RHUS TOXICODENDRON.
STOMACH.
►
Appetite and Thirst. ►
Appetite greater than usual (after four days), (Curative action.
-Hahnemann.), [3]. ► A kind of ravenous hunger, yet the mouth
seemed soapy; everything tastes like straw and causes eructations; after
taking the slightest amount of food the appetite entirely disappears and
he feels full, [2]. ► *Ravenous hunger and emptiness in the stomach,
with loss of appetite in the palate and throat, that
disappear after sitting awhile, [3].
► Natural hunger in the morning,
indifference to food at noon, yet he ate with relish, [3]. ► He was
hungry, in the morning; but on going to the table he was indifferent to
food, and it was all the same whether he ate or not, [3]. [440.] ► Frequent sudden appetite for dainties, [1]. ►
Strong desire for cheese, sometimes for hearty food, [44]. ► Food
is relished (in the evening), except bread, that seems rough, dry, and
scrapy, [3]. ►
Though she relished her food tolerably she had no real desire for it and
her stomach seemed constantly full, [1].
► She ate without any desire, and yet
the food was relished, [1]. ► Food will not go down, in the morning, on
account of internal fulness, [1]. ► Little appetite, yet a hunger with a
sensation as if the hunger affected the chest, [3]. ►
Appetite almost wanting (next day), [98].
► No appetite (second day); appetite
returning (fourth day), [76]. ► Loss of appetite with the constipation, [54a]. [450.]
► *Loss of appetite in the palate and
throat, with emptiness in the stomach, and at same time ravenous hunger,
that disappeared after sitting awhile, [3]. ► *Complete
loss of appetite for all food; nothing tastes good, neither
food, drink, nor tobacco (after sixteen hours), [1]. ► At time
when a healthy appetite was to be expected, there was complete loss of
appetite, together with much saliva in the mouth, having a flat slimy
taste, [3]. ►
Complete loss of appetite; if he eats a little he soon becomes satiated
and yet is hungry, [10]. ► *Complete want of appetite, for several days,
[5]. ►
*Complete want of appetite, [2].
► He had no appetite, yet food had a
natural taste, though after swallowing a morsel there was a bad taste in
the mouth, [1]. ► At noon anorexia (after sixteen hours), [98]. ►
*Beer is not relished, [3].
► He is averse to bread and to eating
generally, [10]. [460.] ►
After a glass of wine he seems full; aversion to wine associated with
heaviness of the head, [150]. ► Aversion to meat and broth, for several
days, [10]. ►
No appetite for tobacco, and yet no aversion to it, [1]. ►
Aversion to coffee, [1]. ►► *Great thirst (after one
hour), [1], [27], [44].
► *Thirst caused by a sensation of
dryness in the mouth, that continued in spite of drinking, in
the afternoon and after midnight, [1].
►► *Thirst and dryness of the
throat, [4]. ► Thirst, at night, without desire to
drink, with a slimy mouth, [1]. ► Thirst, even in the morning, [1]. ►
Thirst, at night, from 2 to 5 A.M., followed by perspiration, [1]. [470.]
► *Great thirst for water or beer,
[10]. ►►
*Desire for cold milk, he swallows it hastily, [10]. ►
Eructations. ► Very
violent eructations of gas, in the evening, immediately followed by
hiccough, without sensation (after thirty-six hours), [1]. ►
*Eructations from the stomach that seem to become incarcerated and
remain in the right side of the chest, [3]. ►
Frequent rising from the pit of the stomach into the pit of the throat,
that almost took away her breath for a moment, in the evening, [1]. ►
Frequent eructations, always tasting of the food, [1]. ► Fulness
and eructations, after a moderate meal, [1].
► Burning eructations, [1]. ► Empty
eructations, after eating and drinking, [1].
► Eructations whenever urinating, [1]. [480.]
► Eructations of wind, towards
evening, with bloatedness of bowels, [44].
► Eructation, attended with shooting
in the right portion of the epigastric region and in the right axilla,
at 1 P.M. (fifteenth day), [57]. ► Nausea and Vomiting. ► *Nausea, [11]. ► Nausea
and accumulation of saliva in the mouth, after eating and after coffee, [1]. ►
Nausea seeming to be in the throat, [3].
