Rumex Crispus



Generalities

Lassitude and weariness. Restless in evening. Pains not fixed or constant anywhere. Throbbing through whole body. Unusual sensitiveness to cold or open air.

Skin

Itching in various parts, worse on lower limbs. Eruption covers uniformly several regions of skin, with exception of face, itching more of a pricking than a burning, worse by cold, better by warmth. Contagious prurigo or “army itch.” Stinging-itching or prickling itching of skin. Vesicular eruption, itching when uncovered and exposed to cool air. Periodic itch. Urticaria, worse in open air.

Sleep

Sleep: disturbed, wakeful, restless, short naps and unpleasant fancies, even when awake. Unpleasant dreams, of danger and trouble, early in the morning, of being naked in the street, of murders, of autopsies. Wakes early with headache.

Fever

Chilly, worse on back, colic, nausea, stitches near middle of chest. Increased frequency of pulse and afternoon fever. Sensation of heat, followed by that of cold, without shivering. Flushes of heat, worse on cheeks. Sweat on waking from a sound sleep.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica