Rheum (Mother Tincture)Common Name: Rheum officinale, R.

palatum, Rhabarbarum, RhubarbCauses & Symptoms for RheumRheum Officinale is useful in diarrhea.

Before stool there is unsuccessful urging to urinate.

Stools smell sour, pasty with shivering and tenesmus and severe burning in the anus is felt.

It is also useful for sour diarrhea during dentition.

There is colicky pain with ineffectual urge to evacuate stools.

Rheum Officinale also helps in offensive breath.

There is difficulty in teething in children with restlessness and irritability and the whole child smells sour.

HeadThrobbing in head, sometimes proceeding from abdomen is relieved by Rheum.

Sweat on forehead and scalp after slight effort.

EarsRheum is useful in Otalgia with itching in ear.

Rheum is also useful in Crackling and bubbling in ear and in muscles on side of neck (Meniere's disease).

TeethRheum relieves Digging pains in teeth which are carious.

Painful sensation of coldness in teeth (with accumulation of much saliva).

Rheum is indicated in difficult dentition of children.

StomachRheum is indicated in Nausea, as if proceeding from stomach, with colic.

Fullness in stomach, with pressure, as if overloaded.

It relieves Shootings and throbbings in pit of stomach.

AbdomenRheum relieves Cuttings in abdomen, which force a curving of the body, often shortly after a meal, worse by standing, worse from eating.

Colic: worse at once by uncovering an arm or leg, not better by stool, before and during stool, better after, with very sour stools in acid children.

Stool and AnusThere is Urgent and frequent want to evacuate, without any result, worse by movement, and walking.

Rheum is useful in complaints of Loose evacuations, generally of a sour smell, liquid, or of the consistence of pap, preceded and followed by tenesmus, with constrictive pinching in abdomen, and shuddering during the evacuation.