Rheum

Rheum officinale, Baillon.

Natural order , Polygonaceæ.

Common names , Rhubarb, Rhabarber.

Preparation , Trituration of the dry root.

Authorities. (Nos.

1 to 14 , from Hahnemann).

1 , Hahnemann; 2 , Gross; 3 , Hornburg; 4 , Rückert; 5 , Teuthorn; 6 , Baker, in Murray, p. 396 ("Observations"); 7 , Brocklesby, in Murray, p. 396 ("Observations"); 8 , Fallopius, "not accessible," -Hughes; 9 , Fordyce, in Murray, "Observations;" 10 , Menzel and Tilling, in Murray ("Observations"); 11 , Murray, App. Med., IV, p. 392 ("Observations"); 12 , Pallas, Reise, III, p. 235; 13 , Sims, Paulli ("Observations"); 14 , Paulline, Observations; 15 , Schneller, Wien, Zeit., I. K. K. Gosell., 2, 2, p. 400, 1846, proving with aq. ext., 2 to 38-grain doses.

MIND

• Delirium, 7.
• Mental excitement, 15.
• *The child impatiently desires many different things and cries, 1.
• Moaning, anxiety, ill-humor, 1.
• Morose, absorbed in himself, 5.
• He is silent, nothing makes any impression upon him, 1.
• Gloomy; he cannot continue long at one occupation, 4.
• He is indolent and taciturn, 1.
• She is unable to collect her senses for a long time after waking, 1. [10.]
• A state of mind as if half asleep (after one hour and a half), 4.

HEAD

• Confusion and Vertigo.
• Confusion of the head, 15.
• Paroxysm of vertigo as if one would fall to the side, while standing, 5.
• Vertigo, 13.
• General Head.
• Dull headache, 15.
• Head quite dull, as after intoxication, 5.
• Heaviness in the head, with a sultry heat rising into it, 1.
• A sensation of heaviness in the head and intermittent tearing in it (while walking), (after one hour), 1.
• Obscuration of the head, with puffy eyes; followed by pressive headache above one orbit, with dilated pupils (after one to four hours), 1.
• A dull, tense, dizzy headache, that spreads over the whole brain, but is worse on the crown and in the temples, 1. [20.]
• Headache as if stupefied, and distorted in the head, and anxiety as if he had committed a crime, though worse during motion and on stooping, 1.
• Pressive headache on the right side, especially on the crown and in the temples (after half an hour), 3.
• Headache at first pressive, than tearing, extending into the occiput, 1.
• Hammering mounts from the abdomen into the head (after six hours), 1.
• On stooping it seems as though the brain moved, 1.
• Beating headache, 1.
• Forehead and Temples.
• Obscuration of the forepart of the head; a drawing about in it, 2.
• Indolence and a violent pinching and tensive pain transversely across the whole forepart of the head, in the morning after sleeping, 3.
• Pressive headache over the whole forepart of the skull, 3.
• Drawing pain deep behind the frontal eminences, 2. [30.]
• Dull beating headache in the forepart of the head, mostly while standing, 5.
• Pulsative pinching headache, now in left, now in the right temporal bone and over the crown (after fifteen hours), 3.
• Slight stitches above the temples, 5.

EYE

• The eyes seem dull, and on looking long at anything aching and pressure in them as if they were weak, 1.
• A biting pain in the left eye as from a foreign substance or an insect, with lachrymation, before falling asleep, 3.
• Beating pain in the eyes, 5. [40.]
• Eyes agglutinated with matter, after sleeping, 1.
• A small gland on the margin of the upper lid causing a pressive and burning pain, 1.
• Drawing in the lids, 4.
• Pressure in the lids, even when they are closed, 2.
• Lachrymation in the open air, 4.
• Contraction of the pupils associated with internal uneasiness, lasting sixteen hours, 1.
• Pupils at one time more, at another less contracted, 4.

EAR

• Aching, with some itching in the left ear, compelling to bore with the finger, 3.
• Pressure in the meatus, as if pressed from without by the finger, 4.
• Throbbing in the ears at times, especially on stooping, while writing, 4. [50.]
• Crackling an bubbling in the ears and in the muscles in the side of the neck, perceptible even to the hand, 1.
• Roaring in the right ear, and a sensation as if the drum were relaxed, with dulness of hearing (as if there were something before the ears), the roaring and relaxed sensation in the drum (the hearing also) were relieved always on violent swallowing, though only for a moment, 1.

NOSE

• Drawing stupefied pain along the root of the nose, causing crawling in the tip of the nose, 2.

FACE

• Tensive sensation in the skin of the face, 4.
• From time to time one cheek is pale, the other red, or both are quite pale, 1.
• Drawing swelling sensation in the right lower jaw, extending into the right temple, 1.

