Rumex-Crispus
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 2000 May / Jun VOL II NO 3.
Dr P I Tarkas
Dr Ajit Kulkarni

Region		Worse	Better
Mucous Membranes	Nasal GIT Larynx  Trachea  Throat-pit  Bowels		Wrapping up, including mouth and head  Warmth Eating (dyspnoea) Cold water (toothache) Lying on Rt side (cough) Lying on Lt side (chest pain) Going upstairs Rest. Motion; sudden Discharges Eructations Flatus
Upper chest (and) Lower abdomen Nerves; vagus Sternum. Heart Joints; ankles Lymphatics Skin Lt side of chest			Worse (ct) Lying on lt side (cough) Change of position. Motion Touch. Pressure, on trachea Talking. Deep or irregular  breathing Eating; supper Abuse of tea, alcohol Meat (itching, eructations) Smoking 'Cold' (stale foods or fruits. Banana. Apples) Millet. Beans

Make-Up: Obese (Calc); chilly, lives under heavy coverings, even head fully covered up (Psor); sodden complexion. Women who abort due to violent, shaking cough.
Action: Irritation: Gastro-intestinal (GI), upper respiratory tract (URT), skin. Mucous membranes: diminishes secretions (dry) and exalts, in a marked degree, their sensitivity, indicating an excessive morbid irritability, yet not passing into an inflammatory condition of ulcerative or suppurative type (unlike Sil).

Discharges: Profuse; thin, watery, later tenacious.
Rheumatisms: Acute, sub-acute, cardiac. Every cold settles in the joints, in chest. Whole body stiff and aching (like Rhus-t). Aching. Soreness. Muscular pains. Sharp neuralgic pains. Pains "numerous and varied, neither fixed nor constant." Nervous sensitiveness. Nerves sensitive to cold open air and undressing; during day. Great languor and weakness; on a warm day; of limbs; of Rt arm (with flatulence); tubercular. Averse to work, indifferent about his surroundings.
Numbness; in Lt arm after lying in bed, with crawling; of Rt hand; from incarcerated flatulence (during sleep) (Sumb).
Lymphatics enlarged, secretions perverted.
Oedema: face, about eyes.

Mind: Indifferent. Stagnation of ideas, lassitude, and uneasiness. Irritable. Low-spirited with serious facial expression; with suicidal mood (Aur-m, Nat-s)

Head: Vertigo; with nausea. Catarrhal headache with great irritation of larynx and trachea, clavicular pain and soreness behind sternum. Headache after waking in morning, preceded by a disagreeable dream; < motion, in open air, > afternoon; dull, bruised pains. Shattered feeling in head due to cough.

Eyes: Burn indoors. Pain as from dryness (sand?). Lids inflamed < evening. Puffed in AM

Ears: Ringing. Itching deep in ears.

Nose: Tendency to colds; colds with diarrhoea in phthisis. Great desire to pick nose (Arum-t).
Sudden, sharp, tingling sensation in schneiderian membrane, followed by violent and rapid sneezing attack; watery copious flowing; later viscid. Feels dry in posterior nares (Stic). Yellow discharge from PN. Hay fever (cp Lob-s, Sabad).
Epistaxis, violent sneezing and painful irritation of nostrils.

Face: Heat and redness, < evenings. Rough and puffy. Lancinating pains in lower jaw, after retiring late at night.

Mouth And Throat: Various toothaches with acute colds; > dinner, gargling with cold water (an exception).
Tongue coated; white; yellow; yellowish-brown, or reddish-brown; dry; feels burnt; excoriated; sore at edges.
Ulceration of mouth and throat (catarrhal). Hawks up much tenacious mucus. Sensation of a lump in throat, descends on swallowing, but immediately returns.

