RHUS TOXICODENDRON
Poison-ivy
The outcomes on the skin, rheumatic pains, mucous membrane affections, and a typhoid kind of fever, make this treatment often indicated. Rhus influences fibrous tissue markedly-joints, tendons, sheaths-aponeurosis, etc, producing pains and stiffness. Post-operative complications. Tearing asunder pains. Motion continually “limbers up” the Rhus patient, and as a result he feels higher for a time from a trade of position. Ailments from strains, overlifting, getting moist whilst perspiring. Septic conditions. Cellulitis and infections, carbuncles in early degrees (Echinac). Rheumatism in the bloodless season. Septicaemia.
Mind.–Listless, sad. Thoughts of suicide. Extreme restlessness, with persevered exchange of position. Delirium, with worry of being poisoned (Hyos). Sensorium turns into cloudy. Great apprehension at night, can’t stay in bed.
Head.–Feels as if a board have been strapped on the forehead. Vertigo when rising. Heavy head. Brain feels unfastened and as if struck towards cranium on taking walks or rising. Scalp sensitive; worse on aspect lain on. Headache in occiput (Rhus rad); painful to touch. Pain in brow and proceeds thence backward. Humid eruptions on scalp; itching greatly.
Eyes.–Swollen, red, oedematous; orbital cellulitis. Pustular inflammations. Photophobia; profuse float of yellow pus. Å’dema of lids, suppurative iritis. Lids inflamed, agglutinated swollen. Old injured eyes. Circumscribed corneal injection. Intensive ulceration of the cornea. Iritis, after publicity to bloodless and dampness, and of rheumatic origin. Eye painful on turning it or pressing, can hardly ever pass it, as in acute retrobulbar neuritis. Profuse gush of hot, scalding tears upon opening lids.
Ears.–Pain in ears, with sensation as if some thing have been in them. Lobules swollen. Discharge of bloody pus.
Nose.–Sneezing; coryza from getting wet. Tip of nostril red, sore, ulcerated. Swelling of nose. Nosebleed on stooping.
Face.–Jaws crack when chewing. Easy dislocation of jaw (Ign; Petrol). Swollen face, erysipelas. Cheek bones touchy to touch. Parotitis. Facial neuralgia, with chilliness; worse, evening. Crusta lactea (Calc; Viol tric).
Mouth.–Teeth sense unfastened and long; gums sore. Tongue crimson and cracked; coated, barring purple triangular area at the tip; dry and pink at edges. Corners of mouth ulcerated; fever-blisters round mouth and chin (Nat mur). Pain in maxillary joint.
Throat.–Sore, with swollen glands. Sticking ache on swallowing. Parotitis; left side.
Stomach.–Want of urge for food for any sort of food, with unquenchable thirst. Bitter style (Cupr). Nausea, vertigo, and bloated stomach after eating. Desire for milk. Great thirst, with dry mouth and throat. Pressure as from a stone. (Bry; Ars) Drowsy after eating.
Abdomen.–Violent pains, relieved by means of mendacity on abdomen. Swelling of inguinal glands. Pain in place of ascending colon. Colic, compelling to stroll bent. Excessive distention after eating. Rumbling of flatus on first rising, however disappears with persevered motion.
Rectum.–Diarrhoea of blood, slime, and reddish mucus. Dysentery, with tearing pains down thighs. Stools of cadaverous odor. Frothy, painless stools. Will frequently abort a opening suppurative method close to the rectum. Dysentery.
Urinary.–Dark, turbid, high-colored, scanty urine, with white sediment. Dysuria, with loss of blood.
Male.–Swelling of glands and prepuce-dark-red erysipelatous; scrotum thick, swollen, oedematous. Itching intense.
Female.–Swelling, with excessive itching of vulva. Pelvic articulations stiff when starting to move. Menses early, profuse, and prolonged, acrid. Lochia thin, protracted, offensive diminished (Puls; Secale), with taking pictures upwards in vagina (Sep).
