Rhus Toxicodendron rhus-t.

SKIN: Face. Scalp. Genitals. Blood. Tissues: Cellular. Ligaments. Fibrous. Joints. Mucous membranes. GLANDS: Pyer's. Parotid. NERVES: CORD. Sciatic. Left side or left to right.

EXPOSURE TO: WET; cold. Air. WASHING. Chill or draft. When hot or sweaty. Uncovering; hands, etc. BEGINNING MOTION. REST. Before storms. SPRAINS. Overexertion. AFTER MIDNIGHT.

Continued motion. HEAT: Wraps. Bath. If heated. Rubbing. Nose-bleed. Holding abdomen.

An infectious irritant, exciting TYPHOID, RHEUMATIC OR PARETIC EFFECTS. NIGHTLY SHOOTING, STITCHING, TEARING PAINS; CAN'T REST IN ANY POSITION. Grippe. Variola. Sore, bruised or STIFF. Flesh feels beaten or torn loose. Dislocative sensation. Twitching muscles. Crawling. Numbness. Trembling. Burning, swelling and lividity. Cellulitis. Acrid, rusty - red, meat water or musty secretions; causing eruptions. Scraping, gnawing or tearing loose in periosteum.

Sad, anxious, depressed or beclouded. Slow answers. Low delirium. Whirling vertigo; then headache. Shattering or loose feeling in brain; < jar. Board-like pressure in forehead. Painfully stiff scalp, > lying on it. Pain behind eyes; < motion. Eyelids, stiff; adherent; dry; firmly closed. Profuse, hot, gushing tears. Photophobia. Vertical diplopia. Saccular conjunctivitis. Red, sensitive tip of nose; it drips water. Roseola. Nose-bleed; at night. Violent aching in bones of nose. Face-ache. Maxillæ crack; easily dislocated; pains in. Red spot on l. cheek. Swelled, stiff face. Dry, cracked, crusty lips; herpes on. Sordes. Bloody saliva runs during sleep. Teeth feel loose. TONGUE; RED TRIANGLE AT TIP; coated diagonally or on one side only; dry red center; cracked, stiff, sore. Coppery or straw-like taste. Red, puffy, itching fauces. As of chamois skin stuck on tonsils. Sorethroat (l) in A.M.; with swelled glands. Craves cold drinks, although they < cough, chill, etc. Vomits from coughing, lying on back, etc.; fecal. Abdomen sore; swashing in; as of a lump in. Ileocæcal symptoms. Stools watery, frothy or bloody; foul; brick red; slimy; gelatinous; involuntary or with tenesmus, < drinking. Piles, < lifting. Genitals, œdema, < prepuce; itching; swelled. Nephritis. Metritis; septic. Chest pains on using arms. Dry, hoarse, tearing, tormenting cough, from tickling behind upper sternum; with bloody taste. Sudden hypostasis or œdema of lungs. Palpitation; > motion. Heart; feels tired; hyper-trophy; pains going down l. arm. Shingles. Stiff neck. Inter - scapular pain, < swallowing. Contractive or breaking backache, > hard pressure, walking about or bending backward. Lumbago. Coccyx aches into thighs. Numb, prickling limbs. Arms nervous and shaky, (l). Paralytic pain in elbows. Rhagades on backs of hands. Palms, dry, hot, cracked and sore; washing causes burning. Pains down back of thighs; < stool. Sciatica. Legs feel dead, wooden; cramp in calves; gangrenous ulcer, runs bloody water; itching. SKIN; stiff; thick; dry; hot; itching; burning; < warmth; painful to cold air. Fine VESICULAR, crusty, eczematous, moist or ERYSIPELATOUS ERUPTIONS, < genitals; alternating with dysentery. Pus erodes the hair. Rhus poisoning. Milk-crust. Baker's itch. Vesicles over abscess. Weeping ulcers. Dreams, laborious; of blood; awakes tired or nervous. Weak, rapid, sharp, tremulous or irregular pulse. Easily chilled; < least uncovering; with pains in limbs; < cough, etc. Chill as if dashed with cold water or cold water in veins; preceded by cough; alternating with heat; in single parts. Heat with busy delirium. Sweat, < during pain; with sleepiness.

Complementary: Bry. Calc-c. Mag - c. Med. Phyt. Related: Arn. Bry. Dul.

Adapted to persons of a rheumatic diathesis; bad effects of getting wet, especially after being overheated. Ailments: from spraining or straining a single part, muscle or tendon (Cal., Nux); overlifting, particularly from stretching high up to reach things; lying on damp ground; too much summer bathing in lake or river. Affects the fibrous tissue, especially (Rhod. - serous, Bry.); the right side more than the left. Pains: as if sprained; as if a muscle or tendon was torn from its attachment; as if bones were scrapped with a knife; worse after midnight and in wet, rainy weather; affected parts sore to touch. Lameness, stiffness and pain on first moving after rest, or on getting up in the morning, > by walking or continued motion. Great restlessness, anxiety, apprehension (Acon., Ars.); cannot remain in bed; must change position often to obtain relief from pain (from mental anxiety, Ars.). Restless, cannot stay long in one position. Back: pain between the shoulders on swallowing; pain and stiffness in small of back < sitting or lying, > by motion or lying on something hard. Great sensitiveness to open air; putting the hand from under the bed-cover brings on cough (Bar., Hep.). Muscular rheumatism, sciatica, left side (Col.); aching in left arm, with heart disease. Great apprehension at night; fears he will die of being poisoned; cannot remain in bed. Vertigo, when standing or walking; worse when lying down (better when lying down, Apis); < rising from lying, or stooping (Bry.). Headache: brain feels loose when stepping or shaking the head; sensation of swashing in brain; stupefying; as if torn; from beer; returns from least chagrin; < from sitting, lying, in cold, > warmth and motion. Dreams of great exertion; rowing, swimming, working hard at his daily occupation (Bry.). Corners of mouth ulcerated, fever blisters around mouth and on chin (Nat. m.). Tongue: dry; sore, red, cracked; triangular red tip; takes imprint of teeth (Chel., Pod.). Great thirst, with dry tongue, mouth and throat. External genitals inflamed, erisiplatous, oedematous. A dry, teasing cough, before and during chill, in intermittent fever; cough, with taste of blood. When acute diseases assume a typhoid form. Diarrhoea: with beginning typhoid; involuntary, with great exhaustion; tearing pain down the posterior part of limbs during stool. Paralysis: with numbness of affected parts; from getting wet on lying on damp ground; after exertion, parturition, sexual excesses, ague or typhoid; paresis of limbs; ptosis. Erysipelas, from left to right; vesicular, yellow vesicles; much swelling, inflammation; burning, itching, stinging.

Complementary: to, Bryonia. Inimical: to, Apis, must not be used before or after. Compare: Arn., Bry., Rhod., Nat. s, Sulph.

Before a storm; cold, wet rainy weather; at night, especially after midnight; from getting wet while perspiring; during rest.

Warm, dry weather, wrapping up; warm or hot things; motion; change of position; moving affected parts. The great characteristic or Rhus is that with few exceptions the pains occur and are < during repose and are > by motion. Sepia, often quickly > itching and burning of Rhus, the vesciles drying up in a few days. Rhus is best antidoted by the simillimum; the potentized remedy given internally. The dermatitis should never be treated by topical medicated applications; they only suppress, never cure.

We are led to think of this remedy where we find an irresistible desire to move, or change the position every little while, followed by great relief for a short time, when they must again move, and again experience the same relief for a short time; this condition is usually worse at night. After resting for a time, or on getting up from sleep, when first moving about, a painful stiffness is felt which wears off from continued motion; the patient is made worse generally when beginning to move, but relief is experienced from continued motion--e.g., a nursing mother may have sore nipples, and when the child begins to nurse, the nipple hurts exceedingly, but on continued nursing it becomes much easier.

Affections of the internal surface of the eyelids; strong aversion to light; blue color about the eyes. Rheumatic ophthalmia, particularly of the right eye.

Vesicular erysipelas where the vesicles are large. Exanthema on the face in general--on the chin, face, cheeks, mouth, nose, forehead, and causes much burning itching. Pustulous chilblains. Exanthema in general; burning; burning itching; pustulous; with swelling; blotches; like milk crust; moist; like nettle-rash; blue with erysipelas, scurfy; tensive or tight feeling in; pock-shaped; black; purulent; zona or shingles; petechiæ; prickling; tickling; blisters which will sometimes spread up the limb, and are sometimes in a circular form, spreading with a red edge in the advance which gradually turns to a blister, the red border still keeping in advance (if the edges be black, Arsen); itching worse after scratching. Tetters in general. Ulcers burning; with corroding pus; with ichorous pus. Rash itches a great deal, in scarlet fever, small-pox, etc., with the peculiar restlessness. Phlegmonous erysipelas, especially where the erysipelas begins in the ankle, and moves gradually up the leg, running up in the deeper tissues, no fever.

Yawning in general; with violent stretching of the limbs: falling asleep late; unquiet sleep; sleeplessness before midnight; lying on the back during sleep.

External coldness along the skin; coldness but does not mind cold air; chilliness and coldness in general; coldness of single parts; of one side only. Heat in general: internal; external; with thirst; of one side only. Perspiration in general; with heat; offensive.

Diarrhœa, with tearing pains running down the posterior part of the leg with every stool; painful tenesmus without stool.

Want of appetite; hunger without appetite; metallic taste.

Discharge of urine too copious; too frequent; involuntary.

Female: After-pains, especially where they come on one after another, lasting all night, accompanied by the characteristic restlessness. Menstrual blood coagulated.

Pain in the chest (often rheumatic), made worse by using the arms--as in making a bed, sweeping, etc., stiffness of the nape of the neck; sensation as if the flesh were beaten off the bones, or as if a dog were gnawing it off; as if any part contracted; as if a part were increased in size; as if certain parts were grown together; of heaviness in outer or inner parts; jerking pains in outer parts; darting and rending pains; of tension of tightness in outer or inner parts; arthritic pain in the joints; trembling sensation in inner parts; dyspeptics often complain of trembling in the stomach; of scraping along the periosteum.

For any troubles, or complaints, whether acute or chronic, resulting from a sudden and a thorough drenching by a shower of rain; by getting wet in any way; there may be troubles of very long standing, which were so caused. Troubles in general affecting the right abdominal ring; left chest; left arm; left lower extremity; left side of the body; of the scalp, as in erysipelas when it runs up to the scalp; glands about the neck, particularly if they are swollen or inflamed with red streaks, as often are in scarlet fever; joints of the jaws, particularly when they are worse on the beginning of motion, and get better from continued motion; of the abdominal cavity in general; mons veneris, there may be a great deal of itching, sometimes a hard blue boil is found there; shoulder-blades; small of the back, as e.g., when one stoops, his back hurts so that he cannot straighten up without help--this may result from an old sprain, or from a sudden "crick" in the back; sacrum; buttocks; forearm; shoulder; back of the hand; fingers; joints in general; shoulder-joint; elbow, wrist; bones of the arm; calves; joint of the leg; hip-joint, knee and ankle; weakness of the joints.

Coagulated blood from the nose; cough bloody, blood being coagulated; face covered like erysipelas; increase of saliva; difficulty in swallowing, as it hurts so in the back; fluent catarrh of the nose. Inability at first to move the parts affected. One is very easily sprained by lifting; palsy of the limbs; staggering when walking. Strictures after inflammation, and hence may sometimes be used for strictures resulting after gonorrhœa; swelling in general, with inflammation and without; debility; aversion to washing; wounds, with sprained muscles. Axillary glands where the swelling is very deep and hard.

