RHUS VERNIX

INTRODUCTION

RHUS VER. – Varnish Tree, Poison Ash, Poison Oak.

SKIN

Violent corrosive itching in various parts. Elevated red blotches, particularly on the face, neck, and chest.

HEAD

Intolerable heaviness of the head. Excessive swelling of the forehead.

EYES

Redness of the eyes. Dimness of sight when reading. Sensitiveness to the light, early on waking.

EARS,

Groups of vesicles behind the ear.

FACE

Redness of the face, here and there. Swelling of the face. SEnse of heaviness in the swelling on the face. Pain as if burnt on the lips, or sensation as of sand.

CHEST

Sudden violent stitches through the lungs.

EXTREMITIES

Rheumatic pains in the shoulder and elbow-joint worse during motion. Violent itching in the palms of the hands. Hard elevated blotches on the hands, with watery vesicles on them, with violent itching. Groups of watery vesicles on the fingers.

Charles Julius Hempel

Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.