RHUS TOXICODENDRON.
Rhus toxicodendron, Linn. (including its variety R.
radicans, L.).
Natural order
, Anacardiaceæ.
Common names
, Poison ivy, Poison oak,
Mercury vine, Three-leaved ivy, etc., (G.), Gift-sumach, Wurzel-sumach.
Preparation
, Tincture of the plant.
Authorities.
“A,” Barton’s
collection for a Materia Medica, 1795, effects of applying 2 or 3 drops
of the juice from a leaf-stalk to the wristband of the shirt (Nos. 1 to 26,
from Hahnemann, R. A. M. L., 2, 357). 1,
Hahnemann; 2, Fr. H-n; 3, Franz; 4,
Hartlaub and Trinks, Hufel. Journ., 614, 28, effects of handling plants;
5, Hornburg; 6, Lehmann; 7,
Michler; 8, Rückert; 9, Schreter; 10,
Stapf; 11, Alderson, in Samml. br.
Abth. f. Pract. Ærzte, XVII, 1 (symptoms observed in patients,
-Hughes); 12, Annalen der Heilkunde
(not accessible, -Hughes); 13,
Cavini, Orfila, Toxicologie, 1, 596, 597 (should be Lavini, from 2 drops of juice, applied to
fingers, for two minutes only, -Hughes); 14,
Dudley, in Du Fresnoy (observations, -Hughes); 15,
Du Fresnoy (Des caractères, du traitement, et de la cure des dartres,
etc., par l’usage du Rhus radicans, observations, -Hughes); 16, Du Roy, Harbkesche Baumzucht, II, p. 308
(not accessible, -Hughes); 17,
Dossie, Institue of Experimental Chemistry, 1759 (not accessible,
-Hughes); 18, Fontana, in Edin. Med.
Comment., II, 11 (from handling leaves, -Hughes); 19, Gleditsch, in Beschäft. d. Berlin
Naturf., Fr. IV (p. 300, observations, -Hughes); 20, Jos, Monti, in Act. Inst. Bonon. Sc. et
Art, III, 3, 165 (observations, -Hughes); 21,
Nasse, in the preface to Du Fresnoy (observations, -Hughes); 22, Sherard in Du Fresnoy (effects of smoke
from burning Rhus, -Hughes); 23,
Sybel, in Med. Annalen, 1811, July (not accessible, -Hughes); 24, Wichman, Ideen zur Diagnostik, T. I, p.
74, etc (observations, -Hughes); 25,
Van Mons, in Du Fresnoy (observations, -Hughes); 26, Zadig, in Hufel. Journ., V. III (p. 196,
effects on a patient, -Hughes); 27,
Helbig, Heraclides, 1, 53, symptoms by “Mllin;” 28, same, symptoms by “N. K.;” 29, same, symptoms by “G. K.;” 30, omitted; 31,
Bigelow, Am. Med. Botany, 3, 1, p. 27, general statement; 32, Notizen aus den Geb. d. Nat. und Heilk,
1832, p. 208 (A. H. Z., 1 144), a man cut some stems in winter; 33, Dr. A. A. Gould, Medical Magazine (Am. J.
of Med. Sc., 1832), a boy was poisoned by R. rad.; 34, Bartlett, Bost. Med. and Surg. J., 18,
303, 1833, a man working about the ivy cut his leg, but continued his
work; 35 to 37,
omitted; 38, Hasford, Bost. Med. and
Surg. J., 19, 256, effects to chewing the leaves; 39, Toothaker, ibid., p. 190, effects of
exhalations from the uprooted plants; 40
and 41, Puche, Journ. de. Conn.
Med., 1840 (S. J., 34, 23), poisoning of two children; 42, same, effects of rubbing the roots on the
forearm; 43, Rau, Nouvel Organe, p.
55 (B. J. of Hom., 1, 299), effects of expressing the juice from the
leaves; 44, Hom. Pioneer, 1, 44,
1846, effects four years after the poisoning; 45,
Western Journ. of Med. (Bost. M. and S. J., 39, 326), a man drank a gill
of a strong decoction of the plant; 46,
J. E. Norton, Hom. Times, 2, 82, effects of a lotion of R. tincture
(one-tenth), applied to a sprain; 47,
Cincinnati Journ. of Hom., 1, 124, 1851, effects of exhalations of the
plant, in a woman; 48, Clarke, Bost.
M. and S. Journ., 53, 163, effects of application of juice to hands; 49, Robinson, Br. J. of Hom., 25, 330,
proving on a woman, with a globule of the 1000th in 8 ounces of water, a
teaspoonful every third morning; 50,
same, proving in a woman, with 200th dil. in water, every second
morning; 51, same, proving in a
woman, with 200th dil. in water, night and morning; 52, same, proving in a woman, with 200th dil.
in water, every morning; 53, Chapin,
Bost. M. and S. Journ., 59, 258, effects of poisoning in a woman; 54, N. M. Payne, Am. Hom. Rev., 1, 251,
effects of application of tincture to a finger; 54a, same, effects of gathering the fresh
plant; 55, Dr. B. F. Joslin, Am.