Before a storm of rain; after midnight; in the morning; before falling asleep; froth bathing; can't bear cold water; complaints coming on in autumn; on taking a deep breath; on inspiration; from cold in general; in cold air; in cold and wet weather; from coughing; while chewing; from drawing up the limbs; from exertion of the body; after drinking: after fatigue; on uncovering the head; from surgical injuries; from sprains; while lying down; from lifting; from cold food, cold water; anything cold; during perspiration; from wet poultices; while resting; on first rising; while sitting; while talking; after undressing; in foggy, or foggy and wet weather; from getting wet; in winter; FROM GETTING WET WHILE PERSPIRING; women in confinement; small-pox; after effects of syphilis.

While exhaling; after evacuation; from wrapping up the head or parts; from moving; from moving affected parts (i.e., gets better after continued motion, or a change of position while at rest, ameliorates for a short time); from warm or hot things; while walking; in dry weather; in clear weather; from stretching out the limbs.

Bellad., Graphit., Nux vom., Phosphor., Pulsat., Mercur., Sepia, Sulphur, Arsen., Bryon.

Bryon., Bellad., Camphor., Sulphur.

Rhus tox. affections appear more on the surface of the body, skin, etc., and are more superficial; Rhus rad. affects the deeper tissues of the body, and has a deeper-seated action.

Aching in left arm with disease of the heart. Vesicular and pustular eruptions, with burning and itching. Putting hands out of bed covers brings on a cough. Restless at night, has to change position frequently. Corners of mouth ulcerated and sore, or chafed around the genitals. Menstrual flow causes biting pain in the vulva. Swollen around the ankles, after sitting too long, particularly in travelling. Soreness as if beaten in the hypochondriac region, and still more in abdomen, worse on the side on which he lies, worse when turning and most when beginning to Move. Lameness, stillness and pain on first moving after rest, or on getting up in the morning, relieved by continued motion. Pains as if strained, ailments from spraining and straining, lifting, particularly from stretching the arms high up to reach things. Complaints after getting wet in a rain while overheated. Typhoid, low, mild delirium, stupefaction, insensibility restlessness, tongue red, dry and cracked, abdomen distended, loose, dark-brown stools.

Poison-ivy

The effects on the skin, rheumatic pains, mucous membrane affections, and a typhoid type of fever, make this remedy frequently indicated. Rhus affects fibrous tissue markedly-joints, tendons, sheaths-aponeurosis, etc, producing pains and stiffness. Post-operative complications. Tearing asunder pains. Motion always "limbers up" the Rhus patient, and hence he feels better for a time from a change of position. Ailments from strains, overlifting, getting wet while perspiring. Septic conditions. Cellulitis and infections, carbuncles in early stages (Echinac). Rheumatism in the cold season. Septicæmia.

Listless, sad. Thoughts of suicide. Extreme restlessness, with continued change of position. Delirium, with fear of being poisoned (Hyos). Sensorium becomes cloudy. Great apprehension at night, cannot remain in bed.

Feels as if a board were strapped on the forehead. Vertigo when rising. Heavy head. Brain feels loose and as if struck against skull on walking or rising. Scalp sensitive; worse on side lain on. Headache in occiput (Rhus rad); painful to touch. Pain in forehead and proceeds thence backward. Humid eruptions on scalp; itching greatly.

Swollen, red, œdematous; orbital cellulitis. Pustular inflammations. Photophobia; profuse flow of yellow pus. Œdema of lids, suppurative iritis. Lids inflamed, agglutinated swollen. Old injured eyes. Circumscribed corneal injection. Intensive ulceration of the cornea. Iritis, after exposure to cold and dampness, and of rheumatic origin. Eye painful on turning it or pressing, can hardly move it, as in acute retrobulbar neuritis. Profuse gush of hot, scalding tears upon opening lids.

Pain in ears, with sensation as if something were in them. Lobules swollen. Discharge of bloody pus.

Sneezing; coryza from getting wet. Tip of nose red, sore, ulcerated. Swelling of nose. Nosebleed on stooping.

Jaws crack when chewing. Easy dislocation of jaw (Ign; Petrol). Swollen face, erysipelas. Cheek bones sensitive to touch. Parotitis. Facial neuralgia, with chilliness; worse, evening. Crusta lactea (Calc; Viol tric).

Teeth feel loose and long; gums sore. Tongue red and cracked; coated, except red triangular space at the tip; dry and red at edges. Corners of mouth ulcerated; fever-blisters around mouth and chin (Nat mur). Pain in maxillary joint.

Sore, with swollen glands. Sticking pain on swallowing. Parotitis; left side.

Want of appetite for any kind of food, with unquenchable thirst. Bitter taste (Cupr). Nausea, vertigo, and bloated abdomen after eating. Desire for milk. Great thirst, with dry mouth and throat. Pressure as from a stone. (Bry; Ars) Drowsy after eating.

Violent pains, relieved by lying on abdomen. Swelling of inguinal glands. Pain in region of ascending colon. Colic, compelling to walk bent. Excessive distention after eating. Rumbling of flatus on first rising, but disappears with continued motion.

Diarrhœa of blood, slime, and reddish mucus. Dysentery, with tearing pains down thighs. Stools of cadaverous odor. Frothy, painless stools. Will often abort a beginning suppurative process near the rectum. Dysentery.

Dark, turbid, high-colored, scanty urine, with white sediment. Dysuria, with loss of blood.

Swelling of glands and prepuce-dark-red erysipelatous; scrotum thick, swollen, œdematous. Itching intense.

Swelling, with intense itching of vulva. Pelvic articulations stiff when beginning to move. Menses early, profuse, and prolonged, acrid. Lochia thin, protracted, offensive diminished (Puls; Secale), with shooting upwards in vagina (Sep).

Tickling behind upper sternum. Dry, teasing cough from midnight until morning, during a chill, or when putting hands out of bed. Hæmoptysis from overexertion; blood bright red. Influenza, with aching in all bones (Eup perf). Hoarseness from overtraining voice (Arn). Oppression of the chest, cannot get breath with sticking pains. Bronchial coughs in old people, worse on awaking and with expectoration of small plugs of mucus.

Hypertrophy from overexertion. Pulse quick, weak, irregular, intermittent, with numbness of left arm. Trembling and palpitation when sitting still.

Pain between shoulders on swallowing. Pain and stiffness in small of back; better, motion, or lying on something hard; worse, while sitting. Stiffness of the nape of the neck.

Hot, painful swelling of joints. Pains tearing in tendons, ligaments, and fasciæ. Rheumatic pains spread over a large surface at nape of neck, loins, and extremities; better motion (Agaric). Soreness of condyles of bones. Limbs stiff paralyzed. The cold fresh air is not tolerated; it makes the skin painful. Pain along ulnar nerve. Tearing down thighs. Sciatica; worse, cold, damp weather, at night. Numbness and formication, after overwork and exposure. Paralysis; trembling after exertion. Tenderness about knee-joint. Loss of power in forearm and fingers; crawling sensation in the tips of fingers. Tingling in feet.

Adynamic; restless, trembling. Typhoid; tongue dry and brown; sordes; bowels loose; great restlessness. Intermittent; chill, with dry cough and restlessness. During heat, urticaria. Hydroa. Chilly, as if cold water were poured over him, followed by heat and inclination to stretch the limbs.

Red, swollen; itching intense. Vesicles, herpes; urticaria; pemphigus; erysipelas; vesicular suppurative forms. Glands swollen. Cellulitis. Burning eczematous eruptions with tendency to scale formation.

Dreams of great exertion. Heavy sleep, as from stupor. Sleepless before midnight.

Worse, during sleep, cold, wet rainy weather and after rain; at night, during rest, drenching, when lying on back or right side. Better, warm, dry weather, motion; walking, change of position, rubbing, warm applications, from stretching out limbs.

Complementary: Bry; Calc fluor. Phytol (Rheumatism). In urticaria follow with Bovista.

Inimical: Apis.

Antidotes: Bathing with milk and Grindelia lotion very effective. Ampelopsis Trifolia-Three-leaf Woodbine--(Toxic dermatitis due to vegetable poisons-30 and 200. Very similar to Rhus poisoning). Desensitizing against Ivy poisoning by the use of descending doses of the tincture by mouth or by hypodermic injections is recommended by old school authorities, but is not as effective as the homeopathic remedies especially Rhus 30 and 200 and Anacard, etc. Anacard; Croton; Grindelia; Mezer; Cyprip; Plumbago (eczema of vulva); Graph.

Compare: Rhus radicans (almost identical action); characteristics are, burning in tongue, tip feels sore, pains are often semilateral and in various parts, often remote and successive. Many symptoms are better after a storm has thoroughly set in, especially after an electric storm. Has pronounced yearly aggravation (Laches). Rhus radicans has headache in occiput even pain in nape of neck and from there pains draw over the head forwards. Rhus diversiloba-California Poison-oak (antidote to Rhus; violent skin symptoms, with frightful itching; much swelling of face, hands and genitals; skin very sensitive; eczema and erysipelas, great nervous weakness, tired from least effort; goes to sleep from sheer exhaustion); Xerophyllum (dysmenorrhœa and skin symptoms). Compare, also; Arn; Bapt; Lach; Ars; Hyos; Op (stupefaction more profound). Mimosa-Sensitive Plant--(rheumatism, knee stiff, lancinating pains in back and limbs. Swelling of ankles Legs tremble).

Sixth to thirtieth potency. The 200th and higher are antidotal to poisoning with the plant and tincture.

Dry or coated tongue with a triangular red tip.

Great restlessness, cannot lie long in one position, changes often with temporary relief, tosses about continually.

Lameness and stiffness on beginning to move after rest; on getting up in the A. M. > by continued motion.

Erysipelas or scarlatina with vesicular eruption and characteristic restlessness.

All diseases that put on the typhoid form with the characteristic, triangular red tip tongue and restlessness.

Stupor and mild, persistent delirium; continually tossing about, with laborious dreams.

Muscular rheumatism, sciatica; left side (Col.); aching in left arm, with heart disease.

Great sensitiveness to open air; putting the hand from under the bed cover brings on the cough (Bar., Hep.).

Back; pain between the shoulders on swallowing.

Cough during chill; dry, teasing, fatiguing, but urticaria over body during heat.

This is the third remedy of our so-called restless trio. This restlessness of Rhus is on account of the aching pain and soreness which is temporarily relieved by movement. There is also an internal uneasiness which is purely nervous, which causes the patient to want to be on the move, even when there is no particular pain present; but not nearly to the degree that we find it under Aconite and Arsenicum.

As in Bryonia, so in Rhus, the leading characteristic is found in its modality. The aggravation on movement, in the former, is no less marked than the aggravation when quiet of the latter. The patient tosses and turns from side to side with Rhus the same as with Aconite and Arsenicum. With Rhus the change relieves, while with the other two it does not. In Bryonia, the more the patient moves the more he suffers, while with Rhus, the more and longer he moves the better he feels, until he is exhausted. In acute affections, like scarlatina and typhoid fevers, and even in the hot stage of intermittent fever, constant movement seems to be the patient's only relief. With chronic diseases like chronic rheumatism the patient must move, suffers on first beginning to move, but as he continues to move, or as he expresses it, "gets limbered up," he feels better. But he cannot long lie comfortably in either the acute or chronic trouble, for the aching comes on and he must move even if it does hurt him at first. The pains causing the restlessness of Rhus are not so agonizing as they are under Aconite and Arsenicum, nor is the prostration so great as under Arsenicum nor the excitement so great as under Aconite. Rhus and Arsenicum are often indicated in typhoids, Aconite seldom or never, but all three are equally restless remedies.

