour stools.
Not inclined to talk much ; indolent ; taciturn ; morose.
Restless, with weeping.

Vertigo and heaviness, with beating in head ; < while standing.
Sensation as if brain moved, when standing.

Beating headache.
Dull, light, dizzy sort of headache, extending over whole brain.
Dull, stupefying headache, with bloated eyes.
Heaviness of head ; heat rising up to it.
Pulsation in head, ascending from abdomen.
Pulsative, crampy headache.
Sensation as if brain moved when stooping.
Headache due to gastric derangement ; pain on top of head ; sour, flat, slimy taste in mouth ; bitter taste of food ; hunger, but great repugnance to food after eating a little.

Sweat on hairy scalp, constant and very profuse ; whether asleep or awake, in motion or quiet, the hair is always sopping wet ; sweat may or may not be sour.

Weak and dull, especially when looking intently at any object.
Swimming eyes full of water, especially in open air.
Pupils dilated, with pressing headache ; later contracted, with inward restlessness.
Contracted pupils.
Pulsation in eyes.
Convulsive twitching of eyelids.
Granulated upper lids.

Stupefying drawing in root of nose, extending to tip, where it tingles.

Pale ; one cheek red, the other pale.
Muscles of forehead are drawn together and wrinkled.
Tension of skin of face.
Cool sweat on face, most around nose and mouth.

Painful sensation of coldness in teeth, with accumulation of much saliva.
Difficult dentition ; restlessness and irritability ; child is nervous, with temporary satisfaction after its whims are gratified ; pallor of face ; occasional twitching of eyelids, corners of mouth, lips and fingers ; the child smells sour.

Taste : sour ; flat, slimy ; insipid or nauseous ; bitter only of food, even of sweet things.
Tongue numb, insensible.

Salivation with colic or diarrhœa.

Desire for various kinds of food, which become repugnant as soon as a little is eaten.

After eating prunes, colic.
After a meal, loose stool ; colic, which is worse standing.

Nausea, as from stomach or abdomen, with colic.

Fullness in stomach, as after eating too much.
Throbbing in pit of stomach.
Disordered stomach in children ; nervous, irritable, desiring many things, with repugnance to food, pale face, sour-smelling breath, nightly restlessness and crying during sleep.

Jaundice, in consequence of eating unripe fruit, accompanied by white diarrhœa.
Duodenal catarrh and catarrh of biliary ducts, with jaundice ; stools whitish, pasty, or clay-colored ; skin, earthy, jaundiced.

Sensation of nausea in abdomen.
Abdomen bloated, tense ; wind seems to rise into chest.
Like a lump around navel.
Cutting and rumbling as from flatulence.
Griping with great urging to stool.
Cutting in umbilical region.
Colic : violent pain with cutting ; must lie doubled up ; < when standing ; immediately before stool, not > by stool ; before and during stool, > after ; a quarter of an hour after dinner ; with very sour stools, acid children ; in children made < at once by uncovering an arm or a leg, child smells sour ; < by eating plums.

Frequent urging and ineffectual straining ; < on motion and walking.
Colicky ; ineffectual urging ; altered fecal stools.
Desire for stool after a meal.
Stool : brown, slimy ; loose, thin, curdled, sour-smelling, fermented ; corroding anus ; mucous and fecal ; pasty ; thin, brownish, fecal ; whitish, curdy, turning green on diaper on exposure to air ; of a pea-green ; feces mixed with green slime ; fetid ; frothy.
Before stool : urging ; ineffectual urging to urinate ; cutting colic.
During stool : colic ; chilliness, cutting and constricting pains in abdomen ; pale face ; salivation ; screaming (teething infants), with drawing up of limbs or stiffening body.
After stool : tenesmus ; renewed urging (when moving) ; constrictive cutting colic, < from motion.
Aggravation : when moving about ; in infants and children ; after eating ; during dentition ; in childbed ; during inflammatory rheumatism ; in hot weather ; when uncovering (pains).
Amelioration : by bending double (colic).
Diarrhœa, with sour, slimy stool and tenesmus after abuse of Magnesia.
Almost immediately after nursing child has a loose stool, which is sour-smelling, accompanied by colic.
Liquid slimy stools, as if fermented, with pale face, ptyalism, colic, crying and restlessness ; child draws up legs, smells sour despite all washing.
Very severe diarrhœa, with colic and tenesmus ; alternate chilliness and heat ; great thirst ; general sweat ; great prostration, restlessness, fear of death.
Diarrhœa of teething children during Summer ; extreme emaciation.
Diarrhœa of children who have not cut any teeth ; evacuations fluid, greenish, sour-smelling, as if fermented, accompanied by colic, with flexing of thighs upon abdomen ; tossing about ; paleness of face ; ptyalism.
Sour, fetid discharge during dentition ; always some congestion about head ; fever and dark-colored, smarting urine and dysuria.
Dysentery ; after bloody stools have ceased, tenesmus, with brown, mushlike, slimy, sour stools.
During phthisis, greenish diarrhœa, of sour smell, containing much mucus, accompanied by colic and tenesmus.
Diarrhœa during inflammatory rheumatism.
Chronic diarrhœa, sour, frothy ; with moist tongue, thirst, loss of appetite.

Burning in kidneys and bladder, before and during urination.
Bladder weak, must press hard to urinate.
Urine : increased ; red or greenish-yellow.
Abdomen distended ; urine scanty, burning, reddish, with a pink sediment ; face pale and bloated ; disposition irritable ; very nervous ; constant disposition to sweat upon slightest motion ; hair wet all the time ; severe cutting drawing in left loin below short ribs, with a drawing, aching, burning sensation in left ovarian region, sometimes agonizing. θ Ascites.
Child lay in a stupor, from which he frequently roused and screamed ; face pale and covered with cool sweat, forehead and hair sopping wet ; lips, eyelids and fingers twitching ; urine scanty, hot, with slimy shreds and strings of blood on diaper ; renal region tender on pressure, causing child to wince and cry.
Eight months pregnant ; face and eyes bloated ; great pallor of countenance, irritable, nervous, easily startled by noises and apprehensive, twitching of facial muscles ; great disposition to sweat on slightest motion ; cool sweat on forehead ; hair constantly wet ; urine scanty and fragrant, high-colored.

Bearing down in uterine region, while standing.

After abortus, urinary complaints.
Milk of nursing women yellow and bitter ; infant refused breast.
Diarrhœa in first days after confinement, with colic, tenesmus, prostration, restlessness ; fear of death ; stools watery, offensive.
Stitches in nipples.

Dyspnœa, as from a load on upper part of chest.
Snoring inspiration during sleep.

Pulse generally unchanged ; only a little accelerated, especially in evening.

Stiffness in sacrum and hips ; cannot walk straight.
Violent cutting, as if in lumbar vertebræ, < by stool.
Cutting, drawing in left lumbar region, beneath short ribs and in forepart of left side of lower abdomen, just above pubes ; digging in intestines.

Darting pains in arms.
Twitching in arms, hands and fingers.
Bubbling sensation in elbow joints.
Veins of hand distended.
Cold sweat on palms of hands.

Twitching of muscles of thighs.
Sensation of fatigue in thighs, as after great exertion.
Tensive, pressing pain in hollow of left knee, extending to heel.
Stiffness in bend of knee, with pain on motion.
Bubbling sensation from bend of knee to heel.

Limbs fall asleep from lying on them, particularly the lower, in putting one over the other.
Simple pain in all the joints during motion.

Takes the queerest positions, in order to rest awhile ; restless nights ; cannot walk erect ; flexes limbs ; puts hands over head ; must lie doubled up.
Lying on limbs : makes them fall asleep.
Must lie doubled up : colic.
Stooping : as if brain moved.
Standing : vertigo, as if brain moved ; colic < ; bearing down in uterine region.
Motion : urging and straining < ; colic < ; slightest disposition to sweat ; stiffness in bend of knee painful, pain in all joints.
Walking : urging and straining.
Cannot walk straight : stiffness of limbs, hips and sacrum.

