Yellow Dock
- Is characterized by pains, numerous and varied, neither fixed nor constant anywhere.
- Cough caused by an incessant tickling in the throat-pit, which tickling runs down to the bifurcation of the bronchial tubes.
- Touching the throat-pit brings on the cough.
- Worse from the least cold air; so that all cough ceases by covering up all the body and head with the bedclothes.
- Rumex diminishes the secretions of mucous membranes, and at the same time exalts sensibility of the mucous membranes of the larynx and trachea.
- Its action upon the skin is marked, producing an intense itching.
- Lymphatics enlarged and secretions perverted.
Stomach
- Tongue sore at edges; coated; sensation of hard substance in pit of stomach; hiccough, pyrosis, nausea; cannot eat meat; it causes eructations, pruritus.
- Jaundice after excessive use of alcoholics.
- Chronic gastritis; aching pain in pit of stomach and shooting in the chest; extends towards the throat-pit, worse any motion or talking.
- Pain in left breast after meals; flatulence.
Respiratory
- Nose dry.
- Tickling in throat-pit causes cough.
- Copious mucous discharge from nose and trachea.
- Dry, teasing cough, preventing sleep.
- Aggravated by pressure, talking, and especially by inspiring cool air and at night.
- Thin, watery, frothy expectoration by the mouthful: later, stringy and tough.
- Rawness of larynx and trachea.
- Soreness behind sternum, especially left side, in region of left shoulder.
- Raw pain under clavicle.
- Lump in throat.
Stool
- Brown, watery, diarrhea early in morning, with cough, driving him out of bed.
- Valuable in advanced phthisis (Seneg; Puls; Lycop; Ars).
- Itching of anus, with sensation as of a stick in rectum.
- Piles.
Skin
- Intense itching of skin, especially of lower extremities; worse, exposure to cold air when undressing.
- Urticaria; contagious prurigo.
Modalities
- Worse, in evening, from inhaling cold air; left chest; uncovering.
Relationship
- Compare:
- Caust; Sulph; Bell;
- Rumex contains chrysophanic acid to which the skin symptoms correspond.
- Rumex acetosa-Sheep sorrel--(Gathered in June and dried, used locally for Epithelioma of face (Cowperthwaite). Dry, unremitting short cough, and violent pains in the bowels; uvula elongated; inflammation of esophagus; also cancer);
- Rumex obtusifolius-Lapathum-Broad-leaf dock--(nosebleed and headache following; pain in kidneys; leucorrhea).
Dose
- Third to sixth potency.
