Hand Book of Materia Medica and
Homœopathic Therapeutics.By T. F. Allen.
Presented by .
Rheum.
A tincture is made of the dried root of Rheum
officinale, Baillon.
General Action :- ►
An active
cathartic not inflaming the mucous membrane, but stimulating peristalsis.
► Constipation follows its catharsis.
Allies :- ►
Coloc.,
Mag. c., Sulph.
Generalities :- ►
Twitching in
morning. ► Discomfort. ► Weakness ; when walking. ►
Heaviness of whole body after sleep ; as
after deep sleep ; as from too little sleep.
Clinical :- ►
In
general, there is an acid condition of the system, the whole body smells
sour, the discharges are sour and fermented.
Mind :- ►
Excitement. ►
Talking nonsense. ► Moaning, anxiety, ill humor. ► Silence,
nothing makes an impression on him ; S. and sulky. ►
Child impatiently desires many things and cries. ►
Gloomy, he cannot continue long at one occupation. ► Indolent and
laconic ; I. in morning after sleep, and pinching and tensive pain
transversely across forepart of head. ► State as if half asleep.
► Inability to collect her senses for a long time.
Head :- ►
Aching ; then
tearing extending into occiput ; beating ; tense ; dizzy,
spreading over brain, agg. vertex and in temples ; as if stupefied
and distorted, agg. motion and stooping, with anxiety as if he had
committed a crime. ► Confusion ; with puffy eyes, then pain
above one orbit, with dilated pupils ; as after intoxication. ►
Heaviness when walking, with intermittent tearing in it ; H., with
sultry heat rising into it. ► On stooping sensation as if brain
moved. ► Vertigo ; as if one would fall to the side, when
standing.
Forehead :- ►
Pain over forepart
of skull ; drawing, deep, behind eminences ; beating, in
forepart of head, agg. standing. ► Obscuration in forepart of head,
a drawing about in it. ► Inclination to wrinkle it. ► Sticking
above temples. ► Pulsative pinching now in left, now in right
temporal bone and over crown. ► Pain in right side, agg. vertex and
temple. ► Pressure as with a finger at point where head unites with
neck. ► Crawling in temporal region.
Eyes :- ►
Beating pain. ►
Biting in left as from a foreign substance before sleep, with
lachrymation. ► Seem dull and on looking long at anything aching as
if they were weak. ► Lachrymation in open air. ► Contraction
of pupils, with internal uneasiness ; at one time greater, at another
less contraction. ► Agglutination after sleep. ► Gland on
margin of upper lid, causing pressive and burning pain. ► Pressure
on lids, even when closed. ► Drawing in lids.
Ears :- ►
Crackling and bubbling,
perceptible even to hand, and in muscles in side of neck. ►
Squeezing in left, with itching. ► Pressure as from a finger in
meatus. ► Throbbing at times when writing, agg. stooping. ►
Roaring in right, transiently amel. violent swallowing, with dull hearing
and sensation as if drum were relaxed.
Nose and Face :- ►
Drawing,
stupefied pain along root, causing crawling in tip. ► One cheek
pale, the other red, on both pale. ► Tensive sensation in skin of
face. ► Drawing gushing sensation in right lower jaw, extending into
right temple.
Mouth :- ►
Teeth blunt ;
burrowing in hollow T., with elongation and looseness ; pain in left
upper incisors, with coldness ; pain in left molars, with coldness,
causing salivation. ► Mouth covered with offensive mucus after
sleep. ► Dryness, without desire to drink. ► Offensive breath
after sleep. ► Taste sour ; insipid ; bitter to
food ; bad after sleep ; lost, and tongue insensible.
Throat :- ►
Hawking and spitting.
► Contraction of pharynx.
Stomach :- ►
Appetite great, yet
the food that was relished soon became repulsive ; hunger without
real A. ; A. diminished ; lost. ►
Food soon becomes repulsive, though
there is a tolerably good appetite. ► Aversion for certain things
(for example, fat, insipid food), yet
desire for various things, but he cannot eat much because they become
repulsive. ► Coffee is repulsive unless very sweet.
► Thirst. ► Eructations. ►
Nausea ; in epigastric region ; with colic ;
with contractive sensation in stomach ; with retching.►
Sticking in pit ; in left side near
pit. ► Fulness as if he had eaten to
satiety, sometimes followed by sleepiness. ► Pressure as
if filled with food ; P. in pit after sleep, that on inspiration
extended over sternum and changed to bruised pain. ► Throbbing in
pit, with rhythmical gurgling.
Abdomen :- ►
Distention ;
after eating. ► Rumbling ; and gurgling. ► Twitching of
muscles. ► Flatulence ; rising to chest and there causing
tension and pressure. ► Emission of flatus ; offensive, with
relief. ► Nausea. ►
Cutting ; in morning in bed, on uncovering, with emission of
flatus ; after dinner, amel. bending over,
agg. standing ; twinging, transversely across. ►
Griping ; with ineffectual urging to stool from inactivity
of rectum ; then emission of flatus. ►
Pain ; before and during stool, amel. stool ; agg. plums ;
as if full of liquid, on inspiration. ► Hammering mounting into
head. ► Tension. ►
Gushing-gurgling sensation, which seemed as if it could be heard. ►
Warmth, with pain on pressure.►
Pressure in region of spleen. ►
Umbilical region, cutting ;
griping ; pressure ; intestines seem to press outward. ►
Itching stitches in the last inguinal gland. ► Pain in ring as if a
hernia would protrude, when walking. ► Pressure as with tip of thumb
in pubic region. ► Tension in left side above pubis after a meal.