If in genuine typhoid Arsenicum, as some think, heads the list, because oftenest indicated, Rhus will put in equally strong claims in all other diseases that take on typhoid symptoms. The literal meaning of the term or word typhus is smoke, stupefaction. Now in all forms of typhus, known as cerebral, abdominal and pneumo-typhus, taking all together, Rhus will be as often indicated as any other remedy. Whenever in fevers or even inflammatory diseases the sensorium becomes cloudy (smoky) or stupefaction sets in, with low grade of muttering delirium, dry tongue, etc., we think of Rhus. Dry or dark coated tongue, with triangular red tip, is especial indication for this remedy. This condition of sensorium and tongue may appear in dysentery, peritonitis, pneumonia, scarlatina, rheumatism, diphtheria; bilious, remittent, typhoid fevers, etc. It makes no difference what the name or locality of the disease is if the symptoms are there. The stupefaction calling for Rhus in these diseases is not so profound as that calling for Hyoscyamus or opium, but is more on a parallel with such remedies as Baptisia, Nux moschata, Lachesis or Phosphoric acid. Nor is the delirium so violent as that calling for such remedies as Belladonna, Hyoscyamus and Stramonium. Both stupefaction and delirium are mild in form, but regular and persistent. Of course the Rhus restlessness is present and the patient tosses or turns from side to side, even without knowing of it, or of anything going on around her. She will answer questions and perhaps answer correctly, but afterwards does not know anything that transpired while she was sick, may be for days or weeks.

Rhus, Baptisia and Arnica closely resemble each other; and choice is sometimes difficult; but we will try to differentiate them when we come to write upon the two latter.

Cough during chill in intermittents is a characteristic given us by Carroll Dunham, and is very reliable, as I have had occasion to prove.

Rhus acts particularly on fibrous, muscular and cellular tissues. The muscles are stiff and sore. This may be of a rheumatic character, or may have been induced by straining, by heavy lifting or severe muscular exercise of any kind, or it may have been brought on by exposure to cold, especially wet cold.

This strained condition may not be confined to the muscles alone, but may involve the tendons, ligaments and membranes of the joints. Several affections of the muscles of the back and even the spinal membranes (myelitis) may come on from sprain, or by exposure, by sleeping on damp ground, or in bed with damp sheets, or getting wet in a rain storm, especially while perspiring. Indeed Rhus is one of our best remedies in lumbago. But it makes no particular difference what muscles are strained or exposed so as to bring on this lameness and soreness the remedy is the same, and if the great characteristic -"Lameness and stiffness and pain on first moving after rest, or on getting up in the morning, relieved by continued motion," is present, Rhus is the first remedy to think of.

Rhus is also often a remedy for glandular swelling of parotid or submaxillary glands during scarlatina, cellulitis in diphtheria, or orbital cellulitis.

This is also one of our best remedies in skin diseases. No one who has been poisoned by it will doubt that Rhus has power to produce skin disease, and of course in accordance with our law of cure we would expect cures by it. We have not been disappointed. The eruption of Rhus poisoning is vesicular. Erysipelas of the vesicular variety, accompanied by the restlessness and sensorium of this remedy, is quickly cured by it. So, also, is scarlatina. If we find the skin red, smooth and shiny, with high grade of fever and delirium Rhus would not do any good, but Belladonna or some remedy having that kind of skin, etc.

Apis, Cantharis, Lachesis, Ailanthus and others have each their peculiar appearance of the skin in these acute exanthemata. Yet, notwithstanding this, it must be remembered that in many cases the leading indication for a remedy will not lie in the skin symptoms, but outside of them.

If in variola the eruption turns livid and typhoid symptoms supervene we may rely on Rhus for a good effect. Probably no remedy is oftener found useful in herpes zoster than this.

Rhus is no less valuable in chronic skin troubles than in acute. Eczemas of the vesicular type are often cured by it; there is much itching which is not greatly relieved by scratching. In all such cases of course the constitutional symptoms weigh as much as the local. So far as dose is concerned, I have used it both high and low, and find it useful all along the scale, but I have an M. M. potency made upon my own potentizer which has served me so well, and so many times, that I cannot refrain from speaking of it.

Modalities: < when quietly sitting or lying and on beginning to move; wet, cold weather; lifting or straining; getting wet when perspiring. > by continued motion, by warmth, dry air or weather; lying on hard floor (backache).

Restlessness which does not permit one to sit quiet, and compels him to throw himself about in bed. Anxiety and apprehensiveness (at twilight). Fear ; that he will die ; of being poisoned. Desire to commit suicide (to throw himself into the water). Disgust for life. Absence of mind. Inclination to weep, especially in the evening, with desire for solitude. Illusions of the fancy ; visions. Mild delirium, with insensibility.

Stupefaction, with tingling in the head and pain in the limbs, ameliorated on motion. Giddiness, as if intoxicated ; when rising from the bed, with chilliness and pressure behind the eyes. Fulness and heaviness in the head, especially in the forehead ; as if a weight were falling forward, on stooping, with heat in the face. Rush of blood to the head with burning-tingling and beating in the brain, bright redness of the face, great restlessness of the body, in the morning, when at rest, worse after eating. Stinging headache, extending to the ears. Stinging pain at the root of the nose, extending to the malar bones, with painfulness of the teeth. Painful tingling in the head, especially of the occiput. Burning in the forehead when walking. When stepping, sensation as if the brain were loose, also when shaking the head. Liability to take cold from having the head wetted. Humid, suppurating eruption on the head, forming heavy crusts, eating off the hair, offensive smell and itching, worse at night. Great sensitiveness of the scalp, worse on the side on which he does not lie, worse from combing the hair back, from becoming warm in bed and from the touch. Erysipelatous swelling of the head and face, with vesicles drying up and forming burning itching scabs. The hair falls off from suppurating eruptions. The headache is worse in the morning, while lying ; from cold, from drinking beer, relieved by heat, and when moving about.

Inflammation of the eyes and lids, with redness, and agglutination of the lids at night. Erysipelatous swelling of the eyes and around them. Swelling of the eyelids. Eyes full of water (bleareyedness). Styes on the lower eyelids. Heaviness of the eyelids. Aversion to light.

Discharge of bloody pus from the ears. Otalgia with pulsation in the ear at night. Inflammatory swelling of the parotid gland (left side). Suppuration of the parotid glands (with scarlet fever).

Redness of the tip of the nose, with soreness when touched. Inflammation of the nose. The nose feels sore internally. Bleeding of the nose at night, or when stooping (coagulated blood). Discharge of green offensive pus from the nose. Puffiness of the nose. Spasmodic sneezing. Discharge of mucus from the nose without coryza. Dryness of the nose.

Face pale, sunken, with blue rings under the eyes, and pointed nose. Erysipelatous swelling of the face, with burning, tingling, and stinging. Erysipelas, with vesicles containing yellow water. Milk crust ; acnea rosacea ; Impetigo on the face or on the forehead. Exanthema on the cheeks, on the chin, around the mouth. Stiffness in the articulation of the jaws. Cracking in the articulation of the jaw.

Looseness of the teeth. Toothache, tearing, stinging, often at night, worm in the open air, better from external heat and in the warm room. Dryness of the mouth, with much thirst. Accumulation of much saliva in the mouth (saliva bloody). Putrid taste in the mouth. Offensive smell from the mouth. Tongue dry, red, and cracked. Much tough mucus accumulates in the mouth and throat. Sore throat, as from an internal swelling, with bruised pain ; also when talking, with pressure and stinging when swallowing. Difficult deglutition of solid food, as from contraction.

Want of appetite, with unquenchable thirst. Food tastes bitter ; especially the bread. Putrid taste, especially in the morning and after eating. Metallic taste. Thirst, especially in the night, from dryness in the mouth, and mostly for cold water or cold milk. Hunger without appetite. When eating sudden vomiting. Longing for oysters. After eating great sleepiness, fulness in the stomach or giddiness. Heaviness in the stomach as from a stone, after eating. Stinging or pulsation in the pit of the stomach. Nausea, with inordinate appetite and inclination to vomit, worse after eating and drinking and at night. Eructations, with tingling in the stomach, worse when rising up while lying. Colic, compelling one to walk bent. Visible contraction in the abdomen above the navel. Sensation as if something were torn off in the abdomen. Pains in the abdomen at night. Sensation of soreness in the walls of the abdomen, especially in the morning, when stretching. Bloated abdomen, especially after eating. From drinking ice-water pain in the stomach and nausea.

Diarrhœa, stools watery or consisting of mucus or bloody, or frothy, or white. Tenesmus, with nausea, tearing and pinching in the abdomen. Dysentery. Nightly diarrhœa, with violent pain in the abdomen, which is relieved after an evacuation, or when lying on the abdomen. Involuntary stools, especially at night while asleep. During stool shortness of breath.

Frequent urging to urinate day and night, with increased accretion. Involuntary discharge of urine at night, or while sitting, or when at rest. Diminished secretion of urine, although he drinks much. Urine hot, white and muddy, or pale with white sediment. Urine dark, which soon becomes turbid. Tenesmus vesicæ, with discharges of only a few drops of blood-red urine. The urine is emitted in a divided stream.

Men. Eruption on the genitals, closing the urethra by swelling. Swelling of the glans and of the prepuce ; prepuce dark-red. Paraphymosis. Humid vesicles on the glans. Red blotches on the inner surface of the prepuce. Stinging-itching on the inner surface of the prepuce. Humid eruptions on the scrotum. The scrotum becomes thicker and harder, with intolerable itching. Erysipelas of the scrotum. Violent erections at night, with urging to urinate. Women. Bearing down pain (when standing). Prolapsus uteri from overstraining, overlifting. Catamenia too early, too profuse, and too protracted. Discharge of blood during pregnancy. Hæmorrhage, blood clotted, with labor-like pains. Soreness and stitches in the vagina. The menstrual blood is acrid. The lochia become bloody again and smell offensively. After-pains of too long duration, after severe labor, with much and excessive straining. Galactorrhœa, or suppression of the milk, with burning over the body.

Sensation of coldness in the larynx when breathing. Hoarseness, with roughness in the larynx, and roughness and soreness in the chest. Hot air rises from the trachea. Cough, from tickling in the bronchia ; short, dry, especially in the evening and before midnight. Cough in the evening, with vomiting of the ingesta. Cough in the morning soon after awaking. Cough, with expectoration of (pale or clotted) blood, or with pains in the abdomen. Cough, with stitches in the chest, profuse general perspiration, and pain in the stomach. Hooping-cough ; spasmodic violent cough, caused by tickling in the larynx and chest, with expectoration (except in the evening) of acrid pus or grayish-green cold mucus, of putrid smell, or of pale, clotted, at times brown blood. Dyspnœa from pressure and painfulness in the pit of the stomach. Hot breath. Stitches in the chest and sides of the chest, worse when at rest, and while sneezing and breathing. Inflammation of the lungs, also pneumonia nervosa. Tingling in the chest, with tension in the intercostal muscles, worse when at rest. Sensation of weakness and trembling of the heart. Violent palpitation of the heart on sitting still. Stitches in the heart, with painful lameness and numbness of the left arm.

Painful tension between the shoulder-blades. Pain in the shoulders and back, as from a sprain. Rheumatic stiffness of the neck, with painful tension when moving. Curvature of the dorsal vertebræ. Pain in the small of the back, when sitting still or when lying ; relieved when lying on something hard, or from exercise.

