RHUS TOXICODENDRON

REGION

• SKIN: Face. Scalp. Genitals.
• Blood.
• Tissues: Cellular. Ligaments. Fibrous. Joints.
• Mucous membranes.
• GLANDS: Pyer's. Parotid.
• NERVES: CORD. Sciatic.
• Left side or left to right.

WORSE

• EXPOSURE TO: WET; cold. Air. WASHING. Chill or draft. When hot or sweaty.
• Uncovering; hands, etc.
• BEGINNING MOTION.
• REST.
• Before storms.
• SPRAINS.
• Overexertion.
• AFTER MIDNIGHT.

BETTER

• Continued motion.
• HEAT: Wraps. Bath. If heated.
• Rubbing.
• Nose-bleed.
• Holding abdomen.

An infectious irritant, exciting TYPHOID, RHEUMATIC OR PARETIC EFFECTS. NIGHTLY SHOOTING, STITCHING, TEARING PAINS; CAN'T REST IN ANY POSITION. Grippe. Variola. Sore, bruised or STIFF. Flesh feels beaten or torn loose. Dislocative sensation. Twitching muscles. Crawling. Numbness. Trembling. Burning, swelling and lividity. Cellulitis. Acrid, rusty - red, meat water or musty secretions; causing eruptions. Scraping, gnawing or tearing loose in periosteum. .................... Sad, anxious, depressed or beclouded. Slow answers. Low delirium. Whirling vertigo; then headache. Shattering or loose feeling in brain; < jar. Board-like pressure in forehead. Painfully stiff scalp, > lying on it. Pain behind eyes; < motion. Eyelids, stiff; adherent; dry; firmly closed. Profuse, hot, gushing tears. Photophobia. Vertical diplopia. Saccular conjunctivitis. Red, sensitive tip of nose; it drips water. Roseola. Nose-bleed; at night. Violent aching in bones of nose. Face-ache. Maxillæ crack; easily dislocated; pains in. Red spot on l. cheek. Swelled, stiff face. Dry, cracked, crusty lips; herpes on. Sordes. Bloody saliva runs during sleep. Teeth feel loose. TONGUE; RED TRIANGLE AT TIP; coated diagonally or on one side only; dry red center; cracked, stiff, sore. Coppery or straw-like taste. Red, puffy, itching fauces. As of chamois skin stuck on tonsils. Sorethroat (l) in A.M.; with swelled glands. Craves cold drinks, although they < cough, chill, etc. Vomits from coughing, lying on back, etc.; fecal. Abdomen sore; swashing in; as of a lump in. Ileocæcal symptoms. Stools watery, frothy or bloody; foul; ; slimy; gelatinous; involuntary or with tenesmus, < drinking. Piles, < lifting. , , < prepuce; ; swelled. Nephritis. Metritis; septic. Chest pains on using arms. Dry, hoarse, tearing, tormenting cough, from tickling behind upper sternum; with bloody taste. Sudden hypostasis or œdema of lungs. Palpitation; > motion. Heart; feels tired; hyper-trophy; pains going down l. arm. Shingles. Stiff neck. - , < swallowing. Contractive or breaking backache, > hard pressure, walking about or bending backward. Lumbago. Coccyx aches into thighs. , prickling limbs. Arms nervous and shaky, (l). Paralytic pain in elbows. Rhagades on backs of hands. Palms, dry, hot, cracked and sore; washing causes burning. ; < stool. Sciatica. feel dead, wooden; cramp in calves; gangrenous ulcer, runs bloody water; itching. SKIN; ; ; dry; hot; itching; burning; < warmth; . VESICULAR, , , ERYSIPELATOUS ERUPTIONS, < genitals; alternating with dysentery. Pus erodes the hair. Rhus poisoning. Milk-crust. Baker's itch. Vesicles over abscess. Weeping ulcers. , ; of blood; awakes tired or nervous. Weak, rapid, sharp, tremulous or irregular pulse. ; < ; ; < cough, etc. Chill as if dashed with cold water or cold water in veins; preceded by cough; alternating with heat; in single parts. Heat with busy delirium. Sweat, < during pain; with sleepiness.

Complementary: Bry. Calc-c. Mag - c. Med. Phyt.

Related: Arn. Bry. Dul.