Rhus Toxicodendron



Stomach

Risings with taste of food. Empty risings after a meal or after drinking. Eructations from stomach, which seems to be transferred to right side of chest, as if it settled there. Violent risings with tingling in stomach, better by lying down, worse on getting up. Pituita in the stomach. Pain in stomach and nausea from drinking ice-water. Nausea and disposition to vomit, principally after a meal and after drinking, as also in night or morning after rising, better by lying down. Vomiting immediately after eating. Pains in stomach as if there were a stone in it, especially after a meal, and when standing. Pressure at stomach and scrobiculus, often with obstructed respiration. Beating and shooting in epigastric region. Squeezing, sensation of swelling, and pain as from ulceration in pit of stomach. Sensation of coldness in stomach. Sensation in pit of stomach as if something were torn away from it, especially on stooping or making a false step.

Abdomen

Distension of abdomen, especially after a meal. Pressive drawing from below upward, in left hypochondrium. Soreness, as if beaten, in hypochondria, and still more in abdomen, worse on side lain on when turning and when beginning to move. Pressive heaviness in abdomen, as from a weight. Contractive spasms in abdomen, which force patient to remain bent double. Hard and visible contraction of abdomen across navel, abdomen distended above and below this strips. (Pain in abdomen with tightness across forehead and sleeplessness. Violent and continuous pain round navel, caused by retching. R.T.C.). Digging turning in abdomen, as if caused by a worm. Incisive tearings, jerks, and pinchings in the abdomen (especially after eating, better after stool). Pain in region of ascending colon. Burning sensation in the abdomen. Relaxation of the abdomen, with internal shaking at every step. Violent colic, often at night, or worse by all kinds of food or drink, sometimes with sanguineous evacuations. Sensation in abdomen as if something were torn away. Scarlet colour of abdomen. Soreness in integuments of abdomen, as if they were ulcerated, especially on stretching in morning. Swelling of inguinal glands. Pressure in groins towards exterior as if a hernia were about to protrude. Bloated abdomen, especially after eating. Great flatulence, with grumbling, fermentation, and pinching movements in abdomen. Exceedingly offensive flatus.

Stool and Anus

Constipation, sometimes alternating with diarrhoea. Hard and slow evacuations. Tenesmus, sometimes with nausea, and tearing or pinchings in abdomen. Painful tenesmus without stool. Evacuations loose, bloody, watery, or mucous, frothy, gelatinous, red, or streaked with white and yellow. Dysentery, jelly-like, odorless stools, more frequent after midnight, preceded and followed by much pain with great restlessness. Obstinate or dysenteric diarrhoea. Faeces perfectly white. Nocturnal diarrhoea, with violent colic, headache, and pains in all limbs (better after an evacuation or when lying on abdomen). Chronic painless diarrhoea, only in morning preceded by marked commotion in the bowels. Diarrhoea with tearing pains running down back of the leg with every stool. Involuntary stools when asleep at night. Short respiration during stool. Tingling and itching in anus and rectum. Sense of constriction in rectum, as though one side had grown up. Protrusion of haemorrhoids from anus after a soft evacuation, with pain as of excoriation.

Urinary Organs

Retention of urine. Frequent and urgent want to urinate, day and night, with profuse emission. Incontinence of urine esp. during relapse (at night or when sitting). Urine emitted in a divided stream. Emission, drop by drop, of blood-red urine, with tenesmus. Diminished emission of urine, although much drink may be taken. Deep-coloured, irritating urine, which soon becomes turbid. White, turbid urine. Urine clear as water with a snow- white sediment. Swelling of urethra.

Male Sexual Organs

Profuse eruption on genital organs (closing the urethra by swelling). Inflammation of the glans. Running vesicles on the glans. Swelling of the glans and prepuce, prepuce dark red. Paraphimosis. Red spots (blotches) on the interior of prepuce. Swelling and thickening of scrotum (with intolerable itching). Erysipelas of scrotum. (Hydrocele, from over-lifting). Scrotum flaccid and hanging low. Moist eruption on scrotum. Frequent erections at night, with want to urinate. Strong sexual desire in morning.

