RHUS VENENATA


Rhus Venenata homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


      Common names: Poison elder, Swamp sumac, etc.

Introduction

Rhus venenata, D. C. (Rhus vernix, Linn, in part). Natural order: Anacardiacae. Preparation: Tincture of the leaves and stems.

Mind

Great sadness, no desire to live, everything seems gloomy. Low- spirited, and disinclined to employ his time in any manner (seventh day). Low-spirited (fifth day). I experienced no feelings of despondency at first; my head felt clear, though I had for several days previous to my poisoning, a sense of dulness and weight in it (fifth day). Peevish and fretful in the extreme. Apprehensive, restless, and had a variable state of feeling, sometimes cheerful, then hypochondriacal. No disposition to move about or employ my mind in study. Inability at times to connect one’s ideas; forgetfulness; dull and stupid feeling.

Absence of mind; cannot concentrate my mind on any particular subject.

Head

Whirling vertigo (second day). Dizzy sensation at times, much worse at evening (fourth day). My neighbors, and even members of my own family have been poisoned by it; in some instances the sufferers were ” a sight to behold.” their heads were swollen to an enormous extent; some were blind for many days.

Blondes appear to be more susceptible to its influence, as a general thing, than others. I have certainly seen the worst cases of poisoning amongst persons of that complexion. A singularity about the cases is, that after being once affected by this plant, the effects of the poison will show themselves at about the same time each succeeding year. Again, individuals who have been poisoned by Rhus toxicodendron, are more liable than others to be poisoned by this species; or as some have suggested, the R. venenata is “set to work” by the Rhus toxicodendron. Dull feeling in the head (sixth day); very troublesome (seventh day). Dull headache; sharp darting pains in the parietal bones of both sides. Dull feeling in the head (fourth day). Dull headache (fourth day). “Intolerable heaviness of the head” after the first week of the proving.

Intolerable heaviness of the head. Heaviness of head very troublesome (seventh day). Heaviness of the head (fourteenth day). Heaviness of the head and vertigo (seventh day). Fullness of the head. Headache of a stupefying nature (third day).

Headache all day, yet does not feel low-spirited (third day). Slight headache (fifth day). Considerable headache (sixth day). Sensation as if the brain were pressing up against the inside of the cranium. Sensation as if the head were bound.

Pressure in the head and heaviness as if engorged with blood (eleventh day). Jerk like drawing in the upper part of the left side of the head (eleventh day). Jerk like drawing, here and there, in the nerves of the head (eleventh day). Drawing in the nerves of the head (fifteenth day). Pulsation in the vessels of the head and feet (twenty-first day). Forehead. The forehead is so excessively swollen that it actually hangs down.

Heaviness in the swollen forehead, and going upstairs. Dull, heavy, frontal headache, aggravated by walking and stooping.

Slight frontal headache (seventh day). Headache in forepart of head, so severe that I took Belladonna with some relief (sixth day); very troublesome (seventh day). Dull frontal headache. Temples.

Tearing in the right temple extending from the forehead upwards into the left half of the head, always seated in the bone; extending thence into the left side of the occiput and down to the nape of the neck (eighth day). Drawing in the left temple and in the occiput (tenth day). Drawing pains in the left temple (third day). Throbbing and tearing pains, extending from each temple back to the occiput, and down the neck to each shoulder, with the flashes of heat. Headache extending towards the left temple (second day). Occiput. Jerk like headache in the occiput (fifth day). External Head. The patient recovered at the end of several weeks with the loss of his hair and nails. Skin on forehead appears rough (fourteenth day); not so red nor so rough (fifteenth day). Herpetic eruption on forehead, resembling herpes phlyctenoides (twelfth day). Pimples on forehead (tenth and eleventh days).

Eyes

The cellular tissues around the eyes was very much swollen. Eyes half closed; eyes closed from the great swelling of the cellular tissue around them. The eyes was nearly closed, in the morning, by the swelling of the lids (fourth day) Eyes red. Dull-looking appearance of eyes (fifth day). Eyes dull and heavy (sixth day).

Eyes dull (fourth day). (It benefited a chronic inflammation of the eyes). Eyes very sensitive to light, on waking in the morning. Sensation as if the eyes were being pressed out of the head. Smarting and burning in the eyes (while at work on the Rhus). About 9 o’clock, smarting and burning of the eyes, as though washed in alcohol, attended with profuse lachrymation (fifth day). Burning pains and swelling in the eye (tenth day).

Burning in the eyes and slight lachrymation (fourth day). Violent burning sensation in the right eye, in the morning (ninth day).