Upper. Tearing and burning in the shoulder, with lameness of the arm. Paralysis of the arm, with coldness and insensibility. Erysipelatous swelling of the arm. Tension in the elbow-joint. Painful swelling of the axillary glands. Rhagades on the back of the hands. Swelling of the fingers ; hot swelling of the hands in the evening. Warts on the hands, -hangnails. Swollen veins on the hands. Lower. Pain in the hip when rising from a seat, or after over-exercise ; involuntary limping. Pain as if sprained in the, hip, knee and foot-joint. Spasmodic twitching in the limbs when stepping out. Painful swelling above the knee. Swelling of the feet (in the evening). Corns, with soreness and burning.

Great debility, weakness and soreness, especially when sitting, and when at rest. Rheumatic tension, drawing and tearing in the limbs, mostly with sensation of numbness, especially when at rest. Tension, stiffness and stitches in the joints ; worse when rising from a seat. Tearing and weakness of the joints. In inner parts sensation of fulness ; or as if they were grown together (adhesion), or as if something in them were torn loose. Numbness in the extremities, with previous twitching and tingling in them. Painless paralysis of the limbs. Burning and stinging pains in external parts. Inflammatory swellings. The parts on which one lies go to sleep. Restlessness of the body ; inclination to move the affected parts. Pain as if sprained in outer parts ; disposition to sprain a part by lifting heavy weights.

Spasmodic yawning, without inclination to sleep, and with stretching of the limbs, and pain as from dislocation of the articulation of the jaw. He falls asleep late ; sleeplessness before midnight. At night he can only he on his back. Vivid dreams.

Pulse irregular ; generally accelerated but weak, soft ; sometimes it cannot be felt, or is intermittent. Constant chilliness, as if cold water were poured over him, or as if the blood were running cold through the veins. Sensation of coldness when he moves. Chills running over the back. Chills with increased pains, especially in the limbs. Chilliness, worse in the evening. Coldness, with paleness of the face, alternating with heat and redness of the face. Heat after the chill, often with perspiration and amelioration of the concomitant symptoms. General heat, as if hot water were thrown over him, or as if the blood were flowing hot through the veins. Heat with nettle-rash. Evening fever, with diarrhœa. Perspiration ; with the pains ; when sitting ; often accompanied with violent trembling. General perspiration, frequently already during the heat, and then often not in the face. Perspiration, with violent itching of the eruption. Night-sweat, with miliary itching eruption. Intermittent fever. First drowsy, weariness and yawning, afterwards (at 10 A.M.) excessive heat in the body, without thirst. Chilliness 7 P.M., as if he had cold water poured over him ; after going to bed, heat with inclination to stretch the limbs ; sweat towards morning. Quotidian fever about midnight, with pressure and swelling at the pit of the stomach, and anxious palpitation of the heart during the day. First headache (throbbing in the temples) ; afterwards chilliness, with thirst and tearing pains in the limbs as from fatigue ; afterwards general warmth, with slight chills during motion, and livid face ; finally profuse, sour-smelling perspiration. Tertian fever with nettle-rash, which disappears after the attack ; during the apyrexia, burning and redness in the sclerotica.

Itching over the whole body, especially on the hairy parts. Stinging and tingling on the skin, burning after scratching. Erysipelas ; vesicular ; Zona. Humidity of the skin. Rhagades. Hardness of the skin, with thickening. Swelling (hard) of the affected parts. Sensation of coldness in the skin. Exanthema, burning, erysipelatous, itching, with swelling, pox-shaped, black, purulent ; nettle-rash with burning-itching. Milk crust. Pustulous eruptions. Warts. Herpes, alternating with pains in the chest and dysenteric stools. Inflammation, swelling induration and suppuration of the glands. Inflammation and swelling of the long bones. Pain as if the flesh were torn loose from the bones, or as if the bones were being scraped. Burning in the ulcers.

Bad consequences from getting wet, especially after being heated ; from excessive bodily exercise ; from bruises and sprains ; from heavy falls ; concussion of the body. Great sensitiveness to the open air. From cold bathing, convulsive twitches. Aggravation in the morning ; after midnight ; during the winter ; while at rest, reposing, lying down ; on rising from a seat or after rising from the bed ; from stepping heavily on the ground ; on change of the weather ; in wet weather ; from getting wet ; in cold air, and from cold in general ; from cold water ; from uncovering the head ; from drawing up the limbs ; from drinking beer. Amelioration, when continuing to walk ; from moving the affected parts ; from stretching out the limbs ; from warmth, warm air, wrapping oneself up warmly (the head) in dry (warm) weather. Rhus follows well after Bryonia, or vice versa ; but causes bad results when given after Apis, and vice versa.

Rhus Toxicodendron.

POISON OAK. N. O. Anacardiaceæ. Tincture of fresh leaves gathered at sunset just before flowering time.

and

Rhus Radicans.

POISON IVY. N. O. Anacardiaceæ. Tincture of fresh leaves gathered at sunset just before flowering time.

[Under the name Rhus Hahnemann published his proving of " R. radicans , also called Toxicodendron ." Botanists agree in recognising no distinction other than that of habit between the two. Millspaugh ( American Medicinal Plants ) tells in his masterly account of the plant that he has seen the two varieties springing from the same root-stock. He advises that the tincture should be made from specimens of both. Rhus tox . is a shrub with erect stem from two to four feet high. The stem is devoid of rootlets. Rhus r . has more or less tortuous stems, four to thirty feet high, profusely studded with dark-coloured rootlets, by which it clings to its support. — Our own Ivy ( Hedera helix ) in the same way may run along the ground, rooting at intervals if it cannot find a support, and growing to a great height if it can; and it may be an erect shrub with no rootlets and no tendency to climb. — The two forms have been proved independently, and when necessary to distinguish them I shall name them Rh. r . and Rh. t . When reference is made to both or either in this work I use the term Rhus without distinction. All other varieties of Rhus will be distinguished.]

Abortion. Acne rosacea . After-pains. Amenorrhœa. Anus, fissure of. Appendicitis. Appetite, lost . Beri-beri. Bones, pains in. Cæcum, inflammation of. Chilblains. Circulation, feeble. Cyanosis. Dengue fever . Diarrhœa; chronic. Diphtheria. Dysentery . Dysmenorrhœa. Dyspepsia. Ear, eczema of. Ecthyma. Enteric fever. Erysipelas. Erythema nodosum . Exostosis. Eyes, inflammation of; choroiditis; sight, weak. Feet, pains in . Gastro-enteritis. Glands, inflammation of. Gout . Hæmorrhages. Hæmorrhoids. Hands, pains in . Hernia. Herpes. Herpes zoster. Housemaid's knee . Hydrocele. Influenza. Intermittents. Jaw, cracking in . Liver, abscess of. Lumbago. Measles . Menorrhagia. Metrorrhagia. Neuralgia. Ovary, tumour of. Paralysis . Paraphimosis. Pemphigus . Periosteum, pains in. Pleurisy. Pleurodynia. Pneumonia; typhoid. Ptosis. Pyæmia. Redgum. Relapsing fever. Rheumatism. Scarlatina. Sciatica. Sleep, restless . Small-pox. Spine, diseases of. Sprain . Strictures. Tongue, affections of. Typhus fever . Urticaria. Warts. Wens. Yawning .