► Nausea in the chest, with ravenous
hunger, that only disappears after satisfying it, [3]. ► Nausea
in the stomach and qualmishness in the chest, worse on stooping (after
twenty-six hours), [3]. ► Becomes nauseated while sitting up, [1]. ►
Nausea, that was somewhat better after eating, but returned with hunger,
without appetite, [3]. ► Nausea, with a kind of anxiety in the
morning after rising, that gradually disappeared in the open air (after
twenty-seven hours, [3]. [490.] ►
She became nauseated on lying down, in the evening; she had no rest in
bed, and was constantly obliged to toss about, [1]. ► Nausea,
in the chest and stomach, in the evening in bed, disappearing after
falling asleep, [3]. ► Felt nausea and disgust for the tasteless
watery solution, in three minutes after commencing it, [55]. ►
Nausea, with pain at the left quadratus lumborum muscle (after fifteen
minutes), [55]. ► *Nausea, after eating and drinking, [1]. ►
Qualmish nausea beneath the short ribs, that impeded respiration, [1]. ►
He seemed qualmish and nauseated, as if in the chest, in the morning
after rising, [3]. ► In the morning after rising he became so
warm and qualmish, that it seemed as though he would vomit; the nausea
disappeared after lying down again, [1].
► During sleep, in the night, she
frequently rises up and heaves as if she would vomit, but nothing comes
of it, [1]. ►
In a short time vomiting commenced, first of the partially digested
fruit, afterwards of a thick tenacious fluid of a wine color, [64]. ►
Stomach. [500.]
► *Fulness in the stomach as if
overloaded, after a moderate meal, with continued great
appetite, [3]. ► Sensation as though a lump were lying in
the stomach after a meal, especially while standing, [3]. ► An
oppression of the stomach, towards evening, as if everything in the
region of the pit of the stomach contracted (after six hours), [1]. ►
Whenever she fell asleep she was attacked with a violent pressure in the
stomach, that did not permit her to sleep for a long time, [1]. ►
Pressure in the pit of the stomach, on moving about, [3]. ► A
pressure in the pit of the stomach, as from swallowing too large a
morsel, [1]. ►
Pressure in the pit of the stomach, as if everything were swollen, that
rendered breathing difficult (in the evening), [1]. ►
(Pressure in the stomach occurring during dinner, delaying falling
asleep; on waking it was gone), [1].
► *Pressure in the stomach after eating,
as from undigested food, lasting several hours, [1]. ►
Pressive sticking pain in the region of the stomach (impeding deep
breathing), [1]. [510.] ►
Sticking pain in the right side towards the stomach, [1]. ► A
sticking pain in the pit of the stomach (after one hour and a quarter), [6]. ►
Simple sticking in the pit of the stomach by the right hypochondrium
(after ten hours), [3]. ► Acute griping above the stomach, below
the diaphragm, afterwards lower down in the stomach, [3]. ► Griping
in the pit of the stomach, and thence suddenly in a small spot in the
lower abdomen (after three hours), [10].
► A kind of cramp like a fulness and
tightness in the pit of the stomach, [1].
► Slight stomachache, [13]. [Original revised by Hughes.] ► Pain in the stomach, followed by loose
and dark brown stool (eighteenth day), [58].
► Pains in the stomach and abdomen,
about 7.15 P.M. (twenty-third day), [57].
► For four days dull pain and
oppression at stomach, with inclination to take a deep breath, [81]. [520.]
► Severe pain in the diaphragm and
pit of stomach, so distressing I could not lie in bed (fifth day), [54]. ►
Almost constant pain in the epigastric region, for eight years, [54a]. ►
Pain in the pit of the stomach, [15].
► Pain in the epigastrium
(thirty-fifth day), [54]. ► Pain in the stomach, when coughing, [1]. ►
Pains occasionally in the pit of the stomach, [44]. ► A
contractive pain in the right side, extending towards the stomach, [1]. ►
Distressing pain in the stomach as if closed, and being split open with
a knife; could not remain in a horizontal position (seventeenth day), [54]. ►
Rending pain in the diaphragm, more so in the horizontal position
(fourth day), [54]. ► Transient burning and pressive pain in
the stomach, on swallowing moderately cold water, [57]. [530.] ► A crawling in the stomach and horrible
eructations, that were only relieved by lying down, and always renewed
on rising, [1]. ► On going from the cold air into a warm
room, the symptoms, especially those in the pit of the stomach,
commenced anew, [27]. ► Violent throbbing below the pit of the
stomach, [1]. ► *A violent throbbing in the epigastric
region, [1].
ABDOMEN.
►
Hypochondria. ► Crowding
in the hypochondria with anxiety, as if death were imminent, while
sitting bent over (after nine hours), [3].
