Rhus Toxicodendron



Expectoration of brick-dust or bloody sputa, raised with difficulty (Phosphorus),. and accompanied with high fever, in the worst cases of pneumonia (Bt.).

Sepia often quickly relieves the itching and burning of Rhus toxicodendron, the vesicles drying up in a few days (A.).

AGGRAVATION :

      During rest; whilst rising from a seat; when entering the room from the open air; from getting wet, especially while perspiring; during the winter season; during the night; after midnight; before storms; on beginning to move after quiet; and in we; rainy, weather,.

AMELIORATION :

      From continued motion; from walking; from change of position; from lying on something hard; from warmth; in dry air; and from warm of hot things; from wrapping up; and from moving the affected parts.

RELATIONSHIP:

      complementary to: Bryonia, Calcarea, Magnesia carb., Medorrhinum and Phytolacca

Inimical to: Apis (must not be used before or after).

Compare: Aconite, Apis., ARn., ARs., Belladonna Bryonia, Calcarea phos., Chamomilla, Ferrum, Gelsemium, Hepar, Kali-P., Lachesis, Mercurius, Natrum muriaticum, Nat-S., Rhododendron, Sepia, Silicea, Sulphur, Thuja and Zincum met.

Adolph Lippe
Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)