The Poison Ivy grows in thickets and low grounds in North America, flowering in June. It was introduced into England as a plant in 1640. In 1798 Dufresnoy of Valenciennes first used it as a medicine. It was brought to his notice by the cure of a young man of an herpetic eruption ( dartre ) of six years' duration, through his being accidentally poisoned with the plant. Dufresnoy used it successfully in eruptive diseases, paralysis, rheumatism, and amaurosis. The milky juice, which turns black on exposure, is used as a marking ink (like Anacard .) and as an ingredient of varnishes for finishing boots. The tincture contains Rhoitannic acid (C 18 H 28 O 13 ) and Toxicodendric acid, a poisonous, volatile principle. A peculiarity of the plant is that it is more poisonous during the night , and when bursting into leaf, or at any time in June or July when the sun is not shining upon it . Absence of sunlight, together with dampness , seems to favour the exhalation of Toxicodendric acid. "An acrimonious vapour, combined with carburetted hydrogen, exhales from a growing plant of the Poison Oak during the night. It can be collected in a jar, and is capable of inflaming and blistering the skin of persons of excitable constitution who plunge their arms into it" (Porcher, quoted by Millspaugh, from whose work I take the above facts). Those who care for Signatures will not fail to connect the cardinal aggravations of Rhus — at night and from damp — with the increased virulence of the plant at night and in damp atmosphere. (One prover of Rh. ven . was not influenced by contact with the leaves when his skin was dry , but only when perspiring; and the worst poisonings with Rh. divers . happened to persons when moist and heated.) Millspaugh relates instances of Rhus poisoning: Out of ten men employed to clear a piece of land of shrubs among which the Poison Vine greatly predominated only four escaped: "Most of the men soon began to show signs of being tired, and at the end of the fourth day six of them were flat on their backs too sick for anything." Actual contact with the plant is not necessary in order to produce its effect. One sultry day in June a young lady drove a croquet ball across a lawn to a clump of Poison Ivy that grew beside it. Knowing her susceptibility she reached under the plant and drew out the ball without touching a leaf. During the evening of the same day her face began to itch and burn, and in the night it swelled so that the eyes were not merely closed, the lashes even disappeared in the swelling. It took nearly two weeks for her to recover. Millspaugh summarises the effects of Rhus (the majority of poisonings have been caused by Rh. rad .) as follows: First redness and swelling of the affected part, with intolerable itching and burning, followed by vertigo, weariness, and a sort of intoxication. Infiltration of face and eyes, and agglutination of the lids after sleep; great restlessness, pain, thirst, and fever. The surface of the skin becomes after a time studded with confluent bullæ where the cellular tissue is loose, then a dermatitis follows resembling erysipelas; this may spread rapidly and finally be communicated to the mucous membranes. This is followed by swelling of the mouth and throat, cough, nausea, and vomiting. Rheumatoid pains develop about the joints, and a painful stiffness asserts itself in the lumbar region, while the legs and arms become numb. Confusion of mind and delirium may then set in, during which the patient may become so ill-humoured, restless, and anxious that he will jump out of bed. Concomitants are: Inflammation of eyes, dilation of pupils, weak vision, sometimes diplopia; epistaxis; brown-coated tongue with triangular red tip; swelling of parotids; difficult swallowing; griping; diarrhœa; profuse urination; oppression; rapid pulse; prostration; soreness of muscles, < by rest; > by exercise; sleepiness; chilliness followed by fever and copious sweat. — The American provings were made with Rh. rad ., and the majority of the poisonings have occurred from this plant. Though it is not certain that Hahnemann used Rh. tox . at all, or exclusively, Jahr gave a separate presentation of the Rh. rad . symptoms. H. C. Allen (quoted Critique , vi. 409) notes in Rh. rad . a periodicity which marks it as a great antipsoric. It is, he says, on deeply psoric or tubercular constitutions that its toxic effects are most felt and longest lasting, and these constitutional effects "seem ineradicable without the antipsoric." One case of his showed a return of symptoms at 12.45 a.m. on July 5th, each year during sixteen years, except the year 1898, when the previous use of Tuberculinum , a dose once each month, prevented an attack; and modified the 1899 attack. Guernsey considers Rh. rad . deeper acting than Rh. tox ., being indicated in phlegmonous erysipelas, especially where it begins in ankles and moves gradually up the leg, moving in the deeper tissues, no fever; and for axillary glands when the swelling is very deep and hard. Farrington gives as distinctive indications for Rh. rad .; Occipital headache with rheumatic stiffness of nape. Drawing tearing pains in legs. Pleurodynia when the pains shoot into the shoulders. Mahony ( M. A ., xxvi. 109) reports a case of eczema on perineum and scrotum with sweat in cleft of nates , both relieved in a week with Rh. rad . 12, twice daily. — Hahnemann quickly perceived the keynote of the Rhus symptoms: "We observe," he says, in his preface to the proving, "this curious action (which is found in few other medicines, and in these never to such a great degree), viz., the severest symptoms and sufferings are excited when the body or the limb is at rest, and kept as much as possible without movement . The opposite of this, namely, an increase of the symptoms by movement, is much more rarely, observed." He contrasts Rhus with Bry ., which has almost identical rheumatic pains with the opposite Conditions. Neidhard adds a note in Hempel's Jahr which brings out a modification of this " < by rest" which is of the greatest practical importance, as I can testify. Neidhard says that the disease in which he has made most use of Rhus is a form of rheumatism common in North America, and characterised by the following symptoms: "Rigidity, paralytic weakness of the joints, with stinging pain along the tendons and muscles. Swelling and redness on or near the joints. Rheumatism of the hip-joint and wrist seem to be most effectually controlled by its action. The greatest rigidity and pain is experienced on first moving the joints after rest, and on waking up in the morning . After the joints are moved for a while the pain is lessened." Contrasted with Bry., Rhus has: "The more he moves the > he is"; whereas Bry . has "The more he moves the < he is." It is necessary to bear in mind this distinction or a wrong prescription will often be made. Rhus has not only < during rest, but < after resting also. However, Rhus and Bry . complement each other: it is not unusual for the Conditions of a case to change under one of these remedies, and then the other will be required. Hahnemann says "these two antagonistic sister remedies " — each in its place — successfully met the typhus which prevailed in the countries desolated by the war which raged from the summer of 1813 and onwards. Of 183 cases treated by Hahnemann in Leipzig not one died. This restlessness of Rhus will be found to qualify the symptoms in a large proportion of the cases in which it will be called for. It is as restless as Acon . and Ars ., but in a different way from either. With Rhus it is due to the pain and soreness temporarily > by movement; or a nervous internal uneasiness which makes the patient want to be on the move when there is no particular pain present (Nash). The presence of restlessness is a leading indication for Rhus in fevers, typhoid and other. Other indications are — clouded sensorium, stupefaction, muttering delirium, dry tongue. The characteristic tongue of Rhus is dry or dark coated, with triangular red tip. In intermittents a characteristic is "Cough during the chill." Hahnemann pointed out another keynote of Rhus : "Multiplied experience has taught me that Rhus is the most efficacious and the specific remedy for the frequently fatal effects of over-lifting, inordinate exertions of the muscles, and contusions." He was, of course, led to this inference by the "bruised and sprain-like pains" and "stiffness" of the provings. Rhus is in the front rank of vulneraries. It meets threatened abortion from a sprain; and also prolonged after-pains and other effects of the strain of a severe labour; axillary abscess from this cause has been cured with Rhus . Straining, rheumatic coughs. Ailments from straining a single part, muscle, or tendon; over-lifting, particularly from stretching high up to reach things. There is an analogy to this in the dreams — dreams of great exertion: rowing, swimming, working hard at his daily occupation. Rhus has cured many forms of paralysis: Rheumatic paraplegia from getting wet, lying on damp ground; sleeping in damp sheets; after exertion; after parturition, sexual excess, or fevers. Ptosis. Paralysis of single limbs. Numbness of parts paralysed. Facial neuralgia, lumbago, and sciatica (esp. of left side), with restlessness; coming on after a wetting or after a bath are cured by Rhus . The neuralgic pains and eruptions make Rhus a perfect simillimum in many cases of herpes zoster. Fever-blisters round mouth. Howard Crutcher relates ( M. A ., xxii. 38) how after standing on a wharf with his right side exposed to a cold wind from the river he began to have severe pains shooting up the ulnar nerve, a steady ache uniform throughout arm and forearm, but extremely severe in structures beneath deltoid. The pain was much < in a warm place; it did not interfere with movement. At 8 p.m. Crutcher took Rhus 30 dry on the tongue, and almost immediately he was called into the open air again. In thirty minutes the pain was decidedly better; in ninety minutes it was gone. A case of Rhus poisoning reported by Morey ( Med. Cent ., February, 1898; H. W ., xxxiii. 309), showed an effect on the menstrual period, and was remedied by Crocus . Miss M. was severely poisoned by Rh. rad . (it is called "Ivy") in July, 1895, during her menstrual period. She was treated with Bell . and Rhus internally, and an Oxide of Zinc ointment externally, and appeared to make a rapid recovery. On September 1, 1897, without further known poisoning, another similar attack developed during the menstrual period, and frequent minor attacks had occurred in the two years, always at the time of the menses. Later on she had another attack which developed rapidly and greatly alarmed her. The menstrual flow commenced a week before she came to Morey, was very scanty, dark, and clotted , as had been the case for sometime. The flow had scarcely well begun when it ceased suddenly and the eruption appeared. Croc . was given, and the first dose re-established the flow, which was normal in appearance and quantity, and the eruption at once disappeared. Peculiar Sensations are: As if intoxicated. As if asleep. As of a weight behind right orbit. As of a band strapped across forehead. As if head were swelling out. Brain, as if loaded; as if torn; as if loose; as if fluctuating; as if a quantity of blood shot into it when stooping. As if muscles of back of head screwed together. As if a hundredweight on nape of neck. As if a veil before eyes. As of sand in eyes. As if lids difficult to move. As if jaw would break. Teeth as if being torn out; too long; loose. As if tongue had been skinned. As if a hernia about to protrude. As if pharynx inactive or paralysed. Stomach, as if overloaded; as if a stone in; as if pit of stomach swollen or drawn together. Hypochondria and abdomen as if beaten. Digging as if caused by a worm. As if a knife in right abdomen. As if something torn loose in abdomen, chest, and inner parts generally. As if a lump lay like a pressing heavy weight in abdomen. As if one side of rectum grown up. As if everything would come out of rectum. As if breath were stopped at pit of stomach. As if sternum were pressed inward. As if sprained or dislocated: back, jaw, arms, wrist, hip, knee, ankle. As if one had been lying in an uncomfortable position. As if bruised in right side of lumbar vertebræ and in small of back. As if flesh of small of back had been beaten. As if back were broken. As if some one were pressing on left shoulder. As if hand were held in hot water. Hand, as if withered; as if lame; as if pins pricking points and palmar surfaces of first phalanges of fingers. Rectus cruris muscle as if bruised. As if hamstrings and tendons of limbs too short. As if knee too-short. Legs (and right foot) as if made of wood. Feet and ankles as if asleep. Heels as if stepping on pins. As if running nails under skin of heels. As if walking on needles. Joints as if bruised. As if bones ached. As if sinking through bed. As if something forced him out of bed. Bones, as if being scraped; as if flesh being torn loose from them. As if whole body was burning. As if cold water poured over him. As if blood ran cold through veins. As of subcutaneous ulceration. As if inner parts grown together. Peculiar Symptoms are: Craving for cold drink and laborious dreams. Herpes alternating with asthma and dysentery. Chokes easily on swallowing. Swallowing = pain in middle of back. Anorexia in palate and throat. Nausea in chest. Taste of blood with cough (no blood being raised). Coldness in left tibia. Scalp sensitive, < turning hair back. Hour-glass contraction of abdomen. The symptoms are: < By touch; > by rubbing. < From riding; blows; jars; sprains. < By rest; and commencing motion; > continued motion. (Lying down > colic and diarrhœa.) Lying on hard floor with pillow under back > pain in back. Must hold head to > weight in it. Bending head back > pain in occiput; = pain in head and down spine. Limbs lain on fall asleep; no sweat on them. < Side lain on. Lying on left side = palpitation and pain in heart. Swallowing = pain in back. Inclination to stretch. Stretching = cracking in knees; soreness in abdomen. Unwonted exercise = paralysis. Over-exertion = palpitation; < coxalgia. < Evening; night; morning after sleep. Sensitive to cold open air; raw north-east winds. Effects of drinking cold water; getting wet, especially after being heated, cold bathing; sea bathing. > By warmth and hot applications. < Warmth of bed. Sciatica is > by warmth from exercise. < Change of weather; damp, stormy weather; before a storm; snowstorm; in autumn; in winter. Nausea < after eating. Craves cold water, which is vomited immediately.

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Absence of mind ; forgetfulness ; difficult comprehension, cannot remember recent events ; recalls with difficulty things and names.
Languor of the mind, is unable to hold an idea.
Stupefaction, with tingling in head and pains in limbs, >. in motion.
Illusions of the fancy ; visions.
Low, mild delirium, thinks he is roaming over fields, or hard at work.
Incoherent talking ; answers hastily or reluctantly, thought seems difficult ; answers correctly but slowly.
Anxiety, timidity ; < at twilight ; restless change of place ; wants to go from bed to bed.
Apprehensive, anxious and tremulous.
Inexpressible anxiety, with pressure at heart and tearing at small of back.
Great apprehension at night ; cannot remain in bed.
Anxiety : while sitting was obliged to take hold of something because she did not think she could keep up on account of the beating and drawing pains in limbs ; and apprehension as if he wished to take his own life ; with loss of strength as if
he would die.
Fear and despair on account of sad thoughts, which she could not get rid of.
Fear : that he will die ; with anxiousness and sighing ; of being poisoned.
Fretful ; general unhappiness of temper.
Ill-humored, depressed ; easily moved to tears.
Impatient and vexed at every trifle ; she does not endure being talked to.
Great despondency, with prostration ; inclination to weep, especially in evening, with desire for solitude.
Disgust for life : thoughts of suicide ; wants to drown himself ; with fear of death ; with desire to die, without sadness.
Depression and discouragement and dissatisfaction with the world, in the evening.
Sad, begins to weep without knowing why.
Melancholy, ill-humor and anxiety, as if a misfortune would happen, or as if she were alone and all about her were dead and still, or as if she had been forsaken by a near friend ; < in house, > walking in open air.
Melancholia after suppression of menses by fright and sorrow ; great restlessness and anguish as if she had committed a crime, or as if she thought some terrible calamity impended ; these feelings drove her from one place to another ;
could not rest quietly at night in bed ; was robbed of sleep and all desire to live ; slight pain in temples ; a little vertigo ; head cool ; much depressed in mind ; spoke but little.
Restlessness and anxiety about heart as if she had committed a crime or as if some great misfortune was in store for her, is driven from one place to another ; deprived of sleep and all desire to live ; always depressed, speaks little, no appetite, sometimes belching which
relieves ; slight vertigo and pain in temples. θ Amenorrhœa from fright.
After fright heavy feeling in forehead ; a week later she told her mother not to look at her ; seemed to be distrustful and did not wish to see any one ; she came running in from the street and said people were looking at her ; sat quietly alone ; her eyes dim,
shunned the light ; since this time the symptoms have returned three times, lasting six weeks each time ; this time eight weeks, symptoms as before but without the complaint of the eyes ; cries without cause, imagines people are finding fault with her because she is earning
nothing, acts in a childish manner ; heaviness of head when head is in a low position ; beating in temple on which she is lying ; after taking cold, diarrhœa ; for past week coughed when lying down, with stitches in pit of stomach ; chilly hands and feet ;
frequent motion in bowels.

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The complaints of this remedy come on from cold damp weather, from being exposed to cold damp air when perspiring.

The patient is sensitive to cold air and all his complaints are made worse from cold and all are better from warmth. In a general way, the aching pains, the bruised feelings over the body, restlessness throughout the limbs, and amelioration from motion are features that prevail throughout all conditions of Rhus.

