Generalities
Rhubarb is a remedy for sucklings and children esp. during dentition and suited to pregnant and nursing women. It affects liver, duodenum; bile ducts and intestines. Sourness is very marked; the whole child smells sour; washing does not remove it. Colicky children who are always screaming and crying. Sour; taste, vomits, stools, sweat etc. Difficult dentition. Requires very little sleep and not much food. Sensation of crepitation.
Worse
Dentition. Eating; plums. Summer. Nursing women. Motion. Before, after and during stools.
Better
Warmth. Wrapping up. Lying bent. Odd position.
Mind
Impatient; child asks for different things vehemently, with crying, dislikes even its favourite things. Impetuous desire for particular objects. Restless; with weeping.
Head
Sweat on hairy scalp; hair; wet, sopping.
Eyes
Weak when looking steadily at any object. Convulsive twitching of eyelids.
Face
Cool sweat on; esp. about mouth and nose; on upper lip. Forehead wrinkled. Twitching.
Mouth
Offensive mucous in the mouth; after sleep. Breath sour. Salivation; with colic or diarrhoea. Food tastes bitter even sweet things. Teeth feel cold.
Stomach
Desire for various things, but cannot eat them. Loathing after first bite. Plums and prunes disagree. Requires little food.
Abdomen
Colic, with screaming, better doubling up, worse uncovering any part; then pappy, sour, brown, green, fermented, slimy or acrid stools; worse eating unripe fruit; worse in the evening. Shivering with stools. Diarrhoea only when walking. Jaundice from eating unripe fruits, with white diarrhoea.
Urinary
Burning in bladder and kidney, before and during urination. Unsuccessful urging to urinate, before stool.
Female
Urinary complaints after abortion. Milk in nursing women yellow and bitter; infant refuses breast. Diarrhoea after parturition.
Back
Stiffness in sacrum and hips, cannot walk straight. Cutting pain in lumbar region worse after stools.
Extremities
Limb on which he lies falls asleep. Twitching in arms, hands and fingers. Bubbling sensation in elbow joint, from bend of knee to heels. Lameness of wrist and knee, after sprains and dislocations.
Sleep
Restless; with whining and crying. Twitching of face and fingers. Requires very little sleep and not much food.
Fever
Sweat on scalp, about mouth, nose; upper lip.
Related
Chamomilla
Complementary
Mag-c.