- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Rhubarb. (Polygonaceae) 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…”
- Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Rheum officinale, Baillon. Natural order , Polygonaceæ. Common names , Rhubarb, Rhabarber. Preparation , Trituration of the dry root. Authorities. (Nos. 1 to 14 , from Hahnemann). Delirium, 7. Mental excitement, 15. The child impatiently desires many different things and cries, 1. Moaning, anxiety, ill-humor, 1…”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“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…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“FOAMY, frothy LYING, bent or doubled up, Amel. SOURNESS”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“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…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“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 /…”
- Hahnemann (MMP) — The proving record — numbered observations closest to Hahnemann's primary materia medica.
“(Rhubarb.) (A grain of fresh, good, pulverized rhubarb-root is, for homeopathic use, to be brought to the thirtieth (x) in the same way as is taught in the preface to arsenic, viz. by three hours of trituration with milk-sugar and subsequent dilution and potentization.) From vol. ii, 3rd edit., 1833. In the thousand…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“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…”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“RHEUM. Rheum palmtttumy L. Rhubarb. Nat. Onl., PplygMo^tee, 1. Provlngs, — I. Hahnemann, iWijr. jWr//. PuriJ, vol. ii of orieinal and of translation. Contains 194 symptoms from self and 5 others, and 14 from authors. 2. ScHNELXER began with 2 gr. of an aqueous extract, increasing dose daily by 2 gr., until at last he…”
- Lippe (KN) — Only the symptoms Lippe considered reliable enough to prescribe on.
“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…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“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…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: rhubarb. Especially suitable for children, during lactation and dentition (Calc., Calc-P., Mag-C., Pod., Sil., Sulph) We use this remedy most particularly for sour-smelling children; stools, vomit, breath-all smell sour (G.). Nightly sleeplessness with loping about and crying. All joints are painful when…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“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…”
