Rhus Venenata

Poison-elder

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

The skin symptoms of this species of Rhus are most severe.

Mind

Great melancholy; no desire to live, gloomy.

Head

Heavy, frontal headache; worse, walking or stooping. Eyes nearly closed with great swelling. Vesicular inflammation of ears. Nose red and shiny. Face swollen.

Tongue

Red at tip. Fissured in middle. Vesicles on under side.

Abdomen

Profuse, watery, white stools in morning, 4 am, with colicky pains; expelled with force. Pain in hypogastrium before every stool.

Extremities

Paralytic drawing in right arm, especially wrist, and extending to fingers.

Skin

Itching; relieved by hot water. Vesicles. Erysipelas; skin dark red . Erythema nodosum, with nightly itching and pains in long bones.

Relationship

Antidote: Clematis . The California Poison-oak (Rhus diversiloba) is identical with it. It antidotes Radium and follows it well. Compare: Anacard .

Dose

Sixth to thirtieth potency.

Rhus Venenata across the other classic books

Rhus Venenata appears in 4 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Rhus venenata, D. C. (Rhus vernix, Linn, in part.) Natural order , Anacardiaceæ. Common names , Poison elder, Swamp sumach, etc. Preparation , Tincture of the leaves and stems. Authorities.”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Poison Elder. Poison Sumach. Swamp Sumach. - It is frequently named "R. Vernix," and it is given under this name in Hempel's Jahr ., but the name belongs properly to the allied Varnish-tree of Japan. (North America, in swampy ground.) N. O. Anacardiaceæ. Tincture of fresh leaves and stem. Boils / Chilblains / Diarrhœa…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Poison Sumach. Anacardiaceæ. Grows in swampy localities in Canada and the United States. The tincture is prepared from the fresh leaves and bark. Provings by Bute, Archiv für Hom., vol. 15, p. 179 ; Kunze, N. Zeit. für Klinik, vol. 12, p. 155 ; Burt, Am. Hom. Rev., vol. 5, p. 23 ; Œhme, N. E. Med. Gaz., vol. 1, p. 121…”

Rhus Venenata in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Rhus Venenata in 595 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (275), FACE (42), BACK (31), MALE GENITALIA (31), SKIN (25).

CHILL - ANNUAL chill
EXTREMITIES - EMACIATION - Leg
MALE GENITALIA - ERUPTIONS
MOUTH - DISCOLORATION - Tongue - red - tip
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTION - vesicles
FACE - ITCHING
EYE - SWOLLEN - lids
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTION - Hand - exudation,yellow
EXTREMITIES - ITCHING - Lower Limbs - heat,after
EXTREMITIES - SWELLING - Hand - erysipelatous
NOSE - DISCOLORATION, - redness - erysipelatous
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTION - exuding - yellow water
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - drawing - Wrist - paralytic
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - drawing - Wrist - extending - to - fingers
MOUTH - PAIN - tearing - Tongue
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - drawing - Forearm - paralytic
BACK - PAIN - Dorsal region - scapulae - between - rheumatic
FACE - ERUPTIONS - rhus poisoning
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - urticaria - fever,during
MALE GENITALIA - ERUPTIONS - Scrotum - vesicles

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