► *Pressive drawing from below upwards in
the left hypochondrium, with anxiety and nausea in the chest
(after sixty-three hours), [3]. ► Umbilicus and Sides. ► Flatulent distension in the umbilical
region with violent griping, [6]. ► Griping in the right side of the
umbilical region, with creeping chilliness over the upper arms, [3]. ►
A cramplike drawing in the umbilical region, [6]. ► Drawing
pain extending downward from the umbilical region to the mons veneris
(after twenty-seven hours), [3]. [540.] ►
Pain as from a bruise, below the umbilicus, [3]. ►
Shooting at the umbilicus, about 3.30 P.M. (twenty-second day), [58]. ►
A sticking pain extending from the nasal to the præcordial region, as
if a stitch extended upward; repeated with every pulse (after two hours
and three-quarters, [6]. ► A sticking above the umbilicus, [3]. ►
Digging pain in the right side of the abdomen, [3]. ► Griping
in the right side below the ribs, that soon extended to the umbilical
region, as if a worm were in the abdomen, while sitting (after two hours
and three-quarters), [6]. ► Cramplike pains in the right side of the
abdomen with a weeping, despondent, disconsolate mood, in the morning,
from taking slight cold (after twenty-four hours), [1]. ► A
stitch in the right flank, as if a hernia would protrude, [3]. ►
Engorgement in the left side below the ribs, [3]. ► A
heaviness as if a boil were hanging on the left flank, while walking, [3]. [550.]
► A tension in the left flank with
sticking pain, [3]. ► Cutting to the left of the navel during
expiration, while sitting, [3]. ► Sensation as if a hernia protruded in the
left flank, [3]. ► Drawing pain in the left side of the
abdomen during inspiration, [1]. ► General Abdomen. ► *Excessive distension of the abdomen,
immediately after eating, [1].
► Painful distension of the abdomen,
with colic, as from much incarcerated flatus, soon after a meal, [1]. ►
*Distension of the abdomen all day; a sensation of
fermentation in it, [1]. ► Bloatedness of bowels with the
eructations of wind, [44]. ► Bloated state of the abdomen (after two
doses), [49]. ► A visible contraction in the middle of
the abdomen, transversely across above the navel, so that the abdomen
above and below this contracted line was distended, hard and tense
(after three hours), [6]. [560.] ►
Easy emission of much flatus, that seems to appear only in the rectum
(after one hour), [3]. ► Flatulence in the abdomen, no flatus is
passed, in the evening, [3]. ► Flatulence causes a jerking in the
abdomen, [3]. ► Very offensive flatus, [1]. ►
Accumulation of flatus, with severe pain in the abdomen in the region of
the ascending colon; this is increased by gradual pressure and still
more by sudden pressure or percussion, and is often more severe at some
distance from the part pressed or struck than at the part itself, before
8 A.M. (nineteenth day), [58]. ► Fulness and fermentation in the abdomen
with hunger, that together disappear after eating (after twenty-six
hours), [3]. ►
*Fermentation in the abdomen, [1].
► Rumbling and gurgling in the
abdomen, with thrusts towards the mons veneris (after thirty-six hours),
[3]. ►
Colic, as before diarrhœa, [27]. ► Colic, consisting of cutting, tearing,
and griping, involving the whole of the intestines, apparently without
flatulence and without flatulent distension, worse during motion,
gradually relieved during rest (after twenty-four hours), [1]. [570.] ► Colic, like a distressing heavy lump in
the abdomen, [1]. ► Extreme griping in the abdomen, during a
normal evacuation (after twenty-five hours), [3]. ►
Griping, almost jerking, in various parts of the abdomen, [3]. ► *Griping
and jerking pain in the abdomen, [11]. ►
Griping in the abdomen, with incarceration of flatus, which she could
not satisfactorily pass, while walking in the open air (in the
forenoon), (after twenty-five hours), [3].
► *Some griping in the upper abdomen,
after eating and drinking, [1].
► Griping in the abdomen, with
oppression, mounting upward, while sitting (after twenty-five hours), [3]. ►
Digging and twisting pain in the abdomen, as if a worm were moving in
it, [1]. ►
A peculiar heaviness in the abdomen, that seems quite empty, with
hunger, while sitting (after twenty-four hours), [3]. ►
Apprehension in the abdomen with distension, mostly after eating, [1]. [580.]
► Pain, as from pressure, in the
abdomen, while sitting, none while lying, [1].
► Pressive pain in a small spot in
the abdomen, as from incarceration of flatus, only on violently turning
the body; for example, on ascending steps, not when touched, [1]. ►
Cutting in the abdomen followed by sticking in the right side of the
abdomen, [1]. ► *Cutting in the middle of the abdomen, in the
forenoon; therewith she was frequently obliged to go to stool,
with a natural evacuation; relieved by bending the body, aggravated by
walking (after sixteen hours), [1].
