Rhubarb
- Of frequent use in children with sour diarrhoea; difficult dentition.
- Whole child smells sour.
Mind
- Impatient and vehement; desires many things and cries (Cina).
Head
- Sweat on hairy scalp; constant and profuse.
- Cool sweat on the face, especially about mouth and nose.
Mouth
- Much saliva.
- Sensation of coolness in teeth.
- Difficult teething; restless and irritable.
- Breath smells sour (Cham).
Stomach
- Desire for various kinds of food, but soon tires of all.
- Throbbing in pit.
- Feels full.
Abdomen
- Colicky pain about navel.
- Colic when uncovering.
- Wind seems to rise up to chest.
Rectum
- Before stool, unsuccessful urging to urinate.
- Stools smell sour, pasty, with shivering and tenesmus, and burning in anus.
- Sour diarrhoea during dentition.
- Colicky, even ineffectual urging to evacuate altered fecal stools.
Modalities
- Worse, uncovering, after eating, moving about.
Relationship
- Compare: Mag phos; Hep; Pod; Cham; Ipec.
- Antidotes: Camph; Cham.
- Complementary: Mag carb.
Dose
- Third to sixth potency.
