Rumex Crispus

Ears — Ringing and itching in the ears.

Sensation as if the ears were obstructed, especially the left one ; voices sound strangely, pro- ducing a kind of titillation in the ear, and having a peculiar, ring- ing, confusing sound.

Roaring in the ears.

Sensation as from a burn or scald on the tongue ; sen- sation of excoriation, or else slight stinging at the edge of the tongue.

Dryness of the mouth.

Flat, bad, bitter taste in the mouth.

Dull, aching, grumbling toothache.

Heaviness or sensation of a hard substance in the stomach or epigastrium soon after a meal, after a meal sensation of weight in the stomach, as of undigested food in it.

Tasteless eruc- tations.

Sensation of fulness or distention of the stomach.

Nausea with eructations.

Sharp stitching pains in the pit of the stomach, worse on motion ; cutting pains in the stomach, worse while riding in the open air.

Dull pain in the abdomen, occurring or increasing during deep inspiration.

Rumbling in the bowels, as from flatu- lence.

Pain in the abdomen in the morning, followed by an evacua- tion from the bowels.

Emission of flatus in the morning.

Flatulent colic near the umbilicus, soon after a meal, mitigated by discharge of flatus.

Sensation in the bowels and rectum as if a stool would ensue.

Rectum and Anus

Itching in the anus.

Aching in the rec- tum with a feeling as if diarrhoea w£uld ensue.

A feeling in the rectum as if a rough stick were forced up, painful on walking.

would ensue, the sensation passing off without subsequent evacuation.

Liquid, dark-colored, brown or black stools in the morning, preceded by pain in the bowels or by eructations.

Constipation, followed by small, dry, hard stool.

Urine extremely pale, or colorless.

Fre- quent inclination to urinate.

Great urgency to urinate.

Much tough mucus in the larynx, with a constant desire to hawk and raise it, but without relief ; worse at night, but has been troublesome all day.

Secretion of mucus in the larynx, removed by hawking.

Violent irritation to cough in the larynx, while eating.

Pain in the larynx, mostly on the left side.

Cough excited by tickling or irritation behind the sternum.

Cough with pain behind the middle of the sternum.

Sudden change of voice, rising several notes in pitch or becoming hoarse suddenly.

Cough in the night, before midnight, commencing or increasing on lying down.

Aching pain in the anterior portion of both lungs, night and day ; raw pain just under each clavicle, with hawking mucus out of the throat.

Sharp pain in the right chest.

Various pains in the left side of the chest, viz.: sharp, shooting, sticking, cutting smarting, burning.

Pain in the left chest when lying down.

Pain at, or under, the left breast.

Sticking, stitching pain in the left chest, while riding in the open air.

Acute stitch in the external region, or a raw stinging there which obstructs respiration.

Itching at or near the sternum.

Dull or burning pain at or near the heart.

Palpitation of the heart, or else a sensation in the left chest, as if the heart suddenly ceased beating, followed by a heavy throbbing through the chest.

Neck and Back

Pain in the back of the neck; pain running down the back ; pressive aching pain in the back, at the inferior angle of the scapula ; stinging pain in the left dorsal region near the inferior angle of the left scapula.

Sore or burning pain near the sacro-iliac symphysis, worse from stooping and motion.

Pain in the back in the evening.

Itching on the back in the evening.

Pain in the left shoulder, extending along the arm to the elbow, leaving the arm with a sensation as if strained ; pain in the right shoulder on waking, ameliorated by rest.

Dull aching pain in the left arm and left wrist.

Aching and weakness

and feeling of fatigue in the legs.

Pain in the anterior part of both legs ; rheumatic pain at the anterior surface of the tibiae ; or in the anterior part of the ankle-joints, running down the instep.

Pain in the knee when in an erect posture.

Stinging, prickling and itching on various parts of the legs, especially when the parts are uncovered and exposed to cool air.

The legs are densely covered with a rash, composed partly of small, red pimples, itching worse on exposure to the air in the evening, when undressing to go to bed.