MOUTH

• Bluntness of the teeth, 15.
• Burrowing pain in the (hollow) teeth, which are elongated and seem to be loose (after twelve to twenty-four hours), 1.
• Pain associated with a sensation of coldness in the left upper incisors, 3.
• Pain associated with coldness in the left molars, that caused accumulation of saliva, 3. [60.]
• There was entire loss of sensibility of the tongue and of taste, all day, 12 . [From chewing the stem. -Hahnemann.]
• Mouth covered with offensive mucus, after sleeping, 1.
• Offensive exhalation from the mouth (offensive mucus, after sleeping, 1.
• Dryness and sensation of dryness in the mouth, without desire to drink, 1.
• Insipid taste, 15.
• Bitter taste, only of food, even of sweet things, not otherwise in the mouth (after ten hours), 1.
• Bad taste in the mouth, after sleeping, 1.
• Sour taste in the mouth, 2.

THROAT

• Frequent hawking and spitting, 15.
• Contraction of the pharynx, 12 . [From chewing the stem. -Hahnemann.]

STOMACH

• Appetite and Thirst. [70.]
• Great appetite, yet the food that was relished soon became repulsive, 2.
• Hunger, but no real appetite, 1.
• Food is not relished, though there is a tolerably good appetite; it soon becomes repulsive, 2.*
• Appetite diminished, 15.
• Loss of appetite, 1.
• Coffee is repulsive to him unless very sweet, 1.
• Aversion for certain things (for example, fat insipid food), yet desire for various things, of which, however, he cannot eat much, because they soon become repulsive, 2.*
• Increased thirst, 15.
• Eructations.
• Violent eructations, 15.
• Nausea.
• Nausea, with frequent eructations, 15. [80.]
• Nausea, with efforts to vomit (from large doses), 15.
• Nausea, colic, 11.*
• Nausea in the epigastric region, 2.
• Qualmish sensation (after half an hour), 2.
• He becomes qualmish, 1.
• Stomach.
• Fulness in the stomach, as if he had eaten to satiety , sometimes followed by sleepiness (after eighth to twelve hours), 1.
• Pressure in the pit of the stomach, that on inspiration extended over the sternum and changed to a bruised pain, after sleeping, 1.
• Pressure in the stomach, as if filled with food (after half an hour), 3.
• Contractive sensation in the stomach, associated with nausea (after half an hour), 1.
• Dull stitches in the left side near the pit of the stomach, 2. [90.]
• A stitch in the pit of the stomach, 4.

ABDOMEN

• Pressure in the region of the spleen, 4.
• Griping in the umbilical region, 15.
• Pressure in the umbilical region; the intestines seem to press outward, 2.
• Pressure in the umbilical region (immediately), 2.
• Cutting in the umbilical region, 2.*
• Distension of the abdomen, 15.
• Distension of the abdomen, after eating, 5.
• Rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen, 3. [100.]
• Rumbling in the intestines, 15.
• Emission of flatus, 15.
• Flatulence, 3.
• Emission of much offensive flatus, with relief, 15.
• Twitching of the abdominal muscles (after twenty hours), 3.
• Flatus in the abdomen seems to rise up to the chest and to cause there tension and pressure, 1.
• Colic and emission of flatus, in the morning, in bed, after waking, on uncovering (after fourteen hours), 2.
• Griping colic, followed by the emission of flatus (after twenty-four hours), 1.
• (Colic, aggravated by eating plums), 2.
• Colic; distension of the abdomen, 6. [110.]
• Colic before and during a stool, relieved after a stool, 1.*
• Cutting colic a quarter of an hour after dinner; he was obliged to sit bent over in order to obtain relief; worse while standing, 1.*
• Griping in the abdomen, with great urging to stool (the large intestine is greatly excited to evacuate); he is, however, unable to accomplish anything; the rectum is inactive (after twenty-four hours), 1 . [Easy, thin, copious stools, or painless diarrhœa, do not seem to be the primary effect of Rhubarb so much as fecal stools with colic and frequent ineffectual efforts to evacuate. Since the evacuations are usually fecal, it is not adapted to autumn dysentery (although pains in the abdomen are in part similar), especially as the other symptoms of Rhubarb differ for the most part from the symptoms of this epidemic disease. -Hahnemann.]*

RECTUM AND ANUS

• A painful sensation in the region of the anus, as after long-continued diarrhœa, 3.
• A kind of tenesmus (after five hours), 3.
• The desire for stool is aggravated on moving about and on walking, 2.*
• Frequent desire for stool, followed by a thin, pasty, offensive evacuation, with colic, and immediately succeeded by tenesmus, during which nothing could be evacuated, in spit of all his efforts, although the desire continued; after some time another evacuation resulted; at last, after rising from stool, the urging, which had gradually subsided, returned more violent than ever, also the pains in the abdomen, which accompanied the evacuation, became worse, 2.*
• Desire for stool, partly ineffectual, partly with evacuation of soft fæces, 15. [130.]
• Great desire for stool, 15.
• Desire for stool after a meal, 2.*

