RHUS TOXICODENDRON


Homeopathic remedy Rhus Toxicodendron drug symptoms and indications from Condensed Materia Medica by Constantine Hering, published in 1877….


      Poison Sumac. HAHNEMANN. Anacardiaceae.

Mind

      Stupefaction, with tingling in head and pains in limbs, better in motion.

Absence of mind; forgetful; difficult comprehension; cannot remember the most recent events.

Incoherent talking; answers hastily or reluctantly, thought seems difficult; answers correctly but slowly; cannot hold mind on one subject long enough to answer.

Low, mild delirium, he is roaming over fields, or hard at work Low spirited, with prostration; inclination to weep, especially in the evening with desire for solitude.

Fears he will be poisoned.

Anxiety, timidity; worse at twilight;; restless change of place; wants to go from bed to bed.

Satiety of life, with feat of death.

Thoughts of suicide; wants to drown himself.

Sensorium

      Giddy, as if intoxicated, when rising from bed; with chilliness and pressure behind eyes.

Vertigo in the aged, worse when rising from lying, and from turning or stooping.

Inner Head

      Burning in forehead when walking.

Feeling as of a strapped board across the forehead.

Stupefying headache, with buzzing; worse when sitting or lying; in the cold, in the morning, from beer; better from warmth and motion.

Headache: must lie down; returns from the least chagrin.

Rush of blood to head, with humming, formication and throbbing; face glistening and red;’ restless, moving about.

Brain feels loose, when stepping or shaking the head.

Stitches extending two ears, root of nose and malar bones, with toothache.

Aching in occipital protuberance. (See end of ) Meningitis in exanthematous fevers, or after getting wet; tingling limbs; high fever; restlessness.

Outer Head

      Erysipelas of scalp,. left to right, forming vesicles. Eruption suppurating, moist, forming thick crusts, offensive, itching; worse at night; hair is eaten off; extends to shoulders. Scalp sensitive, worse on side not lain on, when growing warm in bed, from touch and combing the hair back.

Eyes

      Great photophobia, profuse acrid lachrymation in morning and in open air; the cheek under the eye is dotted with red pimples; lids spasmodically closed.

Iritis: in rheumatic or gouty subjects; suppurative or where the ciliary body and choroid are involved, especially if of traumatic origin.

Pustules and superficial ulcers on cornea, with great photophobia conjunctiva quite red, even to chemosis.

Sac-like swelling of conjunctiva, with yellow, purulent discharge.

Eyes red and agglutinated in morning.

Lids much swollen and inflamed.

Eyelids oedematous or erysipelatous, with scattered watery vesicles; meibomian glands enlarged. cilia fall out.

Ptosis, also, paralysis of any of the muscles of eyeball,. from getting wet in rheumatic patients.

Ears

      Hardness of hearing, especially of the human voice.

Otalgia, with pulsation in ear at night.

Bloody pus from the ears.

Parotitis, left side; especially suppurating, during scarlatina.

Nose

      Loss of smell.

Epistaxis of coagulated blood, worse at night and when stooping, at stool, or from exertion; also in typhus, with some relief.

Spasmodic sneezing.

Discharge from the nose; of thick, yellow mucus; of green, offensive pus; of yellow ichor, with swollen cervical glands.

Fever-blisters and crusts under nose.

Top of nose red and sensitive; nose sore internally.

Puffiness of nose.

Face

      Fiery red; pale, sunken, nose pointed, blue around the eyes.

Erysipelas from left to right; face dark red, covered with yellow vesicles; burning, itching and tingling with the stinging.

Burning, drawing, tearing in face; teeth feel too long; restlessness.

Milk crust.

Acne rosacea.

Impetigo on face and forehead.

Lower Face

      Stiffness of jaws, cracking in articulation of jaw when moving it; jaw easily dislocated.

Corners of mouth ulcerated, fever-blisters around mouth; exanthema on chin:.

Teeth

      Painful, with stinging at root of nose, extending to malar bones.

Teeth feel too long and too lose, feel as if sleep.

Jumping shooting, as if teeth were being torn out; or slow pricking, throbbing or tearing, extending into jaws and temples; face sore; worse at night, from cold, from vexation, better from external heat; crusty caries.

Tongue etc.

      Taste: putrid mornings and after eating; metallic; food, especially bread, tastes bitter.

Tongue: dry, red, cracked; has a triangular red tip; white, often on one side; yellowish; covered with brown mucus; takes imprint of teeth.

Mouth

      Mouth dry, with much thirst.

Saliva bloody; runs out of mouth during sleep.

Putrid breath.

Much tough mucus in mouth and throat.

Throat

      Sore, feels stiff, after straining the throat.

Tonsil (right) covered with yellow membrane.

Sticking or stinging pain in tonsils, worse when beginning to swallow.