Rectum and Anus :- ►
►
Desire for stool after a meal (Cham.) ;
D. agg. moving about ; then thin offensive
stool, with colic then ineffectual tenesmus, later another stool, after
rising from stool the urging, which had gradually subsided, returned more
violent than ever, and the pain in abdomen which accompanied the stool
became worse ; partly ineffectual, partly with soft stool.
► tenesmus. ► Urging. ► Pain in region of anus as after
continued diarrhœa.
Stool :- ►
►
Semi-liquid, forcible, frequent, followed by tenesmus and burning in
anus ; S., brown, frequent, followed by tenesmus, pain in back and
burning in rectum. ► Diarrhœa, with mucus. ►
Pasty, sour-smelling (Dulc.),
then shivering (Puls.),
then urging, with constriction in intestines.
► First part soft, then hard, preceded and accompanied by cutting.
► First part hard, last liquid. ► Constipation. ►
Mingled with mucus. ► Of grayish mucus.
Clinical :- ►
Diarrhœa, sour-smelling, brown and frothy, sometimes excoriating,
especially during teething, preceded by colic and followed by tenesmus,
with desire for all sorts of food of which one can eat but little.
► Diarrhœa, with colic, tenesmus, alternate chill, heat and
thirst, sweat, weakness ; stools like chopped eggs, with sour odor,
color green.
Urinary Organs :- ►
Burning in
bladder and kidneys. ► Bladder weak, must press when urinating, else
the urine cannot be completely evacuated. ► Urging. ► Desire
to urinate every half hour. ► Tenesmus during micturition, tickling
in urethra and dragging towards bladder. ► Micturition frequent and
profuse. ► Micturition burning. ► Prickling in urethra during
micturition. ► Urine bright yellow, tinged with green ;
reddish-yellow, as in jaundice and in high fever ; dark, of an
agreeable benzoic odor ; dark red, almost brown, thickish, warm and
of an agreeable odor ; increased ; increased and light-colored.
Sexual Organs :- ►
Emissions.
Respiratory Organs :- ►
Cough,
with expectoration of mucus ; dry C. in evening. ► Dyspnœa, on
taking a deep breath the chest cannot expand sufficiently, as from a
weight below throat.
Chest :- ►
Yellow, bitter milk in
a nursing woman. ► Sticking ; in right side ; in
nipples ; sudden, below last ribs during inspiration and expiration.
► Aching in nipples, caused by flatulence in abdomen ;
tightening, across sternum, with at times stitches ; burning, in left
side of sternum. ► Contraction. ► Audible crackling bubbling,
as of vesicles, in left, then in right pectoral muscles. ►
(Oppression.).
Pulse :- ►
Rapid.
► Back :- ►
Tension. ►
Cutting in lumbar vertebræ, agg. stool ; C. in left
lumbar region. ► Cutting drawing in lumbar
region, beneath left short ribs, and in left side of hypogastrium above
pubis, a digging in intestines. ► Stiffness in sacrum and
hips, with inability to walk straight.
Extremities :- ►
►
Pain in all joints during motion. ► (Fatigue.). ►
Falling asleep of those upon which he lies.
Upper Extremities :- ►
Sticking
in arms. ► Tearing in upper arms and finger-joints. ► Elbow,
twitching sensation in right ; gushing gurgling sensation. ►
Forearms, muscles seem contracted, with tremulous motion of hands ;
tearing ; sensation in lower side as if about to fall asleep. ►
Hands, swollen veins ; involuntarily stretched above head before
falling asleep ; tearing across from thumb to little finger. ►
Sticking tearing in thumb.
Lower Extremities :- ►
Thigh,
twitching of various fibres on posterior part when muscles were extended
while sitting and on drawing up knees while lying ; weariness.
► Knee, sticking in left when walking ; drawing-down weary pain
in hollow of left when standing ; tensive
pain in hollow of left, extending to heel ; painless
gurgling in hollows, extending to heels ; gushing gurgling sensation
in hollows ; weary tension in hollow of right ; stiffness, with
pain on motion.►
Intermittent burning pain between inner
malleolus and tendo-achillis. ► Gurgling extending down leg, with
stitches. ► Legs go to sleep when riding one over the other. ►
(Sprained sensation in left ankle in morning on stepping upon it.).
► Tearing transversely across instep, with sticking. ►
Sticking in left sole above little toe. ► Gushing crackling
sensation in ball of left great toe.
Skin :- ►
Itching rash on
forehead and arm. ► Sticking itching in hollow of sole ; in
root of little toe, almost as after being frozen.
Sleep :- ►
Yawning. ►
Sleepiness. ► Raving in sleep, afterwards he walked about in an
unconscious state, half dreaming, half waking ; R. in evening,
tossing about the heat. ► Snoring.
► Hands stretched above head. ►
Restless ; with moans and bending backward of head ;
in a child, if often begins to cry out and says tremblingly “There
are men.” ► Child seems to be quarrelling, with convulsive
drawing of fingers, facial muscles and of eyelids and pallor. ►
Dream vivid, sad, anxious ; anxious, of dead
relatives ; vexatious, offensive.
Fever :- ►
Chilliness ; (in
morning) ; C. and heat alternately, with weariness, anxiety and
aversion to everything. ► Shivering without external coldness.
► Coolness of face, with heat of hands and feet. ► Heat ;
and uneasiness ; without thirst ; about nose ; in
cheeks ; in palms. ► Sweat on forehead
and scalp after slight effort ; in palms when hands are
closed ; cold, on face, agg. about mouth and
nose ; cold in palms while rest of body was warm ;
yellow, smelling of rhubarb.
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