Rumex Crispus


Rumex Crispus symptoms of the homeopathy remedy from Keynotes and Red Line Symptoms by Adolph von Lippe. What are the symptoms of Rumex Crispus? Keynote indications and uses of Rumex Crispus…


COMMON NAME:

      YELLOW DOCK.

Symptoms

      This remedy is indicated in those of tubercular diathesis, who are extremely sensitive to the open air (B.).

Intense itching of the skin when undressing to go to bed (N.).

Itching of various parts, worse by cold, and better by warmth.

It should be remembered, in urticaria and prurigo, when there is intense itching of the skin; this is made those from exposure to cold air (Bl.).

The urine passes involuntary during coughing (Apis, Belladonna, Causticum, Ferr-P., Kreosotum, Lycopodium, Natrum muriaticum, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla, Squil.) (Bl.).

Early morning diarrhoea from 5 to 10 A.M. (Aloe, Nat-S., Podophyllum, Sulphur (A.).

The stool is profuse, painless and offensive, and may accompany pulmonary tuberculosis (Bl.).

Brownish diarrhoea, worse in the morning (Nat-S., Sulphur) (N.).

Ravenous appetite (Petroleum, Sulphur) (B.).

SUDDEN URGING, DRIVING OUT OF BED IN THE MORNING (Sulphur) (A.).

Attacks of sneezing (Arsenicum, Cyclamen, Sabad.) (B.).

VIOLENT INCESSANT COUGH, WORSE ON INHALING THEY LEAST COLD AIR (Hepar, Rhus toxicodendron); COVERS THE MOUTH TO KEEP THE COLD AIR OUT, WITH RELIEF (N.).

Night cough in phthisis (Conium, Hyoscyamus, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla (D.).

Cough caused by tickling in the supra-sternal fossa (D.).

Touching the throat-pit brings on the cough (G.).

EVERY BREATH OF COLD AIR CAUSES TICKLING AS FROM A FEATHER OR DUST IN THE THROAT-PIT AND CONTINUOUS COUGH (B.).

By covering up all the body and head with the bed-clothes there is no cough (G.).

Cough provoked by change of air, cool warm, or change in the rhythm of respiration (N.).

Violent, incessant dry cough, fatiguing, with little expectoration, aggravated by pressure, talking, and especially by inhaling cold air (N.).

Cough, worse in the evening, after lying down, especially from lying on the left side (Phosphorus) (A.).

COUGH WORSE FROM CHANGING AIR OR ROOM (Phosphorus, Spongia) (A.).

Raw sensation in the larynx and trachea when coughing (Causticum) (A.).

Hawks out much tenacious (Kali bichromicum, Kali carb.) (B.).

Hoarseness: Worse evenings and after exposure to cold; voice uncertain (A.).

Complete aphonia (Am-Causticum, Argentum nitricum, Carbo vegetabilis, Causticum, Phosphorus) (Bt.).

Sensation of a lump in the throat (Belladonna, Ignatia, Lachesis), which descends on swallowing, but returns immediately (Ignatia) (A.).

Sense of excoriation behind the sternum (Phosphorus) (Dn.).

The left chest is more often affected than the right (Phosphorus) (Dn.).

Every cold effects the joints (Calcarea phos.) (B.).

AGGRAVATION:

      From inhaling cold air; in the evening; after lying down; from uncovering; at night; from pressure on trachea; and early i n the morning.

AMELIORATION :

      From warmth; from keeping the mouth covered to exclude cold air; and from wrapping up.

RELATIONSHIP:

      Compare: Belladonna, Causticum, Drosera, Hyoscyamus, Mercurius, Natrum sulphuricum, Phosphorus, Podophyllum, Psorinum, Rhus toxicodendron, Sanguinaria, Silicea, Sulphur, and Tuberculinum

Adolph Lippe
Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)