Hom. Rev., 1, 553, proving of R. radicans, took 3d dil. in water,
repeated doses; 56, same, ibid.,
vol. 2, p. 325, effects of preparing tincture; 57,
same, proving, took 2d dil. first day, 3d dil. three times ninth day,
30th dil. fifteenth and nineteenth days, 50th dil. twenty-second day, a
mixture of all dilutions between 30th and 50th dils. (except 39th and
40th dils.) twenty-fourth day; 58,
same, a week after last symptom of last proving, took 50th dil. at
intervals of five minutes first day, 50th a dose at 6 A.M., and a dose
of 6th at 7 P.M. second day; 59,
Behr, Virchow’s Archiv, 1862 (S. J., 115, 168), “effects of the
California variety of Rhus;” [Rhus diversiloba, Torr. and Gray; R.
lobata, Hook.] 60, Hamburger Garten
and Blumen Zeit, 1863 (S. J., 119, 289), effects of handling the plant; 61, Journ. de Méd. de Toulouse, 1863,
effects of handling the plant; 62,
Trousseau et Pidoux, Traité de Mat. Méd., effects of applying tincture
to finger; 63, Maisch, Am. J. of
Pharm., 1866, effects of distilling the plant; 64,
Moorman, Am. J. Med. Sc., 1866, 1, 560, effects in two children, of
eating nearly a pint of the fruit; 65,
Stokes, Med. and Surg. Rep., 1867, p. 372, poisoning of a boy by
drinking a tea made from the root; 66,
Sanders, Edin. Med. J., 1868, p. 715, effects of handling the plant; 67, Brown, Pharm. J., 1868, vol. 6, 172,
general effects; 68, Berridge, N.
Am. J. of Hom., N. S., 3, 501, proving with the 200th (Lehrmann); 69, Farrington, Am. J. Hom. M. M., 4, 107,
effects of handling plant; 70, Du
Fresnoy, Br. J. of Hom., 1870, from Thèse, at Paris, effects of
handling the plant; 71, same,
effects of taking an infusion of the leaves for an eruption on the face,
in a woman; 72, Berridge, N. Am. J.
of Hom., 1871, p. 56, Mr. — (a patient) took a dose of the 2000th
(Jenichen); 73, same, Mrs — (a
patient) took several doses of the 200th (Lehrmann); 74, same, a man took the 200th (Lehrmann) on
two occasions, each time same effects; 75,
Gruner, Hom. World, 6, 177, effects of handling the plant; 76, Caroline Le Beau, M.D., N. Am. J. of
Hom., 1871, p. 572, effects of a dose of the 75m (Fincke) of Rhus, in a
girl five years old, with ptosis of right lid; 77,
Ward, Hahn, Month., 7, 344, effects in a woman, of handling the leaves; 78 to 80,
omitted; 81, Berridge, N. Am. J. of
Hom., 1873, p. 499; Miss — took several doses of 2m (Jenichen); 82, Dr. Jas. C. White, N. Y. Med. J., 17,
229, effects on self, of handling the plant and rubbing the juice upon
the hand; 83, same, effects of
gathering the autumn leaves, in a young lady; 83a, same lady, the following year, effects
of plant rubbing against the leg; 83b, same lady, poisoned three years later; 84, same, poisoning of a man by the vine; 85, Busey, Am. J. Med. S., 1873, p. 436,
effects on a woman of receiving (by contact?) the poison from her
husband; 86, same, effects of
handling the plant; 87, same, in
their child, who was not near the plant; 88,
same, effects in a man exposed to the plant; 89,
same, in a lady; 90, De Witt, Am. J.
of Med. Sc., 1874, p. 116, two cases of poisoning; 91, Matheson, Am. J. of Med. Sc., 1874, p.
118, a boy poisoned; 92, Humphreys,
Am. J. Med. Sc., 1874, p. 160, a man poisoned; 93,
same, another man; 94, Hammond, Med.
Invest., 11, 603, a man poisoned; 95,
Sapp, O. M. and S. Rep., 8, 36, a man poisoned; 96,
Yandell, Louisville Med. News, 2, 32, poisoning of men employed in
cutting trees; 97, same, effects on
self of rubbing the bruised leaves on the hand; 98,
Dr. John S. Linsley, MS. proving to editor, took about 20 minims of 3d
cent. dil., at 8 P.M. (next day a dose of Bell. 200th as an antidote).
MIND.
►
Emotional. ►► *Delirium,
[65], [93]. ► Though
naturally inclined to melancholy, she felt merry and disposed for work
as soon as she swallowed the infusion, [71].
