Homeopathic Medicine :: Rheum – Rhubarb
Indicated in diarrhoea, chiefly of children, with distinctly sour smell of the stools and of the child.
Indicated in diarrhoea, chiefly of children, with distinctly sour smell of the stools and of the child.
Indicated principally in diseases of the brain and spine, especially when, in children, it depends upon the suppression of an exanthem or upon teething, and in adults when a neurasthenic state prevails, usually the result of anxious overwork. Thus it is employed in convulsions of children from irritation due to teething or eruptive fevers, in meningitis and in effusion within the brain, from the same cause or from tuberculosis; in the epilepsy of young children, in the headache of brain fag, including headache of overworked school children; in locomotor ataxia; in hysteria, especially when there is paralysis of the bladder; in spinal irritation and sciatica; in such functional disorders of the female generative organs as are accompanied by abnormal sexual desire, spinal irritation and restlessness, with inability to keep the feet still. Also used in varicose veins of the legs, lead colic, and other conditions associated with the nervous conditions belonging to the drug.
Indicated in affections of the larynx, chiefly catarrhal inflammation, hoarseness, cough, and in affections of the joints.
Indicated in the treatment of almost every disease resting upon a constitutional basis expressed in the leucophlegmatic temperament and the ailments to which it predisposes. Among these may be named: derangements of nutrition, glandular affections; catarrhal disorders; indigestion; diarrhoea; constipation; menstrual derangements; coughs and many serious diseases of the respiratory organs; gall-stone colic; affections of the nervous system, including the psychoses tumors, polypi, and a long list of other phases of morbid action, all characterized by symptoms peculiar to this remedy.
Indicated in neuralgic affections (sciatica with relief from hard pressure and lying on affected side; in ovarian pain (dysmenorrhoea); in rheumatism; particularly valuable in intestinal affections (colic, dysentery), with severe colicky pain causing him to bend double and press against some hard substance of relief. There is always present much irritability and protestation of great suffering. Useful in troubles caused by anger or indignation.
Indicated in weak, anaemic, chlorotic persons, especially women, who are pale, flush easily from moderate excitement and from slight pain, the face assuming a bright red color. In congestive headaches; diarrhoea of undigested food, especially chronic cases; in teething children, consumption. Menstrual derangements in women who suffer from pain in the vagina during sexual intercourse. Coughs (consumption?); rheumatism, especially of shoulder and in the back.
Indicated in coryza, coughs, secondary and tertiary syphilis, scrofulous swellings of joints (knee) with effusion; pleuritis with effusion.
Indicated in low fevers with high temperature, vitiated state of the blood and every great weakness; in typhus and typhoid fever, septic conditions generally, with haemorrhagic tendency.
Indicated in complaints from getting wet from lying on the damp ground, from straining a single part, as in overlifting; in fevers, including those of adynamic type; erysipeals in any part, especially in the face; muscular rheumatism, including the heart; neuralgia, neuritis; sciatica;
Indicated in sthenic (overaction; high fever & strong pulse) conditions, inflammations, early effects of cold from draught, getting chilled, suppression of perspiration; effects of fright, menstrual suppression, or of intense excitement.