RHUS TOXICODENDRON



      Stitches in chest, worse when at rest, and while sneezing and breathing; also when sitting crooked.

Tingling in chest, with tension in intercostal muscles; worse at rest.

Pneumonia; with typhoid symptoms, often from re-absorption of pus; also with tearing cough and restlessness, because quiet makes pain and dyspnoea worse.

Haemoptysis: from overexertion, blowing wind-instruments; blood bright; pain in lower part of chest; renewed from least mental excitement.

Heart Pulse

      Uncomplicated hypertrophy, from violent exercise.

Organic diseases of heart, with sticking pains and soreness; numbness and lameness of left arm.

Chest and heart feel weak after a walk; trembling sensation of the heart.

Palpitation violent when sitting still.

Pulse: accelerated, weak, faint and soft; trembling or imperceptible; sometimes quicker than the heart’s beat; irregular; affected by beer, coffee or alcohol.

Neck Back

      Stiff neck, with painful tension when moving.

Pains in shoulders and back, with stiffness as from a sprain.

Curvature of the dorsal vertebrae.

Spinal membranes inflamed, even myelitis; from getting wet or sleeping on damp ground.

Pains in small of back, better lying upon something hard.

Lumbago.

Upper Limbs

      Tearing and burning in shoulder, arm lame, worse in cold, wet weather, in bed at night and at rest.

Axillary glands suppurating.

Hot swelling of hands in evening.

Rhagades on back of hand.

Warts on hands.

Swelling of the fingers.

Hand-nails.

Lower Limbs

      Coxalgia; involuntary limping; pains felt mostly in knee and worse from overexertion; pain worse at night.

Spasmodic twitching in limbs when stepping out,.

Sciatica: right side, dull, aching pain, worse at night, in cold or damp weather; relieved by rubbing, heat and when warmed by exercise; numbness and formications.

Paroxysmal pains in legs from getting wet, especially when warm and sweatly.

Cramps in legs and feet, must walk about.

Ulcers: on legs, discharging profusely; on dropsical legs, discharging serum.

Swollen about ankles after too long sitting;l feet swelling in evening.

Intolerable itching of legs and feet at night; old rash.

Limbs in General

      Swelling and stiffness of joints from sprains, over lifting, or overstretching.

Phlegmonous erysipelas of limbs.

Rheumatoid pains in limbs; also with numbness and tingling; joints weak or stiff, or red shining swelling of joints, stitches when touched; worse on beginning to move; after 12 P.M., and in wet,. damp weather or places; better from continued motion.

Tearing pains in limbs, during rest.

Position etc.

      Motion:, Must change place: Must turn over: turning: Stooping: Rising:. Walking: Stepping: Must walk: Must walk bent: Exertion: Mental excitement: Exercise: shaking head:. Moving jaw Rest: 21, Lying: in bed: Must lie down: Lying prone: Sitting: Standing: Overlifting or overstretching:, Overexertion or Straining, Violent exercise: Unwonted exertion:.

Nerves

      Paralysis: after unwonted exertion; after parturition; rheumatic, from getting wet or lying on damp ground; from sexual excesses; after ague or typhoid; parts painless; or painfully stiff and lame, with tearing, tingling and numbness.

Hemiplegia, right-sided; sensation as if “gone to sleep.

Great debility, soreness and stiffness, worse on beginning to move; better from continuing motion, but soon fatigued, requiring rest again.

Restlessness, must change position.

Sleep

      Spasmodic yawning, yet hot sleepy, with stitching and pain as from dislocation of jaw.

Great sleepiness and lassitude after eating.

Heavy sleep, as from stupor.

Sleeplessness: from pain, more before 12 P.M., must turn often to find any ease.

When intoxicated by beer, sleeps with mouth open and head thrown back.

Dreams of great exertion; as rowing, swimming, etc.

Time

      Morning:, A.M.: Evening: 7P.M. Night:,,,,. Before: 12 P.M.: After 12 P.M.:. Day and night:.

Temperature and Weather

      Warmth: of bed: Heat:, Warm: Cold:,. Uncovering: Cold open air: Cold, wet weather:. Getting wet or damp in cold places:, Ice water:,. External heat:.

Chill Fever Sweat

      Constant chilliness, as if cold water was poured over him, or as if the blood was running cold through the veins, 7 P.M., feels cold when he moves.

Before the chill: dry cough; yawning; stretching; maxillary joint feels sprained.

Chills over the back, worse evenings; chill increased by drinking.

Chill, with pains in limbs, restlessness; pale face, or alternating pale and red face.

Heat after chill, with sweat which relieves.

General heat, as from hot water or hot blood running through veins.

General warmth with slight chills during motion; face livid.

During fever, nettle-rash; thirst, drinking little and often.

Drowsy, weary, with yawning, 1 A.M., excessive heat without thirst.

Evening fever, with diarrhoea.

Sweat with pains; often with violent trembling.

Sweat: even during heat; except on face; with violent itching of the eruption: sour; musty, putrid; with thirst or thirstlessness.

Sides

      Right:, Left: Left to right: Side not lain on : : Side lain on :.

Tissues

      Acts on fibrous tissue. Cellulitis. Diseases of joints, stiffness; or when there are stitches in surrounding tendons, with tingling and burning.

Dropsy, with turbid urine.

Glands: swollen and hot, painful; indurated; suppurating.

Pain as if the flesh was torn loose from the bones; or as if the bones were being scraped.

Inflammation and swelling of long bones.

Contact Injuries etc.

      Touch:. Rubbing: Straining:, Scratching: Combing hair: Lying on something hard (pressure):.

Skin

      Intolerable itching of skin: red, measly rash all lover.

Itching all over, worse on hairy parts; after scratching, burning.

Urticaria: from getting wet; during rheumatism; with chills and fever; worse in cold air.

Eruption: herpetic; with incessant itching, burning and tingling; alternates with pains in chest and dysenteric stools.

Eczema: surface raw, excoriated; thick crusts, oozing and offensive. Vesicles upon a red patch or with a spreading, red, erysipelatous base; internal pruritus followed by pains in the thighs after scratching.

Pustulous eruption.

Pemphigus, each bulla with a red areola.

Erysipelas. Erysipelatous inflammations. Zona.

Hardness of the skin, with thickening.

Carbuncles, bluish, gangrenous.

Variola, eruption sinks and turns livid; typhoid symptoms.

Scarlatina miliaria; rash dark, fever high; drowsiness and restlessness.

Chilblains.

Relationship

      Complementary to Bryon.

Antidotes to Rhus. tox.: Bellad., Bryon., Camphor., Coffea, Crot tig., Sulphur.

Rhus antidotes: Bryon., Ranunc., Rhodod, Tart, emet. After Rhus are frequently indicated: Arsen., Bryon., Calcarea ostr., Conium,. Nux vomica, Phosph. ac., Pulsat., Sulphur.

Rhus tox; is frequently indicated after: Arnic., Bryon., calc. ostr., Calcarea Phosph., Chamom., Laches., Phosph. ac. Sulphur.

Incompatible with Apis.

Rhus venenata is preferable in erythema nodosum; and Rhus radicans in occipital headache; muscles sore; better moving and from warmth; caused by draught, dampness or by internal causes, as in typhoid.

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.