► Grief; inclination to weep;
melancholy; extreme irritability even from his own thoughts, or from the
slightest cares, [44]. ► *Full of sad thoughts, anxious and fearful,
wherewith she gradually lost strength, and was obliged to lie down for
hours in order to regain vigor, [1]. ►
*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; worse
in the house, relieved by walking in the open air, [1]. ►►
*Sad, begins to weep without knowing why, [1]. ►
Sadness; loved to be alone (after ten hours), [1]. ► She
seldom had a joyful thought, [1]. ► *Satiety of life, with desire to die without
sadness, [1]. [10.] ►
Involuntary weeping without a weeping mood, with rumbling in the
abdomen, [1]. ► *Great despondency, for eight years, [54a]. ►
Feels despondent; don’t like to be spoken to; nervousness; starts
suddenly at every slight noise (after seventy-two hours), [54]. ► If
disagreeable thoughts came into her mind she could not free herself from
them, [1]. ►
Extremely low-spirited, with sense of great prostration; she could not
prevent herself from crying, every morning after the dose (after some
days), [52]. ► *Depression and discouragement and
dissatisfaction with the world, in the evening (eighth day), [58]. ►
Depression of spirits and indisposition to conversation, with the pain
above superciliary ridges (sixteenth day), [57]. ►
Depression of spirits with the aching over left eyebrow (twenty-second
day), [57]. ►
Discouragement and apprehension, followed by short cough, from severe
tickling and irritation behind the upper half of the sternum after a
siesta, from noon to 3 P.M. (sixth day), [58].
► *Apprehensive, anxious, and tremulous
(from tenth to twenty-seventh day), [1].
[20.] ►
*Inexpressible anxiety, with pressure at the heart and tearing in the
small of the back, [1].
► Frightful anxiety with mental
uneasiness, with dryness in the throat, [1].
► Real anxiety at the heart, more in
the afternoon than in the forenoon; she did not sleep more than half the
night on account of great apprehension, and was so anxious that she
perspired (after twelve days), [1].
► *Anxiety; while sitting she was obliged
to take hold of something because she did not think she could keep up on
account of the pain (beating and drawing pains in the limbs),
[1]. ►►
*Very restless mood, with anxiety
and apprehension, that constantly clawed at her heart (at the
pit of the stomach), with difficult breathing, [1]. ► Anxiety
and hot skin (after eighteen hours), [98].
► *Anxiety at night; he would flee from
bed and seek help on account of an indescribable distressing sensation,
[10]. ►
*Anxiety, with loss of strength, as if he would die, more
after midnight than before, [1]. ► *Anxiety and apprehension as if he wished to
take his own life, for an hour in the twilight, towards
evening, [1]. ►► *Great apprehension at night; cannot
remain in bed, [1]. [30.] ►
(The anxiety which she had before taking the drug disappeared, but at
times she was obliged to weep), [27].
► *Fear and despair on account of sad
thoughts, which she could not get rid of, [1]. ► He
thought an enemy wished to poison him, [1].
► He is frightened by a trifle (on
falling asleep) as if he had dreaded the greatest misfortune, [1]. ►
*Ill-humored, depressed; could easily begin to weep, [1]. ►
*Ill-humored, depressed, and in despair, [1]. ►
Fretfulness in the open air, he could fall asleep while walking, [3]. ►
*Fretful, [1]. ► Disposition to criticize and find fault,
from 7 to 9 P.M. (seventeenth day), [57].
► *Impatient and vexed at every trifle;
she does not endure being talked to, [1]. ►
Intellectual. [40.] ► Impatient desire to accomplish several
kinds of business, chiefly intellectual, with the fulness and pain in
the forehead (twenty-third day), [57].
► Confusion of mind, he thought he
would die, [26]. ► Great averse to any kind of labor, for
eight years, [51a]. ► He was severe to every, even slight
occupation, [1]. ► Inaptitude to mental labor, at 9 and 10
P.M., preceding an itching from the middle of left leg to the ankle,
more on the skin and outside of it (fourth day), [58]. ► Very
slow ideas, [10]. ► Can not be satisfied, is indifferent to
business, [1]. ► He could control the flow of ideas and
unimpededly think of whatever he wished without being disturbed by any
distracting thoughts, [1].
[Curative action. -Hahnemann.] ► He
is able to control his thoughts, and can reflect quietly as long as he
wishes upon any subject that pleases him, and then can change to another
train of thought, with quiet slow respiration, [1]. [Curative action. -Hahnemann.] ► Mathematical and mechanical calculations
(thirteenth night), [58]. [50.] ►
Loss of thought; it seems as though he were thinking, yet he has no
thoughts, [1]. ► Loss of thought; for example, if he
wished to write twelve he put down one, but could not think of the two;
when he held the paper in his hand he was first obliged to recall to
mind what he really had in his hand, [1].
► Loss of thought, like a swimming of
the eyes, frequently like a vanishing of all thoughts, [1]. ► Thought
at times vanished, and she became dizzy, [27].
► Absence of thought, while walking,
after a meal (after twenty-eight hours), [3].
► He was exhausted, thought was
difficult, and talking irksome, or he was quite averse to it, [10]. ►
Mental exhaustion for several days, he could not at all collect his
thoughts, and was almost stupid, [10].
[From moistening the finger with a strong tincture. -Hahnemann.] ► *Forgetfulness; he could not recollect what had
just taken place, [10].
► *Memory is very dull; he can with
difficulty recall things and names, even the most familiar,
though sometimes the memory is quite clear and distinct, if he has no
chill, [3]. ►
Weakness of memory, [1]. [60.] ►
Considerable coma, [53].® 2000
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