Rumex Crispus is one of the remedies in homeopathy useful in treating diseases related to mucus membranes of the larynx trachea, bronchi and bronchioles, and mucus membranes of the intestine and skin.
It is an indispensable remedy, proved and incorporated in Homeopathy by Joslin, belongs to the family Polygonaceae.
Rumex Crispus is a common British weed, locally known as a yellow dock or curled dock.
The crude substance for preparation is the fresh roots of this plant the crude substance is found to contain potash, its dynamic curative power is aroused by homeopathy only, making Rumex Crispus an important, and similar remedy like the potassium salts.
Rumex Crispus Constitution/Personality
Rumex Crispus is suited to thin people, they are spare patients with a narrow and flat chest.
The patient tends to have tubercular diathesis and the patient is easily affected by the cold.
Guiding symptoms of Rumex Crispus
Rumex Crispus is an excellent remedy for individuals who are extremely sensitive to cold air and open air. It is particularly effective in treating coughs that worsen with changes in air or movement from one room to another.
This remedy is ideal for chilly patients whose symptoms are aggravated by cold in general and relieved by warmth and covering. It is highly indicated in cases of lung affections, especially when the symptoms predominantly affect the lower lobe of the left lung.
Many homeopaths also use Rumex Crispus to treat skin eruptions that are aggravated by exposure to cold air, with significant improvement observed through warmth and covering. Additionally, it is a great remedy for coughs triggered by touching the throat pit, leading to fits of coughing.
Rumex Crispus Uses
This article will cover from head to toe all the complaints body. And wherever the symptoms are matched, this medicine can be used-
Mind symptoms
The Rumex Crispus patient is low-spirited and with a serious expression of face suffers from a suicidal mood.
The patient is highly irritable; disinclined to any kind of mental exertion. There is indifference to the surroundings as there is stagnation of ideas, lassitude, and uneasiness in thinking about any kind of work.
Head symptoms
Rumex Crispus is a highly effective remedy for headaches that begin upon waking in the morning, persist until noon, and disappear suddenly after lunch, often following an unpleasant dream. The headache is typically accompanied by dull, bruised pains on the right side of the occiput or in the forehead, which worsen with movement.
This remedy is particularly beneficial for catarrhal headaches, often associated with great irritation of the larynx and trachea, clavicular pain, and soreness behind the sternum. It is also indicated when headaches are aggravated by exposure to open air.
Eyes symptoms
Rumex Crispus is an excellent remedy for eye pain caused by dryness and inflamed eyelids, which tends to worsen in the evening.
It is particularly useful when the eyes feel sore and are accompanied by sharp, shooting pains, even in the absence of visible inflammation. This remedy provides relief for discomfort and irritation in the eyes.
Ears symptoms
Rumex Crispus is a highly effective remedy for tinnitus, particularly when there is ringing in the ears accompanied by a deep itching sensation.
It is also indicated for cases where there is pain, throbbing, and a blocked or stopped sensation in the ears. This remedy provides significant relief for such ear-related discomforts.
Nose symptoms
Rumex Crispus is indicated for rhinitis characterized by a strong desire to constantly pick the nose due to a sensation of dryness, even in the posterior nares, and nasal obstruction. The patient experiences a sudden, sharp, tingling sensation in the Schneiderian membrane, followed by violent, rapid sneezing, often five or six times in succession, accompanied by a watery discharge.
This remedy is suitable when there is violent sneezing with watery coryza and a headache that worsens in the evening and at night. It is also used for cases of influenza, where a severe catarrhal condition progresses to the accumulation of mucus in the posterior nares, with yellow mucus discharge, eventually leading to bronchitis.
Additionally, Rumex Crispus is effective in treating epistaxis, particularly when accompanied by violent sneezing and painful irritation of the nostrils.
Mouth symptoms
Rumex Crispus is indicated for toothache, especially when there is pain in the teeth on both sides, predominantly in the morning, which is significantly reduced after eating dinner or by rinsing the mouth with cold water. The patient may also experience a grumbling, stinging toothache in the right upper molars, especially while riding in cold wind, with the pain extending to the forehead.
