Rhus Toxicodendron rhus-t.

Stupefaction, with tingling in head and pains in limbs, better in motion.
Absence of mind; forgetful; difficult comprehension; cannot remember the most recent events.
Incoherent talking; answers hastily or reluctantly, thought seems difficult; answers correctly but slowly; cannot hold mind on one subject long enough to answer.
Low, mild delirium, he is roaming over fields, or hard at work.
Low-spirited, with prostration; inclination to weep, especially in the evening with desire for solitude.
Fears he will be poisoned.
Anxiety, timidity; worse at twilight; restless change of place; wants to go from bed to bed.
Satiety of life, with fear of death.
Thoughts of suicide; wants to drown himself.

Giddy, as if intoxicated, when rising from bed; with chilliness and pressure behind eyes.
Vertigo in the aged, worse when rising from lying, and from turning or stooping.

Burning in forehead when walking.
Feeling as of a strapped board across the forehead.
Stupefying headache, with buzzing; worse when sitting or lying; in the cold, in the morning, from beer; better from warmth and motion.
Headache, must lie down; returns from the least chagrin.
Rush of blood to head, with humming, formication and throbbing; face glistening and red; restless, moving about.
Brain feels loose, when stepping or shaking the head.
Stitches extending two ears, root of nose and malar bones, with toothache.
Aching in occipital protuberance. (See end of 48.).
Meningitis in exanthematous fevers, or after getting wet; tingling limbs; high fever; restlessness.

Erysipelas of scalp, left to right, forming vesicles.
Eruption suppurating, moist, forming thick crusts, offensive, itching; worse at night; hair is eaten off; extends to shoulders.
Scalp sensitive, worse on side not lain on, when growing warm in bed, from touch and combing the hair back.

Great photophobia, profuse acrid lachrymation in morning and in open air; the cheek under the eye is dotted with red pimples; lids spasmodically closed.
Iritis: in rheumatic or gouty subjects; suppurative or where the ciliary body and choroid are involved, especially if of traumatic origin.
Pustules and superficial ulcers on cornea, with great photophobia conjunctiva quite red, even to chemosis.
Sac-like swelling of conjunctiva, with yellow, purulent discharge.
Eyes red and agglutinated in morning.
Lids much swollen and inflamed.
Eyelids œdematous or erysipelatous, with scattered watery vesicles; meibomian glands enlarged, cilia fall out.
Ptosis, also, paralysis of any of the muscles of eyeball, from getting wet; in rheumatic patients.

Hardness of hearing, especially of the human voice.
Otalgia, with pulsation in ear at night.
Bloody pus from the ears.
Parotitis, left side; especially suppurating, during scarlatina.

Loss of smell.
Epistaxis of coagulated blood, worse at night and when stooping, at stool, or from exertion; also in typhus, with some relief.
Spasmodic sneezing.
Discharge from the nose; of thick, yellow mucus; of green, offensive pus; of yellow ichor, with swollen cervical glands.
Fever-blisters and crusts under nose.
Top of nose red and sensitive; nose sore internally.
Puffiness of nose.

Fiery red; pale, sunken, nose pointed, blue around the eyes.
Erysipelas from left to right; face dark red, covered with yellow vesicles; burning, itching and tingling with the stinging.
Burning, drawing, tearing in face; teeth feel too long; restlessness.
Milk crust.
Acne rosacea.
Impetigo on face and forehead.

Stiffness of jaws, cracking in articulation of jaw when moving it; jaw easily dislocated.
Corners of mouth ulcerated, fever-blisters around mouth; exanthema on chin.

Painful, with stinging at root of nose, extending to malar bones.
Teeth feel too long and too lose, feel as if sleep.
Jumping shooting, as if teeth were being torn out; or slow pricking, throbbing or tearing, extending into jaws and temples; face sore; worse at night, from cold, from vexation, better from external heat; crusty caries.

Taste: putrid mornings and after eating; metallic; food, especially bread, tastes bitter.
Tongue: dry, red, cracked; has a triangular red tip; white, often on one side; yellowish; covered with brown mucus; takes imprint of teeth.

Mouth dry, with much thirst.
Saliva bloody; runs out of mouth during sleep.
Putrid breath.
Much tough mucus in mouth and throat.

Sore, feels stiff, after straining the throat.
Tonsil (right) covered with yellow membrane.
Sticking or stinging pain in tonsils, worse when beginning to swallow.
Feeling of swelling, with bruised pain; erysipelatous inflammation; parotids swollen; cellulitis of the neck; drowsiness.
Difficult swallowing of solids, as from contraction.
Œsophagitis, especially after corrosive substances.

Hunger, without appetite.
No appetite, or wants only dainties.
Desire for oysters; sweets; beer.
Aversion to spirituous liquors; to meat.
Unquenchable thirst, wants cold drinks; worse at night, from dryness of mouth.

After eating: 11, 16, 17, 19, 26, 37. Drinking: 40; ice water: 16, 17; beer: 3, 29, 37; coffee: 29; alcohol: 29.

Eructations: with nausea; with tingling in stomach, worse when rising from lying.
Nausea: after ice water, or after eating, with sudden vomiting; with inordinate appetite and inclination to vomit; worse at night and after eating.

Stinging or pulsation in pit of stomach.
Fulness or heaviness, as from a stone in stomach; after eating.
Pain in stomach and nausea, after ice water.
Pressure in pit of stomach, as if swollen, or as if drawn together.

Soreness, as if beaten, in hypochondria and still more in abdomen; worse on the side lain on, when turning and when beginning to move.
Abdomen bloated, especially after eating.
Enteritis or peritonitis, with typhoid symptoms.
Colic, he must walk bent; worse at night; also after getting wet.
Typhlitis.
Sensation as if something was torn off in abdomen.
Visible contractions of abdomen above navel.

Stools: watery, mucous and bloody, with nausea, tearing down the thighs, and much tenesmus; frothy; white; painless and undigested; like the washing of meat; yellowish-brown, bloody, cadaverous-smelling and involuntary at night (typhoid).
Nightly diarrhœa, with violent pain in abdomen, relieved after stool or while lying prone.
Hemorrhoids: sore, blind; protruding after stool, with pressing in rectum, as if everything would come out.
Fissure of anus, with periodical, profuse, bleeding piles.

Tearing in region of kidneys, œdema; after exposure to wet.
Urine: hot, white, muddy; pale, with white sediment; dark, becoming turbid.
Tenesmus vesicæ, discharges a few drops of blood-red urine.
Retention of urine; backache, restless, cannot keep quiet.
Urine passed in a divided stream.
Frequent urging day and night, with increased secretion.
Urine diminished, though he drinks much.
Urine voided slowly, spine affected; from getting wet.
Urine involuntary at night and while at rest.

Erections at night; or with desire to urinate.
Swelling of glands and prepuce, dark, red, erysipelatous.
Scrotum becomes thick and hard, with intolerable itching.
Œdema of scrotum.
Humid eruption on genitals and between scrotum and thighs.

Menses too early, profuse and protracted; flow light-colored, acrid, causing biting pain in vulva.
Amenorrhœa: from getting wet; with milk in breasts.
Metrorrhagia; blood clotted, with labor-like pains.
Bearing down, when standing or walking, back aches, better lying on something hard; prolapsus from overexertion or straining.
Soreness in vagina hindering an embrace.
External genitals inflamed, erysipelatous.

During pregnancy; discharges of blood; pelvic articulations stiff when beginning to move.
Abortion impending from straining or overexertion.
Lochia vitiated and offensive, lasting too long or often returning.
Milk leg; also metritis, after delivery; with typhoid symptoms.
Mammæ: swell from catching cold, streaks of inflammation; galactorrhœa; milk vanishes, with general heat; milk cakes; discharges clots of milk and pus.

Hoarse from overstraining the voice.
Hoarseness and roughness in larynx, with roughness and soreness in chest.
Hot air arises from trachea.
Cold sensation in larynx, when breathing.

Oppression: as if the breath was stopped at tip of stomach; worse after a meal; anxious, as if not able to draw long breath.

Influenza; air-passages seem stuffed up; dry, hard, tickling cough; worse each evening until 12 P.M.; stiffness in back and limbs.
Cough: dry, teasing; caused by tickling in bronchia; uncovering, even a hand; with tearing pain in the chest, stitches, profuse sweat and pain in stomach; worse evening and before 12 P.M.; or in morning, soon after awaking; from talking, lying, or sitting still.
Sputa; acrid pus; greyish-green cold mucus, or putrid smell; pale, clotted or brown blood.

Stitches in chest, worse when at rest, and while sneezing and breathing; also when sitting crooked.
Tingling in chest, with tension in intercostal muscles; worse at rest.
Pneumonia: with typhoid symptoms, often from re-absorption of pus; also with tearing cough and restlessness, because quiet makes pain and dyspnœa worse.
Hæmoptysis: from overexertion, blowing wind-instruments; blood bright; pain in lower part of chest; renewed from least mental excitement.

Uncomplicated hypertrophy, from violent exercise.
Organic diseases of heart, with sticking pains and soreness; numbness and lameness of left arm.
Chest and heart feel weak after a walk; trembling sensation of the heart.
Palpitation violent when sitting still.
Pulse: accelerated, weak, faint and soft; trembling or imperceptible; sometimes quicker than the heart's beat; irregular; affected by beer, coffee or alcohol.

Stiff neck, with painful tension when moving.
Pains in shoulders and back, with stiffness as from a sprain.
Curvature of the dorsal vertebræ.
Spinal membranes inflamed, even myelitis; from getting wet or sleeping on damp ground.
Pains in small of back, better lying upon something hard.
Lumbago.

Tearing and burning in shoulder, arm lame, worse in cold, wet weather, in bed at night and at rest.
Axillary glands suppurating.
Hot swelling of hands in evening.
Rhagades on back of hand.
Warts on hands.
Swelling of the fingers.
Hand-nails.

Coxalgia; involuntary limping; pains felt mostly in knee and worse from overexertion; pain worse at night.
Spasmodic twitching in limbs when stepping out.
Sciatica, right side, dull, aching pain, worse at night, in cold or damp weather; relieved by rubbing, heat and when warmed by exercise; numbness and formications.
Paroxysmal pains in legs from getting wet, especially when warm and sweatly.
Cramps in legs and feet, must walk about.
Ulcers: on legs, discharging profusely; on dropsical legs, discharging serum.
Swollen about ankles after too long sitting; feet swelling in evening.
Intolerable itching of legs and feet at night; old rash.

Swelling and stiffness of joints from sprains, over lifting, or overstretching.
Phlegmonous erysipelas of limbs.
Rheumatoid pains in limbs; also with numbness and tingling; joints weak or stiff, or red shining swelling of joints, stitches when touched; worse on beginning to move; after 12 P.M., and in wet, damp weather or places; better from continued motion.
Tearing pains in limbs, during rest.

Motion: 1, 3, 9, 19, 24, 31, 33, 36, 40. Must change place: 1, 3, 21, 36. Must turn over: 37. Turning: 2, 19. Stooping: 2, 7. Rising: 2, 16. Walking: 3, 23, 29. Stepping: 33. Must walk: 33. Must walk bent: 19. Exertion: 7, 33. Shaking head: 3. Rest: 21, 28, 34, 36. Lying: 3, 20, 23, 27, 31. Must lie down: 3. Sitting: 3, 27, 28, 29, 33. Standing: 23.

Paralysis: after unwonted exertion; after parturition; rheumatic, from getting wet or lying on damp ground; from sexual excesses; after ague or typhoid; parts painless; or painfully stiff and lame, with tearing, tingling and numbness.
Hemiplegia, right-sided; sensation as if "gone to sleep".
Great debility, soreness and stiffness, worse on beginning to move; better from continuing motion, but soon fatigued, requiring rest again.
Restlessness, must change position.

