Rheum palmatum

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 moving (Arn., Bry., Cham., Colch., Kali-B., Led., Lyc., Mang., Nux-V., Phyt., Ruta).

Bubbling sensation, as from small bubbles in the muscles and joints.

The limbs on which one lies go to sleep (Arn., Bry., Calc., Carb-V., Chin., Kali-C., Lyc., Puls., Rhod., Rhus-T., Sil., Sumb.).

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

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

THE CHILD'S WHOLE BODY SMELLS SOUR (Calc., Hep.) (D.).

Very sour smell of the child, which cannot be removed by any amount of washing and care in keeping it clear (G.).

Cholera infantum; stools frequent, uniformly frothy, watery and of a pea-green colour (Sm.).

Diarrhœa, with cutting pains about the navel (Aloe, Ipec.) (Bt.).

Colic and diarrhœa during dentition (Mag-C.) (N.).

Brown and frothy stools (Arn., Kali-B., Mag-C., Merc., Nat-S., Sulph.) (D.).

Diarrhœa of sour, slimy stools, with tenesmus and griping colic (Merc.) (D.).

STOOLS ARE SOUR (Calc., Hep., Mag-C., Merc., Phos., Sulph.), AND THERE IS TENESMUS (Nux-V., Merc., Sulph.).

YELLOW STOOL, TURNING GREEN ON STANDING (Arg-N.) (K.).

Screaming of children, with urging and sour stools (A.).

CHILDREN CRY AND TOSS ABOUT ALL NIGHT (Psor.) (A.).

Child impatient, desires many things, and cries; dislikes even favourite play-things (Cham., Cina, Staph.) (A.).

Its temper is as acrid and acid as are the stools (Bl.).

Loathing after first bite (B.).

Desires many kinds of food, but cannot eat them; becomes repugnant (A.).

Colic: Worse at once by uncovering an arm or leg; with very sour stool; worse when standing; not better by stool (A.).

Difficult dentition; child restless, irritable, peevish, with pale face and sour smell (Cham., Kreos.) (A.).

Sweat of the scalp, constant, profuse; whether asleep or awake, quiet or in motion, the hair is always wet; may or may not be sour (Calc., Sanic.) (A.).

Perspiration on the upper part of the body (Asar., Carb-V., Cham., Kali-C., Nit-Ac., Op., Par., Sec., Thuj., Verat.; on the lower part- Am-C., Apis, Ars., Coloc., Croc., Cycl., Euph., Hyos., Mang., Merc., Nit-Ac., Sep., Thuj.) (K.).

Colic with cries; ameliorated by doubling up, and aggravated by uncovering any part (B.).

Shivering during stool (Merc.) (C.).

Snoring inspiration during sleep (C.).

Vivid, sad, anxious dreams (C.).

May be given after abuse of magnesia, with or without rhubarb, if stools are sour (A.).

Gout with fibrous deposit in great toe-joint (Colch., Led.) (A.).

AGGRAVATION: At night; during dentition; from uncovering any part; when standing; during stool; from eating; and during summer.

AMELIORATION: From warmth; from wrapping up; and from doubling up.

RELATIONSHIP: Compare: Ars., Calc., Cham., Coll., Hep., Ipec., Mag-C., Merc., Nat-M., Pod., Sanic., Staph. and Sulph.

It follows well after Mag-C., when milk disagrees and the child has sour odour.

Remedies following: Bell., Calc., Puls., Rhus-T. and Sulph.

Antidotes: Camph., Cham., Coloc., Merc., Nux-V. and Puls.

Rheum antidotes Canth. and Mag-C.