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Rhus Toxicodendron
POISON OAK · RHUS T
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Origin Plant · Anacardiaceae · Simple
Habitat American Medicinal Plants
ClarkePreparation Tincture of fresh leaves gathered at sunset just before flowering time. and Rhus Radicans. Tincture of fresh leaves gathered at sunset just before flowering time.
Sources 20 entries across 16 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …

Dose Boericke
6X–30X, Ø
Sixth to thirtieth potency. The 200th and higher are antidotal to poisoning with the plant and tincture

Reason for useHering

belching of wind ; loss of appetite ; mouth dry, pappy ; dirty white coating on tongue; abdomen distended, painful, very sensitive to pressure; stitches below r. ribs on inspiration; pain < on eating; on fourth night re- currence of chill ; unquenchable thirst ; skin burning hot and dry ; pulse rapid, small and hard ; pain in limbs as if constricted ; feet and ankles numb, as if asleep; eyes dull; face pale, pointed, expressive of suffering. I I Enteritis ; tearing, stitching, burning pains ; grass-green vomiting; cannot tolerate least touch; whitish stools containing pus ; burning fever, < 1 p.m. ; burning in and beneath eyes; dryness of gums; throbbing in tem- ples; tickling in throat; gurgling in abdomen followed by stools which are not fecal ; difficult urination ; ex- tremely sensitive spot, r. side, one inch below navel, which when touched causes nausea. I I Enteritis or peritonitis, with typhoid symptoms ; invol- untary stools. ■ Incarcerated hernia. I Inflammatory swelling of inguinal glands. ^° Stool and Rectum. iStools: watery, mucous and bloody, with nausea, tearing down thighs, and much tenesmus ; frothy; white; painless and undigested ; bloody water like washings of beef; yellowish brown, blood}^, cada- verous smelling and involuntary at night [typhoid] ; dark, yellow, watery ; thin, mucous, red or yellow ; jelly- like, streaked white and yellow ; greenish, mucous, with jelly-like globules or flakes; lumps of transparent mucus; yellowish white, fecal; yellow, fluid; dark red [brick-colored] fluid ; otter-colored fluid [typhoid] ; profuse, yellow, watery ; scanty, frequent bloody water ; alternating with constipation ; involuntary (at night while sleeping) ; fetid ; frothy and painless [yellow fluid] ; very offensive [dark yellow, watery] ; odorless [bloody, watery or yellow fluid]. I Before stool : constant urging, with nausea and tearing colic ; cutting colic. 1 During stool : cutting colic ; nausea ; urging ; tenesmus ; tearing pains down thighs ; shortness of breath. I After stool: remission of pains and urging ; tenesmus. ■ Nightly diarrhoea, with violent pain in abdomen, > after stool or while lying prone. I I Diarrhoea after marching through moist ground with bare feet. I I Dark brown, thin, and very fetid stools eight or ten times daily, especially in early morning and between 4 and 6 p.m. ; stools often contained mucus, occasionally 67 RHUS TOXICODENDRON. pus and frequently lentil-shaped clots of blood ; very weak, could not sit up, except in bed, because hanging down feet always brought on urging to stool, with in- voluntary evacuation if not at once responded to. /? Chronic diarrhoea. I I Intestinal catarrh during subsidence of cholera epidem- ica ; twenty to thirty motions in twelve hours ; vomit- ing frequent; cyanosis of hands and face; corpselike coldness of forearms, forehead and cheeks; bowels emitted a splashing sound when pressed, showing an admixture of fluid and wind; asphyxia; prostration of strength; apathy of mind; liquid stools mixed with some firmer lumps, strong smelling ; vomiting of whit- ish fluid, with a shade of green, with a sickly smell and mixed with mucus; headache; incessant thirst; frequent sighing; tenesmus; bowels distended with wind ; sickly taste in mouth. I I In voluntary stools, with great exhaustion. i^Typhoid fever. ^Gastro-enteritis. ■ Cholera infantum, typhoid t3^pe; very restless at night, has to be moved often to get relief. ■ Dysentery; tenesmus, with nausea, tearing and pinching in abdomen ; tenesmic stools, followed by involuntary discharges from bowels. ■ Dysenteric discharges since early in morning; extremely severe and constant tenesmus ; great chilliness ; constant restlessness. ■ Hemorrhage of black blood from bowels. ^Typhoid. ■ Sense of constriction in rectum as if one side had grown up. ■ Shooting pain up rectum. I I Fissure of anus, with periodical profuse bleeding. ■ Hemorrhoids: sore, blind; protruding after stool, with pressing in rectum, as if everything would come out. ^^ Urinary Organs. "Tearing pain in region of kidneys; oedema ; after exposure to wet. I I In a miner exposed to much dampness, oedema of face and feet developing into a general anasarca ; urine full of albumen. ^Bright's disease. I I Severe tearing pains in small of back; urine contains blood and albumen; anasarca; in a man exposed to heat. ^Bright's disease. ■ Urine: hot; white; muddy; pale, with white sediment; dark, becoming turbid ; high-colored, scanty and irritat- ing; turbid when passed ; red and scanty ; snow-white sediment [urate of ammonia] ; bloody, discharged drop by drop, with straining; diminished, though he drinks much ; passes in a divided stream. RHUS TOXICODENDRON. ' 68 ■ Tenesmus vesicse; discharges a few drops of blood-red


By regionHering
Skin Stitching in heels when stepping upon them. Spasmodic contraction in inner side of sole of foot, > by stretching it out and bending sole upward. …

Books*
Antidoted by Belladonna 3, Bryonia Alba 3, Camphora 3 +27
Complementary Bryonia Alba, Agaricus Muscarius, Ammonium Muriaticum +47
Follows well Bryonia Alba, Apis Mellifica, Arsenicum Album +9
Compare Arnica Montana, Anacardium Orientale, Arsenicum Album +41

* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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