Remedy

Rheum palmatum

Rhubarb

5 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • Of frequent use in children with sour diarrhoea; difficult dentition.
  • Whole child smells sour.

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Mind & mood

  • Impatient and vehement; desires many things and cries.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

UncoveringAfter eatingMoving about

Symptoms by body part

Head

Sweat on hairy scalp; constant and profuse. Cool sweat on the face, especially about mouth and nose.

Mouth

Much saliva. Sensation of coolness in teeth. Difficult teething; restless and irritable. Breath smells sour.

Stomach

Desire for various kinds of food, but soon tires of all. Throbbing in pit. Feels full.

Abdomen

Colicky pain about navel. Colic when uncovering. Wind seems to rise up to chest.

Rectum

Before stool, unsuccessful urging to urinate. Stools smell sour, pasty, with shivering and constant urge to pass stool, and burning in anus. Sour diarrhoea during dentition. Colicky, even ineffectual urging to evacuate altered faecal stools.

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