Rheum palmatum
Remedy of sour-smelling children with colic. Everything about the child smells sour — body, stool, breath, sweat. Screaming, restless, irritable. Colicky diarrhea. Dentition with sour stools. Straining with stool.
Source
Prepared from the dried root of Rheum palmatum (Polygonaceae).
Available Potencies
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Keynote Symptoms
Everything SOUR — the whole child smells sour: sweat, body, stool, breath. Screaming, restless, colicky children during dentition. Sour, pasty, fetid diarrhea. Straining and crying with stool. Cold, clammy sweat on face. Panting during stool.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Screaming, restless, impatient. Crying with colic. Peevish.
General Symptoms
Sour children. Worse from dentition, eating, uncovering. Better from warmth, wrapping.
Physical Symptoms
Abdomen
Colic with screaming. Sour stools. Diarrhea during dentition.
Rectum
Sour diarrhea — pasty, green, slimy, fetid. Straining, panting with stool. Screaming.
Face
Cold clammy sweat on face during colic.
Modalities
Better From
Warmth, wrapping, bending double
Worse From
Dentition, eating, uncovering, summer
Constitutional Type
Sour-smelling babies and children during dentition.
Clinical Indications
Sour-smelling children, dentition diarrhea, colicky screaming, sour stools
Comparative Materia Medica
Chamomilla has screaming teething children but one red cheek, angry. Magnesia carbonica is sour but with neglect feeling. Calcarea is sour but fat and sweaty.
Safety Information
Camphora, Chamomilla, Magnesia carbonica, Nux vomica.
Rhubarb root is a well-known laxative containing anthraquinones. The leaf is toxic (oxalic acid). Root is safe in normal medicinal doses. Safe in all potencies.
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