► *Pain in the region of the ascending
colon, with pain in the right wrist and at the middle of the
radius of the left arm (after thirty-five minutes), [55]. ►
Crowding in the abdomen as if the intestines were pushed up toward the
heart, while sitting (after twenty-five hours), [3]. ► Violent
pain in the abdomen, at night (after five days), [2]. ► Pains
in the abdomen, about 7.15 P.M., continued through the evening
(twenty-third day); remained in the morning (twenty-fourth day), [57]. ►
*Pains in the abdomen, relieved after a fecal evacuation, but
soon returning and occasioning additional evacuations, [10]. ► Pain,
as if ulcerated, in the abdomen, and the skin of the abdomen seemed too
tight, in the morning, immediately after rising, on stretching (after
twenty-four hours), [3]. [590.] ► *Pain
and contraction in the abdomen, so that she was obliged to walk bent
over, [1]. ► A simple pain in the abdominal ring as if
a hernia would protrude, [1]. ► Sensation of distension in the abdomen,
with a sensation of warmth in the chest, on rising from stooping, [7]. ►
While walking, the abdomen seems relaxed internally, an internal shaking
on every step, [3]. ► Burning in the abdomen, with thirst, [1]. ►
Sensation as of water bubbling under abdominal walls (after two doses), [49]. ►
*Transient pain in the region of the ascending colon, on rising up after
stool, at 10.45 A.M. (third day), [57]. ►
Drawing transversely across above the abdominal ring, while sitting, [3]. ►
Shooting in the abdomen, about two inches to the left of the umbilicus
(before six hours, second day), [58].
► Shootings in the abdomen, at noon
(seventeenth day), [57]. ► Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions. [600.] ► Rumbling flatulent symptoms and griping
in the lower abdomen, without emission of flatus, [10]. ►
Flatulence, with pain in the hypogastrium, at 2 P.M., followed by pain
in the right chest (after three days), [55].
► Dull aching pain in the pubic
region (fourteenth day), [54]. ► A drawing pressive sensation in the right
side of the lower abdomen, and a sensation in the skin of the abdomen as
if covered with a cobweb, while sitting (after a quarter of an hour), [7]. ►
Rheumatic slightly burning and semi-acute pain in the side, between the
spine of the ilium and ribs, in the evening (sixteenth day), [57]. ►
Very violent, griping, burrowing pains in the lower abdomen, with a
sensation of exhaustion and emptiness in the pit of the stomach, and
very transient qualmishness, woke him about midnight, [10]. ► *Swelling
of the inguinal glands (sixth day), [54]. ►
Inguinal glands swollen to a very great size (twenty-fourth day), [54]. ►
Contractive pain in the left groin, [1].
► A tension as if the skin were too
tight, in the left groin, by the hip, [3].
[610.] ►
Pressure from within outward, in the right groin, with ravenous hunger
and gurgling in the abdomen (after eleven hours), [3]. ► *Pain at
the left quadratus lumborum muscle, with nausea (after
fifteen minutes), [55]. ► Pain in the inguinal glands, only on
moving in bed, on turning over and rising up, at night, [1]. ► *Pain in
the region of the right quadratus lumborum muscle, on rising from the
recumbent posture at 2.30 P.M. (twelfth day), [57].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
Painful, sore, protruding blind hæmorrhoids after a soft stool (after
twenty-four hours), [1]. ► Pain in the rectum when urinating, at
3.08 P.M. (first day), [55]. ► Tingling pain felt almost simultaneously
in the rectum and the left hip when lying on the left side; the painful
tingling was as if from vibrations as rapid as those of some low notes
(after eight minutes, ninth day), [57].
► Transient pain in the rectum (after
one day), [55]. ► Crawling in the rectum, as from
threadworms (after a few hours), [1].
► Burning in the rectum before every
stool, [1]. [620.] ►
Itching deep in the rectum, [1]. ► Sore pain in the anus when not at stool, [1]. ►
Very painful burning in the anus, soon attended with burning near the
extremity of the penis, at 10.30 A.M. (twentieth day), [57]. ►
Smarting and burning in the anus during and after evacuation, at 9.30
A.M. (seventeenth day), [57]. ► Very severe pricking itching in the anus
at three different times when walking, between 3 and 6 P.M., not
recurring when at rest (seventeenth day), [57].
► Itching pain in the anus, as from
hæmorrhoids, [1]. ► Constant urging to stool, with nausea and
tearing in the intestines; the desire was frequently ineffectual, but
often followed by a scanty watery discharge, [1]. ►
Frequent desire for stool; he could, however, accomplish but little
(after sixty-eight hours), [1].® 2000
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