Weakness, exhaustion also of children, with diarrhœa.
Weakness and heaviness of whole body as if one were waking from a heavy sleep.
Restlessness.
Child is pale, quarrels, frets in sleep ; with convulsive startings in fingers.

Puts hands over head when falling asleep and in sleep.
During sleep : heat ; jerking motion of muscles in face or eyelids ; trembling ; moving limbs ; bending head backward.
Children cry and toss about all night ; delirious talking ; full of fear.
Vivid, sad, anxious dreams.
Walking in sleep.
On awakening from sleep, headache ; bad odor from mouth.
Requires very little sleep and not much food.

Evening : pulse accelerated.
Night : restlessness ; children cry and toss about.

General aggravation from uncovering, from cold.
Amelioration from wrapping up, from warmth.
Open air : eyes full of water.
Uncovering arm or leg : colic <.
Hot weather : colic <.

Chilliness, alternating with heat ; internal, with external heat.
Heat all over, mostly on hands and feet, with cold face ; no thirst.
Perspiration from slight exertions.
Sweats easily without fever.
Perspiration on forehead and scalp after slight exertion.
Cold perspiration on face, especially about mouth and nose.
Sweat on scalp and forehead.
Cold sweat about nose and mouth.
Sweat stains yellow.

Alternate : chilliness and heat.

Symptoms mostly left-sided ; going (in the sick) downward, or from right to left.
Left : cutting drawing in loin ; drawing, burning in ovarian region ; cutting drawing in lumbar region and in forepart of side of lower abdomen ; pressing pain in hollow of knee.

As if brain moved ; as of a lump around navel ; as of a load on upper part of chest ; cutting as if in lumbar vertebræ ; heaviness, as if one were waking from a heavy sleep.
Pain : on top of head ; in all joints.
Violent pain : in abdomen.
Cutting : in umbilical region.
Cutting drawing : in left loin ; in left lumbar region.
Darting pains : in arms.
Digging : in intestines.
Stitches : in nipples.
Constricting pains : in abdomen.
Drawing, aching, burning : in left ovarian region.
Tensive, pressing pain : in hollow of knee.
Beating : in head.
Throbbing : in pit of stomach.
Pulsation : in head ; in eyes.
Twitching : eyelids, corners of mouth, lips and fingers ; in arms and hands ; of muscles of thighs.
Burning : in kidneys and bladder.
Bearing down : in uterine region.
Stupefying drawing : in root of nose.
Dull, stupefying headache.
Dull, light, dizzy sort of headache.
Bubbling sensation : in elbow joints ; from bend of knee to heel.
Fulness : in stomach.
Heaviness : in head.
Numbness : of tongue.
Painful coldness : in teeth.

Diarrhœa during dentition.
Acute rheumatism, going from joint to joint, right shoulder to hip, left hip to right.
Lameness of wrists and knees after sprains and dislocations.
Anasarca.

Sour smell of whole body.
Child smells sourish, even if washed or bathed.

Often suitable for children, sucklings, or during dentition.
Sour-smelling children who cry a great deal Child, æt. 5 months, suffering four days ; diarrhœa.
Boy, æt. 6 months, after diphtheria ; acute nephritis.
Boy, æt. 9 months, ill three days ; diarrhœa.
Girl, æt. 2 ; frothy diarrhœa.
Woman, æt. 35, blonde, lively disposition, delivered several days ago, suffering three days ; diarrhœa.
Mrs. W., æt. 47, eight months pregnant ; renal disorder.
Mrs. A., æt. 60 ; renal affection.

Antidoted by : Camphor., Chamom., Coloc., Mercur., Nux vom., Pulsat .
It antidotes : Canthar . and Magn. carb .
Compatible : Ipecac .
Complementary : after Magn. carb .
Compare : Arsen., Bellad., Chamom., Coloc., Dulcam., Nux vom., Podoph., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sulphur .

Child asks for different things, impetuously and with crying; dislikes even its favorite things.
Screaming of children with urging and sour stools.
Not inclined to talk much.
Indolent, taciturn.
Morose.
Restless, with weeping.