Spasmodic yawning, yet hot sleepy, with stitching and pain as from dislocation of jaw.
Great sleepiness and lassitude after eating.
Heavy sleep, as from stupor.
Sleeplessness: from pain, more before 12 P.M., must turn often to find any ease.
When intoxicated by beer, sleeps with mouth open and head thrown back.
Dreams of great exertion; as rowing, swimming, etc.

Morning: 3, 5, 11, 27. 10 A.M.: 40. Evening: 1, 27, 32, 33, 40. 7 P.M.: 40. Night: 4, 6, 7, 10, 14, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 32, 33, 34. Before 12 P.M.: 27, 37. Day: 21.

Warmth: 3; of bed: 4. Heat: 10, 33. Cold: 3, 10. Uncovering: 27. Cold, open air: 5, 46. Cold, wet weather: 32, 33, 34. Getting wet or damp in cold places: 3, 5, 19, 21, 23, 31, 33, 36, 46.

Constant chilliness, as if cold water was poured over him, or as if the blood was running cold through the veins, 7 P.M., feels cold when he moves.
Before the chill: dry cough; yawning; stretching; maxillary joint feels sprained.
Chills over the back, worse evenings; chill increased by drinking.
Chill, with pains in limbs, restlessness; pale face, or alternating pale and red face.
Heat after chill, with sweat which relieves.
General heat, as from hot water or hot blood running through veins.
General warmth with slight chills during motion; face livid.
During fever, nettle-rash; thirst, drinking little and often.
Drowsy, weary, with yawning, 1 A.M., excessive heat without thirst.
Evening fever, with diarrhœa.
Sweat with pains; often with violent trembling.
Sweat: even during heat; except on face; with violent itching of the eruption; sour; musty, putrid; with thirst or thirstlessness.

Right: 5, 13, 33, 36, 40. Left: 6, 29. Left to right: 4, 8.

Acts on fibrous tissue.
Cellulitis.
Diseases of joints, stiffness; or when there are stitches in surrounding tendons, with tingling and burning.
Dropsy, with turbid urine.
Glands: swollen and hot, painful; indurated; suppurating.
Pain as if the flesh was torn loose from the bones; or as if the bones were being scraped.
Inflammation and swelling of long bones.

Touch: 4, 34. Rubbing: 33. Straining: 23, 24, 25, 28, 34, 36.

Intolerable itching of skin; red, measly rash all lover.
Itching all over, worse on hairy parts; after scratching, burning.
Urticaria: from getting wet; during rheumatism; with chills and fever; worse in cold air.
Eruption: herpetic; with incessant itching, burning and tingling; alternates with pains in chest and dysenteric stools.
Eczema: surface raw, excoriated; thick crusts, oozing and offensive.
Vesicles upon a red patch or with a spreading, red, erysipelatous base; internal pruritus followed by pains in the thighs after scratching.
Pustulous eruption.
Pemphigus, each bulla with a red areola.
Erysipelas.
Erysipelatous inflammations.
Zona.
Hardness of the skin, with thickening.
Carbuncles, bluish, gangrenous.
Variola, eruption sinks and turns livid; typhoid symptoms.
Scarlatina miliaria; rash dark, fever high; drowsiness and restlessness.
Chilblains.

Complementary to Bryon.
Antidotes to Rhus tox.: Bellad., Bryon., Camphor., Coffea, Crot tig., Sulphur.
Rhus antidotes: Bryon., Ranunc., Rhodod, Tart. emet.
After Rhus are frequently indicated: Arsen., Bryon., Calc. ostr., Conium, Nux vom., Phosph. ac., Pulsat., Sulphur.
Rhus tox.; is frequently indicated after: Arnic., Bryon., Calc. ostr., Calc. Phosph., Chamom., Laches., Phosph. ac., Sulphur.
Incompatible with Apis.
Rhus venenata is preferable in erythema nodosum; and Rhus radicans in occipital headache; muscles sore; better moving and from warmth; caused by draught, dampness or by internal causes, as in typhoid.