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Rhus toxicodendron

Poison-ivy

53 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • Rhus affects fibrous tissue markedly-joints, tendons, sheaths-aponeurosis, etc., producing pains and stiffness.
  • Post-operative complications.
  • Tearing asunder pains.
  • Motion always "limbers up" the Rhus patient, and hence he feels better for a time from a change of position.
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  • Ailments from strains, overlifting, getting wet while perspiring.
  • Septic conditions.
  • Cellulitis and infections, carbuncles in early stages.
  • Joint and muscle pain in the cold season.
  • Septicaemia.

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Mind & mood

  • Listless, sad.
  • Thoughts of suicide.
  • Extreme restlessness, with continued change of position.
  • Delirium, with fear of being poisoned.
  • Sensorium becomes cloudy. Great apprehension at night, cannot remain in bed.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

During sleepColdWet rainy weather and after rainAt nightDuring restDrenchingWhen lying on back or right side

Better

WarmDry weatherMotionWalkingChange of positionRubbingWarm applicationsFrom stretching out limbs

Symptoms by body part

Head

Feels as if a board were strapped on the forehead. Dizziness 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 rashes on scalp; itching greatly.

Eyes

Swollen, red, oedematous; orbital cellulitis. Pustular inflammations. Sensitive to light; profuse flow of yellow pus. Swelling 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, as in acute retrobulbar neuritis. Profuse gush of hot, scalding tears upon opening lids.

Ears

Pain in ears, with sensation as if something were in them. Lobules swollen. Discharge of bloody pus.

Nose

Sneezing; runny nose (cold) from getting wet. Tip of nose red, sore, ulcerated. Swelling of nose. Nosebleed on stooping.

Face

Jaws crack when chewing. Easy dislocation of jaw. Swollen face, erysipelas. Cheeck bones sensitive to touch. Parotitis. Facial neuralgia, with feeling cold; worse, evening. Crusta lactea.

Mouth

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.

Throat

Sore, with swollen glands. Sticking pain on swallowing. Parotitis; left side.

Stomach

Want of appetite for any kind of food, with unquenchable thirst. Bitter taste. Nausea, dizziness, and bloated abdomen after eating.

Abdomen

Violent 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.

Rectum

Diarrhoea 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. 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 intense itching of vulva. Pelvic articulations stiff when beginning to move. Menses early, profuse, and prolonged, acrid. Discharge after childbirth thin, protracted, offensive diminished, with shooting upwards in vagina.

Respiratory

Tickling behind upper sternum. Dry, teasing cough from midnight until morning, during a chill, or when putting hands out of bed. Coughing up blood 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 phlegm coughed up 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 lying on something hard; worse, while sitting. Stiffness of the nape of the neck.

Extremities

Hot, painful swelling of joints. Pains tearing in tendons, ligaments, and fasciae. 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. Nerve pain down the leg; worse, cold, damp weather, at night. Numbness and formication, after overwork and exposure. Tenderness about knee-joint. Loss of power in forearm and fingers; crawling sensation in the tips of fingers.

Fever

Adynamic; restless, trembling. Intermittent; chill, with dry cough and restlessness. During heat, hives. Hydroa. Chilly, as if cold water were poured over him, followed by heat and inclination to stretch the limbs.

Skin

Red, swollen; itching intense. Vesicles, herpes; hives; pemphigus; erysipelas; vesicular suppurative forms. Glands swollen. Cellulitis. Burning eczematous rashes with tendency to scale formation.

Sleep

Dreams of great exertion. Heavy sleep, as from stupor. Sleepless before midnight.

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