RHUS TOXICODENDRON
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- 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
- 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
- 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
- better by walking or continued motion
- great restlessness, anxiety, apprehension
- 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 by motion or lying on something hard
- great sensitiveness to open air
- putting the hand from under the bed-cover brings on cough
- muscular rheumatism, sciatica, left side
- 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)
- warmth and motion
- dreams of great exertion
- rowing, swimming, working hard at his daily occupation
- corners of mouth ulcerated, fever blisters around mouth and on chin
- tongue
- dry
- sore, red, cracked
- triangular red tip
- takes imprint of teeth
- 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. <
- 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 by motion
- sepia, often quickly
- better 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