RHUS TOXICODENDRON.
STOOL.
►
Diarrhœa. ► *Diarrhœa,
[1], [11]. ►
Diarrhœa; the stool seemed chopped, [1].
[630.] ►
Diarrhœa; a large stool, preceded by griping (after forty hours), [1]. ►
Diarrhœa several times an hour for sixty hours (after thirty hours), [2]. ►
Frequent sudden, excessively offensive evacuations, at first thick,
afterwards watery, mixed with flatus, with violent griping and digging
in the lower abdomen (after one hour and a quarter), [10]. ► Sudden
thin and yellow frothy stools, that are scarcely at all offensive,
without previous colic; the first few drops are passed involuntarily, as
in paralysis of the sphincter ani (after twenty-four hours), [10]. ►
Fæces loose and dark greenish-brown, followed by erysipelatous redness
of the left side of the face, commencing during evacuation and lasting
about an hour (thirty-sixth day), [58].
► Four evacuations in quick
succession (after a few hours), [1].
► Three or four stools, almost
watery, with much flatulence (after twenty-four hours), [1]. ► Thin
stools several times a day, followed by ineffectual pressure (tenesmus),
[1]. ►
*Stool thin and tinged with blood; the evacuation preceded by lassitude
(after seven days), [55]. ► *Loose and dark-brown stool; the
evacuation preceded by pain at the symphysis pubis, and attended with
strong burning in the anus and procidentia ani (eighteenth day), [58]. [640.]
► Dark-brown stool, with procidentia
ani, at 10 A.M. (twentieth day), [58].
► Dark-brown stool, preceded by
costiveness (twenty-first day), [57].
► Connected, but very soft
whitish-yellow stools (after forty-five hours), [10]. ► (Stool
quite white, not too soft, not too hard), [1].
► *Stools mixed with blood, [5]. ►
(*Stools somewhat bloody), [1].
► *Stools with mucus, red and yellow,
gelatinous and liquid, [5].
► Some gelatinous substance in the
fæces (twentieth day); this occurred some days since, [57]. ► The
child cries before every stool, afterwards it is quiet, [1]. ►
Gelatinous yellow and white-streaked diarrhœa seven times, without
colic (after twenty hours), [1]. ► Constipation. [650.] ►
During eight years continued constipation, with violent headache, loss
of appetite, [54a]. ► Constipation, with continual urging to
stool; ineffectual stool, with a great deal of flatulence and rumbling
in the abdomen; ineffectual desire for stool immediately after eating
(thirty-fifth day); constant urging and straining at stool (forty-fifth
day), [54]. ►
Constipation, with dull pain in the right side of the occiput (seventh
day), [58]. ►
Costive; has an operation once in twenty-four or forty-eight hours by
taking “physic,” [44]. ► (Constipation), (after three days), [1]; (second day), [76], [93].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Kidneys and Bladder. ►
Pain in the region of the left kidney; this increased after lying down
at midnight (after a quarter of an hour, fifteenth day), [57]. ►
Stitches from both sides upon the bladder while urging to urinate, [1]. ►
Pressure on the vesica, with sensitiveness of the right external canthus
to pressure and to closing the eyelids (eighteenth day), [58]. ► Urethra.
► Violent biting in the forepart of
the urethra felt during and after micturition, worse during rest than
while walking (after five hours), [6].
► Burning pain at the root of the
urethra posteriorly during micturition, [1].
[660.] ►
Cutting and burning pain in the anterior portion of the urethra during
and after urination; the last portion of the urine milky; the urination
followed by a sensation of heat in the rectum; at 3.30 P.M. (about three
days and a quarter after first dose), [55].
► Cutting, burning, and smarting in
the anterior portion of the urethra during urination, and severe burning
and smarting pain in it after urination, with irritation, and sensation
of heat in the rectum, at 6.30 P.M. (about three days and a quarter
after second dose), [55]. ► Slight cutting in the urethra when
urinating (after twenty hours), [57].