Female Sexual Organs

Catamenia premature and too profuse. Menstrual flow light- coloured and acrid, causing biting pain in the vulva. Erysipelatous inflammation of the external genitals. Soreness of vagina soon after (or hindering) coitus. Catamenia of too long duration. Menstrual discharge causes violent pain in vulva. Discharge of blood during pregnancy. Pain as from excoriation and shootings in vagina. (Uterine polypus with metrorrhagia. Relieves shooting pains of cancer uteri. R.T.C.). Bearing-down pain, when standing. After-pains of too long duration, after severe labour, with much and excessive straining. Discharge of blood and clots of blood from uterus, with labour-pains. After labour, vitiated discharge from vagina, with shootings upward in the parts and a bursting sensation in the head. For weeks after delivery pain in right limbs with numbness from hips to feet (varicose veins). Abortion from strain. Axillary abscess after delivery. Breasts painfully distended, red in streaks, rheumatic state. Amenorrhoea from getting wet, with milk in breasts. Milk-leg, typhoid metritis after delivery. Diminished secretion (or suppression) of milk, with burning over body.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness and roughness of throat, with a sensation of rawness in chest. Sensation of coldness in throat on taking an inspiration. Tendency to be choked when swallowing. Burning exhalation from larynx. Sensation of constriction in throat-pit after a short walk. Cough excited by a tickling in air-passages, generally short and dry, with anguish and shortness of breath, and principally in evening before midnight. Dry, fatiguing cough. Dry, teasing cough coming on just before the chill and continuing during the chill. Cough with vomiting of food, especially in evening, and when lying on back. Cough after waking in morning. During the cough gets a taste of blood in the mouth but does not cough up blood. Short cough with bitter taste in mouth, in evening after lying down and in morning after waking. Cough with stitches in chest and profuse general perspiration. Whooping- cough, spasmodic, violent cough, caused by tickling in larynx and chest, with expectoration (except in evening) of acrid pus or greyish-green cold mucus of putrid smell, or of pale, clotted, at times brown blood. Putting hand out of bed brings on a cough. Pneumonia with typhoid symptoms, often after re-absorption of pus. Cough with pain in stomach, or with shaking in chest and head. Terrible cough which seems as if it would tear something out of chest Cough with expectoration of a bright-red blood and sensation of faintness in chest.

Chest

Difficult respiration after a moderate walk. Anxious oppression of chest, even at night. Nausea in chest, worse stooping. Respiration impeded by a pressure and squeezing in pit of stomach. Shortness of breath in evening with tension in chest. Frequent want to take a full inspiration. Weakness in chest, which renders speech difficult after a walk in open air. Sensation of constriction in chest. Shootings and lancinations in chest and sides of chest, especially when sitting with body bent forwards, when speaking, when breathing deeply, when sneezing, seldom when walking or when using vigorous exertion. Inflammation of lungs, also pneumonia nervosa. Pleurodynia, chest pains shoot into shoulders (*Rh-rd.). Tingling in chest, with tension of muscles of chest, worse by repose. Rush of blood to chest.

Heart

Weakness and sensation of trembling in heart. Violent palpitation of heart while sitting quietly. Shootings in region of heart, with painful sensation of paralysis and numbness of left arm. Pulse rapid, small, compressible.

Neck and Back

Rheumatic stiffness of nape and neck, with painful tension during movement. Painful swelling of axillary glands. Rheumatic tearing between scapulae, not affected by movement, worse by cold, better by heat. Tearing between shoulders, drawing together from both sides. Transient coldness in back. Contusive pain in loins, especially on touching the parts, and during repose. Pain in small of back when sitting still or when lying: better when lying on something hard or from exercise. Bruised pain in sacrum when he lies still on it or sits still, feels nothing of it when moving. Painful rigidity in loins. Painful exostosis on sacrum. Distortion of the vertebral column. Pains in loins, in back, and nape, as from lifting too great a weight. Drawing and stitches in back, especially when seated and on stooping. Opisthotonos.

Limbs

Swelling, stiffness, and paralysed sensations in joints, from sprains, over-lifting, or over-stretching. Lameness, stiffness, and pain on first moving after rest, or on getting up in morning, better by constant motion. Trembling or sensation of trembling in limbs. The limbs on which he lies, especially arms, go to sleep. Rheumatic tension, drawing, tearing in limbs, during rest. Excessively cold hands and feet all day.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica