23) RHUS TOXICODENDRON.
This remedy has a profound effect on the skin, joints and mucous membranes. Rhus tox affects fibrous tissues, joints, tendon sheaths and aponeurosis etc.
This remedy suits subjects, who have ailments coming on after strains, over-lifting, getting wet and while perspiring. This remedy suits subjects who get rheumatism in the cold season.
This remedy also suits subjects, who are extremely restless with continued change of position. It suits subjects, whose sensorium is cloudy with a great sense of apprehension in the night, which forces the subject out of bed in the night.
This remedy suits subjects who have a headache in the back of the head and have humid eruptions in the scalp with great itching.
This remedy suits subjects, who have coryza with sneezing while getting wet.
This remedy is useful in facial neuralgia with comes on while getting cold.
It suits subjects, who have pain and stiffness in the small of the back, who are better with motion or while lying down on something hard and who are worse while sitting up.
This remedy suits subjects who have tearing pains in the ligaments, tendons, fascia and rheumatic pains in the nape of the neck, loins and extremities, which is better with motion.
This remedy also suits subjects who have Sciatica, which is worse in cold damp weather and at night.
This remedy suits subjects, who have fever and who are restless, and whose bowels may be loose, and those who feel cold as if cold water were poured over the subject.
This remedy suits subjects, who have a skin that is red, swollen, intensely itching, vesicular eruption. This remedy is also useful in urticaria, pemphigus, erysipelas and cellulitis.
This remedy is considered to be specific for Typhoid, Dengue fever, Erysipelas, Influenza, Measles, Septicemia and Rheumatic fever.
This remedy suits subjects, who sleep with dreams of great exertion, and get up groggy, as if in a stupor, and, are sleepless before midnight.
This remedy suits subjects who are worse from sleep, cold wet rainy weather and after rain in the night, after drenching, while lying on the back or on the right side.
This remedy suits subjects who are better in warm dry weather, motion, walking, change of position, rubbing, warm applications, and from stretching the limbs.
TIPS FROM THE MASTERS…
After a Cataract surgery, RHUS TOX is beneficial to control the threatened Iritis and the formation of pus.
Dr. Dewey, M.D.
RHUS TOX is the Homeopathic knife in Appendicitis.
Dr. Biegler.
RHUS TOX has been a remarkably efficient in relieving the soreness, restlessness and other distress after operation involving the right lower quadrant.
Dr. Stearns, M.D.
RHUS TOX is the best prophylactic for cases of surgery. It should be given for 48 hours in the 30th dilution every 3 hours. It will prevent sepsis.
Dr. R. B. Das.
In any inflammation of the eye following cataract extraction, RHUS TOX is a most valuable remedy and is given as soon as the patient begins to complain of pain, accompanied by lachrymation and puffiness of the lids.
Dr. Norton, M.D.
RHUS TOX rarely fails in chronic cases of SCIATICA.
Dr. Ruddock, M.D.
RHUS TOX will enable persons to withstand muscular fatigue.
Dr. E. A. Farrington, M.D.
RHUS TOX is an excellent remedy for barber’s itch. It should be tried first before resorting to any other remedy.
Dr. R. B. Das.
Skin diseases alternating with Dysentery or Asthma: RHUS TOX.
Dr. Tyler, M.D.
The specific remedy for lumbago is not PULSATILLA, as was formerly supposed, but RHUS TOX; so far I have cured about every case that I have had to treat with RHUS TOX in 3 or 4 days, except perhaps 2 or 3 cases where I had to complete the cure with PULSATILLA.
Dr. Jahr.