► Micturition and Urine. ► (Urine passed in a double stream), [1]. ►
He was obliged to urinate every minute during the day, [1]. ► *Obliged to
rise three times at night to urinate, [1]. ► Obliged
to pass much water, [27]. ► Profuse discharge of urine (after
fourteen hours), [1]. ► Urine like water, with a snow-white
sediment, [1]. ► Urine yellow; occasionally a frequent
desire to pass his urine, at other times seldom, but in large
quantities; sometimes it is transparent, or nearly so, sometimes smells
saltish, at others sulphurous, [44].
[670.] ►
Urine whitish, constantly becoming more turbid the longer he urinates,
so that the last drops are the most turbid, like flakes (after
twenty-four hours), [1]. ► *Urine high-colored, scanty, and irritating,
[63]. ►
*Urine dark, [1]. ► *Urine dark, soon becoming turbid, [1]. ►
*Urine turbid when passed, [1].
► *Urine hot, [1].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Male. ► Tympanitic
swelling of the genitals, especially of the scrotum, with much itching
(second day), [4]. ► Tightness and swelling of the genitals
(third day), [4]. [This and the
preceding symptom are from the same subject, and it is the face which is said to be tympanitisch.
Correct accordingly. -Hughes.] ►
Erection in sleep, at 2 A.M., without amorous dreams, and followed at
different times for several hours by mathematical and mechanical
calculations (thirteenth night), [58].
► Violent erections towards morning,
with frequent desire to urinate, [3].
[680.] ►
Erection, without amorous desire (twenty-first day), [58]. ►
Frequent erections at night, with frequent micturition, [3]. ►
Swelling of prepuce greatly increased (fifth day), [51]. ►
Swelling of the prepuce close to its union with the glans, [1]. ►
Red spots on the inner surface of the prepuce, near the frænum, [1]. ►
The prepuce was darker-colored than usual (eleventh day), [4]. ►
Swelling of the glans penis, with simple pain when touched, with biting
in the urethra during and after micturition, in the morning, after
rising (after twelve hours), [6]. ► *Pain in the glans penis on account of swollen
prepuce, causing a paraphimosis, [4]. ► *Sticking
itching on the inner surface of the prepuce (after nine
hours), [3]. ► *The scrotum constantly became thicker and
harder, with intolerable itching, extending especially towards the
perinæum (fourth day), [4].
[690.] ►
The scrotum felt like a thick hog’s hide (eleventh day), [4]. ►
Cutting drawing in the left testicle, [3].
► Profuse nightly emissions (after
six hours), [1]. ► Irresistible inclination to an emission
after 3 A.M. (after twenty hours), [1].
► Female. ► Some bleeding from the uterus, without
pain, in a pregnant woman, at the new moon (after seventy-two hours), [1]. ►
Discharge of blood from the uterus (menses), (after seven hours), [1]. ►
Mons veneris swollen to twice the normal size (fourteenth day), [54]. ►
Sensation in the mons veneris as if distended, while walking in the open
air, [3]. ►
Pressure upon the mons veneris, [3].
► A laborlike drawing extending down
to the uterus while standing, [1].
[700.] ► Violent laborlike pain low down in the
abdomen, as if menstruation would momentarily appear, lasting four
hours, [1]. ► *Sore pain in the vagina, in the
evening, when not touched, two evenings in succession, [1]. ► Pain in
the vagina, in the evening, as if sore, soon after being touched, [1]. ►
Sticking pain in the vagina, not aggravated by touch, [1]. ► *The
menstrual discharge caused a violent biting pain in the genitals,
[2]. ►
The menses suddenly cease entirely on the third day, in an old woman, [1]. [This woman was fifty years old and
had already menstruated longer than usual, so that after three days she
always had many ailments; this symptom was curative. -Hahnemann.] ► Return of the menses that had long been
absent; she flowed profusely (after seven hours), [2]. ► It
caused the recurrence of the menses that had been suppressed for eleven
weeks, [5].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► *Frequent tickling irritability in the
air-passages, as if it would provoke cough, that makes the
breath short, that disappears on moderate exertion, [1]. ► On
waking, at 6 A.M., a burning rawness in larynx
(after ten hours), [98]. ► Voice. [710.]
► *Hoarseness, causing a scraping raw
sensation in the larynx, [1].