Some irritation or acridity about the eyes and throat. Sharp pain in the right eye, extending to supraorbital region.

Prickling and biting in the eyes as though they would water and become inflamed (fourth day). Stitches deep in the right eye, followed by biting in the eyes, as if they would become inflamed and water (eighth day). Lachrymal Apparatus.

Lachrymation and a livid circle under the eyes (fifth day).

Constant discharge of tears. Ball. Constant dull aching pains in the eyeballs. Vision. Dimness before the eyes on reading. Slight dimness of sight (fifth day). While looking it becomes black before the eyes.

Ears

Transient stitches in the right concha (twelfth day). Jerk like tearing in the bone behind the right ear (fourth day). Jerk like cutting stitches in the ear (eleventh day). Considerable deafness, which is quite troublesome (fifth day); very troublesome (seventh day). Frequent ringing in the right ear (second day). Noise in the right ear (twelfth day). Noises and rustling in the right ear (eleventh day). Noises in the right ear (twelfth day). Constant ringing in the right ear (fifteenth day).

Nose

Nose quite red and shining; the redness is not removed by pressure (second evening). Profuse secretion from right nostril of a thin ichorous fluid (fourteenth day); secretion from right nostril slightly excoriating; no discharge from left nostril, which is stopped up (fifteenth day). After some days, both nostrils were completely filled with tenacious mucus.

(Catarrhal trouble less after the proving). Right nostril obstructed, at 2 P.M.; discharge of a little water from the left nostril, with sensation in the nose as if from a commencing cold, at 3 P. m. (fourth day). Dryness of the nose.

Great dryness of the nostrils at two different times, lasting each time about an hour. Nose feels sore, as if it was going to peel off (seventh day). Entire loss of smell (twelfth day).

Face

A boy poisoned with the Rhus v.; his face became so much swollen that he could not open his eyes for several days, accompanied with a high fever. Face much swollen; shining, glistening appearance; desire to rub face continually; hot water relieves, and causes peeling of skin (third day). Considerable redness and tumefaction of the face (third day). Face very much swollen around the eyes; face swollen so that the eyes were closed for several days. Face enormously swollen, closing both eyes (from poisoning). Swelling of the face, with very red eyes, without headache. The left side of the face is more swollen than the right. Face swollen (fifth and sixth days); on rising (seventh day). Face less swollen (eighth day); looks better, swelling almost gone (ninth day). Face flushed; felt as if burnt.

Heaviness in the swollen face. Burning in the right upper jaw (seventh day). Transient tearing in the right upper and lower jaws (twelfth days). Sticking in the right upper jaw (ninth day).

Drawing in the right upper jaw (fifteenth day). Jerk like drawing in the right upper jaw (eleventh day). Drawing pains in the right upper and lower jaw (third day). Sensation similar to the pain in gangrene, on the lips. Sensation of sand upon the lips. Sticking in the right lower jaw (eighth day).

Mouth

Teeth. Drawing in the right upper teeth (second day). Gum. The eruption appeared on the gums of the upper incisors (fifth day). Gums swollen (fourth day). On drinking anything warm, slight irritation of inner side of lips, gums, and tip of tongue (fourth day). Tongue. Tongue coated white in the middle and posterior portion, the edges red (sixth day). Tongue coated white. Tongue redder than usual (third day). Tongue red on tip (fourth day). Tongue red, and cracked in the middle (sixth day).

Tongue covered with little vesicles on tip (second day). Tongue cracked in center, and covered with little white vesicle (eighth day). Several vesicles appear on the under side of the tongue (sixth day). Sensation as if the tongue were being, pulled out by the root. Distress in the root of the tongue and fauces. Scalded feeling of the tongue. While at dinner my tongue felt as if scalded, and during the afternoon this feeling extended to the entire mouth and fauces, producing great dryness in the mouth the stinging pains, which increased rapidly until I retired at night (eighth day). Tongue feels scalded, and itches awfully; has to scratch it and rub it with a handkerchief (fifth day). Tongue and mouth feel as if burnt with acid (after six hours, third day). Itching of tongue and roof of mouth, at 8 P.M. (fourth day). Tongue and lips feel cracked, at 8 P.M. (fourth day). General Mouth. Fever-sore on mouth (eighth day). Breath hot and feverish by spells, and smelt as if stomach was disordered (fifth day). Breath hot and feverish, almost like steam (second day); breath hot but no unpleasant nor offensive (third day). Mouth moist (fourth day).

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.