Materia Medica de A a Z

RHUS VENENATA (rhus-v)

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 (Clem). The California Poison-oak [Rhus diversiloba (Rhus-d)] is identical with it. It antidotes Radium (Rad) and follows it well.

Compare: Anac.

Dose

Sixth to thirtieth potency.