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There
are some 500 symptoms with RHEUMATIC pain in the repertory.
Some have
an obvious meaning, like "Extremities - Pain - Ankles - rheumatic".
Others may appear rather enigmatic like "Teeth - Pain - rheumatic" or
"Head - Pain - rheumatic".
There is an easy way to understand the
exact meaning of all these symptoms. "Rheumatic" is not a description
of the pain, such as stitching (even though in many chapters, Kent
sorted "rheumatic" in the alphabetical list of descriptions of pain). "Rheumatic" means that the symptom is present in a patient with rheumatism and most probably related to that pathology.
Consequently, most of these symptoms express pathology and are less
strong and striking. In fact, the main rubrics to find remedies for
rheumatism are "Extremities - Pain - rheumatic" and "Generals - Pain -
rheumatic".
A similar situation exists for gouty pains.
