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Rheum palmatum (Rheum)

Rheum palmatum (Rheum) appears in 315 rubrics in the repertory. Five of them are single-remedy rubrics, listing only this remedy, and 16 are small rubrics with at most two other remedies. The emphases lie in children with 71 rubrics, as well as delusions, irritability, anxiety, weeping, and delirium. From these emerges the picture of a screaming, irritable child whose restlessness extends over day and night and who wants to have and keep everything.

Screaming and Weeping

The child screams without ceasing. Small rubrics list screaming day and night, constant screaming and weeping, and tossing about all night. Irritability appears in one rubric together with bloody, mucous stool. A single-remedy rubric records whining before stool. Weeping figures in the picture with nine rubrics.

Will and Play

The child wants everything and wants to keep it, according to a small rubric. Opposed to this is the aversion to play with abdominal pain or physical illness, recorded as a single-remedy rubric. Another single-remedy rubric describes the child who runs about in bed. The desire is strong, the state tormented.

Posture and Sleep

A single-remedy rubric records amelioration by peculiar, odd postures. Sleep is interspersed with delirium: small rubrics list delirium during sleep, talking in sleep at night, delirious talking before midnight, and confused, incoherent talk in sleep. In the evening, talkative delirium occurs.

Delusions

The delusions concern waking and intoxication. A single-remedy rubric records that one will wake from heavy sleep only when alone. Small rubrics list the delusion of having been intoxicated, a stupefied head, and half-sleep. Added to this is anxiety when stooping.

Summary

Rheum appears as the picture of a restless child who screams day and night, talks in delirium at night, does not play with abdominal pain, and wants to possess everything. With 21 specific rubrics against an extraordinarily high number of children's rubrics, the data lie entirely in childhood.

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