Rheum palmatum

as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927

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Mind

Impatient and vehement; desires many things and cries (Cina).

General

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

Modalities

Worse, uncovering, after eating, moving about.

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 (Cham).

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 tenesmus, and burning in anus. Sour diarrhœa during dentition. Colicky, even ineffectual urging to evacuate altered fecal stools.

Relationships

Compare: Mag phos; Hep; Pod; Cham; Ipec. Antidotes: Camph; Cham. Complementary: Mag carb.

Dose

Third to sixth potency.

What the other books say about Rheum palmatum

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Rheum palmatum in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
Rheum palmatum in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.

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Cite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Rheum palmatum — Mind. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/rheum-palmatum. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.