Rhus Venenata
Boericke - Pocket Manual of Materia Medica · William Boericke · 943 chars · source ↗
General
RHUS VENENATA Poison-elder
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.