RHUS TOXICODENDRON


RHUS TOXICODENDRON signs and symptoms from the Characteristic Materia Medica by William Burt of the homeopathic medicine RHUS TOXICODENDRON …


SPHERE OF ACTION

Rhus tox. affects that portion of the cerebro-spinal system that presides over the skin; fibrous tissue; fascia; sheaths of nerves; tendons; ligaments; muscles and mucous membranes, producing nervous irritation and inflammation of a rheumatic character. This drug must have some haematic properties, it being found so useful in low grades of typhoid fever. Probably no remedy is more useful in rheumatism, than Rhus toxicodendron.

GRAND CHARACTERISTICS.

This remedy is especially adapted to rheumatic diseases, greatly aggravated before a storm, and in damp weather.

Cannot lie long in one position, but must shift about, to obtain relief; the relief lasts but a short time, when the patient must move again. This symptom is very characteristic of Rhus tox.

The pains are greatly aggravated by rest; worse after midnight and before storms; relieved by motion; has to toss about constantly to get relief.

The child always gets worse after midnight; has more colic; more diarrhoea, and more restlessness.

Bad effects from severe wetting in rain, when heated.

Bad effects from strains, lifting, particularly from stretching arms high apt reach things.

Stiffness of the limbs before a storm.

Lameness and stiffness, and pain on first moving after rest; or on getting up in the morning; relieved by continued motion.

Head.-Headache relieved by motion.

General unhappiness of temper.

Corners of the mouth sore and ulcerated, or chafed around the genitals.-RAUE. (Hydroa).

Eyelids present a bladder-like appearance.

Digestive Organs.-Putrid taste; after the first mouthful has no appetite.

Diarrhoea, with tearing pains down the legs; at every stool the pain streaks down the legs, which are powerless.

Great pain before stools, which is greenish, and contains jelly-like globules, or flakes; jelly-like stools.

Involuntary stools with great exhaustion, in typhoids.

Stools of blood and mucus, worse nights.

Constant tenesmus, with nausea and tearing pains in the intestines, is rheumatic, and has to change his position often to get relief.

Sense of constriction in the rectum, as though one side had grown up.

Cholera infantum, typhoid type; the child is very restless at night; has to be changed often to get relief.

Looseness of the bowels in typhoid fever is the great key- note for the use of Rhus tox., the tongue fiery-red.

Kidneys.-Urine red and scanty.

Snow white-sediment in the urine.

Involuntary urination.

Bloody urine discharged in drops.

Generative Organs.-Intense itching and burning of the mons veneris, with watery vesicles, and stitching pains in the vagina.

The menstrual discharge causes a violent pain in the vulva.

Menorrhagia from a strain; in rheumatic females, worse at night; must change position often to get relief, and aggravated on change of weather.

Membranous dysmenorrhoea, in rheumatic females.

Is particularly indicated where repeated drenchings in the rain have deranged the uterine function.

After labor, a vitiated discharge continues from the vagina, with shooting upwards in the parts and a lasting sensations in the head.

For weeks after delivery, has much pain in the right limb, with numbness from the hips to the feet.

The lochial discharge lasts too long; is thin, offensive, and occasionally bloody.

Abortion from a strain; pains worse in the last part of the night; very restless, has to change often to get relief.

The breasts are painfully distressed, red in streaks, with a rheumatic condition of the whole body.

For weeks after delivery, has a terrible cough, which seems as if something would be torn out of the chest.

Erysipelas of the generative organs, in both sexes, especially in the male.

Respiratory Organs.-Ichorous, or yellow discharge from the nose.

Tickling under the sternum, that excites cough.

Acute catarrh; the nasal. laryngeal, tracheal, and bronchial passages seem stuffed up, commencing at about sunset, with sneezing, and dry, hard, tickling cough, continuing very severe, until midnight, when all the sufferings are relieved; renewed next morning.-DR. BOYCE.

Terrible cough, which seems as if it would tear something out of the chest.

A dry, teasing cough, coming on first before the chill, and continuing during the chill.-DR. DUNHAM.

Putting the hand out of bed, brings on the cough.

Expectoration of brickdust or bloody sputa, raised with great difficulty, and accompanied with high fever, in the worst cases of pneumonia.

Skin.-Vesicular eruptions on any part of the body.

Rubbing the affected parts, increases the eruption.

Burning and redness over large cutaneous surfaces which soon swell up and become covered with watery vesicles, accompanied by almost intolerable itching, with a tendency to invade large surfaces, rather than to penetrate deeply in to the tissue.

Fever.- Slow fevers; tongue dry and brown or red as if it had been skinned; sordes on the teeth; bowels loose; great weakness; powerlessness of the lower limbs; can hardly draw them up; with great restlessness after midnight; has to move often to get relief.

Soreness as if beaten in the hypochondriac region, and still more in the abdomen; worse in the side on which he lies, worse when turning; and more when beginning to move.-L.

Rheumatoid pains, that affect every part of the body, all aggravated by rest, and relieved by motion.

Rheumatic paralysis.

Inflammatory rheumatism, aggravated by rest, compelled to change position frequently, especially after midnight, which produces intense pain.

Lameness and stiffness, and pain on first moving after rest, or on getting up in the morning; relieved by continued motion.

Pain between the shoulders, when swallowing.

Swollen around the ankles after sitting too long, particularly in travelling.

William Burt
William H. Burt, MD
(1836-1897)
Characteristic materia medica Published 1873
Physiological materia medica, containing all that is known of the physiological action of our remedies; together with their characteristic indications and pharmacology. Published 1881