Rheum (Mother Tincture)_x000D_\n_x000D_\nCommon Name: Rheum officinale, R.

palatum, Rhabarbarum, Rhubarb_x000D_\n_x000D_\nCauses & Symptoms for Rheum_x000D_\n_x000D_\nRheum 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.

_x000D_\n_x000D_\nIt is also useful for sour diarrhea during dentition.

_x000D_\n_x000D_\nThere is colicky pain with ineffectual urge to evacuate stools.

_x000D_\n_x000D_\nRheum Officinale also helps in offensive breath.

_x000D_\n_x000D_\nThere is difficulty in teething in children with restlessness and irritability and the whole child smells sour.

_x000D_\n_x000D_\nHead_x000D_\n_x000D_\nThrobbing in head, sometimes proceeding from abdomen is relieved by Rheum.

_x000D_\n_x000D_\nSweat on forehead and scalp after slight effort.

_x000D_\n_x000D_\nEars_x000D_\n_x000D_\nRheum is useful in Otalgia with itching in ear.

_x000D_\n_x000D_\nRheum is also useful in Crackling and bubbling in ear and in muscles on side of neck (Meniere's disease).

_x000D_\n_x000D_\nTeeth_x000D_\n_x000D_\nRheum relieves Digging pains in teeth which are carious.

_x000D_\n_x000D_\nPainful sensation of coldness in teeth (with accumulation of much saliva).

_x000D_\n_x000D_\nRheum is indicated in difficult dentition of children.

_x000D_\n_x000D_\nStomach_x000D_\n_x000D_\nRheum is indicated in Nausea, as if proceeding from stomach, with colic.

_x000D_\n_x000D_\nFullness in stomach, with pressure, as if overloaded.

_x000D_\n_x000D_\nIt relieves Shootings and throbbings in pit of stomach.

_x000D_\n_x000D_\nAbdomen_x000D_\n_x000D_\nRheum relieves Cuttings in abdomen, which force a curving of the body, often shortly after a meal, worse by standing, worse from eating.

_x000D_\n_x000D_\nColic: 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.

_x000D_\n_x000D_\nStool and Anus_x000D_\n_x000D_\nThere is Urgent and frequent want to evacuate, without any result, worse by movement, and walking.

_x000D_\n_x000D_\nRheum 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.