Condensed Materia Medica.
By Constantine Hering.
Presented by .
RHUS TOXICODENDRON.
[Rhus tox.]
Poison Sumac. Hahnemann. Anacardiaceæ.[1] * [2]
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* [45] * [46] * [48]► 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.
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