Vertigo and heaviness, with beating in head; worse while standing.

Dull, stupefying headache, with bloated eyes.
Heaviness of head; heat rising up to it.
Pulsation in head, ascending from abdomen.
Sensation as if brain moved, when stooping.

Sweat on hairy scalp.

Weak and dull, especially when looking intensely at an object.
Pupils dilated, with pressing headache; later contracted, with inward restlessness.
Pulsation in the eyes.
Convulsive twitching of eyelids.
Granulated upper eyelids.

Stupefying drawing in root of nose, extending to tip, where it tingles.

Pale; one cheek red, the other pale.
Muscles of forehead are drawn together and wrinkled.
Tension of skin of face.
Cool sweat in face, most around nose and mouth.

Difficult dentition of children.
Toothache, with a cold sensation in teeth.

Taste: sour; insipid, or nauseous; bitter, only of food, even of sweet things.
Tongue numb, insensible.

Salivation with colic or diarrhœa.

Desire for various things, but cannot eat them.

After eating prunes, colic.
After a meal, loose stool; colic, which is worse standing.

Nausea, as from stomach, or abdomen, with colic.

Fulness in stomach, as after eating too much.
Throbbing in pit of stomach.

The wind seems to rise up in chest.
Violent pain with cutting, must lie doubled up; worse when standing.
Cutting and rumbling, as from flatulence.
Abdomen bloated, tense.
Like a lump around the navel.

Stool: brown and slimy; loose, thin, curdled, sour, fermented, turning green, reddening the anus.
Worse evening and night; fever in morning; worse from any motion, standing; after eating; during teething; in the lying-in from change of weather; during summer.
Before stool: ineffectual urging to urinate, cutting colic.
During stool: chilliness, cutting and constricting pain in abdomen; pale face; salivation; screaming (teething infants) with drawing up of limbs or stiffening body.
After stool: colic, ineffectual straining, worse from any motion.
Diarrhœa during inflammatory rheumatism.
Chronic diarrhœa; sour, frothy; with moist tongue, thirst, loss of appetite.
Dysentery, after bloody stools have ceased; tenesmus, with brown, mush-like, slimy, sour stools.

Burning in kidneys and bladder, before and during urination.
Bladder weak, must press hard to urinate.
Urine; increased, red, or greenish-yellow.

Bearing down in uterine region, while standing.

After abortus, urinary complaints.
Milk of nursing women, yellow and bitter; infant refuses breast.
Diarrhœa in first few days after confinement, with colic, tenesmus, prostration, restlessness, fear of death; the stools are watery, offensive.
Dentition difficult, with diarrhœa.

Dyspnœa, as from a load on upper part of the chest.

Pulse generally unchanged, only a little accelerated, especially in evening.

Stiffness in sacrum and hips, cannot walk straight.
Violent cutting, as if in lumbar vertebræ, increased from stool.

Darting pains in arms.
Twitching in arms, hands and fingers.
Bubbling sensation in elbow-joints.
Veins of hand distended.
Cold sweat on palms of hand.

Twitching of muscles of thighs.
Sensation of fatigue in thighs.
Stiffness in bend of knee, with pain on motion.
Bubbling sensation from bend of knee to heel.

Limbs fall asleep, from lying on them, particularly the lower, in putting one over the other.

Takes the queerest positions, in order to rest awhile; restless nights.
Standing: 2, 15, 19, 20, 23. Lying on affected parts: 34. Motion: 20, 33. Cannot walk erect: 31. Flexes limbs: 20. Extends limbs: 20. Puts hands over head: 37. Must lie doubled up: 19.

Exhaustion; weakness; also of children with the diarrhœa.
Weakness and heaviness in whole body, as if one were waking from a heavy sleep.
Child is pale, quarrels, frets in sleep; with convulsive startings in fingers.

Puts hands over head when falling asleep, and in sleep.
During sleep, heat, jerking motion of muscles in face or eyelids, trembling, moving limbs, bending the head backward.
Children cry and toss about all night; delirious talking; full of fear.
Walking while asleep.
On awaking from sleep, headache; bad odor from mouth.
Requires very little sleep and not much food.