Stinging, itching, prickling on various parts of the body.

Itching, especially on the legs.

Itching of the body, when exposed to the air.

An itching rash, in which numerous small red pimples are developed, the eruption itching in the evening and worse on ex- posure to the air.

Chilliness down the back and on the legs.

Heat and other symptoms of fever toward morning, followed by a sharp pain in the abdomen.

Feverish symptoms, followed by a sensation of coldness ; tongue coated white.

Sleep disturbed ; wakeful ; restless ; short naps and un- pleasant fancies, even when awake.

Eestless sleep with dreams of anger or trouble, early in the morning.

Unquiet, dreamy sleep, followed by headache and bitter taste on waking in the morning.

Great propensity to sleep in the evening before the proper time.

Irritability.

Kestlessness.

Depression.

Indifference.

Stagnation of ideas, with great lassitude and uneasiness, in the evening.

Generalities and Characteristics — Languor.

Sensitiveness to the open air.

Kestlessness in the evening.

Most of the chest symptoms are on the left side.

Sense of excoriation behind the sternum.

Cough with pain behind the middle of the sternum.

Itching of the skin, worse on uncovering or exposing it to the air,, especially on going to bed in the evening, or at night.

Says Dr.

C.

Dunham : " I have used rumex chiefly in acute ca- tarrhal affections of the larynx, trachea and bronchi. * * * Eumex diminishes the secretions, and at the same time exalts in a very marked manner the sensibility of the mucous membrane of the larynx and trachea, exceeding in the extent of this exaltation any remedy known to us.

The cough therefore is frequentand continu- ous to an extent quite out of proportion to the degree of organic

A boy, aged four years, was taken on the night of March 25 th with a dry, barking, croupy cough, and some fever; the mother applied a wet bandage, and gave spongia with no effect; the treatment was continued on the next night, adding hepar, with no relief.

Prescribed rumex30 every two hours.

Discharged cured on March 30th.

(Dr.

C.

S.

Shelton in A?n.

Jour.

Horn.

Mat.

Med., vol. iii., p. 91.)

Mrs.

G., aged thirty years ; suffered for five days from a severe cough, provoked by pressure on the trachea, deep inspirations, inhalation of cold air and talking ; the cough is severe, explosive and continuous, hurts the head, and is accompanied by involuntary micturition ; is worse during the latter part of the night.

Prescribed rumex30.

Improvement commenced at once. {Ibid.)

On December 21, 1851, Mr.

S. took one dose of lachesis30 dry, in the evening, for a severe cough.

In the forenoon of the next day it was found that the cough had not been mitigated.

He then took one dose of rumex30 dry, for the following symptoms, viz. : Cough excited by pressing on the throat, and attended with excoriation in the

larynx and chest, and with hoarseness.

In the afternoon of the same day the cough was much better, and the patient slept several hours in the afternoon and early part of the evening, and had a general perspiration.

The dose was repeated once in the evening and once next morning.

All the symptoms were removed within one day after commencing.

Rumex30.

The cough never returned.

(Dr.

B.

F.

Joslin in Philadelphia Jour, of Bom., vol. i., p. 125.)

Mrs.

P. ; rattling in the wind-pipe ; frequent feeling as if she should not get another breath ; coughing spells several times a day, lasting an hour and a half at a time and originating in a sense of great accumulation of tough mucus in the chest, with increased dyspnoea and desire to cough it up.

Causing a great hot sweat half an hour before the spell, increasing during it.

The cough- is very hard, with a feel- ing of suffocation reaching to the epigastrium, as if tough .phlegm must work up.

Severe soreness behind the whole sternum, spreading to each side, constant, but worse during the cough.

Much tough mucus is brought up during the spell.

During its continuance she feels like killing herself in despair.

Afterward exhausted and tearful.

She was cured by rumex* every two hours.

(Dr.

J.

C.

Morgan, Am.

Jour.

Horn.

Mat.

Med., vol. iv., p. 137.)