This remedy is also used for treating various tongue conditions, such as a coated tongue with white, yellow, yellowish-brown, or reddish-brown discoloration. The tongue may feel dry, particularly in the anterior part, accompanied by a sensation of fullness in the stomach, as if one had eaten something spicy.
Rumex Crispus is beneficial for stomatitis, particularly when there is a sensation of excoriation at the edges of the tongue. The front part of the tongue feels dry and hot, and there may be soreness along the right edge, with a burning sensation in both the tongue and mouth. The patient may also experience a bitter taste in the morning, with the tongue feeling flat and unpleasant upon waking.
Additionally, this remedy is effective for ulceration in the mouth, extending to the throat, often accompanied by an increased flow of saliva.
Face symptoms
Rumex Crispus is useful in treating facial pain, particularly when there is paleness of the face while standing, combined with a sensation of heat and redness, which worsens in the evening and is associated with a dull headache and pulsations throughout the body.
The pain is often felt inside the face, including the temple and ear, and is more pronounced in the morning.
This remedy is also effective for facial pain that occurs after staying up late at night, especially when there are lancinating pains in the lower jaw, specifically at the root of the left canine teeth.
Throat symptom
Rumex Crispus is indicated for ulcerated sore throat, characterized by a scraping sensation that causes an excoriated feeling, along with mucus secretion in the upper part of the throat.
Patients often experience the sensation of a lump in the throat, which is not relieved by hawking or swallowing. This sensation may temporarily ease during swallowing but quickly returns, giving the feeling of a lump in the esophagus.
This remedy is also beneficial for pain and aching in the pharynx, often accompanied by the collection of tough mucus in the fauces. It is indicated in cases of catarrhal affections of the throat and fauces, where the throat feels dry, and swallowing becomes difficult.
Chest symptom
Rumex Crispus is indicated for treating clavicular pain, especially when there is a raw sensation just under each clavicle during the act of hawking mucus from the throat. The patient may also experience dull, aching pain in the chest on both sides, particularly in the anterior part, often accompanied by headaches and belching.
This remedy is useful for sharp, stitching, or burning pain that radiates through the left lung, or in the left side near the heart, sometimes extending through the entire left chest. This pain often occurs suddenly during deep inspiration, particularly when lying down at night.
It is also indicated for chest pain that arises around 3:30 p.m. while writing or working at a desk, with sharp stitching pains in the content of the left lung.
Heart symptoms
Rumex Crispus patient feels as if the heart has suddenly stopped beating; followed by a heavy throbbing, there is a dull pain in the region of heart, with dull pain and heaviness in the left upper arm, especially. elbow.
The patient has pain and burning in the heart in the region of the heart, extending through the chest to the apex of the left scapula, with frequent desire to take a deep breath, which aggravates the pain in the afternoon for two or three hours.
There is a sharp pain in the heart region with palpitation after eating food aggravated on going upstairs; it is violent with throbbing carotids.
Stomach symptoms
Rumex Crispus is indicated for gastric disorders, particularly when there is an increased appetite accompanied by thirst. After meals, patients may experience flatulence, heaviness, pressure, and distension in the stomach or epigastrium.
This remedy is effective for gastric nausea, where the patient feels as though there is a hard substance in the pit of the stomach. They may experience fullness and pressure in the pit of the stomach that extends toward the throat, which descends with each empty swallow but quickly returns. Nausea can also occur at night before diarrhea.
Rumex Crispus is beneficial for flatulence and gas accumulation in the stomach, often causing tightness, suffocation, and heaviness that leads to pain in the epigastrium, which may radiate through the back. Patients often feel as if their clothing is too tight and may experience weakness in the epigastrium, with gastric complaints worsening while talking. They may take frequent, deep breaths to relieve discomfort.
This remedy is useful for treating hiccough, eructation’s, and pyrosis, especially when there is aching and shooting pain in the pit of the stomach and above it, on either side of the sternum, giving the sensation of an empty stomach.
One notable indication for Rumex Crispus is nausea and vertigo experienced while dressing in the morning, compelling the patient to lie down again. This is often accompanied by a sensation of undigested food and upward pressure in the throat and pit of the stomach.