Respiratory.–Tickling in the back of higher sternum. Dry, teasing cough from middle of the night till morning, for the duration of a chill, or when placing arms out of bed. Haemoptysis from overexertion; blood vibrant red. Influenza, with aching in all bones (Eup perf). Hoarseness from overtraining voice (Arn). Oppression of the chest, can’t get breath with sticking pains. Bronchial coughs in historical people, worse on awaking and with expectoration of small plugs of mucus.
Heart.–Hypertrophy from overexertion. Pulse quick, weak, irregular, intermittent, with numbness of left arm. Trembling and palpitation when sitting still.
Back.–Pain between shoulders on swallowing. Pain and stiffness in small of back; better, motion, or mendacity on some thing hard; worse, whilst sitting. Stiffness of the nape of the neck.
Extremities.–Hot, painful swelling of joints. Pains tearing in tendons, ligaments, and fasciae. Rheumatic pains unfold over a giant floor at nape of neck, loins, and extremities; higher movement (Agaric). Soreness of condyles of bones. Limbs stiff paralyzed. The bloodless clean air is now not tolerated; it makes the pores and skin painful. Pain alongside 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 strength in forearm and fingers; crawling sensation in the pointers of fingers. Tingling in feet.
Fever.–Adynamic; restless, trembling. Typhoid; tongue dry and brown; sordes; bowels loose; outstanding restlessness. Intermittent; chill, with dry cough and restlessness. During heat, urticaria. Hydroa. Chilly, as if bloodless water had been poured over him, accompanied through warmth and inclination to stretch the limbs.
Skin.–Red, swollen; itching intense. Vesicles, herpes; urticaria; pemphigus; erysipelas; vesicular suppurative forms. Glands swollen. Cellulitis. Burning eczematous eruptions with tendency to scale formation.
Sleep.–Dreams of fantastic exertion. Heavy sleep, as from stupor. Sleepless earlier than midnight.
Modalities.–Worse, all through sleep, cold, moist wet climate and after rain; at night, in the course of rest, drenching, when mendacity on returned or proper side. Better, warm, dry weather, motion; walking, trade of position, rubbing, heat applications, from stretching out limbs.
Relationship.–Complementary: Bry; Calc fluor. Phytol (Rheumatism). In urticaria comply with with Bovista.
Inimical: Apis.
Antidotes: Bathing with milk and Grindelia lotion very effective. Ampelopsis Trifolia-Three-leaf Woodbine–(Toxic dermatitis due to vegetable poisons-30 and 200. Very comparable to Rhus poisoning). Desensitizing towards Ivy poisoning by using the use of descending doses of the tincture through mouth or with the aid of hypodermic injections is encouraged by means of historic faculty authorities, however is now not as advantageous as the homeopathic redress particularly Rhus 30 and 200 and Anacard, etc. Anacard; Croton; Grindelia; Mezer; Cyprip; Plumbago (eczema of vulva); Graph.
Compare: Rhus radicans (almost equal action); traits are, burning in tongue, tip feels sore, pains are frequently semilateral and in a variety of parts, frequently faraway and successive. Many signs and symptoms are higher after a storm has wholly set in, specially after an electric powered storm. Has said each year aggravation (Laches). Rhus radicans has headache in occiput even ache in nape of neck and from there pains draw over the head forwards. Rhus diversiloba-California Poison-oak (antidote to Rhus; violent pores and skin symptoms, with frightful itching; a lot swelling of face, palms and genitals; pores and skin very sensitive; eczema and erysipelas, brilliant apprehensive weakness, worn-out from least effort; goes to sleep from sheer exhaustion); Xerophyllum (dysmenorrhoea and pores and skin symptoms). Compare, also; Arn; Bapt; Lach; Ars; Hyos; Op (stupefaction extra profound). Mimosa-Sensitive Plant–(rheumatism, knee stiff, lancinating pains in again and limbs. Swelling of ankles Legs tremble).
Dose.–Sixth to thirtieth potency. The two hundredth and greater are antidotal to poisoning with the plant and tincture.