While he is better from motion and better from walking, if he continues to walk he becomes exhausted. Any continued exertion of the body or mind exhausts the Rhus patient. He suffers from rheumatic conditions with pains in the bones, lameness in the muscles, lameness in the tendons, ligaments, and joints from suppression of sweat, from becoming chilled.

These occur with or without fever. Rhus is suitable in old chronic rheumatic conditions. He is stiff, lame, and bruised on first beginning to move. This passes off on becoming warm up, but soon be becomes weak and must rest.

Then comes the restlessness and aching and uneasiness which drive him to move and which again make him better, but soon he becomes weak and these continue, so that he is never perfectly at ease and never finds rest. Inflammation of the glands and of the mucous membranes; inflammation of the muscles. Cellulitis of the pelvis, of the neck, about the glands with much swelling. Inflammation of the skin that becomes erysipelatous; purple; pitting upon pressure with large blisters that fill with serum, sometimes bloody. It has abscesses and carbuncles and vesicular eruptions.

Inflammation of glands that are hot and very painful.

They are hot and end in suppuration. Abscesses of the axillary glands and of the parotids. Scrofulous inflammation of the glands of the neck and lower jaw. Inflammation of the periosteum and of the bones. Scrofulous and rickety affections. The prominent projections of bones become sore to touch, especially the cheek bones. Its complaints are more or less periodical. It has cured many cases of intermittent fever, is often suitable in remittent fever, and is a most useful remedy in continued fevers and in a low form of typhoid fever.

The pains that run through Rhus are aching, tearing, and bruised pains often attended with numbness and paralytic weakness of the limbs.

It has paralysis of the limbs with loss of sensation. In infantile paralysis Rhus is a very common remedy. The nurse-girls at the present time often bring on in the child this paralytic condition and spinal paralysis. The nurses take the infants to the park, take them out of their carriage and put them down upon the cold damp ground and in a few days the child comes down with infantile paralysis. Rhus will cure these cases because the symptoms take the Rhus type. Hemiplegia, especially of the right side. Twitching of the limbs and muscles. It has cured chorea brought on from taking a cold bath.

Most of the mental symptoms of Rhus are such as prevail during low forms of fever, especially in typhoid.

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Adapted to persons of a rheumatic diathesis.

Bad effects of getting wet, especially after being overheated.

Ailments: from spraining or straining a single part, muscle or tendon (Bellis, Cal., Nux); overlifting, particularly from stretching arms high up to reach things; lying on damp ground; summer bathing in lake or river.

Affects the fibrous tissue especially (Rhod.—the serous, Bry.); right side more than left.

Pains: as if sprained; as if a muscle or tendon was torn from its attachment; as if bones were scraped with a knife; < after midnight; in wet weather; affected parts sore to touch.

Great restlessness, anxiety, apprehension; cannot remain in bed; must change position often to obtain relief from pain (restlessness from mental anxiety, Acon., Ars.).

Muscular rheumatism, sciatica, left side (Col.); aching in left arm, with heart disease.

Great sensitiveness to open air; putting the hand from under the bed-cover brings on the cough (Bar., Hep.).

Great apprehension at night; fears he will die of being poisoned; cannot remain in bed.

Headache: brain feels loose when stepping or shaking the head; sensation of swashing in brain; stupefying; as if torn; from beer; returns from least chagrin; < from sitting, lying, in cold; > by warmth and motion.

Vertigo when standing or walking, is worse when lying down (better when lying down, Apis); < rising from lying (Bry.).

Dreams of great exertion; rowing, swimming, working hard at his daily occupation (Bry.).

Corners of mouth ulcerated, fever-blisters around mouth; exanthema on chin (Hep., Nat.).

Back: pain between the shoulders on swallowing; pain and stiffness in small of back < sitting or lying; > by motion or lying on something hard.

Complementary: to Bryonia.

Inimical: to Apis, must not be used before or after.

Before a storm; cold, wet, weather; at night, especially at midnight; anything cold. Rest.

Warmth; warm, dry weather, wrapping up, warm or hot things; motion; change of position; moving the affected parts.

"The great characteristic of Rhus is that, with few exceptions, the pains occur and are aggravated during repose and are ameliorated by motion. This statement, however, requires some explanation. In addition to the symptoms of Rhus, which resemble paralysis, there are also groups of symptoms resembling muscular and articular rheumatism. These rheumatic symptoms come on with severity during repose and increase as long as the patient keeps quiet, until they compel him to move. Now, on first attempting to move, he finds himself very stiff, and the first movement is exceedingly painful. By continuing to move for a little while, however, the stiffness is relieved and the pains decidedly decrease, the patient feeling much better. But this improvement does not go on indefinitely. After moving continuously for a longer or shorter period, and finding comfort therein, the paralytic symptoms interpose their exhausting protest, and the patient is compelled, from a sensation of lassitude and powerlessness, to suspend his movements and to come to repose. At first this repose, after long-continued motion, is grateful, since it relieves, not the aching and severe pains, but only the sense of prostration. Before long the pains come on again during this repose and the patient is forced to move again as before."—DUNHAM.

The pains of Rhus are aggravated by rest, while the pains of Bryonia are relieved by rest. It is the languor and paralysis of Rhus that are relieved by rest, not the pains.

Every type. Quotidian; tertian, double tertian; quartan, double quartan. First two stages often irregular. Remittent; continued; endemic and epidemic; typhoid and typhus; dengue; mountain; yellow fever.

5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 P. M.. All periods except forenoon. Morning fever without chill 6 to 10 A. M. Evening paroxysm predominant; that at 7 P. M. lasts all night (Nux, Lyc., Puls.); every seventh day.

4 to 9; 10 to 11 A. M.; 4 to 7 P. M. Fever without chill at 10 to 11 A. M.

10 A. M.; 7 P. M. and evening, lasting all night.

Rheumatic exposure, especially getting wet when overheated; after a drenching from rain and neglecting the precaution of changing the wet clothes; too frequent cold bathing in ponds or streams; "going in swimming" too often in midsummer. Living in damp rooms; sleeping in damp beds; fevers occurring in damp, wet weather.

Exposure to emanations from salt or fresh water streams, ponds; near recently turned-up (especially virgin) soil.

Rheumatic exposure, especially by cold bathing. Swimming in ponds, rivers and small lakes.

Yawning; stretching and aching of the limbs; increase of saliva in mouth; burning in the eyes and painful weariness of the limbs. “A dry, teasing, fatiguing cough, coming on first sometimes hours before, and continuing during the chill (Samb.). I have often cured intermittents with Rhus, guided by this symptom alone.”—DUNHAM.

Dreads the chill. Languor, headache, thirst, nausea and vomiting.

Burning in eyes, stretching and severe pain of limbs; dry, teasing, fatiguing cough.

Begins in one thigh, only on one side, the right by preference (Bry., Thuja); sometimes, though rarely, between the scapulæ; or with severe rheumatic pains over whole body. The arm and leg of this side first feel the cold. Shaking chill about 5 P. M., even in a warm room or by a hot stove, with thirst and salivation, relieved by covering up in bed (not relieved by covering, Nux); salivation and all symptoms disappeared during sleep or on rising. Stretching and pain of the limbs, shivering over the whole body, with much thirst, cold hands, heat and redness of the face; in the evening in bed shivering; in the morning perspiration over the whole body. Chill, with intense muscular pains, must walk about for relief. Chilliness and heat in the evening; the face very hot, though the cheeks were cold to touch and pale; with very hot breath. Shaking chill on going from the open air into a warm room without thirst (reverse of Puls.). Shivering heat and perspiration over body at the same time (chill and heat alternating or simultaneously, Ant. t., Ars., Cal.), without thirst. Shaking chill in open air, not relieved by covering. Internal coldness of limbs (like falling asleep) but no trace of external coldness. Extremely cold hands and feet. Chill in all the limbs for an hour at 6 P. M., with diarrhœa (without thirst), then violent heat and profuse perspiration lasting three hours, with thirst. Severe chill at 7 P. M., as though dashed with ice cold water (Ant. t.), or as if the blood were running cold through the vessels; cold when he moves; increased by eating and drinking; became hot by lying down and covering, pain between the shoulders and stretching of the limbs during fever at night, sweat in morning. Chill at 8 P. M., without thirst, with diarrhœa and cutting pains in abdomen with the heat, for several hours, with thirst; followed by light sweat, sleep and morning diarrhœa. Cough during chill; dry, teasing, fatiguing (dry, racking with pain and pleuritic stitches in chest, Bry.). Great restlessness in chill (in all stages, Ars.). The restlessness is because he finds that tossing about relieves, not from mental anguish, as in Arsenicum.

With thirst; blue lips and nails; bursting headache; severe shaking; chattering of teeth and tearing in bones; nausea and vomiting. and sometimes unconsciousness. Begins in fingers and toes.

Mixed and irregular; severe chill, as if ice water were dashed over him, or blood running cold through the vessels. Coldness of left tibia, arm and left side of body. Shaking chill on going from open air into a warm room. Dry, teasing, fatiguing cough.

With thirst. General heat at 10 A. M., with yawning, drowsy, tired feeling, as if dashed with hot water, excessive heat, as from hot water running through the blood-vessels, without thirst, but with throbbing, dull headache, pressure and swelling at pit of stomach, and diarrhœa with cutting pain in abdomen, may last all night. No cough in heat, but urticaria breaks out over entire body with violent itching, increased by rubbing, with great heat and thirst, drinks little and often; lips dry. (Urticaria as chill passes off, Apis—before and during chill, Hep.—during heat and sweat, Rhus—during heat only, Ign.) She was too hot internally and chilly externally. Head and hand hot, rest of body chilly, or vice versa. Heat on the left side and coldness of right side of body. Hot, flushed face and burning heat of skin, yet not warm to the touch. Heat, after the chill, with sweat, which relieves, or chill in some parts and heat in others, both at the same time. Restless, constantly changing position (Ars.). Shuddering on moving or uncovering.

"The urticaria is intolerable; appears in spots or weals over the whole body; even the palms of the hands and soles of the feet, driving the patient frantic."—CLEMENT PEARSON.

With thirst; increased headache, unconsciousness and excessive weakness. Long and severe. Nausea and vomiting.

Excessive heat, as if dashed with hot water, or as if hot water were running through the vessels. Urticaria over entire body, itching violently. Restless, constantly changing position, without finding an easy place.

Profuse sweat, odorless and not exhausting (Samb.). Morning sweats, not debilitating. Urticaria, with violent itching, which passes off with the sweat. Sweat, with violent trembling. Night-sweat; sometimes sour; musty; putrid (rare). Sweat over whole body, except face (reverse of Sil.), or vice versa. Sleep during sweat (Pod.). Sweat does not relieve all pains (like Nat.). Sweat may be profuse and debilitating in old cases, after frequent suppression by quinine and "ague cures."

With thirst; profuse, gradually relieving all pains. Chilly.

Over whole body, except face, or vice versa. Profuse, but not debilitating. Violent trembling during sweat.

Coated white, often on one side only; takes imprint of teeth (Mer., Pod.); with red, triangular tip; sore, cracked. Bread tastes bitter, after eating. Hunger, without appetite; craving for milk; cold water; beer; to relieve the dry mouth. Aversion to alcoholic liquors and meat (reverse of Puls.).

Mapped; herpes like ringworm on the tongue; yellow coating; salt taste. Aversion to bread. Longing for salt. Hydroa around the mouth, like strings of pearls.

Rhus tox.

Coated white, or on one side white; red, dry, triangular tip. Aversion to alcoholic liquors. Putrid taste after eating or drinking. Hydroa on upper lip.