Stomach: Dyspepsia, flatulent; acidic. Gastric disorders; chronic gastritis. Hiccough. Pyrosis. Nausea at night; before diarrhoea; > after eructations. Pectoral and cardiac symptoms of dyspepsia.
After eating: distress, (obstructed) flatulence; heaviness, sense of repletion and distension, and as if one had eaten spices, dry feeling in front of tongue, pain in stomach > lying perfectly quiet, pain below umbilicus after breakfast, flatulent pain in transverse colon > discharge of flatus.
All worse when moving, talking. Better rest, fasting, taking long breath.
After apples: distress in pit of stomach; sharp pains in chest and abdomen. Painful sensation of bunch in throat or behind sternum, even becomes cold and unconscious (collapse).
After (abuse of) tea: gastric diarrhoeas, lump sensation in stomach (Ab-c). Heartburn?
Pit of stomach: tight, suffocative, heavy ache in stomach through to throat, to (Lt) chest, to back; clothes seem too tight. Sharp, shooting pains; frequently takes long breath; better rest, fasting.

Abdomen: Pain in hypochondrium from coughing, rapid walking or deep inspiration. Pain in upper chest and lower abdomen (reverse, Puls). Jaundice of alcoholics (Ran-b).
Borborygmi; painless but annoying (common in females). Rumbling. Flatulence; obstructed, with tenderness in transverse colon and undefined pain in Lt chest with soreness in Lt arm and throat, after eating millet bread with buttermilk.

Rectum: Nightly or early morning urgent diarrhea (Nat-s, Sul); after respiratory catarrh (Pso, Tub); in phthisis (Acet-ac); with tickling cough < 5-9 am.
Stools: Painless, offensive, profuse; brown or black, thin or watery; proceeded by pain in abdomen; involuntary (due to violence of cough; Aloes, due to sphincter weakness); also hard, tough, brown; costive.
Itching at anus, with foul gas. Stick sensation in rectum < walking. Hemorrhoids protrude (Mur-ac).

Urinary: Sudden urging. Free in afternoon. Involuntary urine (and stool) from cough. Brick-dust sediment.

Male: Tendency to phimosis. Itching of prepuce. Desire diminished or lost.

Female: Pain from Rt ovary to back. Cough causes abortion.

Respiratory: Aphonia: catarrhal; reflex from tubercle in Lt apex; in cold air, exposure to cold, evening, paralytic. Sudden changes in voice (voice uncertain).
Catarrhal irritation of air passages; rawness; wishes to hawk tenacious mucus; secretions less but sensitivity (tickling) more. Suffocative feeling, even down to epigastrium (as if a tough phlegm must work up), making him desperate; with cough. Pleurisy.
Sensation of breathlessness, as if air did not penetrate the chest; or like what is felt when passing rapidly through the air; as when falling. Dyspnea, < on retiring (Fago), after smoking. Asthma of consumptives, associated with splitting headache < 2 am; feeling as if she could not get another breath (Ap). Suffocative choking from deliberate irregular breathing; with obstructed flatulence.

Cough: Either from irritation of air passages (URT) or stomach (sympathetic gastric catarrhs / coughs). Violent (but out of proportion to the degree of organic affection of MM), incessant, dry, tickling, teasing, fatiguing cough (cp. Caust, Fago). Hoarse barking cough of children (cp. Dros, Stic). Early stages of whooping cough.

With: severe soreness behind the whole sternum spreading to each side, in larynx with tickling (which extends to stomach); rawness under clavicles; stitches in Lt lung; pain in stomach; cold hands; spurting of urine (Caust, Puls, Squil); aphonia and head feels shattered; chest feels torn and that blood is about to come out; eructations.

Worse: noon, evening, night, 10 pm-12 pm, 10 pm-2 am, 11 am, 2-5 am, morning on waking; pressing throat-pit; on first lying down (evening) (cp Con); breathing cold air; talking; eating; lying on (or turning to) Lt side (Phos); from smoke (as in kitchen); changing: room (of unequal temperature), of respiratory rhythm or volume (as in exertion), of movements in voice apparatus (as in speaking), side (to Lt), of attitude (as stooping after walking), of position (as first-lying down), of air flowing on body (as in uncovering certain parts, esp. mouth); working in AC; before chill; during pregnancy (may cause abortion).

Expectoration: Thin, watery, frothy, by the mouthful; later stringy; scanty and difficult.

Chest: Rheumatism of muscles of chest, of costal cartilages (chondritis), or pleurodynia (cp Ran-b); during phthisis. Sore, stitching, burning-sticking or burning-stinging pain in Lt side of sternum of Lt chest near heart, < lying down at night or on deep breathing. Pain in Lt breast after meals, due to flatulence, acidity.