Evening: 29.

General aggravation from uncovering, from cold; amelioration from wrapping up; from warmth.
Summer: 20. Change of weather: 20.

Chilliness alternating with heat; or, internal, with external heat.
Heat all over, mostly on hands and feet, with cold face; no thirst.
Sweats easily in diseases without fever.
Sweat on scalp and forehead.
Cold sweat about nose and mouth.
Sweat stains yellow.

Symptoms mostly left-sided; going (in the sick) downward, or from right to left.
Right to left: 44. Below upward: 3. Above downward: 44.

Acute rheumatism, going from joint to joint, right shoulder to hip; left hip to right.
Lameness in wrists and knees after sprains and dislocations.
Anasarca.

Sprains, etc.: 44.

Child smells sourish, even if washed or bathed every day.

Often suitable for children, sucklings, or during dentition.

After abuse of Canth., or Magn. carb.
Complementary to Magn. carb.
Rheum follows Ipec. well.
Antidotes to Rheum: Camphor., Chamom., Coloc., Mercur., Nux vom., Pulsat.

A tincture is made of the dried root of Rheum officinale, Baillon.

An active cathartic not inflaming the mucous membrane, but stimulating peristalsis. ▶ Constipation follows its catharsis.

Coloc., Mag. c., Sulph.

Twitching in morning. ▶ Discomfort. ▶ Weakness; when walking. ▶ Heaviness of whole body after sleep; as after deep sleep; as from too little sleep.

In general, there is an acid condition of the system, the whole body smells sour, the discharges are sour and fermented.

Diarrhœa, sour-smelling, brown and frothy, sometimes excoriating, especially during teething, preceded by colic and followed by tenesmus, with desire for all sorts of food of which one can eat but little. ▶ Diarrhœa, with colic, tenesmus, alternate chill, heat and thirst, sweat, weakness; stools like chopped eggs, with sour odor, color green.

Excitement. ▶ Talking nonsense. ▶ Moaning, anxiety, ill humor. ▶ Silence, nothing makes an impression on him; S. and sulky. ▶ Child impatiently desires many things and cries. ▶ Gloomy, he cannot continue long at one occupation. ▶ Indolent and laconic; I. in morning after sleep, and pinching and tensive pain transversely across forepart of head. ▶ State as if half asleep. ▶ Inability to collect her senses for a long time.

Aching; then tearing extending into occiput; beating; tense; dizzy, spreading over brain, agg. vertex and in temples; as if stupefied and distorted, agg. motion and stooping, with anxiety as if he had committed a crime. ▶ Confusion; with puffy eyes, then pain above one orbit, with dilated pupils; as after intoxication. ▶ Heaviness when walking, with intermittent tearing in it; H., with sultry heat rising into it. ▶ On stooping sensation as if brain moved. ▶ Vertigo; as if one would fall to the side, when standing.

Pain over forepart of skull; drawing, deep, behind eminences; beating, in forepart of head, agg. standing. ▶ Obscuration in forepart of head, a drawing about in it. ▶ Inclination to wrinkle it. ▶ Sticking above temples. ▶ Pulsative pinching now in left, now in right temporal bone and over crown. ▶ Pain in right side, agg. vertex and temple. ▶ Pressure as with a finger at point where head unites with neck. ▶ Crawling in temporal region.

Beating pain. ▶ Biting in left as from a foreign substance before sleep, with lachrymation. ▶ Seem dull and on looking long at anything aching as if they were weak. ▶ Lachrymation in open air. ▶ Contraction of pupils, with internal uneasiness; at one time greater, at another less contraction. ▶ Agglutination after sleep. ▶ Gland on margin of upper lid, causing pressive and burning pain. ▶ Pressure on lids, even when closed. ▶ Drawing in lids.

Crackling and bubbling, perceptible even to hand, and in muscles in side of neck. ▶ Squeezing in left, with itching. ▶ Pressure as from a finger in meatus. ▶ Throbbing at times when writing, agg. stooping. ▶ Roaring in right, transiently amel. violent swallowing, with dull hearing and sensation as if drum were relaxed.

