RHUS TOXICODENDRON
Source indications
Boericke's Materia Medica
- Skin affections
- Rheumatic pains
- Mucous membrane affections
- Typhoid type of fever
- Pains and stiffness in joints, tendons, sheaths
- Post-operative complications
- Tearing asunder pains
- Ailments from strains, overlifting, getting wet while perspiring
- Septic conditions
- Cellulitis and infections
- Carbuncles in early stages
- Rheumatism in the cold season
- Septicmia
- Listless, sad
- Thoughts of suicide
- Extreme restlessness, with continued change of position
- Delirium, with fear of being poisoned
- Cloudy sensorium
- Great apprehension at night, cannot remain in bed
- Feels as if a board were strapped on the forehead
- Vertigo when rising
- Heavy head
- Brain feels loose and as if struck against skull on walking or rising
- Scalp sensitive, worse on side lain on
- Headache in occiput
- Painful to touch
- Pain in forehead and proceeds thence backward
- Humid eruptions on scalp, itching greatly
- Swollen, red, dematous eyes
- Orbital cellulitis
- Pustular inflammations
- Photophobia
- Profuse flow of yellow pus
- dema of lids, suppurative iritis
- Lids inflamed, agglutinated swollen
- Old injured eyes
- Circumscribed corneal injection
- Intensive ulceration of the cornea
- Iritis, after exposure to cold and dampness, and of rheumatic origin
- Eye painful on turning it or pressing, can hardly move it
- Profuse gush of hot, scalding tears upon opening lids
- Pain in ears, with sensation as if something were in them
- Lobules swollen
- Discharge of bloody pus
- Sneezing
- Coryza from getting wet
- Tip of nose red, sore, ulcerated
- Swelling of nose
- Nosebleed on stooping
- Jaws crack when chewing
- Easy dislocation of jaw
- Swollen face, erysipelas
- Cheek bones sensitive to touch
- Parotitis
- Facial neuralgia, with chilliness, worse, evening
- Crusta lactea
- Teeth feel loose and long, gums sore
- Tongue red and cracked, coated, except red triangular space at the tip, dry and red at edges
- Corners of mouth ulcerated, fever-blisters around mouth and chin
- Pain in maxillary joint
- Sore throat, with swollen glands
- Sticking pain on swallowing
- Parotitis, left side
- Want of appetite for any kind of food, with unquenchable thirst
- Bitter taste
- Nausea, vertigo, and bloated abdomen after eating
- Desire for milk
- Great thirst, with dry mouth and throat
- Pressure as from a stone
- Drowsy after eating
- Violent abdominal pains, relieved by lying on abdomen
- Swelling of inguinal glands
- Pain in region of ascending colon
- Colic, compelling to walk bent
- Excessive distention after eating
- Rumbling of flatus on first rising, but disappears with continued motion
- Diarrha of blood, slime, and reddish mucus
- Dysentery, with tearing pains down thighs
- Stools of cadaverous odor
- Frothy, painless stools
- Will often abort a beginning suppurative process near the rectum
- Dark, turbid, high-colored, scanty urine, with white sediment
- Dysuria, with loss of blood
- Swelling of glands and prepuce-dark-red erysipelatous, scrotum thick, swollen, dematous
- Intense itching
- Swelling, with intense itching of vulva
- Pelvic articulations stiff when beginning to move
- Menses early, profuse, and prolonged, acrid
- Lochia thin, protracted, offensive diminished, with shooting upwards in vagina
- Tickling behind upper sternum
- Dry, teasing cough from midnight until morning, during a chill, or when putting hands out of bed
- Hmoptysis from overexertion, blood bright red
- Influenza, with aching in all bones
- Hoarseness from overtraining voice
- Oppression of the chest, cannot get breath with sticking pains
- Bronchial coughs in old people, worse on awaking and with expectoration of small plugs of mucus
- Hypertrophy from overexertion
- Pulse quick, weak, irregular, intermittent, with numbness of left arm
- Trembling and palpitation when sitting still
- Pain between shoulders on swallowing
- Pain and stiffness in small of back, better, motion, or lying on something hard, worse, while sitting
- Stiffness of the nape of the neck
- Hot, painful swelling of joints
- Pains tearing in tendons, ligaments, and fasci
- Rheumatic pains spread over a large surface at nape of neck, loins, and extremities, better motion
- Soreness of condyles of bones
- Limbs stiff paralyzed
- The cold fresh air is not tolerated, it makes the skin painful
- Pain along ulnar nerve
- Tearing down thighs
- Sciatica, worse, cold, damp weather, at night
- Numbness and formication, after overwork and exposure
- Paralysis, trembling after exertion
- Tenderness about knee-joint
- Loss of power in forearm and fingers, crawling sensation in the tips of fingers
- Tingling in feet
- Adynamic fever, restless, trembling
- Typhoid, tongue dry and brown, sordes, bowels loose, great restlessness
- Intermittent fever, chill, with dry cough and restlessness
- During heat, urticaria
- Hydroa
- Chilly, as if cold water were poured over him, followed by heat and inclination to stretch the limbs
- Red, swollen skin, itching intense
- Vesicles, herpes, urticaria, pemphigus, erysipelas, vesicular suppurative forms
- Glands swollen
- Cellulitis
- Burning eczematous eruptions with tendency to scale formation
- Dreams of great exertion
- Heavy sleep, as from stupor
- Sleepless before midnight