Phosphorus has an inflammatory state and the continual accumulation of mucus impedes speech. Rumex has the accumulation of tough, gelatinous, gluey mucus, and he continually scrapes the larynx. Aching in the pharynx, with collection of tough mucus in the fauces. Many complaints are worse in the evening, from a bath, from becoming cold, from inhaling cold air. Rheumatic complaints are common and are aggravated by cold.
Every cold seems to affect the joints.
It is strange how the stomach symptoms are aggravated by talking. Irregular breathing will cause cough or suffocation. In the morning hurried to stool like Sulphur . It is common for phthisical cases to have a morning diarrhoea, and many of them look like Sulphur . Rumex is not so deep as Sulphur , but it is an antipsoric.