RHUS TOXICODENDRON

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • Skin affections
  • Rheumatic pains
  • Mucous membrane affections
  • Typhoid type of fever
  • Pains and stiffness in joints, tendons, sheaths
  • Post-operative complications
  • Tearing asunder pains
  • Ailments from strains, overlifting, getting wet while perspiring
  • Septic conditions
  • Cellulitis and infections
  • Carbuncles in early stages
  • Rheumatism in the cold season
  • Septicmia
  • Listless, sad
  • Thoughts of suicide
  • Extreme restlessness, with continued change of position
  • Delirium, with fear of being poisoned
  • Cloudy sensorium
  • Great apprehension at night, cannot remain in bed
  • Feels as if a board were strapped on the forehead
  • Vertigo when rising
  • Heavy head
  • Brain feels loose and as if struck against skull on walking or rising
  • Scalp sensitive, worse on side lain on
  • Headache in occiput
  • Painful to touch
  • Pain in forehead and proceeds thence backward
  • Humid eruptions on scalp, itching greatly
  • Swollen, red, dematous eyes
  • Orbital cellulitis
  • Pustular inflammations
  • Photophobia
  • Profuse flow of yellow pus
  • dema of lids, suppurative iritis
  • Lids inflamed, agglutinated swollen
  • Old injured eyes
  • Circumscribed corneal injection
  • Intensive ulceration of the cornea
  • Iritis, after exposure to cold and dampness, and of rheumatic origin
  • Eye painful on turning it or pressing, can hardly move it
  • Profuse gush of hot, scalding tears upon opening lids
  • Pain in ears, with sensation as if something were in them
  • Lobules swollen
  • Discharge of bloody pus
  • Sneezing
  • Coryza from getting wet
  • Tip of nose red, sore, ulcerated
  • Swelling of nose
  • Nosebleed on stooping
  • Jaws crack when chewing
  • Easy dislocation of jaw
  • Swollen face, erysipelas
  • Cheek bones sensitive to touch
  • Parotitis
  • Facial neuralgia, with chilliness, worse, evening
  • Crusta lactea
  • Teeth feel loose and long, gums sore
  • Tongue red and cracked, coated, except red triangular space at the tip, dry and red at edges
  • Corners of mouth ulcerated, fever-blisters around mouth and chin
  • Pain in maxillary joint
  • Sore throat, with swollen glands
  • Sticking pain on swallowing
  • Parotitis, left side
  • Want of appetite for any kind of food, with unquenchable thirst
  • Bitter taste
  • Nausea, vertigo, and bloated abdomen after eating
  • Desire for milk
  • Great thirst, with dry mouth and throat
  • Pressure as from a stone
  • Drowsy after eating
  • Violent abdominal pains, relieved by lying on abdomen
  • Swelling of inguinal glands
  • Pain in region of ascending colon
  • Colic, compelling to walk bent
  • Excessive distention after eating
  • Rumbling of flatus on first rising, but disappears with continued motion
  • Diarrha of blood, slime, and reddish mucus
  • Dysentery, with tearing pains down thighs
  • Stools of cadaverous odor
  • Frothy, painless stools
  • Will often abort a beginning suppurative process near the rectum
  • Dark, turbid, high-colored, scanty urine, with white sediment
  • Dysuria, with loss of blood
  • Swelling of glands and prepuce-dark-red erysipelatous, scrotum thick, swollen, dematous
  • Intense itching
  • Swelling, with intense itching of vulva
  • Pelvic articulations stiff when beginning to move
  • Menses early, profuse, and prolonged, acrid
  • Lochia thin, protracted, offensive diminished, with shooting upwards in vagina
  • Tickling behind upper sternum
  • Dry, teasing cough from midnight until morning, during a chill, or when putting hands out of bed
  • Hmoptysis from overexertion, blood bright red
  • Influenza, with aching in all bones
  • Hoarseness from overtraining voice
  • Oppression of the chest, cannot get breath with sticking pains
  • Bronchial coughs in old people, worse on awaking and with expectoration of small plugs of mucus
  • Hypertrophy from overexertion
  • Pulse quick, weak, irregular, intermittent, with numbness of left arm
  • Trembling and palpitation when sitting still
  • Pain between shoulders on swallowing
  • Pain and stiffness in small of back, better, motion, or lying on something hard, worse, while sitting
  • Stiffness of the nape of the neck
  • Hot, painful swelling of joints
  • Pains tearing in tendons, ligaments, and fasci
  • Rheumatic pains spread over a large surface at nape of neck, loins, and extremities, better motion
  • Soreness of condyles of bones
  • Limbs stiff paralyzed
  • The cold fresh air is not tolerated, it makes the skin painful
  • Pain along ulnar nerve
  • Tearing down thighs
  • Sciatica, worse, cold, damp weather, at night
  • Numbness and formication, after overwork and exposure
  • Paralysis, trembling after exertion
  • Tenderness about knee-joint
  • Loss of power in forearm and fingers, crawling sensation in the tips of fingers
  • Tingling in feet
  • Adynamic fever, restless, trembling
  • Typhoid, tongue dry and brown, sordes, bowels loose, great restlessness
  • Intermittent fever, chill, with dry cough and restlessness
  • During heat, urticaria
  • Hydroa
  • Chilly, as if cold water were poured over him, followed by heat and inclination to stretch the limbs
  • Red, swollen skin, itching intense
  • Vesicles, herpes, urticaria, pemphigus, erysipelas, vesicular suppurative forms
  • Glands swollen
  • Cellulitis
  • Burning eczematous eruptions with tendency to scale formation
  • Dreams of great exertion
  • Heavy sleep, as from stupor
  • Sleepless before midnight

Allen's Keynotes

  • adapted to persons of a rheumatic diathesis
  • bad effects of getting wet, especially after being overheated
  • ailments
  • from spraining or straining a single part, muscle or tendon
  • overlifting, particularly from stretching high up to reach things
  • lying on damp ground
  • too much summer bathing in lake or river
  • affects the fibrous tissue, especially
  • the right side more than the left
  • pains
  • as if sprained
  • as if a muscle or tendon was torn from its attachment
  • as if bones were scrapped with a knife
  • worse after midnight and in wet, rainy weather
  • affected parts sore to touch
  • lameness, stiffness and pain on first moving after rest, or on getting up in the morning
  • better by walking or continued motion
  • great restlessness, anxiety, apprehension
  • cannot remain in bed
  • must change position often to obtain relief from pain (from mental anxiety, ars.)
  • restless, cannot stay long in one position
  • back
  • pain between the shoulders on swallowing
  • pain and stiffness in small of back by motion or lying on something hard
  • great sensitiveness to open air
  • putting the hand from under the bed-cover brings on cough
  • muscular rheumatism, sciatica, left side
  • aching in left arm, with heart disease
  • great apprehension at night
  • fears he will die of being poisoned
  • cannot remain in bed
  • vertigo, when standing or walking
  • worse when lying down (better when lying down, apis)
  • warmth and motion
  • dreams of great exertion
  • rowing, swimming, working hard at his daily occupation
  • corners of mouth ulcerated, fever blisters around mouth and on chin
  • tongue
  • dry
  • sore, red, cracked
  • triangular red tip
  • takes imprint of teeth
  • great thirst, with dry tongue, mouth and throat
  • external genitals inflamed, erisiplatous, oedematous
  • a dry, teasing cough, before and during chill, in intermittent fever
  • cough, with taste of blood
  • when acute diseases assume a typhoid form
  • diarrhoea
  • with beginning typhoid
  • involuntary, with great exhaustion
  • tearing pain down the posterior part of limbs during stool
  • paralysis
  • with numbness of affected parts
  • from getting wet on lying on damp ground
  • after exertion, parturition, sexual excesses, ague or typhoid
  • paresis of limbs
  • ptosis
  • erysipelas, from left to right
  • vesicular, yellow vesicles
  • much swelling, inflammation
  • burning, itching, stinging. &lt
  • before a storm
  • cold, wet rainy weather
  • at night, especially after midnight
  • from getting wet while perspiring
  • during rest. &gt
  • warm, dry weather, wrapping up
  • warm or hot things
  • motion
  • change of position
  • moving affected parts
  • the great characteristic or rhus is that with few exceptions the pains occur and are by motion
  • sepia, often quickly
  • better itching and burning of rhus, the vesciles drying up in a few days
  • rhus is best antidoted by the simillimum
  • the potentized remedy given internally
  • the dermatitis should never be treated by topical medicated applications
  • they only suppress, never cure

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