RHEUM


Rheum homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


      Common names, Rhubarb, Rhabarber.

Introduction

Rheum officinale, Baillon. Natural order, Polygonacae. Preparation, Trituration of the dry root.

Mind

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

Head

Confusion and Vertigo. Confusion of the head. Paroxysms of vertigo as if one would fall to the side, while standing.

Vertigo. General Head. Dull headache. Head quite dull, as after intoxication. Heaviness in the head, with a sultry heat rising into it. A sensation of heaviness in the head and intermittent tearing in it (while walking), (after one hour).

Obscuration of the head, with puffy eyes; followed by pressive headache above one orbit, with dilated pupils (after one to four hours). A dull, tense, dizzy headache, that spreads over the whole brain, but is worse on the crown and in the temples.

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. Pressive headache on the right side, especially on the crown and in the temples (after half an hour).

Headache at first pressive, then tearing, extending into the occiput. Hammering mounts from the abdomen into the head (after six hours). On stooping it seems as though the brain moved.

Beating headache. Forehead and Temples. Obscuration of the forepart of the head, a drawing about in it. Indolence and a violent pinching and tensive pain transversely across the whole forepart of the head, in the morning after sleeping.

Pressive headache over the whole forepart of the skull. Drawing pain deep behind the frontal eminences. Dull beating headache in the forepart of the head, mostly while standing. Pulsative pinching headache, now in left, now in the right temporal bone and over the crown (after fifteen hours). Slight stitches above the temples. Crawling in the temporal region. Occiput and External Head. Pressure as with a finger at the point where the head unites with the neck. Inclined to contract and wrinkle the muscle of the forehead. Itching rash on the forehead and arm) after thirty-six hours).

Eye

The eyes seem dull, and on looking long at anything aching and pressure in them as if they were weak. A biting pain in the left eye as from a foreign substance or an insect, with lachrymation, before falling asleep. Beating pain in the eyes. Eyes agglutinated with matter, after sleeping. A small gland on the margin of the upper lid, causing a pressive and burning pain.

Drawing in the lids. Pressure in the lids, even when they are closed. Lachrymation in the open air. Contraction of the pupils associated with internal uneasiness, lasting sixteen hours. Pupils at one time more, at another less contracted.

Ear

Aching, with some itching in the left ear, compelling to bore in with the finger. Pressure in the meatus, as if pressed from without by the finger. Throbbing in the ears at times, especially on stooping, while writing. Crackling and bubbling in the ears and in the muscles in the side of the neck, perceptible even to the hand. 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.

Nose

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

Face

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

Mouth

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

Throat

Frequent hawking and spitting. Contraction of the pharynx.

Stomach

Appetite and Thirst. Great appetite, yet the food that was relished soon became repulsive. Hunger, but no real appetite.

Food is not relished, though there is a tolerably good appetite; it soon becomes repulsive. Appetite diminished. Loss of appetite. Coffee is repulsive to him unless very sweet.

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. Increased thirst.

Eructations. Violent eructations. Nausea. Nausea, with frequent eructations. Nausea, with efforts to vomit (from large doses). Nausea, colic. Nausea in the epigastric region. Qualmish sensation (after half an hour). He becomes qualmish. Stomach.

Fullness in the stomach, as if he head eaten to satiety, sometimes followed by sleepiness (after eight to twelve hours).

Pressure in the pit of the stomach, that on inspiration extended over the sternum and changed to a bruised pain, after sleeping. Pressure in the stomach, as if filled with food (after half an hour). Contractive sensation in the stomach, associated with nausea (after half an hour). Dull stitches in the left side near the pit of the stomach. A stitch in the pit of the stomach.

Violent throbbing and rhythmical painless gurgling in the pit of the stomach (after one hour and a half).

Abdomen

Pressure in the region of the spleen. Griping in the umbilical region. Pressure in the umbilical region; the intestines seem to press outward. Pressure in the umbilical region (immediately).

Cutting in the umbilical region. Distension of the abdomen.

Distension of the abdomen, after eating. Rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen. Rumbling in intestines. Emission of flatus.

Flatulence. Emission of much offensive flatus, with relief.

Twitching of the abdominal muscles (after twenty hours). Flatus in the abdomen seems to rise up to the chest an to cause there tension and pressure. Colic and emission of flatus, in the morning, in bed, after waking, on uncovering (after fourteen hours). Griping colic followed by the emission of flatus (after twenty-four hours). ( Colic, aggravated by eating plums).

Colic; distension of the abdomen. Colic before and during a stool, relieved after a stool. Cutting colic a quarter of an hour after dinner; he was obliged to sit bent over in order to obtain relief; worse while standing. 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).

Griping in the intestines. Pressure in the intestines on inspiration, as if full of liquid. Tension in the abdomen.

Increased warmth in the abdomen, with painfulness to pressure. Isolated cutting pains in the abdomen, without stool.

Sensation of nausea in the abdomen (after ten minutes). Dull twinging-cutting pains transversely across the abdomen. A swelling-bubbling sensation, which seemed as if it could be heard, in the abdominal muscles. A pressive pain in the abdominal ring, as if a hernia would protrude, while walking. Tension in the left side of the lower abdomen, just above the pubis, after a meal (after three hours). Pressure in the public region, like a hard pressure with the tip of the thumb. Frequent fine itching stitches in the inguinal glands.

Rectum and Anus

A painful sensation in the region of the anus, as after long- continued diarrhoea. A kind of tenesmus (after five hours). The desire for stool is aggravated on moving about and on walking.

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 spite of all his efforts, although the desire continued; after some time another evacuation resulted; at last, after rising from stool, the urging, which has gradually subsided, returned more violent than even, also the pains in the abdomen, which accompanied the evacuation, became worse. Desire for stool, partly ineffectual, partly with evacuation of soft faeces. Great desire for stool. Desire for stool after a meal.

Stool

Diarrhoea-like stool, with mucus. Stools frequent, pasty, semi- liquid, brown, followed by tenesmus, pain in the back, and great burning in the rectum. Stools frequent, soft, semi-liquid, evacuated with great force, and followed by tenesmus and great burning in the anus. Stool at first soft, then hard, preceded and accompanied by violent cutting pains (after twenty-four hours).

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.