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Rheum Palmatum

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Chinese Rhubarb · "The Sour Child Rhubarb Remedy"

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🎯 A remedy primarily used for digestive disturbances in children, characterized by sour-smelling stools and irritability during teething.

📖 Boericke writes:

(RHEUM)

Of frequent use in children with sour diarrhoea; difficult dentition. Whole child smells sour.

👤 Constitution

•Typically infants or children who are irritable, impatient, and demanding; they often have a sour smell to their body and breath.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Whole child smells sour.

introduction

Cool sweat on the face, especially about mouth and nose.

head

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Indicated for children who are irritable, demanding, and prone to crying.

Impatient and vehement; desires many things and cries (Cina).

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Third to sixth

Decimal

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🤝 Complementary

Magnesium Carbonicum →Magnesia Carbonica →

🚫 Antidotes

Camphora →Chamomilla →

🔄 Compare With

Hepar Sulphuris Calcareum →Podophyllinum →Magnesium Phosphoricum →Ipecacuanha →Chamomilla →Magnesia Phosphorica →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Rheum Palmatum is listed in 63 rubrics across 14 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 14 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Abdomen35 Mind4 Stomach4 Modalities4 Mouth3 Fever3 Taste2 Teeth2 Generalities1 Skin1 Head1 Tongue1 Female Sexual System1 Urinary System1

See all 63 rubrics for Rheum Palmatum →