Rheum

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Dr. S.R. Phatak describes the clinically confirmed symptoms of the homeopathic remedy Rheum in his Concise Materia Medica, published in 1977….

Generalities

      Rhubarb is a remedy for sucklings and children esp. during dentition and suited to pregnant and nursing women. It affects liver, duodenum; bile ducts and intestines. Sourness is very marked; the whole child smells sour; washing does not remove it. Colicky children who are always screaming and crying. Sour; taste, vomits, stools, sweat etc. Difficult dentition. Requires very little sleep and not much food. Sensation of crepitation.

Worse

      Dentition. Eating; plums. Summer. Nursing women. Motion. Before, after and during stools.

Better

      Warmth. Wrapping up. Lying bent. Odd position.

Mind

      Impatient; child asks for different things vehemently, with crying, dislikes even its favourite things. Impetuous desire for particular objects. Restless; with weeping.

Head

      Sweat on hairy scalp; hair; wet, sopping.

Eyes

      Weak when looking steadily at any object. Convulsive twitching of eyelids.

Face

      Cool sweat on; esp. about mouth and nose; on upper lip. Forehead wrinkled. Twitching.

Mouth

      Offensive mucous in the mouth; after sleep. Breath sour. Salivation; with colic or diarrhoea. Food tastes bitter even sweet things. Teeth feel cold.

Stomach

      Desire for various things, but cannot eat them. Loathing after first bite. Plums and prunes disagree. Requires little food.

Abdomen

      Colic, with screaming, better doubling up, worse uncovering any part; then pappy, sour, brown, green, fermented, slimy or acrid stools; worse eating unripe fruit; worse in the evening. Shivering with stools. Diarrhoea only when walking. Jaundice from eating unripe fruits, with white diarrhoea.

Urinary

      Burning in bladder and kidney, before and during urination. Unsuccessful urging to urinate, before stool.

Female

      Urinary complaints after abortion. Milk in nursing women yellow and bitter; infant refuses breast. Diarrhoea after parturition.

Back

      Stiffness in sacrum and hips, cannot walk straight. Cutting pain in lumbar region worse after stools.

Extremities

      Limb on which he lies falls asleep. Twitching in arms, hands and fingers. Bubbling sensation in elbow joint, from bend of knee to heels. Lameness of wrist and knee, after sprains and dislocations.

Sleep

      Restless; with whining and crying. Twitching of face and fingers. Requires very little sleep and not much food.

Fever

      Sweat on scalp, about mouth, nose; upper lip.

Related

      Chamomilla

Complementary

      Mag-c.

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S.R. Phatak
A pioneer of Homoeopathy in Maharashtra, Dr Shankar Raghunath Phatak was born on 6th September, 1896. He did his MBBS from Grant Medical College, in 1924. Started his practice but somehow not satisfied with Allopathic Treatment.

He was convinced about Homoeopathy while going through Sir William Osler's writings on 'History of Medicine' so switched over to an entirely Homoeopathic Practice in 1932. He also started working on Homoeopathic literature along with his Practice.

He has contributed immensely to homoeopathic literature. He was an ardent follower of Dr Boger. His Repertory is based on Boger's ''A Synoptic key to Materia Medica'.