► Hoarseness low down in the trachea,
[1]. ►
Cough and Expectoration. ►
Cough, with a disagreeable tension on the chest, [1]. ► (Cough,
immediately after eating), [1]. ► Cough and coryza, with expectoration, [5]. ► *A
tickling cough, that causes dryness in the throat, especially in the
evening, [1]. ► (Some cough, especially in the morning,
with a black glutinous expectoration), [1].
► Very fatiguing cough, with
expectoration of white mucus, day and night, [5]. ► *He is
unable to sleep at night on account of a cough that torments him
excessively, [1]. ► *Spasmodic cough that shatters the head,
[1]. [720.]
► Cough, about 3 A.M., most violent
after waking, [1]. ► (Cough in the open air), [1]. ► Cough
causes vomiting of food (in the evening), [1].
► Cough shatters the whole chest, as
if everything in it were loose, [1].
► Cough especially violent after
waking, [1]. ► *Short anxious painful cough, that frequently
awakens her from sleep before midnight, with very short breath,
[1]. ►
Coughs night and morning, [44]. ► *Frequent hacking cough, in the evening, after
lying down, with bitter taste in the throat till he falls asleep, and in
the morning a similar hacking cough and a similar taste in the throat,
lasting till he rises from bed, [1]. ►►
*Short cough, from severe tickling and irritation behind the upper half
of the sternum, followed the feeling of discouragement and apprehension
(sixth day), [58]. ► *Short dry cough, excited by a tickling
sensation behind the upper half of the sternum, with dull aching in the
left mammary region, both when sitting inclined forward, at 11 A.M.
(twentieth day), [57]. [730.] ►
Dry hoarse cough, [63]. ► Dry cough, before midnight, causing a
sticking pain in one loin, [1]. ► Respiration. ►
*Respiration hurried, [64].
► Feels a sensation of choking at
times, [44]. ►
Shortness of breath, especially on going to stool, [1]. ► For
four days inclination to take a deep breath, with dull pain and
oppression at stomach, [81]. ► *Oppression and anxiety, as if she could not get
her breath, [1]. ► The breath became difficult after walking
a little, [1]. ► She is unable to sit up; is obliged to
take a deep breath, as if she would suffocate, especially after eating, [1]. ►
During sleep expiration was light and snoring, inspiration inaudible, [1]. [740.]
► *Very short breath at night,
[1].
CHEST.
►
*Oppression of the chest (after two hours), [6]. ► *Oppression
of the chest, at night, with sticking pains, especially on breathing
(after five hours), [1]. ► Oppression of the chest, as after violent
weeping, [3]. ► Pressive oppression upon the chest, [3]. ►
Fulness in the region below the sternum, with a sensation as if all
appetite had forever vanished, [1].
► The chest seems full, with hunger,
without appetite, [3]. ► Weakness in the chest, so that talking
was difficult, after walking in the open air, [3]. ►
Sensation of constriction of the chest, [1].
► The chest becomes constricted, and
he is qualmish and nauseated, [3].
[750.] ►
*Tension across the chest, in the evening, very short breath, and
weakness in all the limbs, [1].
► *With the anxiety she felt a weight on
the lower portion of the chest, so oppressive that she breathed with
difficulty and sometimes very deeply, when it seemed easier;
pulse at one time slow, at another rapid, [1].
► Numb sensation in the chest and in
the upper back teeth, [3]. ► Pain in the chest, as if the sternum were
pressed inward, in the morning, in bed, disappearing after rising, [1]. ►
Scraping and burning in the chest, even when not breathing, [1]. ►
Distressing sensation of heat in the chest, while walking in the open
air, [1]. ►
Tickling and itching in the chest, [44].