Feeling of swelling, with bruised pain; erysipelatous inflammation; parotids swollen; cellulitis of the neck; drowsiness.

Difficult swallowing of solids, as from contraction.

OEsophagitis, especially after corrosive substances.

Desires, Aversions

      Hunger, without appetite.

No appetite, or wants only dainties.

Desire for oysters; sweets; beer.

Aversion to spirituous liquors; to meat.

Unquenchable thirst, wants cold drinks; worse at night, from dryness of mouth.

Eating and Drinking

      After eating:,,,, Drinking: : ice water:,; beer:, coffee: alcohol:.

Nausea and Vomiting

      Eructations: with nausea; with tingling in stomach, worse when rising from lying.

Nausea: after ice water, or after eating, with sudden vomiting; with inordinate appetite and inclination to vomit; worse at night and after eating.

Stomach

      Stinging or pulsation in pit of stomach.

Fulness or heaviness, as from a stone in stomach; after eating.

Pain in stomach and nausea, after ice water.

Pressure in pit of stomach, as if swollen, or as if drawn together.

Abdomen

      Soreness, as if beaten, in hypochondria and still more in abdomen; worse on the side lain on, when turning and when beginning to move.

Abdomen bloated, especially after eating.

Enteritis or peritonitis, with typhoid symptoms.

Colic, he must walk bent; worse at night; also after getting wet.

Typhlitis.

Sensation as if something was torn off in abdomen.

Visible contractions of abdomen above navel.

Stool etc.

      Stools: watery, mucous and bloody, with nausea, tearing down the thighs, and much tenesmus; frothy;white; painless and undigested; like the washing of meat;yellowish-brown, bloody. cadaverous-smelling and involuntary at night (typhoid) Nightly diarrhoea, with violent pain in abdomen, relieved after stool or while lying prone.

Hemorrhoids: sore, blind; protruding after stool, with pressing in rectum, as if everything would come out.

Fissure of anus, with periodical, profuse, bleeding piles.

Urine

      Tearing in region of kidneys, oedema; after exposure to wet.

Urine: hot, white, muddy: pale, with white sediment; dark, becoming turbid.

Tenesmus vesicae, discharges a few drops of blood-red urine.

Retention of urine; backache, restless, cannot keep quiet.

Urine passed in a divided stream.

Frequent urging day and night, with increased secretion.

Urine diminished, though he drinks much.

Urine voided slowly, spine affected; from getting wet.

Urine involuntary at night and while at rest.

Male Sexual Organs

      Erections at night; or with desire to urinate.

Swelling of glands and prepuce, dark, red, erysipelatous.

Scrotum becomes thick and hard, with intolerable itching.

OEdema of scrotum.

Humid eruption on genitals and between scrotum and thighs.

Female Sexual Organs

      Menses too early, profuse and protracted; flow light colored, acrid, causing biting pain in vulva.

Amenorrhoea: from getting wet; with milk in breasts.

Metrorrhagia: blood clotted, with labor-like pains.

Bearing down, when standing or walking, back aches, better lying on something hard; prolapsus from overexertion or straining.

Soreness in vagina hindering an embrace.

Pregnancy

      During pregnancy; discharges of blood; pelvic articulations stiff when beginning to move.

Abortion impending from straining or overexertion.

Lochia vitiated and offensive, lasting too long or often returning.

Milk leg; also metritis, after delivery; with typhoid symptoms.

Mammae: swell from catching cold, streaks of inflammation;l galactorrhoea; milk vanishes, with general heat; milk cakes; discharges clots of milk and pus.

Larynx

      Hoarse from overstraining the voice.

Hoarseness and roughness in larynx, with roughness and soreness in chest.

Hot air arises from trachea.

Cold sensation in larynx, when breathing.

Breathing

      Oppression: as if the breath was stopped at tip of stomach; worse after a meal; anxious, as if not able to draw long breath.

Cough

      Influenza; air-passages seem stuffed up; dry, hard, tickling cough;worse each evening until 12 P.M.: stiffness in back and limbs.

Cough: dry, teasing; caused by tickling in bronchia; uncovering, even a hand; with tearing pain in the chest, stitches, profuse sweat and pain in stomach; worse evening and before 12 P.M.; or in m, morning, soon after awaking; from talking,. lying, or sitting still.

Sputa; acrid pus; greyish-green cold mucus, or putrid smell;’ pale, clotted or brown blood.

Lungs

C. Hering
Hering got the degree of M. D. from the University of Wuezburg with highest honours. The theme of his thesis was "De'Medicina Futura" (The medicine of future). Hering left Germany for West Indies and finally arrived at Philadelphia in Jan, 1833. He established a homeopathic school at Allentown, Pennsylvania, commonly known as "Allentown Academy". Soon he became very popular as a physician. He is known as the 'Father of Homeopathy' in America.