M., aged twenty-two, of feeble constitution, strumous, subject, for several years, to subacute rheumatism ; has had a severe cold for several days, and is now confined to the bed.

The pulse is quick, not hard, 1 10, skin moderately hot and dry, face somewhat flushed.

Respiration embarrassed not so much by any constriction of the chest as by the violent and long-continued cough, which follows any attempt to make a full inspiration.

A physical examination of the chest reveals no abnormal condi- ti^n.

The patient complains of roughness and soreness in the lower part of the trachea and behind the upper third of the sternum, much more perceptible when she coughs.

The cough is dry, slightly hoarse ; very violent and fatiguing to the patient.

It is provoked by a tickling in the supra-sternal fossa ; is induced by pressure upon the trachea in that region, and especially by talking and by deep inspiration, or by the inspiration of cold air.

This irritability of the trachea increases very markedly after 7 P.

M., so that the patient suffers exceedingly from the constant tickling and violent cough.

She can prevent them only by respiring with very great caution and deliberation, by avoiding all distractions of speech and conversation, and finally she draws the bed-clothes over her head in order to avoid inhaling the cool air of the chamber.

I gave rumex12, in solution, a teaspoonful every two hours.

After the second dose there was complete relief.

(Dr.

C.

Dunham.)

Rumex200 subdued a serious attack of diarrhoea, affecting a gentleman, seventy years of age.

The chief symptoms were : early morning aggravation ; nausea and colic.

Tickling cough, increased by cool air and talking, subsequently developed, when rumex acted well.

(Dr.

Morrison in Monthly Horn. lieview, November, 1874.)

tended with but little pain, rumex" affected a speedy cure.

And also in the case of a lady subject to cough and diarrhoea past midnight.

She was frequently awakened about two or three o'clock in the morning by a tickling cough, which was followed by several profuse, offensive and watery evacuations.

After trying various remedies unsuccessfully, rumex6 was given with good effect.

(Dr.

A.

E.

Small, U.

S.

Med. and Surg.

Journal, January, 1S72.)

DYSPEPSIA

The stomach symptoms of rumex are sufficiently important to deserve attention.

The eructations, sensation of ful- ness at the stomach, the heaviness in the epigastrium after a meal and the sharp cutting pains in the stomach certainly justify its use in dyspepsia and in gastralgia of a mild type.

A lady, about fifty years of age, who had suffered for three weeks with pain in the pit of the stomach, aching in the left chest, flatulence, eructations, pressure and dis- tention in the stomach after meals, was permanently cured of these symptoms in two or three hours by one dose of rumex200.

(Dr.

Joslin.)

A young lady has a sensation of fulness and pressure in the pit of the stomach, extending up toward, and to, the throat, and afterward carried down again toward-the stomach when she swallows, and then rising again to the throat.

This curious alter- nation has been observed in the proving of rumex.

She was cured by rumex200. [Ibid.)

Mrs.

B. complained for a week or more of distress in the stomach, which finally became so severe that she could not sit up.

There was severe aching pain in the pit of the stomach and above it, occasional spells of sharp, shooting pains in the chest, sides and abdomen ; some headache and nausea after eating, aggravation of all symptoms from motion and after eating.

Arsenic, nux vom., bryonia failed to relieve her.

T ascertained that she felt a sensation as of a lump or pressure which was sometimes in the throat and sometimes behind the sternum, not being constant in position.

A few doses of rumex30 relieved all the symptoms.

(Dr.

Knowles in the N.

E.

Med.

Gazette, May, 1879.)

Mrs.

C. had complained for several weeks of distress in the pit of the stomach, worse after eating, particularly apples.

Once, after eating an apple, she was taken with such distress, that she became cold and unconscious.

She also had at times- sharp pains in the chest and abdomen.

At times she felt a sensation as of a bunch, either in the throat or behind the sternum, which was very distressing.

She was greatly emaciated, for everything she ate distressed her.

A few doses of rumex30, cured her. {Ibid.)