Drawing, stupefied pain along root, causing crawling in tip. ▶ One cheek pale, the other red, on both pale. ▶ Tensive sensation in skin of face. ▶ Drawing gushing sensation in right lower jaw, extending into right temple.

Teeth blunt; burrowing in hollow T., with elongation and looseness; pain in left upper incisors, with coldness; pain in left molars, with coldness, causing salivation. ▶ Mouth covered with offensive mucus after sleep. ▶ Dryness, without desire to drink. ▶ Offensive breath after sleep. ▶ Taste sour; insipid; bitter to food; bad after sleep; lost, and tongue insensible.

Hawking and spitting. ▶ Contraction of pharynx.

Appetite great, yet the food that was relished soon became repulsive; hunger without real A.; A. diminished; lost. ▶ Food soon becomes repulsive, though there is a tolerably good appetite. ▶ Aversion for certain things (for example, fat, insipid food), yet desire for various things, but he cannot eat much because they become repulsive. ▶ Coffee is repulsive unless very sweet. ▶ Thirst. ▶ Eructations. ▶ Nausea; in epigastric region; with colic; with contractive sensation in stomach; with retching.

Sticking in pit; in left side near pit. ▶ Fulness as if he had eaten to satiety, sometimes followed by sleepiness. ▶ Pressure as if filled with food; P. in pit after sleep, that on inspiration extended over sternum and changed to bruised pain. ▶ Throbbing in pit, with rhythmical gurgling.

Distention; after eating. ▶ Rumbling; and gurgling. ▶ Twitching of muscles. ▶ Flatulence; rising to chest and there causing tension and pressure. ▶ Emission of flatus; offensive, with relief. ▶ Nausea. ▶ Cutting; in morning in bed, on uncovering, with emission of flatus; after dinner, amel. bending over, agg. standing; twinging, transversely across. ▶ Griping; with ineffectual urging to stool from inactivity of rectum; then emission of flatus. ▶ Pain; before and during stool, amel. stool; agg. plums; as if full of liquid, on inspiration. ▶ Hammering mounting into head. ▶ Tension. ▶ Gushing-gurgling sensation, which seemed as if it could be heard. ▶ Warmth, with pain on pressure.

Pressure in region of spleen. ▶ Umbilical region, cutting; griping; pressure; intestines seem to press outward. ▶ Itching stitches in the last inguinal gland. ▶ Pain in ring as if a hernia would protrude, when walking. ▶ Pressure as with tip of thumb in pubic region. ▶ Tension in left side above pubis after a meal.

▶ Desire for stool after a meal (Cham.); D. agg. moving about; then thin offensive stool, with colic then ineffectual tenesmus, later another stool, after rising from stool the urging, which had gradually subsided, returned more violent than ever, and the pain in abdomen which accompanied the stool became worse; partly ineffectual, partly with soft stool. ▶ tenesmus. ▶ Urging. ▶ Pain in region of anus as after continued diarrhœa.

▶ Semi-liquid, forcible, frequent, followed by tenesmus and burning in anus; S., brown, frequent, followed by tenesmus, pain in back and burning in rectum. ▶ Diarrhœa, with mucus. ▶ Pasty, sour-smelling (Dulc.), then shivering (Puls.), then urging, with constriction in intestines. ▶ First part soft, then hard, preceded and accompanied by cutting. ▶ First part hard, last liquid. ▶ Constipation. ▶ Mingled with mucus. ▶ Of grayish mucus.

Burning in bladder and kidneys. ▶ Bladder weak, must press when urinating, else the urine cannot be completely evacuated. ▶ Urging. ▶ Desire to urinate every half hour. ▶ Tenesmus during micturition, tickling in urethra and dragging towards bladder. ▶ Micturition frequent and profuse. ▶ Micturition burning. ▶ Prickling in urethra during micturition. ▶ Urine bright yellow, tinged with green; reddish-yellow, as in jaundice and in high fever; dark, of an agreeable benzoic odor; dark red, almost brown, thickish, warm and of an agreeable odor; increased; increased and light-colored.