Not characteristic. Symptoms of the paroxysms' continue in a modified form, particularly of the skin. Continual motion only relieves. Constant restlessness, cannot sit quiet, turns in bed frequently without finding an easy place (because bed is so hard, Arn., Pyr.). Hydroa on upper lip, not as pearly, but as characteristic as Natrum.

In July, 1881, I cured three cases of ague in one family, where hydroa on upper lip was characteristic. Nat. m. had been given in each case without success, and one prescription of Rhus cured.

Since verified by W. A. Allen and A. McNeil.

Natrum mur.

From rheumatic exposure, summer bathing.

Chill: severe, as if dashed with ice water; as if blood was running cold through vessels; intense rheumatic pains; cough dry, teasing, fatiguing; restlessness, must move or walk about.

Heat; intense, as if blood were molten lead; restless; urticaria over whole body, with violent itching < by rubbing.

Sweat; sleeps during sweat; profuse; urticaria passes off.

Hydroa on the lips.

Diarrhœa with profuse, watery or bloody stools, with marked prostration are premonitory symptoms of typhoid or typhus.

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.

A tincture is made of the fresh leaves of the "poison ivy."

The contact of this poisonous plant produces in sensitive persons the most violent dermatitis, with (1) vesicular eruptions (eczematous), (2) erysipelatous inflammation of the deeper layers, with bullæ or boils, with an extensive phlegmonous infiltration leading on to formation of abscesses and even septic infection; with these there may be diarrhœa, with or without ulceration of the bowel, dysentery, nephritis and cystitis. ▶ Some of the phases of this dermoid inflammation simulate closely forms of scarlatina and typhoid fever. ▶ The rheumatoid pains it produces are like multiple neuritis and inflammation of the fibrous sheaths of muscles; its numbness like the effects of neuritis. ▶ A low type of fever accompanies the development of its symptoms.

(Anac., Ailanth.), Puls., Lyc., Caps., Euphorb., Ferr., Con., Dulc., Viola tr.

Fell down unconscious, no pulse, feeble but ineffectual efforts to vomit, offensive odor from body, pain in epigastric region, frothing from mouth, inflammation of lips (after suppression of erysipelatous inflammation by vinegar and water), later pustules returned and developed into furuncles, then patient recovered. ▶ Trembles and reaches out hastily. ▶ Twitching; in various parts, except joints; across abdomen and of limbs, and when the nervous influx passed to limbs it caused pain in brain so that he exclaimed violently, when asked where his pain was he could not mention any place, but at his limbs were as if forcibly stretched, agg. after sleep. ▶ Convulsions of different parts, with delirium. ▶ Extreme mobility in afternoon, with physical activity.

▶ Pain in affected parts causing moans, when sitting; in back at noon in cold weather, then in left eyeball, then on dorsal side of fourth right metacarpal bone, extending subsequently to wrist, with lassitude and disposition to stretch, pain at ulnar edge of left metacarpus, then in radial edge of right forearm and ulnar edge of right metacarpus, then agg. ulnar edge of left metacarpus, then in left ring finger, near nail; tearing-drawing, at 8 P.M. when sitting, tingling, in right hip and rectum; tingling, in left hip and rectum when lying on left side; burning, semi-lateral, above zygoma and in same side of occiput at 3 A.M.; (biting, as from salt in an ulcer, when walking in open air and waking her at night); (crawling, in face, spine and sternum).

Rheumatism after too hot a bath, agg. legs, a stiffness of all joints on first moving them, with pain in joints and lame feeling in legs. ▶ (Twinging on backs of fingers and outer part of arms and on occiput, with pinching.). ▶ Soreness in every muscle, amel. exercise. ▶ Can lie only on back at night. ▶ Restlessness; at night. ▶ It seemed as if something forced him out of bed at night.

▶ Weakness; on waking; before stool; (after eating); after eating, with dizziness; agg. walking in open air; agg. sitting (Caps., Con., Dulc., Lyc., Puls., Viola tr.), amel. walking, with stiffness on rising from a seat (Puls., Lyc.); with difficulty in thinking and aversion to talking; as if deprived of sleep; as if bones ached, with constant desire to sit or lie. ▶ In morning he did not wish to rise and dress. ▶ Desire to lie down; in church. ▶ Faintness; with dizziness; sudden, at 9 P.M., with perfect consciousness, could feel the beat of the heart, coldness, quiet mood, but could scarcely walk.

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Dermatitis, with vesicular eruptions or erysipelas with phlegmonous infiltration and abscesses.
Diarrhœa, dysentery, nephritis, cystitis, etc.
Neuritis and rheumatoid pains.
Low type of fever.

Pains drawing and tearing or as from sprains, < during rest, > motion.
Weakness, especially while sitting.
Constant tossing about in bed.
In the morning in bed the limbs upon which he has not lain feel bruised.
Stiffness on rising from a seat, > walking.
Aggravation from cold air and during wet weather; amelioration from warmth and motion.

Clinical:
Muscular and neuralgic pains, ameliorated by motion.
Effects of strains from lifting.
Effects of working in water.
General numb, stiff feeling, especially resulting from getting wet or lying on wet ground.
Suppurative forms of erysipelas.
Hemiplegia.
Chorea.

Apprehension, < night, cannot remain in bed.
Sadness and weeping, > walking in the open air.
Impatient and restless mood.
Delirium, usually of a mild, inoffensive type, with mental dullness and confusion.

Vertigo on rising up as if intoxicated.
Dull headache, even on turning the eyes.
Disinclination for mental labor.
Head feels heavy and hot.
Brain is sensitive to every step.
Occipital headache in the protuberances.
Headache after taking a cold bath.
Scalp sensitive; moist or suppurating eruptions develop, becoming crusty, with itching at night, causing the hair to fall out.

Inflammation, with biting and redness.
Œdematous swelling about the eyes.
The eyes feel sore when moved.
The lids are inflamed.
Styes or abscesses form.
Paralysis of the upper lids from exposure to cold and wet (cellulitis of the orbit.)

Swelling of the external ears (erysipelas).
Yellow, thick discharge from the canal.
Swelling of the glands beneath the ears.

Nostrils ulcerated, with discharge of offensive, purulent matter.
External nose red and painful (erysipelas).
Nose-bleed at night and on stooping.

General pale, sickly look, with sunken eyes.
Swelling of the face, with shining redness (erysipelas), with formation of vesicles.
Swelling of the glands under the jaws.
Lips cracked, dry, covered with crusts.
Vesicular eruptions around the corners of the lips, with biting soreness on touch.
Cramp-like pain in the joints of the jaw, as if it would be wrenched out, especially when yawning.

Toothache; shooting, jerking, evening and night; teeth feel elongated and loose; usually > hot applications.
The lower incisors become loose, so that she cannot bite with them.
Tongue sore, tip red.
Blisters on the tongue; coated yellowish-white at base; dry or with brown fur.
General dryness of the mouth, with thirst.
Salivation at times.

Symptoms of paralysis of the muscles of the pharynx, with dryness and inability to swallow on account of choking.

Loss of appetite; aversion, especially to bread and meat.
Unquenchable thirst, apparently from dryness of the mouth and throat; < night.
Eructations seem to stick in the right side of the chest.
Nausea after eating and drinking.
Vomiting of food, especially on coughing when lying on the back.

Distention after eating.
Fermentation.
A feeling of a heavy lump.
Swelling of the inguinal glands.
Pain in the region of the ascending colon, with soreness of the whole abdomen, particularly of the right side; < lying on the left side; > lying on the back.

Watery diarrhœa, < night, with colic.
Diarrhœa of thin, red mucus or of bloody water or jelly-like mucus, even involuntary; at times, with tenesmus or pains in thighs.
Diarrhœa alternating with constipation.

Frequent discharge of copious watery urine.
Involuntary micturition when at rest.
Urine dark, scanty, turbid, hot.

Prepuce swollen, inflamed, with moist eruptions.
Scrotum swollen, thickened, with intolerable itching and moist eruptions.
Menstruation early profuse and prolonged, discharge causes biting pain in the genitals.

Tickling dry cough in the evening until midnight, and again in the morning on waking; with stitches in the chest or pain in the stomach and perspiration; caused by tickling behind the upper part of the sternum.
Cough shattering the head, < wet weather.
Expectoration bloody.
A feeling of constriction of the chest in the upper part.
Stitches in the chest, < when at rest.

Trembling and palpitation when sitting still; the body moves with each pulse.

Pain in the nape of the neck as if it had been lying in an uncomfortable position.
Pain in the back, with stiffness and tension, < cold, > bending backward.
Bruised feeling in the sacrum when sitting as after long stooping.
Stiffness of the sacrum.
With the pain in the sacrum, wants to lie upon something hard.

Tremblings and numbness, with weakness, stiffness and paralyzed feeling, with heaviness.
Rheumatic gnawing pains, with desire to move the limbs frequently, which affords relief.
Limbs on which he lies fall asleep.
Numerous pains, tearing or drawing; < lying still, > motion.
Weakness and heaviness in the legs, with unsteadiness on walking.
Pains in the bones of the legs at night; must constantly move them.

Inflammation like erysipelas, with burning, smarting, and itching.
Vesicular eruption, followed by desquamation, with itching, stinging, and great heat.
Indurated swellings, especially of glands.
Vesicular eruptions often become pustular and ulcerate.
The skin is painfully sensitive to cold air.
Itching, associated with burning and smarting, with a feeling as if pierced with hot needles.

Sleepy during the day, but sleepless at night, with inability to remain in bed.
Sleeplessness at night, with burning of the whole body; constant tossing about.
Persistent, anxious dreams of business immediately on falling asleep, followed by fatigue, cannot lie on the back at night.

Chilliness towards evening, with stretching, cold hands, < every motion.
Rapid alternations of burning heat and shivering.
Sudden flushes of heat follow or alternate with the chills.
Sudden outbreak of sweat while sitting, often with violent trembling.
At night burning heat, often with sweat and cough on putting the hands out of bed.
Teasing dry cough frequently precedes or accompanies the chill.

Rhus. / (1st R.) / The Russian.

Rhus tox. keeps upon the go,
Ever better moving.
Always worse on starting though,
After that improving.
Ailments his from chilling drench,
Caught when overheated.
Ailments from a strain or wrench
In the muscles seated.
Ailments worse before a storm,
Mainly those rheumatic.
Fevers of rheumatic form,
Typhoid more emphatic.
Red his tongue upon the end,
Red and dry the edges.
Flames of red his eyes subtend,
Raising swollen ledges.
Holding stiff the gummy lids
In a tight enclosure
Whilst his nose in redness bids
Claim to frost exposure.
Painful stiffness gives his clue
In all parts affected.
Burning his eczema crew,
Oozing scab elected.
Erysipelas, his to bear
Hives, and shingles baneful.
Glands hard swollen everywhere;
Prepuce red and painful.
Stool of dysentery red,
Cough of ill devising.
Vertigo that spins his head,
When from bed arising.
Numbness in his arm-left side-
Leagued with palpitation.
Pricking palms-no doubt allied
To faulty circulation.

The Russian,-Has relief from pain by continuous motion.

The Russian, Capt. Aurum, foiled the old Lady Black.

This Russian,-Who is subject to ailments from a strain,-Is in the road with John Symphytum, leading Ruth Bovis, the coy squaw, to the car.

Better by Motion: Rhus, Caps., Aur., Ferr., Lyc., Con., Pul., Sep. (Dancing, Ig., Sep.-Riding in carriage, Nit. a.)

Ailments from a Strain, Sprain or Wrench: Rhus, Rhod., Hyper., Symph., Led., Ruta, Bovis., Cal. c., Arn., Cimi., Carb. v.

