Rhus-t, Rhus toxicodendron

Rhus-t in brief

• Prescribing Rhus-t on the modalities of rheumatic pains (Cold and Dampness agg + Beginning of movement agg + Continued movement amel) is a common and wrong thing to do.
• This mistake has caused overuse of this remedy and created the illusion that Rhus-t is superficial remedy.
• Rhus-t has a special psychological atmospherewhich is cold and damp. It is as if you have been sleeping in front of the air conditioner for several hours and the cold has penetrated deep inside you.
• Its floating anxiety is more somatic than mental.
• A kind of superstitious fear of not being clean, being dirty like Lac-c

Physical restless

• Fear, anxiety and restlessness (Ars, Acon)
• Restless, Can't stay in bed (Ars from mental restlessness and Rhus-t from physical restlessness)
• A kind of physical fatigue and the desire to stretch the body or move the limbs

Golden modalities

• Worse with damp cold and better with local heat
• Beginning of movement agg + Continued movement amel
• Extreme sensitivity to the open air. Putting his hand /foot out of the quilt leads to the start of coughing (Bar-c, Hep).

Arthritis

• Pain, Aching, Tearing, stitches, bruises
• Rheumatic pains / Joints stiffness
• Joints Weakness (Stront-c, Ruta)
• Tendonitis / Tendon problems (Rhod)
• Problems caused by Sprained Muscles / Tendons (Calc, Nux-v)

Sciatalgia

• Stretching/ Drawing pain
• Sciatica with numbness (Coloc) (Coloc ₳ Rhus-t)
• Pain agg with pressure
• Leg cramps, esp after walking
• Night Restlessness / Trembling in Bed / Heat that amel with movement.
• Left sciatica (Coll)

Herpetic rash

• Vesicular, small, crusted, itchy, burning, moist rashes leading to eczema. (HSV-1)
• Most of the organs such as face (Mouth corners), male and female genitals and head
• Sores on the corners of the lips, blisters around the lips and chin (Nat-m)
• Dry, red and cracked tongue and triangular tip with imprinted teeth (Chel, Podo)

Cellulitis

• Swollen cellulitis + vesicular rash
• Face (mostly left to right with vesicular and corrosive rashes)
• Pan-ophthalmitis: cellulitis of the eye and surrounding tissue, which leads to swelling of the eye, eyelids and around the eye. Eye movement is painful.

• Cellulitis of the scrotum and penis (esp around the glans) + Orchitis: Heat, inflammation, swelling and stiffness.
• Female genitalia Cellulitis

Urticaria

• Urticaria agg with cold, dampness or fever and perspiration
• Agg with scratching
• Nodular Urticaria

Vertigo

• Vertigo agg when Standing / Walking / Lying down
  • Apis, on the contrary, amel when lying down
  • Vertigo agg getting up from a lying or bending position (Bry)

Others

• He dreams that he is working hard (Bry).
• Mucosal membrane problems (Bry)

Miasms

1. HSV-1, SAHF, LSSV
2. LCM