RHUS RADICANS



EARS

Pain in one ear. Heat and swelling of the ear, resembling erysipelas. Sensation as if the beating of the heart or arteries were heard in the ear. Parotitis after scarlatina, with oedematous swelling of the hands.

NOSE

Itching in the nostrils. Pricking in the nose. Eruption in the nostril. Epistaxis. Bleeding from the nose in the morning. Dryness of the nostrils. SNEEZING. Fluent coryza. Fluent and burning coryza, with copious discharge of serum or mucus, and attended with headache.

FACE

Complexion pale and yellow. Pain at the left maxillary join in moving the jaw. Itching in the face. Furunculi, pustules. Pimples, or vesicles on the face. Burning in the face, with redness and itching. ERYSIPELAS OF THE FACE. Itching, swelling, and redness of the face. Erysipelatous redness, burning, and smarting of the left side of the face. Dryness of the lips. Pimples upon the face and forehead. eXcoriated, smarting, and burning spot below the nose. Eruption of small granules across the forehead. Pricking eruption of the face, extending to the ears.

TEETH

Darting pain in the carious teeth. Dull pain in the sockets of all the teeth. Transient throbbing in the tooth. Pain in carious roots in the upper jaw. Toothache, attended with flow of saliva. Toothache in the evening. The gums bleed readily. Inflammation of the gums. Gum-boil. Tenderness and swelling near the roots of the painful teeth.

MOUTH

Breath foetid. Dryness of the mouth. INCREASE OF SALIVA. Saliva, a white dense and viscid froth. MUCH SALIVATION. Sore feeling of the palate. Ulcers inside of the mouth, below the check, and inside of the lips. Burning and smarting of the tongue, with increase of saliva. Yellow COAT ON THE TONGUE. PRICKING IN THE TONGUE. BURNING IN THE TONGUE. REDNESS OF THE TIP OF THE TONGUE. TONGUE FEELS SORE AT THE TIP. Excoriation with vesicles at the tip of the tongue.

THROAT

Pricking in the throat. Constriction and irritation in the throat. Roughness in the throat. Burning in the throat. Pain and burning in the oesophagus. Sensation of swelling, of fullness, and of rawness in the throat. Redness of the fauces. Inflammation of the throat. Soreness at the root of the tongue. The tonsils, especially the right one, swollen, red, and partly covered with slough-like membrane. PAINFUL DEGLUTITION. Sensation as if from a foreign body in the throat. Dryness of the throat.

APPETITE AND TASTE.

Disagreeable taste in the mouth. Bitter taste. Appetite deficient. Thirst at night.

GASTRIC SYMPTOMS

Empty eructations. Burning in the stomach, sometimes preceded by burning in the throat. NAUSEA. Nausea with faintness, followed by general chilliness with perspiration. Nausea, soon accompanied by headache.

STOMACH

PAIN IN THE STOMACH. Severe pain in the stomach, with dizziness in the head. Griping pain in the stomach. Pain in the stomach after meals. Weakness and oppression in the stomach. Sinking feeling at the stomach, with salivation. Sensation of fullness in the stomach. Pressure and fullness in the epigastrium, relieved by eructations. Cramping pain in the stomach. Severe pains in the stomach, at intervals, extending to the chest. Periodical attacks of sharp lacerating pains in the stomach. Shootings in the stomach. Sensibility of the stomach to pressure.

HYPOCHONDRIA

Constriction of the hypochondria. Pain in the region of the liver. Pain in the left hypochondrium.

ABDOMEN

Pain bearing or pressing down towards the hypogastric region. Constipation, with sense of dragging and falling in the abdomen. Severe griping pains in the upper part of the abdomen, at intervals. Twisting colic-pains. Sharp pains in the abdomen. Sharp griping pains, with looseness. Colic-pain in the lower part of the abdomen. Colic, followed by loose stool or frequent evacuations. Shootings in the abdomen after drinking cold water. Pain in the umbilical region, with soreness on bending. Twisting colicky pain, succeeded by a loose stool. Flatulence, with borborygmus. Shootings in the groin.

STOOL AND ANUS

Constipation. Urgency to stool. Brown stools. Slimy stools. Loose, pappy, slimy, sour smelling stools. Blood with the diarrhoeic stools. Stools slightly streaked with blood. Blood from the anus after the stool. DIARRHOEA, the evacuation sometimes preceded by lassitude. Dysenteric diarrhoea, precede by lassitude. Diarrhoea, with frothy, slimy, and yellow stools. Painful burning in the anus. Evacuation preceded by a pain in the abdomen. Diarrhoea, with burning in the anus after evacuation. Evacuation painless, but urgent. Procidentia-recti. Pressing down at the anus, with a dull aching pain in the rectum. Intolerable itching and burning at the anus.