Emissions.

Cough, with expectoration of mucus; dry C. in evening. ▶ Dyspnœa, on taking a deep breath the chest cannot expand sufficiently, as from a weight below throat.

Yellow, bitter milk in a nursing woman. ▶ Sticking; in right side; in nipples; sudden, below last ribs during inspiration and expiration. ▶ Aching in nipples, caused by flatulence in abdomen; tightening, across sternum, with at times stitches; burning, in left side of sternum. ▶ Contraction. ▶ Audible crackling bubbling, as of vesicles, in left, then in right pectoral muscles. ▶ (Oppression.).

Rapid.

Tension. ▶ Cutting in lumbar vertebræ, agg. stool; C. in left lumbar region. ▶ Cutting drawing in lumbar region, beneath left short ribs, and in left side of hypogastrium above pubis, a digging in intestines. ▶ Stiffness in sacrum and hips, with inability to walk straight.

▶ Pain in all joints during motion. ▶ (Fatigue.). ▶ Falling asleep of those upon which he lies.

Sticking in arms. ▶ Tearing in upper arms and finger-joints. ▶ Elbow, twitching sensation in right; gushing gurgling sensation. ▶ Forearms, muscles seem contracted, with tremulous motion of hands; tearing; sensation in lower side as if about to fall asleep. ▶ Hands, swollen veins; involuntarily stretched above head before falling asleep; tearing across from thumb to little finger. ▶ Sticking tearing in thumb.

Thigh, twitching of various fibres on posterior part when muscles were extended while sitting and on drawing up knees while lying; weariness. ▶ Knee, sticking in left when walking; drawing-down weary pain in hollow of left when standing; tensive pain in hollow of left, extending to heel; painless gurgling in hollows, extending to heels; gushing gurgling sensation in hollows; weary tension in hollow of right; stiffness, with pain on motion.

Intermittent burning pain between inner malleolus and tendo-achillis. ▶ Gurgling extending down leg, with stitches. ▶ Legs go to sleep when riding one over the other. ▶ (Sprained sensation in left ankle in morning on stepping upon it.). ▶ Tearing transversely across instep, with sticking. ▶ Sticking in left sole above little toe. ▶ Gushing crackling sensation in ball of left great toe.

Itching rash on forehead and arm. ▶ Sticking itching in hollow of sole; in root of little toe, almost as after being frozen.

Yawning. ▶ Sleepiness. ▶ Raving in sleep, afterwards he walked about in an unconscious state, half dreaming, half waking; R. in evening, tossing about the heat. ▶ Snoring. ▶ Hands stretched above head. ▶ Restless; with moans and bending backward of head; in a child, if often begins to cry out and says tremblingly "There are men." ▶ Child seems to be quarrelling, with convulsive drawing of fingers, facial muscles and of eyelids and pallor. ▶ Dream vivid, sad, anxious; anxious, of dead relatives; vexatious, offensive.

Chilliness; (in morning); C. and heat alternately, with weariness, anxiety and aversion to everything. ▶ Shivering without external coldness. ▶ Coolness of face, with heat of hands and feet. ▶ Heat; and uneasiness; without thirst; about nose; in cheeks; in palms. ▶ Sweat on forehead and scalp after slight effort; in palms when hands are closed; cold, on face, agg. about mouth and nose; cold in palms while rest of body was warm; yellow, smelling of rhubarb.

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

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.

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

Frequent urging and ineffectual straining, < motion.

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.

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

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

Rheu. / Reuben.

Rhubarb,-Thine the right to rule,
When with loose and sour stool,
On the face is clammy sweat,
Or the hair is dripping wet.
When with colic-double bent,
Baby has a sour scent.

Reuben,-Has sour stools.

Reuben, Cal-car is the child of Maggie Hepar.

This Reuben,-Who is subject to Head sweat,- Is at Mag Mur Sil's, with the Comic child, Sanicula.

