RHUS TOXICODENDRON



CHEST.

Tightness of breath, from nausea, under the short ribs, or also from pressure and painfulness in the pit of the stomach. Oppression of the chest. Anxious oppression, as if she were unable to draw breath. Oppression, as if the breath stopped in the pit of the stomach. Constriction of the chest, he feels qualmish. Contractive sensation in the sternum. Stitch in the chest when sneezing and drawing breath. Violent pulsative stitches over the heart. Violent palpitation of the heart, when sitting still. Weakness of the heart, like tremor. Sticking in the region of the heart, with painful lameness and numbness of the left arm.

BACK

Pain in the small of the back, as if bruised; it is relieved by lying on a hard cough. Stiffness of the small of the back, painful during motion. Painful bony swelling in the small of the back. Pain as if sprained in the back and shoulders. Creeping coldness in the back. Curvature of the dorsal vertebrae. Pain in the nape of the neck, as from a heavy load. Pain as if sprained in the nape of the neck and shoulders. Rheumatic stiffness in the nape of the neck.

ARMS

Swelling of the axillary glands, painful even when not touched. Lacerating and burning in the shoulder, with lameness of the arm, particularly during cold weather, rest, and in bed. Violent lacerating pain in the arm, most violent during rest. Paralysis of the arm, with coldness and insensibility. Pain and swelling of the arm. Erysipelatous swelling of the arm. Burning and itching pustules on the arms and hands. Bony swelling on the arm, with burning and ichorous ulcers. Lacerating in both upper arms. Drawing and lacerating from the elbow to the wrist-joint. Debility and stiffness of the fore-arms and fingers when moving them. Coldness of the fore-arms. The dorsum of the hands smarts and is hot; the skin is hard, rough, and stiff. Lacerating in the joints of all the fingers. Warts on the hands and fingers.

LEGS

Aching pain in both hip-joints at every step. Coxalgia. Heaviness and weariness of the lower limbs. Paralysis of the lower limbs. Stiffness of the lower limbs, particularly of the knees and feet. PAin as if sprained in the joints. Bruised and drawing pain in the thigh. Drawing and lacerating from the knees to the tarsal joint. Drawing pain in the knee. Tension in the knee, as if too short. Paralytic drawing in the leg when sitting. Heaviness and tension in the legs. Painful weariness in the legs when sitting, going off by walking. Weariness of the legs. Beating in the dorsum of the foot. Swelling of the feet, painless when touched, in the evening. Inflammatory swelling of the feet, erysipelatous, sometimes with pustules and rash on the dorsum of the foot. Tension and pressing in the sole of the foot.

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.