Source :- Vegetable kingdom
Common Name :- Poison oak, Poison ivy, Snowrose
Family :- Anacardiaceae
Prover :- Dr. Hahnemann in 1816
Miasm :- Psora
Temprament :- Irritable
Diathesis :- Rheumatic & Gouty
Thermal :- Very Chilly
Duration of action :- 1 to 7 days
Active Principle :- Urushiol
Inimical to :- Apis mel
Side affection :- Right sided more then left side
INTRODUCTION
:-It is great polychrest remedy
:-HAHNEMANN SAYS ”RHUS TOX AND BRYONIA ALBA ARE TWO ANTAGONISTIC SISTER REMEDIES” BECAUSE IT’S MODALITIES
GUIDING SYMPTOMS
-Great restlessness has to keep moving constantly which relieves the pain
-It is one of the Trios of restless remedy (RHUS TOX, ACONITE NEP, ARSENICUM ALB)
-RESTLESSNESS Because person cannot stay in one place must change position frequently to obtain relief from pain
-Dry, sore, cracked, triangular, red fairy tipped tongue
-Tongue with imprint of teeth (Podophyllum, Chilidonium), Bitter taste in mouth
-Great stiffness and rigidity with lamness & pain
-Specially on first moving or on waking up in morning
-Relieved by continued motion or by walking
-Vertigo when standing or walking, worse when lying down
-Great thirst for cold water with dryness in throat
-Hunger without appetite, complete loss of appetite for food
-Urine while muddy, hot, pale, with while sediment dark, Becoming turbid passes in a divided stream, scanty & irritating
-Bad effect of getting feet wet (RHUS TOX, ALLIUM CEPA)
-Desire for cold milk which relief gastric complain (Warm mlk- GRAPH.)
-Desire for beer & aversion to meet
-Most of the complain agg. By rest and ame. By movement (Rev- BRYONIA)
-Patient is very chilly, great sensitive to open air
-Putting the hand out side from under the bed cover brings on cover (Rumax, Hepar sulph)
-Patient in rainy weather Begins when get wet in rainy weather and any type of problem originate like fever, headache, cough, rhus tox is given
MIND / MENTAL SYMPTOMS / PSYCHOLOGY
-Great anxiety towards the evening
-Anxious, sadness & excessive anguish especially at twilight
-Desire for weep, mind restless, jump from subject to subject
-Great apprehension at night
-Suicide wants to drown himself
-Forgetfulness can not remember recent events difficult comprehension
-Sad patient begins to weep without knowing why
-DILIRIUM :- Dream of working hard, swimming, rowing his daily occupation (BRYONIA)
-Low mild delirium specially at fever then talks about rowing
-Fear and suspicious & being poison
FEVER
It indicating in any kind of fever ( Intermittent, Continuous & Remittent)
a)Intermittent Fever
BEFORE CHILL- Dry teasing cough with taste of blood
DURING CHILL – Great thirst with dry tongue
HEAT STAGE- Corners of mouth ulcerated also appear blisters ( around the mouth )
SWEAT STAGE- Great exhausation with relief from fever
b)Remittent & Continuous Fever
CAUSATION- Rainy weather, damp weather, exposure to cold air, walking
MODE OF ONSET- Insidious onset, when acute disease assume a typhoid from
AT ONSET- Diarrhoea with beginning of typhoid
DURING FEVER- Restlessness present, can not stay in one position must change position often to obtain relief from pain
Fever blister appear around the mouth & chin
AFTER FEVER – Paralysis & Paralytic condition of single muscle or lower limb
RHEUMATISM
CAUSATION – Summer or river, damp weather
SENSATION – Bone were scrapped with a knife, sprain part sore to touch
LOCATION - Any joint in right side
CONCOMITANT – Lamness stiffness, pain well marked, restless, anxiety
worse at midnight, rainy weather, Better in walking
SKIN
-In genitals:- Burning, Inflammation Itching
-VASICULAR ERUPTION - Vesicular are yellow from left to right with much swelling burring, itching and stitching pain.
-Worse at night, rainy weather & ameliorated by warm application
-In chronic urticaria when Rhus Tox. Not work then give Bovista
MEMORIZING TIPS
T – Triangular red tip, tongue takes imprint of teeth
O – On getting up in morning lameness stiffness to the part
X – Great apprehension at night
I – Inimical to Apis mel
C – Corners of mouth ulcerated
O – On Lying on damp ground paralysis
D – Dreams of great exertion
E – Erysipelas from left to right
N – Night terror
D – Daily occupation in dream
R – Restless, can not stay long in one position
O – Of rheumatic diathesis adopted to person
N – Numbness of arm & leg
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