URINE

FREQUENT URINATION. Frequent and small discharges of urine. Pressure on the bladder, with difficult urination, frequent and painful desire to urinate. Urine red and discharged in small quantities. Deep red urine. Pink-colored sediment. Pressure on the vesica.

GENITAL ORGANS.

Dull aching pain in the penis. Miliary eruption on the back of the penis, with stinging and itching. The penis is bloated, swelled up, a sort of false erection as in syphilis. Inflammation of the scrotum. Scrotum inflamed and irritated by walking. Vesicles on the scrotum. Diminished sexual desire. Nocturnal seminal emissions. Catamenia profuse.

LARYNX AND TRACHEA.

Influenza. Weakness of the voice. Is fatigued by speaking. Feeling of soreness of the larynx. Bronchial catarrh, with sore scraping in the throat. Inflammation of the larynx descending from the fauces, with heat, soreness, and sense of suffocation. Acute bronchitis. Soreness, extending from the throat downward through the chest, and weight, cough with expectoration of frothy mucus of a saltish taste. Dry cough, often short. Dry cough in the morning, with soreness of the throat. Cough from irritation in the chest. Pain in the chest when coughing. Hacking cough, excited by tickling in the chest. Cough on movement.

CHEST

Aching heavy or pressive PAINS IN THE REGION OF THE HEART. Pain in the chest at night. Pain in the chest, more when at rest. Chronic rheumatic pain in the chest. Feeling of lameness in the muscles of the chest. Sensation of excoriation in the chest behind the sternum. Drawing, crampy pains of the chest. Pain in the chest, commencing in the stomach. Stinging lacerating pain in the sides of the chest, commencing in the stomach. Pain in the chest when walking. Pain in the chest, worse on movement. Pain in the chest, commencing in the stomach. Pain in the chest when walking. Pain in the chest, worse on movement. Pain in the chest, increased by deep inspiration. PAIN IN THE CHEST, WORSE ON INSPIRATION. Shock of pain in the chest. Sensation of heat in the chest. Burning in the chest and throat, as if in the oesophagus. Aching pains about the heart, and occasionally sudden shootings. Palpitation of the heart in the evening. Palpitation of the heart, with a sensation of fullness in the head. Severe palpitation at midnight, in bed, with pulse hard, small, and very frequent, with dyspnoea, pain in the chest. Palpitation of the heart, increased by sitting still. Sensibility of the chest to pressure.

SPINAL REGIONS.

Spinal weakness. PAIN IN THE LOINS, also on moving the part, especially at first. Aching in the loins when lying in bed at night. Rheumatic, burning, and semi-acute pain in the side. pain and rigidity in the posterior lumbar region. Aching pain through the back in the region of the kidneys, attended with a sense of weariness and languor with stiffness. Pain in the dorsal spinal region, worse in bed. Drawing in the dorsal spine on stooping. Back-ache, worse in the morning, and in bed. Pain between the shoulders. Chills in the back. Weakness of the back, with lameness. Pains in the scapulae. Side of the neck sensitive to pressure. Rigidity of the neck, with a frequent and small pulse. Rigidity of the neck, with pain in it, increased at night. Muscles of the neck pained by movement and sensitive to pressure.

ARMS

Severe pain in the right shoulder in the evening. Rheumatic pain in the shoulder and arm. Pain in the deltoid muscle. Erratic pains in the upper extremities, between the joints. Drawing, aching, and shooting in the arms, wrists, hands, and fingers. Pain in the shoulders, then immediately in the upper arm. Numbness and feeling of deadness in the arms and hands at night. Numbness of the arms, with pricking in the fingers. Rheumatic pain in the upper arm, increased by movement. Pain in the elbow. Sudden attack of sore rheumatic pain about the elbow- joint. Pain in the left fore-arm. Deep-seated aching of the fore-arm. Numbness of the fore-arm, hands, and fingers. ACHING OF THE WRIST. Vesicles on the wrists. Aching in the wrist. Pressing fullness of the hands. Numbness of the hands and fingers. Stingings in the hands and fingers. Coldness of the hands. Swelling of the hands. Inflammation of the hand, with heat, redness, and swelling and stiffness. Inflammation of the hand, from external injury. Inflammation of the hand extending from a burn on the fingers. Vesicles on the hands. Pain at the finger-joints. Sharp pain in the finger. Tingling in the fingers. Pricking in the fingers. Itching unsuppurating

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.