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RHUS TOXICODENDRON
Supplements
Plant remedies as a rule are short acting, but Rhus is an exception to the rule and therefore meets chronic conditions.Nose bleed, dark blood in typhoid.
Calc-c. often follows Rhus in sprain.
Hands crack in winter and get better in summer.
Adapted to persons of rheumatic diathesis; bad effects of getting wet, especially after being overheated.
Ailments: from spraining and straining a single part, muscle or tendon (Cal., Nux); overlifting particularly from stretching high up to reach things; lying on damp ground; … too much summer bathing in lake or river. [in ponds where water is low during August or September].
Affects the fibrous tissue, especially (Rhod. – serous, Bry.); 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 scraped with a knife; worse after midnight and in wet, rainy weather; …
Lameness, stiffness and pain on first moving after rest, …
Restless [at night Ruta g.]. cannot stay long in one position.
Back: pain between the shoulders on swallowing [in diphtheria]…
Great sensitiveness to open air [Hep-sul.]; putting the hand from under the bed-cover brings on cough (Bar., Hep.) [or draft of air under the clothes]
Muscular rheumatism, sciatica, left side (Col.); aching in left arm, with heart disease.
Vertigo, … [Bell. – from right to left.]
[Graph.- on bridge of nose goes both ways.]
Dreams of great exertion; rowing, swimming, working hard at his daily occupation (Bry.) [of mental exertion]
Corners of mouth ulcerated, fever blisters around mouth and on chin (Nat-m.) [Hep-sul., Ign.]
Tongue: dry, sore, red, cracked; triangular red tip; takes imprint of teeth (Chel., Pod.) [Merc.]
Great thirst, with dry tongue, mouth and throat.
External genitals inflamed, erysipelatous, oedematous.
A dry, teasing cough, before and during chill, in intermittent fever; cough, with taste of blood.
When acute diseases assume a typhoid form.
[When acute disease assumes a typhoid form don’t give Phos., Psor., Rhus, or Nit-ac. because patients who are susceptible to Rhus are of a tubercular diathesis and have a weakened, lowered vitality and can’t resist.]
Paralysis: with numbness of affected parts; from getting wet on lying on damp ground; after exertion, …
Aggravation - Before a storm; cold, wet [damp] rainy weather; at night, especially after midnight; from getting wet while perspiring; during rest [
Amelioration. - Warm, dry weather, wrapping up; … moving affected parts. [> from hard pressure, pounding]