Indicated in complaints from getting wet from lying on the damp ground, from straining a single part, as in overlifting; in fevers, including those of adynamic type; erysipeals in any part, especially in the face; muscular rheumatism, including the heart; neuralgia, neuritis; sciatica; neuralgic and rheumatic pains; peritonitis, typhlitis, enteritis; exanthemata with erysipelatous and typhoid tendency; prupura haemorrhagia.

Lameness, stiffness, soreness when first moving about (as in the morning, when first getting up from sleep or rest), better from motion until compelled to rest from weariness.

Restlessness at night, compelling frequent change in position.

Sensorium cloudy, muddled.

Acrid state of the secretions.

Constant desire to yawn, which becomes painful.

Prominences of bones are tender to touch.

Tearing, jerking pains in the spinal nerves, in single muscles, with bruised pain in the small of the back; lameness, stiffness, soreness in the sacral region.

Tongue red and dry at the edges; dry, brown, cracked, sore, with red triangular space at the tip of the tongue.

Tearing pain in the limbs, tendons, fasciae; great muscular soreness and lameness.

Cough, with feeling as though cold air were passing through the trachea; short, painful; with expectoration of small blackish lumps in the morning.

Dry, teasing cough from midnight till morning; before or during chill.

Pain in the groin; deep-seated, bearing-down, like labor-pains.

Menstrual flow copious, dark, acrid.

During fevers, relief from nasal or uterine bleeding.

Diarrhoea; slimy, bloody, or frothy and painless; involuntary; of cadaverous odor.

Urine dark, turbid, with white sediment.

Skin swollen, inflamed, involving the deeper layers; with intense itching; tendency to suppuration.

Worse in cold, wet, rain; at night; during rest.

Better from warm, dry weather; while in motion; from change of position; from warm applications; from lying upon something hard.

Want of recollection. quiet delirium. Sad, anxious and tearful. Anxiety, with fear of death or of being poisoned. Anxious desire to commit suicide. Great restlessness keeps him in constant motion. Stupidity. Unconsciousness. Desires to be alone. Easily startled.

As though intoxicated, he is inclined to fall forward or backward, when rising from bed. Stupefying confusion of head, with mental obtusion and gloominess.

Congestion, with burning and throbbing therein and great physical restlessness. Pressure: As if brain would he forced out of forehead, in temples. Stupefying pains, with buzzing therein. Sticking, going outward as far as eyes and zygoma. Aching in occiput, especially in protuberances. Feeling: Of painful crawling in brain, most in occiput, of flapping or fluctuating with each step, as if brain were loose, as if rent or shattered, of thrusts in, of a weight falling forward within, on stooping, as if brain were torn, more behind ears and in occiput. Tearing pains externally especially from forehead and temples down to ears. Heaviness. Heat in, especially after beer. Worse: Cold, on becoming, bathing, air, wet weather. Uncovering. Moving eyes. Shaking head. After walking. Ascending. Sitting or lying still. Touch. Early morning, on awaking. Stooping. Better: Motion, gentle motion. Wrapping up head, warmth. After sweat. Dry weather.

Scalp: Swelling of head and face, with tensive pain on crawling and numbness. As painfully sensitive as a boil. Feels contracted as from clutching the hair. Erosive crawling and unendurable sticking itching, more on temples and behind ears, as he begins to scratch but it soon exudes moisture, burns, inflames and thickens, forming thick offensive painful scabs which eat the hair off. Dry herpes on. Smell soft growth on. Worse: Night, warmth of bed, during seat, brushing hair back, touch, on side lain on, cold air.

Inflamed, with red sclerotic. Lachrymation. Edematous swelling of, and of surrounding parts. Agglutinated, at night. Paralytic stiffness of lids, mostly in evening. Pale vision. Progressive paralysis of optic nerve.

Bloody, purulent discharge from, with difficult hearing. Inflammatory swelling of parotid glands.

Nosebleed at night and when stooping. Ulcerated nostrils discharging stinking pus. Erysipelatous swelling of, which spreads sidewise beneath eyes.

Sickly, pale, with pointed nose and blue rings under eyes. Distorted, drawn away. Yellow, after every attack: Swelling, with glistening redness. Vesicular erysipelas, the vesicles are full of yellow moisture, with burning crawling, they dry into burning itching crusts. Acne rosacea with a clean skin. Eruptions with ichorous exudates. Cramp like pain in the maxillary joint, or as though it would be dislocated, especially when yawning. Inflammatory swelling of submaxillary glands.

Sticking, jerking ache in evening and at night. Crawling in. Toothache. from warmth or cold, after bathing. Loose, especially lower incisors.

Salty mucus in. Hawking of mucus. Salivation. Sensation of fur on tongue.

Sensation as though' something were torn off. Painful swallowing of solids. Narrowing of and of oesophagus, he is able to swallow fluids only. Sticking and pressure during empty swallowing. Violent burning, when drinking brandy.

Appetite: Complete loss of appetite, with aversion to all food, especially bread and meat. Unquenchable thirst from dryness of mouth or throat. Nightly feverish thrust.

Taste: Putrid in mouth, with proper taste to food. Sweetish, in mouth. Bitter: Also of food, especially bread. Bloody.

Eructations: Crawling in stomach, with violent eructations when raising up. Accumulation of water in mouth.

Nausea, etc. - qualmishness, with ravenous hunger, disappearing after eating. Gastric symptoms every night. Sudden vomiting when eating. Vomiting of ingesta whenever he talks, especially when lying on back.

Throbbing and ulcerative pain when touching pit, like that of a ripe boil. Cold sensation in, with a feeling as if full of stones. Fullness of after eating. Pressure after eating bread. Sensation as though' something were torn loose, when stooping or making a misstep.

Painful distension after eating. Sensation of tearing loose in, or as though' it would fall off. Contractive spasm in, especially in umbilical region. Inflammation of. Sensation of a heavy lump lying in. Scarlet redness of lower a., extending to navel. Ulcerative pain in walls of when scratching.

Nightly, watery diarrhoea, with abdominal pains. Hacked or foaming. Diarrhoea alternating with constipation. Hard, retarded. Ineffectual urging.

Diminished discharge, while he drinks much. Frequent and profuse passage of watery u. Hot. Involuntary urination during rest.

Horrid eruption on. thickened scrotum. Moist eruption on scrotum. Swelling of foreskin and glans. Swollen urethra. Intensified sexual desire.

Menses: Too early and too profuse. Continuing too long, with scarcely a day's intermission. Discharges of blood during pregnancy, of lumps of coagulated blood from uterus with labor - like pains.

Anxious oppression arising from epigastrium. Oppression of, from pressure and painfulness in epigastrium. Short, before stool. Hot breath.

Spasmodic, shattering c., excited by tickling, creeping in larynx, trachea and chest. tickling, in evening, causing dryness of throat. Dry, in evening, until midnight. Dry, when awaking, early in morning. Hemoptysis, with expectoration of bright red, lumpy, or sometimes brownish, blood. During cough, stitches in chest, general sweat and pain in stomach. Expectoration of acrid pus in stomach. Expectoration of acrid pus or grayish - green, cool mucus, of a putrid, flat, metallic, sour or salty taste.

Dryness in.

Tension and constriction in region of throat - pit. Stitches in, during rest as well as when sneezing and breathing. Shattering in. Bursting pain in. Sensation of tenderness in lower part of. Anxious palpitation when sitting. Trembling at heart. disappearance of milk from breasts, with burning heat of body/ Milk flows from mammae.

Painful tension and squeezing between scapulae. Sprained pain in shoulders, back and limbs. cold sensation spreading over. Bruised pain in lumbar region, when sitting still or lying thereon, lying on something hard.

Neck: Stiff nape. Sprained pain extending from nape down between scapulae.

Tearing and burning in shoulders, with lameness of arms, during rest. Sprained shoulder. Paralytic, with coldness and insensibility of arms. Trembling of arms after moderate exertion. Swelled axillary glands. Erysipelatous swelling of arms. Hot swelling of hands in evening. Distended blood vessels on hands. Cracked skin on backs of hands. Warts. Hang - nails.

Pain in hips when rising from sitting or ascending steps. Sciatica, after excessive exertion. Painful jerks in upper thigh, like a kind of cramp, when extending limb while walking. Dislocative pain in hip, knee and ankle joint. Painful swelling of upper half of knee. Swelling of feet in evening.

Whole body feels shattered. Great weakness, weariness and bruised sensation, especially when sitting and more particularly when at rest. constant tossing about in bed, during which certain limbs seem paralyzed. Bruised sensation in limbs upon which he does not lie, in the morning in bed. Tension, drawing and tearing in limbs, mostly with a numb sensation, especially during rest. Sensation, as though' some thing were torn loose in inner parts. Intolerance of cold (open) air, it excites stitches in joints. Effects of excessive muscular exertion and overlifting, or contusions combined with over - exertion. dislocation and dislocative pains in joints. Numbness of extremities, after preceding twitching and crawling therein. Convulsive twitchings and other symptoms after cold baths. the symptoms are intensified in the evening and at night, after midnight, during rest, from cold or becoming cold and from getting it while sweating.

Glands inflamed, swollen and indurated.

Pain in limbs, as though' the flesh were beaten from bones or the bones were being scraped. Inflammation and swelling of the cylindrical bones.

Painfully sensitive to cold open air. Burning itching, especially on hairy parts. Burning vesicular eruptions. Nettlerash with burning itching. Burning ulcers. Herpetic eruptions alternating with dysenteric stools and chest symptoms. Thickening and induration of. Warts. Fissures. Frost - bites.

Pulse: Irregular, generally accelerated, but weak, languid and soft, sometimes imperceptible and intermittent, Chill: Most frequently in evening, often starting from feet or shoulder blades. As if dashed with cold water, or as if blood ran cold thro' veins. cold sensation from every movements. With increased pains, especially in limbs. With heat and redness of face. Rapidly alternating with heat. One - sided, coldness of right side with heat of left side, Coldness of head and back part of body. with heat of forepart. Coldness and paleness, alternating with heat and redness of face. Heat: After the chill, often with concomitant sweating, with relief of accompanying symptoms and the pains in limbs. Universal, as from pouring hot water over one, or as if the blood ran hot thro' the veins. Flying heat, with sweat, spreading from umbilicus, often alternating with chill. With nettlerash. Sweat: Universal, mostly during the heat, often excepting the face. Copious, night and morning s. Musty, offensive or sour smelling. With the pains, while sitting. Severe itching of the eruption during. Severe itching of the eruption during. And trembling with the pains. One head and face only or on body only.

Allied Remedies: ACO., Am - m., Ang., Arn., ARS., Bell., BRY., Calc-c., Caust., Cham., cic., clem., Coff., Dulc., Euphor., Hep., Lyc., Merc., Mez., Nit - ac., Nux-v., Phos., Phos - ac., Phyt., Puls., RHOD., Samb., SEP., Sil., Sul., verat - a. When rhus seems insufficient Calc - flu. acts deeper and longer.

Complementary. - Bry., Calc - c., LYC., Phyt., sul., tuber.

Rheumatic drawing and tearing pains in the limbs worse during rest, relieved by continued motion.

Tension as from shortening of the muscles.

Stiffness of the joints, worse when rising from rest.

Tingling in the feet and other places of the body.

Serious consequences from over-lifting in sprains and contusions.

Nervous inflammations - a wide range in this respect.

Red shiny swellings and vesicular erysipelas.

Eczematous eruptions with great burning and itching, with a tendency to form scales.

Rhagades.

Typhus fever.

Dysentery.

Aggravation during rest, whilst rising from a seat, when entering the room from the open air, from getting wet, especially while perspiring and during the winter season and during the night.

Amelioration from motion and walking, from change of position.