Sour Stools: Rhu., Cal. c., Carb. v., Cham., Mag. c., Hep.

Head Sweat:Rhu., Mag. m., Sil., Cal. c., Mer., Cham., Sanicula. (Hot sweat, Cham.- Cold sweat, Cal. c., Mer., Sil.-During sleep, Cal. c., Sil., Mer.)

Indicated in diarrhoea, chiefly of children, with distinctly sour smell of the stools and of the child.

Profuse sweating of the scalp; the hair is always wet.

Diarrhoea, with colic when uncovering, before and after stool; stools pasty, sour-smelling, fermented, green; sometimes look like chopped egg.

Stools followed by shivering, then urging, with constriction of the intestines.

First part of stool soft, then hard; with cutting colic.

Worse from uncovering; from eating.

Morose, sluggishness and silent brooding. the child desires various things with weeping and vehemence. Restless and tearful. Fear of death.

Heaviness of, with heat rising therein. Beclouding, stupefying ache with puffed eyes. Throbbing ache.

Painful throbbing in. Suffered. Contracted pupils. Weak, with dim vision.

Bubbling in, and in muscles of throat Throbbing in.

Crawling in tip.

Tension in skin of. Inclination to wrinkle forehead. Drawing, welling up, almost a bubbling sensation in lower jaw, extending into temples.

Difficult teething in children. Cold feeling i, with great accumulation in saliva.

Taste: Flat, slimy. Food tastes bitter while it is in the mouth.

Tension in region of. Fullness, as from overloading.

Appetite: Hunger without appetite. Appetite for various things, but after the first bite they become repulsive. Aversion to fatty, insipid foods. Coffee is repugnant unless very sweat. Violent thirst.

Nausea: Seeming to arise from stomach and abdomen.

Tense and bloated. Violent cutting pain, especially in loins, they compel him to double up. Cutting in compel him to double up. Cutting in before and during stool. Welling up, gurgling sensation in abdominal muscles.

Flatulence. - rumbling and cutting from flatus in abdomen.

Frequent, ineffectual urging. Forcible, colicky stool motion. Papescent, sour - smelling s., with shivering. Diarrhoea: Mucus, debilitating, with cutting in the abdomen, then tenesmus.

Increased discharge. Reddish yellow or greenish. Feeble discharge, as from paralysis of bladder.

Oppressed, as from a load upon upper part of chest.

Cracking or gurgling, bubbling up as from small bubbles in chest muscles. Stitches in nipples, yellow, m bitter milk of nursing women.

Stiffness in small of back and hips.

Twitching in arms and hands. gurgling bubbling sensation, especially in elbows. Distended blood vessels on hands. Cold sweat on palms.

Weariness in thighs, as after overexertion. Bubbling gurgling sensation extending from popliteal spaces to heels.

Bubbling gurgling sensation, as from small bubbles in muscles and joints. All joints pain when moved. Asleep sensation in parts wherein he lies. Weakness and heaviness of entire body, as after waking from a deep sleep.

Day sleepiness. Nightly sleeplessness and restlessness, with tossing about and crying out (in children). After sleep, want of recollection, headache, bad odor from mouth etc. Many anxious, sorrowful dreams.

Pulse: Only slightly quickened. Chill: Alternating with heat. One cheek red, the other pale. Internal shivering with external warmth. Heat: Over whole body, most on hands and feet with a cold face. Predominating. Sweat: From the least exertion. Cold, about mouth and nose. On forehead and scalp. Stains yellow, and smells like rhubarb.

Allied Remedies: Bell., cham., Coloc., Mag - c., NUX-V., Phos-ac., Puls.

Complementary: Mag-c.

All joints are painful when moving.

Bubbling sensation as from bubbles in the muscles and joints.

The limbs on which one lies go to sleep.

Debility and heaviness in the whole body as if he was awakened from a heavy sleep.

Especially suitable for children, during lactation and dentition.

Cool perspirations (around the mouth and the chin and palms of the hand).

Nightly sleeplessness with loping (sic) about and crying.

Stools are sour and there is tenesmus.