► Front and Sides. ► Pressive pain two inches to the right of
the middle of the sternum, at 1.30 P.M. (first day), [55]. ►
Pressure near the middle of the sternum, on the left side (after
two-thirds of an hour), [57]. ► Contractive sensation in the sternum,
with sticking jerking in it, [1]. [760.] ►
Fine sticking oppressive pain on the sternum, that makes respiration
difficult, with constant short cough, without expectoration (after half
an hour), [7]. ► Burning and pressive pain and sensation
of excoriation in the chest, behind the upper half of the sternum, with
short cough, excited by a tickling at the same part, at 11 P.M. (tenth
day), [57]. ►
Deep stitches on both sides of the sternum, while sitting bent over, [1]. ►
*Frequent stitches in the sides, [1]. ► Boring
stitches in one of the last ribs, while standing, [1]. ►
Stitches in the sides, while walking in the open air, [1]. ► Pain in
the right chest followed the flatulence and pain in the hypogastrium, at
2 P.M. (after three days), [55]. ► Severe shooting pain near the middle of
the right side of the chest when lying on that side, after 1 P.M.
(thirty-third day), [57]. ► Pressive pain in the right chest (after
fifteen minutes), [55]. ► Frequent stitches in the right side, [1]. [770.]
► A tearing stitch extending from the
right side of the chest to the left side of the abdomen, in the evening,
[1]. ►
Engorgement in the left side of the chest, not far from the pit of the
stomach, while sitting bent over (after twenty-five hours), [3]. ►
Boring pain in the left side, in the evening, in bed (after five hours),
[3]. ►
Pain in the left side, midway between the sternum and angle of the ribs,
when walking, at 7 P.M. (eighteenth day), [58].
► Pain in the left chest, about two
inches to the left of the nipple and at the lower angle of the left
scapula, then at the left scapula and left shoulder-joint (soon), [58]. ►
Pain in the left chest, at fifty-six minutes, 1 and 1.03 P.M. (first
day), [55]. ►
Pain in the left chest (after forty-five minutes), [55]. ► On
waking from the sleep with nightmare, felt a pressive pain at the left
clavicle (after two days and a half), [53].
► Transient burning and pressive pain
at the middle of the lower side of the left clavicle, on swallowing
moderately cold (Croton) water, [57].
► A slow drawing from below upward in
the left side of the chest, when not breathing, [1]. [780.] ► Sticking in the left side, while talking
and on deep breathing, [1]. ► Stitches in the left side of the chest,
while coughing, [1]. ► Violent sticking in the left side below
the ribs, in the evening, lasting till midnight, [1]. ►
Extremely severe stitch at the third rib, about three inches to the left
of the sternum, on inspiration, rendering an ordinary inspiration
impracticable for some minutes; felt on sitting at the close of supper,
at which the principal drink was ice-water; about 6.15 P.M.
(twenty-ninth day), [58]. ► Mammæ. ►
*The milk disappears from the breasts (after twelve hours), [1]. ►
Stinging in the chest, below the right nipple, with itching in front of
the chest, in the morning, in bed (eleventh day), [57].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Some violent pulsating stitches above the præcordial region, so that he
was obliged to cry aloud, while sitting in the evening (after a quarter
of an hour), [6]. ► *A disagreeable sensation of weakness of the
heart, trembling of the heart, [1].
► *Palpitation, so violent while sitting
still, that the body moved with every pulse, [1]. ► *Pulse
rapid, [18]. [790.] ►
Pulse 130 (after two days); pulse still high (sixth day), [76]. ► Pulse
120, at 2 P.M. (after eighteen hours), [98];
(fifth day), [34]. ► Pulse 110, [93].
► Pulse slow, at times irregular
(after three-quarters of an hour), [7].
► Pulse at first full and strong, but
slow, afterwards small, frequent, and compressible, [64]. ► Feels
the pulse in the back part of the head, [1].
NECK AND BACK.
►
Neck. ► About thirty days
after the poisoning, a swelling came on the
left side of my neck under the ramus of the lower jaw, which increased
to the size of a man’s fist, so large that it turned my face directly to
one side, causing my chin to rest on the right shoulder; the swelling
was quite hard, and disappeared in about two months, without suppurating,
[54a]. ►
Stiffness of the nape of the neck (after four hours), [2]. ►
*Rheumatic stiffness of the nape of the neck, [8]. ► *Stiffness
of the whole neck, so that on moving the head she made loud complaints
of the pain in the nape of the neck, [2]. [800.]
► *On motion the nape of the neck hurts
as if stiff and tense, [1].
