RHEUM

RHEUM. [Rheum] Rhubarb. Hahnemann. Holygonaceae.

► 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 diarrhoea.

► 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. ► Diarrhoea during inflammatory rheumatism. ► Chronic diarrhoea ; 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. ► Diarrhoea in first few days after confinement, with colic, tenesmus, prostration, restlessness, fear of death ; the stools are watery, offensive. ► Dentition difficult, with diarrhoea.

► Dyspnoea, 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 vertebrae, 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 diarrhoea. ► 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.