STOOL

• Diarrhœa-like stool, with mucus, 1.*
• Stools frequent, pasty, semi-liquid, brown, followed by tenesmus, pain in the back, and great burning in the rectum, 15.*
• Stools frequent, soft, semi-liquid, evacuated with great force, and followed by tenesmus and great burning in the anus, 15.*
• Stool at first soft, then hard, preceded and accompanied by violent cutting pains (after twenty-four hours), 5.
• The first part of the stool was hard, the last liquid, 1.
• *Pasty sour-smelling stool; the evacuation accompanied by shivering, and followed by renewed urging (constriction) in the intestines (after six hours), 2.
• Stool consisting of grayish mucus, 1.
• Stool mingled with mucus, 3. [140.]
• Constipation after the proving, 15.

URINARY ORGANS

• Burning in the kidneys and bladder, 8.
• Weakness of the bladder; was obliged to make great pressure while urinating, else the urine could not be completely evacuated, 3.
• Prickling in the urethra during micturition, 15.
• During micturition a kind of tenesmus, tickling in the urethra, and dragging towards the bladder, 15.
• Burning micturition (after twenty hours), 1.
• Desire to urinate every half hour (in one prover), 15.
• It expels the urine, 11.
• Urine increased (in one case), 15.
• (Frequent and profuse discharge of urine), 1. [150.]
• Urine increased in quantity and of a light color (in one prover), 15.
• Urine dark-colored, of an agreeable benzoic odor, 15.
• Urine dark-red, almost brown, thickish, warmer than usual, and of an agreeable odor, 15.
• Urine bright-yellow, with a tinge of green, 5.
• Urine reddish-yellow, as in jaundice and in high fever, 11.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Unusual emissions (in one case), 15.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• Dry cough, in the evening (after five hours), 2.
• Cough, with expectoration of mucus, lasting five minutes (after thirteen hours), 3.
• Dyspnœa; on taking a deep breath the chest cannot sufficiently expand, as if a weight were pressing down upon the chest, below the throat, 2.
• Snoring inspiration during sleep (after one hour), 1.

CHEST. [160.]

• Rush of blood to the chest, 7.
• (Oppression on the chest), 1.
• Some isolated stitches in the chest (after six hours), 1.
• Sudden dull stitches below the last ribs during inspiration and expiration (lasting a long time), 1.
• Pressive-tightening pain across the sternum, at times also single stitches, 4.
• A burning pain in the left side of the sternum, 3.
• A crackling bubbling, as of little vesicles, that is even audible, first in the left, then also in the right pectoral muscles, persistent, 1.
• Stitches in the right side, 15.
• Yellow bitter milk in a nursing woman, 13.
• Simple aching in both nipples, seeming to be caused by flatulence in the abdomen, 1. [170.]
• A long-continued stitch in each nipple, 1.

PULSE

• Rapid pulse, 3.
• Accelerated pulse, 15.

BACK

• Tension in the back and small of the back, 15.
• Stiffness in the small of the back and in the hips; cannot walk straight, 1.
• Violent cutting pains in the region of the lumbar vertebræ, as if in their substance, aggravated by stool, 2.
• Cutting drawing in the left lumbar region, beneath the short ribs, and in the forepart of the left side of the lower abdomen, just above the pubis; a digging in the intestines, 2.
• Cutting in the left lumbar region (sharp), 2.

EXTREMITIES

• Simple pain in all the joints during motion (after twelve, and several hours), 1.
• The limbs upon which he lies fall asleep, 1.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES. [180.]

• Twitching in the arms and hands, also in the rest of the body, in the morning, two days in succession, 1.
• Tearing in the upper arms and in the finger-joints, 4.
• Some stitches in the arms, 1.
• A swelling-bubbling sensation in the elbow-joints during rest and motion, 1.
• Sensation of twitching in the right elbow, 1.
• The muscles of the forearms seem contracted, with a tremulous motion of the hands, 4.
• Sensation as if the lower side of the forearm were about falling asleep, 4.
• Tearing in the forearms, 4.
• Before falling asleep he involuntarily stretches the hands above the head, 3.
• Veins of the hands swollen (after two hours), 3. [190.]
• Tearing transversely across the hand from the thumb to the little finger, 3.
• Violent sticking-tearing pain in the thumb (after three hours), 1.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Twitching, externally visible and perceptible, of various muscular fibres on the posterior portion of the thigh, especially when the muscles were extended, while sitting and on drawing up the knee while lying down, 1.
• Weariness of the thighs, as after very great exertion, 1.
• Stiffness of the knee, which is painful on motion, 1.
• Tensive-pressive pain in the pain in the hollow of the left knee, extending to the heel, 1.
• Weary tension in the hollow of the right knee, 1.
• A drawing wary pain in the hollow of the left knee while standing, 1.
• A bubbling-swelling sensation in the hollows of the knees; it seems as though it could be heard, 1.
• Painless bubbling in the hollows of the knees, extending to the heels, 1. [200.]
• Sticking in the left knee while walking, 2.
• The legs go to sleep when riding one over the other, 1.
• A bubbling extending outward in the leg, associated with stitches, 1.
• (A sensation as if the left ankle had been sprained, painful on stepping upon it, in the morning, after rising), 2.
• An intermittent burning pain between the inner malleolus and tendo Achillis, as if glowing coals were from time to tome held to it (after five hours), 3.
• A pain consisting of tearing and sticking transversely across to instep, 1.
• Sticking itching in the hollows of the soles of the feet, 1.
• Stitches in the sole of the left foot, on the margin of the foot above the little toe, 3.
• Bubbling-crackling sensation in the ball of the left great toe, 1.
• Sticking itching in the root of the little toe, almost as after being frozen, 1.