Heart: Aching in heart; throbbing carotids and (other arteries) throughout the whole body (Fago); shaking the bed; dyspnoea; < when lying (but > on Lt side), has to sit up; face red, puffed, more about eyes which were red but lusterless. Pseudo angina pectoris ( rather sub-pseudo AP) Rheumatic heart.
Heart feels as if it suddenly stopped beating, followed by a heavy throbbing through the chest. Violent palpitations after supper; after conversation.
Pulse: rapid, when ascending.

Back: Pressing-aching in back at lower border of scapula; Rt scapula; between scapulae. Sore or burning near sacro-iliac symphysis.

Extremities: Various pains apparently muscular, paroxysmal and wandering; < motion. Pains in upper and lower limbs of same or opposite sides.
Pains in shoulder down to elbow, in Lt shoulder on touch, motion, coughing or raising arm (Ferr, Sang) or deep breathing. Arms feel strained; bruised, aching, stinging; pain in Lt. hand, in ulnar half of Rt wrist (also Lt), in Lt little finger.
Stitches in back of Rt hip. Legs ache. Stich-like pain in knee-joint, when standing. Spasmodic cramps in ankles and feet. Feet cold; sensitive, corny (with stinging).

Skin: Metabolic skins. Intense itching; without inflammation; esp. lower limbs; never on face; pricking-itching or stinging-itching, rarely burning-itching; worse undressing (Carc, Psor, Tub), bathing (Mag-c), exposure to cool air (opp Ap) or even open air (Ars); morning, on rising (Sars); periodic; > warmth (Tub).
Urticaria, chronic; < in open air, cold weather. Army itch (contagious prurigo). Prairie itch (Ap). Acne vulgaris on back. Vesicles. Scabies. Lichen. Eczema.

Sleep: Restless sleep in short naps with dreams: of danger and troubles; of being naked in the street; of murders; of autopsies. Sleeps with nostrils under the bed covers (covers up the mouth). Sudden sleepiness.

Thermic: Cold hands (with cough); feet, during day, while face felt hot. Chilly < on back (and legs); with colic, nausea, stitches near middle of chest. Sensation of heat (also worse back) followed by that of cold, without shivering.
Heat: partial, esp. in back; usually also with gastric disturbances. Flushes of heat, esp cheeks.
Sweat: esp on legs, nightly, on waking from a sound sleep.
Catarrhal fevers. Hay fever. Colds without fever.
Influenza: A/F exposure to cold; violent sneezing, catarrh, cough; irritation of air passages; sans or low fever. Post-influenzal bronchitis.
Viral inflections in tubercular persons.

Relations: Rumex contains Calc-phos, Chrysophanic-acid, organic iron, potassium and sulphur (and represents them in its action).

Similar: Aloe, Ap, Bell, Bry, Calc, Caust, Cist, Dros, Dul, Erig, Fer, Hep, Hyos, Iod, Iris, Jug-c, Lach, Lob, Lob-s, Lyc, Merc, Meph, Phos, Pod, Psor, Rhe, Ran-b, Rhus-t, Sabad, Sang, Seneg, Sol-n, Spong, Squil, Stic, Sul

Antidotes: Bell, Camph, Con, Hyos, Lach, Phos

Compare: Hep (both are chilly, > wrapping, oversensitive, have profuse discharges; but Hep is destructive, suppurative, has sour and offensive discharges, chapped skin). Fago (catarrh-rheumatic-tubercular; itching; but < rest and > cold and less emphasis on respiratory symptoms).

Jug-c (gastro-dermic, but Rum has irritation, Jug-c toxicity).
All-c (both are neuralgic and have violent sneezing bouts; but All-c has coryza < warm air/room, Rum >...... warmth; All-c has excoriating nasal catarrh with bland lachrymation; Rumex has bland coryza without lachrymation; Rumex has desire to pick nose, and is more sensitive at the laryngo-tracheal level).

As To Miasms:

Miasm	Phase	Remedy	Intercurrent
Psoric	Acute Chronic	Bell Sul	Psor
Sycotic	Acute Chronic	Caust Calc-c, Nat-s	Thuj
Tubercular	Acute Chronic	Dros Calc-p, Phos	Tub
Syphilitic	Acute Chronic	Ars Sil	Carc

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