Rhus Toxicodendron



Sleep

Frequent, violent, and spasmodic yawning. Spasmodic yawning without inclination to sleep, and with stretching of limbs and pain as from dislocation of articulation of the jaw. Yawning in general, with violent stretching of the limbs, falling asleep late, lying on the back during sleep. Strong disposition to sleep during day, and also in morning in bed. Somnolency, full of distressing and broken dreams. Sleeplessness, especially before midnight, generally caused by a sensation of heat, ebullition of blood, and uneasiness which does not permit patient to remain lying down. Disturbed sleep, with anxious and frightful dreams. Coma somnolentum, with snoring, murmurs, and carphology. Sleep hindered by gloomy ideas. Waking caused by bitterness and sensation of dryness in mouth. Sleep at night hindered by a pressure at stomach, digging pinchings in abdomen, and nausea, with inclination to vomit. Inability to remain lying on side at night. Starts with fright and jerking of body during sleep Incomplete and agitated sleep, with tossing and many troublesome thoughts. Vivid dreams of the business of the day, with talking during sleep. Weeping while asleep. Dreams of fire. Sleep, with open mouth and short breathing.

Fever

Pulse irregular, generally accelerated but weak, soft, sometimes it cannot be felt or is intermittent. Shivering and coldness, generally in evening, and accompanied by paroxysms of pain, and other accessory symptoms. External coldness along skin, coldness, but does not mind cold air. Shivering and shaking in open air, with violent thirst. Continual transient shiverings, as if cold water had been thrown over body. Sensation of coldness on moving even but a little. Chill in back and heat in anterior portion of body. Coldness and paleness of face, alternately with heat and redness. Shiverings and heat intermixed, either general and simultaneous (internal shivering with external heat, and vice versa), or in different parts. General heat, as if hot water were thrown over him, or as if the blood were flowing hot through the veins. General perspiration, frequently already during the heat, and then often not in the face. Fever in evening, first shivering, then heat and thirst, (and perspiration) accompanied or followed by cuttings and diarrhoea. First headache (throbbing in temples), afterwards chilliness, with thirst and tearing pains in limbs as from fatigue, afterwards general warmth, with slight chills during motion and livid face, finally profuse, sour smelling perspiration. Tertian or quotidian fever. Tertian fever with nettle rash, which disappears after the attack, during the apyrexia burning and redness in sclerotica. Double tertian fever, first shivering and thirst, then general heat, with shivering on least movement, lastly perspiration. During the shivering pain in limbs, headache, vertigo, pulsative toothache, accumulation of saliva in mouth, and inclination to vomit. During nocturnal heat drawing in all limbs. Transient heat with perspiration, commencing from umbilical region, and rapidly alternating with shiverings. During of after the fever, jerks, tingling in ears, deafness, dry coryza, sleeplessness, with restless tossing, jaundice, and nettle-rash, pressure in pit of stomach, palpitation of heart with anxiety, colic, diarrhoea, and other gastric affections, and nocturnal thirst. Malignant fever with loquacious delirium, violent pains in all limbs, excessive weakness, dry or black tongue, dry, brownish, or blackish lips, heat and redness in cheeks, carphologia, pulse quick and small, coma somnolentum, with snoring and moans. Sweat during the pains. Perspiration in general, with heat, offensive. Perspiration when seated, often with violent trembling. Nocturnal sweat, sometimes with miliary and itching eruption. Sweat in morning, sometimes of an acid smell. Sweats from warm drinks. Constant perspiration.

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