Abdomen and Rectum symptoms
Rumex Crispus is among the top remedies for flatulent colic, indicated when there is pain in the hypochondrium, particularly during walking or deep inspiration. Gas accumulation can lead to griping pain near the navel, which may be partially relieved by the discharge of offensive flatus.
Flatulent colic often occurs soon after meals, accompanied by tightness in the lower abdomen and pain that worsens during inspiration.
This remedy is also effective for abdominal colic, especially when there is a sensation of heaviness and fullness in the abdomen, along with rumbling gas that produces borborygmi. Morning abdominal pain may precede a stool, and colic can be triggered by cold food, sometimes accompanied by a cough.
Rumex Crispus is highly indicated for diarrhea, particularly when the stools are painless, offensive, profuse, and can be brown or black, thin, or watery. This condition is often preceded by abdominal pain, with sudden urges that may drive the patient out of bed in the morning.
It is notably effective for morning diarrhea, occurring between 6 to 10 a.m., especially when associated with a cough from tickling in the throat pit.
This remedy is suitable for copious diarrheal stools accompanied by colic pain just above the hypogastrium, along with a disagreeable rumbling in the bowels, nausea, and loss of appetite.
Patients may experience these sensations throughout the day, needing to evacuate four to five times, with stools passing in a stream as if a large quantity is being discharged, only to be abruptly stopped. The feces may appear black and scanty.
In addition, Rumex Crispus is useful for treating constipation lasting several days, often leading to dry, hard stools. Patients may experience itching at the anus, along with the discharge of offensive flatus and a sensation of pressure as if a rough stick is forced up the rectum, resulting in pain during walking.
This remedy is also one of the most effective treatments for hemorrhoids that protrude, particularly when there is significant heat and itching at the anus, accompanied by the sensation of a foreign body present.
Urinary symptoms
Rumex Crispus is indicated for urinary incontinence there is sudden urging and frequent inclination with feeling as if urine could not long be retained.
There is involuntary micturition with cough with copious colorless urine in the afternoon, the urine is less copious, with a flocculent deposit, has an oily surface, and is marked with brick-dust or sediment.
Male symptoms
The male patients of Rumex Crispus mostly suffer from a tendency to phimosis, which is indicated when during the evening there is a feeling of soreness and excoriation, with redness of end of prepuce leading to itching of the prepuce.
Rumex Crispus is indicated when sexual desire is diminished or lost.
Female symptoms
Rumex Crispus has got action on female genitals and is useful in treating itching of the vagina before menses, there is redness, inflammation.
Hand and Leg symptoms
Rumex Crispus is indicated when there is twitching of the right arm and leg, there is a pain in the upper and lower limbs of the same or opposite side.
The patient complained of pains in the shoulder down to the elbow, arms feel strained, the hands are cold when coughing there is bruised aching and stinging pain in arms, hands, elbows, and right wrist.
It is useful in treating Sciatica there is stitching in the back of the right hip and limping walk with aches in legs, stitching type of pain in knee-joint when standing. There is numbness and coldness of feet, the feet are sensitive, stinging in corns.
Back symptoms
Rumex Crispus is indicated to treat common backache, there is a sensation as if a thread were tightly tied round neck just below ears, with a slight roaring in the ears, the pain in the back of the neck is as if running down back with aching between scapulae.
It is indicated when there is stinging burning just below the inferior angle of the left scapula; followed and accompanied by a stinging pain in the left chest just below the nipple.
It is indicated in a burning pain in the small of the back near the tip of the right sacroiliac joint, it is lame as happens from over-lifting and aggravated by sudden motion followed by pulsation in the back. There is much aching and a sense of great fatigue in loins.
Skin symptoms
Rumex Crispus is useful for treating dryness of the skin, particularly in cases of small contagious prurigo or army itch. Patients may experience stinging, prickling, or general itching in various parts of the body, with a notable prevalence on the lower limbs, where the legs may be covered with small red pimples.
This remedy is also among the top choices for urticaria, characterized by vesicular eruptions on the skin’s surface. Itching tends to worsen when the skin is uncovered and exposed to cool air. Patients often report periodic itching from urticaria that is aggravated by being in open air.
Rumex Crispus shows effective results for urticaria when the eruption is uniformly distributed across several regions of the skin, excluding the face. The itching is primarily of a pricking nature rather than a burning sensation and tends to be aggravated by cold while being alleviated by warmth.
Fever symptoms
Rumex Crispus is a notable remedy for fever, particularly during the different stages of the condition. During chills, patients experience external coldness and a chilling sensation, especially along the back.
They may also experience gastric colic and nausea, accompanied by stitching pains near the middle of the chest.
In the sweating stage, patients tend to sweat upon waking from a sound sleep. There may be an increased pulse frequency, with afternoon fever characterized by a sensation of heat followed by feelings of cold, without accompanying shivering. Patients may also experience flashes of heat, particularly on the cheeks.
Modalities
Modalities are the factors that, increase or decrease the complaints in a patient.
They are categorized as aggravating factors and amelioration factors.
Aggravating factors make the condition of the illness worst, while the amelioration factor makes the condition of the disease better.
It can be time, any part of the day, season, position, or any applications, etc.
Aggravated By
The condition of Rumex Crispus is worse, from cold air, lying down and in the evening.
Amelioration By
The conditions of Rumex Crispus are better, by warmth, keeping mouth covered to exclude cold air.
Relationship with Other Medicine
Similar Medicines
These remedies have many similarities in action but are different in origin, which means the source from which the medicine is prepared is another.
Remedies similar to Rumex Crispus Arsenicum,Calcerea carb.
Compatible
These are the remedies that are suitable to be used together.
Rumex Crispus is compatible with Causticum; Sulphur; Belladonna;
Antidoted by
The bad effects of Rumex Crispus are antidoted by Camphora and Belladonna.
Rumex Crispus Dosage & Potencies
The dosage and potency of the medicine depend on the individual case.
Rumex Crispus 30 Uses
Lower potency is given when very few symptoms of the patient match with the medicine and help the doctor only to diagnose the disease condition.
This potency requires frequent repetition, 3-4 times a day, till the expected result is seen.
Rumex Crispus 200 Uses
This is considered as higher potency; they are given when the majority of mental symptoms and physical symptoms of Rumex Crispus match.
Higher potencies are advisable to be not repeated very often; they act for a long duration of days, so the second dose is repeated every 7-days or every 15-days once.
Rumex Crispus 1M Uses
This is very high potency. One should give it only after careful case analysis, where all medicinal symptoms of Rumex Crispus and that given by the patient matches perfectly.Â
One should not repeat 1 M potency. It is given 30 days once and waiting for symptoms to disappear.
Rumex Crispus Q (Mother Tincture) Uses
The mother tincture of Rumex Crispus is used by many homeopaths to treat urticaria.
Take 10 drops of mother tincture in half a cup of water three times a day till the improvement occurs.
Rumex Crispus3X/6X Uses
This lower potency of Rumex Crispus works well to treat the conditions like cough dyspepsia.
Take 2-3 drops of dilution directly on the tongue thrice a day for 3 months.
Clinical Indication of Rumex Crispus
- Abortion
- Aphonia
- Asthma
- Borborygmi
- Bronchitis
- Catarrh
- Corns
- Coryza
- Cough
- Diarrhea
- Dyspepsia
- Epistaxis
- Gastralgia
- Indigestion
- Irritation
- Lichen
- Mouth, ulceration
- Phimosis
- Phthisis
- Rheumatism
- Throat, sore ulcerated
- Urticaria
Side Effects of Rumex Crispus
Homeopathic medicines are prepared by potentization where the dynamic curative power of the medication is aroused, so homeopathic medicines produce negligible side effects.
If any side effects of Rumex Crispus are seen, then it can be antidoted by Camphora or Belladonna.
Remember that homeopathic remedies should be prescribed based on individual symptoms and characteristics. It’s crucial to consult with a qualified homeopath for proper evaluation and personalized treatment. Homeopathy focuses on treating the whole person, so a detailed case study is necessary to select the most appropriate remedy.
Homeopathic medicines should be taken only when prescribed by a homeopathic physician. Self-medication may aggravate the original conditions.