GENERALITIES. [210.]

• Prostration, 15.
• Weakness, 15.
• Weakness of the whole body while walking, 15.
• Weakness of the whole body, 4.
• Heaviness of the whole body, as after waking from deep sleep, 1.
• Heaviness of the whole body, as though one had slept too little, 3.
• The whole body feels heavy after sleeping, 1.
• Discomfort, 15.

SLEEP

• Frequent yawning, 2.
• It causes sleep, 9. [220.]
• Sleepiness, 1, 3.
• Ravings in sleep, at night; afterwards he walked about in an unconscious state, half dreaming and half awake, 3.
• Raving, in the evening, while asleep; he tosses about the bed with closed eyes, without talking, with great heat, 1.
• The child tosses about at night, frequently begins to cry out, and says tremblingly "there are men," 1.
• During sleep he stretches the hands above the head, 1.
• During sleep he was restless, moaned, and bent the head backward, 1.
• The child is pale; she seems to be quarrelling in her sleep, with convulsive drawing of the fingers, facial muscles, and of the eyelids, 1.
• Restless sleep, 15.*
• Vivid, sad, anxious dreams, 1.
• Anxious dreams of dead relatives, 5. [230.]
• Vexatious, offensive dreams, at night, 1.

FEVER

• Chilliness.
• Chilliness, 15.
• (Slight chill, in the morning), 5.
• Shivering, without external coldness (after half an hour), 1.
• Chill and heat alternating for only two minutes, with great weariness and anxiety; she is averse to everything, even that of which she is usually most fond, 1.
• Heat.
• He felt hot all over, without being thirsty (after two hours), 1.
• Heat of the body and uneasiness, 11.
• Warmth over the whole body, without thirst, 3.
• Heat and sensation of heat in the cheeks, 4.
• Warmth, especially about the nose, 3. [240.]
• Heat of the hands and feet, without heat of the arms and legs, with coolness of the face, 1.
• Heat and a sensation of heat in the palms of the hands, 4.
• Sweat.
• Yellow perspiration, smelling of rhubarb, 10.
• *Perspiration on the forehead and scalp after slight effort, 1.
• Cold perspiration on the face, especially about the mouth and nose (after three hours), 1.*
• Sweat in the palms when the hands are pressed together, 4.
• Cold sweat in the palms of the hands, while the backs of the hands and the rest of the body were warm (after twenty hours), 3.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), After sleeping, pain in across forepart of head; colic and emission of flatus; twitching in various parts of the body; on stepping upon part, pain in left ankle.
• ( Night ), Ravings in sleep.
• ( Open air ), Lachrymation.
• ( Eating plums ), Colic.
• ( After eating ), Distension of abdomen.
• ( On inspiration ), Pressure in intestines.
• ( While lying down ), On drawing knee up, twitching in posterior portion of thigh.
• ( Motion ), Headache; desire for stool; pain in all the joints.
• ( During micturition ), Prickling and tickling in urethra.
• ( While sitting ), Twitching in the posterior portion of thigh.
• ( During sleep ), Snoring inspiration.
• ( After sleeping ), Eyelids agglutinated; mouth covered with offensive mucus; offensive exhalation from mouth; bad taste in mouth; pressure in pit of stomach; heaviness of whole body.
• ( While standing ), Vertigo; headache in forepart of head; colic; pain in hollow of left knee.
• ( Before and during stool ), Colic.
• ( Stool ), Pain in region of lumbar vertebræ.
• ( Stooping ), Headache.
• ( While walking ), Pain in abdominal ring; sticking in left knee; weakness of the whole body.
• ( Walking ), Desire for stool.
• ( While writing ), On stooping, throbbing in ears.
• Amelioration.
• ( After a stool ), Colic.
• ( Violent swallowing ), Roaring in ears.