► *Pressure in the cervical muscles, on
bending the head forward, [3].
► Pressure in the upper part of the
nape of the neck, the place seems numb (after ten hours), [3]. ► Drawing
over one side of the nape of the neck, while stooping, [3]. ► Severe
stinging pricking in the lower and upper part of the neck and upper part
of the back, after drinking cool water, at 4.40 P.M. (twenty-third day),
[57]. ►
When stooping it seems as though he could not rise again, something in
the nape of the neck hinders; when stooping, it seems as though blood
rushed into the brain, [1]. ► *Pain in the cervical muscles as if the parts
were asleep, and as if one had been lying for a long time in an
uncomfortable position, towards evening, [1]. ► Pain in
the nape of the neck, as from a heavy weight like lead, on account of
which he could not lie down (after four days), [1]. ► Back.
► Drawing downward in the back, with
tension and pressure in the rectum, as if everything would press out, [1]. ►
Drawing pain in the back; he was obliged to sit upright, in the evening,
[1]. [810.]
► Drawing pain in the back, while
sitting, disappearing on walking, [1].
► Decided and slightly burning pain
in the back, with strong burning sensation in the throat and chest in
the region of the œsophagus, about noon (twenty-first day), [58]. ►
*Sticking in the back while stooping, in the evening, [1]. ►
*Pressive stitches in the back, worse while walking than while sitting;
also while stooping, but more one rising up again, [1]. ►
Dorsal. ► *A constrictive pain
in the dorsal muscles, while sitting, relieved by bending back,
aggravated on bending forward, [1].
► A tearing between the shoulders,
and at the same time they were drawn together from both sides, [1]. ►
*Violent rheumatic pain between the scapulæ, neither relieved nor
aggravated by motion or rest, only relieved by warmth, aggravated by
cold (after forty-eight hours), [1]. ► Tensive
cutting extending across the scapulæ, [3].
► Pressure upon the right scapula, [3]. ►
Drawing and pressure beneath the right scapula, impeding respiration, [3]. [820.]
► Pain under the right scapula (after
eighteen, twenty-one, and twenty-two minutes), [55]. ►
Repeated and severe pains at the right scapulary joint, especially at
the lower angle of the scapula, whenever the shoulder is elevated or
depressed, commencing in a less degree when pulling, and preceded by a
slighter pain in the left elbow after drinking ice-water, between 2 and
3 P.M. (fourteenth day), [58]. ► Twitching in the side by the left
scapula, while sitting, [3]. ► Contraction in the skin of the left
scapula (after fifty-four hours), [3].
► Rumbling jerking and a contractive
sensation in some parts of the left scapula and above the right knee, [3]. ►
Drawing from below upward, and a pressure below the left scapula, in the
side of the back, [3]. ► Pain on the left scapula, as from violent
pressure with a finger (after half an hour), [6]. ► Pain at
the left scapula and left shoulder-joint (soon), [58]. ► Lumbar.
►► *Stiffness in the small of the
back, painful on motion, [1].
►► *Stiffness of the small of the
back, [3]. [830.] ► *A
sensation as if bruised, in the right side of the lumbar vertebræ, and
in the small of the back, [3].
►► *The small of the back feels
bruised, [3]. ►► *While sitting the small of the back
aches, as after long stooping and bending the back, [1]. ►►
*Pain, as if bruised, in the small of the back, whenever he lies quietly
upon it or sits still; on moving about he feels nothing, [1]. ►
*Pain in the small of the back, on grasping it, as if the flesh had been
beaten to pieces, [1]. ►► *Heaviness and pressure in the small of
the back, as if one had received a blow, while sitting (after
six days), [3]. ► *A pressure, as with a cutting edge, across the
small of the back, while standing and bending backwards, [3]. ►
Sticking jerking in the small of the back (while walking), [1]. ►
A burning point below the small of the back, extending to the right
side, [3]. ► *Burning feel in the loins (after two
doses), [49]. [840.] ►
Drawing jerking stitches, as with a needle, in the coccyx, [5]. ►
Pain behind the right sacroiliac symphysis and in the left shoulder
(twenty-seventh day), [57].® 2000
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